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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 ]
In 1925, a Second Opium Convention signed in Geneva supplemented and extended that of 1912. Among others, it rendered the import certificates compulsory, and provided for more effective supervision of production and international trade. The Convention further provided for the setting up of a Permanent Central Opium Board.
Portugal's first major drug laws were enacted in 1924 [5] and 1926, [6] mainly incorporating into domestic law the International Opium Convention. [7] In 1970, the country's drug law underwent a major update, with the introduction of a legal definition of narcotic products, a drug schedule, and legal regime for punishing drug trafficking and consumption.
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 ...
The International Opium Convention, signed in The Hague in 1912 by 11 countries and entering into force in 1915, was the first stab at a comprehensive drug control treaty internationally and inspired domestic drug control laws such as the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act in the United States. [3]
In the United States, control of opium remained under the control of individual US states until the introduction of the Harrison Act in 1914, after 12 international powers signed the International Opium Convention in 1912. Between 1920 and c. 1933, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution banned alcohol in the United States.
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
1925: United States supported regulation of cannabis as a drug in the International Opium Convention. [9] and by the mid-1930s all member states had some regulation of cannabis. 1930: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics was created.