Title
- Primary Documents In American History And Contemporary Issues, 1069-5605
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edited by Steven R. BelenkoPublication Details
BookGreenwood Press2000Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV5825 .D7884 2000 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Debates over the use and abuse of drugs, the laws controlling drugs in this country, and the question of whether or not certain drugs should be legally available have inflamed Americans since the 19th-century, and continue to flourish as America attempts to rage its “war on drugs.” Students can follow the evolution of the laws that have limited access to drugs such as cocaine and opium that were once legal in this country, as well as read the differing opinions in recent history on whether or not certain drugs such as marijuana ought to be legally available. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "Debates over the use and abuse of drugs, the laws controlling drugs in this country, and the question of whether or not certain drugs should be legally available have inflamed Americans since the 19th century, and continue to flourish as America attempts to wage its ‘war on drugs.’ Students can trace the history and development of these arguments, as well as the reactions to them, through this unique collection of over 250 primary documents. Court cases, speeches, laws, opinion pieces, and other documents bring to life the controversies surrounding the issues. Explanatory introductions to documents aid users in understanding the various arguments put forth while illuminating the significance of each document."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- American drug policy in the 19th century
- Hypodermic injection
- Opiate use
- Opium smoking
- Cocaine
- Heroin
- The early expansion of Federal drug control
- The Harrison Act
- Supreme Court decisions on the Harrison Act
- Overview of state anti-drug laws
- State marijuana laws
- Marijuana policy: the early years
- American drug policy to World War II
- The Federal Bureau of Narcotics
- Drug policy from World War II through the 1950s
- The problems of drug smuggling and teen drug abuse
- The Boggs Act and the Eisenhower Committee
- The medicalization of addiction
- Drug treatment from 1900 to 1930
- The discovery of methadone
- Drug policy in the 1960s and 1970s
- Civil commitment laws
- LSD in the 1960s
- The Nixon Administration, the Vietnam War, and the 1970 Drug Control Act
- Marijuana policy after the 1960s
- Medical marijuana
- Crack cocaine and drug policy from the 1980s
- Anti-drug Abuse Act of 1986
- The debate over drug legalization
ISBN
- 0313299021
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