skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

Search from vocabulary

Content language

| español français
Search help

Concept information

social science subjects > health and social care > medicinal products > drugs > Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914

Preferred term

Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914  

Definition(s)

  • The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, sponsored by New York Congressman Francis B. Harrison and written in large part by Dr. Hamilton Wright, is regarded by historians and criminologists as the basis for drug policy in the United States. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914]

Broader concept(s)

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-QH1SZL6L-N

Download this concept: