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FOR some years there have been rumors about the increase in drug taking in the South -- vague, but always insistent rumors that the addiction to such drugs morphine and cocaine was becoming a veritable curse to the colored face in certain regions. Some of these reports of alleged conditions read like the wildest flights of a sensational fiction writer. View Full Article in Timesmachine »