roadmaps to reforming the un drug conventions - Beckley Foundation

Article 1. DefinitionsExcept where otherwise expressly indicated or where the context otherwise requires, thefollowing definitions shall apply throughout the Convention:…o) “Medicinal opium” means opium which has undergone the processes necessary toadapt it for medicinal use.o) bis “Non-commercial purpose” means a purpose other than to receive pecuniarybenefit.New Article 3 bis – exemption for non-commercial actionsInsert as Article 3 bis:‘Other than article 30(2)(b), this Convention does not apply to the cultivation,production, manufacture, extraction, preparation, offering, distribution, delivery,dispatch, transport, supply, purchase, acquisition, import, export, possession or use ofdrugs, or any similar or related action with respect to drugs where such action involvesonly a small quantity of drugs and is for a non-commercial purpose.’Article 3 bisOther than article 30(2)(b), this Convention does not apply to the cultivation,production, manufacture, extraction, preparation, offering, distribution, delivery,dispatch, transport, supply, purchase, acquisition, import, export, possession or use ofdrugs, or any similar or related action with respect to drugs where such action involvesonly a small quantity of drugs and is for a non-commercial purpose.Article 4 – general obligationsIn Article 4(c):1. after ‘medical and scientific purposes’:a) insert a colonb) on a new line, insert ‘(i) trade in drugs; and’c) on a new line, insert ‘(ii)’2. delete ‘trade in, use’3. after ‘possession of drugs’, insert ‘, unless in small quantities and for a noncommercialpurpose’.35