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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated March 2, 1964 reads, "Tijuana buy - Kick pills are available in vast quantities at drugstores and from peddlers in Tijuana. Valley Times reporter-photographer team, posing as weekend tourists, made contact with a 'pusher' two blocks from downtown Tijuana and also purchased pills without prescription at drugstores in the Mexican border community. The drugs later were turned over to police in the Valley."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Shuman, Eric Valley Times (Firm)--Employees Drug dealers--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California) Drug traffic--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California) Drugstores--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California) Narcotics--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California) Men--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California) Automobiles--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California) Reporters and reporting--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California) Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) Valley Times Collection photographs
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