| Start Date: | 2/6/2014 | Start Time: | 3:00 PM |
| End Date: | 2/6/2014 | End Time: | 4:30 PM |
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Event Description
During the 1970s, Bangkok, Thailand became a modern Casablanca to a new generation of treasure seekers: from surfers looking to finance their endless summers to wide-eyed hippie true believers and lethal marauders left over from the Vietnam War. At the time the vast majority of marijuana consumed in the United States was imported, and there was little to no domestic production. Smugglers transformed the Thai marijuana trade from a GI cottage industry into one of the world’s most lucrative commodities. As historian Peter Maguire will discuss in this talk hosted by Temple's Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, moving shipments of Thai sticks from northeast Thailand farms to American consumers meant navigating one of the most complex smuggling channels in the history of the drug trade.
Copies of Maguire’s book, Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade will be available for sale at the talk.
The talk is free and does not require registration.
Thursday, February 6, 2014, 3:00 PM
Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy
Temple University, Gladfelter Hall, 9th Floor
For more information, http://www.temple.edu/cenfad/index.html. |
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Location:
Temple University
Gladfelter Hall - 1115 West Berks St.
9th Floor, Weigley Room |
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