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  Mystical fanaticism and racial collectivist outrage has caused the USA to blank out Supply & Demand with violent laws and wishful thinking. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND,  21JAN1929 : LEAGUE OF NATIONS 6 th  Meeting of the Opium Advisory Committee , now chaperoned by the Permanent Central Opium Board -- USA dry snoops and foreign  collaborati onists. PM 7 th Meeting : More reports from governments p45. Sato of Japan feigns ignorance of native Indian coca plantations or Nipponese exports thereto. Meanwhile, former financier Sir John Campbell of India also ignores native Indian coca plantations. He then asserted that native State opium could not possibly make it across British India to seaports, and from thence on to China. Nevermind India's land borders with China and Burma, complete with handy river routes leading east to Nanking & Shanghai . At this point Italian Senator Cavazzoni says AHA! then demands the record reflect that the Americans were right after all a...

  Pittsburgh restaurant with that month's special illustrates the value of $1.25 in gold dollars (no beer or wine included) Opium Advisory Committee Meeting notes for 21JAN1929 stretched on and on, largely from references to 1927 reports and tables, but also from maneuvering rival nation members into the path of United States Opium Section spies in the attending the meeting. Both The Netherlands and Japan had for years been reducing trade and production of addictive opium and switching to non-habituating coca shrubs and paste. No matter. U.S. operatives were as fanatical about that as about anything else liable to compete with Luckies, Chesterfields, Old Golds--or White Power, prayer and abstinence. Already the Democratic platform demanded additional prohibition, and sub chasers were added to the Coast Guard fleet even before two foreign submarines were photographed in the Hudson River.( link ) Additional economic pressure goes back to the year 1925, when the American and Chinese...

  On the night of 21-22 November 1928, Shanghai police and a military garrison struggled over 1250 lbs of opium.( link ) The next morning NY stock volume broke records with deep crashes and Saturday market closings.(NYT 22, 24NOV1928) The story was suppressed until 20JAN1929 (NYT 8E) but this cartoon scooped the mystery Crash the preceding day in the Berkeley paper.( link ) Opium Section member Duncan Hall , a labour unionist ingratiated with the League, archly brought up a reference, indeed, a "written statement" on consumption of dangerous drugs in Great Britain on Saturday, January 19, 1929 in Geneva. On that note Sir John Campbell (India) harrumphed and pointed to a disclaimer to the effect that no official proof had yet emerged that British drugs had been found in the legislated illegal market. Others present remembered the session four years earlier at which Mrs Hamilton Wright brandished a copy of the Indian Year Book as proof that coca shrubs were cultivated there .( ...