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The International Opium Convention (or 1912 Opium Convention) which was signed at the end of the Hague Conference, on 23 January 1912, is considered as the first international drug control treaty. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on January 23, 1922. [ 4 ]
A plaque which commemorates International Opium Commission, outside of the Peace Hotel on the Bund. The International Opium Commission was a meeting convened on February 1 to February 26, 1909 in Shanghai that represented one of the first steps toward international drug prohibition.
Following the 1909 Shanghai International Opium Commission, an International Opium Convention was adopted in 1925 and established the Permanent Central Opium Board (PCOB) which started its work in 1928. Later on, the 1931 Convention created the Drug Supervisory Body to gather estimates, in complement of the PCOB.
An International Opium Convention was signed by 13 nations at The Hague on January 23, 1912, during the First International Opium Conference. This was the first international drug control treaty and it was registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on January 23, 1922. [ 26 ]
The first Opium Law was created to regulate drugs with a high addiction or abuse factor, or that are physically harmful. As the name indicates the main reason for introduction was to regulate the Opium trade and later to control various other addictive drugs like morphine , cocaine , heroin , barbiturates , amphetamines and several decades ...
San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved." Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled ...
Full name Concluded In force Discontinued: First (Hague) Opium Convention: 1912 International Opium Convention: The Hague: 23 January 1912 1919–1946 1925 Geneva Opium Agreement: Agreement concerning the Manufacture of, Internal Trade in and Use of Prepared Opium: Geneva: 11 February 1925 1926–1946 Second (Geneva) Opium Convention
the 1907 International Opium Convention; the 1925 Agreement concerning the Manufacture of, Internal Trade in and Use of Prepared Opium; the 1931 Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs; the 1931 Agreement for the Control of Opium Smoking in the Far East; the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs