HC Deb 11 November 1968 vol 773 c46W
Captain Kerby

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why he has not placed methedrine on the Dangerous Drugs Act, Schedule 1, list.

Mr. Merlyn Rees

Under Section 12 of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1965 a drug may be added to Part I of the Schedule to that Act only if the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations or the World Health Organisation decides, or appears likely to decide, to add that drug to those listed in Schedule 1 of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961. No such decision has been made, or yet appears likely, in regard to methedrine.