Pick Your Poison
The outlawing of alcohol between 1919 and 1933
Prohibition
Cooked with baking powder and water to make a 'rock'
Crack
So long as orders are phrased as a question, compliance is interpreted as consent
Police shady tactic for stop and frisk
Originally an ingredient in Coca-Cola
Cocaine
This is how old Mr. Erickson would be when he got out of prison after serving a 30 year sentence for selling Meth
71 years old
Marijuana was connected to this group of immigrants in the early 1900s
Comes from the Poppy Seed. Can be injected and smoked; Causing a dreamy, pleasant, drowsy state.
Heroin or Opium
Used by police to justify the stop and search of a citizen without any real evidence
Pretext Stops
States are beginning to legalize recreational use of this drug
Marijuana
The only state to decriminalize all drugs
Oregon
This leafy and smoked product, by the 1920s, was seen as glamorous for women to use
Tobacco
Was the leader of the LSD counterculture movement in the 1960s
Timothy Leary
Does not permit Judges to use discretion in sentencing a drug offender. Judges cannot take into account any other factors.
Mandatory Minimum Sentences
This drug is attributed to African-Americans even though the use is almost equal across all races
Crack
If marijuana is illegal in a state where does the money from illegal weed sales ultimately end up
Drug Cartels (kinpins)
Used to relieve toothaches. Used in wine and colas.
Cocaine
This was used by militaries during WW2. Giving soldiers the ability to stay up for long hours at a time while increased energy and mood
Amphetamines
This label prevents ex-convicts from actually starting a new life successfully (employment, health insurance, education, voting, etc.)
Felon
Researched by the CIA for potential use as a mind control and truth drug
LSD
The USA has 5% of the world's population and this percentage of incarcerated people worldwide
25%
Smoking opium was connected to this group of immigrants in the late 1800s
The Chinese
Chances of having "flashbacks" increased as a person does more of this drug
LSD
Pretty much every person fits this profile by doing what you do during an average day
Drug Courier Profile
This drug, with long-term use, will permanently damage a person's looks (not in a good way). Facial bone structure erodes, teeth fall out, and they will develop sores all over their body
Methamphetamines
This drug kingpin was making $425 million a week before he was shot dead by police
Pablo Escobar