THE DRUG DEALERS’ WAY.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 March 1919, Page 4

THE DRUG DEALERS’ WAY.

The cowards who make a criminal livelihood b\ the sale oio drams t their dupes—yoking people, of either sex—arc, says the Weekly Despatch, the disreputable characters who* dressed in beautifully-cut and waisted suits and wearing silk socks and crepe de .chine underwear, stroll about the West- land of; London looking for victims. .. The.smiling in the clubs and ivsteurants and pri’AfeMl flats have l.‘‘oi saying to the young mtm and women—shell-shocked officers, some of them—who seem potentially profitable victims. “Why not. an opium cigarette? Absolutely harmless; only an excellent stimulant. Opium in the .strictest moderation strictest moderation, of course—is one. of the greatest medicines in the world. ‘ J Another method was to produce—ias a, joke always, just a joke—a curious irttle silver pipe, and deftly to roll little balls of the black smoke between the palm and one clover, wellaccustomed finger. One hall, dropped into the pipe and smoked, “for fun,” might be the beginning of another profitable customer.