A recent Harvard Law Review–discussed argument (as reviewed in Drug Scheduling Is Institutional Design — And That Changes Everything) suggests the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is structurally imperfect — designed for prohibition rather than regulation — and therefore in need of legislative overhaul. That framing misunderstands the statute’s architecture. The CSA was not written as … Continue reading No. 4 – The Controlled Substances Act Is Not a Blunt Instrument — It Is an Architecture of Exceptions