FLOOD OF NARCOTICS
AMERICAN POLITICIAN BLAMES ENGLAND WORLD-WIDE TRAFFIC WASHINGTON, Friday. In the House of Representatives Dr. W. I. Sirovich, Democrat member for New York State, appealed to the House to lend its help to some sort of international control of narcotics. He alleged that certain countries, chiefly Britain, were commercialising the life blood and flesh of human beings in persisting in the opium traffic. Dr. Sirovich. in the course of a long review of the history of the traffic, persistently led his trail to the door of the British Empire. “The "fact seems to be,” he said, “that the British Government is responsible for the large quantities of opium that are flooding the world today. The cultivation of the poppy is fostered by the Government, manufactured into opium in a Government factory, and into morphine by British firms in London and Edinburgh. “In the name of decency, let us say to the nations that the time has come when we must destroy at least threefourths of all the pharmaceutical drug houses that now operate.” Dr. Sirovich stated that since prohibition there has been a notable spread in drug taking, which was increasing daily. There was one narcotic agent to every 500,000 persons in the United States.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 917, 10 March 1930, Page 9
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