Title 21, Food and DrugsRelease 119-102

§1902 Purpose

Title 21 › CHAPTER 24 — INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING › § 1902

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Gives the U.S. the power to find major foreign drug traffickers, their groups, and people who help them, and to punish them worldwide when their actions threaten national security, foreign policy, or the economy.

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Title 21, §1902

Food and Drugs, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purpose of this chapter is to provide authority for the identification of, and application of sanctions on a worldwide basis to, significant foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations, and the foreign persons who provide support to those significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations, whose activities threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.

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References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title VIII of Pub. L. 106–120, Dec. 3, 1999, 113 Stat. 1626, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1901 of this title and Tables.

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Citation

21 U.S.C. § 1902

Title 21, Food and Drugs

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102