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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 |
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aimed particularly at patent medicines and required that labels must indicate the presence of certain drugs, especially alcohol and narcotics |
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Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 |
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focussed on opium and its products (narcotics, and included cocaine) and established a tax, but it was unlawful to “sell, barter, or give away narcotics” without a specific form from the IRS, which acted so as to criminalize narcotics except for narrowly defined medical purposes. |
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| National Prohibition Act of 1919 (Volstead Act) |
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became 18th Amendment in 1920
prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of “intoxicating liquors”
was repealed in 1933 |
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| Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 |
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| like the Harrison Act, it restricted the use of marijuana to a few medical treatments, required doctors to get a tax stamp and made the stamp very hard to get. Effectively criminalized sale and use of marijuana. |
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| Controlled Substances Act of 1970 |
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| first major federal legislation after WWII, during which drug use and drug concern had declined substantially until the 60s. Codified all of the earlier laws, superceded them, and is the current defining legislation. This act established five levels or “schedules” of drugs from those with no medical use and high abuse potential (schedule I), completely prohibited, to those with medical use and low abuse potential (schedule V), over the counter. |
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| Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 |
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| expanded efforts to control drug use: added alcohol and drunk driving, reinstituted federal death penalty for major traffickers, provided for “asset forfeiture,” and established the Drug Free Workplace and led to Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act. |
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