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Publisher: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Museum

Illegal Drugs in America: A Modern History view detail comment email this

Brief overview of illegal drugs in the U.S. Covers opium and morphine ("American's first drug epidemic"), enforcing new drug laws (San Francisco passed the first anti-drug law in 1875.), rise of the modern drug culture in the 1960s and the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, and the return of cocaine and the rise of drug cartels in the 1970s and 1980s. From the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Museum & Visitors Center.
http://www.deamuseum.org/museum_ida.html
Topics: Drugs & Medications by Type

Last updated May 21, 2008





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