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The Americans Wouldn't Compromise!
La Motte, Ellen N. | May 6, 1925 issue

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This article focuses on the stand taken by the U.S. at the Opium Conference in Geneva. It appears that the U.S. came to this conference determined to force its own ideas down others' threats. The American instructions were so rigid and unyielding that compromise was possible. There were mixed feelings when the American delegation withdrew. Those were left had the responsibility of drawing up a drug convention, presumably to check the illicit traffic in drugs. In the first place, factory control is lacking. Any "authorized person" may buy a ton of heroin. An attempt was made to have this "authorized person" put up a bond as surety that he would not dispose of this dangerous, valuable commodity in any illicit manner.

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OPIUM; CONGRESSES & conventions; DRUG traffic; DRUG control; GOVERNMENT policy; UNITED States
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