Questions:

Reflect on two documents: (To receive full credit, you must respond and comment on two other students)

(1) Why we Took Coca Out of Coca-Cola

(2) Cocaine out of Coca-Cola_Blacks

Questions:

What were the real reasons that coca was taken out of Coca Cola?

Do these reasons mean that cocaine was not or is not harmful?

How then could you still justify the prohibition ofCocaine by the government of the USA

linksReference:

Hamblinjan, J. (2013), Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda

Steven, (2012) , Blacks Cocaine and Opium

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/25/fact-check-coke-once-contained-cocaine-but-likely-less-than-claimed/8008325002/

QUESTION 2

1. Can you identify the groups that gained from and supported the trade in opium between the British, the Indians, and the Chinese?
2. Compare the persistence in the export of Opium to China and the persistence of the export of Opium and its derivative into the USA?
3. In what way could you say that the methods are the same in China as in the USA today.

Links

_{Opium Wars - Background Reading.pdf}

_{DARK_HISTORY_OPIUM_INDIA_PARSIS.pdf}

_{How Bombay's Parsis cracked the opium trade - The Economic Times_2014.pdf}

_{ECON_HISTORY_OPIUM_TRADE.pdf}

_{HOLYWAR_OPIUMWAR_1999.pdf}

_{DRUG_CONTROL_UNITED_NATIONS.pdf}

_{OPIUM_WARS_NGLAND.pdf}