Narcotic Drug Import and Export Act

Since the original publication of this book, there has been a virtual mushroom revolution. Head shops and mail order houses now sell complete kits for home cultivation of Psilocybe cubensis (spores included). The flagrant ignorance of the law-makers is reflected in the fact that in Title 21 the alkaloid psilocin is misspelled as psilocyn. This small error is a product of the same mentality that classified cocaine as a narcotic in the 1922 Amendment to the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act and deliberately retains the error to this day. 

States were encomaged to enact laws similar to the Narcotic Drug Import and Export Act, which restricted the import and export of opium and coca. The act also encomaged the states to enact legislation prohibiting cannabis use. 

The Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (revised 1980) regulates the manufacture, importation, exportation, sale and use of narcotics. The Director of Pharmacy is the competent authority to issue import and export permits for narcotics under The Singles Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961. 

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