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an impact on the public to some degree at least, and may have been
material in deterring numbers of young people in particular from
experimenting with drugs and in making parents alive to the dangers
of the problem overall. It is impossible to quote any success or
failure rate in 'advertising' negative articles such as prohibited
drugs. But the time, effort and money spent so far does not appear
to have been wasted and much of value has been accomplished.
Education and publicity must continue to feature large in the
future in the implementation of Government's policy to eradicate
drug abuse from the community.
12.
It will be recalled from Appendix 'A', paragraph 7,
that in May 1972 the Illicit Traffic Sub-Committee was merged
into the Deterrents Sub-Committee and the terms of reference of
the latter revised on this account. The last meeting of the
Illicit Traffic Sub-Committee as such, the 16th since its
inception, was held in May 1966 following which it became
moribund. An attempt was made to revive it in June 1968 but both
the Preventive Service and the Narcotics Bureau of the Police
Force held at that time that co-operation between them was good and that the Sub-Committee served no useful purpose.
13.
The last meeting of the Deterrents Sub-Committee prior
to the Illicit Traffic Sub-Committee being merged with it was
held in April 1971. Although it accomplished some useful work
over the years since its beginning in 1965, it would not appear
that the more severe punishments provided in the law during this
period have had any noticeable effect in deterring people from
either trading in, manufacturing, or consuming narcotics, since
the Courts have not chosen to follow the lead of the Legislature
in this matter. This is something which will be examined in more
detail in Paper Four.
14.
In mid-1971 serious consideration began to be given to
merging the Illicit Traffic Sub-Committee into the Deterrents
Sub-Committee. The reasoning behind this move was that the two subjects were so closely interrelated that consideration of one
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