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...Beast" and "Dr. Fenner's Golden Relief." To prevent more of the country from being washed over with a morphine-induced golden relief, the government introduced the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, creating the Food and Drug Administration. While it didn't apply to marijuana and merely brought the distribution of opium and morphine under doctors' control, the regulation of chemical substances was a major shift in American drug policy. (See pictures of cannabis culture...
...than the cost of the drugs themselves, and punished anyone using the drugs without paying the tax. By 1937, 23 states had outlawed marijuana: some to stop former morphine addicts from taking up a new drug, and some as a backlash against newly arrived Mexican immigrants, some of whom brought the drug with them. Also in 1937, the Federal Government passed the Marihuana Tax Act, which made nonmedical use of marijuana illegal. Only the birdseed industry, which argued that hemp seeds gave birds' feathers a particularly shiny gloss, was exempted, and to this day birdseed producers are allowed...
Barnett would often be completely absorbed in his work that he brought home, Karine recalled, sometimes not realizing his son was trying to talk...
...managers of the Harvard Endowment...shared—indeed, led the way—in many of the practices that have brought us all to this pass,” the alumni letter said. “We think Harvard University can now take the lead in finding a way out, if it chooses...
...Brokers said the slide was a knee-jerk reaction to the arrest and could be weathered. "Sri Lanka is the flavor of the month and a lot of first-time international investors are coming in," says Murtaza Jafferjee, managing director at JB Securities, referring to the inpouring of investment brought on by the end of the island's decades-long civil war in May. (Read about Sri Lanka's postwar tourism boom...