CCJ 4934 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Comprehensive Crime Control Act Of 1984, Salvia Divinorum, Medical Cannabis
29 Mar 2016
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Drugs have been apart of human history. Mead: alcohol drink, one of the firsts, not that strong. Distilled liquors: 800 ad, measure in proof 200 proof is the highest. Cafeeine: people originiall saw as a gateway drug. Tobacco: by 20s became popular, recently declined. Marijuana: liberater of sins, thought it could cure many diseases. Wide range of psychoactive substances opium popular, only masked pain: fed drug regulators didn"t begin until 20th century, libertarian spirit, fewer drugs existed until creation of pharmaceutical companies. Important precursors to drug control: 1803 morphine extracted from opium, 1831 codeine synthesized, 1856 hypodermic syringe, 1859 cocaine isolated from coca plant, 1874 diacetylmorphine heroin synthesized from morphine. 1880"s doctors realized troops given coke were more energized. Profiles of drug users prior prohibition: medical pseudo-medical addicts, white, middle-class, middle-age woman, opium smokers chinese immigrants, crim underworld sporting life, morphine addicts.
