The last pirate
Subtitle: a father, his son, and the golden age of marijuana
By: Tony Dokoupil
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780385533461; 9780385533478
Subjects: Pharmaceutical industry; Families; Journalists; Family; Marijuana industry; Editors; Biography
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Digging holes; title: The jump; title: Dealer McDope and the golden age of marijuana; title: The old man; title: The pirate code; title: Three little blond boys; title: The pirate life; title: The last scam; title: Busted; title: Big Tony, little Tony; title: Reunion.