Diversion Control Amendments

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In West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943), the Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, invalidated a school requirement that compelled a flag salute on the ground that it was an unconstitutional invasion of the sphere of intellect and spirit which it is the purpose of the First Amendment to our Constitution to reserve from official control. The First Amendment, declared the Court, gives a constitutional preference for individual freedom of mind over officially disciplined uniformity for which history indicates a disappointing and disastrous end. At the center of our American freedom, is the freedom to be intellectually and spiritually diverse. We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds, the Court explained, only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. ... 

This act amended the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 in an effort to control the diversion of certain chemicals used in the illicit production of controlled substances such as metheathinane and methamphetamine. 

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