Howard Marks - Meeting Mr. Nice

London Real

Brian Rose

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🗓️ 31 March 2013

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Welsh author and former International Cannabis Smuggler Howard Marks drops by to talk about his infamous career where he shipped consignments as large at 30 tons, avoided the grasp of law enforcement for two decades and was connected with groups such as the CIA, the IRA, MI6, the Mafia, and the Yajuza, how he spent 7 years in the U.S. Federal Penitentiary, and why he continues to write fiction and perform his one man shows across Britain.

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0:00.0	This is Howard Marx and you're listening to London Real, one of the coolest up-and-coming podcasts.
0:17.0	Hi, it's Brian Rose from London Real.
0:21.0	We've just finished with Howard Marks in studio. He is the
0:24.6	legendary cannabis smuggler who at one point was shipping 30 tons at a time. He was
0:32.1	dealing with the IRA, he was a member of the MI6, he was doing
0:37.4	business with the mafia, the Yakuza being chased by the CIA and the DEA.
0:43.0	This man has legend written all over him.
0:45.6	And my studio still smell like weed.
0:48.7	He is the real deal.
0:50.4	We spoke to him for almost two hours,
0:52.2	and it was just an awesome pleasure.
0:55.2	He is a humble man, a highly intelligent man.
0:58.8	He went from a small Welsh mining town to Oxford and then he started his career smuggling and he always thought of it as more of doing good because he still sees no problem with cannabis and that's the only drug he smuggled.
1:14.4	So he's a fascinating guy with a really fascinating story.
1:17.3	So I really hope you enjoy Howard and the next couple hours.
1:22.2	It was a real special moment and one of my top five
1:25.6	London Reels to date by far I hope you caught Maggie Steve Otter she's the
1:32.2	author that we have in the last episode.
1:34.5	She sold I think almost 2 million books right now and has been on the New York Times
1:38.6	bestseller list for a long time. She's a cool girl. Had a lot of American sass and she was a lot of fun. So I think we're going to see her movies in kind of a twilight way in the next couple of years. So keep an eye out for her. I always love seeing new talent on the show that I know
1:55.1	we're going to go go places and someday you can look back and be like I saw them first on
2:00.1	London real so that kind of shit just gets me pumped up. As usual we are sponsored by the folks that make
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