ABSTRACT
Gunjah is used for smoking alone—one rupee weight, 180 grains, and a little dried tobacco are rubbed together in the palm of the hand with a few drops of water. This suffices for three persons. A little tobacco is placed in the pipe first, then a layer of the prepared Gunjah, then more tobacco, and the fire above all. The Majoon, or Hemp confection, is a compound of sugar, butter, flour, milk, and Sidhee or Bang. The process has been repeatedly performed before the author by Ameer, the proprietor of a celebrated place of resort for Hemp devotees in Calcutta, and who is considered the best artist in his profession. There was sufficient to show that Hemp possessed in small doses an extraordinary power of stimulating the digestive organs, exciting the cerebral system, of acting also on the generative apparatus. The dose in which the Hemp preparations might be administered, constituted of course one of the first objects of inquiry.
