Money laundering, narcotics trafficking and two counts of murder. American Gangster: Kenneth Supreme McGriff, BET 2008
A criminal career that began two decades earlier on the streets of Queens when McGriff was the leader of a notorious drug crew known as the Supreme Team. ibid.
Crack was coming to town. ibid.
Working in the shadows Cornell Jones linked Hanover Place with an international network of drugs suppliers. American Gangster: Cornell Jones
Cornell also began to develop a market for an uptown drug: cocaine. ibid.
He also controlled the local market for PCP. ibid.
Hanover Place became known as DC’s first open-air market for cocaine 24/7. ibid.
‘I’m still a gangsta.’ American Underworld: Homemade Illegal Drugs, Mr Big, Discovery 2013
Steroids were first manufactured to treat illness and promote healing. But they can also promote muscle mass. ibid.
Guys cooking up steroids in home labs all across the country. ibid.
Half of Rome shoots up heroin, the other half snorts cocaine. Romanzo Criminale s1e2 starring Francesco Montanari & Vinicio Marchioni & Alessandro Roja & Marco Bocci & Daniela Virgilio & Andrea Sartoretti et al, Lebanese
Let’s give this madness a go. But if you screw up, you’re dead. All of you. ibid. supplier to Lebanese et al
This is our last chance. If you don’t feel up to it, take your share and go. Because if you stay, you’ll have a month of hell. ibid. Lebanese to gang
Because now we have the stuff we have to peddle it. I will remind you that we have a pact with Sardo. One of those pacts we have to honour. Romanzo Criminale s1e3 starring Francesco Montanari & Vinicio Marchioni & Alessandro Roja & Marco Bocci & Daniela Virgilio & Andrea Sartoretti et al, Lebanese to gang
You have two weeks to persuade them to sell our stuff, and nothing else. ibid.
Half of the junkies in Rome are shooting up with our stuff. We’ll soon have Sardo on the payroll. ibid.
In the early 1960s the Sicilian Mafia moved into a lucrative new area: the international drugs trade. Organised Crime – A World History: Sicily, History 2001
There’s more money potentially in narcotics than anything else we’re looking at ... Narcotics is a thing of the future. The Godfather 1972 starring Marlon Brando & Al Pacino & James Caan & Richard S Castellano & Richard Duvall & Sterling Hayden & John Marley & Richard Conte & Diane Keaton et al, director Francis Ford Coppola, Tom
Drugs is a dirty business. ibid. Don
I believe this drug business is going to destroy us in years to come. ibid. Tom
Lesson #2: Don’t get high on your own supply. Scarface 1983 ***** starring Al Pacino & Michelle Pfeiffer & Steven Bauer & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Robert Loggia & Miria Colon & F Murray Abraham et al, director Brian de Palma, Pfeiffer at table
The drug problem in Vietnam is more than marijuana. At this point it is estimated that one third of American troops are experimenting with opium and heroin ... An epidemic of heroin among American soldiers. American Gangster 2007 ***** starring Denzel Washington & Russell Crowe & Chiwetel Ejiofor & Cuba Gooding jr & Josh Brolin & Ted Levine & Armand Assante & Yul Vazqez & Ruby Dee et al, director Ridley Scott, news report
I want to go to the source. ibid. Frank in Bangkok
That’s 100%. ibid. drug assessor to Frank
Blue Magic. ibid. brand name
America’s Public Enemy Number One in the United States is drug abuse. ibid. Richard Nixon, televised interview
My company sells a product that’s better than the competition, at a price that’s lower than the competition. ibid. Frank to brothers
This is Blue Magic – twice the potency ... It’s everywhere. ibid. black rozzer to Crowe
Frank and Richie’s collaboration led to the convictions of three-quarters of New York City’s Drug Enforcement Agency. ibid.
If you want to know how to do a drug deal you watch Scarface. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels 1998 ***** starring Jason Statham & Jason Flemyng & Dexter Fletcher & Nick Moran & Vinnie Jones & Steven MacKintosh & Sting & Nicholas Rowe et al, director Guy Ritchie, black gangsta to the Greek
2I was once a shameless full-time dope fiend. Yeah, me Bob. The sweet mother’s son. Me and my crew robbed drugs stores. Drugstore Cowboy 1989 ***** starring Matt Dillon & Kelly Lynch & James Remar & James Le Gros & Heather Graham & William Burroughs et al, director Gus van Sant, opening remarks
After any kind of drug haul, everyone in the crew indulged. I laughed to myself as I pictured blues and Dilaudid in such great amounts on the spoon that it would literally be overflowing. Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm itch that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion. It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the whole world sympathized and took on a soft, lofty appeal. Everything was grand then. Your worst enemy – he wasn’t so bad. The ants in the grass – they were just, you know, doin’ their thing. Everything took on the rosy hue of unlimited success. You could do no wrong, and as long as it lasted, life was beautiful. ibid.
Most people don’t know how they’re gonna feel from one moment to the next. But a dope fiend has a pretty good idea. All you gotta do is look at the labels on the little bottles. ibid.
I’m a junkie. I like drugs. I like the whole lifestyle. ibid.
Nobody can talk a junkie out of using … something. Something to relieve the pressures of their everyday life. ibid.
Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus. ibid. Tom
People started coming to me for all sorts. Rise of the Foot Soldier 2007 ***** starring Ricci Harnett & Terry Stone & Craig Fairbrass & Roland Manookian & Billy Murray & Frank Harper & Neil Maskell & Dave Legeno & Kieran Bew & Jason Maza Coralie Rose& et al, director Julian Gilbey, Carlton Leach’s commentary
The first time I’d ever touched drugs and got as close to God as chemically possible. ibid.
Peace by ecstasy. ibid.
This stuff really was going to change the world. ibid.
The steroids left my whole body shaking. Crying out for food. I couldn’t think straight. They don’t just make your muscles big they fuck your head up. ibid.
Heroin. Mug’s game. I told everybody on my firm to stay well clear. ibid.
It had been almost a year since Pat went back to prison. Tony and Craig had become increasingly powerful in the drug world while he was inside. ibid.
And one bottle of Valium which I have already procured from my mother who is, in her own domestic and socially acceptable way, also a drug addict. Trainspotting 1996 starring Ewan McGregor & Ewen Bremner & Robert Carlyle & Kevin McKidd & Kelly MacDonald & Peter Mullan & Keith Allen & James Cosmo et al, director Danny Boyle
The streets are awash with drugs you can have for unhappiness and pain. And we took them all. ibid.
The good times couldn’t last for ever. ibid.
To take the pain away. So I cooked up. And she got a hit. ibid.
It seems, however, that I really am the luckiest guy in the world. Several years of addiction right in the middle of an epidemic, surrounded by the living dead. But not me. I’m negative. It’s official. And once the pain goes away that’s when the real battle starts. Depression. Boredom. You feel so low you want to top yourself. ibid.
I think drugs are responsible for the moral degeneration of the young. The Bank Job 2008 starring Jason Statham & Saffron Burrows & Richard Lintern & James Faulkner & Stephen Campbell Moore & Daniel Mays & Alki David & David Suchet & Georgia Taylor & Michael Jibson & Peter Bowles et al, director Roger Donaldson, Lew to Michael
A good narcotics agent must know and love narcotics. Training Day 2001 starring Denzel Washington & Ethan Hawke & Scott Glenn & Tom Berenger & Harris Yulin & Raymond Barry & Cliff Curtis & Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg & Macy Gray & Charlotte Ayanna & Eva Mendes et al, director Antoine Fuqua, Washington to Hawke
You gotta render unto Caesar … They just want to tax you a little bit. ibid. Washington to dealer