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... of drugs since the first decade of the twentieth century, and it has promoted that approach around the world. Exploring this longer history reveals some of the reasons the War on Drugs has persisted. prohibition narcotics overdose ...

... This chapter explores how, during World War II, the production and supply of drugs were greatly disrupted while legitimate medical demand, especially for opiates, increased. Use of amphetamines increased as well. All governments worked to control narcotics distribution, and illicit use decreased...

...To a Declaration of a War on Drugs, 1940–1980 During World War II, warfare disrupted both production and distribution of narcotics. After the war, the United States and the United Nations turned attention back to global prohibition. Despite harsh punitive measures in the United States, drug...

...The Battle for Prohibition, 1870–1940 The anti-opium movement gained traction in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Religiously motivated reformers joined forces with medical professionals and politicians, all of whom had their own reasons for wanting to restrict narcotics...

... narcotics they would buy. In the United States, Congress and state legislatures passed increasingly harsh, punitive laws aimed at users. supply-side control punitive laws mandatory minimum sentences ...

... on Narcotic Drugs placed coca on its Schedule 1 list of controlled substances, along with heroin and cocaine, and decreed that coca-chewing must be abolished within twenty-five years. The basis for this attack was the report produced by the United Nations Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf in 1950. While...

... in the Americas, it has been the target of attacks by Catholic priests, moralizing modernizers, and international drug warriors over centuries. In 1961, the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs placed coca on its Schedule 1 list of controlled substances, along with heroin and cocaine, and decreed...