OPIUM-SMOKING.
Is opium-smoking common in Dunedin? A cor respondent, forwards to tho> iDunedin Star a few .grains of opium dust (tne residue after smoking the real stuff), wiiti the statement that this dust is in common US'; among young men, especially down about the wharves. He asks, "Is this stuff sold' openly; if not, couid the sale of it be stopped?" The importation or sale of opium is prohibited iby Act, except under rigid corditions, and i.t is' an offence for persons to smoke opium, abet others in snrnking' it, or, have it in. then; possession in a form, suitable !for smoking. Tiijjs. .residue ican easily bo brought into form suitable for smoking. '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10446, 11 October 1911, Page 4
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113OPIUM-SMOKING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10446, 11 October 1911, Page 4
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