Proclamation 3362—Determining Certain Drugs to be Opiates

Whereas section 4731(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 provides in part as follows:

OPIATE—The word "opiate", as used in this part shall mean any drug (as defined in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; 52 Stat. 1041, section 201(g); 21 U.S.C. 821) found by the Secretary or his delegate, 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 or his delegate. * * *;

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 an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately:

1. Benzethidine (Ethyl 1-(2-bensyloxyethyl)-4-phenyl-4-piperdine carboxylate).

2. FurethiclIne (Ethyl 1-(2-tetrahydrofurfuryloxyethyl)-4-phenyl-4-piperidine car-boxylate).

3. 2-(p-Chlorobenzyl)-1-diethylambioethy1-5-nitrobenzimldazole.

4. 2-(p-Ethoxybenzyl)-1-diethylambioethy1-5-nitrobenzimidazole.

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 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 to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-ninth day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-fifth.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

CHRISTIAN A. HERTER,

Secretary of State