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What attitude was taken up in this matter
be apparunt from the statement medu at Shanghai by the Head the opium-rugie Service at that time as member of the Interna- ol Commission on Opium, at the sitting of that commission on En February 1909. The first paragraph of that statement runds:
"1. That the Dutch Government, convinced of the desirability
of combating the use of opium will never permit itself to be withheld from taking stops, from which in its opinion it san be expected that they will indood load to the gradual diminution of its use, by financial consider tions.
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V.
Portly as a result of the solutions passed
thot International Commission, various laws intended to bombat
use of opium as much as possible, came out in Netherlands India the year 1911,
The importation, the transportation, the
-perotion, the administering and the sale of cocaine, x and B coino, and substances which can be used as substitutus for morphin, r other than medicinal purposes vos prohibited, and only permitted
With the exeuntion o qualified pursons for modicinal purposus,
thoso, only those pursons were allowed to be in possession of 80 substances, to whom they had boun proscribed in a lawful anner as medicino,
The exportation was only purmitted to thosu.
atrics whore the importation was allowed.
Similor rugulations were made in regard to For oruparud opium, morphine, opium-pruparations and substanous, ich contain opium a morphine intondud for medicinal purposes.
In the intended completo rovision of the laws eting to opium and other narcotics thu dufinitions in the
It will unty will noturally be followed as much ne possiblu,
vor, bo som time before this vision is accomplished, ns in onnection thor with the no punal code, which to s since boun intro- duced, will have to t taken into account, from some provisions in
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