Illustrations

FIGURES

  1. Nurse vaccinating women and children for smallpox, Havana, 1949

  2. World War II propaganda poster for the construction of a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility

  3. Government “certified non-narcotic” seal for exports of the Coca-Cola Company’s flavoring extract, 1950

  4. Photo and caption from a 1946 Inter-American article presenting coca leaf chewing as causing irrational behaviors by indigenous people

  5. Merck and Co., Inc. Louis Lozowick’s artistic depiction of an aerial view of a Merck chemical manufacturing plant, commissioned by the company for an advertisement.

  6. Graphics from a 1955 Business Week article celebrating the “fantastic growth” of US pharmaceuticals’ foreign market

  7. A Peruvian peasant holding a coca leaf bag, lime dispenser (to dip into while chewing the leaf), and a cigarette, 1952.

  8. Federal Narcotic Farm, Lexington, Kentucky (Photo by Arthur Rothstein)

  9. Cornell graduate student teaching a Vicosino the application of chemical pesticides

10. Photograph, “General store in Vicos selling alcohol and coca,” 1951

11. Harry J. Anslinger testifying before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1954

12. Federal Bureau of Narcotics chart representing drug addiction statistics for 1953–1956, differentiated by race

MAP

  1. Coca leaf cultivation and derivative manufacturing, 1946

TABLES

  1. US coca leaf imports and uses, 1936–1943

  2. Cocaine exports from the United States, 1936–1941