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27. For the year B.L. 2464 (1921-22) very retailer 111 heve his suplius thus restricted and this renewal of the sa sant avsten vill, it is hoped, have much better re- sults than when Trat ttempted (su pres 16 & 19), as the Sess.nents 111 be made within nrro er limits, i.e. for ret ilers inst. of for sub-F›rnors, ho nturelly handled much larger quantities. The no Opium Low, hich is to cemo into operation t the ane tio, il 150 give grently in- crprsad fcilities for the detection of the illicit use the drug, mì rill "rovide suitable soultios on conviction.
1th the end of the Euromaan r, opium gain became on internationa) question one of the oblig-tions of the sigactories to the Peace Treatybeing, within a year of its rtification, to put into force the Hague Convention of 1912. As Siam ratified the Treaty of Prce on January 10th, 1920,
The the Convention had to be no effective by January 1921. first step to be taken res to revise the old onjum lers com- letely. This matter had ringedy been taken up, and a rough Put draft of a corrchensive nur low a completed by 1919.
the onsetment had to reely to large turritory with a idely scntt.rd soculetion living under varying conditions, its sunt: 1 that all the rovincial authorities should be fully consulted on the subject, This necessarily occupied considerable time, but the law was finally cromulgated on January 6th, 1921. In Annexe VI will be found a translation of this bar and of the nisterial Regulations issued ther- undur.
It ill, however, not come into force until the 1st April 1921, the date on which the year B.E. 2464 commences.
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29. The provisions of the lar are designated to op- reto in three distinct and successive periods. The crovi- sions which become incediately ofurtive re those hich on- force the existing legal requirements, modified and brought up to a te, and with raitional restrictions as to the pós- Jussin of obium, Under he now law, no person may have in his possession orium of any sort or descriction rhetsocver ithout a license, Ind the only persons to be licensed to poso use o-ium will be ruteilors, smokers licensed to smoke it homo, and nudien) yetitioners and lapons rios.{ Vide Opium Low, Titles II and III).
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It may be antioned hure that great e-ro is t ́kon by the cuthoriti.s in issuing lic.nses for hond smoking, end as the holders cro modely limit. to ull-to-do persons, ruabar of hone mokers is comperetively small. (Vido Annexe VII, Tablo II.) Further, si nec rcted lers are only allowed to supply opium to their customers for consumption on their