#illegal narcotics

"Addict, Wife Go to Jail," Vancouver Sun. April 7, 1956. Page 13. --- An addict confessed in police court that he was responsible for starting his common-law-wife on drugs.

John McMillan, 37, and Marjorie Wright, 28, both of Yale Hotel, pleaded guilty to drug possession.

McMillan received two and a half years in the penitentiary and his wife 20 months in Oakalla.

McMillan said his wife's addiction was "all my fault." He said she was not on drugs when he was released from prison recently but started "because of me."

"LE JURY RENDRA SON VERDICT AUJOURD'HUI," La Patrie. October 6, 1933. Page 3. --- Dans la cause de Harry Davis. Plaidoyers des avocats. ---- La cour du banc du roi devrait elle siéger encore toute la jour née, le procès de Harry Davis, accusé de conspiration pour contre- bande de drogues, va se terminer aujourd'hui, déclara à 11 h. 45, co matin, l'honorable juge en chef R. A. E. Greenshields, qui préside ce procès. A la séance de ce matin, le procureur de la défense termina son plaidoyer, commencé hier après-midi, et la couronne commença le sien. La cour fut ajournée à 2 h. 30 de l'après-midi.

La défense déclare que pas une seule fois, au cours du procès, Davis a été impliqué directement dans une transaction de narcotiques. Elle affirme que Feigenbaum et son groupe ne furent pas toujours de bonne fol, et que nul télégramme ou téléphone, ne fut adressé à Harry Davis, l'accusé.

Le plaidoyer dura quarante minutes. La couronne commença alors le sien, en expliquant la nature de l'acte de l'accusation, la gravité du délit. Elie tenta ensui te de réfuter les assertions de la défense, sur la véracité du témoignage de Feigenbaum, et ses amis.

SEANCE D'HIER APRES-MIDI Le procès de Harry Davis, 31 ans, ex-copropriétaire de Frolics Cabaret, accusé de contrebande de narcotiques, au Canada, tire à sa fin. A la séance d'hier après- midi on a commencée à entendre le plaidoyer de la défense. On est souvient que Davis, hier midi, il a totalement avoir été mêlé, depuis 1926, à la distribution des stupé riants. La gendarmerie royale, de son côté affirme ne pas avoir perdu Davis de vue depuis cette date,

Le procureur de l'accusé, en s'adressant au jury, a déclaré qu'à son avis, de toutes les dépositions des témoins à charge, on peut compter dix pour cent de vérité, et quatre-vingt-dix pour cent d'imagination.

"Doctors' Names Forged In Drug-Buying Racket," Montreal Star. October 3, 1933. Page 3. --- Arrest of Man Here May Lead to Exposing of Dominion-wide Ring-Small Drugstores Exploited in Scheme - Local Police and R.C.M.P. Cooperate ---- EVIDENCE of one of the biggest narcotic rackets ever uncovered in Montreal was brought to light with the arrest of a man last evening on a charge of attempting to obtain narcotic drugs through the use of a forged doctor's prescription. Two police forces, the municipal and Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been working on cases of this type for some time, but it was only last night that enough evidence was secured to warrant the arrest of a man whose name is being withheld. Further arrests are expected both in Montreal and elsewhere for the racket is believed to be now working in other large centres of the Dominion.

RECEIVED COMPLAINTS. For some time past Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the civic narcotic squads have received com- plaints from medical men in the city that their names were being forged on prescriptions for drugs and tendered in the majority of cases, to the smaller suburban druggists. The two departments conducted an investigation and, on examining druggists prescription books, found that a large quantity of unauthorized drugs had been handed out by druggists in good faith.

The chances of catching members of the ring who specialized in forged doctors' prescriptions were slight. owing to the number of small drug stores and the fact that the same store was seldom used twice.

Finally, however, Special Constables J. Shanahan, E. Hogue and J. Campbell, of the municipal narcotic squad, received a lead that took them to a north end store last night. Hiding in the rear they saw a man enter and tender a prescription for half an ounce of heroin. It was signed with the name of a prominent Montreal doctor.

ASKED FOR BOOK. Leaving the store by the rear entrance, the officers entered the front door, and, paying no attention to the man, declared themselves to the clerk and asked to see his prescription book, a volume that contains a re- cord of every sale of drugs made by the store.

Realizing that the three men were police, the man grabbed the prescription from the counter where he had placed it, put it in his mouth and attempted to swallow it. He was unsuccessful, the constables forcing his mouth open and obtaining the paper before it was damaged.

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) conducts a mid-term review to assess implementation of all international drug policy commitments in 2024. A 2-day high-level segment (14-15 March 2024) for the midterm review is followed by the5-day regular session (18-22 March 2024).

"5 FACE DRUG CHARGES AFTER 12-HOUR RAID," Toronto Star. July 6, 1943. Page 15. --- Four Men, One Woman Are Released on $5,000 Bail ---- In four raids requiring 12 hours, a squad of Toronto and R.C.M.P. arrested four men and a woman on charges of illegal possession of drugs. In police court today all were remanded until July 14 on bail of $5,000 each.

The round-up, began at 4 p.m. Monday at a Jarvis St. apartment when Morality Officer Cyril Cole and Bernard Simmonds arrested George Spanis, 30, and Claude Kell, 46.

Constables Huxley and Greenfield of the R.C.M.P. joined the officers in a raid on a McGee St. apartment where they arrested Mr. and Mrs. John Connelly.

Joseph Bennett, 31, was arrested at his Niagara St. home.

The trafficking in illegal narcotics, precursor chemicals, timber and wildlife, people and illicit goods across Southeast Asia is being tackled thanks to the support of the specialized UN agency focusing on drugs and crime.