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and disinclination to movement; the want of subse-
quent gratification is only felt for a few days.

45. Yes, physically, mentally, and therefore
morally.

It depends on the constitution of the consumer.

Yes, it injures the digestion.

Not within my experience.

Yes, it does.

I consider it deadens the intellect.

I have had the experience of only one case in
which it was the exciting cause. The case was not
sufficiently advanced to give me that experience to
answer the remainder of the questions.

No man has suffered in this regiment since 1873,
and his medical history sheet is not forthcoming.

46. Its habitual excessive use is decidedly harm-
ful.

49. Among natives it is supposed to have this
action.

51. Yes.

Tends to the commission of crime in a state of
temporary insanity, which is of a homicidal nature,
as the nerves are specially excited and fortified.

53.   Yes.
No.

54.  Yes.

55.  Yes, I believe so.
Yes, I am told it can.

                      Answer No. 139.

Four Dogras smoke charas. Neither ganja nor
bhang is taken in this regiment.

24.  None.

25.  On the decrease, because all the older soldiers
who used to take it have left the regiment and
the young men have not taken to these drugs.

28. Nobody uses them in this regiment as a
daily consumption: those who do use them do so
about twice a week.

32.  Among the men composing this regiment,
there are no social or religious customs that I am
aware of which entail the use of these drugs.

33.   (a) As a bad habit.

(b)   The opinion of the native officers is against
the use of these drugs.

(c)   and (d) Because the native officers say any
man addicted to these drugs is a useless man on
service or in his fields at his home.

(e) None known by any one in this regiment.

39. (a) Smoking is more harmful than eating or
drinking any preparation.

(b) Because by smoking the senses are much
more quickly overpowered.

41. No, unless the te porary raising of spirits
followed by stupor and forgetfulness can be con-
sidered a benefit to men who are depressed or home-
sick.

42.   Ganja and charas are always bad, as they
make a man thin: they produce dulness of vision
by affecting the brain, and make a man more liable
to chest diseases.

Bhang only makes a man idle and stupid, but
otherwise is not harmful, if only taken in modera-
tion.

43.  Yes; but when actually smoking charas, the
smell is offensive to non-smokers.

44.  Charas and ganja make any one stupefied
at once, and his eyes become red.

(a) Bhang takes half an hour after being taken
before it takes any effect. The effect lasts about
three hours.

(b) Charas and ganja act as a stimulant; bhang
is not.

(c) All these drugs produce intoxication if taken
in sufficient quantities.

(d)   They allay hunger.

(e)   Bhang causes an appetite; charas and ganja
do not.

(f) Bhang has an effect for about four hours.

(g) All these drugs cause heavy sleep and great
dulness of the senses on waking up.

(h) Yes.

45. It induces mental and moral deterioration,
and weakens the power of self-control.

Eventually impairs the constitution by inducing
chronic diseases.

It induces indigestion : at first stimulates then
impairs the appetite.

Causes dysentery when regularly drunk as
bhang, and asthma and bronchitis when smoked
as charas or ganja; impairs the moral sense, and
generally leaves the habitual indulger in a con-
dition of lassitude and irritability.

When used, its first action is to cause pleasurable
excitement. Sometimes very violent, at times with
uncontrollable fits of laughter and accompanied by
grandiose ideas; later it induces deep sleep, from
which the person can scarcely be roused. Even-
tually predisposes to insanity, the type being that
of acute mania, followed by melancholia.

Have not had sufficient opportunity of forming
an opinion.

There was one case of acute mania in the person
of a Sikh sepoy who habitually indulged in bhang.
There was wild excitement with violent move-