Word: opium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ways and Means Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives reported favorably a bill prohibiting the importation of crude opium for the manufacture of heroin. Most of the narcotic addicts in New York City are heroin addicts...
...Opium. The Council confirmed the authority of the Preparatory Committee, of which the U. S. is a member, to draft the guiding principles for the first of two international conferences on opium to be held next November, with the object of limiting opium consumption in the Far East, China, India, Japan, Portugal, Siam, Belgium, Italy. Opposition to limitation of production came from...
...help provide for this expenditure, taxes on vice-opium-smoking, gambling, etc.-are levied to the extent of $17,200 a day. Raising huge sums by loan came to an end when Cantonese merchants declined to take up a New Year loan...
...Paris, the Council of the League of Nations continued its session. Among the subjects discussed: slavery, traffic in arms, opium, Russian refugees...
...Opium. The Council decided to call two conferences on the opium traffic at Geneva, in November, 1924. One will consider the limitation of the manufacture of the drug to scientific and medical needs, the other will consider the strategy of a war on opium. It was decided to name a committee to prepare plans for the conferences...