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29.Dhatura is sometimes mixed by excessive
consumers for excess of intoxication.
30.Only male sex. Bhang is also given to
Muhammadan children at time of their circumci-
sion in place of chloroform.
31.Habit of consuming these drugs is formed
in two months if used daily without fail. Ten-
dency is certain in case of any of these drugs for
the moderate habit to develop into the excessive.
32.These drugs are strictly prohibited amongst
Muhammadans according to their religious laws
and regulations.
35.As these drugs are not in common use
among the inhabitants of this sub-division, it is
feasible and an easy task to prohibit the use of
these drugs. Though it will agitate some discon-
tent among the excessive consumers, but discontent
of such men cannot amount to a political danger.
36.Somewhere in the sub-division where mode-
rate consumers can spare money, they substitute
alcohol for these drugs.
51.There are none out of the original inhabit-
ants of this sub-division who are habitual con-
sumers. There are some men of other countries, as
of Punjab and Kandahar, etc., who are moderate
habitual consumers, but their character has never
been noted under influence of these drugs.
52.None.
53.No case of this nature has come before me
for an instant during the past three years in this
sub-division.
54.Ditto. But criminals generally fortify
themselves in other places or districts to commit
a premeditated act of violence or other crimes with
use of these drugs.
55.No case of such nature in this sub-division,
but criminals do further their designs and induce
their victims to partake of these drugs, and
complete stupefaction can thus be induced by these
drugs without admixture if given to a man who
has never taken any of these drugs for intoxica-
tion.
3. Evidence of BABU KEDAR NATH, Head Clerk of the Political Agent, Kalat.
3. It does not grow spontaneously in the Bolan
Pass ; nor is it known to grow wild in Baluchistam.
4, 5 and 6. No information available.
7. None in the Bolan Pass, but a little in Kalat
territory.
8. Nil.
9. Information not available.
10. Hemp is not cultivated in the Bolan. The
cultivators in foreign territory are the same as
o t h e r a g r i c u l t u r a l c u l t i v a t o r s .
11.
, 12 and 13. There is none to be found
.
14. None in the Bolan.
15, 16, 17 and 18. No information available.
19.Only for smoking.
20.Fakirs, also Baluchis smoke ganja.
23. No.
24.Fakirs, also Pathans and Baluchis.
25. Baroo, an old Bania, resident of Sibi, says
that men smoke ganja and drink bhang in society,
because the drugs are available than they used be-
fore.
26, 27 and 28. Particulars not available.
29.Information not available.
30.Consumed more in company than solitude.
Children never smoke. Fakirs' women sometimes
smoke.
31. (b) It is difficult to break off.
(c) No.
3 2 , 3 3 , 3 4 , 3 5 , a n d 3 6 I n f o r m a t i o n n o t a v a i l a b l e .
40.Yes, but very seldom.
41.No information available.
49. Yes, but not in general.
68.Yes.
69.Yes. It is known that workmen will con-
sume drugs ; if workmen cannot purchase what they want, they will not come to work.
70.No. Duty is paid on imported drugs.
There is no general use of untaxed drugs.
4. Evidence of MUHAMMAD YUSUF, Hospital Assistant, New Chaman.
1.While in 1888 up to 1891 I was in charge of
Ferozepore and Hoshiarpur Branch Dispensaries,
and here particularly I studied and enquired about
the subject, and got some information from con-
sumers and other people.
2.The definitions are accepted in the province
(New Chaman), namely ; ganja, charas and bhang.
19. Here only charas is used for smoking, and
ganja is not used here, not even sold.
23. Bhang is never used here for smoking, and,
as far as I know, is not used elsewhere for smoking
purposes.
2S. (a) B h a n g ½ c h i t t a k f o r 6 p i e s , a n d c h a r a s 3
mashas per anna. (b) Bhang 4 chittaks of 2
annas, and charas 2 tolas of 8 annas.
29. Tobacco is ordinarily mixed with charas and
is smoked ; exceptionally is not known. These in-
gredients are not mixed here with any of them.
Sweet almonds, poppy seeds, sugar, and black
pepper are mixed often as bhang massala, but here
nothing is sold by the shopkeeper for the purpose ;
it lies only in the will of the consumer.
30.Bhang half or one chittak ( 1 oz. or 2 oz. )
in solitude, and half a seer or one pound in
company of eight or ten men. Chains 3 mashas or
45 grains in solitude ; sometimes in habitual excessive
use it is smoked up 2 tolas or 6 drachms. They
say that in Sukkur, Rori, Multan, and Dera Ghazi
Khan bhang is used by women as well as by men ;
and it is usual in Sind for mothers to give somewhat
to their children also.
31.The habit of consuming any of them is not
easily formed, except they are used for months.
It is easy to break off the habit. There is no ten-
dency for the moderate habit to develop into the
excessive, yet very rare examples are seen in some
foolish persons.
32.No religion, as far as I have known, gives
liberty for the use of these drugs.