Re: Outlawing drug speech - EEK!

From: Ian Goddard (Ian@goddard.net)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2000 - 01:14:40 MST


 
>>From: "Drug Policy News Service" <dpf-mod@dpf.org>
>>To: <dpfnews@dpf.org>
>>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:52:18 -0500
>>Subject: [dpfnews] ACTION ALERT-Meth Bill Outlaws Any Drug Speech
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>>ACTION ALERT -- Meth Bill Outlaws Any Drug Speech
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>>Action is urgently needed to block passage of S.486, ...

  IAN: Most of the messages I've seen on S-486
  make it sound like it outlaws any speech about
  drugs. I could only find prohibition of providing
  information about the manufacture of illicit drugs
  in S-486, and such speech is a subset of all speech
  about drugs. Nevertheless, such a prohibition is
  an unethical aggression upon human knowledge.

  This is the wording of the law from S-486:

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S.486

Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999 (Engrossed in Senate)

SEC. 205. CRIMINAL PROHIBITION ON DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION
RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

    (a) IN GENERAL- Part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
inserting after chapter 21 the following new chapter:

`CHAPTER 22--CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES

        `Sec.

        `421. Distribution of information relating to manufacture of
controlled substances.

`Sec. 421. Distribution of information relating to manufacture of
controlled substances

    `(a) PROHIBITION ON DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO MANUFACTURE
OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES-

        `(1) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE DEFINED- In this subsection, the term
`controlled substance' has the meaning given that term in section 102(6) of
the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(6)).

        `(2) PROHIBITION- It shall be unlawful for any person--

           `(A) to teach or demonstrate the manufacture of a controlled
substance, or to distribute by any means information pertaining to, in
whole or in part, the manufacture of a controlled substance, with the
intent that the teaching, demonstration, or information be used for, or in
furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime; or

           `(B) to teach or demonstrate to any person the manufacture of a
controlled substance, or to distribute to any person, by any means,
information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture of a
controlled substance, knowing that such person intends to use the teaching,
demonstration, or information for, or in furtherance of, an activity that
constitutes a Federal crime.

    `(b) PENALTY- Any person who violates subsection (a) shall be fined
under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.'.

    (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT- The table of chapters at the beginning of part
I of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item
relating to chapter 21 the following new item:

421'.

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