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The Opium Traffic

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 18, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 3.

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The Opium Traffic

COMMISSIONER CARBEL, of the Internal Revenue Bureau, in his annual report, makes the declaration that the smoking of opium has become a wide-spread vice in this country. Various journals are taking up the matter, and are urging upon Congress the passing of legislation which will result in remedying the evil, at least in a measure. Drastic laws and rigid enforcement are demanded in view of the fact that much opium which comes to this country through legal channels finds many loopholes later, through which it passes out into the illicit trade. In many raids that have been made by officials upon opium dens, young persons of both sexes have been found smoking the deadly drug.