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Sociology timeline

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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

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    Nationwide regulation of food and prescription drugs.
  • Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

    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

    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

    Crack

    Smokeable cocaine flooded the streets of New York City within a younger generation and crime grew.
  • Anti Drug-Use Act

    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.