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At the beginning of the 20th century, cocaine began to be linked to crime.

In 1900, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an editorial stating, " Negroes in the South are reported as being addicted to a new form of vice – that of ' cocaine sniffing ' or the ' coke habit.

'" Some newspapers later claimed cocaine use caused blacks to rape white women and was improving their pistol marksmanship.

Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U. S. The 1903 blue-ribbon citizens ' panel, the Committee on the Acquirement of the Drug Habit concluded, " If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope we can get along without him.