Talk:Bulletin on Narcotics

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Page scope

Bulletin on Narcotics covers the United Nations journal as a whole: its founding, publishers, editing and numbering, with its articles on cannabis from 1950 to 2006. Single articles are described within it. An article from the Bulletin that many pages cite can also have a page of its own.

Data verification

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The journal used

The issue lists were taken on 16 October 2026 from the archive index on the UNODC website (vol. I, 1949, to vol. LXII, 2019) and from the contents page of every issue it links, over 1,100 items in all. Every article the page names is cited from its UNODC article page, whose "Details" line gives the author and page range used in the reference. The prefaces of vols. LIV (2002), LVII (2005), LVIII (2006), LX (2008), LXI (2017) and LXII (2019) are cited from the PDF editions UNODC hosts, with the title pages and title versos of vols. LX, LXI and LXII. The publishers before 1957 and the languages of the early numbers come from the Wellcome Collection's catalogue record for its print run.

Dates and numbering

Most article pages in UNODC's archive carry a creation date of 1 January of their year, so the month of a number is not taken from them. The October 1949 date of the first number is the catalogue's. Until 1996 a year's volume number is its last two digits less 48: Bouquet's 1951 article refers to "vol. II, No. 4, October 1950"; a 2005 reference list cites vol. 23 (1971) and vol. 37 (1985). The 1997 and 1998 volumes (XLIX and L) appeared together in 1999. The archive files their articles under 1997, issue 1, with a creation date of 1 December 1999 and no page ranges, so those references have none. Several later volumes appeared after their nominal year: vol. LVII (2005) states that it keeps 2005 "for the sake of continuity", vol. LVIII (2006) was printed in 2008 and vol. LX (2008) in 2011. The archive lists vol. LXI (2017) and vol. LXII (2019) after vol. LX.

Bouquet's initials

The UNODC page for the 1950 part names its author "R. J. Bouquet"; the page for the 1951 part names "J. Bouquet". The references follow each page as printed.

Framing in the sources

The 1953 note on charas, the 1985 editorial note and Bouquet's survey characterise cannabis users and cannabis harms in the language of the control system that published them. The article quotes and attributes those passages.