The Free-Base Fad
December, 1980
After Sigmund Freud tried cocaine late in the last century, he touted it to friends, relatives and the medical profession as a potential wonder drug. The fictional Sherlock Holmes found that an injected "seven-percent solution" dispelled fatigue and sharpened his mind, over the objections of the prudent Dr. Watson. By the early part of this century, U. S. Government authorities had flatly declared cocaine to be a killer narcotic. Finally, over the past few years, millions of Americans...
