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narcotics limitation convention of 1931  

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  • The Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotics Drugs (commonly referred to as the Narcotics Limitation Convention) met in Geneva Switzerland on July 13, 1931. The League of Nations (an intergovernmental organization created because of the Treaty of Versailles in 1920) convened and signed a drug control treaty to place limits on the manufacture of cocaine, heroin, and morphine. [Source: Encyclopedia of Drug Policy; Narcotics Limitation Convention of 1931]

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