Drug based cultures always seem to be unable to compete with non drug based
ones.To much muddied thinking
--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Kris Millegan <roads...@...> wrote:
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> http://www.prweb.com/releases/drug_smuggler/drug_wars/prweb4336634.htm
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> Outspoken Drug Smuggler Reminisces About Hippie Trail -- Author Blasts the
> War on Drugs
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> Jimmy Buffet was one. The Eagles sang about them. The intrepid men (and
> sometimes women) who braved unpredictable associates, constant fear of
> apprehension and threats of violence in their daring exploits. Who were these
> people? Secret agents? Mercenaries? Even better. Drug smugglers!
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> The war on drugs is simply the war on some drugs, the ones they can't patent
> or control, the drugs that anyone can grow at home.
> Walterville, OR (Vocus) August 3, 2010
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> During the freewheeling days of the Sixties, marijuana and hashish were in
> high demand, and a number of dealers were willing to risk everything to
> supply the goods. One of the most outspoken of these entrepreneurs is author
> Joseph R. Pietri, whose new memoir "The King of Nepal, Life Before the Drug
> Wars" goes into fascinating detail into the life of a smuggler.
>
> The book, mainly written while Pietri languished in a Laotian prison, paints
> a vivid picture of his life on the hippie trail that led from London to
> Amsterdam, with stops in India, Afghanistan and Laos. It details an exciting
> time of exotic locations, drug-fueled orgies, brushes with the law and
> meetings with colorful characters like Big Eddie, Sunshine James, Afghan Ted
> and the Birmingham Boys. He recounts ingenious methods of smuggling weed in
> custom-made suitcases and in animal containers, and includes accounts of
> complicit governments, such as the Nepalese royal family.
>
> Marijuana was legal and even considered a sacrament in many countries until
> the US forced other nations to outlaw its use. The DEA, CIA and other
> agencies allowed the trafficking of the drug by the mujahideen to finance
> their fight against Communists. As a direct result, prices of marijuana and
> hashish skyrocketed while the price of heroin decreased dramatically. Now,
> Nepal is literally awash in heroin, and Pietri puts the blame for the
> thousands of new addicts squarely on the US government.
>
> The war on drugs is simply the war on "some drugs, the ones they can't patent
> or control, the drug that anyone can grow at home," Pietri states. "It's war
> being waged by the pharmaceutical companies and their puppets the US
> government who do not want you growing your own medicine."
>
> "The King of Nepal, Life Before the Drug Wars" is a fast-paced and highly
> entertaining journey through Pietri's life, where hundreds of thousands of
> dollars were made and lost, friends died and years were spent in prisons in
> foreign countries and even worse ones in America. All for a plant that the
> author now grows legally as a supplier of medical marijuana in Oregon!
>
> "The King of Nepal, Life Before the Drug Wars" is released by TrineDay Books,
> the country's largest publisher of inconvenient truths.
>
> Joseph Pietri is available for interviews. Contact Kent Goodman at (541)
> 954-8142 or write to kgoodman(at)amselmedia(dot)com to make arrangements.
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