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Cowell went on to say that the U.S. drug companies expect that very shortly they will run out of legal opium and that the American public will be deprived of medicinal code ine morphine and - believe it or not - cough mixture, by the end of the year, so they are most anxious to buy the Shan opium. He concludes his letter to Geoff Barnes with the remark that

perhaps something will come out of it, after all".

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(E.I. Lee)

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