Comments on: A History of Drug Prohibition http://www.clusterflock.org/2006/09/a-history-of-drug-prohibition.html a site about everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/2006/09/a-history-of-drug-prohibition.html/comment-page-1#comment-1217 Sheila Ryan Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:53:13 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=2033#comment-1217 BIG FAT FEDERAL LIAR is almost always a good surmise. BIG FAT FEDERAL LIAR is almost always a good surmise.

]]> By: Lee Willcock http://www.clusterflock.org/2006/09/a-history-of-drug-prohibition.html/comment-page-1#comment-1216 Lee Willcock Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:50:49 +0000 http://wp.patrickburleson.com/?p=2033#comment-1216 While lazing in the air-conditioned stacks of the Graduate Library, Univ. of Florida, in the 1960s, I found a book written sometime between 1920 and 1940 in which an anti-drug zealot told an unbelievable story that presumptively took place in the 1920s. Part, I think, of the build-up toward the rule of H. J. Anslinger and J. E. Hoover. OK, this fledgling narc infiltrates the drug culture of the Deep South somewhere, and finds that Negroes are having fun. I can't remember how the narc or fed of some kind got to see this, but he says that a white guy pharmacist allowed Negroes to use cocaine in the back of his store. The druggist (love that nomenclature) gets money from the people sitting in a circle and using cocaine in some fashion that I also don't remember. But here's the charm, picture this, the cocaine users get up and dance around madly and then quickly fall asleep on the floor. Some skip the dancing and just tip out of their chairs to the floor in a cocoloco dream. I swan! Does this sound like a cocaine party? Or does the author mistake heroin for cocaine? OR IS HE A BIG FAT FEDERAL LIAR? I would have to spend a week in Gainesville to track this down, but I do remember the description of the revelers and the druggist. Pass it on. While lazing in the air-conditioned stacks of the Graduate Library, Univ. of Florida, in the 1960s, I found a book written sometime between 1920 and 1940 in which an anti-drug zealot told an unbelievable story that presumptively took place in the 1920s. Part, I think, of the build-up toward the rule of H. J. Anslinger and J. E. Hoover.

OK, this fledgling narc infiltrates the drug culture of the Deep South somewhere, and finds that Negroes are having fun. I can’t remember how the narc or fed of some kind got to see this, but he says that a white guy pharmacist allowed Negroes to use cocaine in the back of his store. The druggist (love that nomenclature) gets money from the people sitting in a circle and using cocaine in some fashion that I also don’t remember. But here’s the charm, picture this, the cocaine users get up and dance around madly and then quickly fall asleep on the floor. Some skip the dancing and just tip out of their chairs to the floor in a cocoloco dream. I swan! Does this sound like a cocaine party? Or does the author mistake heroin for cocaine?

OR IS HE A BIG FAT FEDERAL LIAR?

I would have to spend a week in Gainesville to track this down, but I do remember the description of the revelers and the druggist. Pass it on.

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