St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, September 6, 1908
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, September 6, 1908:
In the days when crystals of cocaine could be purchased at any corner drug shop for the price, 10 cents was all that was necessary to purchase enough of the cocaine cubes to produce a “jag” for even a veteran user. The cocaine victims several times a day would ask for a “ten-of-c.”
The author of the article, who claimed to have attended one of these Tennessee parties, said that “A good strong sniff of the ‘refreshments’ gave me the impression that it was going to be a game for mollycoddles, and I gave the bulb a good push and took a good long sniff”. Clearly he knew how to party too! “I had been sniffing away at the ‘refreshments’, which, according to our hostess, was only a one per cent solution. I noticed as I got up to be introduced to the newcomers that my legs had grown and that I felt very tall. This struck me as being odd…”