PROHIBITION LEADS TO DRUG SMUGGLING.
TORONTO, 4th March. Officers of the Customs Department have seized 148 boses of cocaine and heroin and 182 tins of opium at Sherbrooke, Quebec. The drugs were. contained in suit cases addressed to a place in Vermont. It is believed that au organised gang of smugglers; with headquarters at Montreal,, is using Newport as a, gat.way to the" United States.— The Times, sth. March, 1919. (Prohibition creates the drug habit.)
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 138, 9 December 1919, Page 2
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75PROHIBITION LEADS TO DRUG SMUGGLING. Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 138, 9 December 1919, Page 2
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