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Government took the monopoly and has
since been rigidly prohibited.
As regards Hong Kong and the
Malay Peninsula, the policy of the
Government is to restrict the traffic so
The great danger is
far as is possible.
that any more drastic steps will lead to
an increase in the far more deadly habit
which is already
of morphia injection
deplorably prevalent. This evil cannot
be dealt with effectually until means have
been found to regulate the exportation to
the East of morphia, cocaine, and similar
deleterious drugs.
Under the existing
laws in the Eastern Dominions the importa-
tion, possession and sale of such drugs is
very strictly regulated; only licensed
persons, such as doctors and qualified
druggists, may employ the drugs, and then
only for medicinal purposes.
The great
difficulty
difficulty is the prevention of smuggling,
with which the Governments concerned are
dealing as energetically as possible; but
until exporting countries can establish some
control over the export of the drugs there
must be a large amount of successful
smuggling in spite of the best organised
preventive service, since the packages con-
taining the drugs are capable of easy con-
cealment.
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