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    considered for merging. › The cocaine boom was a stark increase in the illegal production and trade of the drug cocaine that first began in the mid to...
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    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...
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    influenced the infamous sociocultural cocaine boom phenomenon of late 70s and early 80s in the United States. This boom was noticeably demonstrated by the...
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  • favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and became involved in the rapidly growing cocaine industry. Meanwhile, Brazil's shift towards democracy and the eventual...
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    the first prison gangs in Rio in the late 1970s. With the subsequent cocaine boom in South America, these gangs would go on to dominate the drug market...
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  • The legal status of cocaine varies worldwide. Even though many countries have banned the sale of cocaine for recreational use, some have legalized it for...
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  • Boom! Boom! Boom! is the second album by the Kelley Deal 6000, released in 1997. "Brillo Hunt" was the album's first single; the title refers to the practice...
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    producer of raw coca, as well as of refined cocaine. Two factors that allowed the coca business to boom in the 1990s: the end of the cold war depleted...
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    and influence increased significantly in the early 1980s when crack cocaine boomed and Crip sets began distributing the drug. Large profits induced many...
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  • targeting drug traffickers who financed narco-terrorist groups. The cocaine boom in the late 1990s came to an end when the Peruvian Air Force and DEA...
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