Unidentified photographer 1948 International Agreement on Narcotic Drugs Reached in Paris
Black and white photograph United Nations Photo UN Photo/MB. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en
Representatives of 37 nations recently signed an international protocol on the control of narcotic drugs.
Picture shows one of the synthetic narcotic drugs brought under the international control under the new Protocol. Previous conventions covered only the natural narcotics, such as opium, cocaine and morphine.