PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Whiskey Rebellion, Grain Whisky, Laudanum
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In the face of a growing concern about addiction and dangerous drugs, societies turn to legislation in order to establish formal guidelines for drug use. U. s. was the last industrialized countries to implement drug legislation. The whiskey rebellion of 1794, revenuers were people who came to collect the tax on homemade whiskey. 1 national government has ability to be able to have direct oversight over the states. 2 first idea of some type of regulation of substance within us (taxation of homemade grain whiskey) and. 1875: san francisco ordinance (gold rush, major trading port) from asian ports chinese immigrants etc. China had issues with opiates (ex treaty of nanking, opium laws ) First recorded drug law in the us- state level. Patented medicines at that time (laudanum) contained opium and/or opium soaked in alcohol, which was okay, but smoking opium wasn"t.