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The United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 aimed to control the possession and supply of numerous listed drugs and drug-like substances as a controlled substance.The act allowed and regulated the use of some Controlled Drugs (designated CD) by various classes of persons (e.g. doctors) acting in their professional capacity.
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These drugs are known in the UK as controlled drug, because this is the term by which the act itself refers to them.In more general terms, however, many of these drugs are also controlled by the Medicines Act 1968, there are many other drugs which are controlled by the Medicines Act but not by the Misuse of Drugs Act, and some other drugs (alcohol, for example) are controlled by other laws.
According to Home Office licensing, "University research departments generally do not require licences to possess and supply drugs in schedule 2 drug, schedule 3 drug, schedule 4 drug part I, part II and schedule 5, but they do require licences to produce any of those drugs and to produce, possess and/or supply drugs in schedule 1". [7]
Also substances such as cannabis, amphetamines and LSD started to become significant in the UK. [1] In 1961 the international Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs was introduced. To control global drug trading and use, it banned countries from treating addicts by prescribing illegal substances, allowing only scientific and medical uses of drugs.
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