Word: opiumeators
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...order to end the opium scourge, Congressman Stephen G. Porter (of Pennsylvania) led an American delegation to Geneva where opened the League of Nations International Opium Conference...
...preliminary session of the Conference, after Herluf Zahle of Denmark had been elected President, Mr. Porter brusquely insinuated that the first conference, called to discuss the means of eliminating illicit trade in opium (TIME, Nov. 24), had been wasting time. The American delegation, he inferred, was out to force the issue. Said he: "We have no agreement before us and yet we must deal effectively with the question of production. The dictates of common sense demand a frank admission of the dilemma in which this failure has placed the second conference, and the consideration of the possibility and wisdom...
...first real working day of the Conference, Bishop Charles H. Brent, President of the International Opium Commission of 1909 in Shanghai and of the First International Opium Conference at The Hague in 1912, made an eloquent speech in support of a U. S. Plan which the delegation had presented to the Conference. The plan, said he, was in reality suggestions "to which every signatory of The Hague Convention is pledged? the ultimate suppression of the abuse of opium and cocaine and their derivatives, and the restriction of their production and manufacture within the requirements of medicine and science...
...Prevention of surplus production of raw opium and the coca leaf...
...Prohibition of distribution of heroin, a derivative of opium, without scientific or medicinal value...