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grassroots moral panics  

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  • Throughout the 20th century, illicit drug use has been subject to cycling periods of intense public awareness and alarm and those of relative indifference. The latter half of the last century in particular was marked by periods when the public, the media, or law makers focused on a specific drug that encapsulated the perceived drug problem more generally. [Source: Encyclopedia of Drug Policy; Grassroots Moral Panics]

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