To the Editor of the Nonru-Cama Datcy News."
Sir,—In to-day's press reports of the Geneva Opium Conference, fam particularly impressed with the statement of M. Bourgeois the French Delegate. After outlining the French attitude, he presented five proposals, the chief of which is that international control of opium shoul be reduced to & minimum in favour of national control which had given such good results in Great Britain, Holland and France, and closed his speech with the remarkable statement "that France desired the strengthening of the Hague Convention.
There can be ment and that is that it relates only to narcotic drugs.
Readers of press reports must be veriinded that in all discussions and conferences concerning this great problem the words narcotics oF narcotic drags do not connote oF limply raw or prepared opium for smoking. Medicinal opium, that is opium prepared so as to' contain
is included in the eatexory of nar standardized amount of morphia, ceties and narectie drugs. With explanation in, mind it is easy to understand how a nation is willing and even anxious to go to any lengths to control and restrict the importation of narcotic} drugs into-their own country in order to protect their inhabitants from the destructive effects of these addictive habits, but this by
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