Monday, August 19, 2013

Appendix B: REPORT OF THE INDIAN HEMP DRUGS COMMISSION, 1893-94


REPORT OF THE INDIAN HEMP DRUGS COMMISSION, 1893-94.
APPENDIX
NOTE BY MR. J. M. CAMPBELL, C.I.E., COLLECTOR OF LAND REVENUE AND CUSTOMS AND OPIUM, BOMBAY, ON THE RELIGION OF HEMP.
Favorite Quotes:
Bhang is the Joy-giver, the Sky-flier, the Heavenly-guide, the Poor Man's Heaven, the Soother of Grief.
Much of the holiness of bhang is due to its virtue of clearing the head and stimulating the brain to thought. Among ascetics the sect known as Atits are specially devoted to hemp. No social or religious gathering of Atits is complete without the use of the hemp plant.
To forbid or even seriously to restrict the use of so holy and gracious a herb as the hemp would cause widespread suffering and annoyance and to the large bands of worshipped ascetics deep-seated anger. It would rob the people of a solace in discomfort, of a cure in sickness, of a guardian whose gracious protection saves them from the attacks of evil influences, and whose mighty power makes the devotee of the Victorious, overcoming the demons of hunger and thirst, of panic fear, of the glamour of Maya or matter, and of madness, able in rest to brood on the Eternal, till the Eternal, possessing him body and soul, frees him from the having of self and receives him into the ocean of Being. These beliefs the Musalman devotee shares to the full. Like his Hindu brother the Musalman fakir reveres bhang as the lengthener of life, the freer from the bonds of self. Bhang brings union with the Divine Spirit. 'We drank bhang and the mystery I am He grew plain. So grand a result, so tiny a sin.'
Ganja eau be consumed by all in the name of a god, and the practice cannot be looked down upon, because it is done under certain forms and religious ceremonies. It is also popularly believed that those who mock the worshippers of Trinath shall be ruined and shall be the victims of misfortune.

Read the Entire History of How Colonial Britain decided to promote Opium Poppy derived Heroin instead of Spiritually Healing Ganga 
online by searching for Indian Hemp Drug Commission Report
or visit the link directly at http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/inhemp/ihmenu.htm ;

The above quotes from the Appendix were apparently missed or ignored for
profits over planetary peace and health:

 http://www.drugtext.org/library/reports/inhemp/7relhemp.htm

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