induced by the excessive use of ganja. This form
of insanity is temporary, and disappears after the
habit is broken off. I have had no personal
experience to enable me to say if insanes have
ever confessed to the use of the hemp drugs.
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 moder
-ate consumer.
48. I am not in a position to state if habitual
excessive use of any of the drugs appears to be
a hereditary habit, although the children of the
excessive consumer are sickly.
49.The moderate use of the drugs is practised
in some cases as an aphrodisiac ; prostitutes are
said to use them. The use for this purpose is
more injurious than the use as an ordinary
narcotic. The reason is that the system arti
-ficially stimulated for sexual gratification suffers.
Excessive indulgence in the use of ganja is also
said to cause impotence
.
50.Excessive use is not practised as an aphro
-disiac, as impotency is produced and the con
-stitution is much impaired.
51.Bad characters do resort to stimulants, but
I am not prepared to say that most of them use
hemp drugs in preference to other stimulants.
Alcoholic drinks seem to be much more frequent
-ly indulged in than the hemp drugs. I do not
consider that the moderate use of any of the
drugs incites to crime of any character
.
52. Neither does the excessive use incite to
crime as far as is known to me.
53. Excessive indulgence in any of the drugs
does not lead to unpremeditated crime, as the ex
-cessive consumer is generally incapable, stupid,
and inactive. I am not, however, able to say
whether or not homicidal frenzy is caused.
54. and 55. I am not in a position to make a
reply to this question.
56.The effects of hemp used in moderation and
in excess is modified by admixture of condiments
and " massalas." The drug is made much milder
by such admixture. But if dhatura and poppy
seed are mixed, the drug gets much stronger.
" Dhatura" is rarely used in this part of the
country as an admixture in preparations of the
hemp drugs.
57.Charas is not used here, and by what I have
written under answers 19,20, 21 and 22 it will
appear that ganja is used both for smoking and
eating. It is not used for drinking ; the effects
of drinking and eating have been discussed above
.
58. The system of excise administration in the
Bombay Presidency has been fully described by
the Honourable Mr. Mackenzie, Commissioner of
Customs and Abkari, etc., in his letter No. 4752,
dated 11th September 1893, to the Chief Secre
-tary to Government. Reference is solicited to
that report. The system is very simple and
uniform. I think it serves the requirements of
the Excise Administration and works well.
59.No experiments suggest themselves to me.
60 The taxation is fair, and the manufacture
of narcotics from the hemp plant are well con
-trolled. I do not think any improvement is called
for. Though the cultivation of the hemp plant
is unrestricted, I have not heard of illicit sales or
manufacture of the drugs. The cultivation of
the plant in this district is so very limited, that
any restrictions other than those existing under
vol. vii,
the present system are not called for. The cul
- t i v a t i o n i s n o t e d a n d w a t c h e d b y t h e v i l l a g e
officers and recorded in the village register.
Moreover, the cultivator is not allowed to manu
- f a c t u r e o r s e l l t h e d r u g s w i t h o u t a p e r m i t . N o
further restrictions are therefore needed.
6 1 . C h a r a s i s n o t p r o d u c e d i n t h i s p a r t o f t h e
country.
6 2 . T h e r e i s n o c u l t i v a t i o n o f t h e h e m p p l a n t
for the production of bhang exclusively, as the
ganja plant supplies what is known as bhang in
this distriot.
6 3 . T h e p r e s e n t s y s t e m o f b o t h w h o l e s a l e a n d
retail vend of ganja and bhang works well and
requires no modification.
6 4 . N o n e w h a t e v e r .
6 5 . I n m y o p i n i o n t h e t a x a t i o n o f g a n j a a n d
bhang is reasonable with reference to each, and to
alcoholic or other intoxicants. Ganja and bhang
are taxed equally in this district, and I do not
see any reason to disturb the arrangement.
6 6 . I d o n o t s u g g e s t d i f f e r e n t r a t e s f o r t a x i n g
ganja and chur (otherwise called bhang).
6 7 . T h e i n c i d e n c e p e r h e a d i s l o w . I d o n o t
see that any case in made out for altering of the
present rate of taxation, which is quite unobjec
- t i o n a b l e . I t i s , h o w e v e r , c l e a r t h a t v e n d o r s m a k e
a large profit out of proportion to the taxes paid
and expenses incurred. Appendix A will, I trust,
be found useful and interesting as showing the
net profits which a retail vendor makes out of
his bargain.
6 8 . T h e r e a r e n o s h o p s i n t h i s d i s t r i c t w h e r e t h e
drugs are consumed on the premises. The sweet
- e n e d d r u g s , s u c h a s y a k u t i , m a j u m , e t c . , a n d t h e
drinks, such as bhang, though manufactured at
shops licensed for the purpose, are not consumed
on the premises. The consumers take home their
purchases. it would not be advisable to permit
consumption of the drugs on the shop premises,
as it would probably lead to disorderly behaviour
at the shops and in public.
6 9 . T h e r e q u i r e m e n t s o f t h e p e o p l e a r e c o n s i
- d e r e d b e f o r e a s h o p i s o p e n e d i n a n y l o c a l i t y . T h e
ganja farmer generally applies to the Collector of
the district for permission to open a shop or shops
in a locality. The Collector calls on the
mamlatdar of the taluka in which the locality lies
to report if such a shop is needed, and after such
local enquiry as he deems necessary, the mamlatdar
reports his opinion, which is generally accepted
and acted on by the Collector.
7 0 . I d o n o t t h i n k t h e B h o r S t a t e , w h i c h i s t h e
only Native State comprised in this district, ever
imports any quantity of the intoxicating drugs.
I am not aware of any case of smuggling having
occurred. Bhor does not grow hemp. There is
in consequence no likelihood that it would get
untaxed ganja and import it into this district.
Duty is paid on all drugs consumed here. I am
not aware of any illicit dealings in the manufac
- t u r e o r t r a n s p o r t o f t h e d r u g .
Appendix A.
In the course of enquiries made by me regard
-ing matters connected with the sale of the hemp
plant drugs, it has struck me that the profits
which the farmers of the right of vending the
drugs make are very large.
I shall endeavour briefly to state the accounts
H.