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Schedule 1—Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol
Note: See the definition of Convention in subsection 4(1).

PREAMBLE

THE PARTIES,

CONCERNED with the health and welfare of mankind,

RECOGNIZING that the medical use of narcotic drugs continues to be indispensable for the relief of pain and suffering and that adequate provision must be made to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs for such purposes,

RECOGNIZING that addiction to narcotic drugs constitutes a serious evil for the individual and is fraught with social and economic danger to mankind,

CONSCIOUS of their duty to prevent and combat this evil,

CONSIDERING that effective measures against abuse of narcotic drugs require coordinated and universal action,

UNDERSTANDING that such universal action calls for international cooperation guided by the same principles and aimed at common objectives,

ACKNOWLEDGING the competence of the United Nations in the field of narcotics control and desirous that the international organs concerned should be within the framework of that Organization,

DESIRING to conclude a generally acceptable international convention replacing existing treaties on narcotic drugs, limiting such drugs to medical and scientific use, and providing for continuous international cooperation and control for the achievement of such aims and objectives,

HEREBY AGREE as follows:

Article 1

Definitions

1. Except where otherwise expressly indicated or where the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall apply throughout the Convention:

(a) "Board" means the International Narcotics Control Board.

(b) "Cannabis" means the flowering or fruiting tops of the cannabis plant (excluding the seeds and leaves when not accompanied by the tops) from which the resin has not been extracted, by whatever name they may be designated.

(c) "Cannabis plant" means any plant of the genus cannabis.

(d) "Cannabis resin" means the separated resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from the cannabis plant.

(e) "Coca bush" means the plant of any species of the genus erythroxylon.

(f) "Coca leaf" means the leaf of the coca bush except a leaf from which all ecgonine, cocaine and any other ecgonine alkaloids have been removed.

(g) "Commission" means the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Council.

(h) "Council" means the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

(i) "Cultivation" means the cultivation of the opium poppy, coca bush or cannabis plant.

(j) "Drug" means any of the substances in Schedules I and II, whether natural or synthetic.

(k) "General Assembly" means the General Assembly of the United Nations.

(l) "Illicit traffic" means cultivation or trafficking in drugs contrary to the provisions of this Convention.

(m) "Import" and "export" mean in their respective connotations the physical transfer of drugs from one State to another State, or from one territory to another territory of the same State.