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their neighbours, because they do not lose their
temper.
44. The immediate effect of the moderate use
of smoking on the habitual consumers is satisfac-
tion, and they are intoxicated for about an hour
and free from all cares. By eating and drinking
the effect of intoxication remains for about six
hours. This intoxication is looked upon as a
relief. It is refreshing. It produces intoxication.
It does not allay hunger. It does not create
appetite. The after-effects tell upon the health of
the consumers. The want of subsequent gratifica-
tion produces uneasiness.
45. The habitual moderate use of any of these
drugs produces noxious effects on body and mind,
but not on morality. It burns the blood and im-
pairs constitution. It injures the digestion and
causes loss of appetite. It causes dysentery, bron-
chitis, or asthma. It does not impair the moral
sense. It induces laziness, but not habits of im-
morality or debauchery. It deadens the intellect,
and does not produce insanity ; therefore further
queries need no explanation.
46. By habitual excessive use of any of these
drugs the following are the effects :
—
They produce insanity, which compels the con-
sumer to be indolent or wandering without doing
any harm to others. It is permanent and not
temporary. There are no insanes who have their
recorded ganja history confessing the use of the
drug. When a person has been suffering from
mental anxiety or brain disease, he may give him-
self up entirely to the use of the drug to seek
relief from the derangement. It subsequently
becomes habit, and such habit, when excessive,
makes him lose all self-control, and he thus finally
becomes insane.
47. The use of any of these drugs does not
appear to be a hereditary habit, nor does it affect
in any way the children of the moderate con-
sumer.
48. The excessive use of any of these drugs
does not also appear to be a hereditary habit ; but
the progeny of the excessive consumers become
weak and. sickly.
49. The moderate use is not practised as an
aphrodisiac. A very few prostitutes only use
the drugs, such as Toded Raji, aged 35, Musal-
man ; Tari, aged 30, Maratha.
The use of these drugs is not more injurious
than its use as an ordinary narcotic. The moder-
ate use of hemp does not tend to produce impo-
tence.
50. By excessive use the blood burns and
strength fails. It is not used excessively by
prostitutes. It is more injurious than its use as
an ordinary narcotic, such as loss of appetite,
weakness of digestive power and impotence.
51. About half the bad characters are habitual
moderate smokers of ganja. They smoke all
round the year, and drink it in the form of ghota
in the hot season only in addition to smoking.
The moderate consumers do not commit any
crime or crimes of any special character. The
practice of drinking ghota in winter brings on
pain in the body.
52. About one-fourth of the bad characters are
habitually excessive smokers of ganja all round
the year. They drink it as ghota in addition to
smoking in hot season.
53. The excessive indulgence in any of these
drugs incites to unpremeditated crime, violent or
otherwise. I do not know any case in which it
has led to commission of homicide.
54. These drugs are not used by criminals to
fortify themselves to commit any premeditated
act of violence or otherwise.
55. Criminals, in order to further their designs,
induce their victims not accustomed to use the
drugs to partake of any food or confection pre-
pared by their mixtures and make them uncon-
scious. Complete stupefaction by administering
this preparation is obtained to gain their object.
-Without the admixture complete stupefaction
cannot be caused.
56. The effects of hemp used ( a ) in moderation
and (b) in excess, modified by the admixture of
sugar, jagri and other sweet substance are
worse, and by the admixture of sour and cold sub-
stance are less than those detailed in answers
Nos. 45 and 46. About eight years ago some
people of Dharwar accustomed to use ganja mixed
dhatura in it, prepared curry, and ate it with
wheat bread in the afternoon. An hour after they
were intoxicated, and while going back to their
houses in intoxication they were unconscious and
could not take care of themselves, and were also
naked. If the admixture is administered to those
who are not accustomed to the use of the drugs,
the intoxication continues for about 24 hours.
57. Ganja is used for eating and drinking, but
charas only for smoking mixed with tobacco. In
smoking ganja, tobacco is mixed by half the
quantity of ganja, and in smoking charas it is
mixed by double.
58. I consider the administration is capable of
improvement.
59. In paragraph 9 of the ganja license, ganja
is permitted to be sold. not exceeding 40 tolas to
one person. This concession allows a number of
people to gather together to indulge themselves
in consuming the ganja. This assembly, idle as
it is and spendthrift, conspire together in commit-
ting offences and bad actions. It should therefore
be ruled that one person should have only five
tolas or less once in a day.
60. The existing system works well and requires
no modification.
61. Yes, they are sufficiently controlled, and
that the system requires no modification in any
respect. For producing charas only the hemp
plant is not cultivated.
62. The hemp plant is not cultivated for the
production of bhang.
63. There is no objection to the present system
of vend of preparations of ganja, charas and
bhang being continued.
64. I have no objection to the existing regula-
tions governing the export and import of these
drugs, or of their preparations from and into your
province, or their transport within the province,
65. The price of ganja is more and that of bhang
less. This being the case, the taxation on both
is alike. The rate of tax should be in pro-
portion to their price, and they should not be im-
ported or exported together covered by one and the
same pass. The rate of tax on bhang should, in
my humble opinion, be one-tenth on that of ganja.
The amount of tax on the drugs and alcohol is pro-
portionate to their price. Charas is not sold in
shops, because the production is not sufficient to
export, nor is there any demand for it.
The tax on it is therefore not imposed.
66. No, not necessary.