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Please, share one scholarly article that indicates causation between the "eye-opening" cultural effects of LSD and its criminalization.

As I see it, when the Controlled Substances Act passed, LSD was lumped in with a whole bunch of other drugs that do not have this effect.


When the Controlled Substances Act was passed, it included many, many drugs that had been previously criminalized under several different and conflicting laws. That act was an attempt unify drug policy. Nothing can be inferred from that act about why any given drug was or was not criminalized. However the timing of the act is a bit curious, given it happened shortly after a rise in drug use in a class of people who were anti-authoritarian and talked a lot about the cultural effects of drugs.

For your links, here are 2: the first espouses the premise -

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=deRwsiiE8...

The abstract of the second suggests it (don't have access to the full paper) -

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639620290086404

I'm sure more effort than 30s of google will probably turn up more too.


LSD was criminalised in 1964. However, people with permits to use it for research continued to do so till approximately 1970.




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