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to be considered for ensuring a sufficient supply for the medical
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It is generally agreed that the quantity of cocaine at present cvailable is much too large for the medical and scientific needs of the whole world. Nevertheless, great prudence will have to be
exercised in imposing restrictions, su ca to permit of Que consideration of various consectel.cec of restriction, frudence is especially necesɩ.ry inesuch as the exact figures of production and of the quantities required for medical purposes are not own.
Leasures will have to be devised to prevent illicit trade from getting hold of the cocaine intended for medical use, and to
0002ine for ensure that it will always be possible to obtain
legitimate purposes at a reasonable price. It will therefore be necessary to make provision for the possibility of a bad orop,
and for an increase in the legitimate needs of eastern countries,
in which the employment of European remedies is constant ly beforing
more froquent,
It should not be forgotten that a proportionci restriction of cultivation in the various countries would not produce the desired result, firstly, beacuse an extensive cultivation is needed in Feru for internal consumption, and, secondly, because the field does not depend colely on the crea under cultivation, but also on
the intensiveness of the harvesting process.
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Control of experts will therefore be a sine quâ non. the case of Jeve such control will be easy, as cocaine leaves are always exported in large quantities, aud no raw codeine is exported from the Island. Control will be much more difficult in cases like