Drugs in American SocietyThis edition probes the drug phenomenon in all its social, cultural and legal complexity. It covers the full range of psychoactive drug use, from legal medical and prescription use to criminal, recreational use, from casual use to addiction. |
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Page 276
... Harrison Act of 1914 as a narcotic . " All the elements needed to insure cocaine's outlaw status were present by the first years of the twentieth century : It had become widely used as a pleasure drug . ; it had become identified with ...
... Harrison Act of 1914 as a narcotic . " All the elements needed to insure cocaine's outlaw status were present by the first years of the twentieth century : It had become widely used as a pleasure drug . ; it had become identified with ...
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... Harrison Act , which outlawed the sale of over - the - counter narcotic preparations and placed the addict in the hands of a physician . Whatever the intent of the law , it is clear that most addicts simply continued to receive drugs ...
... Harrison Act , which outlawed the sale of over - the - counter narcotic preparations and placed the addict in the hands of a physician . Whatever the intent of the law , it is clear that most addicts simply continued to receive drugs ...
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... Harrison Act and the legal decisions that followed in its wake created a class of criminal addicts . Beginning in the 1920s , every narcotic addict was by definition a criminal . Soon thereafter , nearly all narcotic addicts , except ...
... Harrison Act and the legal decisions that followed in its wake created a class of criminal addicts . Beginning in the 1920s , every narcotic addict was by definition a criminal . Soon thereafter , nearly all narcotic addicts , except ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
POTENTIAL VERSUS REALLIFE EFFECTS | 7 |
A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF CLEAR THINKING ABOUT DRUGS | 13 |
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