United Nations Single Convention

UN (1972) United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, United Nations, New York, 25 March 1972, p 44... 

United Nations Single Convention ON Narcotic Drugs (1961)... 

The United States signs the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. 

The functions of INCB are laid down in the following treaties the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 and the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988. Broadly speaking, INCB deals with the following ... 

Throughout this article, the abbreviation USP, when used alone, signifies the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc. The abbreviation USP in italics and followed by Roman numerals signifies a particular revision of the United States Pharmacopeia. The abbreviation USP-NF signifies the United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary, two books in a single binding. 

In 1961, the United Nations finally adopted the Single Convention, the terms of which stated that each participating country could "adopt such measures as may be necessary to prevent misuse of, and illicit traffic in, the leaves of the cannabis plant."... 

Another convention is the Patent Co-operation Treaty, to which the United Kingdom is a party along with members in both North and South America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, as well as most of the EPC countries and other European countries. This facilitates, making many national applications by filing in the single Patent Office. Thereafter, the individual national procedures operate independently, leading again to separate national patents. 

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