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Indigenous people in the Amazon Rainforest and Andes Mountains chewed on coca leaves to stimulate their brains.
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Albert Niemann (German chemist) discovered cocaine by extracting it from coca leaves.
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a chemist from the French island of Corsica starting selling a tonic that would restore vitality and calm nerves
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Cocaine began to appear in the medical community
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John Pemberton added coca leaves inside his drink
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Importing coca leaves tripled its amount.
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There were over 200,000 cocaine addicts reported.
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Cocaine was being used as a drug to sniff, causing many to be in the hospital.
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This was the first federal law to enforce the target of cocaine, morphine, and heroin.
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The government saw many deaths because of cocaine and banned it.
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Cocaine was used as a drug to "wake you up" or to "lift you up". Mostly the rich would use this drug.
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Pablo Escobar had the largest drug cartel, importing 400-500 tons of cocaine from Colombia.
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Movies like "Scarface" and songs like "Coacine" by Eric Clapton exploited cocaine to many people, making it popular.
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Cocaine cooked with water was being introduced as a less pricey drug, but had long-term socioeconomic effects. Crack became very popular in places like, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Houston, and Atlanta.
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Became the second most trafficked illegal drug.
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Cocaine had become the most used drug in the world to overdose on.
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According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, over 6 million people died from cocaine and over 900,000 had used crack at the same time.
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