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The hip hop, hardcore rap, and trap scenes, alongside their derivative subgenres and subcultures, are most notorious for having continuously celebrated and promoted drug trafficking, gangster lifestyle, and the consumption of alcohol and other drugs since their inception in the United States during the late 1980s–early 1990s.
In the US, around 195 cities have been infiltrated by drug trafficking that originated in Mexico. An estimated $10bn of the Mexican drug cartel's profits come from the US, not only supplying the Mexican drug cartels with the profit necessary for survival, but also furthering America's economic dependence on drugs. [11]
Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. On September 19, 1966, Leary founded the League for Spiritual Discovery , a religion declaring LSD as its holy sacrament, in part as an unsuccessful attempt to maintain legal status for the use of LSD and other psychedelics for the religion's ...
“America’s public enemy number one,” Nixon claimed, “is drug abuse.” Within days, U.S. newspapers took up the metaphor. New Documents Reveal the Bloody Origins of America's Long War on Drugs
Hipster – 1940s subculture [65] Hipster – contemporary subculture [65] Hobo [66] I. Incroyables and merveilleuses [67] Indie [68] Industrial [69] J. Jampec [70]
The first Drug court in the United States took shape in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 1989 as a response to the growing crack-cocaine usage in the city. Chief Judge Gerald Wetherington, Judge Herbert Klein, then State Attorney Janet Reno and Public Defender Bennett Brummer designed the court for nonviolent offenders to receive treatment.
America's heroin epidemic is being overtaken by another deadly drug addiction: fentanyl. Fentanyl is an opioid painkiller 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
The youth of this culture became known as the cholo subculture, and several gangs formed from among them. [20] By the 1920s, cholo subculture and palomilla had merged to form the basis of the Los Angeles gangs. [20] The gangs proliferated in the 1930s and 1940s as adolescents came together in conflict against the police and other authorities. [20]