John P. Walters is the president and chief executive officer of the Hudson Institute; he was appointed in January 2021. He joined Hudson in 2009 as the executive vice president and most recently was t
John Walters meets with President George W. Bush in 2004
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 is an international treaty that controls activities involving specific narcotic drugs and lays down a system of regulations for their medical and scientif
Article 44 of the Convention terminated a number of previous drug control treaties.
Governments of opium-producing Parties are required to "purchase and take physical possession of such crops as soon as possible" after harvest to prevent diversion into the illicit market.
The Single Convention was the first international treaty to establish a narrow system of drug control for cannabis.
Articles 23 and 28 of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs require cannabis-producing nations to have a government agency that controls cultivation.