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Controlled Substances; Long title: An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act and other laws to provide increased research into, and prevention of, drug abuse and drug dependence; to provide for treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers and drug dependent persons; and to strengthen existing law enforcement authority in the field of drug abuse.
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.
The Twenty-first Amendment ending national prohibition also became effective on December 5, 1933. The Acting Secretary of State William Phillips certified the amendment as having been passed by the required three-fourths of the states at 5:49 p.m. EST, just 17 minutes after the passage of the amendment by the Utah convention.
Sweet added that Amendment 3 “protects the private medical decisions of Missourians, and ensures individuals have the right to reproductive freedom, including access to abortion, birth control ...
Vice President Harris on Thursday unveiled her first presidential campaign video, which focuses on rights and freedom. The video, which is called “We Choose Freedom” and is 79 seconds long ...
The amendment's advocates say that it will allow parents' rights to direct the upbringing of their children, protected from federal interference, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Amendment was first proposed during the 110th Congress as House Joint Resolution 97 in July 2008, but no action was taken during that ...
Obama’s actions followed a September declaration by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, that her agency would begin the process of reworking the patient caps to expand access. Noting that medication-assisted treatment “is a high priority” for HHS, a department spokesperson told HuffPost in ...
In a report examining the status of children's rights in the United States, Hillary Clinton, then a lawyer, wrote that "children's rights" was a "slogan in need of a definition." [23] 1973 Indiana: The first joint custody statute in the U.S. goes into effect in Indiana, allowing children the right to both parents after a divorce. 1974