Is the Government Keeping the Peace or Acting Like Our Parents? Rationales for the Legal Prohibitions of GHB and MDMA

• Published in: Journal of drug issues Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 247 - 262
• Main Author: Griffin, O. Hayden
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2012; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Content analysis; Drug Abuse; Ecstasy; Government Regulation; Law; Legislative Bodies; Liability; LSD; Lysergic acid diethylamide; Parents; Paternalism; Pharmaceutical industry; Regulation; Society; Testimony; United States > US; drug prohibition; GHB; MDMA

Various concerns and rationales have been the driving force for drug regulation in the United States. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (CSA) set up a comprehensive list of schedules and criteria that were intended to guide how all drugs were to be regulated, based on abuse liability and medical...