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lost. About three years; causes of deterioration
not known to me.
19. Ganja is not only used for smoking, but for
medicinal purposes also. Extracts and tinctures
of ganja are used in the undermentioned
diseases:—
(i) Cholera, (ii) Diarrhœa, (iii) Dysentery,
(iv) Tetanus.
20. Low class Hindus and jogis and sanyasis
and prostitutes smoke ganja. A few gentlemen
use it secretly. In this town about 50 per cent.
of the aggregate population use ganja.
21. Flat small twigs.
22. No charas shop here. Extent consequently
not known.
23. Bhang is smoked rarely.
24. Bhang is drunk to a great extent by up-
country men (Deswalis) and gentlemen and
middle class men who cannot afford to pay for ex-
pensive alcoholic drinks.
25. Ganja, stationary. But the use of bhang is
gradually increasing owing to reasons above stated.
26. Ganja.—(a) habitual moderate consumers-
middle class men and prostitutes.
(b) Habitual excessive consumers—up-coun-
try men, jogis and sanyasis, and Nama-
sudras or Chandals and other criminal
classes.
(c) Occasional moderate consumers—gentle-
men who use it secretly.
Bhang.(—a) gentlemen of poor means.
(b) Up-country men.
(c) Generally by all classes on the last
day of the Dasahara festival (Bijaya
day) and during Doljatra or Holi.
27. Ganja.—(a) middle class men who cannot
afford to pay for expensive drinks
(alcoholic) or those whose tastes and
propensities have been vitiated by bad
company.
(b) Up-country men as a rule are hard
smokers. Sanyasis and jogis use it
freely for religious principles, and Chan-
dals generally belong to the criminal
classes.
(c) Gentlemen who use it to bad habits
contracted in early life.
Bhang.—(a) gentlemen who cannot pay for
alcoholic drinks.
(b) Up-country men are hard drinkers of
bhang.
(c) Owing to religious principles.
28. Ganja.—(a) About two pice worth.
(b) About two annas worth per diem.
Bhang.—(a) Quarter pice worth.
(b) One to two pice worth per diem.
29. Nothing with ganja; but with bhang—
milk, sugar and spices are used for increasing the
intoxicating power of the drug.
"Bhang massala" is not known here, but
majum is used.
30. Ganja is generally used in company by
men and sometimes by prostitutes and baistabs,
after attaining the age of 20 up to old age. It
is not known whether ever children of under age
smoke ganja.
31. Yes, but it is difficult to break off the habit
of smoking ganja.
Bhang-drinking can be easily
abandoned. The use of ganja is not on the in-
crease, but the use of bhang is increasing amongst
moderate consumers.
32. Bhang is used to a great extent during
Bijaya day, i.e., the last day of the Durga Puja
and during Doljatra or Holi, but not essential;
temperate. No; it won't lead to the formation of
habit.
33. Public opinion is against ganja-smoking,
but the drinking of bhang is not much in disrepute.
Not known to me.
34. Yes, with excessive smokers of ganja. Not
known to me.
35. No; but there ought to be some restrictions
regarding its consumption. It will be consumed
illicitly; prohibition cannot be forced. There will
be great discontent amongst hard consumers, but
there is no political danger. (a) and (b), yes.
36. No; not known to me. This is a mere sur-
mise. It may be so in rural tracts under the dis-
tillery system.
37. No charas here.
38. It is said that the intoxicating power of flat
and chur ganja is superior to that of round ganja.
39. Not known to me.
40. Bhang is generally used for medical purpo-
ses by kabirajes and for cattle diseases as well.
A mixture of ganja with oil is used for itches and
other skin diseases.
41. Bhang is digestive. Ganja gives staying-
power under severe exertion or exposure, and is
said to alleviate fatigue amongst those who use it.
Not known to me.
42. Not known to me.
43. Yes.
44. The immediate effect is that it refreshes the
moderate smoker of ganja, not much but to a
little extent; with moderate smoker it increases
the appetite, but with inveterate smokers it is
different. The effect of the intoxication from one
chillum of ganja lasts about two hours. No after-
effects if taken after regular intervals. Want of
subsequent gratification produces uneasiness. The
intoxcation from bhang lasts about 24 hours; no
palpable after-effects, but increases appetite.
45. Ganja impairs the constitution, but does not
cause loss of appetite with proper nourishment of
rich food. The effect is not palpable, but with
hard smoker the free use of ganja results in dysen-
tery, asthma, bronchitis and other bodily ailments.
It causes laziness, but does not necessarily lead to
immoral habits; with hard smokers sometimes
produces temporary insanity, but not of a very
offensive type. Possible; not known to me.
But bhang does not produce insanity at all,
46. See above.
47 and 48. Never; no hereditary effect.
49 and 50. Not known to me.
51. Yes, bad characters are said to use ganja
and bhang freely before they commit any offence.
52. See above.
53. Possible, but not known to me.
54. Not known to me.
55. No such case known to me. But it is said
that railway passengers and travellers in unfre-
quented thoroughfares have been drugged by de-
signing men.
56. Inveterate smokers sometimes mix dhatura
seeds with gauja; the effect is increased intoxication
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