The Cocaine-Craze - D Paul Graunke - June 1977

D Paul Graunke

The ancient Incas considered the plant from which it was taken to be divine. An early twentieth century German user exclaimed: "God is a substance!" And a contemporary American user said of its effect: "You feel like Adam, and God is blowing life into your nostrils." The divine drug so ardently revered is cocaine, one of nature's most powerful stimulants. Used and venerated by the Andean Indians for 3,000 years, cocaine has acquired ,hundreds of thousands of modern devotees in North America and Europe in the last few years. It has fostered a billion-dollar industry in the black market of illicit drugs. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library