Welshman Howard Marks was the world's most notorious marijuana smuggler, bringing thousands of tons of drugs into Britain and the US during the 1970s and 80s.
A charmer, he was dubbed ‘Mr Nice’ after one of the 43 different aliases he used to evade capture and which he used for the title of a 1996 autobiography that inspired a 2010 movie, with Rhys Ifans playing Marks.
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