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overboard the advice we have received that heroin is not indispensable in medicine, or to withdraw from the position that we co-operate to the full in all international measures to combat the illicit drug traffic. I should be glad to have the agreement of my colleagues to saying at the appropriate moment (e.g. either in the White Paper or during a debate on the White Paper) that we have no intention of withdrawing from the position we have taken and that, if it should be found that further legislative authority was required to enable Her Majesty's Government to put their policy into effect, we shall certainly consider seeking it from Parliament.
Home Office, S. W. 1.
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