Exam 12: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking

In 1919, the use of taxing authority to regulate drugs was upheld by the U.S. upreme Court in:

The _____________ of Southeast Asia encompasses approximately 150,000 square miles of forested highlands, including the western fringe of Laos, the four northern provinces of Thailand, and the northeastern parts of Myanmar.

Trace the historic relationship between the British, China, and opium.

Who are the Kuomintang (KMT), and what was their role in the drug business?

ccording to Abadinsky, Pakistan has been a producer of opium for export since the earliest time of ___________ rule.

________ is an alkaloid found in significant quantities only in the leaves of two species of coca shrub.

Cocaine has limited medical use.

ost of the heroin smuggled into the United States originates in all of the following, except:

y 1998, _________ heroin accounted for more than 50 percent of the drug smuggled into the United States.

________ is the source of "black tar" or brown heroin, which gained a foothold in the American drug market after the demise of the "French Connection."

he Opium Wars were fought in the 19ᵗʰ century.

hich nation's syndicates are reputed to be the primary source of U.S. istribution of the ecstasy drug?

Opiates, including morphine and heroin, were readily available in the United States until:

In the 1960s, PCP became commercially available for use in veterinary medicine as an analgesic and anesthetic, but diversion to street use led the manufacturer to discontinue production in 1978.

In what ways are the drug business and legitimate business similar?

The earliest "war against drugs" in the United States was in response to:

At the turn of the twentieth century, diacetylmorphine was synthesized, creating the most powerful of the opiates, __________, marketed as a nonhabit-forming analgesic to take the place of morphine.

___________ workers were originally encouraged to emigrate to the United States in 1848 to labor in the gold mines, doing the dangerous work refused by most white men, such as blasting shafts, putting beams in place, and laying track lines in the mines.

or many decades, coca leaf was converted to cocaine base in ________, then smuggled by small aircraft or boat into Colombia where it was refined into cocaine in jungle laboratories.

The earliest "war against drugs" in the United States was in response to _________.