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in their houses, but it could be prepared wherever
it is grown.
17. These is no particular class of people by
which bhang preparation is made.
18. These drugs do deteriorate within four years
although kept with care. Their intoxicating
properties are lost by dryage.
19. For smoking only.
20. Only few people and generally mendicants
and bad characters smoke these.
21. Flat ganja is preferred.
22. Charas imported form Khorasan is used in
Sind.
23. No.
24. Fifty per cent, of the people in Sind drink
bhang.
25. There is no perceptible increase or decrease.
26 and 27. I cannot answer this.
28. (a) One pie per diem.
(b) Half anna per diem.
29. No.
Yes; I know bhang massala. Some people mix
sugar, almonds and saffron with bhang.
30. Generally in company and is confined to
the male sex and not to any time of life, but it is
hardly given to children.
31. Such habit is not easily formed, but it is
very difficult to break off. Yes, there is a ten-
dency for the moderate habit being developed into
the excessive.
32. The use of all these drugs is generally in-
jurious.
33 and 34. I cannot answer this.
35. (a) and (b) No.
(c) It will be difficult to enforce prohibition,
and it will occasion serious discontent, but it
will never amount to any political danger, and I
do not think it would be followed by recourse to
other drugs.
36. No.
37. Charas-smoking has stronger effect than
that of ganja.
38. Not to my knowledge.
39. Charas and ganja are smoked and are never
used for drinking, and bhang is drunk.
40. Bhang is sometimes advised as a cooling
thing and is also given to horses.
41. I do not think so.
42. I do not think so.
43. Yes.
44. I cannot say.
45. (a), (b), (c), (d) I cannot say.
(e) It may do so.
(f ) and (g) I cannot say.
46. I cannot discuss this.
47 and 48. Not as a rule.
49 and 50. To some extent I believe.
51 and 52. I believe so.
53. I do not know.
54. I do not think so.
55. I cannot say so.
56. I do not know.
57. Not to my knowledge.
58. I think it is working fairly.
59. I cannot give reasons.
60. Ganja is not produced in Sind.
61. Charas is not produced in Sind.
62. I do not think so.
63. I have no objection.
64. I have no objection, as the present regula-
tions are working very well.
65. No alteration is needed in my opinion.
66 and 67. No.
68. Licensed charas shops for smoking chandu,
which were really a source of misery, have
been done away with, but shops for the sale of
these drugs are in existence, and there is no objec-
tion to their existence.
69. Yes, the mukhtiarkar always enquires
from the townspeople before a shop is allowed to
be opened, and I think this is a right course.
70. No.
8. Evidence of MR. C. MACIVER, District Superintendent of Police, Karachi.
2. Yes; charas, bhang, and ganja.
14. Yes; bhang is.
51. Most Sindbis take bhang, it is not specially
consumed by bad characters. None as far as
I am aware.
52. Some criminals have been known to take
bhang four times daily, but this does not cause
them to commit crime.
53. Very rarely. I know of only one instance.
54. I should say not. Most Siudhi criminals
take bhang, and sometimes before committing
offences.
55. In the few cases I remember the offenders
were chiefly foreigners to Sind, and the victims
were not completely stupefied.
56. I know no case in which hemp was mixed
with other substances. Dhatura is used alone.
57. 1 have no personal experience on this point.
9. Evidence of RAHMATALA KHAN, Police Inspector, Shikarpur.
1. I make this statement based on the oppor-
tunities of seeing and hearing which I had had in
police service.
3. I do not know where the hemp plant grows
spontaneously, but the hill plant called akoi is
said to be grown in Tando Rahimkhan in the
Karachi district. It is cultivated in abundance
at Bubak near Sehwan.
4, It has no different name, but the hill plant is
called akoi and grows spontaneously.