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Drug History - Exam 1
Based on historical information regarding opium, coca, and cannabis
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History
Undergraduate 2
02/28/2012

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narcotics
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opiates
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hypnotics
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barbiturates
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stimulants
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amphetamines
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inebriants
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volatile chemicals
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hallucinogens
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shrooms and shit
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Diagoras of Melos
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claimed it was better to suffer from pain than opium addiction
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Galen
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claimed opium was a panacea
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Avicenna
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claimed opium wasn't forbidden despite religion; wrote Canon of Medicine and as a result was very reputable
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Big 5 opium producers
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Turkey, Persia, S.E. Asia, China, and India
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Malwa opium
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Dutch
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Bengal opium
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British
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Battle of Plassey
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1757: marks the beginning of England taking over Asia; British were being assholes and wanted tax-free monopoly of
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Potna
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Bengal opium that had highest production of opium
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Lintin Period
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1821-1839: qing prohibitions pushed British powers to outer island and had to specialize trade which increase product prices
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Largest prohibition in Qing dynasty
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1821
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Highest use of opium
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mid-19th century
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Lord McCartney's Mission
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1793: more open ports, lower tariffs and taxes, and access to the interior of China
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New Regulations
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1839: must get rid of opium or else you'll be executed; applied to Chinese and foreign merchants
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Gladstone
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wanted to help the "barbaric" Chinese
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Treaty of Nanjing
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1842: Chinese ports opened, repayment of destroyed opium, British take over of Hong Kong
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Kukner
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opium and wine; made you visibly high
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Affirm and Taryak
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common drug; solid opium
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Bhang and Hashish
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bad reputations; liquid and smoked respectively
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Majun
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high addiction; sugar pastry; hallucinogenic
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Friedrich Serturner
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discovers morphine in 1806
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Laudanum
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morphine/opium and alcohol
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Paregeric
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morphine/opium and seltzer water; used to calm
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Sale of Poisons Bill
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1857
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Dr. Alexander Wood
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popularized the syringe and attributed addiction to the method of how the drug was taken
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Alder Wright
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inventer heroin
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Poisons and Pharmacy Act
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1868: England; awareness of the cons
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Food and Drugs Act
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1906: requires labeling of ingredients
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Bishop Charles Henry Brent
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moral empire; involvement in the Philippines
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International Opium Comission in Shanghai
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1909
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The Hauge Conference
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1912: goal was to get all the nations to control morphine/heroin; hesitant because countries needed the revenue
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Harrison Act
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1914: 1st federal legislation; responsible for the birth of the underground; personal rights are beginning to be obstructed; enforced with taxation
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Opium Exclusion Act
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1909: can't smoke, still legal for trade; racist against the Chinese who only smoked it
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Volstead Act
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1920: Prohibition; 18th Amendment
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Opium Conference in Geneva
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1924-24: 36 nations came together to deal with supply and awareness, needed international police to enforce laws; seemed like an American ploy at imperialism
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Richard Hobson
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claimed addicts were zombies
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Alfred Niemann
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discovered cocaine in 1860
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Edward Weston
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won walking contest thanks to chewing coca
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Freud
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huge advocate of cocaine
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Carl Koller
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tons of experiments that validated the use of cocaine
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Harry Angslinger
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made marijuana illegal at the federal level; racist asshole
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Marijuana Tax Act
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1937: created class issues and ended hemp industry until the second world war
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Dr. William Woodward
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pro-weed, anti FBN
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