What a prick.

I hate people like this and the media who glorify what is a scumbag lifestyle and adds to the decline of society.

I used to look up to and seek out "people" like this in my younger days, I looked up to them.....then I grew the f**k up.

For the love of god media, stop glorifying a*****es like this and giving them publicity.

The only place for them is 6ft under

Good story.

This isn't rocket surgery.

Good plan, Doggylives; let's pretend this s**t doesn't happen.

That was an excellent interview. Despite the title I wasn't ready for the scale of it. He's lived one f**ked up likfe.

Yes, what he did was despicable. The thousands of lives he must have destroyed in his five-year spree. He was quite clearly a scumbag.

But if anything this was not glorification.
Well, perhaps a glorification of being a boss, but far from a glorification of petty street runners. Or drugs.

His story shows that all things in the business come to an end; especially becuase he wasn't initially in it for power or money.
He shows what prisons are/were like 15 years ago - whichever. He didn't touch heroin til he was in prison. Not only was he eventually caught by the law and imprisoned, he became addicted to heroin.

Hardly a glorification. I admire that he managed to build such a vast cartel, though it makes me wonder quite how much security has changed in the past decade.

Still, a damning account of hard drugs. The fact it's real, rather than getiing 'gangster' stories from popular fiction (books, film), just adds depth. It proves it exists, perhaps how easy it is to perpetuate, and what it does to the people who are exposed to it.

I really enjoyed this article. Thank you for posting.

Sorry for the double post. Please downvote :)

He actually used to word c**t in a sentence.

I know what happened! He stopped dealing heroin.

Mystery solved.

P.S. copoflaw I use c**t in sentences like all the time.

In one of my classes, we got to talk to an ex-heroin junkie/journalist who got busted and thrown out of the industry, after we'd been forced to read his book.

He was apologetic about his drug use only insofar as it had hurt his wife, who must be a saint because she stayed with him after he was a huge jerk for decades.
But he wasn't apologetic about having done the drugs, at all.

Where exactly did I say that this story glorified this lifestyle and world?!

I was commenting in general but way to make presumptions and jump to conclusions.

How old are you? I'm sure I'm a fair bit older, shall I go into details of my life and my experiences with drugs, prison, assaults, theft and crime in general?

That's a retorical question FYI as I won't be going into details, but to turn round to me and say, "Good plan, Doggylives; let's pretend this s**t doesn't happen" is laughable.

I love films like Lock, stock and two smoking barrels and Snatch and Scarface etc but I DO think the media in general glorifies the criminal lifestyle and more impressionable younths who are already living in high-crime areas latch onto these lifestyle partly due to media influence.

I'm not talking about, "OOhhhhh look that films good, I'll go and commit crimes" but rather I'm talking about the way that media (music, films, popular culture etc) influences the way of thinking of society.

I wish I were a movie director... this is a plot on a silver platter.

(And when I say silver, I'm not talking about the shiny kind)