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China and the Opium wars
Dagoguang emperor rejected proposals to legalize and tax opium resulting in confiscation of about 20,000 chests of opium -
Cocaine
In 1899, Coca-Cola began selling its drink in bottles. The lower classes and minorities now had access to the cocaine-infused tonic. -
Pure Food And Drug Act
The Chief Chemist of the Bureau of Chemistry, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, captured the country's attention with his hygienic table studies, which began with a modest Congressional appropriation in 1902 leading to the Food and Drug Act of 1906 -
Alcohol and the Temperance Movement
In December 1913 the Anti-Saloon League and the WCTU joined together to formally propose the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
The Harrison Drug Act
On May 15, 1915, just six weeks after the effective date of the Harrison Act, an editorial in the New York Medical Journal declared:
Sporadic crimes of violence were reported too, due usual1y to desperate efforts by addicts to obtain drugs, but occasionally to a delirious state induced by sudden withdrawal. -
Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act
Two third drafts of the Narcotic Drug Act were submitted and presented in 1929, but ended up being sent for further study. -
Amphetamines
1932, the Benzedrine Inhaler was introduced on the market -
Marijuana
The propaganda film "Reefer Madness" hits theatres causing hysteria and fear and portraying marijuana as a drug that is corroding society and making people go mad. -
National Prohibition
the 1939 film The Roaring Twenties, starring James Cagney and Gladys George. was made about the Volstead Act and National Prohibition.