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Drug Policies racial and ethnic groups
The dug war was produced profoundly unequal outcomes rcial groups, manifested through racial discrimination by law enforcement and dipropportionate drug war misery suffered nu communities of color. -
Coca Plant
Its early use lead to the development of procaine (Novocain), which in 1905 was introduced into medicine and dentistry. Coca leaves are legally imported into the United States by a single chemical company, which extracts the cocaine for pharmaceutical purposing. The remaining leaf material, whichcontains no psychoactive agents is prepared as a flacoring for Coca-Cola. -
Sinclair's The Jungle
The novelist Upton Sinclair wrote a book that exposed the filthy, unsanitary, and unsafe conditions under which food reached the consumer. This forced Congress to pass the Food and Drug Act which required medicines to list certain drugs and their amounts, including alcohol and opiates. -
Pure Drug and Food Act
A U.S federal law that provided federal inspection of meat product ad forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food product. -
Patent Medicines
Patent medications originally referred to medications whose ingredients had been granted government protection. A primary ingredient in many patent medicinesopiates were readily available in the U.S until 1914. -
Harrison Act
Provided that any person who was in the business of dealing in drugs covered by the act (opium, derivatives, morphine, cocaine, and heroin), was required to register annually and to pay a special annual tax of $1. The stuatute made it illegal to sell or give away any drugs without a written order on a form issued by the commissioner of revenue. -
Prohibition
The period between 1920 and 1933 when alcohol as a beverage was outlawed in the U.S. Primary resistance to Prohibition resulted in disregard for laws in general negative contagion. Prohibition served to make organized crime a potent force and when the prohibition ended, criminal organizations became involved in the drug trade. -
Marijuana
Marijuana is derived from a hem plant called cannabis sativa that grows wild in tropical and temperate regions of the world. The 1960s public attitudes toward marijuana underwent considerable change. A nonconformist counterculture, whose members were often from the white middle class emerged. The change who was using marijuana in the 1960s led to change in attitudes toward the drug and its users. In 2012, medical marijuana and the legalization of marijuana became political issues. -
Drug Rehabilitation programs
The social activism of the 1960s also influenced the perspective on drug use and a new strategic approach as implemented; reducing demand by rehabilitating large numbers of drug addicts. In 1966, Congress passed the Narcotic addict rehabilitation act authorized federal district courts to order the voluntary/involuntary civil commitment of certain defendants who were found to be drug addicts were mandated to establish rehabilitation and post hospitalization care programs for drug addicts. -
Crack Cocaine
Was known to be a New form of cocaine that was smoked in the 1980s, popular in cities such as New York. Its popularity dramatically altered the drug market at the consumer levels: both users and sellers were much younger compared to the heroin business. Crack cocaine had became the subject of a drug scare. -
Ronald Reagan
During his presidency drugs had become an issue again. In 1986 two sports athletes died of a cocaine overdose resulting in the anti-drug message "Just Say No". It is a declared policy of the U.S government to create a Drug Free America by 1995. -
1990s
The 1990s began a period of a lack of political interest in drug use. Due to over crowded prisons, more drug offenders were placed on probation or drug treatment programs. The 21st century has been characterized by a rise in the use of Methamphetamine in rural parts, while in urban areas crack use has ceased to be an epidemic. Concern over nonmedical use of prescription drugs gained government attention.
