Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Purdue Pharma, Opium Den, Drug Czar
8 Apr 2017
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Didn"t start with nixon, got ball rolling. Public enemy #1 in us is drug abuse. Millions and billions of dollars spent on the war on drugs. 2009, 1. 6 million people arrested, more than any other offence. 65% of prisoners for drug violations are black and hispanic, about 75% in 2013. Usage: rates are almost equal in terms of drug use between whites and blacks, enforcement if not equal. Earlier records of marijuana come from chinese writing nearly five thousand years ago; the use of hashish originated in north africa and persia in ninth or tenth century ad. In us, marijuana was available in patent medicines during the late 1800s, but its popularity did not become extensive until the 1920s. 1883: largest agricultural crops in the world. First marijuana law was that every farmer had to designate a certain percentage of their and to growing hemp.
