there are ways of comfort throughout the world however the earth offers to pleasure for most of its inhabitants there is ten thousand years of growing a living off the planet man has found life for the most part to be cruel disenchantment are bound to take hunger and cold however nature almost as an afterthought softened her turn she sprinkled the harsher with a variety of plans each offering momentary escape a passport from reality that protective effect had been known since the time of the in virtually any of the hot countries the world where so i was fertile and farmers still employ the oldest methods of cultivation purges a plant scientifically known as proprietors from the front more commonly known as the opium poppy it centered on the mediterranean eventually arab and persian traders introduced the mystic wonders of the poppy to all the communities with a labored by the sixteenth century india was cultivated in the seventeenth century it used to become such a problem in china that the emperor issued after edict permitting its import in spite of this in the eighteen hundreds british and american sea captains brought shiploads of opium of the great auctions all the way to the opium pipes and can come but within only a few decades modern science was able to funnel the poppies impacts straight into the central nervous system in one cool black today thousands of prison and hospitals all over the world crowded with patients who have experimented with a papist final derivative and have become addicted to it sold on a metropolitan sidewalk is the final transaction in a long series of closely guarded clandestine operations charles goose a former deputy commissioner narcotics has firsthand difficult phase of the entire industry skilled chemists are not easy to find the turkish find ourselves ten kilos of ronald about twenty two pounds for three hundred fifty dollars on the black market through target for an iconic hero investigators working hand in hand with customs inspectors an estimated two tons of pure heroin is annually smuggled into the state and it's considered a good year when the inspectors manage to intercept one hundred pounds smuggling is a fine art and the corsicans are considered to be the finest practitioners in the world today the automobile is a favorite hiding place and there is highly a part of the chassis or second major port of entry in the united states is the mexican border this is the main entrance for a list of marijuana ships but a good supply of heroin slips through as well we are in our  charlie marijuana and heroin which is stored and to the criminal case against the defendants is terminated by federal court action this contraband is concealed in most ingenious ways and vehicles and on persons in fact you can name a place that you feel contraband could be concealed and i can cite you an instance where we have found it there some months ago we encountered a young fellow entering an ited states from mexico eating an ice cream cone a search revealed that he had an ounce of heroin concealed in the ice cream car in this area we also have a number of yachts some five thousand private yachts based in this area all of which have a facility her capability of going to mexican waters this poses quite a threat as to the increasing number of private aircraft crossing the international boundar hill in strength is now only five percent normal for the retail market each packet for deck will sell for five dollars that's the original twenty two pounds over opium sold by a this is the focal point of high drug addiction in the united states the urban ghettos housed nearly three fourths of the hardcore addict with new york steaming slums far out in front of the traffic spots and man running east to west point twenty fifth street and so many other spots probably take a day to name them all america's known heroin population of over sixty thousand collectively were the main problem in east harlem then there was much of bloodshed and the ironic thing is that the only i was immediately not again but my first marriage broke up to meeting this other woman i want to long for about eight months not using drugs and finally i come back tried to use it i started to sniff it just to be part of the group but i started to use it when i was in school and one day i woke up and i was addicted i woke up and i was very sick and i didn't know what was bringing it about but i did find out that as soon as i took some heroin to my nose i got well i feel normal and once a fellow is on the horizon it may be years before he to go through my it's a matter of nine to fourteen strengthened by a series of treasury department regulations is the basic law restricting production and distribution of narcotics imo the law does not refer to the addict possession alone is sufficient evidence for a conviction disappearing rain frequently concealer days supply in a trial balloon keeping it in their mouth if apprehended they swallow the evidence knowing that they can retrieve it later hundred fifty six narcotic control acts doled out the most severe and inflexible set of laws ever put on the federal books generally for possession for only slightly less than those for selling probation was possible only on a first offense possession charge the sentence was two to ten years second and third offenses and selling in any quantity even soft drugs such as marijuana rock rooms up to forty years with no chance for probation or parole selling heroin to a minor could bring a possible death penalty in the same time the law was taking a dramatic proof of society's new attitudes or direction victims of the opium poppy it became a major drug abuse research administered by the national institute of mental health one of the distinctive contributions of the narcotic addict rehabilitation act of nine hundred sixty six is the fact that it authorizes us to provide up to as much as three years of first place in order to maximize the likelihood of his adjustment when he returns home throughout the one nine hundred sixty s many new treatment programs have been launched out of narcotic patients right in the community where the drugs are pushed and you i just typical of the halfway house concept where the addict is slowly eased back into society one step at a time in community extension projects like span the attic meets with citizens on the outside he always frank discussions with them on a group basis when he returns to his community he is more than just a law abiding taxpayer he is a civic leader a doer and activist the drug problem in all its complex facets is a challenge to everyone we are all potential drug takers if not heroin then tranquilizers camillus sleeping pills and alcohol even if we live in the country's finest communities our children at this moment may be experimenting with marijuana  large and stiff penalties are not the answer the former narcotics commissioner admitted that the mass flow of hard drugs in the united states could not be stopped even by the collective enforcement of the customs inspectors all the treasury agents the f b i and the combined strength of all the armed forces only two ways to reduce the problem first by attacking it on the users and continue research in public enlightment will increase our understanding of the addict and his compulsion to escape through drugs by farmers who are native to a land that offers little the ever existing black market price temps the registered growers to overproduce to conceal a part of their legitimate hylas and place it on the world wide illicit market study sponsored by the united nations have shown that in each country there is a practical and profitable alternative to the narcotics har in the region of back lebanon where ninety percent of the land was once planted with kind of us are marijuana now grow commercial crops that benefit rather than describe nature's strange gifts which quincey called the abyss of divine enjoyment have been with us for sixty centuries but only in the last sixty years have we released the truly lethal derivative