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quent gratification produces longing and un
-easiness.
45. The habitual moderate use of any of these
drugs does not produce any noxious effects, physical,
mental, or moral. It impairs the constitution in
some way if substantial food be not taken. It does
not injure digestion or cause loss of appetite, but
it creates appetite. it arrests dysentery, but causes
bronchitis or asthma if used in excess in smok--
ing in the absence of any substantial food, It
impairs the moral sense and does not induce lazi--
ness or habits of immorality or debauchery It
does not deaden the intellect or produce insanity
to the habitual moderate users. It does not produce
insanity. The persons suffering from mental
anxiety or brain disease obtain relief from the
moderate use of these drugs. As to the latter
portion of this query, I am not in a position to
answer it better than a medical person. No
further account under each of the above points
can be given by me, being unacquainted with any
of its medicinal effects.
46. An excessive consumer of any of these drugs
would suffer severely. The excessive use of these
drugs is likewise considered to stupefy the intel--
lect and produce insanity. I am unable to say
anything about the time for which the stupefac-
- t i o n o r i n s a n i t y c o n t i n u e s ,
47. The habitual moderate use of any of these
drugs does not appear to be a hereditary habit or
to affect in any way the children of the moderate
consumer.
48. Please see answer to the preceding question
( i.e. , No. 47).
49. The moderate use of these drugs is practised
as an aphrodisiac. It is not generally used by
prostitutes. It is not more injurious than any
ordinary narcotic. It tends to produce impotence
if it is used in excess.
50. The excessive use of any of these drugs
can never be practised as an aphrodisiac. Prosti-
- t u t e s n e v e r u s e i t i n e x c e s s . I t i s c e r t a i n l y
more harmful than its use as an ordinary narcotic.
Excessive use produces impotence.
51. Habitual moderate consumers of any of
these drugs are never as a rule men of bad chara-c-
ter. The use of these drugs has no tendency to-
- w a r d s t h e c o m m i t t a l o f c r i m e , a n d t h e r e f o r e i t
has no connection with crime.
52. As stated in the above question, the mode
- r a t e u s e o f a n y o f t h e s e d r u g s h a s n o c o n n e c t i o n
with crime; and when there is none by moderate
use, there is naturally an entire absence in the case
of excessive use, the use resulting, as elsewhere
stated, of making the man harmless and useless
for any but sedentary work.
53. Excessive indulgence in any of these drugs
does not incite to unpremeditated crime at all.
I have not seen or heard any instance in which it
has led to temporary homicidal frenzy.
54. These drugs are not used by criminals to
fortify themselves to commit a premeditated act of
violence or other crime in any way, the effects
being, as stated elsewhere, to make a man useless
for any active work.
55. Entire stupefaction cannot be effected by
the simple use of these drugs.
It must be mixed with (dhatura; and a crimi
- n a l g e n e r a l l y , w h e n h e a t t e m p t s a n y t h i n g , m a k e s
sure of his victim, so he always makes it a point to
administer the drug with dhatura. I have not
heard of a case in which by simple use complete
stupefaction has ensued.
56. The effects of hemp used in moderation,
modified by the admixture of other substances like
spices, are not dangerous to the consumer himself or
others. But when mixed with dhatura or any such
bad article—for instance, the roots of the jowari
tree or canery—it results in making the consumer
helpless, and would injure his health. The ad
- m i x t u r e o f d h a t u r a f o r p e r s o n a l c o n s u m p t i o n i s
taken on the occasion when complete stupefaction
is required by excessive consumers. When it is
used for administration to others, the effects
generally result in death.
57. Charas mixed with a little of gudakhu is
simply used for smoking. Its production being
scanty, its use is also limited. The effects and
uses of ganja used in moderation, specially in eat
- i n g a n d d r i n k i n g , b y a d m i x t u r e o f s o m e s w e e t s p i c e s
are good. It produces sound sleep, increases appe-
- t i t e , a v o i d s d y s e n t e r y , a n d i s u s e f u l t o t h e n a t i v e
doctors for medicinal purposes on various occasions.
58. As far as I am acquainted with the present
system of excise administration in this province, I
am of opinion that it is working well. I can
humbly submit that the system is capable of still
further improvement— viz, firstly, the rates of sale
at which ganja or bhang shall be sold by a licensed
vendor should form one of the main among other
conditions of the sale license.
59. The price at which opium shall be sold per
pound, as well as the quantity of country liquor to
be sold per gallon, if it is fixed by Government, the
same case should be made applicable as regards
ganja.
I beg further to suggest that the right of sale
of ganja during the year should not be farm ed for
each taluka separately, as is the custom at present
prevailing in this district, but it should be treated
iu the same way as the epium and country liquor
farms.
The wholesale dealers in ganja should not, as at
present, be allowed to keep in their custody the
whole quantity of the ganja they buy of the culti
- v a t o r s , b u t i t s h o u l d r e m a i n i n t h e c u s t o d y o f t h e
Abkari Inspector. When the wholesale dealer
shall obtain a written permit from the Huzur
Deputy Collector for exporting ganja, he should
b e r e q u i r e d t o r e m o v e t h e s a m e a f t e r t h e A b k a r i
Inspector has given the requisite quantity out of
the quantity deposited by him in a store-house;
and the whole quantity thus deposited should
remain in the possession of the wholesale dealer
in a room locked under key, the lock of which
should invariably he made to bear on it time seal of
the Abkari Inspector, and the room should not be
allowed to be opened or closed without the pre-
- s e n c e o f t h e A b k a r i I n s p e c t o r h i m s e l f , l i k e t h e
country liquor system. The wholesale dealer should
for this purpose prepare a book, and obtain Collec
- t o r ' s s e a l s t h e r e o n , w h i c h s h o u l d c o n t a i n e v e r y
description of the quantity of the ganja received
and removed from the store-house.
60. I think that the cultivation of the ganja
- b e a r i n g p l a n t a n d t h e p r o c e s s o f i t s p r e p a r a t i o n
are sufficiently controlled.
61. Charas, as stated elsewhere above, is not pro
-duced for trade in this district, nor is the planta
- t i o n o f t h e h e m p p l a n t m a d e w i t h t h i s o b j e c t . I f
in future it was found that it is being produced
for purposes of trade, perhaps then it may be
necessary to make some provision; but, all the
same, it is nothing more than a little stronger
smoke than ganja.