Anti-drug campaign

National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. Drugs and Terror Understanding the Link and the Impact on America. Accessed at http //www.theantidrug.com/drugsjterror/understanding impact.html. 

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To truly restrict GHB use, experts emphasize that public education is needed to supplement legal actions. In an effort to teach people the dangers of GHB and other club drugs, the NIDA has launched a national educational campaign with partner organizations Join Together, National Families in Action, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America. 

Although this prevention approach was incorporated into some educational materials for a short time, it was abandoned in the early 1980s during President Ronald Reagan s campaign of Just Say No to drugs. Since then, zero tolerance has been the predominant educational anti-drug approach in American classrooms. 

In 1930 the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was established and its crusading Commissioner, Harry J. Anslinger, began an extensive nation-wide anti-marijuana campaign laced with horror stories of rape and murder perpetrated while under the influence of the diabolic weed. By 1937 every state, either by adoption of the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act of 1932 or by separate legislation, had prohibited marijuana use. In late 1937, Federal controls were added by enactment of the Marihuana Tax Act. 

NATIONAL YOUTH ANTI-DRUG MEDIA CAMPAIGN CLUB DRUGS... 

Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2005. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, Marijuana Initiative, http //www.mediacampaign.org/marijuana/marijuana.html. 

In the course of the intensive campaign carried on in the United States of America during the war for the discovery of effective anti-malarial drugs, a team of workers made anti-malarial tests on 600 different plants belonging to 123 families of phanerogams and three families of cryptogams, and it is recorded that the suppressive activity shown by some of these plants appeared to be associated with alkaloidal fractions of their extracts. 

The human rights campaign for access to anti-retroviral drugs... 

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