drug house
{{Short description|Building used for illegal drug activity}}
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A drug house{{efn|Also known as a drug den, crack house, crack den, shooting gallery, trap house,{{Cite encyclopedia |title=trap house |url=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/trap_house |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101010304/https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/trap_house |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |encyclopedia=US English Dictionary |publisher=Lexico |access-date=14 November 2021}} or bando.}} is a residence used in the illegal drug trade. Drug houses shelter drug users and provide a place for drug dealers to supply them. Drug houses can also be used as laboratories to synthesize (cook) drugs, or cache ingredients and product.
Drug houses have been a subject widely presented in hip hop and trap music, with the latter genre being named after an American slang term for a drug house.{{cite news|date=17 November 2005|title=Trial Asks if Music Producers' Lives Imitate Gangsta Rap|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/17/nyregion/17gotti.html}}{{cite news|last=McDonnell|first=John|date=28 July 2009|title=Scene and heard: Crack house|work=The Guardian|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/jul/28/scene-and-heard-crack-house|access-date=1 May 2010}}
United States
The strongest industry in some U.S. urban areas is the illegal drug trade.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} Abandoned buildings ravaged by arson or neglect are utilized by drug dealers since they are free, obscure, and secluded, and there is no paper trail in the form of rent receipts.https://abc7ny.com/amp/queens-drug-bust-trafficking-cocaine-fentanyl/13999660/ The sale of illegal drugs often draws violent crime to afflicted neighborhoods, sometimes exacerbating the exodus of residents.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} In some cases, enraged citizens have burned crack houses to the ground, in hopes that by destroying the sites for drug operations they would also drive the illegal industries from their neighborhoods.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/22/us/crack-house-fire-justice-or-vigilantism.html|title='Crack House' Fire: Justice or Vigilantism?|date=22 October 1988|work=The New York Times}} Many major American urban areas contain crack houses.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-25-mn-21974-story.html|title=10 Children Found Left in Crack House|agency=Associated Press|date=25 January 1997|via=LA Times}}{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/09/15/23-gang-members-charged-in-huge-englewood-drug-bust/|title=23 gang members charged in huge Englewood drug bust|website=Chicago Tribune |date=15 September 2006 }}{{cite journal|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-67782578.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105104043/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-67782578.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2012|title=MAN CLEARED OF ARSON CHARGES IN FIRE AT ALLEGED CRACK HOUSE.(News/National/International)|date=27 July 1996}}
United Kingdom
{{See also|Misuse of Drugs Act 1971|Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003}}
Strong legislation in England and Wales provides a mechanism for police and local authorities to close premises which have been associated with disorder or serious nuisance.[http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?ActiveTextDocId=820374 Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003, s.2(3)(b)]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}Cumbria Constabulary v Wright [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2006/3574.html (2006) EWHC 3574 (Admin)]; [2007] 1 WLR 1407 Often, these drug houses have been found in social housing, which has been taken over by drug dealers and users.{{citation|last=Mack|first=Jon|year=2008|title=Anti-social behaviour: Part 1A closure orders|url=http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetails.aspx?recordid=348&productid=6655|journal=Journal of Housing Law|volume=11|issue=4|pages=71–74|access-date=2009-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927075644/http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetails.aspx?recordid=348&productid=6655|archive-date=2011-09-27|url-status=dead}}
These closure orders were designed to disrupt class A drug dealing and anecdotal evidence suggests that it mainly affects socially housed tenants. The effect is that once an order is made, the premises are boarded up, and no one may enter the premises, initially for a period of three months, but this can be extended to six months on the application of the police.{{citation|last=Mack|first=Jon|year=2008|title=Antisocial Behaviour Closure Orders, Injunctions, and Possession: Refining the Law|journal=Landlord & Tenant Review |volume=12 |issue=5 |pages=169–171}}
Popular culture
- Crack House{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/reviews/movies|title=Movie Reviews|work=The New York Times|date=13 April 2023 }}{{Full citation needed|date=November 2021}}
- Spike Lee's film Jungle Fever (the Taj Mahal sequence){{cite news|url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/film/091095lee-clockers-essay.html|title=Spike Lee's Inferno, the Drug Underworld|work=The New York Times}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/movies/26jame.html |title=Play It Again, Spike|date=26 March 2006|work=The New York Times}}
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