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Lean or purple drank (known by numerous local and street names) is a polysubstance drink used as a recreational drug.It is prepared by mixing prescription-grade cough or cold syrup containing an opioid drug and an anti-histamine drug with a soft drink and sometimes hard candy.
One of the first was in San Francisco in 1875, where it became illegal to smoke opium outside of opium dens. It did not ban the sale, import or use otherwise. In the next 25 years, different states enacted opium laws ranging from outlawing opium dens altogether to making possession of opium, morphine and heroin without a physician's ...
Controlled Substances; Long title: An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act and other laws to provide increased research into, and prevention of, drug abuse and drug dependence; to provide for treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers and drug dependent persons; and to strengthen existing law enforcement authority in the field of drug abuse.
Local laws began prohibiting certain types of drugs in 1875. The first federal restriction on drugs was passed in 1909, banning the importation of opium. The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was passed in 1914 to regulate the sale of narcotics in compliance with the International Opium Convention. This regulation effectively criminalized opium ...
Promethazine: Lean, purple drank, oil Crack cocaine: Fentanyl: Dirty fentanyl, takeover [citation needed] Crack cocaine: Heroin: Chocolate rock, dragon rock, eightball, moonrock, smoking gun, tar Crack cocaine: LSD: Cracid, outerlimits Cracid is a portmanteau of crack cocaine and acid [citation needed] Crack cocaine: Methamphetamine: Fire ...
A gun was found in a stroller at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas. 2. A replica IED attached to a walkie talkie was found at El Paso International Airport.
Two Indian chemical companies have been indicted for allegedly importing ingredients for the highly addictive opioid fentanyl into the United States and Mexico, the U.S. Department of Justice said ...
2012: Colorado and Washington (state) passed laws to legalize the consumption, possession, and sale of marijuana. 2014: Alaska, Minnesota and Oregon passed laws to legalize the consumption, possession, and sale of marijuana. 2016: recreational marijuana use was legalized in California, Massachusetts, Nevada and Maine.