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The counter cultural movement had been more or less broken by the mid-1970s. The last big act of state terror was probably the MOVE bombings in Philadelphia in 1975.

Cocaine had been around and available since the late 19th century. It didn't become really widespread until the mid-1970s, and then it was mostly a white upper middle class drug. The crack epidemic among blacks didn't happen until the early 1980s.