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cocaine and the Indian hemp drugs. It therefore seems
to this Government desirable that production of and
traffic in all habit-forming drugs which have been pro-
ved to be a menace to the moral, physical and economic
welfare of the world should be considered by the Con-
ference and adequately dealt with by it in the spirit
of Resolution 5 of the International Opium Commission,
which places a ban on all drugs which appear on scien-
tific inquiry to be liable to abuse and productive of
the ill effects of opium, its derivatives or prepara-
tions.