Word: opium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opium. The International Opium Conference adjourned its deliberations, began to study the draft of the Anti-Narcotics Convention, the monument which the Conference erected to its imperishable memory. The chief British delegate, Lord Cecil, returned to England...
...agreement between Britain, France, India, Japan, Holland, Portugal and Siam to Abolish opium smoking in the Far East within 15 years from the date when a League commission shall have declared that China has curbed overproduction of opium and eliminated the danger of smuggling. (The U. S. delegation wanted the prohibition made immediately effective...
...agreement between the above nations, Portugal making certain exceptions, to substitute government monoply of opium exports and imports for privately conducted trade. (The U. S. delegation wanted the source of production-i.e., the cultivation of the opium poppy-controlled progressively until finally restricted to purely medicinal uses...
...agreement to permit legal sales under rule of The Hague Convention, of heroin and laudanum (opium products). (The U. S. delegation, here joined by the British, wanted both these drugs barred as being medicinally dangerous...
Many Eastern countries declared that the drug danger was existent only in the Occident, and particularly in the U. S.; that use of opium in the Orient is wide, its abuse rare...