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The New York Times January 11, 1955
In its annual report to the United Nations, published today, the board estimates that
there are opium stocks of more than 1,700 tons in opium producing and morphine -
manufacturing countries. This is enough to fill all requirements for legal uses of opium
and its derivatives for two and a half years. For years the board has expressed the opinion that heroin is medically obsolete and socially dangerous and easy to smuggle. Less habit-forming drugs can replace it, the board contends. The board reported that during 1953 three more countries, Argentina, Bolivia and
Canada, had stopped the manufacture or import of heroin. There was no further reduction of
world consumption of heroin in 1953 (Narcotics statistics always appear with a one-year
time lag). The illegal traffic in heroin of Mediterranean origin to the United States :has shown no falling off, " the board states. Twenty-one kilograms [forty six pounds] of illegal heroin was seized by United States authorities in 1953. The greatest region for illegal narcotic traffic is still the Far East. In absence of exact information, the board believes that "an extensive traffic" exists in and around Thailand, Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong. The board has scanty information on China. The report neither supports nor contradicts the assertion of United States narcotics officials that the Chinese Communist regime is pushing large quantities of narcotics into illegal international channels. |
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