The man who made a hash of things
HOWARD MARKS is still truckin’. The cannabis drug baron turned spoken word artist will be in conversation with John Sinclair, the American counter culture hero, at the Cork Opera House next Wednesday night. The promoters are billing it as a trip you won’t forget.
Marks was born in Kenfig Hill, a small coal-mining village in the south of Wales in 1945. He studied nuclear physics at Oxford University and philosophy at postgraduate level. It was at university that he smoked his first spliff. Within five years or so he had gone from smoker to dealer to hash smuggler.
