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Grerada
Jamaica
Montserrat
St.Kitts
St.Lucia
St.Vincent
Trinidad
Virgin Islands
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Far Eastern Colonies
Seychelles
St.Helena
Kenya
Nyasaland
Somaliland
Tanganyika
Uganda
Zanzibar
In Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, Hong Kong and Weihaiwei where, owing to local circumstances, the use of prepared opium is permitted under strict Government control, measures were taken during the period since the signing of the Hague Opium Convention, 1912, to ensure that the provisions of the Convention (though not yet binding upon the Governments concerned) should be effectively complied with. As a result of the signing of
the Versailles Treaty, the Secretary of State invited the
Officers Administering the Governments in July, 1919, to
consider what further steps, if any, it was necessary or
possible to take in order to ensure full compliance with
the Convention, with especial reference to Artiole 6.
The replies from the Officers Administering the Covernments
may be briefly summarized as follows:
Ceylon.
As the consumption of opium was fully
under control, no further local legislation appeared to
be necessary,
Having regard to the fact that the importation
of raw opium which in 1913 amounted to 12,000 lbs.only,
had been reduced by over 30% during the next 6 years, the
Secretary of Stete expressed his concurrence with the
Governor's opinion.
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The Governar stated that he proposed to
carry out the following additional measures to
regulate further the trade in Opium:-
(a)
Raising of the wholesale price of
Government chandu (prepared opium) from $10 to $12
per tahil (In (qthe price was $3 per tahil). Further increases in price to be imposed at irregular
intervals.
(b) Rationing of Retail Chandu shops and
public smoking rooms, so as to reduce the normal
consumption of the drug.
(c) Limitation of the quantity of chandu
droes which a person might legally have in his
possession.
(d)
Prohibition of export of opium to places
other than the United Kingdom, other parts of the
British Empire, Siam and French Indo-China.
He urged the necessity of proceeding gradually and with caution towards the object in
view, viz. total suppression of the drug; and thought
it not unlikely that if the licit traffic was
prematurely abolished, all efforts to cope with opium smuggling and the use of deleterious drugs (morphia, cocaine &c.) must prove abortive, until such time as the production of opium and the manufacture of
morphia and cocaine were Bo controlled in all
producing countries as strictly to correspond with what the world actually required for medical and
other legitimate purposes.
Hong Kong,
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The Governor stated that since 1914,
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