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...
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Crack epidemic in the United States (redirect from Crack cocaine boom)
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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Medellín Cartel (section 1980s cocaine boom)
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 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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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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Buju Banton (redirect from Boom Bye Bye)
seminal albums 'Til Shiloh and Inna Heights. In 2009, he was arrested for cocaine trafficking charges in the United States, his first trial resulting in...
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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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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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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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