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Thai Stick
Peter Maguire
Mike Ritter
其他書名
Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
出版
Columbia University Press
, 2013-11-19
主題
Sports & Recreation / Surfing
Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws
Law / Criminal Law / General
ISBN
0231161344
9780231161343
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1WZVAQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Thailand’s capital, Krungtep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and “the City of Angels” to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970s, it became a modern Casablanca to a new generation of treasure seekers: from surfers looking to finance their endless summers to wide-eyed hippie true believers and lethal marauders leftover from the Vietnam War. Moving a shipment of Thai sticks from northeast Thailand farms to American consumers meant navigating one of the most complex smuggling channels in the history of the drug trade.
Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter are the first historians to document this underground industry, the only record of its existence rooted in the fading memories of its elusive participants. Conducting hundreds of interviews with smugglers and law enforcement agents, the authors recount the buy, the delivery, the voyage home, and the product offload. They capture the eccentric personalities who transformed the Thai marijuana trade from a GI cottage industry into one of the world’s most lucrative commodities, unraveling a rare history from the smugglers’ perspective.