New Method Of Drug Smuggling
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, August 13. The only new method of drug smuggling found last year was the hiding of narcotics in the handles of tennis rackets sent from Pakistan, says a British Government report.
The report, to the United Nations on drug addiction and trafficking in Britain during 1964, said that the postal services continued to be used for drug smuggling. But a significant trend was an increase in the number of young persons entering ports in the south of England who attempted to bring in cannabis (Indian hemp or marijuana) obtained in Morocco, often using cars as a means
of concealment. During the year there were seizures of opium coming from Singapore and Calcutta, though the amounts were relatively small in each case. There were also seizures of cannabis brought from Morocco, India. Nigeria, Jamaica, Pakistan, Cyprus, Turkey, Ceylon, Aden, and Burma. “There is no evidence that drugs were smuggled through Britain,” the report said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30829, 14 August 1965, Page 15
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