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Dope Burn In Saigon

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Day
9
Month
July
Year
1971
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DOPE BURN IN SAIGON

Saigon--The South Vietnamese government made a further effort today to dramatize the importance of its anti-drug campaign by burning large quantities of marijuana, opium and drug paraphanalia in front of Saigon's City Hall.

Longtime residents of Vietnam expressed skepticism of the effectiveness of the campaign, observing that such cleanups had been carried on periodically dating back to the French occupation.

A torch fire set to 450 pounds of marijuana, 55 pounds of opium, 2,500 vials of the synthetic drug maxiton, 230 opium pipes and 300 syringes.

They also burned 120 books judged "pornographic" by the government.