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Dates: during 1983-1983
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Police and prosecutors know that they have no great public mandate to wage a war on cocaine???a war they admit, realistically, they could not win. "They never got rid of pot," says René, 29, a Western publishing executive, "and they won't make a dent in cocaine. There's no stigma." Cocaine retains its less and less valid cachet as the plaything of athletes, entertainers and other starry achievers. Says DEA Agent James Burke of Denver: "The mystique, the myths and the respectability are all working against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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