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Smuggling of Drugs
The report from Canberra that, with the gradual lifting of the economic depression and the release of more money, the use of illicit drugs in Australia is increasing is disturbing. In the trail of the d**g seller has always stalked the criminal, and in both Sydney and Melbourne, the d**g trade has been blamed for the outbreak of the g**g warfare which, until scarcity of money restricted trade, was such an unsavoury feature of the daily lives of these cities.
Thus on top of the harm done to young men and young women who fall victims to the d**g habit is piled a growth in criminality. The “razor gangs” which terrorised a central part of Sydney for so long came into being in this way, their original purpose being the holding up of d**g pedlars for the purpose of deman
