I'm trying to pinpoint the decade when the CIA allegedly dumped cocaine in black

[Mike 03]

5. I lived in Los Angeles during the entirety of the 80s.

and I remember the so-called Crack epidemic and the drive-by shootings and gang wars. Crack cocaine was cheap. It really was a little bit scary to live in Los Angeles at the time.

But the irony is that much more expensive cocaine powder was inundating the film industry. I don't know where all that cocaine was coming from. Before John Belushi's death, there was even this idea that cocaine wasn't all that harmful. But it continued to be used after Belushi's death. Over time, after a few more overdoses and suicides and some extremely poor judgment demonstrated by filmmakers and studio execs, studios woke up and began to try to rehab some of their key people. Some people became more discreet about using it. Anyway, I don't think the expensive stuff came from the CIA. One city, two drug stories.