International Drug Law
摘要
The goal of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive overview of international drug law as it stands today. It begins by surveying the historical development of international drug treaties from the passage of the 1911 Hague Convention Hague Convention of 1911International Opium ConventionHague Convention of 1911 to the present. Next, the chapter introduces the three UN conventions that today serve as the cornerstones of contemporary international drug law: the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotics Drugs, as amended by the 1972 protocol; the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances; and the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. The chapter concludes with a brief introduction to the three institutions that are charged with enforcing international drug law and policy: the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB); the Commission on Narcotic Drugs; and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC).