Word: opiumeators
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...other parts of the State. Within two hours they had rounded up some 300 suspects and bad characters. The ten Rangers herded the lot of them into the Baptist church, booked them from the pulpit. They were a measly collection. Upon them were found no guns, three tubes of opium, three pints of whiskey. Forty were cut out for detention, the rest were hustled out of town. Two of those detained were wanted for murder, three for bank robbery. Prized prisoners were placed in the choir stall, chained by the neck...
Before the War a comparatively small number of low-grade Egyptians smoked hashish and opium, with little appreciable social harm. At the War's end a Greek chemist introduced cocaine to high Egyptian society. The middle classes took up the fad. Then came heroin. Now, it is estimated, one out of 28 Egyptians is a dope addict, and one out of 56 dazzles himself with heroin...
...League of Nations is trying desultorily and ineffectively to restrict the growth of the particular poppy from which opium, morphine and heroin is manufactured and the manufacture of narcotics. Persia will not stop poppy culture because a large part of its population depends on the business and other nations are competing. China's imperfect government cannot control the production. And because China and Persia do practically nothing, Great Britain has difficulty in forcing India to restrict its poppy crops by 10% each year...
Most civilized European countries manufacture opium, morphine and heroin. All. save the U. S. and Soviet Russia, export it in large quantities and thus supply U. S. smugglers of the drugs. Turkey and Switzerland (seat of the drug-fighting League of Nations) have been the worst offenders. However, Turkey upon the insistence of U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew last week forced Istanbul's narcotic factories to close until they complied with export restrictions. Medicine needs some 350 tons of opium yearly. Manufacturers produce something over 8,000 tons yearly...
...chemical structure and physiological action of morphine. He sends them to Professor Charles Wallis Edmunds of the University of Michigan who tests them on animals. The two are confident that within perhaps a few months they will have an authentic drug which will not make, as morphine, heroin and opium do, pasty-faced, emaciated, depraved liars, out of its users...