L & S C30T Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Paraldehyde, Lacosamide, Pyrovalerone
10 May 2016
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Brief history of the united states federal drug laws. 1791 federal whiskey tax: imposed on distilled spirits to raise money to reduce federal debt. 1794 whiskey rebellion: opposition squelched using military force. 1906 pure food and drug act: information content labels, improvements in labelling and to prevent the writing of misleading labels. 1914 harrison narcotics act: regulated and taxed the importation, manufacture, and sale of opium, coca, and their derivatives, physicians arrested for prescribing narcotics to addicts (1920s) 1917 world war one: connecting alcohol prohibition with the war against germany. 1920 eighteenth amendment to the us constitution: proposed by congress in 1917, rati ed by the states completed by 1919, prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages: alcohol prohibition starts. 1930 federal bureau of narcotics established: part of the treasury department, headed by harry j. anslinger (1892-1975); he retired from this position in 1962.
