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Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade (Pape
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- Objectstaat
- ISBN
- 0231161352
- EAN
- 9780231161350
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Stor
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Sports & Recreation, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Thai Stick : Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Subject
- Popular Culture, Industries / Agribusiness, Criminals & Outlaws, Surfing, Criminology
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Item Weight
- 14.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231161352
ISBN-13
9780231161350
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208688965
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Thai Stick : Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Popular Culture, Industries / Agribusiness, Criminals & Outlaws, Surfing, Criminology
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Sports & Recreation, Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
At once cutting-edge research and candid autobiography, this globe-straddling tale rolls from Southern California surf shops to the beaches of Baja, from Maui to seedy bars in Thailand and the jungles of Laos, and from communist extermination camps in Cambodia to DEA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Along the way, the authors introduce a cast of real-life characters stranger than fiction, who earned their place in the annals of American crime by chasing their own dreams across the high seas and back again, creating a billion-dollar black market industry in the process, sometimes at the cost of their freedom and sometimes at the cost of their lives., An extraordinary work, at once a participatory anthropology, detached sociology, cultural history, remarkable example of oral history, series of smuggling stories, and many other things to boot., Thai Stick is a rare, heart-stopping story about California surfers, hippies and straight out druggies who smuggled potent marijuana from Thailand to the United States and changed the shape of the American drug culture. Based on interviews with the modern day pirates, Thai Stickcaptures the wild aura of the 1970s and 1980s dope trade and the U.S. War on Drugs that tried to stop it., From the dank highlands of Siam to the sage-blown point breaks of Alta California, Thai Stick explores the relationship between surf culture and the 'funny business.' Maguire--grounded in law, history, and the surfing life--is exactly the right author for this street-level breakdown of smuggling in the 1970s., From the dank highlands of Siam to the sage-blown point breaks of Alta California, Thai Stick explores the relationship between surf culture and the 'funny business.' Maguire -- grounded in law, history, and the surfing life -- is exactly the right author for this street-level breakdown of smuggling in the 1970s., Thai Stick is a brilliant story of the surfers and watermen who pioneered the trans-Pacific pot trade. Adventurous and often hilarious, the book's narrative blows open one of the last remaining secrets of the hippie era. It also exposes the dark side of the business and its occasionally tragic consequences. Thai Stick is at once an authoritative work of history and an intense, highly entertaining read., From the dank highlands of Siam to the sage-blown point breaks of Alta California, Thai Stick explores the relationship between surf culture and the 'funny business.' Maguire-grounded in law, history, and the surfing life-is exactly the right author for this street-level breakdown of smuggling in the 1970s.
Table of Content
Foreword by David Farber Introduction Maps 1. Surfers 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
Dewey Decimal
363.4509593
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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