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title: "Sigh. "Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that…"
date: 2017-07-14
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# Sigh. "Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that…

*July 14, 2017 · Facebook*

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[https://reason.com/blog/2017/07/13/house-advances-bill-that-would-broaden-t](https://reason.com/blog/2017/07/13/house-advances-bill-that-would-broaden-t){target="_blank"}
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\"Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would expand the attorney general\'s unilateral authority to ban psychoactive substances in a vain effort to keep up with inventive underground chemists. The Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act of 2017, a.k.a. the SITSA Act, would create a new category under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) known as Schedule A to facilitate the administrative prohibition of new drugs that resemble those in the law\'s other schedules. The bill, introduced by Rep. John Katco (R-N.Y.) in the House (H.R. 2851) and by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in the Senate (S. 1327), is both an alarming expansion of bureaucratic power and a vivid illustration of prohibition\'s absurdity.\"\
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[https://reason.com/blog/2017/07/13/house-advances-bill-that-would-broaden-t](https://reason.com/blog/2017/07/13/house-advances-bill-that-would-broaden-t){target="_blank"}
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