| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses the International Opium Commission, an international summit held in Shanghai, China in 1909 and attended by the United States and numerous other countries. Participants reported on the narcotics situation in their respective countries, and agreements were signed on the need to ban opium and morphine. The influence of the conference in encouraging the suppression of the opium trade in China, as well as paving the way for the first international drug control treaty, the International Opium Convention, is discussed. |
