ENORMOUS INCREASE IN CANADIAN DRUG IMPORTS.
From official figures it appears that there .was an enormous increase in the drug importations into Canada from the year 1915 to the year 1919. The official statistics show:— Yeari Crude ended Cocaine. Morphine. Opium. March. ozs. ozs. lbs. 1915 50 259 7,248 1919 12 333 30,087 34 263 Tt was during this period of four years that Prohibition was in operation in Canada, and 246 times ns much cocaine entered the country, 115 times as much morphine, and nearly 5 times as much opium. Wherever Prohibition has .been introduced the drug horror has followed in its wake. Are you going to let this happen in New Zealand 1 Vote Continuance !*
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4477, 9 October 1922, Page 2
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117ENORMOUS INCREASE IN CANADIAN DRUG IMPORTS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4477, 9 October 1922, Page 2
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