Prohibition
This was the famous Chicago ganster who made nearly $100 million a year during Prohibition, and got caught for tax evasion.
Who is Al Capone?
This is the amount top ranking drug dealers make per year, according to the Freaconomics Ted talk.
What is $400,000
These are the consequences of early and regular exposure of marijuana among the adolescent population.
What is cognitive impairment and memory loss?
This country made record gains from whiskey exports to the US during Prohibition.
What is Canada?
This was the commodity smuggled from the West Indies to make contraband rum in North America during the colonial period.
What is molasses?
This is the average hourly wage of a street crack cocaine dealer in the early 2000s in Chicago.
What is $3,50
This is the prescription medication that was highly addictive and caused a public health crisis in the last decades.
What is OxyContin?
This Organized Women's Movement strongly advocated for alcohol prohibition in the US.
What is Women's Christian Temperance Union?
This group broke the alcohol ban imposed by the British to protect the Indian population, largely because they had strong economic incentives to sell alcohol.
Who are the fur traders?
According to Narconomics, this is the amount a Colombian coca farmer earns per day.
What is $2?
This group has the highest risk of unintended marijuana consumption in states that legalize recreational use.
What is children under 6?
This was a famous prohibitionist, single-issue interest group that advocated to pass the 18th Amendment.
What is Anti-Saloon League?
As the US expanded further to the West, this drink replaced rum as the drink of choice.
What is Whiskey?
This is the price of a kilo (2.2 lbs) of cocaine in Colombia.
What is $800?
This is the name of the pharmaceutical company that produced one of the most potent and addictive opioids.
What is Purdue Pharma?
This act passed by the Congress enabled the implementation of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution.
What is Volstead Act?
This is the name of the incident when the colonists set fire on a British customs vessel in Rhode Island, in order to protest the taxes and confiscation of their contraband trade goods.
What is the Gaspee Affair?
This is the price of a kilo of cocaine after its is "cut" with other substances and is pushed into the US retail market.
What is $122,000?
According to a 2015 Survey, this is the amount of people that admitted using cannabis in the US
What is 2.2 million, or 8.3%