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What attitude was taken up in this matter
be apparent from the statement made at Shanghai by the Heed of the Opium-rugie Service at that time as member of the Interne- tional Commission on Opium, at the sitting of that commission 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 permit itself to bo withheld from taking steps, from which in its opinion it can be expected that they will indood lond to the gradual diminution of its use, by financial consider tions.
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by that
Partly as a result of the resolutions passud International Commission, various laws intended to combat the use of opium as much as possible, came out in Netherlands India in the year 1911,
The importation, the transportation, the
preparation, the administering and the sale of cocaino, x and B ouceino, and substances which can be used as substitutus for morphin, for other than medicinal purposes "os prohibitud, and only pormittud
With the excuntion to qualified persons for medicinal purposus.
of theso, only those pursons were allowed to be in possession of theso substances, to whom they had boun proscribed in o lawful manner as medicino,
The exportation was only permitted to those countries whore the importation was allowed,
Similar regulations wuru mado in regard to raw or proparud opium, morphinu, opium-preparations and substanous, which contain opium or morphino intended for medicinal purposes.
In the intended comploto rovision of the laws
rt will rolating to opium and other narcotics the definitions in tho troaty will naturally bollowed as much as possible. however, bo som. time before this vision is accomplished, ns in connection ther with the no penal code, which has since boon intro-
taken into account, from some provisions in duced, will hov. to t
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