Republican (proto-fascist/socialist) President Theodore “Robber Baron” Roosevelt—without a constitutional amendment—signs the Copeland Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Federal Meat Inspection Act, usurping the prerogative of the States to ban adulterated or mislabeled food and pharmaceutical products.
[updated 5/29/2022]
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“Law of the Jungle”
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 268..
Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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