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Drug Policies racial and ethnic groups
Up through the late 1800’s: Irish and Alcohol, Chinese and opium, African-Americans and cocaine, and Mexicans and marijuana. -
Patent Medicines
1700s and 1800s compounds promoted and sold as medical cures that do not work as promoted. -
Sinclair's The Jungle
1905 A book called “The Jungle” which exposed conditions in the U.S.meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act -
Pure Food and Drug Act
(1906) Preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors. -
Coca Plant
late 1880, early 1900, Many popular products were made from the coca plant, including coca wine available from the Sears & Roebuck catalog for $1. -
Harrison Narcotic Act
1914 regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and Coca products -
Prohibition
1919: Ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment which outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the US. -
Marijuana
1960s became popular in the US users were the white middle class. -
Crack Cocaine
1980s. New form of cocaine that is smoked. -
Ronald Regan
1980s – During his presidency, drugs became a major political issue. The fight against drugs began. -
Drug Rehibilitation Programs
: 1985; Academy of Addiction Psychiatry was born. -
1990s
Lack of political interest in drug use. More laws for sellers than users.
