Surely this points to an "abuse" of opium, in one province of India at leas which the "Humanitarian" Powers represented at the Hague would surely include in their programme with a view to remedy. It is to be hoped that al who realise the critical position which all this indicates will ventilate the matter, and communicate with the Government, and also with their members of Parliament. The Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee have passed the follow. ing resolution, and sent copies to the Prime Minister and the variou heads of departments concerned :-
The Committee thank the Government for the prompt introduction of the Dangerous Drugs Bill, and trust that facilities will be given for ju speedily becoming law; they, however, desiderate in it a more definit restriction of both "raw opium" and morphia and cocaine to medical require. ments, which they believe to be the intention of the Hague Artioles, when taken as a whole; they also trust that the provisions of the Bill will be extended to lodia and other Eastern Dependencies, according to the term of the Declaration of the British signatories at the Hague, which says, "The Articles of the present Convention shall apply to British India, Ceylon, de Straits Settlements, Hong-Kong, and Wei-hai-Wei, in every respect in the same way as they shall apply to the United Kingdom and Ireland."
July, 1920.
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