The Marching Powder

When Latin percussion god Tito Puente died some years back, The New York Post speculated that a 40-year cocaine addiction had finally caught up with the man. This piece of gossip turned out to be of (to say the least) dubious veracity, but it stuck with us nonetheless. That's because it got us thinking about whether or not cocaine use inevitably leads to addiction, one of the central tenets of the "Just Say No" campaign that was inescapable during our Reagan Era youth.

The issue is more...