Hamilton Wright, the State Department official who coordinated American drug policy abroad and drafted its laws at home, tried to include cannabis in a federal bill. He argued that if one dangerous drug were effectively prohibited, habitual users would switch to another, so as many as possible should be banned. The bill, a forerunner of the Harrison Act of 1914, was defeated, mainly through the opposition of the pharmaceutical industry.[1]
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