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A racialized anti-cocaine campaign begins to expand in the United States.

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Stories of "rampaging Black cocaine users" and "Jew peddlers" proliferate across all forms of media to promote an anti-cocaine campaign. Making cocaine the symbol of unregulated drugs and "moral chaos."