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041 0  eng  
082 04 363.4509593|223 
092 0  363|bengelska 
100 1  Maguire, Peter 
245 10 Thai stick :|bsurfers, scammers, and the untold story of 
       the marijuana trade /|cPeter Maguire and Mike Ritter ; 
       foreword by David Farber 
264  1 New York :|bColumbia University Press,|c2015 
264  4 |c©2014 
300    xxxiv, 236 pages :|billustrations, maps, portraits ;|c23 
       cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
336    cartographic image|bcri|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0  Foreword -- Introduction -- Surfers, scammers, and the 
       counterculture -- The Hippie trail -- Kuta beach -- Thai 
       sticks -- Pattaya Beach ground zero -- The sea of grass --
       The gold rush -- Pirates and perils -- Multitons and 
       mother ships -- The Dea gains ground -- Conclusion -- 
       Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 
520    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 
650  0 Drug traffic|zThailand|xHistory 
650  0 Smugglers|zThailand|vBiography 
650  0 Marijuana industry|zThailand 
650  7 Narkotikahandel|2sao 
650  7 Narkotikasmuggling|2sao 
650  7 Cannabismissbruk|2sao 
650  7 Marijuanamissbruk|2sao 
650  7 Smugglare|2sao 
650  7 Marijuana|2sao 
651  4 Thailand|2sao 
651  7 Thailand 
700 1  Ritter, Mike,|eauthor 
700 1  Farber, David,|eauthor of introduction, etc 
907 00 160229