Misuse of Drugs Act is the name of several similar national drug control laws passed by countries in the Commonwealth of Nations and by the Republic of Ireland. With the exception of Ireland's 1977 Act, they all sort drugs into three categories, Classes A, B, and C. This classification system was influenced by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and other drug control treaties. Some of the Acts are: Flag of the Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations is an association of independent sovereign states, most of which are former colonies once governed by the United Kingdom as part of the British Empire. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs Opened for signature March 30, 1961 at New York Entered into force December 13, 1964[1] Conditions for entry into force 40 ratifications Parties 180[2] The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is the international treaty against illicit drug manufacture and trafficking that forms the...
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As well as prohibiting the use of the drugs concerned outside these lawful fields, the conventions and the MDA (mainly through the regulations made under section 7) are concerned to ensure that their use within these areas continues to be possible.
Drugs were placed in three Classes, listed in Schedule 2 to the Act, and penalties for offences were related to the Class of drug involved in the offence.
Confusingly the drugs are sometimes described as being Schedule 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 drugs: such references are not to the Classes in Schedule 2 to the Act but to the Schedules to the related Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985 [12].
Drugs liable to abuse which are not defined as narcotics under the Narcotics Act 1965 are controlled at present in New Zealand under the Poisons Act 1960, the Poisons Regulations 1964, and amendments.
Subclause (5) of clause 6 establishes a presumption that possession of certain quantities of drugs is possession for the purposes of supply, and therefore within the major offences of the clause unless the defendant shows that he possessed the drugs for his own use.
Drugs are reasonably well categorised in their rightful schedules, and as our knowledge and experience of the use of misuse of drugs increases we will have to capacity to change the drugs from one schedule to another.
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