260
-6-
raw opium for the preparation of orinary meuicing, their number
cannot be limited nor the quantities which they may receive. But
their opium will have passed through bonded warehouses on arrival
at a specially appointed port (or frmtier town) and can only be
re-dispatched under permit. The Government will know exactly what
each has received and all abuses can be repressed, the more so in
that the supervision will be completed by the obligation of special
It is registration of receipts and sales, verified by inspection.
perfectly admissible that pharmaceutical chemists shall not be
allowed to receive raw cocaine, It will only be permissible for them
to have in their possession cocaine coming from "exercé" manufacturers,
as has been explained above.
In addition, if it is contested that all this supervision is
too difficult of organisation, I would recall that at the present
moment France does not cultivate one kilogramme of tobacco above what is allowed by the Government and that the supervision of the circula-
tion in spirits is also very strict. The application of the system
of direct limitation would, in addition, entail restrictions, the
organisation and putting into force of which would be still mo re
difficult.
It will be said that France and the other big countries are
ultra-administered. How can one hope that measures of the same kind
(I mean as effective) can be taken in Turkey, Porsta or China?
But, as a consoquence of strict control organised by centralised countries, resulting from an agreement between themselves on identical bago which must be accepted by everyone, the production will be
limited in less centralised countries with a different mentality. Let us suppose that the soven large countries actually producing the manufactured drugs: Germany, the United States, Franco, Great Britain,
Japan, the Netherlands and Switzerland, should come to an agreement on a strict system of national and international control, in a sincovo