Letters: Jul. 27, 1981

High on Cocaine

To the Editors:

The use of cocaine [July 6] is more evidence of the rottenness and decay of our society. We beat our chests and proclaim ourselves the strongest and most powerful country on earth, but our enemies know destruction will come from within.

Primitivo D. Roca, M.D. Rochester

Imagine a $30 billion-a-year tax-free business! Ironically, cocaine dealers don't pay the IRS through the nose like the rest of us poor taxpayers.

Mary Jane Mullins Louisville

The way to deal with drug abuse is not through law enforcement alone. Society...

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