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International 🇪🇬 Egypt

Egypt joins the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

Egypt ratified the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 on 20 July 1966. The convention lists cannabis and cannabis resin among its controlled drugs and obliges its parties to limit their production, trade, possession and use to medical and scientific purposes.[1]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Egypt here.

References

  1. United Nations Treaty Collection — Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961: status of participantsarchived

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