| However, due to the pervasiveness of opium addiction complete prohibition might cause social stability, so the government changed the initial hard line policy to ban opium immediately to a phase-out policy. |
しかし阿片吸引人口が多く、急進的な禁止政策は社会不安を招くとし、即時禁止政策を漸禁政策へと転換させた。 |