History Channel Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way 1 Cocaine & Crack

Published October 19, 2012

History Channel Illegal Drugs And How They Got That Way 1 Cocaine & Crack –

Two robbers in brutal spree get more than 127 years

Filed under: the history of crack cocaine

After a prison stint for peddling crack cocaine, Brandon Coleman abandoned the drug trade for a job at a fast-food joint. Then he discovered history is not so easily erased. In March 2010, Coleman ran into his ex-girlfriend Jacklyn Smith. She lured him … Read more on Philadelphia Inquirer

Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug

Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine. Gootenberg traces cocaine’s history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Connecting the story of the drug’s transformations is a host of people, products,

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