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New York Times opium habit

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The Times article we cite as

  • 1. Marshall, Edward (March 12, 1911). ""UNCLE SAM IS THE WORST DRUG FIEND IN THE WORLD"; Dr. Hamilton Wright, Opium Commissioner, Says We Use More of That Drug Per Capita Than the Chinese". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-26. READ this paragraph and gasp. "Of all the nations of the world," Dr. Hamilton Wright, who knows more of the subject than any other living man, told me the other day, "the United States consumes most habit-forming drugs per capita. Opium, the most pernicious drug known to humanity, is surrounded, in this country, with far fewer safeguards than any nation in all Europe fences it with. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

was a full page spread in a Sunday edition. A year and a half later, another Sunday, another full page...

--CliffC (talk) 11:36, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Elizabeth Wright

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The article reads: His wife, Elizabeth Wright, was an assessor to the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee in the 1920s, although the British Foreign Office called her "incompetent, prejudiced, ignorant, and so constituted temperamentally as to afford a ready means of mischief-making." This claim is sourced to a primary source, making this FORBIDDEN ORIGINAL RESEARCH. Mikedelsol (talk) 04:14, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]