International Narcotics Control

In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 64, Heft 2, S. 310-323

Abstract

The use of opium originally prevailed only among vagrants and disreputable persons, who occasionally associated together for the purpose of partaking of this substance, but since it has extended itself among the members and descendants of reputable families, students, and officers of government, many of whom are so infatuated in their attachment to the drug as to make habitual use of it.
Report from the Foyen (Deputy-Governor of Canton) to the Hoppo (Receiver-General of Customs). 1799.