The War on Drugs

Pharmaceutical companies mass marketed all the drugs on the list of "war on drugs", before they were deemed illegal, and continue to do so to this day. These companies shape the future of illegal drugs on the black market, but since these drugs only become illegal later down the road, and work under the cloak of psychology/medicine, they remain free and out of jail.

1: Cocaine. Cocaine is a powerfully addictive drug of abuse. - In 1885 the U.S. manufacturer Parke-Davis sold cocaine in various forms, including cigarettes, powder, and even a cocaine mixture that could be injected directly into the user's veins with the included needle.

2: Crack Cocaine. As boarder control tightened, drug dealers cut cocaine into crack in the 1970s to boost profit sales.

3: Date Rape Drugs – GHB. Rohypnol (Roofies) - GHB was synthesized and introduced into medicine in 1960.

4: Ecstasy.  - MDMA was developed in Germany in the early 1900s as a parent compound to be used to synthesize other pharmaceuticals. During the 1970s, in the United States, some psychiatrists began using MDMA as a psychotherapeutic tool, despite the fact that the drug had never undergone formal clinical trials

5: Heroin. From the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s the reputable drug companies of the day began manufacturing over-the-counter drug kits. These kits contained a glass barreled hypodermic needle and vials of opiates (morphine or heroin) and/or cocaine packaged neatly in attractive engraved tin cases.

6: Ketamine Hydrochloride. - 1962 when it was first synthesized by American scientist Calvin Stevens at the Parke Davis Laboratories. As the history of Ketamine began, it was initially named CI-581 and developed as a derivative of PCP, synthesized in 1926, as an anesthetic drug which acts, primarily, as an NMDA receptor antagonist.

7: LSD.- Albert Hofmann, a chemist working for Sandoz Pharmaceutical, synthesized1 LSD for the first time in 1938, in Basel, Switzerland, while looking for a blood stimulant. However, its hallucinogenic effects were unknown until 1943 when Hofmann accidentally consumed some LSD.

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