Recommendation for Restriction of Heroin Sales Adopted at Second Session Geneva, Feb. 12.
The Second Opium Conference which lasted all yesterday discussed technical matters connected with the draft convention on drugs.
There was a division of opinion on the subject of the total abolition of heroin as suggested in the American plan. Sir Malcolm Delevingne, in the course of a lengthy. contended that it was ble to alter The Hague provision on that matter.
The conference finally decided in favour of the committee's suggestion that only on the recommendation of medical world-wide inquiry could suppression of heroin be decided upon. The committee however in view of the ravages of the heroin habit, especially in Amerien, adopted a recommendation forbidding the selling in public of any paration containing even the smallest quantity of heroin, without medical prescription—Reuter.
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