High : confessions of a pot smuggler / Brian O'Dea.
High : confessions of a pot smuggler / Brian O'Dea.
Alternate Title
:
Confessions of a pot smuggler
By
:
O'Dea, Brian.
Publication Date
:
2006
Publication Information
:
[Toronto] : Random House Canada,
Physical Description
:
358 p.
Subject Term
:
Smugglers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Drug traffic.
Drug traffic -- United States.
Marijuana.
Geographic Term
:
St. John's (N.L.) -- Biography.
Summary
:
The O'Dea family is well known in government and legal circles in Newfoundland. But the family's prominence could not protect their middle son from sexual abuse at the hands of priests. Brian became the black sheep, and turned to drugs in his late teens for the money, for the excitement, and for an escape from himself. Twenty-five years later, when the cops finally knocked on his door atthe end of a massive DEA investigation, he had given up the trade and was a recovered cocaine addict working as a drug addiction counsellor in Santa Barbara. He had finally begun to understand how he had ended up in the drug world. He was tried and sentenced to ten years to be served at Terminal Island federal prison in Los Angeles Harbor. High interweaves extracts of his prison diary - perceptive, funny and alarming all at once - with the vivid recounting of his outlaw years and the dawning recognition of those things in his life that were worth living for.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780679312789
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