Blow-vertising: 27 adverts for cocaine paraphernalia (1976 -1981)

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, magazines like High Times and Hustler featured adverts on the cocaine theme. You could buy all manner of cocaine paraphernalia from companies with names like Head-Quarters, Johnny Snowflake and Cocaphernalia. As DM notes, “it wasn’t until 1986 that a statute was passed making it a crime to “sell, transport through the mail, transport across state lines, import, or export drug paraphernalia as defined.”

Did any of you buy any of these items (for research purposes)?

 

cocaine adverts cocaine 27

cocaine 25 cocaine 24
cocaine 23 cocaine 22
cocaine 20 cocaine 19
cocaine 18 cocaine 17 cocaine 16 cocaine 15
cocaine 14 cocaine 13
cocaine 12 cocaine 11 cocaine 10 cocaine 9 cocaine 8 cocaine 7 cocaine 6 cocaine 5 cocaine 4 cocaine 3 cocaine 2 cocaine 1 cocaine

 

 

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