Good News For Java Junkies
March, 1995
Like a lot of drugs, it is known on the street by many names: moke, crank, forty-weight, mud, java, joe. More than half of all Americans use it every day. In Seattle, where I live, it is common to see queues of twitchy addicts waiting desperately for their morning fix. "Double tall latté, two percent, no foam," they plead as they hand over crumpled bills, speaking in the impenetrable patois of the junkie.I admit it: I'm an addict, too. I tried to quit once, but for three hellish days I...
