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(j) Section 40 (a)

For the reasons given in paragraph (a) above,

the power of exempting preparations containing drugs to which the Convention applies should be restricted to exemption from such of the provisions of the Ordinance relating to manufacture, possession, sale, distribution and use within the Colony, as may be considered desirable.

Power should however be taken (on the lines of

Section 5 of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1925) to exempt from

all the provisions of the Ordinance any preparation to

which the Convention may cease to apply by virtue of

action taken under Article & of the Convention.

(k) first Schedule

(1) paragraph 2

I am advised that the inclusion in the schedule

of "Indian hemp, resins obtained from Indian hemp and

all preparations of which such resins form the

base"

does not constitute full compliance with the Convention.

In the first place (vide Article 4) the Convention applies to "galenical preparations" of Indian hemp, and these should

accordingly be included in the Schedule. Secondly I have

been unable to find in the Ordinance any provision which

can be regarded as implementing Article 11 of the Convention. Unless however you see any objection, of

which I am unaware, I suggest that (as proposed in the

memorandum which accompanied my Circular despatch of the

12th of June, 1925) the most satisfactory way of dealing

with the matter would be to include in the Schedule only

"Indian hemp and galenical preparations thereof"; and to insert in the Ordinance a section totally prohibiting (a)

the import, export, trade in, possession and production of

the