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(b) About 20 masas, costing 1 anna and 3 pies.
29. (a) Ordinarily for smoking a little tobacco is
added, and for eating it is prepared in the form of
sweets for aphrodisiac purposes and luxury.
(b) Exceptionally it is mixed with opium,
dhatura, nux-vomica, for unusual intoxication.
Bhang is ordinarily prepared with sugar and
milk for drinking purposes, and it is also prepared
for drinking with bhang massala. The object of
these admixtures is ordinarily for pleasures, and
exceptionally it is used to nerve men for some deed
of violence, and sometime also for poisoning. Yes,
I know the ingredients, and I give them below.
Bhang massala.
Bhang or subji.
Kali miri
Black pepper.
Goolab-ki kali
. Rose bud.
Kura-kakdi-ka binj
Cucumber seed.
Badam
Almond.
.
Dhania
Coriander seeds.
.
Kaskas
. Poppy seeds.
Ilaichi. Cardamom.
Mulatti
. Liquorice.
Kaisar
..
. Saffron.
Sugar,
Milk.
30. In my opinion it is practised equally in soli
- t u d e a n d i n c o m p a n y . I t i s m a i n l y c o n f i n e d t o t h e
male sex and to the period of early manhood. It
is never used by respectable women. Certainly, it
is not usual for children to consume any of these
drugs.
31. Yes, the habit is easily formed. It is some-
what difficult when the habit is thoroughly formed
to give it up, but it is not attended with any
danger. There is a decided tendency for the
moderate habit to develop into excessive
.
32. So far as I know, and from the information
I gathered, there are no social or religious customs
in connection with which the use of these drugs is
considered so essential.
36. Yes, to a certain extent it is attributable to
a better financial state; when the smokers become
somewhat better off in pecuniary circumstances,
then they give up smoking, and take to alcohol as
a fashionable drink in substitution of ganja. I am
not able to offer any proof, but I speak from my
personal knowledge.
37. The effect of charas differs, so far as I know,
from ganja that the former immediately stupefies
the smoker quicker than the latter, and the effects
of drinking bhang are more lasting and injurious
than smoking ganja.
39. In my opinion and from the informations I
gathered the drinking or eating of any form of plant
is more injurious than smoking, and my reasons
are to the testimony of users of the drugs whom I
know.
40. To the best of my knowledge and belief,
these drugs are rarely prescribed by native doctors
for cattle diseases.
41. (a) No, not permanently.
(b) Yes, temporarily.
(c) Yes, in some malarious districts to foreigners
temporarily visiting such districts, but not to the
permanent inhabitants.
(d) Not that I am aware of.
42. No; I cannot consider even the moderate
use to be harmless, because even the moderate use
of the drugs for aphrodisiac purposes, and also the
moderate use of the drugs has a decided tendency
to develop into the excessive use.
44. (a) The immediate effect of the moderate
use of the drugs is simply to allay the pain, cramp-
ing, and other accompaniments of the nervous reac-
tion which follows the previous indulgence.
(b) Only so far as above.
(c) Yes.
(d) It does.
(e) Yes, false appetite.
(f) About two or three hours.
(g) The after-effects are prostration, vertigo, etc.
(h)
Yes, as above.
45 (a) Yes, it does to a certain extent.
(b) It does.
(c) Yes, to a certain extent.
(d) Yes, the excessive use.
(e) It does most decidedly.
(f) It does. In my opinion it is very exciting,
and it has been observed to be without predisposing
cause of insanity. It does produce insanity, but of
a mild type, and is of a temporary nature. Yes;
it is reinduceable after liberation of restraint by use
of the same drug. Rarely. Yes; those who
possess no history of ganja smoking confess to
the use of it.
(g) From information in my possession, I
am of opinion that persons suffering from mental
anxiety or brain disease, who obtain relief in
explaining their connections or considering them-
selves as relief from insanity, under which they
may have laboured, and persons deficient in self-
control do indulge in the use of hemp as improv-
ing measure.
In my capacity as a medical man, I fell in
several places where persons who after being
cured of temporary insanity have confessed of
their having found relief in their reverting to
the use of hemp, but I am unable to quote any
particular case, as it is now a protracted period
since I became acquainted with the foregoing facts.
46. It does produce noxious effects, physical,
mental and moral. It does destroy constitution.
It does destroy digestion. It does cause dysen-
tery, bronchitis and asthma. It paralyses moral
sense, and induces to laziness, theft, cheating, and
general debauchery.
47 and 48. I doubt very much as to its being
hereditary.
49. Yes; very widely. I cannot say whether
it is used by prostitutes. Yes; the use for this
purpose is more injurious than is used as an ordi-
nary narcotic, because it stimulates unnatural
passion, the indulgence of which produces the addi-
tional drain of excessive seminal loss in addition
to the nervous reaction following its use as an ordi-
nary narcotic. Yes; it tends to produce impo-
tence.
50. The result as above, but corresponding
worst.
56. The effect of hemp is modified according
to the substance mixed with it, for, e.g., tobacco
mixed with ganja would lessen the effect, whereas
dhatura, nux-vomica, and opium mixed with ganja
would naturally increase the effect, as personal
consumption they take it for excessive intoxica-
tion, but for administration to others to produce
stupefaction for the purpose of robbery, etc.
57. Ganja in the shape of majum with other
ingredients is used for eating. Charas probably
; i s n o t k n o w n i n t h i s
p r o v i n c e .