Talk:History of United States drug prohibition

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I've moved the content of this article from Drug policy of the United States. The content is poorly written, poorly sourced, and mostly irrelevant -- I didn't write this crap .... I plan to do extensive cleanup. The first thing I'm going to do is start converting the timeline into prose "sections", which are organized in roughly chronological order. Jrtayloriv (talk) 08:59, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Why not format as a wikitable? See for example Double-entry bookkeeping system. Likiva (talk) 07:32, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

I don't feel that a simple table or timeline is really how the article should be organized, because I think that many of the events/people mentioned are going to require extensive discussion, linking to full articles, images, etc, and I feel that the formatting/design limitations of a table don't really provide any benefits that warrant them. Jrtayloriv (talk) 04:28, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

AMA seems missing

I was reading through the timeline in the early years, and noted the AMA (American Medical Association) was not mentioned. It is known they established a "propaganda department" in 1913, which is the same year the California outlawed Cannabis. Gzuufy (talk) 14:49, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

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Actual dates, info

It would be nice if it actually said somewhere on Wikipedia when cocaine was made illegal. Because I can't find it under "Legal" on Cocaine, or on this page. Is it under the Narcotics Bureau of 1930? Who can say for sure....? A mystery for the ages. AnnaGoFast (talk) 04:36, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Can I please make this a timeline?

This would be much better as a timeline. I'm beefing up a lot of the stubs and creating a lot of articles regarding these enforcement agencies, and this page would be great to link to as a timeline. Guylaen (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2024 (UTC)