Drug_Reform_Policy

Drug Reform Policy "Drug Reform Policy" The Drug Reform Policy in the United States has been slowly progressing, throughout history, working towards the day when the use of illegal drugs in our country will finally dissipate. Although drugs are a substance that have followed man around for almost all time, it wasn’t even until the early 1800’s that America began to realize that we might have a problem on our hands. It has taken many ordinances, acts, and even protests to develop what is still being furthered, “The Drug Reform Policy.” The first American anti-drug law was an 1875 San Francisco ordinance, which outlawed the smoking of opium in opium dens. (Brecher, pg. 5) It was passed because of the fear that Chinese men were luring white women to their "ruin" in opium dens. "Ruin" was defined as associating with Chinese men. It was followed by other similar laws, including federal laws in which trafficking in opium was forbidden to anyone of Chinese origin, and restrictions on the importation of smoking opium. The laws did not have anything really to do with the importation of opium as a drug, because the importation and use of opium in other forms- such as drug, drugs, act, prevention, opium, alcohol, abuse, laws, policy, pg, law, government, federal, national, because, substance, people, been, required, illegal, control, anti-drug, 1992, states, reform, passed, ondcp, new, never, chinese, campaign, american, ways, time, tax, smoking