ILLICIT DRUGS
EFFORTS TO COPE WITH EVIL CONFERENCE SITTING Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 4. (Received November 6, at 10 a.m.) Eleven, delegates representing the Governments of countries where dangerous drugs are manufactured are sitting in London under the chairman ship of Sir Malcolm Delevingne. Deputy-Permanent Dnder-Secretary of State for the Home Office, considering an international plan to fight the illicit dope traffic. The Medical Committee of the League of Nations has already arrived a.t the conclusion that the world’s legitimate annual needs of medical opium, morphine, codeine, cocaine, and heroin do not exceed eighty-four and a-half tons. The production at present is greatly in excess of that amount, and the conference hopes to fix a quota to be manufactured in the various countries. If this is arranged the task of smugglers will be rendered vastly difficult.
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Evening Star, Issue 20633, 5 November 1930, Page 9
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