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Originally Posted by Robbie
REAL cocaine isn't that addictive. Matter of fact scientists only recently "decided" it was addictive. Up until then...they universally said it was not (wonder if the U.S. govt. pressure had anything to do with that).
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Mainstream media reported cocaine epidemics as early as 1894 in Dallas, Texas.
Reports of the cocaine epidemic would foreshadow a familiar theme in later so-called epidemics, namely that cocaine presented a social threat more dangerous than simple health effects and had insidious results when used by blacks and members of the lower class.
Similar anxiety-ridden reports appeared throughout cities in the South leading some to declare that ?the cocaine habit has assumed the proportions of an epidemic among the colored people.?
In 1900, state legislatures in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee considered anti-cocaine bills for the first time.