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	Harrison Narcotics Tax Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 17, 1914.
		The act was supported by the Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan who urged that the law be passed to fulfill the obligation of the new international treaty.
		The use of the term 'narcotics' in the title of the act to describe not just opiates but also cocaine — which is a central nervous system stimulant, not a narcotic — initiated a precedent of frequent legislative and judicial misclassification of various substances as 'narcotics'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act (480 words)

	The Harrison Narcotic Act (1914)
		Its official title was "An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes."
		Far from appearing to be a prohibition law, the Harrison Narcotic Act on its face was merely a law for the orderly marketing of opium, morphine, heroin, end other drugs-in small quantities over the counter, and in larger Quantities on a physician's prescription.
		As to the Harrison Narcotic law, it is as with prohibition [of alcohol] legislation.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cu8.html (3333 words)

	Marijuana history; Marijuana Tax Act of 1937
		In 1937 Anslinger knew that the Harrison Act wouldn't be useful in regulating marijuana.
		Taxing marijuana however was quite possible and provided the means to educate senators and congressman about the effects of the drug, many of whom had no idea what marijuana was.
		The tax for authorized transfer of the drug was relatively inexpensive at one dollar per ounce while the penalty for unauthorized transfer was a whopping one hundred dollars per ounce.
	www.dutch-ganja.com /marijuana-tax-act-of-1937.html (909 words)

	Opium
		Opium is a narcotic drug, which is obtained from the unripe seed pods[?] of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).
		To harvest opium, the skin of the ripening pods is scored by a sharp blade.
		There were no legal restrictions on the importation or use of opium in the United States until the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/op/Opium.html (321 words)

	Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, 1914 - Full Text
		It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain by means of said order forms any of the aforesaid drugs for any purpose other than the use, sale, or distribution thereof by him in the conduct of a lawful business in said drugs or in the legitimate practice of his profession.
		The provisions of this Act shall apply to the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, the insular possessions of the United States, and the Canal Zone.
		The provisions of this Act shall not apply to decocainized coca leaves or preparations made therefrom, or to other preparations of coca leaves which do not contain cocaine.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/history/e1910/harrisonact.htm (480 words)

	FDA act
		The Controlled Substances Act is administered and enforced by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), which is a unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
		Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914—required narcotic containers to bear a tax stamp as a seal.
		The Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990 placed all drugs or hormone substances which promote muscle growth and are chemically or pharmacologically related to testosterone are to be regulated under the Controlled Substances Act.
	www.jcjc.cc.ms.us /DEPTS/pharmacy/FDA_act.html (2292 words)

	Historical Documents - Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, 1914
		The chief proponent of the Harrison Act was William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, who was a man of deep prohibitionist and missionary convictions.
		The Harrison Narcotic Act was merely a law for the orderly marketing of narcotics.
		Harry Anslinger was the Commissioner of the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics in the United States and pushed through Congress the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 that made trafficking in marijuana illegal.
	www.historicaldocuments.com /HarrisonNarcoticsTaxAct.htm (710 words)

	The Marijuana Tax Act: The History of US Drug Laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Federal Bureau of Narcotics did not consider marijuana use to be a threat to the extent that heroin and cocaine were, and was its commissioner, Harry J. Anslinger, was reluctant to place marijuana under federal prohibition, hoping instead that it would be controlled at the state level.
		According to the draft, anyone attempting to sell marijuana had to pay the transfer tax – but the tax stamp would only be issued to those who were already in possession of the marijuana.
		The Marijuana Tax Act was passed by Congress in 1937 after a half-hour of floor debate, during which no medical data was presented.
	www.addictiondoctor.com /pages/maritaxact.htm (800 words)

	Opium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Opium (sometimes called GOM an acronym for "God's own medicine") a narcotic drug which is obtained from the unripe pods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L. or the synonym paeoniflorum).
		To harvest opium the skin of ripening pods is scored by a sharp The slashes exude a white milky latex which dries to a sticky brown that is scraped off the pods as opium.
		The image of the narcotic poppy capsule entheogen was an attribute of deities long opium was extracted from its milky latex.
	www.freeglossary.com /Opium (1067 words)

	Morphine
		) is a powerful analgesic narcotic drug found in opium.
		Like other opiates, morphine acts directly on the central nervous system (CNS) to relieve pain.
		Along with other drugs, its possession without a prescription was criminalised in the US by the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Morphine.html (182 words)

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		However, the Harrison Act was not a prohibition measure at the time of its enactment nor was fear of an impending domestic addiction problem its primary focus.
		Had the Harrison Act been left unchanged as initially passed by Congress, we might today be discussing it along with the FDA of 1906 as examples of the United States’ early and laudable public health efforts at addressing a small but potentially significant domestic substance abuse problem.
		The Controlled Substances Act of 1972, which supersedes and replaces the Harrison Act and all intervening federal drug legislation, makes it a federal offence to prescribe controlled substances to a drug addict for the purposes of treating or maintaining their addiction, except where the physician holds a separate DEA license to provide methadone maintenance.
	www.paincare.org /about/message.php?id=228 (9684 words)

	Why is Marijuana Illegal?
		Earlier (1914), the Harrison Act was passed, which provided federal tax penalties for opiates and cocaine.
		In the Harrison Act, legal uses of opiates and cocaine were taxed (supposedly as a revenue need by the federal government, which is the only way it would hold up in the courts), and those who didn't follow the law found themselves in trouble with the treasury department.
		The History of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 By David F. Musto, M.D., New Haven, Conn. Originally published in Arch.
	blogs.salon.com /0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html (3698 words)

	Harrison Narcotic Act: The History of Drug Laws in the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This was the beginning of a long history of the passage of narcotic control legislation more in the service of political expediency than for legitimate public health reasons.
		The Harrison Act contained no specific wording about the prescription of narcotics by doctors in the treatment of drug addiction.
		Doremus, 1919) the court held that the federal government could assume that a physician’s prescription of a narcotic for the comfort or maintenance of an addict was a violation of the “good faith” practice of medicine, and therefore a criminal violation.
	www.addictiondoctor.com /pages/druglaw2.htm (1023 words)

	National Firearms Act - Tax on Dealers
		Violations of the Act are punishable by a fine of $2,000 or imprisonment for five years or both.
		The Supreme Court held that the imposition of a $200 annual tax on dealers in firearms is constitutional as a valid exercise of the taxing power of Congress, refusing to look beyond the face of the Act to condemn it as a regulation of matters beyond the power of Congress.
		It may safely be stated that the attempts by Congress to regulate in forbidden fields through the taxing power have failed when the taxing act expresses regulation on its face.
	www.saf.org /LawReviews/NationalFirearmsActTax.html (880 words)

	TAXATION-NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT OF 1934
		The Court held that the act applied not only to persons required by the act to be registered but to all persons within the jurisdiction.
		Consequently, federal control of the narcotic traffic has been so firmly established by means of the taxing power that no one can obtain or possess narcotics unless he is a registered dealer or doctor, or a patient of the latter.
		The defendant contended that the levy was not a true tax but a penalty imposed for the purpose of restricting traffic in certain weapons, and that it attempted to usurp the police power reserved to the states.
	www.saf.org /LawReviews/GeorgeTownLawJournal1.html (857 words)

	Portland NORML: American Medical Association Opposes the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The act is entitled "An Act to impose an occupational excise tax upon certain dealers in marihuana, to impose a transfer tax upon certain dealings in marihuana, and to safeguard the revenue therefrom by registry and recording."
		By such a procedure the professional use of cannabis may readily be controlled as effectively as are the professional uses of opium and coca leaves, with less interference with professional practice and less cost and labor on the part of the Treasury Department.
		It has been suggested that the inclusion of cannabis into the Harrison Narcotics Act would jeopardize the constitutionality of that act, but that suggestion has been supported by no specific statements of its legal basis or citations of legal authorities.
	www.marijuanalibrary.org /AMA_opposes_1937.html (437 words)

	Text Of Harrison Narcotics Act-1914 [Free Republic]
		The taxes imposed by this section on tobacco products and cigarette papers and tubes imported into the United States shall be in addition to any import duties imposed on such articles, unless such import duties are imposed in lieu of internal revenue tax.
		Then Tax narcotics as the Harrison Narcotics Act authorizes, but you can't find where it forbids the prescribing and use of narcotics and this is supposed to be the Mother of the WOD.
		My finding of this act was fortuitous as I knew Marijuana was about a Tax Stamp and was turned into a Prohibition(by ex-prohibition agents) but now I find that the Grand Daddy of all prohibitions is just a Tax Act also and IS and never WAS meant to be or become a War On Drugs.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3afddb1f34f5.htm (4756 words)

	iLiberty.Org - The War on Drugs
		In 1914, Congress passed the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914, which implemented strict licensing procedures for doctors and pharmacists who sold narcotics and limited to small quantities possession without a prescription.
		The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, passed banned the unlicensed sale of cannabis and similarly regulated nonmedical use.
		During the hearings on marijuana licensing, several witnesses, including Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger, distinguished between medical and non-medical uses of the drug.
	www.iliberty.org /debates/pageid.736/default.asp (1189 words)

	Erowid Psychoactive Law Vault : Harrison Narcotics Act (1914)
		The Harrison Narcotics Act was passed in 1914.
		The Act gave physicians the right to prescribe narcotics to patients, but the courts interpreted this to mean that physicians could prescribe narcotics to patients in the course of normal treatment, but not for the treatment of addiction.
		That any person who violates or fails to comply with any of the requirements of this Act shall, on conviction, be fined not more than $2,000 or be imprisoned not more than five years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
	www.erowid.org /psychoactives/law/law_fed_harrison_narcotics_act.shtml (579 words)

	Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of Public Act 093-0281
		Nor shall this Act be construed to prohibit any person from administering in a humane manner medicinal or surgical treatment to any livestock in the care of such person.
		A graduate of a non-approved veterinary school who was issued a work permit by the Department before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly may continue to work under the direct supervision of a licensed veterinarian until the expiration of his or her permit.
		Y. Failure to (i) file a return, (ii) pay the tax, penalty, or interest shown in a filed return, or (iii) pay any final assessment of tax, penalty, or interest, as required by any tax Act administered by the Illinois Department of Revenue, until the requirements of that tax Act are satisfied.
	www.ilga.gov /legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0281 (6041 words)

	A Plea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is acting in opposition to the government established by the people.
		This does not, Folks, mean acting in opposition to 'the government' as per the current administration's "if you ain't for us, you're against us" line.
		The Freedom of Information Act and reliable from sources from within have made public hundreds of clandestine operations by the federal government.
	www.worldnewsstand.net /2002/article/EdLewis/3.htm (2492 words)

	History of U.S. Drug Laws
		Direct response to Hague Convention to deal with "narcotics." Keeping in line with the view of the Federal government's role in interstate commerce, this act was a tax and only a tax (NOT a prohibition.) Under the act, physicians were able to provide narcotics to addicts.
		Specifically stated that drugs under act were now under Federal jurisdiction and dealt with both narcotics and other "dangerous" drugs.
		In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled the Tax Act unconstitutional because it violated the 5th Amendment.
	www.mrs.umn.edu /~ratliffj/psy1081/hotpotato/Practice3match.htm (327 words)

	More Info on heroin - - herion - - heron
		In 1914 the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act made it illegal to manufacture or possess heroin in the United States.
		Heroin acts on endogenous opioid receptors that are spread in discrete packets throughout the brain in almost all mammals.
		In the 1980's, Irangate led to a 1988 report from the Subcommittee on terrorism, narcotics and international operations, led by Sen. John Kerry, which proved contra-drugs links, including what he deemed "one of the most serious foreign policy failures for the United States", Manuel Noriega's U.S. support.
	www.usgovernetics.com /Haw-to/heroin.php (3412 words)

	A Small Dose Of... The History of Toxicology
		The act required sufficient that the consumer was given warning about the toxic or addictive nature of certain drugs or foods.
		William Jennings Bryan was the chief proponent of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 which regulated and taxed the production, importation, distribution and use of opiates.
		Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDandC) was passed by Congress in 1938 giving authority to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to oversee the safety of food, drugs, and cosmetics.
	www.asmalldoseof.org /historyoftox/1900-1930s.htox.php (583 words)

	The Harrison Narcotic Act (1914)
		A second conference was held at The Hague in 1911, and out of it came the first international opium agreement, The Hague Convention of 1912, aimed primarily at solving the opium problems of the Far East, China.
		in one avoirdupois ounce."5 Far from appearing to be a prohibition law, the Harrison Narcotic Act on its face was merely a law for the orderly marketing of opium, morphine, heroin, end other drugs-in small quantities over the counter, and in larger Quantities on a physician's prescription.
		There should be intelligent treatment of the incurables in outpatient clinics, hospitalization of those not too far gone to respond to therapeutic measures, and application of the prophylactic principles which medicine applies to all scourges of mankind.15
	www.drugtext.org /library/reports/cu/cu8.html (2923 words)

	Opium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was an American law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, distribution and use of opiates.
		The act was proposed by Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 17, 1914.
		"An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes." --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act [Mar 2006]
	www.jahsonic.com /Opium.html (174 words)

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