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Blowing Through Colombia

September 25, 2006 at 10:41 AM | 0 Comments

We're not sure if the Times of London is operating some kind of work release program or what, exactly, but they signed up Howard Marks to write about a trip to Colombia. Marks, for those who don't know (and we didn't) was busted in for smuggling 15 tons of Colombian marijuana into Scotland and spent several years in federal prison in the U.S. as a result. Yet, this was his first time to the country.

That said, this article disappointed us. A drug smuggler in Colombia, cool, but it's kind of dull without a least a few Hunter S. Thompson style tales of getting obliterated on pot, coke or even some strange local herb. The fact that Marks' has an eye patch wasn't enough for us, sadly.

However, we'd like to see some similar travel articles in this vein--maybe a seedy motel tour by Robert Downey Jr., for starters?

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·   Howard Marks in Colombia [Times of London]