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U.S. spreads anti-cocainism across the globe.

1940-1970

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Between 1940-1970, cocaine prohibitions will become almost universal. The United States' interest in cocaine prohibition is connected in part to the desire to end coca economies in order to encourage a focus on building the economies of poorer countries towards providing goods and services that are deemed useful and necessary for U.S. economic growth.