If leading jazz musicians were among the most beautiful creative "flowers" ever produced by America, then heroin can be likened to a deadly fungus that wiped out a large number of them. Today, it's hard to figure how so much heroin was able to enter the United States after World War II and why its import wasn't stopped more aggressively by the FBI. The …
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