| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
252 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: Digging holes -- I Inhale: The Jump -- Dealer McDope and the golden age of marijuana -- The old man -- The pirate code -- II Exhale: Three little blond boys -- The pirate life -- The last scam -- III Coming Down: Busted -- Big Tony, Little Tony -- Reunion |
| Summary |
"NBC News"senior writer Dokoupil offers a gripping examination of his longtime marijuana-dealing father, as well as a researched look at the evolution of American narcotics laws. In the early 1970s, Dokoupil's father, also named Tony, dropped out of graduate school to deal marijuana. Dokoupil recounts how the smuggling and distribution business ran and contextualizes it within the Great Stoned Age. Partly the history of a generation, yet very much a family story, the tale darkens dramatically with the father's precipitous, if inevitable, decline and fall. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Dokoupil, Tony.
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Dokoupil, Tony -- Family.
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Dokoupil, Anthony, 1946-
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Editors -- United States -- Biography.
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Marijuana industry -- United States.
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Pharmaceutical industry -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780385533461 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0385533462 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780385533478 (ebook) |
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0385533470 (ebook) |
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