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(a) Opium.
The regulation of the opium traffic, by which is meant trade in opium whether prepared for consump- tion or not, depends on the possibility of the adoption of stringent measures of repression. In Weihaivei and Ceylon where the number of opium consumers is small and the population more or less stable it has been found possible to institute a system of registration which will gradually abolish opium consumption, whereas in Hongkong and the Malay Peninsula where the Chinese population fluctuates and fresh immigrants are constantly arriving,
registration is considered to be impracticable.
The steps taken in Weihaiwei and Ceylon to
abolish the use of opium may be stated as follows :- In 1909 the Commissioner of Weihaiwei under
the instructions of His Majesty's Goverment promulgated an Ordinance regulating the traffic. By its provisions no person may import, possess, sell or buy any opium whether prepared or raw unless he is either a quali- fied medical man or chemist (in which case he is permittat to deal in opium for bona fide medicinal purposes), or person who is licensed by a Government medical officer to smoke or otherwise use opium on the ground that deprivation of the drug would injure his health. licensed consumers are registered and, as they die out, the use of opium will gradually be abolished. The law further provided that no person might be
licensed who was either not of full age or a woman,
though the latter could obtain a licence by special
sanction of the Commissioner.
Such
An additional safeguard against the consumption
of opium by persons hitherto unused to it was provided
in
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