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As such can be named: the hawking of opium
in the villages by the underlings of the farm, secret places of
by thousands, the sale of opium on sale, which could be counted credit in times of money-shortage, the contraventions on a large scale of the regulations relating to the forbidden areas.
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In the first place one endeavoured to reach
that no the desired end, by organizing the Regie in such a manner, intermediaries were used, who were interested in the extent of the sale and consequently perhaps inclined to encourage the use of opium.
This is the difference between the Opiumrege in the Dutch East Indies and the exploitation of the opium in the neighbouring countries and colonies.
The opium is sold by paid officials, who are The raw opium is made not interested in the increase of the sale.
The chandu is put into chandu in the factory of the Oplum-regie,
The tubes cannot be opened, up in metallic tubes of differant sizes. without being damaged, and only unopened tubes are sold.
When opium is detained on suspicion, that it did not come from the Opium-regie, it is examined in the factory where it is determined, whether it did or not.
For those parts of the Dutch East Indies, where the possession of opium was forbidden to every one, this prohibition was maintained, when the Regie was introduced, with some exceptions, These had relation to cases, where the prohibition existed only on paper and the use of opium among distinct groups
that it of the population had already attained such dimensions
But also in these cases was impossible to exterminate it at once, the prohibition gas maintained for the other groups of the population, Apart from that"Opium-regie restricts itself to a pessive attitude.
It avoided everything which could increase its use, but it took only very few measures, which directly aimed at a decrease of the use.
In 1908, however, the Opium-regie was also utilised to combat the use of opium more effectively.
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