Proclamation 3074—Determining the Drugs 3-Methoxy-N-Methylmorphinan (Except its Dextrorotatory Isomer) and Ketobemidone to be Opiates

Whereas section 3228 (f) of the Internal Revenue Code provides in part as follows:

OPIATE.—The word "opiate" as used in this part and subchapter A of chapter 23 shall mean any drug (as defined in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act) found by the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, to have an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or cocaine, and proclaimed by the President to have been so found by the Secretary. * * *;

AND Whereas the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, has found that each of the following-named drugs has addiction-forming and addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately:

3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan, its racemic and levorotatory forms and their salts, but excepting its dextrorotatory form and its salts.

4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-1-methyl-4-piperidylethyl ketone (ketobemidone) and its salts.

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that the Secretary of the Treasury has found that each of the aforementioned drugs (except the dextrorotatory form of 3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan and its salts) has an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this 18th day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State