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(b) I cannot say. Ganja is usually smoked in a
chillum or earthen pipe, while bhang is prepared
like sherbet and drunk. Both, however, are sad
to produce drowsiness.
22. Evidence of MR. R , W. MARTIN, District Superintendent of Police, Rangoon.
51.A small proportion of bad characters con-
sume ganja. Many respectable natives of India
partake of bhang in the form of cooling drinks,
others smoke ganja mixed with tobacco, others
partake of it in the form of sweet halwa called ma-
jum. Fakirs take it in the form of pills ; they mix
the ganja with pepper and ginger.
Ganja leaves are also cooked in curries. The
drug is smuggled into Burma from India through
the Postal Department and by steamers.
In Upper Burma the plant is often seen grow-
ing near villages and is used medicinally.
There is no connection between hemp drug and
crime.
52.The excessive use of ganja is said to be dele-
terious, persons indulging in its use and while under
its influence have no inclination to commit crime ;
on the contrary, the feeling is one of drowsiness
with an inclination to remain indoor.
53.Excessive indulgence of the drug does not
incite unpremeditated crime of any kind, but I be-
lieve it has its bad results on the constitution and
the consumer grows cowardly.
54.The consumer of the drug, when under its
influence, grows lazy and drowsy, and consequently
does not go in for committing crime, but I believe
criminals when in want of funds commit crime to
enable them to procure the drug.
55.Yes, there are instances where criminals to
further their designs induce their victims to par-
take of the drug ; complete stupefaction can be in-
duced by partaking of it without admixture.
23. Evidence of MR. A. G. MAYNE, District Superintendent of Police, Pegu.
51. Not in Burma. I have not come across
any such cases during my service in Burma ex-
cepting two cases mentioned below.
52.I have not had much experience regarding
the use of hemp drugs. Where I served in India,
dhatura and arsenic were chiefly used.
53.No ; not to my knowledge.
No.
54. Yes, and in all cases in which the persons
concerned are in the habit of taking these drugs.
At Sagaing in Upper Burma in 1888 (?) the Sub-
Major of the military police battalion was shot
dead by a sepoy, who indulged in bhang. An-
other bhang-eating sepoy of the same battalion and
in the same year, I think, attempted to murder a
Burmese girl. Both these men are supposed to
have fortified themselves with bhang, but as they
were not captured till two or three days after com-
mission of the offences, it would be impossible to
know for certain.
I cannot recall any hemp-drugging case, vide
my reply to No. 52.
24. Evidence of MR. A. J. A. JARDINE, District Superintendent of Police, Bassein.
51.(a) No. (b) None in my experience in
Burma. I have not known these drugs used by
Burmans. With natives of India, it sometimes
leads to homicidal frenzy.
52. In Burma, I have never seen a case of ex-
cessive use.
53. Yes ; but I have only known cases of exces-
sive doses of ganja leading to homicidal frenzy.
This was in India.
54.Not in Burma to my knowledge. But I
have known a case of Burmese dacoits fortifying
themselves in liquor.
55.(a) I have heard of cases in India, but not
in Burma.
(b) I have not seen any cases, but I have been
informed in India bhang causes complete stupe-
faction.
25. Evidence of MR. W.G. SNADDEN, District Superintendent of Police, Maubin.
51. No ; ganja is hardly ever consumed by.
Burman criminals.
52, 53, 51 and 55. I have had no experience of
the effects of the excessive use of any of these
drugs.
26. Evidence of MR. M. J. CHISHOLM, District Superintendent of Police, Akyab.
51. Hemp drugs are not used by the Arakanese.
The Chittagonians and Bengalis, of whom there
are a large number in Arakan, indulge in ganja and
drugs obtained from hemp. It is consumed both
by respectable men and bad characters. I do not
think it has anything to do with crime. No in-
stance has been brought to my notice where crime
has been put down to the use of these drugs. The
people use it to allay pain and keep off malarious
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fever. Mostly all the violent crimes in this district
have originated in liquor shops.
54.No; not here.
55.No case of the kind has been brought to my
notice.
57. Charas is unknown here. Ganja is used
with tobacco and smoked by the people.
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