Governing the Global Drug Wars SPECIALREPORT

The views expressed in this essay are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of the US government, the US Department of State, or the current administration. [...] As and neutrals during the war and to argue for the Moorhead declined, Leon Steinig, an administrator centrality of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics to the within the UN drug control hierarchy, attempted to US national security apparatus that emerged in the redefine and expand the reach of the drug control late 1940s. [...] BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS AND THE ABSENCE OF For example, in the negotiations surrounding the 1971 DEMAND ISSUES Psychotropic Convention, the early versions of the draft treaty contained very different provisions than The international drug control regime, and to those embodied in the final agreement. [...] No drugs are absolutely proscribed of the history of the construction of the system can by the international treaties (although Schedule IV provide answers to those questions, the main issue of the Single Convention enumerates a short list of is to understand that such ‘pressure points’ exist. [...] With the final, post-revolutionary triumph of the cigarette, the history of smoking in China came full circle, from tobacco in the seventeenth century, to madak in the eighteenth, to refined opium in the nineteenth, and back to tobacco in the twentieth.