UNITED STATES RELIANCE ON LICIT OPIUM GUM FROM FOREIGN SOURCES.

SEC. 4307. UNITED STATES RELIANCE ON LICIT OPIUM GUM FROM FOREIGN SOURCES. (a) Review Required.—The President shall conduct a review of United States narcotics raw material policy to determine— (1) the current and reserve international needs for opium-derived pharmaceutical and chemical products, and the relative capabilities for meeting those needs through the opium gum process and the concentrated poppy straw method of production; (2) whether the United States should continue to rely on a single foreign country for all its licit opium gum; (3) whether it should be United States policy to encourage all countries which produce licit opium to use the concentrated poppy straw method of production; and (4) what options are available, consistent with treaties to which the United States is a party, to reduce United States reliance on licit opium gum from foreign sources. (b) Report to Congress.—The results of this review shall be reported to the Congress not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act.