Word: opiumeators
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...Geneva, Opium Week at the Palace of the League of Nations opened auspiciously with an agreement between Britain and Japan whereby Britain now consents to recognize Japan's opium import certificates (TIME, Nov. 24) when the drug is transshipped at Hongkong...
...Control of production and distribution of raw opium and coca leaves, so that no surplus would be left for purposes neither medical nor scientific...
Soon after the opening of the plenary meeting, Proposal A was settled by referring it to a commission for examination. But thunder clouds began to accumulate as discussion of Proposal B started. Mr. Porter had resolved to end the opium scourge. "Only by doing that," said he, "can we put sunshine and happiness into millions of homes where misery and squalor exist." Several minutes were filled with uproarious applause...
...Prepared opium is made in many different ways according to whether it is to be smoked or eaten. The usual form is to boil it with other chemicals (clarify it for eating) and make it into pills which are then smoked with ordinary tobacco...
Whether it is smoked or eaten, the effects of opium vary according to the mental disposition of the consumers. To the bright, happy man all manner of pleasing scenes are presented; an ambitious man will fancy himself a gloried Napoleon; a man will liverish fancy man will himself be seized with morbid visions and filled with horror and dismay. About half to one hour is necessary for the opium to take effect and cause slumber from which the consumer awakes exhausted, pensive and melancholy. The drug is dangerously habit-forming and becomes so necessary to the addict that he cannot...