Outspoken Drug Smuggler Reminisces About Hippie Trail — Author Blasts the War on Drugs

Outspoken Drug Smuggler Reminisces About Hippie Trail — Author Blasts the War on Drugs

Walterville, OR (Vocus) August 3, 2010

During the freewheeling days of the Sixties, marijuana and hashish were in high demand, and a number of dealers were willing to risk everything to supply the goods. One of the most outspoken of these entrepreneurs is author Joseph R. Pietri, whose new memoir “The King of Nepal, Life Before the Drug Wars” goes into fascinating detail into the life of a smuggler.

The book, mainly written while Pietri languished in a Laotian prison, paints a vivid picture of his life on the hippie trail that led from London to Amsterdam, with stops in India, Afghanistan and Laos. It details an exciting time of exotic locations, drug-fueled orgies, brushes with the law and meetings with colorful characters like Big Eddie, Sunshine James, Afghan Ted and the Birmingham Boys. He recounts ingenious methods of smuggling weed in custom-made suitcases and in animal containers, and includes accounts of complicit governments, such as the Nepalese royal family.

Marijuana was legal and even considered a sacrament in many countries until the US forced other nations to outlaw its use. The DEA, CIA and other agencies allowed the trafficking of the drug by the mujahideen to finance their fight against Communists. As a direct result, prices of marijuana and hashish skyrocketed while the price of heroin decreased dramatically. Now, Nepal is literally awash in heroin, and Pietri puts the blame for the thousands of new addicts squarely on the US government.

The war on drugs is simply the war on “some drugs, the ones they can’t patent or control, the drug that anyone can grow at home,” Pietri states. “It’s war being waged by the pharmaceutical companies and their puppets the US government who do not want you growing your own medicine.”

“The King of Nepal, Life Before the Drug Wars” is a fast-paced and highly entertaining journey through Pietri’s life, where hundreds of thousands of dollars were made and lost, friends died and years were spent in prisons in foreign countries and even worse ones in America. All for a plant that the author now grows legally as a supplier of medical marijuana in Oregon!

“The King of Nepal, Life Before the Drug Wars” is released by TrineDay Books, the country’s largest publisher of inconvenient truths.

Joseph Pietri is available for interviews. Contact Kent Goodman at (541) 954-8142 or write to kgoodman(at)amselmedia(dot)com to make arrangements.

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Take an Inside Look at the Skimming of Drugs and Money

Take an Inside Look at the Skimming of Drugs and Money

Longwood, FL (PRWEB) December 8, 2007

Police work is fun and unorthodox in the 1950s and ’60s. This is readily apparent to Detective Jim Utze, an idealistic and frustrated Native American, when he joins the NYPD, one of the most storied cultures of society in the mid-twentieth century. Jim longs for the days of the Wild West, when good people helped the weak and oppressed. But when the erosion of his integrity becomes too prevalent, Jim questions his continuing acceptance of the system. Even his girlfriend, Ruth, becomes an enigma, especially when Jim suspects she may have played a part in the use of his personal weapon in an assassination.

Drawing on author J.P. Morgan, D.Min.’s almost 40 years’ involvement in law enforcement, The Copper Indian ($ 14.99, paperback, 978-1-60477-225-8) takes an inside look at the skimming of drugs and money and teaches how bounty-driven narcs make arrests based on intuition and profiling. Combining suspense, humor and action, the novel is a fast-paced homage to the career of an author who has “been there and done it all.”

Says Morgan of the book’s message, “Policing was fun in the ’50s and ’60s in New York, but some officers abused the freedom they had. As Jim eventually learns, some things are just wrong, even though you ca have fun doing them. Rationalizing just keeps getting you in deeper and deeper.”

Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world’s largest Christian publisher, with more than 4,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order The Copper Indian through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country’s leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.

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