Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986

The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Pub.L. 99-570, 100 Stat. 3207, enacted October 27, 1986, H.R. 5484, was the first major law passed by the U.S. Congress of the War on Drugs. Among other things, they changed the system of federal supervised release from a rehabilitative system into a punitive system. The 1986 Act also prohibited controlled substance analogs. The bill enacted new mandatory minimum sentences for drugs, including marijuana.^[1]^[2]

See also

Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988

References

^ Snitch: Drug Laws and Snitching - a Primer. Frontline (U.S. TV series). Public Broadcasting Service. The article also has a chart of mandatory minimum sentences for first time drug offenders.
^ Thirty Years of America's Drug War. Frontline (U.S. TV series).

External links

Chart of current U.S. federal mandatory minimum drug sentences. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Some of the drugs and penalties have changed since the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.