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Drug policies racial and ethnic groups
The drug war has pproduced profoundly unequal outcomes racial groups, namifested through racial discrimination by law enforcement and disproportionate drug war misery suffered by communites of color. Although rates of drug use and selling are comparavle across racial lines, people of color are far more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated for drug law violations than are whites. -
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Marijuana
Use of hashish, alcohol, and opium spreads among the population of occupied Constantinople. -
Coca Plant
The coca plant resembles a blackthorn bush, and grows to a height of (6.6–9.8 ft). The branches are straight, and the leaves are thin, opaque, oval, and taper at the extremities. A marked characteristic of the leaf is an areolated portion bounded by two longitudinal curved lines, one line on each side of the midrib, and more conspicuous on the under face of the leaf.The flowers are small, and disposed in clusters on short stalks; the corolla is composed of five yellowish-white petals, -
Marijuana
Antoine Sylvestre de Sacy, a leading Arabist, reveals the etymology of the words “assassin” and “hashishin -
Marijuana
In America, medicinal preparations with a cannabis base are available. Hashish available in Persian pharmacies. -
Patent medicins
Patent medicines originally refered to medications whose ingredients had been granted government protection. But actually, the recipes of mosth 19th century patent medicianes were not patented. Most producers used ingrediants quite similar to their competitors- vegetable extracts laced with ample doses of alcohol. These proprietary or "quack" medicines could be deadly, since there was no regulations on their ingredients. They were medicines with questionable effectiveness. -
Sinclair's The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968).Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. However, most readers were more concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture sale or, transportaion of adulterated food products. -
Ronald Reagan
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Harrison Act
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was a United States federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products. The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York. -
Marijuana
Cannabis begins to be prohibited for nonmedical use in the U.S., especially in SW states…California (1915), Texas (1919), Louisiana (1924), and New York (1927). -
Prohibition
Prohibition focused on the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages; however, exceptions were made for medicinal and religious uses. Alcohol consumption was never illegal under federal law. Nationwide prohibition did not begin in the United States until January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect, -
Drug rehabilitation programs
In 1961 Californinia established a civil commitment program in which drug addicts were taken into custody and committed to a nonpunitive period of confinement and drug treatment. Confinement was follwoed by a period of aftercare. -
Drug rehabilitation programs
Congress passed the Narcotic Addict Rehavilitation Act, which in lieu of prsecution authorized federal district courts to order the voluntary and involuntary cibil commitment of certain defendants who were found to be drug addicts and mandated the Surgeon General to establish rehavilitation and posthospitaliation care programs for drug addicts. -
Ronald Reagan
He became the 40th President of the United States.Entering the presidency in 1981, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, control of the money supply to curb inflation, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, escalated the War on Drugs, and fought public-sector labor. -
Crack Cocaine
Crack cocaine is the freebase form of cocaine that can be smoked. It may also be termed rock, work, hard, iron, cavvy, base, but is most commonly known as just crack; the Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment calls it the most addictive form of cocaine. Crack rocks offer a short but intense high to smokers. -
Marijuana
DEA administrative law Judge Francis Young finds after thorough hearings that marijuana has clearly established medical use and should be reclassified as a prescriptive drug. -
Drugs in the 1990's
President Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which increases the amount of trade and traffic across the U.S.-Mexican border. This makes it more difficult for U.S. Customs to find narcotics moving across the border. -
Drugs in the 1990's
The U.S. Sentencing Commission releases a report that acknowledges the racial disparities for prison sentencing for cocaine versus crack. The commission suggests reducing the discrepancy, but Congress overrides its recommendation for the first time in history. -
Ronald Reagan Died
Reagan died of pneumonia, complicated by Alzheimer's disease, at his home in Bel Air, California, on the afternoon of June 5, 2004.A short time after his death, Nancy Reagan released a statement saying, "My family and I would like the world to know that President Ronald Reagan has died after 10 years of Alzheimer's disease at 93 years of age. -
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