"DOPED” CIGARETTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11762, 24 February 1919, Page 4

"DOPED” CIGARETTES.

USE IN AUSTRALIA

RETURNED SOLDIER'S PLIGHT

Speaking in Melbourne, BrigadierGeneral Williams, State Commandant, said that from tbe condition in which a yonng soldier was brought into the Military Hospital suspicion was aroused as to the cause of his state. It was suspected that he bed been doped, and evidence obtained led to the conclusion that he had been given a drug in a cigarette by a person who presumably intended to rob him.

This-case had een followed up patiently, as were others, and it bed been found there was traffic going on in tbe drug, which was injurious to anyone, and particularly to invalided soldiers. Dings weie used by confidence men and women, and tbe selling of them was aa offence against the law. Whenever evidence or sale cocld be obtained, prosecution would follow, he added.