Bureau of Narcotics

A chemist from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, who was in Bolivia to observe clandestine cocaine operations, related the following step-by-step procedure for manufacturing cocaine. The method can be conveniently divided into three major steps (1) extraction of cocaine from the leaf and chemical conversion to the sulfate (2) treatment of cocaine sulfate with potassium permanganate and conversion to the free base (aka paste) and (3) conversion of the paste or free base to cocaine hydrochloride. In general, steps (1) and (2) are carried out in sulfate labs while step (3) is performed in crystal labs. 

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF), 10 553 12 34 Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), 18 685... 

A new agency in the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, merges several organizations previously responsible for control of drugs used unlawfully. 

The U.S. Department of State has a Bureau of Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. It seeks to use U.S. diplomatic efforts to persuade foreign nations to cooperate with drug control efforts and to enter into bilateral and multilateral agreements in relevant areas. 

President Herbert Hoover creates the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, headed by former Prohibition agent Harry Anslinger. Anslinger focuses much of his efforts on combating the growing popularity of marijuana among Mexican immigrants and jazz aficionados. 

Federal Bureau of Narcotics, forerunner of the modern Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), begins a campaign that portrayed marijuana as a drug that led users to drug addiction, violence, and insanity. The government produced films such as Marihuana (1935), Reefer Madness (1936), and Assassin of Youth (1937). 

In 1930, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was formed. By 1931, at least 29 states had prohibited use of marijuana for nonmedical... 

Throughout the 1960s. .. the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics paid almost no attention to Asia, there were few seizures of Asian heroin and... 

Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, involving Pennwalt s use of Mexican subsidiaries to provide illicit channels of drug traffic in the United States with amphetamines. The BNDD discovered major accounting discrepancies between the amounts of amphetamine Pennwalt claimed it shipped to Mexico and the amount of amphetamine that actually arrived in Mexico. 

Fulton, C., The Opium Poppy and other Poppies, US Treasury Department, Bureau of Narcotics, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1944, pp. 37-38. 

Establishment of Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now known as Drug Enforcement Administration) (1930)... 

The Law dated 26 July 1969 regulating poisonous substances was brought in application of the United Nations Unique Convention of 1961. The Order dated 7 January 1986 concerned the establishment of the National Bureau of Narcotic Drugs whose function is to recommend measures to fight drug addictions. An Order dated 6 November 1996 defined the functions of this Bureau. 

For its part, the Bureau of Narcotics s campaign to expand its prerogatives and jurisdiction was a huge success. Each year the bureau grew in prestige and manpower. The mark of its achievement is most clearly seen in its budgetary allowance, which skyrocketed from a mere 292,000 in 1915 to 1,708,528 in 1932, an increase of over 400 percent. 

Although there was no evidence to show that Licata had killed his family while under the influence of marihuana, Harry Anslinger, the commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics, cited the case during the hearings on the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 as just one example of the dangers of marihuana ... 

Later that year, when the senior surgeon of the US Public Health Department visited the Bureau of Narcotics to obtain information about the dangers of marihuana, Commissioner Harry Anslinger produced this... 

In 1937, readers of American Magazine were aroused by yet another hysteria-rousing version, this time written by the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger ... 

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