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Presidents and Precedents
Party Hardy (makes you tardy)
Laws Laws Laws
Markets and Markups
Watershed Moments
100
1934-40. The most revolutionary. Land reform. Oil.
Who is Lázaro Cárdenas?
100
Enemy of the Silent Majority. Closely associated with drugs.
What is the counterculture?
100
First international drug agreement.
What is the Hague International Opium Convention?
100
Bust one dealer, another takes his/her place.
What is the Hydra effect?
100
Cocaine overdose. #2 pick.
Who is Len Bias?
200
First big round of Federal mandatory minimums came in this decade.
What is the 1950s?
200
In power between 1929 and 2000.
What is the PRI?
200
1909.
What is the Opium Exclusion Act?
200
Enforcement pushes prices up, but dealers push them back down.
What is the profit paradox?
200
1969 Escalation.
What is Operation Intercept?
300
Leader of the Silent Majority
Who is Richard Nixon?
300
Outraged by teen marijuana use. Atlanta, Georgia.
Who is Martha Keith Schuchard.
300
1914
What is the Harrison Narcotics Act?
300
Traditional source of heroin to the U.S. Cut off in 1972.
What is the French Connection?
300
Oct. 2, 1968.
What is the Tlatelolco Massacre?
400
Declares War on Drugs anew in 2006.
Who is Felipe Calderón?
400
In the United States, 17 years later than in Mexico.
What is federal marijuana prohibition?
400
1951
What is the Boggs Act?
400
Devastates Mexican marijuana production temporarily.
What is Operation Condor?
400
2000.
What is the defeat of the PRI in a Presidential election?
500
1958-1964.
Who is Adolfo López Mateos?
500
Writers who inspired the drug turn of the 1960s.
What is the Beat Generation?
500
1920.
What is "Dispositions on the Cultivation and Commerce in Substances that Degenerate the Mexican Race." Or, national marijuana prohibition in Mexico.
500
Drives cocaine traffic through Mexico.
What is Reagan's crackdown on traffic through Miami?
500
New version makes drug prohibition possible in Mexico.
What is the Constitution of 1917?