Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

Cocaine, also known as coke is a strong addictive drug. It is commonly snorted, smoked, and even injected. History of Controlled Substance Cocaine is and very old drug, thousands of years ago the Incas use to chew on the coca leaves. They used it to get their hearts racing and to speed their breathing to counter the effects of living in thin mountain air. However cocaine didn’t get extracted from the leaves until 1859 by German chemist Albert Neimann. It didn’t get popularized until the…

There is common knowledge that drugs have a delirious and deleterious effect on the people that use them. Yet the voters across states have pushed to legalize one such drug, marijuana. To the pro-marijuana crowd, they feel like their needs to be more legal drugs because alcohol and nicotine products are not enough for them. This argument is nonsensical and could lead to further degradation of our society. One of the problems with legalizing the drug is that it breaks many United States and…

Survey of Drugs October 12, 2017 Controlled Substance Abuse Act In 1969, President Richard Nixon announced that the Attorney General, John N. Mitchell, was preparing a comprehensive new measure to more effectively meet the narcotic and dangerous drug problems at the federal level by combining all existing federal laws into a single new statute called the Controlled Substance Abuse Act 1970. The Controlled substance law consisted of prohibitions against the unauthorized possession of drugs…

scientists working at the German drug company Bayer produced an acetylated form of morphine when they tried to produce codeine. The scientists found that this acetylated form of morphine is more potent than morphine. They gave this drug a brand new name: Heroin. At the time, morphine was a popular drug, however, it had a problem of addictive side-effects. In 1898, the Bayer company marketed heroin as a substitution for morphine and advertised it as a non-addictive drug. It was used as the…

universally used prohibited drug in Australia, its use, sale, and possession, use is illegal in some most states of Australia. The dictatorial model for remedial cannabis thereby needs to be developed with reflection of the international system of drug control and the international treaties of which Australia is a signatory. There are three treaties; 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and 1988 United Nations Convention Against…

The Narcotic Drug Act was established in 1967 and its purpose was to reaffirm Australia’s obligation under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs which was held in 1961 and it was designed to establish licensing and permit schemes for the cultivation and production of cannabis and cannabis resin for strictly medicinal and scientific use only. As well as establishing a convention for the matter which sole purpose is to investigate, monitor and to give out instructions on how much dosage is…

As children grow up in the United States, they are accustomed to the anti-drug propaganda to which everyone has been exposed to since very young ages. The United States have programs such as D.A.R.E, where police officers come into a classroom of middle school children, and educate them about the effects of drug abuse. “SAY NO TO DRUGS!” is a phrase that is mostly embedded in everyone’s head. Advertisements on television and posters on billboards have become more clever to reach out to different…

control the prosecution under the Federal Narcotics Control Act. It is a battle for powers of jurisdiction in regards to the criminal code, and more so the Narcotics Control Act; (NCA), 1961. The Narcotics Act was once Canada’s national drug control statue prior to its repeal in 1996 where the Controlled Drugs and Substance Act took its place. The NCA upheld an international treaty which prohibited the production, and supply of specific drugs; normally narcotics, unless given a licence for…

follows: (a) The struggles, expenses and imbalances of cannabis prohibition. (b) Hesitations in the data presented on the damages of cannabis. (c) The countless health threats of the legal drugs of alcohol and tobacco. It has been debated that based on the three factors, considering cannabis as a legal drug subject to regulation is ideal to the existing option of prohibition. Albeit, there are two major protests to propositions to legalise cannabis. The first area of concerns that the…

Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa and Cannabis ruderalis (Guy, G., Whittle, B., & Robson, P., 2004). Cannabis exists in three main forms; marijuana, hashish and hash oil. The main active chemical is known as delta-9 tetrahydrocannabional or THC (“NZ Drug Foundation”, n.d). Cannabis is a depressant, it slows down the transmission of messages from the brain to body which is also the so-called high people experience from it. The strength of the high depends on the amount of THC present in the…