Journal of Richard Nixon
September 23, 1969
God, its bad enough that you have the whole country
complaining about the Vietcong but no, these damned hippies have to get drugged
up and push back every single incursion you try to start. I put that attorney
general John Mitchell to work on drafting up a new statue. The plan is to
combine every existing drug law into one comprehensive act. After I read over
the whole thing we can send it over to the feds and get this going.
December 24,1969
So we’re calling it the “Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention
and Control Act” Clever huh? The draft ran to 91 pages. Mitchell separated the
dope into five sections, section one being the highest offense and section 5
being the lowest. The section 1’s are all the highly addictive crap like
heroin, pot, and Mdma. We lay it out like this.
"Placement on
schedules; findings required
Except ... The findings
required for each of the schedules are as follows:
(1) Schedule I.—
(A) The drug or other
substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other
substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United
States.
(C) There is a lack of
accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical
supervision."
Placement on schedules;
findings required
Except.... The findings
required for each of the schedules are as follows:
Schedule II.—
(A) The drug or other
substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other
substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United
States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions.
(C) Abuse of the drug or
other substances may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence."
"Placement on
schedules; findings required
Except... . The findings
required for each of the schedules are as follows:
Schedule III.—
(A) The drug or other
substance has a potential for abuse less than the drugs or other substances in
schedules I and II.
(B) The drug or other
substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United
States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or
other substance may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high
psychological dependence."
"Placement on
schedules; findings required
Except.... The findings
required for each of the schedules are as follows:
Schedule IV.—
(A) The drug or other
substance has a low potential for abuse relative to the drugs or other
substances in schedule III.
(B) The drug or other
substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United
States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or
other substance may lead to limited physical dependence or psychological
dependence relative to the drugs or other substances in schedule III."
"Placement on
schedules; findings required
Except.... The findings
required for each of the schedules are as follows:
Schedule V.—
(A) The drug or other
substance a low potential for abuse relative to the drugs or other substances
in schedule IV.
(B) The drug or other
substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or
other substance may lead to limited physical dependence or psychological
dependence relative to the drugs or other substances in schedule IV
Now that it is drafted we have to send it through the damn
tubes. Its gonna be months before we get anything done, but hell if were gonna declare
another damn war it might as well be on what’s destroying our country. War on
drugs. That’s kind of catchy.
February 12, 1970
I hate the political processes that we have to go through.
It’s been a long two months, and what has been accomplished? Well that damn
hippie sympathizer Raymond Shafer from the Shafer commission tried to raise
some interesting points to congress. During his presentation he actually said "[T]he criminal law is too harsh a tool
to apply to personal possession even in the effort to discourage use. It
implies an overwhelming indictment of the behavior which we believe is not
appropriate. The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great
enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step
which our society takes only 'with the greatest reluctance."
Can you believe that? Do American values mean nothing? Not a
Damn thing apparently! We appoint him to find the harms in these drugs and he
goes all J.F.K on me. We cannot allow this infection to spread any farther then
it already has! This country cant take anymore of these dope heads spreading their
pro pot speeches.
March 12, 1970
Were getting close and closer to getting this law passed.
Some things have been called to my attention though. Seeing as the five
sections are separated by the amount of harm they do, we seem to have put some
more potent drugs at underneath section one. Both morphine and fentanyl are in
Schedule II, and heroin is in Schedule I. Fentanyl is approximately 80 times as
potent as morphine, and heroin is around three times as potent as morphine.
Just a hiccup I suppose. No bill is prefect.
October 27, 1970
Finally this bill has become an act. What a journey it has
been. We wrote the damn thing up, sent it to the council, beat the committee,
beat the committee again, got two thirds in senate and house, and it then
received my signature. Finally we can get some control over the dirty nomads
wondering through this country.
Sources
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/csa.html
http://isomerdesign.com/Cdsa/scheduleUS.php?structure=C
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/cfr/2108cfrt.htm
