SCHEDULE I DRUGS

Schedule I drugs

Schedule I drugs

Introduction

Drugs are of variety of types due the different chemical composition and affect on human body of each of them. Enacted in 1970 the federal law regulates the dispensing and prescribing of psychoactive drugs, counting narcotics too, as per the 5 schedules based on their potential misuse, ability to produce dependence, and medical acceptance; it also maintains a regulatory method for the storage, manufacture, and transportation of the drugs in each schedule. Drugs that are covered in this act comprise of opium and its derived forms, hallucinogens, opiates, stimulants, and depressants.Schedule1 drugs are those drugs that are permitted by the United States Act to be used by persons under particular circumstances and only authorized personnel can prescribe those drugs to any citizen. Schedule 1 drugs include Heroin, Marijuana, and MDMA (Ecstasy). This essay compares and contrasts these drugs by discussing the common qualities among these drugs and the differences between them.

Thesis Statement:

Marijuana is a drug that gets used in medicines and should be classified as schedule II drug.

Discussion and Analysis

Drugs comprise an array of chemical compounds that affect the human mind and body, and they occur in natural and synthetic, and licit and illicit forms. They are produced, exchanged, and consumed for numerous reasons, including for use in recreational and religious settings as well as medicinal purposes. Drugs and drug use are central to human health, welfare, and custom, and hold high cultural and economic value. At the same time, they can cause profound public health issues that often relate to drug abuse and dependence and also issues of criminalization. The geographies of drugs are therefore complex and contradictory. They operate at multiple scales that overlap and entwine, both linking and distancing people and places with and from each other, reaching through time as well as space.

In 1987 the National Institute of Justice initiated the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program to complement other drug use monitoring systems in the United States. Researchers have made extensive use of Drug User Forecasting urinalysis results to develop empirical measures of the veracity of arrestees' self-reports of recent drug use. This research has consistently documented that most arrestees (though certainly not all) accurately reported their recent use of illicit drugs, with reported disclosure rates as high as 92% for marijuana users, 80% for heroin users, and 62% for cocaine users. It remains an open question as to whether these findings provided researchers and policy makers with confidence in the other self-report data collected by DUF (Wish, 1995).

Controlled Substances Act:

The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act; a law enacted in 1970 to control the distribution and use of all depressant and stimulant drugs and other drugs of abuse or potential abuse as may be designated by the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department of Justice. Controlled substances are labeled with a large “C” followed by the Roman numeral designation. Alternatively, the Roman numeral is within the large “C”.

It is a US law concerned with the controlled use of therapeutic ...