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“I suddenly began to realize that to become an entrepreneur in the marijuana business would make me fairly well off. And I also liked the lifestyle, my own working hours.”

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George Jung is a notorious drug lord, born on August 6, 1942. He was one of the largest drug traffickers in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s, working with the Colombian drug cartels to smuggle massive amounts of cocaine into the country. more

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“In fact, I was welcomed. There were movie stars and rock stars. I became a pot star. I glorified in that. And of course as time wore on the business began to expand and grow. It went from more or less a college fun thing to a serious business. As the money grew, the power grew.”

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“I felt that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing because I was supplying a product to people that wanted it and it was accepted. I mean nobody really was making any negative statements about marijuana.”

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“Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.”

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“Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you."”

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“I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.”

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“If somebody had come to me and said will you move heroin, I would have told them no.”

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“I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all.”

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“Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.”

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“I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.”

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“Any marijuana transaction I ever did with anyone, there were never any guns involved, ever.”

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