Illegal but Acceptable? The Miami Drug world!?

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Adam Martin from The Atlanta Wire says, "The white powder that came to prominence in the 1970s and infused the city's pop culture image in the 1980s is now passe, according to a story in the Miami Herald. the story found recession-hit Floridians don't want to keep paying high prices for increasingly low-quality blow Miami still has plenty of well-to-do partiers, but more and more they'd rather use prescription pills than street drugs. He followed up "And/or people have been scared off by crack, while pills in Miami are easy to obtain, without the same stigma as cocaine." That goes along with a quote from a former drug king himself (Barry McCaffrey gave the Herald): "There gets to be a point where users say, ‘I can get my drugs from a criminal doctor who prescribes me a pill, In order to understand the magnitude of such an about-face, you have to remember how huge cocaine was in Miami at its heyday."The amount of money produced by Miami's coke industry in the Eighties was unlike anything ever seen in the nation's history.

So much cash was pouring into town from the wholesale and retail sectors of the trade that its sheer bulk presented logistical problems for the banks enthusiastically and unquestioningly accepting it. (The U.S. Treasury Department) made a couple of startling calculations: A full-size suitcase stuffed with twenty-dollar bills could hold roughly a half-million dollars, yet many millions were being deposited every day.

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