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Eisenhower: I do hereby proclaim that the Secretary of the Treasury has found that each of the aforementioned drugs has an…

On the recordDecember 23, 1958
I do hereby proclaim that the Secretary of the Treasury has found that each of the aforementioned drugs has an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Proclamation 3266—Determining Certain Drugs to be Opiates

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