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Answers to questions re the Royal Commission on opium.
REC
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Rec 19 F 94
2. Men about 300%, women about 137%, children do not.
3. It does not affect them morally. Physically a consumer has not the same fresh healthy appearance as one who does not consume opium. A consumer's position is not in any way socially affected. The same may be said as regards other Asiatic races.
4. They chiefly smoke it. They neither eat nor do they drink a decoction. If it is taken in the latter form also I cannot distinguish between the effect of each.
5. Not many, and very few eventually become "Opium sots." I find that a considerable proportion of consumers are moderate consumers.
6. It is not correct to say that there cannot be such a thing as moderation in the consumption of opium. I have known of many cases where opium has been consumed without harm to the consumers. There are several opium-dealers with whom I am brought into business contact, who have to my knowledge been consumers of the drug for years and who apparently...