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Show iORU6 TRAFFIC GROWS DESPITE HARRISON LI nv EDWARD M. THIERRY. K. E. A. Staff Conyvspondcnl. CHICAGO, Aug. 12. Regulation of habit-forming drugs is called "a fall-! ure and a scandal" by the Council on Health and Public Instruction of the American Medical association. The council Is now studvlng the narcotic situation In the organized effort ef-fort of the medical profession to correct cor-rect abuses of the Harrison law. Dr. Frederick R. Green, secretary I of the Council on Health and Public1 Instruction, showed me tho council's report to the American Medical association assoc-iation on the Narcotic situation. LAW NOT WORKING. It shows conclusively that the Harrison Har-rison anti-narcotic law Isn't functioning. function-ing. Ten times as much opium as is needed for medical purposes Is legally legal-ly Imported into this country eerv year." said Dr Green What becomes of the other nine-tenths? And the additional ad-ditional amount that Is smuggled In '"' Dr. Green's report recommended this action by the American Medical association to make the anti-narcotic law effective: l Investigate the amount of narcotic nar-cotic drugs required each year for legitimate le-gitimate purpose by America's 160,-000 160,-000 physicians and 7000 hoopltals. 2 Obtain official statistics on the amount annually Imported into the United Statea. 3- Devise an effective wav for the government control of importation and distribution by the United States Public Health Service TRAFFIC INCREASING. The illicit traffic in opium, morphine, mor-phine, heroin, and cocaine, according to Dr. Gren's report, has Increased rather than decreased through efforts to enforce the Harrison law; has brought extortion of unfortunate victims vic-tims and enormous proflta for traffickers. traffic-kers. a nd has led to blackmail and of-Clclal of-Clclal corruption. 1 Without counting smuggling, enough opium la consumed in the United i States to provide every man, woman and child with 36 doses a year on the basis of one grain to a dose! nrv i |