ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the mechanisms that give effect to the international system of control. International drug control was initiated as a response to a specific problem in a specific area of the world opium in China. The 1925 Convention also introduced statistical control procedures as well as a system of import certificates and export authorisations. These were to facilitate the regulation, and limitation of the licit international trade, and were supervised by the Board. The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (SCoND) provided for the amalgamation, and replacement, of almost all previous conventions, protocols and agreements concerned with the regulation of drugs. The 1925 and 1931 treaties were judged to be effective. There was a decline in the leakage of supplies coming from the legal drug manufactures into the illicit market. Statistics have proven effective, they have made possible the discovery of leakages into the illicit traffic and the exposure of false statements regarding the destination of exports.
