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FONG KONG
CIVIL AFFAIRS POLICY DIRECTIVES
OPIUM
54132.
Second Draft
14/4/44.
Vide new direction
In view of the statement of policy made by His Majesty's
Government on 10th November, 1943, (copy annexed) announcing the
total prohibition of opium smoking in British and British Protected
territories, it will be necessary at an early date to repeal the
consolidating Opium Ordinance (No.7 of 1932) and subsequent
amendments, and simultaneously to take the requisite legislative
steps to bring raw and prepared opium within the scope of the
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (No.31 of 1932).
2. Thereafter it will be the duty of the Police Force, and
of any special preventive staff which it may be necessary to employ,
to take steps to deal with opium-smoking on the same lines as were
adopted in the years preceding 1941 to eradicate certain other
habit-forming drugs, in particular, heroin.
3.
Funds for this purpose will have to be provided as they
were for the anti-heroin campaign before the war.
4. It will be desirable to start a popular movement against
opiun-smoking based on an appeal against racial degradation, and
this should be backed by encouragement among the Chinese youths
of the Colony of outdoor sport of all descriptions such as had
become such a feature of local life in the years shortly before
1941.
5。 It will probably be necessary to arrange in due course
with suitable authorities in Kuangtung for the treatment and restitution of opium addicts on a payment basis (for genuine residents) similar to that employed in the case of lepers and
lunatics.
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