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Larger Image » Add book review » Tag this book(What's this?)	Loaded: A Misadventure on the Marijuana Trail By: Robert Sabbag ISBN-10: 0316765112 ISBN-13: 9780316765114 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company - 2002-01-03 Hardcover \| 352 Pages \| List Price: $35.00 (USD) \| Sales Rank: 340393 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches Similar Titles All Editions Customer Reviews More details from or

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Loaded is the true story of a career in the marijuana trade of the 70s, with all the wild ups and downs of the time. Lured equally by adventure and profit, young Allen Long was the first North American smuggler to bring a plane load of Colombian pot back to this country, and the first to capitalize on the growing demand for a steady supply of high quality bud. Longs business quickly grew, bringing him unimaginable riches and the wildest of high times. Sabbag captures, in a spectacular narrative, the thrills of a smugglers careerthe adrenaline and idealism, as well as the perplexities of doing business while perpetually stoned.

This is a story from the long-ago days of Colombian marijuana smuggling--long ago, because most of the pot now smoked in the United States is grown domestically, and the top narcotics import from Colombia is cocaine. Author Robert Sabbag tells the tale of Allen Long, who got involved in this unsavory business in the 1970s because he wanted to provide high-quality cannabis for his buddies and also for the sheer adventure of it. Some readers will find Long a disconcerting protagonist--he's a drug smuggler, after all--though it may appeal to advocates of drug legalization and readers of High Times. Sabbag essentially romanticizes Long's activities, such as when he writes about the "rather consoling absence of gunplay" that marked the business of marijuana smuggling in its primitive past. The storytelling is adequate, but parts of Loaded are plainly padded. Here's a bit of sample dialogue: "This is really great pot." "You like that?" "I don't think I've ever smoked anything better." A better and more hardheaded book on Colombian drug smuggling is Mark Bowden's Killing Pablo. --John Miller

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