1979 pot smuggling attempt -- dope pressed into LP shaped discs
Brian Corcoran says: "Here's archived footage covering an attempt in the 70's to smuggle Jamaican dope into Canada by pressing it into circular discs and concealing them within LP album sleeves."
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hey! where's the US dollar crash doc. ??
Hah - didn't Cheech and Chong do something like this - but with mexican dope turned into televisions.
I'm not sure about TVs, but they did end up driving a whole van made out of it across the border in Up in Smoke . . .
...and thus was born the phrase: "This new record is dope!"
This is nothing, I converted 50 kilos of pot to MP3 format and smuggled it into the country in my iPod, and still had room left over for 'Lost' Season 1.
I don't suppose it was a Doobie Brothers record?
I worked in a place in florida that had a hugh floor vase ala' miami vice safe house. it had been there since the 80's and nobody ever realized that it was made from about 20 kilos of columbian cocaine.
I had a friend who was a dealer when I was an undergraduate. He did a good business selling hash from Montreal to customers living in the Canadian North, where drugs commanded a much higher price. He used to ship all his hash up north after pressing it flat and inserting it into album covers (discarding the records). He told me customers liked it because they could easily justify having records shipped up to them.
I recall an interview with hip-hop group People Under the Stairs (I think it was them), where they described their record-hunting trip to South America, they came back with suitcases full of rare Chilean psych records, and the DEA agents at LAX confiscated them, and BROKE EVERY SINGLE ONE IN HALF convinced there was cocaine hidden inside ("Hey, who buys records anymore, there must be dope inside these!")
I get a kick out of going to the DEA website and checking out all the way people hide drugs in the most inane items (go to DEA.gov and look at the "microgram bulletins"-- very entertaining).
Who knew Charles Bronson was a cop in the 70's?
As they say in Jamaica, "this be righteous dub, mon"
I remember something like this bust from the '70s. Who knew I still had brain cells active from that period. IIRC, one of the records was labeled 'The Wages of Sin' I'm going to follow the link and see if this is the smuggling event that I remember.