Anti-Heroin Act of 1924
Great Seal of the United States
Long titleAn Act prohibiting the importation of crude opium for the purpose of manufacturing heroin.
NicknamesOpium Importation Prohibition Act of 1924
Enacted bythe 68th United States Congress
EffectiveJune 7, 1924
Citations
Public lawPub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 68–274
Statutes at Large43 Stat. 657
Codification
Titles amended21 U.S.C.: Food and Drugs
U.S.C. sections amended21 U.S.C. ch. 6 § 173
Legislative history
  • Introduced in the House as H.R. 7079 by Stephen G. Porter (R–PA) on April 17, 1924
  • Committee consideration by House Ways and Means
  • Passed the House on April 21, 1924 (Passed)
  • Passed the Senate on May 27, 1924 (Passed)
  • Signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on June 7, 1924

The 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The 1924 United States public law was repealed by the enactment of Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act on October 27, 1970.[2][3]

World Conference on Narcotic Education

The League of Nations and United States began participating in world narcotic conferences in the early 1900s. In 1924, United States House of Representatives passed a resolution for international conferences better known as The Hague Opium Convention.[4]

In 1926, 69th United States Congress held hearings on a House resolution for the United States participation in the first narcotic education conference to be conducted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from July 5 to July 9, 1926.[5]

In the early 1930s, the World Conference on Narcotic Education meetings were held at the Hotel McAlpin in New York City, New York where the 31st President of the United States Herbert Hoover issued public statements stressing narcotic drugs as a "fearful menace" and a "menace to society".[6][7][8]

In 1944, the 78th United States Congress passed a joint resolution supporting the purposes of the International Opium Conferences reciprocating an urgency for the limitations on the production of opium to amounts required for strictly medicinal and scientific purposes.[9]

In popular culture

Advertisement for Heroin (Ca. 1900)
Advertisement for Heroin (Ca. 1900)
1914 Advertisement for a medication that includes heroin as an ingredient
1914 Advertisement for a medication that includes heroin as an ingredient

See also: Category:Heroin in popular culture

See also: List of drug films

American and international motion pictures were produced promoting awareness about the adverse health effects and social implications of euphoric psychoactive drug use and heroin.

To the Ends of the Earth (1948) Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
Monkey on My Back (1957) Christiane F. (1981)
The Narcotic Story (1958) Rush (1991)
More (1969) Gia (1998)
Trash (1970) Maria Full of Grace (2004)
Jennifer on My Mind (1971) American Gangster (2007)
The Panic in Needle Park (1971) Puncture (2011)

See also

☆ Charles Romley Alder Wright ☆ History of United States drug prohibition
☆ Clandestine chemistry ☆ Morpheus
☆ Convention for Narcotic Drugs (1931) ☆ Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act
☆ Crude drug ☆ Narcotic Farms Act of 1929
☆ Cutting agent ☆ Needlestick injury
☆ Felix Hoffmann ☆ Opium den
☆ Harrison Narcotics Tax Act ☆ Poppy straw
☆ History of medicine in the United States ☆ St Mary's Hospital, London

Derivatives of Heroin

♦ Black tar heroin ♦ China white heroin
♦ Cheese ♦ Polish heroin

Narcotic Elixirs

• Dalby's Carminative • Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
• Dover's powder • Paregoric

Opium Poppy Cultivation & Production Sectors

▷ Golden Crescent ▷ Golden Triangle

References

  1. ^ "Smoking Opium Exclusion Act of 1909 - P.L. 60-221". 35 Stat. 614 ~ House Bill 27427. USLaw.Link. February 9, 1909.
  2. ^ Nixon, Richard M. (October 27, 1970). "389: Remarks on Signing the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 - October 27, 1970". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 948–949.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Opium and Narcotic Drugs Control Conferences ~ Public Resolution 68-20" (PDF). 43 Stat. 119 ~ House Joint Resolution 195. USLAW.Link. May 15, 1924.
  5. ^ Middlemiss, Herbert Samuel (1926). "Narcotic Education: Proceedings of the First World Conference on Narcotic Education, July 5-9, 1926, Philadelphia". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: H.S. Middlemiss. OCLC 2736915.
  6. ^ Hoover, Herbert C. (1930). "Message to the World Conference on Narcotic Education - February 21, 1930" [Public Papers of the Presidents, Herbert Hoover 1930]. Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 63–64.
  7. ^ Hoover, Herbert C. (1931). "Message to the World Conference on Narcotic Education - February 20, 1931" [Public Papers of the Presidents, Herbert Hoover 1931]. HathiTrust. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. p. 91.
  8. ^ Hoover, Herbert C. (1932). "Message to the World Conference on Narcotic Education - February 18, 1932" [Public Papers of the Presidents, Herbert Hoover 1932]. Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. p. 62.
  9. ^ 78th U.S. Congress (July 1, 1944). "Opium Production Limitations of 1944 ~ P.L. 78-400" (PDF). 58 Stat. 674, Chapter 363 ~ H.J. Res. 241. USLaw.Link.((cite web)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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