Federal Controlled Substances Act

Federal Controlled Substances Act (1971)- Limits the availability of drug precursor substances. 

The basic question is whether a medical necessity defense is applicable to the federal Controlled Substances Act. Put another way, do patients who believe (or whose doctors believe) that marijuana is necessary for their treatment have the right to receive the drug even though it is illegal under federal law ... 

Besides medical necessity, the appeal to the circuit court also argued that because the women were growing marijuana within the state (and were thus not involved in interstate commerce), the federal Controlled Substances Act should not apply to their activities. 

In a defeat for medical marijuana advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the federal Controlled Substances Act precludes a medical necessity defense on the part of the Oakland, California, Cannabis Buyers Club. February Officials at the popular drug education program DARE admit that some of the techniques they have been using may be ineffective. They begin a process of reviewing research and revising the curriculum. 

Cocaine is used medically by otorhinolaryngologists and plastic surgeons as an epinephrine cocaine mixture. Solutions for topical application are typically less than 4% cocaine hydrochloride. In the U.S. cocaine is a scheduled drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Refined cocaine, in the form of the base or hydrochloride salt, is self-administered by many routes, including snorting, smoking, genital application, and by injection. 

Phencyclidine, PCP, or l-(l-phenylcyclohexyl) piperidine, is an arylcyclohexamine with structural similarities to ketamine. It is a lipophilic weak base with a pKa of 8.5. Phencyclidine was originally synthesized and marketed under the trade name Semyl by Parke-Davis for use as an intravenously administered anesthetic agent in humans. Distribution began in 1963 but was discontinued in 1965 due to a high incidence (10 to 20%) of post-operative delirium and psychoses. However, its use continued as a veterinary tranquilizer for large animals until 1978, when all manufacture was prohibited and PCP was placed in Schedule II of the federal Controlled Substances Act (1970). 

A wide popularization of the social use of MDMA occurred in 1984-1985 and, with the reported observation of serotonin nerve changes in animal models resulting from the administration of the structurally similar drug MDA, an administrative move was launched to place it under legal control. The placement of MDMA into the most restrictive category of the Federal Controlled Substances Act has effectively removed it from the area of clinical experimentation and human research. The medical potential of this material will probably have to be developed through studies overseas. 

U.S. federal district court judge rejects a U.S. Justice Department attempt to overturn Oregon s physician-assisted suicide law. The Justice Department claimed that the state law violated the federal Controlled Substances Act. 

Passage of the federal Controlled Substances Act in 1970 restricted access to barbiturates. That action led to an eventual decline in the use and abuse of one of the most widely prescribed drugs of the twentieth century. 

In the United States, the Federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, consolidates a number of laws regulating the manufacture and distribution of drugs and chemicals used in the illegal production of controlled substances. 

DMT was demonstrated to be hallucinogenic in 1956. The drug is explicitly named as a Schedule I drug in the federal Controlled Substances Act. DMT is also illegal in the United Kingdom, where it is classified as a Class A drug. 

The estimated 1,000 to 1,400 products considered to be inhalants are legal products and are not regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act. However, the National Conference on State Legislatures reports that, as of June 2000, 38 states had enacted laws to address the issues of minors use of inhalants. In various ways, the laws attempt to prevent the sale, use, and distribution to minors of certain products that are commonly abused. 

The major and minor tranquilizers are legal as manufactured and prescribed and are classified as Schedule n,m, or IV controlled substances under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). However, manufacturing, distributing, and selling these drugs without a prescription are subject to federal and state penalties. The CSA dictates penalties of up to 15 years imprisonment and fines up to 25,000 for unlawful distribution or possession of a controlled substance. 

Controlled substances Plants and chemicals listed in the Federal Controlled Substances Act, the law regulating disapproved psychoactive drugs and those approved only for medical use. 

The legal status of several of these molecules has been specified by the Federal Controlled Substance Act, passed into law by the United States Congress in 1970. Psilocybin, psilocin, DMT, and bufotenin have been classified as Schedule 1 substances by the U. S. Controlled Substances Act. Psilocybin and psilocin are essential nontoxic to body organs and do not cause physiological dependence of addictive behaviors (presumably the basis for the dangers of drugs of abuse as this term is used in the Controlled... 

Methadone is a Schedule II controlled substance under the Federal Controlled Substances Act. 

In the United States, most of the androgens and anabolic steroid products are subject to control by the U.S. Federal Control Substances Act as amended by the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990 as Schedule III drugs. 

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