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...were unprofitable to grow opium poppies, few would be grown. The opium question is solved: let chemists discover how to make synthetic opium and how to make it more cheaply than the poppy product...
...such matters, Mr. Metz is something more than a mere layman. He owns many chemical factories. But laboratory scientists were slow in getting to work. Said Columbia Professor of Chemistry Bogert: "Mr. Metz has risked little by his offer. . . . The making of a synthetic opium that will have all the medicinal qualities, or the good qualities, and be shy of the narcotic, or bad qualities, is something that I do not believe will be done-at least for a very long time...
Bishop Brent was Chief Commissioner for the United States and President of the International Opium Commission of 1908-09, and in 1911 Chairman of the United States Delegation to the International Opium Conference at The Hague. During the Great War Bishop Brent was head of the Chaplain Service under the United States Government in France. In 1923 the government sent him over as a representative to the Advisory Board of the League of Nations in the matter of Narcotic Drug Control. He was also made President of the World Conference on Faith and Order...
Controversy. The U. S. suggestion to ban gas as a war weapon aroused a storm, reminiscent of the recent Opium Conference (TIME, Dec. 1, 8, Feb. 2, Mar. 2). The friendly enemies of the U. S. were not slow to say: "At it again," thereby meaning that the U. S. was trying to "clean up" the whole arms trading situation instead of approaching the problem step by step. The pros and cons of gas in warfare were debated. The argument against gas can be put in one word: "Inhumane." The argument for gas, although not so well known, has been...
...other side of the picture becomes less inviting when it becomes obvious that the opium habit is destined to spread amazingly under the stimulus of cheapened drugs. To believe that the future manufacturer of opium will be more amenable to government control than the present poppy farmer is highly optimistic. A vested interest of the West will merely replace a vested interest of the East...