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Through constant pressure on an international the drug front, progress is being made in the unceasing war on illicit trade in narcotic drugs.

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Not long ago a caravan of camels arrived at the Egyptian land frontier. They carried no unknown. burdens it was explained that they were being brought to Egypt for sale.

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stroked it. On the camel's hump he felt something which did not seem to be camel. Examination dis- closed spots where heavy hair of the camel's humps [vention had been shaved away, brickets of hashish (made to carry from Indian hemp) glued to these places, and the travening hair replaced over the bricks.

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Again, on another international, and the derivatives of each. Cocaine, boundary, an apparently innocent morphine, and some of the deriva- shipment of ozocerite, a mineral tives of opium constitute a boon to wax, was found by customs officers humanity when used by the medical to be a mixture of heroin and par- profession in the treatment affin wax. All that the narcotic disease, but they become a terrible smuggler had to do after taking de- curse when used otherwise. livery was to submit the ozocerite to a simple chemical process which would precipitate his heroin ready for sale.

Anyone who has witnessed the suffering of a drug addict' when deprived of his particular drug cannot help having some conception Hollow heels of shoes, brass bed- of the menace to civilisation and steads, grindstones. journal boxes humanity which is involved in the of railway cars, camel saddles, auto-use of drugs for non-medical pur- mobile, cushions, "Bibles," coffins, poses.

even tombstones, have been found to conceal drugs, writes Stuart J. Fuller in "The Rotarian.”

CONTROL DIFFICULT

Such Smuggling operations as these indicate the difficulties inher- ent in the control of narcotic drugs and emphasise the fact that acting alone the nations of the world are unable adequately to protect them- selves against illicit narcotic-drug traffic. Even adequately to control the "lawful" traffic necessitates in- ternational co-operation. Isolated action by one country can have no permanent or effective result 60 long as other countries allow free import and export of the drugs.

Employment of narcotic drugs for scientific other than medical and purposes having been recognized throughout the world as abuse, any traffic in such drugs without specific governmental authority is univer- sally regarded as illicit,

PITIABLE WRECKS

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What, essentially, is the traffic in narcotic drugs? It is poisoning one's fellow-man for gain! It is making a customer of your friend, your wife, your son, your daughter, with the full knowledge. that once they begin its use they will quickly reach the state in which they cannot live without an ever- larger daily dose, which inevitably reduce them to pitiable wrecks.

The narcotic drugs on which in- ternational co-operation centers are

It was the American Government opium, the coca leaf, "cannabis sati~ which proposed the holding of the va" (Indian hemp, commonly known first international conference on the as marijuana in the United States), I subject. of drug control.

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