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Coca plant
Coca shrub has two species that are indigenous to certain sections of South America. Cocaine is found in the leaves of the coca shrub. In history it was used for ancient rituals and every day gift giving. It can be brewed as a tea(mate). The leaves are also chewed like tobacco. The results are like that of prolonged caffeine or tobacco buzz. -
Patent Medicines
The term "patent medicine" has become particularly associated with drug compounds in the 18th and 19th centuries,sold with colorful names and even more colorful claims. In ancient times, such medicines were called nostrum remedium, or "our remedy" in latin, hence the "nostrum". -
Drug Policies Racial and Ethnic Groups
History Of racial injustice in the untied states should not tolerate laws that systemically target communities of color.Yet, this is precisely the outcome of the current war on drugs. Historically, people of color have been a primary target of anti-drug polices and rhetoric. Beginning in 1900"s int ill now.(www.aclu.org/files/files.pdf -
Sinclair"s The Jungle
The American Journalist wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Pure Food And Drug Act
The act was created for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods,drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Harrison Act
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was a United States federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distriributation of opiates and the coca plant. -
Prohibition
In the Untied States there was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
Drug Rehab Programs
The medical professionals began to assert there selves on the issues of drug use in both treatment and research.In California and New York they tried to confine addicts , like incarceration of criminals to treat them. in 1966,congress passed the Narcotic addict Rehabilitation Act. It gave authorization to Federal district courts to order voluntary or involuntary treatment instead of jail. -
Marijuana
Cannabis SativaL is the hemp plant from which marijuana and hashish are derived grows wild throughout tropical and temperate regions of the world.It has been cultivate for at least 5000 years. Now it is being cultivated by farmers in this twisted game of cat and mouse the people and government are playing with legalization of it. It is a drug that has lead our government to make up polices that were racial against ethnic groups. -
Crack Cocaine
In the 1980"s , a new form of cocaine- called crack became popular in a number of cities. Particularly New York. The users and sellers were much younger. It create a hysteria with media and public offical. They believed it to be instantly addictive and would draw the naive and young into a dangerous lifestyle. -
Ronald Regan
In the 1980's the fight against drugs and drug use was an important issue in the presidential campaign. President reagan's wife Nancy Reagan introduces "just say No " Campaign. The Anti-Drug Use Act of 1988 was enacted in the final days of the 100th congress. -
1990's
This began the lack of political interest in drug use. But with crowding of jails throughout the United States because of federal drug polices. Statutory and administrative remedies were formulated. This placed more drug offenders in diversion or drug treatment programs, on probation, and on parole.
