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THE OPIUM EVIL.
Who, after having deposited their full powers, which have been found to be in good and due form, are agreed to that which follows:
CHAPTER I.
RAW OPIUM.
Definition: By raw opium shall be understood the spontaneously coagulated sap obtained from capsules of the soporific poppy (Papaver soniniferum), and which shall not have been subjected to any but the processes necessary to the packing and the transportation thereof.
ARTICLE 1. The contracting powers shall enact efficacious lħws or regulations for the control of the production and distribution of raw opium, unless existing laws or regulations have already regulated the
matter.
ARTICLE 2. The contracting powers, taking into account the dif- ferences in their trade conditions, shall limit the number of towns, ports, or other places through which the importation or exportation of raw opium shall be permitted.
ARTICLE 3. The contracting powers shall take measures:
(a) to prevent the exportation of raw opium to countries which shall have prohibited the entry thereof; and
(b) to control the exportation of raw opium to countries which shall have limited the importation thereof,
Unless existing measures have already regulated the matter. ARTICLE 4. The contracting powers shall issue regulations to provide that every package containing raw opium destined for expor- tation shall be marked in such a manner as to indicate its contents, providing the consignment shall exceed kilograms.
ARTICLE 5. The contracting powers shall not permit the importa- tion and exportation of raw opium except through duly authorized persons.
CHAPTER II.
PREPARED OPIUM.
Definition: By prepared opium shall be understood the product of raw opium obtained by a series of special processes, particularly by dissolution, boiling, heating, and fermentation, and which is meant to be made into the form of an extract suitable for consumption.
Prepared opium comprises dross and all other residues of smoked opium.
ARTICLE 6. The contracting powers shall take measures for the gradual and efficacious suppression of the manufacture, the internal traffic in, and the use of prepared opium in so far as the different con- ditions peculiar to each nation shall allow of this, unless existing measures have already regulated the matter.
ARTICLE 7. The contracting powers shall prohibit the importation and exportation of prepared opium; however, those nations which are not yet ready to prohibit the exportation of prepared opium at once shall prohibit such exportation as soon as possible.
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ARTICLE 8. The contracting powers which are not yet prepared to prohibit at once the exportation of prepared opium:
(a) Shall limit the number of towns, ports, or other places through which it shall be possible for prepared opium to be exported;
(b) Shall prohibit the exportation of prepared opium to the coun- tries which now prohibit or which shall later prohibit the importation thereof;
(e) Shall prohibit, in the meanwhile, that any prepared opium be sent to a country which desires to limit the entry thereof, unless the exporter shall conform to the regulations of the importing country; (d) Shall take measures to the effect that each package exported containing prepared opium shall bear a special mark indicating the nature of its contents;
(e) Shall not permit the exportation of prepared opium except through the agency of persons especially autliorized.
CHAPTER III.
MEDICINAL OPIUM, MORPHINE, COCAINE, ETC.
Definitions: By medicinal opium shall be understood raw opium which shall have been heated to 60° C., whether or not powdered or granulated, or whether or not mixed with neutral substances, and which shall not contain less than 10 per cent of morphine.
By morphine shall be understood the principal afkaloid of opium, expressed by the chemical formula C12HNO,.
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By cocaine shall be understood the principal alkaloid of the leaves of erythroxylon coca, expressed by the formula C,,H2NO4.
By heroin shall be understood morphine-diacetylate, expressed by the formula CH23NO5.
ARTICLE 9. The contracting powers shall enact pharmacy laws and regulations in such a way as to limit the manufacture, the sale, and the use of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts to medical and legitimate uses only, unless existing laws or regulations have already regulated the matter. They shall cooperate amongst them- selves in order to prevent the use of these drugs for any other purpose. ARTICLE 10. The contracting powers shall use their best efforts to control, or to cause to be controlled, all those who manufacture, import, sell, distribute, and export morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, as well as the buildings where such persons exercise that industry or that commerce.
To this end the contracting powers shall use their best efforts to adopt or to cause to be adopted the following measures, unless exist- ing measures have already regulated the matter:
(a) To limit the manufacture of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts to the premises and localities alone which shall have been authorized to this effect or to keep themselves informed as to the establishments and places where such drugs are manufactured, and to keep a register thereof.
(b) To demand that all those who manufacture, import, sell, dis- tribute, and export morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts shall be provided with an authorization or a license to carry on these opera-
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