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  Americans exported prohibition until collapse and war resulted, then doubled down after the disasters.  League of Nations financials  had painted a bleak picture in 1926. Drug-crop countries shoved into joining were nearly 10 million gold francs in arrears (roughly $2 million, at 5 to 1 exchange rate). By year's end they were barely $280,000 ahead. March 1927 brought the Nanking Incident ( link ), a UK-Soviet war scare followed in May, the month the Manly Sullivan Supreme Court decision made dope and liquor profits taxable. German markets tumbled without recovery . The French frank crashed and U.S. tourists there were importuned for police ID cards, yet French stock prices still held strong.( link ) Now, January 1929, was the perfect time for U.S. prohibitionists already infiltrating the League with a Permanent Opium Board to exert unrelenting prohibitionist pressure crowding the Opium Advisory Committee to endorse deadlier laws against production and trade worldwide....

  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...