Word: doped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a splendid place," said Hemingway. "Nobody believes me when I say I'm a writer. They think I represent big Northern bootleggers or dope peddlers." Even now Key West, underneath the gentrification and new time-share resorts, is still psychically an island of pirates and smugglers, where it is rude to ask a last name or an occupation. For writers, anonymity is pleasant only until it begins to feel like obscurity. Then it is reassuring to be near other writers. Key West offers serendipitous encounters, noon walks, short talks. There are always parties, to refuse virtuously...
...addition to disliking Robert Kennedy, Marcello also had cause to make the President, John Kennedy had approved of his brother's attack on Marcello and union leader Jimmy R. Holla and his unsuccessful Boy of pigs invasion had lost all of the Mafia's casino dope cackers and position rings to Fidel Castro. Ferre was anti-Castro and-elegantly turned Owald Ferrie was found dead six days after being named as a conspirator by Garrison. The thread tying Dallas and New Orleans together was allegedly Ruby...
Even so, only a dozen Arizonans have so far asked for license applications. Not that Arizona expects many dope dealers to become licensed. The state wants to levy fines, $10 per oz. of pot and $125 per oz. of coke, on untaxed drug caches seized by police, regardless of the outcomes of criminal prosecutions. Last week came the first case: a man was charged with "possession for sale" of 247 lbs. of marijuana and assessed $39,520 for having no license or stamps...
...clerk in Hawaii called him a murderer, he felt that she was talking about someone else. Daily quarts of whisky could not erase the awful memories and their replays. Mason lived in a private, disconnected world that finally crashed in 1981 when he was arrested for and convicted of dope smuggling. "No one [was] more shocked than I," he recalls. Chickenhawk, with its vertical plunge into the thickets of madness, will stun readers as well...
...hook smuggled drugs, the Reagan Administration has claimed some impressive catches: since establishing a regional interdiction center in South Florida in March 1982, it says that cocaine and marijuana seizures there are up 54% and 23% respectively, drug arrests have risen by 27%, and the street value of intercepted dope amounts to around $5 billion. Smugglers, however, have risen to the challenge by trafficking in smaller, harder-to-detect loads and by moving some off-loading operations to other places, including California and the Atlantic Coast as far north as Nova Scotia...