The Playboy Forum

March, 1977

Coke and the ConstitutionOn July 28, 1976, Richard Miller, a 36-year-old welfare recipient with no criminal record, was arrested in Boston and charged with possession of $20 worth of cocaine. In Miller's behalf, and with the assistance of the Playboy Foundation, we have brought a major test-case challenge to cocaine prohibition in Massachusetts. To support our contentions that cocaine is not a narcotic, that it is not addicting, that it is not physically or mentally debilitating, that coke is, i...