SOC 145 Lecture Notes - Free Base, Socalled, Marihuana Tax Act Of 1937
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Article: crack in context: politics and media in the making of a drug scare (reinarman & levine) American news media: extraordinary anti-drug frenzy started in the spring of 1986, war on drugs! Epidemic or plague of drug use: slowed down in 1987, drugs returned to national attention in 1988, both houses of congress voted on new anti-drug laws. In 1989 president bush announced a plan for achieving victory over drugs . Provocative claims: abc news special report: americans spend billion a year on cocaine, american businesses lose billion a year in productivity because their workers use drugs, the educational system is being undermined by student drug use. The family was disintegrating in the face of this epidemic . The official statistical evidence from the us government: national institute on drug abuse funded two basic sources; news media and politicians relied on them, drug abuse warning network (dawn, nida"s national surveys.
