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it is called broken ganja. The flat ganja is first
powdered and washed with water and then
smoked, therefore it makes no difference.
39. Smoking hemp is more injurious than eat-
ing it, because by smoking, the heat is increased
through the fire which burns it. It is not very
injurious if it be eaten as majum or drunk with
water, because water, sugar, and ghee reduce the
heat to a certain extent.
40. Ganja and charas have not been considered
as medicine by the native physicians. Bhang is
used as a medicine. It is given to the animals,
and it also removes the fatigue of the journey.
It is given to oxen to make them fleet of foot.
41. Charas is not at all smoked in these provin-
ces. The advantages of ganja and bhang are
described as follows : —
(a) It increases hunger and is a digestive.
(b) It removes fatigue and increases strength.
(c) Its use saves a man from falling sick when
the climate is not good.
(d) A man is injured by being exposed to cold
in the winter and rainy seasons. It removes all
this.
The abovementioned four advantages can be
had only when the drug is taken moderately, and
it should only be taken when necessary, other-
wise one becomes addicted by the daily use, and
instead of good it produces harm.
42. Excessive use is bad, and by being addicted
to it one's desire of intoxication is increased. It
is not injurious when taken occasionally, because
it removes fatigue if taken moderately.
43. The neighbours are not at all troubled by
moderate consumers, but the persons sitting in
the same compartment perceive a bad smell and
abhorrence of the smell emitted by the puffs of
the smoke.
44. Persons who smoke sometimes are soon
intoxicated and comforted, fatigue is removed
and food is soon digested. The intoxication lasts
for three hours if it is smoked moderately, after-
wards it produces uneasiness, which lasts till it is
again smoked, and the intoxication of bhang
lasts for six hours.
45. It is injurious to persons who are so ad-
dicted to it as to use it daily excessively. It
diminishes a man's strength when he does not get
good food with sugar and ghee. If he does not
get good food, ghee and milk, it dries up his body
and reduces his digestive power. When a man
becomes weak and suffers want of nourishing food,
it produces cough, and often turns into asthma.
Generally the excessive use of hemp dries the
body and makes the sense defective, and when a
man does not get ganja, dullness prevails over
him and blunts his memory and he becomes
insane. But the dullness and insanity disappear
when he gets ganja to smoke. Its visible signs
are that the eyes are always red, and a roughness
appears on the face. Excessive use of the drug
makes one insane. The intoxication of the drug
is very injurious for a person who is troubled by
headache and mental anxieties.
49. The persons who consume the charas and
hemp moderately, generally say that it delays the
discharge of semen. The dancing girls do not
use ganja. The dancing girls of Oudh smoke
charas. It is not used in these provinces. The
use of ganja and charas is injurious when it is
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cough which afterwards turns to asthma. The
excessive use of ganja makes a man impotent if
he does not get good nourishing food.
50. It is injurious to smoke charas and hemp
excessively. Such a person is attacked by cough
and asthma and his sense is rendered defective,
and afterwards, in course of time, he becomes
mad.
51. Generally persons of bad character smoke
ganja and charas. The noblemen abstain from
it. People often commit offences in a state of
intoxication.
52. Persons much addicted to the use of ganja
are wrathful, and on account of intoxication their
sense becomes defective, which leads them to
commit offences.
53. No such case has occurred in which a
person who has smoked ganja committed homicide.
In fact a man dies when he is deadly intoxicated all
of a sudden.
54. In certain cases no doubt mischievous per-
sons smoke ganja in order to increase their excite-
ment, so that they may become fearless.
55. Generally mischievous persons in order to
increase their determination and strength, smoke
the drug excessively. Sometimes the smoke of
the drug emitted by the puffs affects the brain too
much, which really makes them senseless. In
other cases it is not so effective.
56. Something else is added to hemp when
smoked. Generally they mix dried tobacco with
it and then smoke it, that is to say, they first
powder it, wash it with water and mix tobacco
with it and then they smoke it. They very sel-
dom smoke ganja mixing seeds of dhatura with it.
When they intend to intoxicate anybody deadly,
they mix seeds of dhatura, which makes people
insane.
57. They do not smoke charas in these prov-
inces. They generally eat majum, which is made
from ganja. They boil the drug mixed with
water and ghee over the fire ; by so doing the ghee
absorbs the intoxication of the drug. After this
they throw the drug out; afterwards they mix
sugar syrup and fragrant spices with it, and then
harden it into cakes. Afterwards they sell it at a
pice weight for a pice. When they do not get
bhang from foreign provinces, they mix sugar
with powdered ganja and drink it as syrup.
In this way it produces intoxication both by
eating and drinking it. If it is used excessively,
it dries the brain and produces headache, but is not
injurious like ganja.
58. I am serving as Excise Daroga for the last
twenty-nine years; I, therefore, have a thorough
experience with the system of excise administration
in respect to hemp drugs. The present adminis-
tration of the province needs no improvement.
59. Improvements are necessary in the North-
Western Provinces and Oudh. There it should
be managed as it is done here. No godown is
appointed there, nor any fee is fixed on ganja and
bhang. Simply the wholesale vendorship is auc-
tioned. They buy ganja from tehsil Khandwa,
of the Nimar district, and bhang from Bahraich,
etc., in Oudh and sell it cheaply. Bhang sells at
4 annas a seer in North-Western Provinces, and
ganja at 6 pies per tola. As no fee is fixed there,
it is largely consumed. The comparative state-
ment of expenditure of the North-Western Pro--
vinces and Central Provinces will prove this very
clearly.