Basil Mathews, The World “Dope” Menace and the League of Nations. London, the League of Nations Union, 1923. 7″x 5″, 24pp. Original wrappers.  VG copy. $95

A sober and clinical appraisal of the amount of narcotics being smuggled and consumed in Hong Kong, China, Japan, french Indochina, Ceylon, Mauritius, and others.

He also states the amounts that Western countries export to (in this case) Japan: England 10,000 lbs, France 8,000 lbs, Germany 2.800 lbs, Belgium 2800 lbs, Switzerland 4400 lbs, Holland 250 lbs, USA 18,500 lbs.

“In cold literal fact men in Britain and America and Japan have grown rich by debauching of China’s morphino maniacs who are now innumerable.”

“The seriousness of morphine addiction can be understood from the opinion of an expert authority who says Morphine is not only ten times more deadly than opium but is more seductive and overwhelming in results. The addict becomes an absolute slave entirely powerless for not only are his will and moral fibre entirely rotted by the drug itself but he becomes the victim of the most dreadful tortures directly that he is robbed of his doses nervous tortures so terrible that they often drive him mad and end in death.”–from the pamphlet, p. 15.

Basil Mathews, The World “Dope” Menace and the League of Nations. London, the League of Nations Union, 1923. 7″x 5″, 24pp. Original wrappers.  VG copy. $95

A sober and clinical appraisal of the amount of narcotics being smuggled and consumed in Hong Kong, China, Japan, french Indochina, Ceylon, Mauritius, and others.

He also states the amounts that Western countries export to (in this case) Japan: England 10,000 lbs, France 8,000 lbs, Germany 2.800 lbs, Belgium 2800 lbs, Switzerland 4400 lbs, Holland 250 lbs, USA 18,500 lbs.

“In cold literal fact men in Britain and America and Japan have grown rich by debauching of China’s morphino maniacs who are now innumerable.”

“The seriousness of morphine addiction can be understood from the opinion of an expert authority who says Morphine is not only ten times more deadly than opium but is more seductive and overwhelming in results. The addict becomes an absolute slave entirely powerless for not only are his will and moral fibre entirely rotted by the drug itself but he becomes the victim of the most dreadful tortures directly that he is robbed of his doses nervous tortures so terrible that they often drive him mad and end in death.”–from the pamphlet, p. 15.