• Cocaine Wars is a 1985 Argentine-American action film directed by Héctor Olivera and starring John Schneider, Federico Luppi, Rodolfo Ranni and Royal Dano...
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    Cocaine (from French: cocaïne, from Spanish: coca, ultimately from Quechua: kúka) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant...
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    September 3, 2012) was a Colombian drug lord who was prominent in the cocaine-based drug trade and underworld of Miami, during the 1970s through the...
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    María J (1994). Death beat: a Colombian journalist's life inside the cocaine wars. HarperCollins. p. 145. ISBN 9780060170578. Bugliosi, Vincent (1996)...
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  • fueled by the illegal trafficking of cocaine. By 1975, Pablo Escobar and the Medellín cartel had established cocaine trafficking routes into the US through...
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    The cocaine boom was a stark increase in the illegal production and trade of the drug cocaine that first began in the mid to late 1970s before then peaking...
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  • Concorde Pictures, along with films like Barbarian Queen, Loose Screws, Cocaine Wars, and Wheels of Fire. Corman said he had to form his own distribution...
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    The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s...
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    Sun-Sentinel in 1981. There, he covered the crime beat during the South Florida cocaine wars. He stayed with the paper for a few years and in 1986, he and two other...
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  • The legal status of cocaine varies worldwide. Even though many countries have banned the sale of cocaine for recreational use, some have legalized it for...
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  • "Cocaine Blues" is a Western swing song written by Troy Junius Arnall, a reworking of the traditional song "Little Sadie." Roy Hogsed recorded a well...
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  • which arose as a consequence of this conflict. McCaffrey, Mick (2010). Cocaine Wars. Chichester: Summersdale. ISBN 1849531226. Badfellas, Paul Williams (2011)...
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    Royal Dano (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    Fury The Right Stuff (1983) as Minister Teachers (1984) as Ditto Stiles Cocaine Wars (1985) as Bailey Amazing Stories (1986, TV Series) as Elmer Quick / Salvation...
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  • was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations during the 1980s Nicaraguan civil war. These claims have led to investigations...
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  • Cocaine Cowboys is a 2006 documentary film directed by Billy Corben, and produced by Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben through their Miami-based media...
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    (voice) TV movie 1985 Gus Brown and Midnight Brewster Gus Brown TV movie Cocaine Wars DEA Agent Cliff Adams 1986 Stagecoach Buck TV movie 1987 The Curse Carl...
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    Roger Corman (category United States Navy personnel of World War II)
    Concorde releases also include Loose Screws (1985), a sequel to Screwballs; Cocaine Wars (1986), the first in a series of movies Corman would finance in South...
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  • Prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE), theorized in the 1970s, occurs when a pregnant woman uses cocaine including crack cocaine and thereby exposes her fetus...
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  • This historic treaty among South Bronx gangs lasted until the crack cocaine wars erupted during the early 1980s. Some of the Gangs that attended the Hoe...
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    consequences when cocaine is smoked (cocaine-base) or injected intravenously (cocaine hydrochloride) compared with intranasal use (cocaine hydrochloride)...
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  • Sorceress (1984) Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985) Barbarian Queen (1985) Cocaine Wars (1985) Amazons (1986) Deathstalker II (1987) Stormquest (1987) Two to...
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    of widespread cocaine use and cultural normalization, simultaneous crime waves in almost all major US cities, as well as small "drug wars" within the evermore...
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    (1981) Forbidden World (1982) Space Raiders (1983) Love Letters (1984) Cocaine Wars (1985) Big Bad Mama II (1987) Munchies (1987) The Terror Within (1989)...
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    of the era and the deadliest hitman of the cocaine wars. After a limited theatrical release in 2006, Cocaine Cowboys became the highest-rated documentary...
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    Strategy for Drug Wars in the Americas". Center for American Progress. Retrieved April 13, 2009. "A Regional Strategy for Drug Wars in the Americas"....
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    resulted in increased production and processing of the plant in Colombia. Cocaine produced at $1,500/kilo in jungle labs can be sold on the streets of the...
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    the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar was one of the wealthiest criminals in history, having amassed...
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  • Machine Thompson, Tony (18 May 2008). "Colombian 'hit' that set off a UK cocaine war". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 May 2010. Duffy, Tom (17 January 2020)....
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    Francisco de la Nueva Provincia de Álava San José San Salvador de Jujuy Cocaine Wars, (1985). Veronico Cruz, (1988). My Masterpiece (2018), dir. Gastón Duprat...
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  • distribute films. Their first releases would include Club Sandwich and Cocaine Wars from Concorde and Born American and Hollywood Vice Squad from Cinema...
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