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The 1970 U.S. federal law that created the current drug scheduling system and placed LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA in Schedule I — the most restrictive category, reserved for substances deemed to have no accepted medical use.

Example: This is the exact law that ended the Army's own psychedelic testing program — see that history — and the one every current clinical trial has to work around via DEA and FDA exemptions.