Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act
- Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act
The Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act is a United States federal law enacted on April 30, 2003. A substantially similar Act was proposed during the previous Congress as the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE Act).
Legislative history
The RAVE Act was originally sponsored by Senator Joseph Biden, who was also the writer of the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act. Biden attached the legislation as a rider to the bill creating the popular AMBER Alert system, in order to get it passed without debate.
ee also
* Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy")
* Retracted article on neurotoxicity of ecstasy
* Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act
External links
* [http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/abstract.cfm?NLEid=41854&CFID=252524&CFTOKEN=25591556&CFID=252524&CFTOKEN=25591556 Information about the act, from National Library for the Environment]
* [http://biden.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id=212269&& Floor Statement: The Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act, from biden.senate.gov]
* [http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/ongoing/anti-proliferation_act.html FAQs About The Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act, from the Drug Enforcement Administration]
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