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Association of farmers in Connecticut ban whiskey; prompted by Benjamin Rush's 1784-85 book Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits on the Human Body and Mind.
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Farmers in PA protesting a 1791 increase in tax on liquor was put down by Washington's use of Army.
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Written under the influence of Opium
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Technically the drug is "isolated."
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British (and French) resist efforts by China to restrict importation of opium from British India.
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Federal taxes on alcohol
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Gerrit Smith: "Our involuntary slaves are set free, but our millions of voluntary slaves still clang their chains. The lot of the literal slave ... is indeed a hard one; nevertheless it is a paradise compared with the lot of him who enslaves himself--especially of him who has enslaved himself to alcohol.
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By 1900 all states have similar laws.
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Oppose growing temperance movement
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Finds Hemp comparable to Whiskey; rejects taxation in part because of Muslim Law and Hindu custom that forbids "taxing anything that gives pleasure to the poor."
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Supposed to be safe and "free from addiction-forming properties"
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Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts advocates "the policy of prohibition for native races, in the interest of commerce as well as conscience, since the liquor traffic among child races, even more manifestly than in civilized lands, injures all other trades by producing poverty, disease, and death."
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Further conventions in 1913 and 1914
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"Liquor will actually make a brute out of a negro, causing him to commit unnatural crimes. The effect is the same on the white man, though the white man being further evolved it takes longer time to reduce him to the same level."
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Paper in Journal of the American Medical Association refers to peyote use as a "superstition" and growers as "dope vendors." Blair blames difficulty of prohibition on "entrenched commercial interests" and "superstitions" of the "exploited" Indian. Concludes: "Suppose the negroes of the South had a Cocaine Church!"
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Before a drug was marketed; it's manufacturer must test it for toxicity; drug application and process needed for new drug (NDA=new drug application), law recognizes "over the counter" drugs and prescription drugs ( FDAreview.org, glossary, pg1, retrieved 9/27/09 from site listed in source)
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Hofmann describes it as being "affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away."
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Required drug manufacturers to provide proof of the effectiveness and safety of their drugs before approval & required drug advertising to disclose accurate information about side effects, and stopped cheap generic drugs being marketed as expensive drugs under new trade names as new "breakthrough" medications.
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Douglas: "If addicts can be punished for their addiction, then the insane can also be punished for their insanity. Each has a disease and each must be treated as a sick person."
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Robert M. Lipsyte, To Wage the Continuing War on the Drug Traffic, Men of the Police Narcotics Bureau Go Where the Dope and its Users Are—Deep in the Nether Reaches of the City’s Life, The New York Times, October 14, 1962 reprinted in DRUGS, 59 (James F. Fixx, Gen. Ed., Arno Press, 1971)
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Tobacco sales total $8.08 billion, of which $3.3 billion go to federal, state, and local taxes. A news release from the tobacco industry proudly states: "Tobacco products pass across sales counters more frequently than anything else--except money." [Tobacco: After publicity surge Surgeon General's Report seems to have little enduring effect, Science, 145:1021-1022 (Sept.4), 1964; p.1021]
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1964 An editorial in The New York Times calls attention to the fact that "the Government continues to be the tobacco industry's biggest booster. The Department of Agriculture lost $16 million in supporting the price of tobacco in the last fiscal year, and stands to loose even more because it has just raised the subsidy that tobacco growers will get on their 1964 crop. At the same time, the Food for Peace program is getting rid of surplus stocks of tobacco abroad." [Editorial, Bigger agricultur
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C.W. Sandman, Jr. chairman of the New Jersey Narcotic Drug Study Commission, declares that LSD is "the greatest threat facing the country today... more dangerous than the Vietnam War."
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New York State's "Narcotics Addiction Control Program" goes into effect. It is estimated to cost $400 million in three years, and is hailed by Government Rockefeller as the "start of an unending war..." Under the new law, judges are empowered to commit addicts for compulsory treatment for up to five years. [Murray Schumach, Plan for addicts will open today: Governor hails start, The New York Times, April 1, 1967]
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Hoffer and Osmond, New Hope for Alcoholics, p. 15
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Run by Dr. Robert DuPont. The program sparked controversy because some believed methadone was nothing more than a substitute for heroin, while other critics felt there were racial undertones behind the effort. Nevertheless, one year after the program began, burglaries in DC decreased by 41%.
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Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Laureate in Med., in reply to being asked what he would do if he were twenty today: "I would share with my classmates rejection of the whole world as it is -- all of it. . . . Fornication -- at least that is something good. What else is there to do? Fornicate and take drugs against the terrible strain of idiots who govern the world." [Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, in The New York Times, Feb. 20, 1970, quoted in Mary Breastead, Oh! Sex Education!, p. 359.
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Michael R. Sonnenreich, Exec. Dir., Nat'l Comm. on Marijuana and Drug Abuse: "[F]our years ago we spent a total of $66.4 million for the entire federal effort.... This year we have spent $796.3 million and ... we will exceed the $1 billion mark. When we do so, we become, for want of a better term, a drug abuse industrial complex. [Michael R. Sonnenreich, Discussion of the Final Report of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, Villanova Law Review, 18:817-827 (May), 1973; p.818]
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Application of Anti-Lobbying Laws to the Office of National Drug Control Policy's Open Letter to State Level Prosecutors, B-301022, March 10, 2004
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