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U.S. Drug Report to League of Nations

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   Of the nearly 3 tonnes of dope seized worldwide in 1927, 89% were opium, 7% hemp, 3.6% morphine and 0.4% cocaine While New Yorkers slept in the wee hours of 19JAN1929, the Opium Advisory Committee assembled at Geneva, Switzerland for the 5th Meeting of its 12th Session to examine drug trade reports for the year 1927. The delay was mostly for foot-dragging by weak nations curious to find out what sort of coercion was planned for them, while concealing details of their own drug dealings. Fourth on the Agenda was the USA, and the Committee Chairman recalled that the summary of this report had been considered at the close of the last Session--meaning 1928 . Speaking for the United States, Mr John Kenneth Caldwell briskly offered to distribute copies of the 1928 report within 2 to 3 days. The Chairman was diplomatically dismissive and turned to the business of Formosa--a protectorate of Japan at the time which nowadays answers to Taiwan. Mr Sato explained that this 1927 report ...
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Tax Day Nostalgia!

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  Rate This It seems like it  has to  be fiction, right? Wrong! ( link ) Since I first posted this during the Biden Prohibitionist Administration, the Federal Government's memory site to the Congressional Record above has been stricken with Alzheimer's Disease. Newspaper records on Google News Archives are also oddly disappearing.  Spooner wrote:  Go to A….. B……, and say to him that “the government” has need of money to meet the expenses of protecting him and his property.  If he presumes to say that he has never contracted with us to protect him, and that he wants none of our protection, say to him that that is our business, and not his; that we  choose  to protect him, whether he desires us to do so or not; and that we demand pay, too, for protecting him.  If he dares to inquire who the individuals are, who have thus taken upon themselves the title of “the government,” and who assume to protect him, and demand payment of him, without his ha...
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USA and League Prohibition plans--18JAN1929

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  Of the nearly 3 tonnes of dope seized in 1927, 89% were opium, 7% hemp, 3.6% morphine and 0.4% cocaine, the light blue trace between green and dark blue.   As the Opium Advisory committee members returned from their 3-4th Meeting lunch break in Geneva, Americans were opening their 18JAN1929 morning papers to stories like... Senator Tydings moves to curb American loans abroad. (Germany was borrowing to pay reparations)  Yugoslav king takes first step to end dictatorship. (The OAC meeting chairman is from Serbia)  $20M gold earmarked here, presumably f/ French account. (Sound familiar? Like April 2026?) Loans to brokers rise $71M in week... (Stock Market call money instability) Talk of Relations between the U.S.-backed Permanent Central Board and the Advisory Committee were again taken up and the remainder of the meeting went into public session. Draft articles hammered out in 16FEB1923 sessions included plans for the Central Opium Board. This, the USA and China i...
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