שאלה | Question: What is the significance of the Harrison Act enacted in the United States in 1914?

Question: What is the significance of the Harrison Act enacted in the United States in 1914?

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		A) A law that treated drug users not as criminals but as patients. The first American legislative framework that limited drug use to medical use only.
		B) A law intended to restrict Chinese immigration to the U.S. and to limit the number of immigrants entering the U.S.
		C) A law intended to restrict marijuana use only.
		D) A law that imposed taxes on drug prescriptions.

Explanation: In the lectures, the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (1914) is presented as a key U.S. turning point that medicalized and regulated narcotics by restricting their legal distribution to medical channels, framing non-medical use as illegitimate and putting “addiction” under medical/legal control. (Lecture/Reading: Breen, The Age of Intoxication; also consistent with U.S. anti-opium/anti-Chinese regulation context in Wright, Not Just a “Place for the Smoking of Opium”.)