A Very Expensive High
January, 1975
Cocaine--coke, flake, blow and lady, the white crystalline compound that Sigmund Freud made famous in 1884--is also called snow; and now at the beginning of 1975, a blizzard of cocaine is blowing over us, little spoons hanging from our necks like crucifixes, snorting noises in the next room coming from people who don't have colds, people working 20-hour days who used to work four. The United States Bureau of Customs seized only six pounds of illegal cocaine in 1960, but 907 pounds in 1974, and t...
