Americans v League of Nations, 2nd Meeting JAN1929
17JAN1929 marked 25days since the large seizure of addictive opiates and non-habit-forming cocaine at New York.( link ) League medical experts at the 2nd Opium Advisory meeting quibbled over U.S. insistence on adding benzylmorphine to the index of drugs singled out for stringent regulation same as benzyolmorphine with the extra "o." A Swiss M.D. asserted the former was non-habit-forming . One of the U.S. allies seated on the Permanent Central Opium Committee auditing Opium Advisory Committee meetings pointed out that the concoction included more than 2% morphine. This U.S.-dominated committee had been meeting for close to two weeks already. Already the vagueness of terms like "habit" and "addiction" were being exploited by Americans. U.S. laws back then banned sauerkraut for containing 0.5% alcohol as a result of natural fermentation. Future President Ronald Reagan--18 years old when League partisans tried to palm off certain opiates as non-habit-form...