Question

The significance of the pure food and drug act of 1906 was that it __________. was enacted to control narcotic drug trafficking was the first regulatory act regarding drug consumption banned marijuana in 1937 was repealed in 1914

Answer 1

The correct answer is was the first regulatory act regarding drug consumption

The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of legislation that passed after society’s shock with the publication of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. The legislation would prevent manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs or medicines, and liquors.