U.S. Drug Abuse Regulation
and Control Act of 1970
(Controlled Substances Act and other supply control mechanisms)1. Purpose and scope:
The "Controlled Substances Act," as it is referred to, is designed to limit and control access to drugs that can make you "high" or intoxicated in a pleasant way, and also is now used to control certain other drugs of abuse such as anabolic steroids used by athletes to increase muscle mass. It is a law over and above the "Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act" and the "Durham-Humphrey" laws that designate drugs as prescription only or over the counter and freely available to the public. Thus, a prescription drug may or may not also be a "controlled substance". The FDA decides which drugs are prescription, while the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) decides which drugs are controlled substances. The Controlled Substances Act replaced, in 1970, the "Harrison Narcotic Act" which preceded it. The newer act allows for finer control of drugs of abuse, since it uses 5 categories instead of 3. Along with the Controlled Substances Act were harsher prison sentences, new DEA registration numbers for all prescribers or drug handlers, and other additions that are beyond the scope of this file. Most states have passed laws that mirror the Controlled Substances Act, although from state to state there are differences and peculiarities. As a rule, a state can add restrictions to the federal Act, but almost never reverses or reduces them. Pharmacies and doctors must conform to all applicable laws within their jurisdiction.
Controlled Substances Act of 1970, from Hyperreal
- The Drug War's Dirty Secrets: What Warriors Won't Tell You
- Reams and reams of federal horsepucky and boulderdash brought to you by the sharp congressional minds who lump such diversities as opiates, stimulants, depressants, psychedelics and cannabis together. There's plenty of findings, declarations, authority, criteria, rules, regulations, prohibitions and penalties but very little reason or honesty encoded in the U.S. Code at Title 21 Chapter 13 - Drug Use Prevention and Control.
"The DEA has no motivation to diminish any drug problem. Without an expanding drug problem, its system of livelihoods and power would diminish. Thus, the DEA has every motivation to expand its bureaucracy of bogus livelihoods and power by creating and expanding drug problems, which it does very successfully." ZON