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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 303, 16 September 1921, Page 8

INTERNATIONAL DRUG RINGS.

The Drug Act Administrator for the Dominion of Canada was reported in the “Vancouver World” ot May 1G last as saying:—"Drug rings aro not only local but national and international: the ring will stop At nothing to gain, its ends ” France is experiencing a crime wave attributed by the Press to cocaine and opium. Drug taking in the Old Country has reached alarming proportions, and tho police are said by the “Daily Mail” to bo powerless to stamp out the traffic. In Toronto, under prohibition, tho Chief of Police reports:— "Opium joints and other ofloncQS against tho 'Drug Act show a marked decrease for the year 1920." The enforcing of strinrent legislation resulted m benefits nil over Canada. The importation ot cocaine fell from 12,!1330z. to 69690 z.; opium fell from 34,3631 b. to 13,6261 b., and morphine fell from 30,0870 z. to 28 99 k>z 'The dope traffic centre is not in’ any of the prohibition provinces of Canada. Ninety per cent, of the habitforming drugs go io Montreal m the "wet” province ot Quebec. British Columbia, under a system of Government control of sale, is the onlv other “wet" province of Canada—all the rest aro now "bone drv." In the year 1920, Captai n E. Gaston Page, V . K. G. b.. reported that at the special clinic for addicts opened in New York in 1819, about 1750 persons were applying daily for tho decreasing doles allowed to addicts That special clinic has since closed for lack of patients, and other hospitals that used to treat drag addicts report a substantial decrease in patients. -N Z. Alliance Publicity (12).-Advt.