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| | Mythical Roots of US Drug Policy - Soldier's Disease and Addicts in the Civil War |
 | | The year the nation's major opiate prohibition law was passed, the mass media, (at least the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and the Hearst Press), gave virtually no coverage to Congressional discussion or passage of the Harrison Act, or when it was signed into law or took effect. |
 | | (Aldrich, 1979) Fourteen months after it was signed, a medical journal presented the results of a one-question survey -"In your opinion what are the five most useful and important drugs in the materia medica?" -- answered by teachers at leading medical schools. |
 | | None of this -- neither the public money, arrests, incarcerations, the competitive illegal economy, and police corruption -existed regarding drugs until there were prohibitory laws. |
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