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Junk Time in Old Piccadilly

Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 4 March 1971

LONDON — With any kind of luck, you could sleep long enough to save two hits. Take them down to Piccadilly and sell one, then fix the other in the toilet in the underground station. At midnight, waltz out of the all-night pharmacist's past the waiting, watching fuzz with the next day's prescription in your hand, stoned, holding for tomorrow and perfectly legal.

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