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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.
The Miami drug war was a series of armed conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s, centered in the city of Miami, Florida, between the United States government and multiple drug cartels, primarily the Medellín Cartel. It was predominantly fueled by the illegal trafficking of cocaine.
The cocaine boom was a stark increase in the illegal production and trade of the drug cocaine that first began in the mid to late 1970s before then peaking during the 1980s. The boom was the result of organized smugglers who imported cocaine from Latin America to the United States, and a rising demand in cocaine due to cultural trends in the ...
Although drug-related deaths increased in every county in the U.S. States over the period of study,one area saw the highest concentration of such deaths. Deaths blamed on drug use soar 600 percent ...
By the mid-1980s, the organizations from Mexico were well-established and reliable transporters of Colombian cocaine. At first, the Mexican gangs were paid in cash for their transportation services. However, in the late 1980s, the Mexican transport organizations and the Colombian drug traffickers settled on a payment-in-product arrangement. [53]
What does it mean to say the NBA had a drug problem in the 1970s and 1980s? In Episode 8 of "Binge Sesh," hosts Matt Brennan and Kareem Maddox examine recreational drug use in professional ...
They raided a shipment of drugs on a pleasure boat named the Mary C, taking 350–400 kilograms (770–880 lb) of cocaine worth around $10 million at the time (equivalent to $28,000,000 in 2023). [ 1 ] : 140 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During the raid, three of the seven person crew unloading the cocaine drowned attempting to escape.
The charges of CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking were revived in 1996, when a newspaper series by reporter Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News claimed that the trafficking had played an important role in the creation of the crack cocaine drug problem in the United States. Webb's series led to three federal investigations, all of ...