WHEN DRUGS RULE
BUENOS AIRES DOPE FIENDS VISITOR DESCRIBES APPALLING CONDITIONS VICE TN HIGHEST SOCIETY MONTREAL. Feb. 1. Mrs Angela Kaufman, president of the international narcotic crusade, who had just returned from South America, said that the conditions at Buenos Aires were appalling and unbelievable. Codainß and other drugs were taken in every form without the least attempt at concealment. Opium packed in cigarettes might bo bought at practically any cigar store. She saw dozens of persons at cabarets and restaurants, kill classes dropping powders into their drinks. The worst sight was children of 14 and 15 who were addicts. She attended a dinner at which the highest society were present, and was amazed to find a handsome silver box divided into many compartments in which there wtis a "variety of narcotics differently prepared to please all tastes. Practically everybody partook of the contents.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 3 February 1926, Page 7
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