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...young. It kills their time, robs their attention and stunts their development. Use it often enough in your teen years, and you get to adulthood having lost crucial months, years, of emotional and intellectual growth. Second, marijuana is a gateway to harder drugs, the stuff like cocaine and heroin that can destroy people in very short order...
Kwitny finds the CIA involved in impropriety across Asia. He argues that the CIA was a key player in a drug smuggling operation headed by President Diem's brother, Nhu, that poured heroin into the United States. And it was Nugan Hand that, during its solvency in the 1970s, laundered the operation's money...
...unlike Tunnel of Love, Reed's album was no masterpiece, except insofar as it represented a turning point for him artistically, from heroin addict to happy husband. (Go figure). But to its credit, Legendary Hearts was way ahead of its time, before the New Romance of late. Perhaps that's why it didn't sell well while Springsteen's album is destined for multi-platinum. One of the primary differences between Reed and Springsteen--besides everything--is the former's ability to be unfashionably early while Bruce is always perfectly punctual. Reed may have his finger on the trigger...
Individual soloists do emerge for the occasional aria. Notable among these is Dopey (David Frisch), a heroin addict who steps out of the diner and into the audience to explain the psychological motivations of other characters. There is also a chorus of drunks and junkies who offer a street rap about their lives, which consist mainly of waiting for the next drink or the next nickel...
...patriarch of an extended family of 2,000 members in Mexico, Jaime Herrera Nevarez, 60, was known as the "Drug Lord of Durango." The former policeman directed a heroin-smuggling pipeline into the U.S. Midwest that generated an estimated $200 million annually. Herrera was so sure he was untouchable that he regularly appeared at weddings and christenings...