Cocaine

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  • 3000 BCE

    first sign of cocaine

    Coca chewing is practiced throughout South America. Coca is believed to be a gift from God. 1
  • Jan 3, 1500

    early times

    Incan Coca plantations are taken over by holders of Spanish land grants. Spanish tax laws are revised to allow land owners to make their tax payments in coca leaves. 2

  • 1662 is still thier

    Abraham Cowley writes a poem titled “A Legend of Coca”. This is the first independent mention of coca in English literature.
  • 1708

    1708

    Coca is first mentioned in a materia medica, Institutiones Medicae, written by German physician and botanist Herman Boerhaave

  • cocaine becomes somewhat cool

    First accurate drawing of Coca appears in popular English press. The illustration by Sir William Hooker, director of the Kew gardens, was published in Companion to the Botanical Magazine.

  • Late 1880s

    Parke,Davis starts to manufacture refined cocaine.

  • Late 1880s

    Parke,Davis starts to manufacture refined cocaine.

  • banned

    Cocaine banned in United States.

  • cocaine moves around

    Japan is the world’s leading cocaine producer (23.3%) followed by the United States (21.3%), Germany (15%), U.K. (9.9%), France (8.3%).

  • popular drug

    Freebase cocaine becomes popular.

  • over price

    Wholesale cost of 1 kg cocaine is $25,000.