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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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    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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    influenced the infamous sociocultural cocaine boom phenomenon of late 70s and early 80s in the United States. This boom was noticeably demonstrated by the...
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    favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and became involved in the rapidly growing cocaine industry. Meanwhile, Brazil's shift towards democracy and the eventual...
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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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    the first prison gangs in Rio in the late 1970s. With the subsequent cocaine boom in South America, these gangs would go on to dominate the drug market...
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  • Boom! Boom! Boom! is the second album by the Kelley Deal 6000, released in 1997. "Brillo Hunt" was the album's first single; the title refers to the practice...
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    producer of raw coca, as well as of refined cocaine. Two factors that allowed the coca business to boom in the 1990s: the end of the cold war depleted...
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    and influence increased significantly in the early 1980s when crack cocaine boomed and Crip sets began distributing the drug. Large profits induced many...
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    Buju Banton (redirect from Boom Bye Bye)
    seminal albums 'Til Shiloh and Inna Heights. In 2009, he was arrested for cocaine trafficking charges in the United States, his first trial resulting in...
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  • targeting drug traffickers who financed narco-terrorist groups. The cocaine boom in the late 1990s came to an end when the Peruvian Air Force and DEA...
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    Scott (June 19, 2017). "The Cocaine Cowboys Hit List: Murder & Mayhem Commonplace During 1980s Miami Drug Boom". "'Cocaine queen's' killers sought". BBC...
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    years in 2020. Originally from Armenia, Colombia, Lehder eventually ran a cocaine transport empire on Norman's Cay island, 210 miles (340 km) off the Florida...
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    America and Europe, with a particularly increased demand for marijuana and cocaine. As a result, international organized crime syndicates such as the Sinaloa...
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    Billy Mays (category Cocaine-related deaths in Florida)
    released August 7, 2009, heart disease was the "primary cause of death" and cocaine was noted as a "contributory cause of death". In response to the release...
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    1870–1930." From Silver to Cocaine (2006): 271–99. Melby, John. "Rubber river: an account of the rise and collapse of the Amazon boom." The Hispanic American...
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    Millennials (redirect from Echo Boom)
    people born from 1981 to 1996. Most Millennials are the children of Baby Boomers and older Generation X. In turn Millennials are often the parents of Generation...
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  • The Boomer Bible is a book written by R. F. Laird. In structure, the book is based on the Christian Bible, but it is neither a simple parody of the Bible...
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    novogranatense is a neotropical species of Erythroxylum (Erythroxylaceae). Cocaine is produced from the leaves. "Novogranatense" is derived from Latin: novo...
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  • Next Day Air (category Films about cocaine)
    estimated budget of $3 million. Two criminals accidentally accept a package of cocaine which they must sell before the real owner finds it missing. Leo works...
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  • with gang violence and cocaine. The style is reminiscent of East Coast hip-hop of the 20th century, being influenced by the boom-bap instrumentation of...
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    pandemic. After the rebooted 2021 event, and a smaller-scale event known as 'Boom Village', were both cancelled due to the pandemic - citing a lack of insurance...
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  • same name by Roberto Saviano, a study of the business around the drug cocaine, covering its movement across continents. The series stars Andrea Riseborough...
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  • cocaine a week, while still in high school. She and "Daff" married in 1980, and began selling crack cocaine. Thompson's drug dealing business boomed,...
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  • Bang Boom Bang (1999) – cannabis Bangkok Hilton (1989) – heroin Basic Instinct (1992) – cocaine The Basketball Diaries (1995) – heroin, cocaine, cannabis...
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  • Echo Boomers is a 2020 American crime drama film directed by Seth Savoy and starring Patrick Schwarzenegger, Alex Pettyfer, and Michael Shannon. It's...
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    The 1980s professional wrestling boom, more commonly referred to as the Golden Era or the Rock 'n' Wrestling Era, was a surge in the popularity of professional...
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  • These organisations are specialized in trafficking large quantities of cocaine and synthetic drugs through Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium...
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    his role in passing the bill a "big mistake", citing its policy on crack cocaine and saying that the bill "trapped an entire generation". Biden voted for...
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    dismissal, Honeyman-Scott was found dead of heart failure caused by a cocaine overdose. Four years into the career of the Pretenders, Hynde and drummer...
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