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Charas—
The action is immediate,
the eyes become con-
gested and the consumer feels cheerful. He be-
comes talkative.
Ganja, bhang, and charas are refreshing.
Ganja and bhang allay
hunger. The consumers
do not feel hunger for a time.
Ganja and bhang create appetite.
The effect of ganja lasts
for two to three
hours.
The effect of bhang lasts for eight to ten hours.
The effect of charas
lasts for fifteen minutes to
one hour.
After-effects.
Ganja.—Yes; becomes dull and
feels no inclination for work; no headache. There
is longing and uneasiness. The effects are slight
on moderate habitual consumers.
Bhang.—Yes;
becomes dull and drowsy. After
bath feels better.
Charas.—No after-effect.
For habitual moderate
consumers the want of
subsequent gratification does produce little or no
longing or uneasiness.
45. The habitual moderate
use of ganja does
not produce any noxious effects.
Physical.—They
keep good health, can work
hard, and can undertake all sorts of fatigue and
exposure. Can work in the sun without um-
brella. They feel ease and comfort, and can sleep
soundly and eat with great relish.
Mental.—Forget all
sorrow, become cheerful,
talk and sing, and show mental activity.
Moral.— None.
The constitution is not
impaired in any way
if healthy food, milk, dadhi, ghi, etc., are
taken.
It does not impair the
digestion or cause
loss of appetite. When nutritious food is not
taken, it produces diarrhœa, dysentery, etc. They
are sometimes found to suffer from cold and
cough.
It does not impair moral sense, etc.
Bhadralok degenerate by
mixing with low class
people. It does not induce laziness. Without
ganja he becomes dull, and on smoking ganja
becomes cheerful and active.
It does not induce habits
of immorality like
wine. It does not induce debauchery like wine.
Ganja is considered an aphrodisiac.
Habitual moderate use
does not deaden the
intellect or produce insanity. It is difficult to
say whether ganja smoking is due to insanity or
insanity is due to ganja smoking.
Insane persons smoke
ganja. When they were
sane, they did not use ganja. It sharpens the
intellect. Insane persons become irritable when
they do not get ganja, but after smoking ganja
become sober. I examined two mad men at
Nasirabad and Kissoregunge in Mymensingh.
They were creating golmal near the ganja shop
and were demanding ganja.
Madman
No. 1.
Q. Has ganja smoking made
you
insane ?
A. Sir, Ganja smoking
does not
produce insanity, without ganja
one becomes mad.
Let me have little ganja,
I shall
keep quiet.
Madman
No. 2.
A. Without ganja I am
getting
mad, let me have little ganja and
I shall become sane.
As soon as a little ganja
was given them for
smoking they became quiet and did not talk.
46.
Excessive.
Physical.—Weak.
Mental.—Becomes
irritable and free from
worldly cares.
Moral.—Indifferent.
47. Habitual
moderate use of bhang, ganja or
charas does not appear to be a hereditary habit, or
to affect in any way the children of the moderate
consumers.
A very few children of
the lower classes learn
to use the drug from their fathers. Most of
them imbibe the habit when they attain the age
of twenty or twenty-two. The use of the hemp
drugs does not appear to be a hereditary habit.
48. Habitual
excessive use of bhang, ganja or
charas does not appear to be a hereditary habit,
or to affect in any way the children of the exces-
sive consumers.
Ganja. |
Bhang. |
Charas. |
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49. As an aphrodisiac — |
Yes. |
Yes. |
Yes. |
(Ganja is used largely for |
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the purpose; it is common |
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to all intoxicating substance. |
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Hemp drugs are cheap and |
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the poor man's narcotic.) |
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Use by prostitutes — |
Yes. |
No. |
Yes. |
(It is so used by the |
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poorer classes of prostitutes |
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in East Bengal; it is said |
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that they can carry on their |
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abominable and degraded |
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profession with several per- |
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sons without fatigue or |
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weakness.) |
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Its use for this purpose— |
Not in- |
Not in- |
Not in- |
(In moderate dose): The |
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use of hemp plant does not |
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tend to produce impotence. |
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50. As an aphrodisiac— |
No. |
No. |
No. |
Use by prostitutes— |
No. |
No. |
No. |
(Sanyasis and bairagis |
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smoke ganja to check animal |
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passions and for concentra- |
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tion of thoughts to a fixed |
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purpose. After a continued |
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smoking for several years |
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they lose all carnal appetite |
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and their senses are dead- |
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ened. |
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Its use for this purpose— |
It is not used for |
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this purpose. |
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(In excessive dose): The |
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senses are deadened, but it |
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is difficult to say whether |
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the excessive use produces |
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impotence. |
51. [I examined Mr. Gopal
Hari Mullick,
District Superintendent of Police (service twenty-
nine years), and several Inspectors of Police
(service twenty to thirty years).]
(a) Any large
proportion of bad characters are
not habitual moderate consumers of any of these
drugs.
(b) The moderate
use has no connection with
crime in general or with crime of any special
character.