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THE ACT THAT MADE LSD ILLEGAL
The United States Did Not Ban Lysergic Acid Diethylamide In One Move
Congress Passed Three Separate Acts Between 1965 And 1970
The First Created A Category And Named No Drug At All
A Government Secretary Decided What Went Into It
The Second Act Wrote The Drug Into The Law By Name
Only The Third Act Put It In Schedule I With Mescaline And Peyote
Legal Clinical Research Almost Stopped After That Third Act
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THE ACT THAT NAMED NO DRUG 📜
The Drug Abuse Control Amendments Became Federal Law On 15 July 1965
That Act Amended The Federal Food Drug And Cosmetic Act
Its Stated Purpose Was To Protect The Public Health And Safety
It Established Special Controls For Depressant And Stimulant Drugs
Counterfeit Drugs Were Covered In The Same Text
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Appears Nowhere In It
A Category Was Defined Instead
The Secretary Of Health Education And Welfare Could Fill That Category
Its Test Was A Potential For Abuse
That Potential Could Come From A Depressant Effect
A Stimulant Effect Could Do The Same
Hallucinogenic Effects Counted As Well
Those Three Effects Are The Test
Marihuana Could Not Be Designated Under It
The Secretary Could Appoint A Committee Of Experts
That Committee Advised On Whether A Substance Qualified
The Act Also Set Its Own Start Date
Most Of It Took Effect On The First Day Of The Seventh Month
That Month Followed The Month Of Enactment
Enactment Was In July So Most Controls Began The Following Year
Two Provisions Did Not Wait
The Definition And The Committee Began The Day It Was Signed
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THE ACT THAT NAMED IT 🖋️
A Second Act Became Federal Law On 24 October 1968
Its Title Names Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Directly
The Purpose Was To Increase Penalties For Unlawful Acts Involving It
Other Depressant And Stimulant Drugs Were Covered Too
The First Section Rewrote A Definition
Two Words Were Struck Out
Those Words Were Any Drug
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide And Any Other Drug Replaced Them
Nothing Like That Appeared In The Earlier Statute
A Second Section Restricted Possession
Holding The Drug For Sale Or Delivery Became An Offence
Possessing It Otherwise Meant Going Through A Practitioner
Obtaining It Directly From One Was Lawful
A Valid Prescription From One Worked Too
Either Way The Practitioner Had To Be Licensed
Acting In Professional Practice Was The Other Condition
A Third Section Replaced The Penalties
Simple Possession Meant Up To One Year
The Fine There Reached 1,000 Dollars
Courts Could Suspend Sentence On A First Conviction
Probation Was The Alternative Available To Them
Possession For Sale Or Delivery Meant Up To Five Years
A Fine Of Up To 10,000 Dollars Came With It
Any Seller Eighteen Or Older Faced Up To Ten Years
The Recipient In That Case Was Under Twenty One
Its Money Penalty Reached 15,000 Dollars
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THE ACT THAT SCHEDULED IT ⚖️
A Third Act Became Federal Law On 27 October 1970
It Created Schedules For Controlled Substances
Schedule I Has Three Written Criteria
The Substance Has A High Potential For Abuse
No Currently Accepted Medical Use Exists In The United States
There Is A Lack Of Accepted Safety Under Medical Supervision
All Three Have To Apply
Schedule II Differs On Two Of Those Three
A Drug There Must Have A Medical Use In Treatment
Its Third Criterion Names Severe Dependence Instead
The Act Then Lists The Substances In Each Schedule
Hallucinogenic Substances Have Their Own Subsection
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Is The Ninth Entry In That List
Mescaline And Psilocybin Are Named There Too
Peyote Is Listed There As Well
That Placement Applied All Three Findings To The Drug
Possession Had Been An Offence Before It
By 1968 A Federal Penalty Already Applied
The Effect On Research Was Recorded Separately
Clinical Research Came To A Halt In The Early 1970s
A Review Attributes That Halt To Political Pressure
Widespread Uncontrolled Use Had Come First
Since The 1970s Almost No Legal Clinical Research Has Occurred
A Pharmacology Review Names The Exceptions To That
One German Psychotherapist Named Hanscarl Leuner Continued The Work
Swiss Psychotherapists Used It From 1988 To 1993
A Systematic Review Later Collected The Controlled Trials
It Found 11 Trials And Only One Was Modern
Together They Gave The Drug To 567 Patients
Doses In Them Ranged From 20 To 800 Micrograms
One Interval Between Two Of Them Ran 41 Years
