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Even so, only a dozen Arizonans have so far asked for license applications. Not that Arizona expects many dope dealers to become licensed. The state wants to levy fines, $10 per oz. of pot and $125 per oz. of coke, on untaxed drug caches seized by police, regardless of the outcomes of criminal prosecutions. Last week came the first case: a man was charged with "possession for sale" of 247 lbs. of marijuana and assessed $39,520 for having no license or stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug License | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...clerk in Hawaii called him a murderer, he felt that she was talking about someone else. Daily quarts of whisky could not erase the awful memories and their replays. Mason lived in a private, disconnected world that finally crashed in 1981 when he was arrested for and convicted of dope smuggling. "No one [was] more shocked than I," he recalls. Chickenhawk, with its vertical plunge into the thickets of madness, will stun readers as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Levitation | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...hook smuggled drugs, the Reagan Administration has claimed some impressive catches: since establishing a regional interdiction center in South Florida in March 1982, it says that cocaine and marijuana seizures there are up 54% and 23% respectively, drug arrests have risen by 27%, and the street value of intercepted dope amounts to around $5 billion. Smugglers, however, have risen to the challenge by trafficking in smaller, harder-to-detect loads and by moving some off-loading operations to other places, including California and the Atlantic Coast as far north as Nova Scotia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug Nets | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...must have been played out in about a million movies before this one. "What are you afraid of?" "You don't even know me." "Do you like driving fast?" But when Jill, after agreeing to go out with him, looks into her mirror later that day and shouts "you dope" we kind of like it. Schlock, but good...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Loving Couple | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...have sprung to prominence in its roles, among them Todd Duncan (the first Porgy), Leontyne Price and William Warfield (in a 1952 revival) and Clamma Dale (in the 1976 Houston Grand Opera production). Today an opera written by a white composer that depicted a group of fighting, wenching, gambling, dope-taking blacks is practically unimaginable. Yet Porgy travels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: It Ain't Necessarily So | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

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