Describe the purpose of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and explain the schedules that were created by the Act.

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Answers should explain that the Act was a response to growing concerns about American's drug problem and was designed to encompass all aspects of drug abuse and to permit federal intervention at all levels of use. Answers should also review the five schedules (Schedules I-V) that were set up by Title II, the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), and that classify psychoactive drugs according to their degree of psychoactivity and abuse potential.

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