Narcotics Offenses Rise in Hong Kong
From Reuters
HONG KONG — Drug offenses soared in Hong Kong last year as Southeast Asia produced a bumper opium crop, a government report said Friday.
The report by a government anti-narcotics committee said 12,432 people were prosecuted for drug-related offenses last year, an 11% rise over 1984.
It said the Golden Triangle on the borders of Thailand, Laos and Burma had a bumper opium harvest in 1985 for the fifth successive year, leading to an abundant supply of narcotics in the British colony. No crop figures were given.
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