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  2. Cocaine in the United States - Wikipedia

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    United States CBP police inspect a seized shipment of cocaine. Cocaine is the second most popular illegal recreational drug in the United States behind cannabis, [1] and the U.S. is the world's largest consumer of cocaine. [2] In 2020, Oregon became the first U.S. state to decriminalize cocaine. [3]

  3. Legal status of cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Cocaine is fully illegal in Venezuela and is punished by extrajudicial executions, and all activities associated with cocaine are illegal including the sale, the bought, the possession, the growing and the consumption, the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro has an state-sponsored drug cartel known as the Cartel de los Soles which operates ...

  4. Cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Cocaine is the second most popular illegal recreational drug in the United States (behind cannabis) [163] and the U.S. is the world's largest consumer of cocaine. [164] Its users span over different ages, races, and professions.

  5. History of United States drug prohibition - Wikipedia

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    1979: Illegal drug use in the U.S. peaked when 25 million of Americans used an illegal drug within the 30 days prior to the annual survey. [27] 1986: The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was enacted into law by Congress. It changed the system of federal supervised release from a rehabilitative system into a punitive system.

  6. Drug prohibition - Wikipedia

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    Drug possession is the crime of having one or more illegal drugs in one's possession, either for personal use, distribution, sale or otherwise. Illegal drugs fall into different categories and sentences vary depending on the amount, type of drug, circumstances, and jurisdiction.

  7. Federal Bureau of Narcotics - Wikipedia

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    The FBN was established on June 14, 1930, consolidating the functions of the Federal Narcotics Control Board and the Bureau of Prohibition (BOI) Narcotic Division. [4] These preceding bureaus were established to assume enforcement responsibilities assigned to the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 and the Jones–Miller Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act of 1922.

  8. Crack cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Cocaine is listed as a Schedule I drug in the United Nations 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, making it illegal for non-state-sanctioned production, manufacture, export, import, distribution, trade, use and possession. [35] In most states (except in the United States) crack falls under the same category as cocaine.

  9. Crack epidemic in the United States - Wikipedia

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    President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of crack cocaine during his Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy on September 5, 1989.. The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s.