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June 30th, 1906, The united states created this federal law known as, "The Pure Food And Drug Act" that made it so meat was to be inspected before being sold, and poisonous and dangerous or harmful foods or drugs were prohibited or labeled with content and dosing information. Some of the drugs that pertain to this are as follows: Some of the drugs being sold at this time were misleading from the fact that they were not always labeled with what was really in them, Opiates were often used as a filler for a lot of drugs, and so after this act was passed the sale of these kinds of drugs were reduced by almost 33% after labeling was mandated.
 * Alcohol
 * Cocaine
 * Heroine
 * Morphine
 * Cannabis

Coca Cola
Since labeling was put in place so people could see what was going into their bodies, Efforts were later made to outlaw certain drugs and products because they were considered harmful to the human body.They tried to prohibit the sale of Coca Cola because of its excessive amounts of Caffeine in it, since the product in coke wasn't always caffeine, before 1903 it was sold with Cocaine to have a stimulating feeling to draw the consumer to the product, And this is why the caffeine content was so high, so in order to achieve that same "high" you got from drinking the product, they needed something powerful to take it's place. But since their was no real Limit as to how much caffeine could be used in a product, the judges that were dealing with the coca cola company said it wasn't right to sue them and that they could use the amount of caffeine that they saw fit, but due to excessive court costs with dealing with this problem, they ended up settling out of court with the United States Gov, and the caffeine content was later reduced.