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Period: 3500 BCE to 1500 BCE
Opium
Opium used by ancient Romans and Greeks as medicine. -
2000 BCE
Coca Plant
Used by Native Andeans and Incas for thousands of years for increased stamina, essential nutrients, and for sacred ritual purposes. -
Period: to
China's Opium Trade
Opium being imported from China. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Nationwide regulation of food and prescription drugs. -
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
Publication revealing unsanitary conditions in which food was processed. -
Period: to
Prohibition
Ban on alcohol in the U.S. leading to higher crime rates. -
Marijuana Tax Act
$100 per ounce tax placed on marijuana because of government's inability to outlaw it. -
Narcotics Addiction Control Association
A rehabilitation like program intended to reform drug addicts. -
The Harrison Act
Tax placed on drugs. -
Crack
Smokeable cocaine flooded the streets of New York City within a younger generation and crime grew. -
Anti Drug-Use Act
Ronald Reagan's attempt to create a drug free America during his campaign for Presidency. -
Period: to
90's
Lack of political focus on drugs and other drugs being imported, such a methamphetamines.
