Legal Aspects of International Drug Control

The need for suppressing the illicit traffic in drugs can hardly be over-emphasized. Yet, the licit uses of drugs, especially for medical and scientific needs, cannot be suppressed. Apparently, it is a ques­ tion of determining the vvorld requirements of drugs for such legiti­ mate uses, and of producing and manufacturing them accordingly. Owing to their multifarious medical uses in various parts of the world, it proves to be almost impossible to determine exactly the amount of drugs required for legitimate purposes. There is also the complicating factor that drugs are used for sociological and religious reasons, which have a long history. Not only arc the licit uses and legitimate amounts of drugs difficult to determine but also such difficulties give rise to illicit traffic in them. Yet, it is believed that a concerted international policy, coupled with national co-operation, on various facets of the related problems-namely, limitation of production and/or manufacture of drugs, restriction on cultivation of plants that may contribute to addiction-producing substances, training and rehabilitation of drug addicts, and efficient national administration-would help eradicate drug-abuse. In search of an appropriate remedy, this book has been devoted to a practical study of the problem and to exploring, in this area of international law, the relationship between the political and econ­ omic interests and the international economic order. Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Social and Cultural Aspects of Drug-Use and Historical Origins of the Use of Opium....Pages 3-34 International Action for the Control of Trade and Traffic in Drugs between 1909 and 1919....Pages 35-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-71 The Organizational and Functional Framework as Devised by the League of Nations for the Purpose of Controlling the Manufacture of, and Trade and Traffic in, Drugs....Pages 73-112 An Examination of the Agreements and Conventions on Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs Concluded between 1920 and 1944....Pages 113-222 Front Matter....Pages 223-225 The Organizational Framework of the United Nations in Relation to the Control of Drugs....Pages 227-325 An Examination of the Drug Protocols Concluded During the UN Period (Prior to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961)....Pages 326-342 An Examination of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961....Pages 343-366 Limitation on Cultivation....Pages 367-379 Limitation on the Production of Opium....Pages 380-395 Manufacture and Importation of Drugs: Limitation Thereof....Pages 396-423 Control of Illicit Trade and Traffic in Narcotic Drugs....Pages 424-455 An Examination of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971....Pages 456-496 Front Matter....Pages 497-497 The Organization and Functions of Interpol and the Ingos in the Control of the Drug-Trade....Pages 499-522 Conclusions....Pages 523-546 Back Matter....Pages 547-588