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9.
Cocaine.
purposes.
a) Coom is not grown in the Portuguese colonies.
b) The trade in coca is only allowed for medicinal
o)
a)
There are no coomine factori es
Cocaine may only be used by doctors and chemists.
The quantity consumed at Macao in 1924 wae 178.63
grammes and, in 1925, 355 grammes.
The quantities consumed in the other Portuguese
colonies were approximately the same as those given in the
Report for 1923.
10.
No other narootio was imported into Macao.
It should be observed that in Macao, where only
opium for smoking is used, no noteworthy cases of organie
decay are observed such as are found in other places where
the alkaloids also are used.
C. MISCELLANEOUS
It is almost impossible to prevent the smuggling
of opium in Macao, not only because the inhabitants of the
town and the frontier provinces are constantly entering and
leaving, but also on account of the free regime in force in the port; this regime is necessitated by economic cond it ions
and could not be changed without serious consequences to the
economic position of the colony.
The opium prepared at Macao 18 highly esteemed by
opium smokers in the Far East, and smugglers often counterfeit
the labels of the Macao concessionaire in order to pass off
their wares as genuine. For instance, 443 tins of opium
impor ted /