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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1988
WORK 13 ALSO DRUG ADDICTS 39,000, IN CONTRAST KINGDOM, FROM 0.6 THE IN
"THE SUCCESS OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTI-NARCOTICS REFLECTED IN A SIGNIFICANT DROP IN THE NUMBER OF ACTIVE FROM 100,000 IN THE EARLY 1970'S TO THE PRESENT TO AN INCREASE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED
MILLION MILLION.TO 20 CORRESPONDING PERIOD.
AND 12,000
TO
30,000 RESPECTIVELY
DRAFTING
NEW
OBTAINED
"DESPITE THE
ACHIEVEMENTS,
THE GOVERNMENT IS
LEGISLATIONS TO EMPOWER THE COURT TO CONFISCATE THE PROCEEDS FROM DRUG TRAFFICKING," HE NOTED.
TWO
DRUG SITUATION, MR TONG EXPLAINED COMMENTING ON THE GLOBAL THAT OPIUM, FROM WHICH HEROIN WAS DERIVED, WAS PRODUCED MAINLY IN AREAS, The Golden TRIANGLE ON THE BORDER OF BURMA, LAOS AND AND THE GOLDEN CRESCENT IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAN AND PAKISTAN.
THAILAND,
1,600 TONS
IN 1987 REACHED 2.400 METRIC "THEIR TOTAL OPIUM PRODUCTION TONS, OF WHICH 800 TONS WERE FROM THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE AND FROM THE GOLDEN CRESCENT.
THE
SOUTHEAST ASIA, "HEROIN PRODUCED IN THE FORMER MAINLY WENT TO CANADA AND AUSTRALIA, WHILE THE MAJOR MARKETS FOR THE LATTER WERE UNITED STATES 'AND EUROPE.
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MR TONG POINTED OUT THAT THE HEROIN FOR THE
TRIANGLE GOLDEN LARGELY SMUGGLED IN FROM THE VESSELS, CARGO CONSIGNMENTS AND AIR PASSENGERS.
LOCAL MARKET WAS BY MEANS OF FISHING
POINT, AND
AS A TRANSIT "BUT CHINA IS ALSO BEING EXPLOITED
KONG THROUGH THIS DIVERSIONARY OPIUM AND HEROIN SMUGGLED INTO HONG ROUTE HAS BEEN ON THE INCREASE IN THE PAST TWO YEARS.
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WORLD OUTPUT IN 1986 WAS PHILIPPINES WAS ONE OF THE MAIN
AS FOR CANNABIS, MR TONG SAID THE ABOUT 13,000 METRIC TONS AND THE PRODUCING COUNTRIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.
HONG IN
KONG TOTALLED 359 KG,
"IN 1987, CANNABIS SEIZURES ALMOST A FOUR-FOLD INCREASE OVER THE 1986 FIGURES.
COCAINE,
MR TONG WENT ON TO EXPLAIN THAT MAINLY IN SOUTH AMERICA AND ABUSED IN THE WESTERN POSE A SERIOUS THREAT TO HONG KONG AT PRESENT.
BY
"THERE IS YET NO SUBSTANTIAL PROOF OF ITS HONG KONG, IN SPITE OF SOME MINOR SEIZURES CUSTOMS IN 1987."
OF
IN VIEW OF THE INCREASED PRODUCTION WORLDWIDE AND THE UPWARD TREND IN THE ABUSE OF MANDRAX AND AMPHETAMINE, MR TONG STRESSED THAT COPE WITH THE PROBLEM MERELY BY EFFORTS OF ANY
"TO
SUPPRESS
THE
DRUG MENACE COUNTRIES,
GOVERNMENTS OF VARIOUS
ASSOCIATIONS OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR,
FROM
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WHICH WAS COUNTRIES,
PRODUCED DID NOT
EXTENSIVE ABUSE IN BOTH THE POLICE AND
KEROIN AND COCAINE OTHER DRUGS SUCH AS IT WAS INSUFFICIENT SINGLE PARTY.
TO
NOT ONLY AND SHOULD
SPREADING,
INSTITUTIONS INDIVIDUALS
ALSO BUT
AND FAMILIES
RENDER THEIR SUPPORT TO THE BATTLE AGAINST NARCOTICS.
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