| On the street terms used for cocaine include:
Coke, Candy, Crack, Jack, Rock, Jimmy,
Nose Candy, Whitecoat and... |
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| Cocaine is derived from the leaf of the coca bush
native to the Andean mountains. |
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| The Incas chewed coca leaves and believed
coca to be a gift from the royal sun-god,
Mano Capac. |
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| Andean Indians measured journeys in COCADAS
- the time between doses of cocaine
(about 40 minutes). |
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| The early Spanish colonists, concerned about
the divine and mythological aspects of coca... |
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| issued a royal decree
condemning it as a demonic influence. |
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| In the 1600s, both the Catholic Church
and the Spanish Crown thrived on revenues
earned from the coca plantations. |
00:01:56.366 - 00:02:04.499 |
| During the 1870s, "Vin Mariani"
a wine made with coca leaves went on sale
in France, London and New York. |
00:02:04.624 - 00:02:10.839 |
| Thomas Edison and Pope Leo XIII
endorsed the wine. |
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| After Atlanta banned alcohol in 1885,
John Pemberton reformulated
his version of a coca wine. |
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| He removed the wine, added caffeine
and named it Coca-Cola. |
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| Up until 1903 Coca-Cola
had 6mg of cocaine per bottle. |
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| During the 1950s, TV tended to portray life
as consisting of perfect families
in perfect neighborhoods. |
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| 4.3 million babies were born in 1956,
more than any year before or since. |
00:03:58.321 - 00:04:04.285 |
| In the 1950s, Swanson TV dinners debuted
along with Sugar Pops and Tupperware. |
00:04:07.747 - 00:04:13.795 |
| By the mid 1950s, 25% of Americans
lived below the poverty level. |
00:04:13.920 - 00:04:19.926 |
| During the 1950s, suburban white women
increased their usage of Valium by 400%. |
00:04:20.051 - 00:04:26.057 |
| Psychologists in the 1950s blamed women
for an array of problems
within the nuclear family. |
00:04:26.182 - 00:04:32.147 |
| These troubles included
their husband's anxieties and impotence... |
00:04:32.272 - 00:04:36.985 |
| as well as their children's spoiled natures
and juvenile delinquency. |
00:04:37.110 - 00:04:43.158 |
| In 1956, mental patients
occupied more hospital beds
than any other illnesses combined. |
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