Outrageous 1970s Coke Paraphernalia Ads
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In the 1970s into the 1980s, when Pablo Escobar’s empire ruled the trade, cocaine was certainly never legal in the United States. It was, however, rampant enough to edge its way into the mainstream. Thus we have these ads for cocaine paraphernalia from U.S. drug magazine circa 1976 to 1981.
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7 Countries That Have Built Trump’s Big Wall — With Mixed Results
SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty ImagesA Palestinian boy walks near the wall destroyed near the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on April 8, 2008 near Rafah.
With Donald Trump making a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico a large part of his presidential platform, many are wondering whether or not something like that would actually work. Well, a number of countries around the world have already done something similar — and the results haven’t always been stellar.
AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty ImagesA female Palestinian demonstrator uses an axe to try and destroy a part of Israel’s controversial wall separating the West Bank city of Abu Dis from east Jerusalem, during clashes with Israeli security forces, on November 2, 2015.
David Ramos/Getty ImagesA Moroccan woman carries a package on her back as she crosses the “Barrio Chino” border crossing point between Melilla, Spain and Morocco on January 20, 2015. Hundreds of women carry goods across the border for merchants every day. A tax loophole means any hand-carried packages taken across the border into Morocco are duty-free.
