What attitude was taken up in this matter
may be apparent from the statement madu at Shanghai by the Head of tho opium-regie Service at that time as member of the Interna- tional Commission on Opium, at the sitting of that cormission on
The first paragraph of that statement runds: 15th February 1909.
"1. That the Dutch Government, convinced of the desirability
of combating the use of opium will never pormit itself to bo withheld from taking stops, from which in its opinion it wan be expected that they will indeod lend to the gradual diminution of its usa, by financial consider tions.
11
V.
505
Partly as a result of the resolutions passed
by that International Commission, various laws intended to combat tho use of opium as much as possible, came out in Netherlands India in the year 1911,
The importation, the transportation, the preparation, the administoring and the sole of cocaine, x and B jucaino, and substances which can be used as substitutus for morphin, for other than medicinal purposes was prohibited, and only permittud
With the exception to qualified persons for medicinal purposes,
of these, only those persons were allowed to be in possession of thesc substances, to whom they had boun proscribed in a lawful mannor as medicino,
The exportation was only permitted to those countries where the importation was allowed,
Similar rugulations were made in rigard to raw or proparud opium, morphine, opium-pruparations and substances, which contain opium or morphing intondud for mudicinal purposes.
In the intended comploto rovision of the lowa
It will rolating to opium and other narcotics the definitions in the troaty will naturally be followed as much as possible. howover, be some time before this vision is accomplished, ns in Connection ther with the no punal code, which has since boun intro-
taken into nocount, from some provisions in duced, will hav. to bo
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.