Check Your Schedule
Drugs in this DEA schedule group are the most stigmatized with high abuse potential and no accepted medical use.
What is Schedule I
Taxing the sale of a legalized drug like marijuana is a good example of this measure used to curb use and in some states fund recovery efforts.
What is regulation?
Marijuana is known by many informal names but it formally goes by this plant name.
What is cannabis?
The 18th amendment kicked off alcohol Prohibition in this year.
What is 1920?
This man is credited with declaring the War on Drugs.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Drugs with the least potential for abuse and physical dependence are found in this DEA schedule group.
What is Schedule V
Federal highway funding rules tend to influence this minimum age limit set at the state level.
What is the legal drinking age?
In 2014, this news outlet declared consequences of marijuana use "relatively minor" but with new evidence has changed its stance.
What is the NYT
Once used to refer to illicit drugs generally, this term is now used only in reference to opioids.
What is narcotics?
This European country had better luck with drug legalization than San Francisco due to its cultural norms.
What is Portugal?
Unless you've seen this drug applied topically as medicine rather than snorted, it might surprise you to find it in Schedule II.
What is cocaine
Laws that restricted the sale of alcohol on Sundays were sometimes referred to by this colorful name.
What are blue laws?
The psychoactive compound in marijuana is known by these initials.
What are THC
This Schedule II drug, used in the Civil War to treat wounded soldiers, is still used today.
What is morphine?
Ezra Klein interviewed this drug policy expert on his podcast that explored "this weird moment in the history of drug laws."
Who is Keith Humphreys?
This class of drugs, informally known as "the pams," are categorized as Schedule III.
Benzodiazapines or anxiolytics
By the 90s, 3/4 of people in prison for drug offenses belonged to this racial demographic.
What are Black or African Americans?
About 1 in ___ people who use marijuana develops an addiction, similar to rates for alcohol users.
What is 10?
The War on Drugs, widely considered a failure, led to this recent policy experiment to see if lower penalties would correct previous harms.
What is decriminalization?
Neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart spoke movingly about the black experience during the 1980’s in this documentary.
What is Crack?
Anabolic steroids, commonly injected to increase muscle mass, are found in this schedule group.
Schedule IV
Possession of 100 sugar packets of powder cocaine could get the same severe sentence as this many sugar packets of crack.
What is one?
Each year nearly 2.8 million Americans suffer from CHS which stands for this, though a buddy might call it "driving the porcelain bus."
What is cannabis hyperemesis syndrome?
In the early 1900s, anti-drinking families would take this type of pledge.
What is a temperance pledge?
This term referring to children born to addicted mothers was based on poor science and especially harmed black women.
What is crack baby/babies?