DRUG FIENDS IN U.S.A.
PUPILS IN THE SCHOOLS. NEW YORK, January 29. Senator Kennedy has introduced a bill under which it is proposed to give the New York city police authority to enforce the Federal Narcotic Act in an effort to check the spread of the drug habit among young schoolboys and schoolgirls. Mr. Kennedy said that he had made a close study of the narcotic evil, particularly among the yo\mg. It was amazing to see how it had gripped young people. Police records showed that the majority of the highwaymen in New York were mere youths. Prohibition was at first blamed for this, but later it was found that the greater percentage of the girls arrested for crimes of violence were drug addicts. They committed crime in order to procure money to buy expensive narcotics.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 9
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