To the editor: LZ Granderson correctly implies that the federal Controlled Substances Act, signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970, is bigoted and unscientific. It is also grossly ...

Given that the US government issued a total ban on psychedelics in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, this is quite a change of pace. So how did we get here? According to GlobalData ...

The bill would permanently classify the opioid as Schedule 1 under the Controlled Substances Act, joining drugs such as heroin and LSD.

In 1970, amphetamines constituted 14 percent of all psychoactive drugs prescribed by physicians in the United States. The passage of the Controlled Substances Act abruptly changed the availability ...