130
53. Ganja appears to be the only drug which
incites to crime, as it has the effect of making
people quarrelsome. No particular case can be
mentioned, but in all cases of men running amuck,
they have generally had their wits about them.
54. Ganja may be used, but not the other drugs.
55. Bhang without admixture has the effect of
stupefying. One whiff of charas or chandu is
enough to stupefy a man at once, and might be
used as suggested.
Answer No. 220.
20. Total strength 1,135—
(a) Combatants
625
(b) Non-combatants
24
(c) Authorised camp followers
486
Ganja—
(a)
Combatants—
Muhammadans
16
Rajputs
2
(b) Non-combatants—
None.
(c) Authorised camp followers—
Muhammadan
1
Charas-smokers—
Nil.
24. (a) Rajputs
2
(b) Rajputs
2
25. Decrease.
The practice is looked down on.
28. Three pies per diem.
32. Social custom—to offer a smoke to visitors.
No religious custom.
33. The practice is discountenanced.
In opinion of native army, the practice is con¬
sidered injurious, as it tends to stupefy the
intellect.
None known in the regiment.
39. Smoking is considered more injurious.
41. Yes, to those accustomed to it.
42. The moderate use is harmful, I think, except
in cases of confirmed smokers; the latter must
have it.
43. Inoffensive.
44. Bliss.
Yes, refreshing.
Yes, intoxicating.
Does not allay hunger.
It creates appetite.
One hour, about.
Yes, bodily pains.
Yes. Great longing for more, and uneasiness.
45. I have carried out no experiments with
Indian hemp, and have no knowledge or experience
of what I suppose is meant here by the moderate
use of it. Any use of it which would bring the
individual under the observation of the Medical
Officer must, I take it, be regarded as excessive.
The latter does impair the constitution, injures
the digestion, causes dysentery and asthma,
directly or indirectly. I should also say that it im¬
pairs the moral sense and induces laziness. It
produces insanity, and when it does so, is the
exciting cause, in my opinion. The temporary form
of insanity produced is violent and homicidal, e.g.,
"running amuck"; the permanent, melancholic
and suicidal. The latter in its earlier stages is pro¬
bably recurrent with each excessive bout of indul¬
gence. In my experience I have had no reason to
think that the use of the drug has followed
suffering from mental anxiety or disease or weak
intellect. I do not know whether the insanes
who have no recorded ganja history confess the use
of the drug, but I cannot see what the judicial or
scientific value of such confessions would be.
46. I do not remember any case in this regi-
ment during my eight years' connection with it in
which the mind has been permanently affected by
ganja, although the drug has been in its various
forms the cause of considerable inefficiency, sickness
and, indirectly, one death at least.
[Questions 45 and 46 answered by Medical
Officer.]
49. No.
51. Yes. Ganja-smokers.
No crime, but the military offence of slackness,
and inertia.
53. No
I know of no case.
54. No.
The fact of smoking would render a man in¬
efficient.
55. Possibly.
Complete stupefaction, but not in the same way
as chloroform.
Answer No. 221.
20. Total strength of the State Cavalries and
Infantries is 5,457. The total strength of the
Transport Corps is 644.
(a)
(b)
(c)
As per annexed Statements A and B.
24. As per annexed Statements A and B.
25. The use of ganja, charas, and bhang is not
on the increase; it appears to be rather on the
decrease, as the habitual use of any of these drugs
is prohibited in the regiments.
28. The average cost of bhang and ganja per
diem is about 1/4 of a pice, while that of charas
is about 1/2 a pice a day.
32. There are no customs, social or religious, in
regard to the consumption of any of these drugs
in the regiments.
33. The use of each of these drugs is now-a-
days generally regarded with contempt. There is
no opinion in the native army here in regard to
the use of either bhang, charas or ganja. There
is no custom is this place of worshipping the hemp
plant.
39. Bhang is not smoked at all. Ganja and
charas only are smoked, either with or without