http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1910/harrisonact.htmAfter the Harrison Act was effectively declared unconstitutional in 1969 for resting upon the power to tax, the political sell outs came up with the 'Controlled Substances Act' based upon the power to regulate interstate commerce.
Public Acts of the Sixty-Third Congress of the United States
Woodrow Wilson, President; Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President; James P. Clarke, President of the Senate pro tempore; Claude A. Swanson, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, December 21 to 23, 29 to 31, 1914, and January 2, 1915; Nathan P. Bryan, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, January 22, 1915; Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Chap 1. - An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that on and after the first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifteen, every person who produces, imports, manufactures, compounds, deals in, dispenses, distributes, or gives away opium or coca leaves or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, or preparation thereof, shall register with the collector of internal revenue of the district, his name or style, place of business, and place or places where such business is to be carried on: Provided, that the office, or if none, then the residence of any person shall be considered for purposes of this Act to be his place of business. At the time of such registry and on or before the first of July annually thereafter, every person who produces, imports, manufactures, compounds, deals in, dispenses, distributes, or gives away any of the aforesaid drugs shall pay to the said collector a special tax at the rate of $1 per annum: Provided, that no employee of any person who produces, imports, manufactures, compounds, deals in, dispenses, distributes, or gives away any of the aforesaid drugs, acting within the scope of his employment, shall be required to register or to pay the special tax provided by this section: Provided further, That officers of the United States Government who are lawfully engaged in making purchases of the above-named drugs for the various departments of the Army and Navy, the Public Health Service, and for Government hospitals and prisons, and officers of State governments or any municipality therein, who are lawfully engaged in making purchases of the above-named drugs for State, county, or municipal hospitals or prisons, and officials of any Territory or insular possession, or the District of Columbia or of the United States who are lawfully engaged in making purchases of the above-named drugs for hospitals or prisons therein shall not be required to register and pay the special tax as herein required.
It shall be unlawful for any person required to register under the terms of this Act to produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, any of the aforesaid drugs without having registered and paid the special tax provided for in this section.
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/21usc/812.htm
Peppered throughout this piece of legislation is the term:
"... any material, compound, mixture, or preparation, which contains any quantity of the following..."
The failure to account for actual potency of a preparation is a major issue. For instance with Coca leaves and cocaine both within schedule II, with for instance no addressing the actual amount of cocaine per say fluid ounce of a preparation, nor the route of administration.
The effect of this prohibition upon certain drugs and any preparations containing such was a shift to these drugs availability in their more concentrated forms.
See the following link, and those within:
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2015/06/illegal-drugs-as-legal-drugs-legal.html
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