This title criminalized money laundering for the first time in the United States. The Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 was enacted as Title I of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. In September and October 1986, the House (with a Democratic majority) and the Senate (with a Republican majority) competed over which could propose the most severe laws in advance of the pivotal midterm election. The congressional interest and intense news coverage created a moral panic surrounding cocaine use, which had earlier been viewed in a more benign or even positive way, that made enacting this legislation so important. (D-MA), the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to mobilize the House Democratic leadership to assemble an omnibus anti-drug bill that became the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. The appearance of crack cocaine, the Jdeath of Len Bias (University of Maryland basketball star), the morning after he signed with the NBA champion Boston Celtics, and the Jdeath of Don Rogers (safety) (Cleveland Browns, 1985 Defensive Rookie of the Year) - both from cocaine use, encouraged U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986 in the East Room

The bill enacted new mandatory minimum sentences for drugs, including marijuana. The 1986 Act also prohibited controlled substance analogs. Among other things, they changed the system of federal supervised release from a rehabilitative system into a punitive system. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was a law pertaining to the War on Drugs passed by the U.S.

Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 27, 1986.

Senate agreed to House amendment on October 17, 1986 (voice vote).

House agreed to Senate amendment on October 17, 1986 (unanimous consent) with further amendment.

Passed the Senate on September 30, 1986 ( 97-2, in lieu of S. 2878) with amendment.

Committee consideration by House Armed Services, House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House Education and Labor, House Foreign Affairs, House Government Operations, House Energy and Commerce, House Interior and Insular Affairs, House Judiciary, House Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House Post Office and Civil Service, House Public Works and Transportation, House Ways and Means.

Introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 5484 by James C.

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