OPIUM SMOKING.
IS IT COMMON IN DUN EDEN
Is opium-smoking common in Dunedin? A correspondent forwards to the Dunedin Star a few grains of opium dust (the residue after smoking the real thing), with the statement that this dust is in common use among young men, especially down about the wharves. He asks: "Is this stuff sold oppnlr; it not, could the sale of it be stopped?" The importation or sale of opium is prohibited by Act, except under rigid conditions, and it is an {fence for persons to smoke opium,' abet others in smoking it, or have it in their possession in a form suitable for smoking. This residue in our hands can (we are informed) easily be brought into a form suitable for smoking.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14806, 9 October 1911, Page 8
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126OPIUM SMOKING. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14806, 9 October 1911, Page 8
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