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World Health Organisation, the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) and other interested bodies. It has thirty members, including the United Kingdom, and though scheduled to meet biennially has in practice met annually in recent years. It receives annual reports on every aspect of drug control from Governments, including Hong Kong, and is serviced by a small secretariat which carries on its day-to-day work.
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The nine earlier treaties dealing with the control of narcotic drugs became so complicated that U.N.E.S.C.0. authorised the Commission to draw up a new instrument replace them. This led to the adoption of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in March 1961. It came into force in December 1964, simplifying international control machinery by the creation of the International Narcotics Control Board; extending the control systems over the cultivation of plants grown as the raw material of natural narcotic drugs; and adding new provisions which, for example, impose obligations to provide for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts. The United Kingdom Government has ratified it, and it applies to Hong Kong. So will a 1972 Protocol which should further increase the Convention's effectiveness once it has come into
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The mounting concern felt by Governments during the 1960's over the harmful effects of the misuse of amphetamines, barbiturates, tranquillizers and the abuse of hallucinogenic drugs (such as L.S.D.) caused U.N.E.S.C.O. to ask the Commission to draft a Protocol to bring these substances under international control. This led to the adoption of a Convention on Psychotropic Substances in February 1971 to which the United Kingdom Government is a signatory.
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