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Neat little packets of marijuana, coke and even heroin nestling against the vitamins at the neighborhood drugstore? And selling at a low Government-set price with a guarantee of purity? It sounds like a black comedy or perhaps a gaudy hallucination. In fact, it is the extreme version of a new policy course being advocated in dead seriousness by a growing number of those frustrated by the futility of the drug war. The 74 years of federal prohibition that have passed since the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 have been a costly and abject failure, they say, and the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking the Unthinkable | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...bribe to get him to buy the contractor's armored personnel carriers. The president of the banana republic then gives the dollar as part of a kickback to the local drug king, who gives it to help pay a drug courier, who spends it to buy a Coke when it gets to the United States. But the cashier drops it on the street and you find it." By now we were back in my room...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Senior Class Spirit | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

...into Eric's mother's home and demanded that she pay him the $200 her son owed him. Shortly thereafter, Eric entered a rehabilitation program called Pride. After four months, he emerged shaken but sober. He has dropped all his crack-smoking friends but worries about temptation. "Coke is still all around me," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids Who Sell Crack | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...What kinda coke would ya like. Merck or Squibb? By the way, you know, we have a special on 'ludes--buy six, get one free...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Ending the Drug Prohibition | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...Soviet enterprises and ministries, which staged a four-day conference in Moscow in April to talk about prospective joint ventures. In a display of Madison Avenue glitz, council members from the U.S. gave their Soviet counterparts a crash course in marketing that included razzle-dazzle TV commercials for Diet Coke, NutraSweet and the American Express Card. Gorbachev invited the U.S. visitors to the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses for a seven-course feast of caviar, pheasant, grouse and other delicacies. After exchanging toasts with the capitalists, the Soviet leader described perestroika as an "invitation" to a business partnership with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perestroika To Pizza | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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