OPIUM AS AN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM

ISBN: 9780260066930 Géneros: GB Sinópsis: Excerpt from Opium as an International Problem The Geneva ConferencesHonorable Stephen G Porter who had led the fight in the United States for the control of the use of opium and habitforming drugs and who so ably represented the United States as its chief delegate at the Second Geneva Conference has kindly permitted the author to use as an introduction to the present volume portions of an address delivered by him in the House of RepresentativesIt is to be noted that many of the quotations from the proceedings of the Geneva Conferences are from the original mimeographed sheets and not from the printed reports These latter were not fully available at the time this volume was prepared However in one way the use of mimeographed reports has been of advantage since they give a more nearly exact statement of what was actually said than do the printed and somewhat revised proceedingsIn conclusion it should be said that the author has attempted to incorporate in this volume all the informa tion that is needed for an accurate understanding of the subject He hopes therefore that it will serve as a guide or handbook to all those who may need to know the situa tion as it now exists Especially is it hoped that the vol ume will be found of value in case other Conferences upon the subject are heldAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works