This Amendment was the first to curtail the civic rights of the population in the name of civic responsibility. The main effect of alcohol prohibition, was an erosion of a sense of civic responsibility in regards to drinking customs, and the anarchy of the speak-easies took over. Realizing this mistake, an amendment reversing the 18th was past as the 21st Amendment, granting again the right to consume alcohol for adults over the age of twenty-one. Nevertheless, federal prohibition of substances Gradually extended to other substances that were once legal and often prescribed in professional medical practice. During the Drug War that was initiated by Henry Anslinger in the 1930s and has continued into the present decade, some government officials felt that the civic responsibility of public health necessitated an effort to regulate the types of substances consumed by individuals. To this end, a push to legislate against drugs culminated in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, the long title of which is "An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act and other laws to provide increased research into, and prevention of, drug abuse and drug dependence; to provide for treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers and drug dependent persons; and to strengthen existing law enforcement authority in the field of drug abuse" (United States Government Publishing
This Amendment was the first to curtail the civic rights of the population in the name of civic responsibility. The main effect of alcohol prohibition, was an erosion of a sense of civic responsibility in regards to drinking customs, and the anarchy of the speak-easies took over. Realizing this mistake, an amendment reversing the 18th was past as the 21st Amendment, granting again the right to consume alcohol for adults over the age of twenty-one. Nevertheless, federal prohibition of substances Gradually extended to other substances that were once legal and often prescribed in professional medical practice. During the Drug War that was initiated by Henry Anslinger in the 1930s and has continued into the present decade, some government officials felt that the civic responsibility of public health necessitated an effort to regulate the types of substances consumed by individuals. To this end, a push to legislate against drugs culminated in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, the long title of which is "An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act and other laws to provide increased research into, and prevention of, drug abuse and drug dependence; to provide for treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers and drug dependent persons; and to strengthen existing law enforcement authority in the field of drug abuse" (United States Government Publishing