Good Knowledge!
In 1973, this government agency with the initials DEA was created.
What is the Drug Enforcement Administration?
During the War on Drugs, ______ grams of crack = five-year sentence, ______ grams of powder cocaine = five year sentence.
What were 5 and 500?
This act in 1937 placed a tax on the sale of cannabis, hemp, or marijuana.
What was the Marijuana Tax Act?
He doubled-down on an initiative that was started by Richard Nixon, greatly expanding the reach of the War on Drugs.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
This was Nancy Raegan's well-know slogan in hopes of reducing the peer-pressure of drug use.
What was 'Just Say No'?
Nearly this percent of people in federal prison for drug offenses are African American or Latino (as of 2015).
What is 80%?
This act in 2010 reduced the discrepancy between crack and powder cocaine offenses from 100:1 to 18:1.
What was the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA)?
He declared drug abuse to be “public enemy number one” and increased federal funding for drug-control agencies and drug-treatment efforts.
Who was Richard Nixon?
The goal of this program was to teach effective peer resistance and refusal skills so that adolescents can say “no” to drugs. Many have considered it to be a total failure.
What was the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)?
Almost this percent of people in state prison for drug offenses are African-American or Latino (as of 2015).
What is 60%?
This act allocated $1.7 billion to the War on Drugs and established a series of “mandatory minimum” prison sentences for various drug offenses.
What was the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986?
He rejected a U.S. Sentencing Commission recommendation to eliminate the disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences.
Who was Bill Clinton?
This nickname was given to drug sentences for various drug offenses under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.
What were the “mandatory minimum" sentences?
Between 2007 and 2012, this number of people were deported from the United States for drug law violations.
What was ≈ 250,000?
This act in 1970 placed all substances which were in some manner regulated under existing federal law into one of five schedules, depending on their determined severity.
What was the Controlled Substances Act?
He drew a direct connection between crime in the inner city and cocaine production in Colombia and South America.
Who was George H.W. Bush?
This group specifically testified that they were opposed to the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, yet it still passed because their opposition was concealed on the floor of Congress.
What was the American Medical Association (AMA)?
From 1980 to 1997, this was the number increase in incarcerated people on drug charges.
What was ≈ 350,000? (from 50,000 in 1980 to 400,000 in 1997)
This act in 1914 regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and cocaine.
What was the Harrison Act?
This Los Angeles Police Chief believed that “casual drug users should be taken out and shot" and founded the DARE drug education program.
Who was Daryl Gates?