§2151x–1 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The President may help foreign countries, using development aid and economic support funds, to encourage growing, processing, or selling crops or other products so people stop relying on drug crops. This applies even if other laws would normally block it and covers funds for fiscal year 1991 and after.

Title 22, §2151x–1

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(a)For the purpose of reducing dependence upon the production of crops from which narcotic and psychotropic drugs are derived, the President may provide assistance to a foreign country under chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 and following; relating to development assistance) and chapter 4 of part II of that Act (22 U.S.C. 2346 and following; relating to the economic support fund) to promote the production, processing, or the marketing of products or commodities, notwithstanding any other provision of law that would otherwise prohibit the provision of assistance to promote the production, processing, or the marketing of such products or commodities.

(b)Subsection (a) applies with respect to funds made available for fiscal year 1991 or any fiscal year thereafter.

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References in Text

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424. Chapter 1 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Act are classified generally to part I (§ 2151 et seq.) of subchapter I and part IV (§ 2346 et seq.) of subchapter II, respectively, of this chapter. For provisions deeming references to part I of subchapter I to include a reference to section 2293 of this title, see section 2293(d)(1) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2151 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the International Narcotics Control Act of 1990, and not as part of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which comprises this chapter.

§2151x–1 Assistance for agricultural and industrial alternatives to narcotics production