Thai Stick : : Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade / / Peter Maguire.
Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, 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 gene...
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Maguire, Peter, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Thai Stick : Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade / Peter Maguire. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (272 p.) : ‹B› ‹/B›29 Illus., 7 Maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Maps -- 1. Surfers, Scammers, and the Counterculture -- 2. The Hippie Trail -- 3. Kuta Beach -- 4. Thai Sticks -- 5. Pattaya Beach Ground Zero -- 6. The Great Circle Route and the Sea of Grass -- 7. The Gold Rush -- 8. Pirates and Perils -- 9. Multitons and Mother Ships -- 10. The DEA Gains Ground -- 11. Confidential Informant -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, 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 left over 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. Many forget that until the mid-1970s, the vast majority of marijuana consumed in the United States was imported, and there was little to no domestic production.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. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with smugglers and law enforcement agents, the authors recount the buy, delivery, voyage home, and product offload. They capture the eccentric personalities of the men and women who transformed the Thai marijuana trade from a GI cottage industry into a professionalized business moving the world's most lucrative commodities, unraveling a rare history from the smugglers' perspective. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Drug traffic Thailand History. Marijuana industry Thailand. Smugglers Thailand Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws. bisacsh Farber, David, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231161350 https://doi.org/10.7312/magu16134 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231535564 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231535564/original |
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