We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of US Empire

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by Suzanna Reiss


  Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (1948), (United Nations), 180

  Cornell Peru Project, 157, 167–72

  cortisone, 129

  Council on Foreign Relations, 33

  Cuba: drug trafficking accusations and, 4–6, 177, 210–12, 214, 277n174; revolution and, 175, 189, 209–213

  Daniel, Price, 204

  Dasso, David, 28

  demerol, 18, 160

  Department of Commerce, 51–2, 72, 79

  Department of Defense, 63, 78

  Dow Chemical, 48

  drugs. See narcotics

  Drugs and Pharmaceutical Unit (Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce), 77

  Drugs Disposal Committee (FBN), 58, 65–67

  Drug Replacement Program (BEW), 41–42. See also economic warfare

  Drug Resources Industry Advisory Committee (United States), 48, 78

  Drug Supervisory Body (United Nations), 154, 224, 245n135

  Dutch East Indies. See Netherlands East Indies

  economic warfare, 11, 42, 94, 212, 235n2; blacklist and, 36–37, 241n91; commodity flows and, 15, 36, 240n58; drug trade and, 16–17, 33–34, 39–41, 43–45, 47, 49, 164; US pharmaceutical industry and, 44–46, 51, 164

  Ecuador, 111, 167, 209, 211–12, 243n116, 254n7, 257n40, 277n160

  Eddy, Nathan B., 156, 202

  Egypt, 74, 86, 213

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 78, 90

  Eli Lilly & Company, 48, 160

  empire, imperialism: challenges to, 69–70, 169, 187, 189, 213–14; coca, cocaine, Coca-Cola and, 23–24, 31–32, 84, 91–92, 94, 96–97, 126, 136, 182, 278n8; definition of, 73, 87; drug control and, 1, 8, 16–17, 51, 55, 67, 126, 149, 152–54, 182–84, 190–92, 226–27, 269n33; Latin America and, 5, 34–37, 95, 97, 114, 165, 257n40; pharmaceuticals and, 1, 22, 51, 55, 74, 95, 146, 243n116, 263n31; raw materials and, 35, 68, 182; science, public health and, 106, 147, 149, 154, 177; Soviet Union and, 152–53, 177, 184, 186–87, 213; United Nations representation and, 101, 153, 177, 186–89, 269n43, 270n56; United States territories and, 152, 187–88, 269n44

  England. See United Kingdom

  Europe, 146; colonialism and, 22, 62, 70, 147, 149, 165, 182, 186–88; drug control and, 16, 102, 211; drug manufacturing and 7, 20, 24–27, 29, 97, 99, 222, 238n32, 254n11; US drug industry and, 27, 31, 48, 72–74, 84, 88–89, 95; World War II and, 20, 22, 24–26, 29, 31–32, 48, 254n11

  Expert Committee on Drugs Liable to Produce Addiction (WHO), 155–58, 202–3

  Export-Import Bank, 42

  Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 213

  Farley, James A., 88

  Farmer, Art, 206

  Federal Bureau of Narcotics (United States): Bolivia and, 128, 130; coca and, 25, 28–30, 46, 80–83, 108, 130, 134–41, 155, 176, 220, 223, 250n77; Coca-Cola and, 25, 32, 81, 84, 89, 91, 93, 129–30, 139–41, 238n31, 250n77; Cold War, communism and, 6, 115, 174, 179, 182, 194, 210–11, 214; domestic drug control and, 3, 55–61, 65–66, 76, 135–37, 155, 159–60, 162, 182, 196–205, 218, 226, 247n26, 248n54, 273n91, 274n97, 274n109; drug stockpiling and, 18, 21, 30, 55–61, 64–66, 72, 82–83, 236n11; international drug control and, 4, 20, 25–26, 98, 108–110, 130, 135, 139–41, 176, 182, 189, 196, 218–20, 226; international police collaboration and, 4, 6, 210–12; Peru and, 4, 26, 28–29, 32, 46, 108–9, 113–15, 128–29, 130; pharmaceutical industry and, 26–27, 30–31, 46, 58, 76, 78, 80–84, 91, 93, 108, 110, 128, 136–37, 140–41, 159–60, 218–20, 223, 226, 248n54, 250n77, 255n23; postwar national defense and, 18, 31, 55, 65–66, 71–72, 82–83; World War II and, 20–21, 29–31, 46, 49–50, 93, 139, 236n11

  Federal Civil Rights Commission (United States), 201

  Federal Security Administration (United States), 17, 20

  First National Bank and Trust Company, 110

  Fonda, Howard, 110, 117

  Foreign Economic Administration (United States), 47

  Formosa (Taiwan), 24, 49, 177, 190, 192, 254

  Fort Myer, 144

  France, 24, 27, 89, 91, 111, 139, 188–89, 191, 248n47, 254n12, 269n43

  French Togoland, 188

  General Service Administration (United States), 66

  Geneva Convention (1931, United Nations), 20, 25–6, 30, 56, 139, 221, 224, 245n135

  Germany, 77; coca, cocaine, Coca-Cola and, 24–25, 28–29, 31–32, 85, 89, 139; drug manufacturing and, 16, 18, 22, 24–25, 33, 39, 43, 47–48, 248n47; Latin American market and, 34–35, 37–45, 47, 73, 241n91, 243n116; narcotics control and, 48, 50, 191, 251n78; synthetic drugs and, 18, 143, 159; US pharmaceutical industry and, 18, 43–44, 48–49, 51, 73, 80, 164, 249n69, 249n73

  Getz, Stan, 206–7

  Gillespie, Dizzy, 207, 209

  Global Commission on Drug Policy, 226

  Goldwater, Barry, 195

  Gonzalez, Juan, 210

  Government Commission on Resource Mobilization (United States), 70–71

  Graham, Billy, 194

  Greece, 184, 268n29

  Gregg, Eddie, 65

  Guatemala, 13, 183–84, 255n24

  Gutiérrez-Noriega, Carlos, 118–122, 124–25, 166, 260n84

  Gutknecht, John, 202

  Harrison Narcotic Act (United States), 2–3, 24, 99

  Hartung, M.J., 82–3

  hashish, dagga. See marijuana

  Haya de la Torre, Victór Raúl, 115, 257–8n44

  Hayes, Ralph, 81, 88, 91, 127–30

  Hentoff, Nat, 208

  Higgins, Lois L., 195

  Holmberg, Allan, 167–69, 171

  Howe, Hubert S., 204

  Hughes, Langston, 208

  imperialism. See empire

  India, 21–2, 31, 74, 153, 184, 213, 227, 268n29

  Indian, indigenous peoples: coca market and, 9–10, 12, 23, 94–95, 100–1, 104–5, 108, 112, 116, 119–26, 128–30, 134, 136–40, 156–57, 165–67, 220, 22–25; development and, 36–37, 86, 95, 103–5, 109, 118–26, 165–69, 173, 227; drug control and, 9–10, 12–13, 100–1, 103, 105–6, 108–12, 116–26, 128, 130, 134, 136–40, 158, 165–66, 173, 220, 225; pharmaceutical markets and, 10, 37, 146–47, 101, 146–47, 149; social and political struggles and, 9, 12–13, 101, 103–6, 112, 116, 118–26, 130, 165, 169, 173, 209, 220, 222–26

  Indonesia, 24, 145, 189, 220–1, 254n7

  Institute of Andean Biology, 118

  Institute of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Peru), 119

  Inter-American Congress of Indians, 126

  Inter-American Meeting on the Illicit Traffic in Cocaine and Coca Leaves, 211–12

  International Anesthesia Research Society, 145

  International Cooperation Agency (United States), 165

  International Labor Organization, 167

  International Opium Convention (1912, United Nations), 16

  International Opium Convention (1925, United Nations), 111, 245n135

  International Symposium on High Altitude Biology, 119

  Interpol, 211

  Iran, 184, 268n29

  Isbell, Harris, 202

  Ishii Shiro, 179–80

  Italy, 28, 31, 38, 269n43

  ivory, 71

  Iwo Jima, 24

  Japan: coca cultivation and, 23–24, 254n7, 254n9; drug control and, 49–50, 178, 182, 192, 268n16; Latin American investments and, 35; US pharmaceutical industry and, 51, 62, 74, 85, 164; World War II and, 16, 22, 25–26, 29, 32, 38, 49–51, 56, 77, 179–80, 192, 241n91, 268n16

  Java, 24–25, 29–30, 128, 254n7. See also Indonesia

  Jazz, 175, 206–9, 213

  Jim Crow, 7, 196, 208–9

  Joint US-Bolivian Labor Commission, 37

  Jones, LeRoi, 213

  Jones Miller Narcotics Import Act (1922), 102

  Kenya, 169, 174–5, 183, 185, 267n4

  Kenya Land and Freedom Movement (Mau Mau), 174–75, 183, 267n4

  Kenyatta, Jomo, 169, 174–75, 267n4

  Kerr, Adelaide, 151

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 54, 189, 213

  Kitchen Debate, 54

 
Korea: drug control and, 49; Korean War and, 63, 68, 174–75, 177–78, 180–83, 194, 208, 215, 268n21, 273n86

  Ku Klux Klan, 195

  Lande, Adolph, 190–1

  Lazarte, Jorge A., 109

  League of Nations, 25, 33, 39, 98–9, 107, 111, 224, 255n23

  Lechín, Juan, 115

  Lend-Lease, 31, 239n47

  Lidocaine, 142

  Lindesmith, Alfred R., 201

  Lovett, Robert A., 78

  MacArthur, Douglas, 49, 197, 273n86

  Mack, Raymond, 206

  Macmillan, J.W., 135, 141,

  Magruder, Calbert, 37,

  malaria, 21, 145–6, 263n31

  Malaysia, 22

  Mallincrodt, 248n54, 249n63

  mandatory minimum sentences, 176, 197, 212, 215

  Mansfield, Mike, 203

  Mao Tze-Tung, 193

  marijuana, marihuana: African Americans and, 205, 207; drug control and, 10, 13, 66, 97, 185, 197–98, 203, 226, 247n26, 247n29, 273n90; traffic in, 65, 175, 247n24

  Marijuana Tax Act, 10, 247n26, 29

  Martí, José, 4–5

  Materials Policy Commission (United States), 68

  Mau Mau (Kenya Land and Freedom Movement), 174–5, 183, 267n4

  Maywood Chemical Works: coca, cocaine, and Coca-Cola, 24, 30, 46, 80–84, 88, 91–93, 103, 107, 128, 140–41, 219–20, 223, 250n74, 250n77, 251n81, 255n23; drug control and, 24, 30, 81–82, 88, 91–92, 107, 128, 219–20, 248n54, 250n77; Peru and, 24, 32, 46, 83, 107, 128, 220; US government collaboration and, 30, 32, 46, 76, 80–84, 88, 91–93, 107, 128, 141, 220, 250n77, 255n23; World War II and, 30, 32, 46, 80–81, 249n73

  McLeece, Henry Spencer, 58–59, 61

  McNutt, Paul V., 17, 20

  Medal for Merit, 77

  Merchandise #5, 91–92, 103, 250n77. See also Coca-Cola

  Merck, George W., 180

  Merck & Company, Inc., 144; coca, cocaine and, 24, 29, 32, 76, 93, 103, 108, 128–29, 135–36, 140–41, 255n24; Cold War and, 162, 193; drug control and, 219, 248n54; pharmaceutical industry and, 79–80, 84, 122, 140–41, 160, 248n54; World War II and, 38, 44, 76–78, 180, 249n69

  Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 77

  Merck’s Institute for Therapeutic Research, 129

  Merriam, Alan, 206

  Mexico, 5, 13, 211, 225, 277n160

  Mier y Teran, Alfonso, 212

  Mingus, Charles, 206–9

  Moliter, Hans, 129

  Monge, Carlos, 118–20, 128–29

  Morales, Evo, 225

  morphine, 51, 59, 78, 144, 155, 158–9, 197. See also opium

  Munitions Board, 21, 66, 77–78, 236n11

  Musician’s Clinic, 207

  Narcotic Control Working Party (Allied Health Committee, United Nations), 49

  Narcotic Farm (United States), 159–162, 202–3, 227. See also Addiction Research Center; Public Health Service

  narcotics: accusations of dirty warfare with, 6, 175, 178–81, 194–96; Coca-Cola and, 25, 80–83, 88–94, 138–40; definitions of, 10, 20, 135, 154–55, 273n90; global supplies of, 28–31, 33; human research and, 159–62, 203, 227; international narcotic regulation and, 3, 20, 23, 25, 47–50, 56, 99–100, 110–11, 138–40, 152, 176, 182–85, 189–92, 196, 211–214, 218, 221–22, 247n29; national regulation and, 2–3, 10, 20, 24, 26, 55–56, 61, 81, 99, 102, 134–37, 196–205, 217, 247n29; pharmaceutical industry and, 25, 29–30, 227, 58, 66–67, 72, 76–81, 88–95, 110, 143, 159, 218; policing traffic in, 6, 47–50, 58–61, 65–67, 114; racial profiling and, 196–202, 206–7, 276n135; US global power and, 1, 18, 21, 28–31, 49–50, 72, 88–89, 134, 227; US stockpiles of, 18, 21–22, 56, 58, 62, 64–68, 72. See also Federal Bureau of Narcotics

  Narcotics Control Act (1956, United States), 197–98, 205, 212

  Nasser, Gamal Abdul, 213

  National Advisory Council on Narcotics (United States), 207

  National Biology Teachers’ Association (United States), 195

  National Coca Monopoly (Peru), 113, 116, 121, 254n12

  National Committee on Drug Addiction (US National Research Council), 160

  National Defense Research Committee (United States), 150

  National Guard (United States), 208

  National Institutes of Health (United States), 123–24, 259n59

  National Research Council (United States), 159–60

  National Science Foundation (United States), 78, 145

  National Security Act (1947, United States), 63

  National Security Council (United States), 63

  National Security Resources Board (United States), 78,

  National Vitamin Foundation (United States), 110

  Naval Supply Depot (United States), 59–61, 64, 246n11

  Nehru, Jawarharlal, 213

  Netherlands; 20–24, 26, 30, 188, 254n7, 269n43

  Netherlands Antilles, 188

  Netherlands East Indies, 20–21, 24, 26, 30, 145, 254n7

  Newport Jazz Festival, 206–9

  New York Academy of Medicine, 204

  New York Federation of Women’s Clubs, 207

  Nicholson, H.B., 85–87

  Nixon, Richard, 2, 17, 54, 195–96

  Non-Aligned Movement, 189, 213, 270n54

  O’Brien, Mrs. Duncan, 193

  Odría, Manuel A., 113–15, 129, 257n41, 44

  Office of Defense Mobilization (United States), 67–68, 72

  Office of Inter-American Affairs (United States), 165

  Office of International Trade (United States), 72

  Office of Scientific Research and Development (United States), 145

  Office of US High Commission for Germany, 89, 139

  opium, opiates, 158; Cold War, red-baiting and, 181–82, 190, 192–93, 271n59, 271n66, 272n70; drug control and, 2, 10, 16, 20, 49, 56, 59, 64, 77, 97, 100, 111, 154–55, 159, 177, 184–85, 203, 271n59; global supplies of, 18, 21, 31, 51, 177, 184; illicit trade in, 59, 64; pharmaceutical industry and, 18, 51, 64, 67, 77, 246n23; synthetic substitutes for, 18, 51, 159; US government stockpiling of, 17–18, 21, 56, 64, 67, 236n11, 237n24, 246n23

  Pan American Sanitary Bureau, 11, 45, 220

  Pan American Union, 132

  Paraguay, 211

  Parke, Davis & Company, 45–6, 160, 249n63, 249n66

  Parker, William H., 201

  Passman, Otto E., 200

  Patiño Mines and Enterprises, Inc., 35, 37

  Paul Winter Sextet, 209

  Peace Corps, 169

  Pearl Harbor, 17, 20, 32, 38, 45, 272n70

  Penicillin, 18, 145, 171

  Penick Company, S.B., 81–82, 249n63, 250n77

  Pepsi-Cola, 82

  Perkins, George, 78

  Permanent Central Opium Board (United Nations), 27, 49, 245n135, 262n14

  Peru: coca and, 6, 22–24, 27–30, 50, 83, 98–102, 104, 106–15, 118–26, 128–30, 157, 167, 211–12, 220, 237n28, 254n7, 255n17, 258n52, 277n160; cocaine and, 4–6, 24–31, 102, 115–16, 124, 211–12, 218–19, 238n32, 254nn10–11, 257n40, 258n52, 277n160, 279n15; Cornell Vicos Project, 168–72; drug control and, 4–6, 9, 17, 26, 50, 98–102, 105–26, 130, 135, 163, 211–12, 218–22, 224, 253n112, 256n26, 256n39, 258n52, 277n160; pharmaceutical industry and, 24–25, 32, 39–48, 83, 99–100, 107, 128–30, 149, 163, 220, 242n95, 243n116, 244n121, 254n11; US economic influence and, 16–17, 29–30, 35–36, 39–48, 94–95, 102–3, 163–65, 168–72, 244n121, 253n112, 257n40, 258n47, 260n79; US police collaboration with, 4–5, 218–19; World War II and 16–17, 22–32, 35, 38–48, 241n91, 242n95, 243n116

  Peruvian Chief of Narcotics, 117

  Peruvian Indian Institute, 168

  Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 107

  Peruvian Ministry of Public Health, 41

  Peruvian Ministry of Work and Indigenous Matters, 129

  Peruvian National Coca Monopoly, 113, 116, 121, 254n12

  Peruvian National Committee on Coca, 118, 128–29

  petroleum, 36, 244n121

  Philippines, 22, 74, 269n4
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  Pinillos, Alfred, 107

  poppy plant: cultivation geography of, 22; drug control and, 20, 97, 154, 182. See also opium

  Portugal, 88

  Proclaimed List of Certain Blocked Nationals, 38–46, 241n91

  Protocol Bringing Under International Control Drugs Outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs (1948, United Nations), 151–60

  Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and Use of Opium Protocol (1953, United Nations), 182–86, 190, 193, 270n57, 271n59

  Public Health Service (United States): addiction research and, 156, 159–62, 203, 267n11; coca and, 123–24, 259n59; drug control and, 156, 185, 202–3; Narcotic Farm and, 159–162, 202–3, 227, 267n11

  Puerto Rico, 28, 187–89, 238n39, 255n24, 269n44

  qat, 8

  Quechua, 101, 104, 116, 123, 130, 134. See also Indian

  quinine, 17, 21, 26, 38, 40, 71, 79, 145–46, 237n24, 240n68. See also antimalarials; chinchona; malaria

  Ramsey, Henry, 42

  Roa, Raul, 213–14

  Roach, Max, 207–8

  Robeson, Paul, 175

  Rockefeller Foundation, 119

  Rogers, J.A., 175

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 151–52

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 17, 38, 40

  Rostow, Walt, 87

  rubber, 15, 36, 71, 240n58

  Russia. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

  Sánchez de Lozada, Enrique, 167

  Schering, 38, 39, 43, 44

  Schwab, Robert S., 135–37, 141

  Sears, Mason, 187

  Security Council (United Nations), 188

  Sharman, C.H.L., 109

  Sharpe & Dhome, 79, 249n63, 249n66. See also Merck & Company, Inc.

  Shearing, George, 206–7

  Sherman, Gene, 201

  Sieminski, Alfred, 174, 205

  Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961, United Nations), 3, 139, 184–85, 191; coca market and, 139, 222, 224–25; US FBN’s involvement, 185, 189–90, 271n59; US pharmaceutical manufacturers and, 219–21

  Siragusa, Charles, 210–12

  smallpox, 4–6, 197

  Sobéron, Andrés Arelino, 29, 115, 258n49

  Sociedad de Proprietarios de Yungas (Bolivia), 111

  Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 119

  South Africa, 74

  Spellman, Francis, 194

  State Department (United States): drug control and, 43–45, 49, 107, 193, 271n59; Latin American market and, 28–29, 33, 37, 39–49, 107; postwar expansion and, 146–47, 193, 208–9; World War II and, 28–29, 33, 37, 39–49

 

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