Anti-Heroin Act of 1924
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| Long title | An Act prohibiting the importation of crude opium for the purpose of manufacturing heroin. |
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| Nicknames | Opium Importation Prohibition Act of 1924 |
| Enacted by | the 68th United States Congress |
| Effective | June 7, 1924 |
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| Public law | 68-274 |
| Statutes at Large | 43 Stat. 657 |
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| Titles amended | 21 U.S.C.: Food and Drugs |
| U.S.C. sections amended | 21 U.S.C. ch. 6 § 173 |
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Anti-Heroin Act of 1924 is a United States federal law prohibiting the importation and possession of opium for the chemical synthesis of an addictive narcotic known as diamorphine or heroin. The Act of Congress amended the Smoking Opium Exclusion Act of 1909 which authorized the importation of the poppy plant for medicinal purposes utilizing an opium pipe or vaporization to consume the euphoric opiate.[1]
The H.R. 7079 legislation was passed by the 68th United States Congressional session and enacted into law by the 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge on June 7, 1924.
Repeal of Anti-Heroin Act
The 1924 United States public law was repealed by the enactment of Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act on October 27, 1970.[2]
In Popular Culture
American motion pictures were produced promoting awareness about the adverse health effects and social implications of heroin or narcotics use.
- The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
- Monkey on My Back (1957)
- The Narcotic Story (1958)
- The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
- Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
- Puncture (2011)
See also
- Black tar heroin
- Charles Romley Alder Wright
- Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs
- Crude drug
- International Opium Convention
- Morpheus
- Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act
- Narcotic Farms Act of 1929
- Needlestick injury
- Opium den
- Poppy straw
References
- ↑ "Smoking Opium Exclusion Act of 1909 - P.L. 60-221" (PDF). 35 Stat. 614 ~ House Bill 27427. Legis★Works. February 9, 1909.
- ↑ "21 U.S.C. ~ Subchapter II - Import and Export § 952" (PDF). Title 21 - Food and Drugs ~ Chapter 13 - Drug Abuse Prevention and Control. U.S. Government Publishing Office.
External links
- "History of Heroin". United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. January 1, 1953.
- "Narcotics Policy - The Troubled 1920s and 1930s". Encyclopedia of the New American Nation. AmericanForeignRelations.com.
- Berridge, Virginia (October 19, 1998). Opium and the People - Opiate Use and Policy in 19th and Early 20th Century Britain. Free Association Books. ISBN 978-1853434136. OCLC 60162188.
- Booth, Martin (June 12, 1999). Opium: A History. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0312206673. OCLC 41954614.
- Foxcroft, Louise (January 28, 2007). The Making of Addiction: The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0754656333. OCLC 228664510.
- Hodgson, Barbara (October 2001). In the Arms of Morpheus: The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine, And Patent Medicines. Vancouver: Greystone Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1550548693. OCLC 49012112.
- Parssinen, Terry M. (January 1983). Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society, 1820-1930. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Values. ISBN 978-0897270434. OCLC 925101742.