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will not leave him as long as he lives, provided he
does not renounce the habit. If he makes it a
habit again insanity will attack him again, The
following are the symptoms: Irritability, foolish-
ness, and talkativeness. Consumers do not admit
their insanity. No; but the use of bhang pro-
duces mental anxiety and cares, and on account of
the weakness of the brain the consumer gets no
sleep. Thus he falls into excess.
46. Some persons get into habits of excessive
consumption by using it either when alone or
when in company with others.
47. It is not hereditary, and it does not affect
the children.
48. I have given replies above in question 46.
49. It is used as an aphrodisiac. The use is a
temporary gratification The ultimate result is
that it weakens the power of copulation, i.e., it
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impairs manly power. It is used by prostitutes
also.
50. I have given replies in question 46.
51. Bad characters use it moderately. Its
moderate use has no connection with crime in
general.
52. The offenders themselves do not use these
drugs excessively, but they sometimes induce
others to smoke or drink to excess in order to get
opportunities of easily committing offences upon
them.
53. The excessive use of these drugs incites to
unpremeditated crime. In 1870, in Mirpurkhas,
in Hyderabad Zilla, one bhangi (a drinker of
bhang) committed a murder in a scuffle about
plucking berries.
54. No; criminals, when intending to commit
a serious offence, would not themselves use any
intoxicating drug to excess, for intoxication de-
prives one of sense.
55. Yes; but those persons who are not in the
habit of taking any intoxicating drug, and who
are called sufis, will be completely stupefied if
they are made to drink bhang or smoke ganja and
charas to excess. Habitual consumers can only
be stupefied by bhang mixed with dhatura, etc.
B u t ' a k o i , ' t h e w i l d b h a n g , i f a d m i n i s t e r e d t o a n y
one, even without admixtures, will bring on stupe-
faction.
56. In both cases the effects are modified by
mixing dhatura. In 1891, 31st May, accused
Sheikhal , Mohmadali and Shah Mahomed adminis-
tered bhang mixed with dhatura to Suchal, who
was thereby suffocated, so that he died. This
offence was committed in Shikarpur.
57. It is not customary to eat ganja and charas
in this province.
68. There are licensed shops.
10. Evidence of RAO BAHADUR LAKSHMANSING MATTHRAJI , Police Inspector,
1. have passed my life in Sind, and have
visited many parts of it as a Police Officer. I
have come in contact with consumers of ganja,
charas and bhang, and have thus acquired ex-
perience.
2. These definitions are correct. Bhang is also
called the humble plant in Sind other names are
same.
3. I do not know. It does not grow in this
province.
4. (1) bhang, (2) sawai, (3) saee, (4) the humble
plant, (5) bubkain , (6) sabzi, (7) nangin, (8) sukho.
All these names refer to the same plant. There is
another kind which is called akoi which is more
intoxicating than others and it grows in hills on
rainfall. It is never used as bhang, for it is
very intoxicating and brings on unconsciousness.
5. I do not know. It does not grow in this
province.
6. It does not grow in this province, hence I
do not know.
7. Yes.
(a) and ( b) No.
(c) Yes .
(d) Not for fibre, but for seeds.
It can be cultivated anywhere in Sind, but it is
cultivated in the following places:--Kbibar,
T a l u - k a H a l a , Z i l l a h H y d e r a b a d , B u b a k , Z i l l a h
Karachi, villages Ghari Mori and Machin and in
i t s s u b u r b s , i n H i s H i g h n e s s t h e A m i r A l i m u r a d ' s t e r r i t o r y a n d S h i k a r p u r D i s t r i c t . I c a n n o t s a y
what quantity is produced.
8. I cannot say.
9. This cultivation requires more water and
more care. The soil should be rich (sweet). It
v o l . v i i .
should be ploughed deep. Some gay people pre-
pare it in the following ways:-- By making an in-
cision in the stem of the bhang plant and putting
opium into it, and by burying a dead snake under
the plant, by watering it with dhatura water,
and sometimes with huka water. All these
means are employed to make the produce more in-
toxicating. But this is done in the case of a few
selected trees.
10. Mussalmans only--agricultural cultivators
sometimes cultivate.
11. The wild plant grows here.
12. I do not know. The male plant is extirpat--
ed, otherwise all the plants would become male
plants.
13. It is not restricted; people can cultivate it.
It can be freely cultivated in all districts, provid--
ed the soil is selabi, is deeply ploughed, abundant--
ly watered, exposed to free air, and taken care of
every time. No.
14. The localities have been shown under No.
7 ; I cannot give the exact quantities.
15. Bhang is not prepared from the wild plant
in this province. As to the cultivated plant after
it has obtained its usual height, it is reaped and
dried in shade. The reaped plants are turned, and
re-turned, to prevent their decay until they are
dried. Then they are beaten; the stalks, leaves,
and seeds are separated.
(a ) Bhang is not smoked, but ganja-smokers and
other poor persons smoke it as follows:--Ghundi
bhang is mixed with a little water, and made into
a small ball. The ball is heated over the fire.
Tobacco mixed with water is bruised, and water
pressed out of it. This ball is then mixed with
the above ball, and is smoked in pipe.
( b). Bhang is boiled and made into a majum, and
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