The Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act was a 1922 act of the 67th United States Congress . Sponsored by Sen. Wesley L. Jones (R) of Washington and Rep. John F. Miller (R) of Washington. It is also often referred to as the Jones-Miller Act.
4-482: The Boggs Act of 1951 amended the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act and set mandatory sentences for drug convictions. A first offense conviction for cannabis possession carried a minimum sentence of 2 to 10 years and a fine of up to $ 20,000. The act was sponsored by Hale Boggs , a Louisiana Democrat. On November 2, 1951, Harry S. Truman signed the act into law. On January 4, 1952, under
8-578: The Jones-Miller Act laws were passed on a state by state basis. 60th United States Congress passed House bill H.R. 27427, better known as the Smoking Opium Exclusion Act of 1909 , which U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt enacted into law on February 9, 1909. Public Law 60-221 was effective after the first day of April 1909 imposing an unlawful Act to import any derivative, any form, or preparation of opium into
12-512: The provisions of the act, over 500 people were arrested. Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act The Act also led to the establishing of the Federal Narcotics Control Board (FNCB) to tightly oversee the import and export primarily of opiates , but also other psychoactive drugs like coca . The control board were created to better control what America was exporting from its territories to others as well as what
16-489: Was being brought in, to ban all recreational consumption and to control the quality of what was being used for medical purposes. The newly brought in act was but another in a long line from 1848 that set out to curtail the use of drugs for recreational purposes, most of which started from San Francisco area with the attempt to curtail opium smoking, first by banning the smoking in public, exempting opium dens , until finally going for an all out ban, nationwide in 1922. Before
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