CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 304

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established in Peru by a firm of druggists, such as

Messrs. Merck of Darmstadt, which could supply the

whole world with the entire quantity of cocaine salts

which it is likely to be able to consume, The cocaine

habit is recognised to have had far worse effects than

the Morphia habit, so that the non-adherence of Peru

even were all the European States to adhere to the

Convention

would leave the evils connected with the

export of drugs to the East practically untouched.

In the present letter the Board have proceeded on

the assumption that the Articles of the Convention

which deal with Morphia and Cocaine and those which

deal with Opium stand or fall together. The question

of the possibility of a more limited Agreement which

should concern itself solely with prepared opium is notì

one on which they feel it necessary to offer an opinion.

In any case the manufacture of prepared opium (1.e.

opium prepared for smoking) is not carried on in the

United Kingdom.

On a review of the whole situation, it appears

evident to the Board that the attempt to suppress thị

illicit trade in morphia and cocaine by united act

in