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              Answer No. 243.

20. Six hundred and twenty-seven.

None of these persons uses ganja, charas or
bhang. Of course, they smoke hukka.

24.  Nobody drinks bhang in this regiment.

25.  Now-a-days the use of these drugs is on
the increase among the ignorant masses.

28. The average allowance and cost of each of
these drugs cannot be stated. Consumers spend
according to their means and the number of the
companions who indulge with them.

32.  There is no religious, but there is a social cus-
tom in regard to the consumption of these drugs.
Indeed Nihang Sikhs use bhang. Perhaps there
may be any religions custom among them.

33.  The use of these drugs by employés and lay-
men is degrading for them. It is, moreover, physi-
cally and socially injurious for them. It is equally
injurious to military men, as it brings on bron-
chitis, cough and asthma while on drill.

39. People prepare majum with bhang, but it
is not known whether or not the majum is injuri-
ous. Khatai, etc., which are also prepared from
bhang and smoked in a hukka (sic) are more inju-
rious. These admixtures are very injurious, be-
cause they affect the brain.

41. The moderate consumption of bhang is even
not harmless. It creates laziness, aridity and
emaciation in the body.

42. The moderate use of these drugs is not
harmless, because it creates aridity.

43.  The consumption of these drugs greatly
affects the senses of the consumers; such consumers
are very troublesome to their neighbours.

44. The use of charas produces aridity, bronchi-
tis, etc.; it sharpens the appetite, but affects the di-
gestive power. It creates intoxication, which is in-
jurious to the body. It also brings on timidity.
It does not allay hunger, and over-feeding is fol-
lowed by indigestion.

49.  Nobody uses the drugs as an aphrodisiac.
On the other hand, its use causes laziness, emacia-
tion and sexual weakness.

51. The bad characters as well as other people
use these drugs. The use has no connection with
crimes of any special character.

53.  The excessive consumer does not commit a
heinous crime, such as "murder." Of course, it
would not be strange if they commit trifling offen-
ces.

54.  Yes, the habitual consumers after taking
their dose recover their senses and become forti-
fied, while an abstainer becomes stupefied if he takes
any of these drngs in order to commit any offence
or violence.

55.  Yes.

                  Answer No. 244.

20. Five hundred and eighty-four.

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