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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...

  The Fourth 1929 Meeting of the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee began the afternoon of 18JAN1929 with secret jockeying for places by the European Opium Advisory Committee and the U.S.-organized Central Opium Board. Their combined eloquence failed to convince Japan's representative that the two organizations ought to mingle their powers . Part of the problem was that the U.S.-managed 1925 Geneva Convention, did not focus on opium—the standard addictive narcotic already dealt with in ratified conventions. The American Delegation sought to extend unto Europe and Asia violent repression of derivative narcotics such as morphine, heroin... plus things known to be harmless compared to cigarettes.  After all, before the Volstead Act became enforceable , the strongest liquor in America was 43% alcohol. Under Volsteadism, 200-proof ethanol became readily obtainable--to the surprise of dry zealots.  Beyond that, the U.S. delegation—packed with many anti-everything Volst...