International Psychotropic Substances Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] International Psychotropic Substances Act - Provides that whenever the Secretary of State receives notification from the Secretary General of the United Nations that information has been transmitted by or to the World Health Organization, pursuant to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, which may justify adding a drug or other substance to one of the schedules of the convention, transferring a drug or substance from one schedule to another, or deleting it from the schedules, the Secretary of State shall immediately transmit the notice to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. States that the Secretary shall prepare for transmission through the Secretary of State to the World Health Organization such medical and scientific evaluations as may be appropriate regarding the possible action that could be proposed by the World Health Organization. Provides that, if the Attorney General determines, in view of exceptional circumstances, that the United States will not be in a position to give effect to all of the provisions of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances applicable to that drug or substance, he shall transmit notice of his determination and the reasons therefor…