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The first Opium Law was created to regulate drugs with a high addiction or abuse factor, or that are physically harmful. As the name indicates the main reason for introduction was to regulate the Opium trade and later to control various other addictive drugs like morphine, cocaine, heroin, barbiturates, amphetamines and several decades later ...
Amending Executive Order No. 169, dated August 30, 1948, entitled "Creating an Opium Custodian Committee for the enforcement of Act No. 2381, as amended by Act No. 3006, otherwise known as the Opium Law" 242 Prescribing rules and regulations for the appointment of reserve officers into the Regular Force, Armed Forces of the Philippines
The drug policy of the Philippines is guided by the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 and is implemented by the Dangerous Drugs Board with its implementing arm, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency along with other member agencies. Aside from regulating and prohibiting the usage, sale, production of certain drugs, the 2002 law is ...
Netherlands: Opium Law; New Zealand: Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 [56] Pakistan: Control of Narcotic Substances Act 1997 [57] Philippines: Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002; Poland: Drug Abuse Prevention Act 2005; Portugal: Decree-Law 15/93; Ireland: Misuse of Drugs Act (Ireland) [58] [59] South Africa: Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 1992
In October 2024, former Senator Leila de Lima said that there is no legal obstacle to prevent the Philippine government's cooperation with the ICC citing Republic Act 9851 or the "Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide, and Other Crimes Against Humanity" including the surrender or extradition of accused ...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency discovered the production of "fly high", after a raid on a condominium unit in Makati. [20] The effects of use of fly high includes sleeplessness, loss of appetite, and high libido. [21] In May 2019, 39 bricks of cocaine valued at around 4 million were found by fishermen in the Philippines.
The International Opium Convention (or 1912 Opium Convention) which was signed at the end of the Hague Conference, on 23 January 1912, is considered as the first international drug control treaty. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on January 23, 1922. [ 4 ]
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 (Single Convention, 1961 Convention, or C61) is an international treaty that controls activities (cultivation, production, supply, trade, transport) involving specific narcotic drugs and lays down a system of regulations (licenses, measures for treatment, research, etc.) for their medical and scientific uses, concluded under the auspices of the ...