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36. No. It is the reverse.
37. I do not know.
38. The flat ganja is said to produce narcotic
effects more quickly and its effects last longer.
39. No; all are alike injurious. Drinking or
eating ganja is more injurious. Bhang is seldom
smoked.
40. Bhang is used for medicinal purposes by
kabirajes and Tantriks. Bhang is also used in
the treatment of cattle disease.
41. (a) Bhang is used as a digestive.
(b) Ganja is used under severe exertion and to
alleviate fatigue and as a staying power under
severe exertion.
(c) Ganja is used as a preventive of disease in
malarious tracts.
(d) Nil.
Low-class people use ganja. Middle and upper
classes, especially up-country men, use bhang.
The moderate habitual use is referred to.
42. The moderate use of bhang is harmless.
Ganja is not harmless.
43. Yes, they are.
44. The moderate use of bhang is refreshing
in its effects. That of ganja produces intoxication,
but not for habitual consumers. Bhang creates
appetite. Ganja impairs appetite. The effect
lasts for two hours. Yes; the want of subsequent
gratification produces longing and uneasiness.
45. It does impair the constitution, unless milk
is taken. It does injure the digestion, but bhang
does not. The use of ganja causes bronchitis.
The use of ganja or bhang does not impair the
moral sense or induce habits of immorality or de¬
bauchery. The excessive use of ganja induces
laziness, it deadens the intellect, and makes men
excitable, and sometimes produces insanity, tem¬
porary and permanent. The patients are easily
irritable. Insanes confess to the use of ganja.
46. Mentioned under question No. 45.
47 and 48. No; it is not hereditary. It does
not affect children.
49 and 50. Ganja is not used as an aphrodisiac.
The use of ganja or siddhi does not produce im¬
potence. The excessive use of ganja produces
impotence.
51. About 50 per cent. of the bad characters
are habitual consumers of ganja. No connection
with crime.
52. The excessive use makes men irritable and
induces them to commit offences against the per¬
son.
53. Excessive use of ganja makes men irrit¬
able and may lead to violent crime. No case came
to my notice.
54. No, not here; but it is used in big towns,
where there are hardened criminals.
55. Not done here. Complete stupefaction
cannot be induced without admixture with
dhatura,
56. No admixtures are made here. Ganja is
sometimes prepared with rose-water to make it
mild. No dhatura is used here.
57. It is sometimes eaten with bhang and
sometimes with sweetmeats. Its effects are very
intoxicating.
These are used by habitual excessive consumers.
58. I am well acquainted with the present
system of excise administration. It is capable
of improvement.
59. The consumption may be decreased if the
duty on ganja is raised and the license fee lowered.
This will improve the finances as well.
No duty is levied on bhang. Some sort of duty
ought to be levied on bhang, which would be very
low at first, say, 1/16 of the average duty on flat
ganja. This will make the system more regular
and analogous to the system of selling ganja.
60 and 61. None produced here.
62. I think the cultivation of the hemp plant
for bhang ought to be controlled. It will be
feasible, though not all at once. Licenses on
payment of fees may be granted for the cul¬
tivation of bhang plant within certain areas.
Persons on whose lands bhang plants yielding
more than four chataks of bhang will be found may
be prosecuted. This will bring the system
gradually within the scope of our detective officers.
Bhang plants will then have to be destroyed by
Excise officers. To levy duty on bhang will be
the next step. The goladars of ganja receive a
good profit. Twenty-five per cent. of the same
ought to be paid as license fee.
63. For bhang see question No. 62.
For retail vend of ganja see question No. 59.
For retail sale of bhang see question No. 62.
64. None.
65. Taxation of ganja is reasonable.
No duty on bhang is levied, vide question
No. 62.
There is no duty on liquor here.
66. There should be different rates of taxation
on different kinds of ganja, as at present; for flat
ganja has twigs, which chur ganja has not, and it
will not be expedient to levy the same rate for
both.
I do not know about ganja cultivation elsewhere.
67. Objections about ganja and bhang mention¬
ed before.
68. There are no houses where they may be con¬
sumed on the premises, nor would any be suitable,
for most of the drug is consumed at the houses
of the consumers— very little is consumed in the
shops.
69. Yes, they are considered, as well as the
requirements of a locality. The influential men
of the locality are consulted, and the public opinion
of the locality ought to be regarded.
70. Very little ganja—say, a few seers—is grown
in the Tippera hills. This ganja is very inferior
in quality and not much is imported by consumers
from the hills. The quantity is very small, for
the hill authorities now import ganja under a pass
from the Sudder (Tippera) golas. This ganja is
very inferior in quality, and I believe no duty is
paid for these drugs in the hills.
There is no general use of this untaxed ganja.