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Once a cottage industry serving the fringes of society, illicit drugs have become a brutal big business where customers are increasingly upscale, if no less immune to the dangers of abuse. For this week's cover story on cocaine, the most deceptive and expensive of drugs, TIME sent a team of correspondents to measure its burgeoning popularity across the country. Jonathan Beaty interviewed sources in Washington, D.C., New Mexico and Southern California, while Jeff Melvoin traveled in New England, Florida and Colorado, and Steven Holmes covered Northern California and the Midwest. Correspondent Robert L. Goldstein spoke with movie celebrities...
...drugs in the U.S., cocaine is now the biggest producer of illicit in come. Some 40 metric tons of it will be shipped into the country this year. As coke experts like to point out, if all the international dealers who supply the drug to the U.S. market-not even including the retailers-were to form a single corporation, it would probably rank seventh on the FORTUNE 500 list, between Ford Motor Co. ($37 billion in revenue) and Gulf Oil Corp. ($26.5 billion). Last year street sales of cocaine, by far the most expensive drug on the market, reached...
...trouble began at Jackson on May 21, when two guards were attacked by inmates, apparently without provocation. The next day, representatives of the guards demanded that the prisoners be locked up and shaken down to collect the illicit weapons. Both Warden Barry Mintzes and State Corrections Director Perry Johnson vetoed the plan as unnecessarily provocative, but the guards began a lockup anyway. Fearful that they might be confined to their cells over the long holiday weekend, prisoners in four of Jackson's 14 cellblocks refused to be caged. They turned on the guards, who fled to safety, and began...
Cocaine, one of the most popular and most expensive illicit drugs sold in the U.S., derives from the coca plant which grows mainly in Peru and Bolivia. For centuries, highland Indians have chewed leaves of the coca plant as a mild stimulant, to stave off hunger and drowsiness. Although this use continues, Bolivia now produces four times more coca leaf than can be consumed locally...
...drug connection, U.S. congressmen have organized opposition to the Garcia Meza regime. Sen. Dennis De Concinni (R-Ariz.), one of the most vocal opponents, contends that cocaine elites actually prop up the government, referring to an alleged $70 million emergency grant given by those involved in the illicit trade to avert an impending economic crisis. De Concinni and others also demanded that the most blatant drug traders be removed from the government, a condition that Garcia Meza met last month by dismissing Colonels Arce Gomez and Coca. The Bolivian government propbably will continue to comply with U.S. demands in hopes...