...The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drugs such as amphetamines, barbiturates, and psychedelics. During the 1960s such drugs became widely available. Government authorities opposed this for numerous reasons, arguing that along with negative health effects, drug use led to lowered moral standards. The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 could not ban the many newly discovered psychotropics, since its scope was limited to drugs with cannabis-, coca-, and opium-like effects. Read full entry

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