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(1965)" (History of Drug Laws and Restrictions in the U.S., reference 4)
2) "Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (Controlled Substance Act of 1970) 3) Drug Analogue and Anti-Drug Abuse Acts-- the Drug Analogue act was enacted to deal with "designer" drugs, allowing immediate classification of a substance as a controlled substance (1986)" (History of Drug Laws and Restrictions in the U.S., reference 4)
3) " the Comprehensive Methamphetamine Control Act restricts access to chemicals and equipment used in the manufacture of methamphetamine." (History of Drug Laws and Restrictions in the U.S., reference 4)
In 1971, Vienna Convention on Psychotropic Substances, was agreed by all nations to control trafficking of hallucinogens and amphetamines. Later that year, the United Nations established its Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC) and the leading protagonist of the body were United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC). In 1988, UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances was signed for "strengthening and enhancing effective legal means for international co-operation in criminal matters for suppressing the international criminal activities of illicit traffic." (Russell, 1992) in April 1996 the 53-member Commission on Narcotic Drugs called for a special session of UN General Assembly in 1998 to develop new tactics...
"Possibility of the proliferation of WMD, illegal drugs trafficking, arms supply to the areas of local conflicts, mass migration, and religion extremism were the main sources of both regional and global threats." (Beshizde, 2002) it is important to categorize illegal drugs as a major threat just like extremism or WMDs in order to comprehend the gravity of the issue and to tackle it in the most appropriate manner.
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Russell Fox and Ian Matthews, Drug policy: Fact, Fiction and the future, the Federation Press 1992
John C. McWilliams, the Protectors.Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1962, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 1990, pp. 63-80.
History of drug laws and restrictions in U.S.: http://mrs.umn.edu/~ratliffj/drug_laws.htm
Dr. William Perry: Weapons of Mass destruction: three lines of defense: retrieved online http://isd.georgetown.edu/ISDreport_Weapons_Mass_Perry.pdf.
Revaz Beshidze, Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Terrorism" 26 May 2002. Retrieved online at http://www.nato.int/acad/fellow/99-01/Beshidze.pdf.
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