The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 is enacted. Cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, thereby prohibiting its use for any purpose.
This bill was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on October 27, 1970.
One consequence of the wage stabilization under the Act was that employers, unable to provide higher salaries to attract or retain employees, began to offer insurance plans, including health care packages, as a fringe benefit, thereby beginning the practice of employer-sponsored health insurance.
The marijuana tax act is enacted, effectively prohibiting cannabis at the federal level.
Although medical use is still permitted, new fees and regulatory requirements significantly curtail its use.
The Flexner Report is a book-length study of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by Abraham Flexner and published in 1910 under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation.
The AMA (American Medical Association) lobbies congress to ‘strengthen’ licensure and allow AMA offices to oversee who may or may not become a doctor. Women and African-Americans were limited in the field. The AMA is granted sole governorship, and immediately begins closing and consolidating medical schools, limiting supply.
C.I.A. Data Show 14‐Year Project On Controlling Human Behavior
The Central Intelligence Agency conducted a 14‐year program to find ways to “control human behavior” through the use of chemical, biological and radiological material, according to agency documents made public today by John Marks, a freelance journalist.
Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra), also called the CIA mind control program, is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, some of which were illegal.
The operation was officially sanctioned in 1953, reduced in scope in 1964 and further curtailed in 1967. It was officially halted in 1973.
1986: REAGAN SIGNS BILL ON DRUG EXPORTS AND PAYMENT FOR VACCINE INJURIES – The New York Times
“President Reagan today signed a comprehensive health bill designed to promote exports of prescription drugs and to compensate children injured by vaccines.”
“Mr. Reagan said he had approved the bill ‘with mixed feelings’ because he had ‘serious reservations’ about the vaccine compensation program.”
In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bruesewitz vs. Wyeth that FDA licensed vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe” and effectively granted vaccine manufacturers a full liability shield, even when there was evidence a company could have made a vaccine safer.
The case was decided on February 22, 2011. The Court, in a 6-2 opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia, held that the “plaintiffs design defect claims [were] expressly preempted by the Vaccine Act.” Thus, the court affirmed laws that vaccine manufacturers are not liable for vaccine-induced injury or death if they are “accompanied by proper directions and warnings.”