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a man is thought little of who is a habitual con-
sumer. No particular person is more than another
looked down on.
Worshipping not practised.
39. Bhang usually eaten or drunk. Charas and
ganja generally smoked. Smoking is considered
less injurious than eating or drinking preparations
of hemp, as the effects of smoking pass off quicker.
41. Beneficial only to moderate habitual con-
sumers.
42. Moderate use to habitual consumers is not
injurious physically, but has mentally a stupefying
effect, and makes a man slow and dull.
43. Yes.
44. (1) Yes.
(2) Exhilaration not quite amounting to intoxi
cation.
(3) No.
(4) Yes.
(5) Four to six hours.
(6) No.
(7) Yes, both.
45. No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No information can be traced.
46. Will more certainly bring on physical and
mental deterioration sooner or later followed by
insanity or imbecility.
49. No.
51. Most of the habitual consumers are not
good characters. The offences in connection are
not civil crimes, but military, such as slackness on
duty and so forth.
53. No.
No.
54. Yes, in some cases.
55. Yes, in some cases.
Complete stupefaction can be induced by over-
indulgence.
Answer No. 122.
20. (a) Combatants—
Mussalmans
625 (only 3 or
4 Hindus
(Sikhs))
(b) Non-combatants
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(c) Authorised camp
followers
350 (including
316 syces).
None own to smoking ganja. About 2 per cent.
combatants own to smoking charas, and it is a
general custom amongst all camp followers.
N.B.—There is little doubt that many more
smoke charas, but they only own to tobacco.
24. (a) None eat bhang.
(b) It is known that some 2 per cent. drink
bhang—class (a).
25. The use of bhang is very much less than it
used to be.
It is looked upon with so much disfavour by the
upper classes.
The smoking of charas is much as it has always
been.
28. About 1/6 anna or 2 pies.
32. There appear to be no social or religious
customs.
The imbibers get what may be called dizzy and
stupid, but remain quiet.
33. Very unfavourably. The men who indulge
are looked down on as generally useless, and the
use of bhang is generally supposed to be quite
enough explanation for bad work.
There is no custom of worship of the hemp
plant.
39. The smoking of charas in moderation is
much less injurious than drinking bhang,. because
the drug is so much less pure, but even smoking
charas has very bad effect on the teeth and
energies.
41. There is a decided opinion that no benefit
whatever comes from the use of either charas or
bhang.
It becomes a habit which is very difficult to give
up.
42. If moderate, harmless I should say. But
that is the difficulty: the habit grows; teeth fall
out at a comparatively early age; eyes become
bloodshot, dim, and there is a lack of energy shown.
It is a common reply when a native officer is
referred to asking if this or that man understands
what is said to him, or why an order is not
promptly obeyed "Oh, he doesn't mean to dis-
obey, but he consumes bhang."
43. Quite inoffensive.
44. The habitual consumer of bhang says that
it produces appetite and cheers one up. The
general idea to onlookers is that it produces a sort
of dull intoxication which makes a man callous as
to what is going on round him.
Smoking charas seems to have much the same
sort of effect as smoking tobacco. Very much
missed if not indulged in.
45. None, as far as I have had any experience;
certainly not physical when used in moderation.
No, I think not.
No, I have never had a case which could be
attributed to such use.
No.
I should say not, unless used in excess.
I have never seen a case of insanity following
its moderate use, though I have from excessive
indulgence. In the latter case I should say the
mania was a direct consequence of excessive use of a
deliriant drug, in the same way as delirium tre-
mens following alcohol. The only constant symp-
tom I know is the wide dilatation of the pupils.
Otherwise than from this excessive indulgence I do
not believe in any connexion between mania and
the moderate use of hemp drugs. Whether a person
with a tendency to insanity is more liable than
others to indulge freely in hemp drugs, I cannot
say from experience.
I cannot find any records in this regiment
bearing on the question.
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