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In the Transvaal the importation of opium was prohibited by law in 1909 except under permits issued only to chemists and druggists.
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Far Eastern Territories
The legislation as to opium and as to morphia and other drugs in these colonies and protected states, although connected, are best considered separately.
(a) Opium.
In Weihaiwei and Ceylon where the number of opium consumers is small and the population more or less stable it has been found possible to institute a system of registration which will gradually abolish opium consumption, whereas in Hongkong and the Malay Peninsula where the Chinese population fluctuates and fresh immigrants are constantly arriving, registration is considered to be impracticable.
The regulation of the opium traffic, by which is meant trade in opium whether prepared for consumption or not, depends on the possibility of the adoption of stringent measures of repression.
The steps taken in Weihaiwei and Ceylon to abolish the use of opium may be stated as follows:
In 1909 the Commissioner of Weihaiwei under the instructions of His Majesty's Government promulgated an Ordinance regulating the traffic.
By its provisions no person may import, possess, sell or buy any opium whether prepared or raw unless he is either a qualified medical man or chemist where permitted to deal in opium for bona fide medicinal purposes, or a person who is licensed by a Government medical officer to smoke or otherwise use opium on the ground that deprivation of the drug would injure his health. Such licensed consumers are registered and, as they die out, the use of opium will gradually be abolished. The law further provided that no person might be licensed who was either not of full age or a woman, though the latter could obtain a licence by special sanction of the Commissioner.
An additional safeguard against the consumption of opium by persons hitherto unused to it was provided in the clause of the Ordinance which prohibits the existence of opium divans.
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In the Transvaal the importation of opium was
prohibited by law in 1909 except under permits
issued only to chemists and druggists.
II
Far Eastern Territoris
The legislation as to opium and as to morphia and
other drugs in these colonies and protected states,
although connected,are best considered separately.
(a) Opium.
In Weihaiwei and
The regulation of the opium traffic, by which is
meant trade in opium whether prepared for consumption
or not, depends on the possibility of the adoption of
stringent measures of repression.
Ceylon where the number of opium consumers is small
and the population more or less stable it has been
found possible to institute a system of registration
which will gradually abolish opium consumption, wher 328
in Hongkong and the Malay Peninsula where the Chinese
population fluctuates and fresh immigrants are con-
stantly arriving, registration is considered to be
impracticable.
The steps taken in Weihaiwai and Ceylon to abolish
the use of opium may be stated as follows:
In 1909 the Commissioner of Weihaiwei under the
instructions of His Majesty's Government promulgated
an Ordinance regulating the traffic.
By its provisions
no person may import, possess, sell or buy any opium
whether prepared or raw unless he is either a qualified
(in which come
medical man or chemist where permitted to deal in
opium for bona fide medicinal purposes,) or a person
who is licensed by a Government medical officer to smoke
or otherwise use opium on the ground that deprivation
of the drug would injure his health. Such licensed
consumers are registered and, as they die out, the use of
opium will gradually be abolished. The law further
provided that no person might be licensed who was either
not of full age or a woman, though the latter could
obtain a licence by special sanction of the Commissioner.
An additional safeguard against the consumption
of opium by persons hitherto unused to it was provided
in the clause of the Ordinance which prohibits the
existence of opium divans.
No opium, whether raw or prepared, may be exported
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