70
them in regiment: these apply particularly to
ganja.
28. Half tola, cost 1 pice.
32. Forbidden in all religions.
33. It is considered by all respectable men as a
most vicious habit, and though many indulge in it
that is the opinion.
It makes a man unfit for his duty.
None that I know of.
39. Smoking is worse than drinking or eating,
as it affects the brain and all the bodily powers.
41. None from charas or ganja. Natives say
that bhang taken moderately in the hot weather
has a cooling effect, and they take it for the same
reason that English officers take pegs of whiskey
and soda.
42. Charas and ganja always injurious, in what-
ever quantities they are taken.
If bhang taken in small quantities, it is not in-
jurious.
43. Bhang-consumers are not troublesome to
their neighbours.
Charas and ganja-consumers quarrelsome and
are never to be trusted.
44. Ganja—Very injurious.
(1) Refreshing—No.
(2) Intoxication—Yes.
(3) Hunger—No.
(4) Create appetite—Believe so.
(5) Effects last half day; depend on quantity
taken and time man has indulged in habit.
(6) Fit for nothing.
(7) Great trouble and uneasiness of mind.
Charas—The same as above.
Bhang—Habitual consumer gets weaker as time
goes on.
(1) Refreshing—Yes.
(2) Intoxication—A little.
(3) Hunger—No.
(4) Create hunger—Yes.
(5) About four hours.
(6) None.
(7) Not much I believe; as above stated, it is
taken mostly in the hot weather, except by con-
firmed consumers.
45. Bhang moderately not injurious.
Bhang increases appetite. Charas and ganja act
injuriously.
Does not cause dysentery, rather the contrary;
but smoking causes great pulmonary mischief.
Yes, induces laziness. No evidence of causing
habits of immorality.
Yes. Insanity, perhaps.
Exciting causes temporary.
Melancholia and mania.
Yes.
Never confess.
No opinion.
One case who takes ganja gets temporarily in-
sane.
(Melancholia). Very quiet and reserved, and
thinks he has grievances and "hears voices"; won't
work and gets very lazy; on threat of punishment
symptoms pass off, owing to the resulting discon-
tinuance of the drug.
46. Undoubtedly most injurious to mind and
body in every way; result in speedy insanity.
49. Bhang is sometimes so used.
[Questions 45, 46 and 49 answered by Medical
Officer.]
51. Yes. Chiefly men of indifferent character
take ganja and charas; also habitual consumers of
bhang are generally a bad lot. They all tend to
decrease a man's self-respect.
The effect of ganja and charas is to excite the
brain and it often incites a man to commit violent
assaults on superior officers and others, also to
commit murders: for instance, a man checked by a
non-commissioned officer for some small offence, if
a ganja or charas-smoker, is apt to brood over it and
magnify it, and this in the old days, when sepoys
had easy access to their ammunition, often led to
their shooting their native and non-commissioned
officers; any one known to smoke ganja or charas
has very little chance of advancement in this corps.
53. Yes.
Yes, several.
54. Yes. I think so.
55. Yes.
Mixed in food.
Answer No. 101.
20.(a) Combatants—789
Jats of Hindustan
692
Other castes
97
TOTAL
789
(b) Non-combatants-Nil.
(c) Authorised camp followers—40
24. About 15 Jats drink bhang.
25. In the regiment the use of these drugs is
decreasing. Reasons—fear of punishment and loss
of one-third of pension, if men have to leave the
serviceon account of use of these drugs.
28. About the same for each, viz., six pies per
diem.
32. There does not appear to be any religious
custom. Socially men get together for the con-
sumption of the drug in the same manner as
Europeans do for drink.
33. No opinion in the Native Army, as far as
can be ascertained.
No custom of worshipping the hemp plant known
to Jats.
From enquiry, smoking is more injurious than
drinking or eating the preparations, more especially
as regards charas and ganja. Two cases have
recently come under my notice of the pernicious
effects of smoking. A Brahmin cook (Langrie) and
a lascar suffering from the effects—contracted chest,
lungs affected and general debility—have had
to be discharged.
Charas
Ganja
always injurious.
Bhang perhaps not.
Charas
Ganja
Yes.