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the simplest, the onsiest and most effactive solution,

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It has not been shown that a state can follow exactly the rescrvation, naturally, of contrabond, which he always possible but which will bo more and more closely followed 7p quantity of opium, coca loaves or raw consine entering a ocuntry cr circulating in a country, so that no single package can usoape and so that, consequently, the imported or circuleting quantities shall not exceed the legitiwete mediesl and soientific needs. regard to the three drugs (morphine, heroin and cocaine) and any other drugs it may become necessary to control, ooming from abroad

The diffi- identical measures can be taken with the same result.

first, dissimulation will be casi er,

culty will be greater because:

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since the articles are smaller; secondly, the number of the oonsignees (pharmaceutical chemists along) is larger. But, leaving avide once moro contraband, lf the same series of formalities and controls is amplied, the aim will be achievod. special question of postal packages, which is much more difficult

There romains tho

to deal with and for which special ictornational measures will have to be taken, but these measures are possible and they can be

adequately effective.

A country therefore can, once more, really limit to its own legitimate medical and scientific nocds the quantitios of raw stuffs and of the three drugs in question which it may recuive and allow to circulate within its frontiera.

But what about exports, including re-exports which, in a system of simple control and not of previous spportionment, a country can send to other tetes ? How can a country be compelled to cend to other countries only what they require for their legitimate

medical and scientific needs?

This is the second question.