Originally Posted by Hollander
Originally Posted by ralphie_cifaretto
How much cocaine trafficking was going on in the 1950s? I know that by the late '50s, many considered the drug to be a thing of the past. There wasn't any noticeable resurgence until about 1965. However, one can't help but wonder if the drug was in demand the entire time


Good question cocaine was widely used in WWII, but after 1945 I don't know.


I did read the cocaine era was introduced in Cuba by the US mafia thirty years before it became popular in the United States.


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