It was pointed out by the Central Opium Board of the League of Nations that owing to the cumbersome machinery of Article X of the Geneva Opium Convention, years elapsed before certain derivatives of morphine, which were soon recognised as useless for anything but the illicit drug traffic, came under the control of the Convention. The board, therefore, decided to pass forward to the Opium Advisory Committee a suggested text for inclusion in the draft limitation agreement, assuming all opium derivatives to come under the Convention unless reported as incapable of giving rise to the drug habit.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 150, 21 March 1931, Page 5
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