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Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Mr Nice, <a href="/wiki/Narcotics" class="mw-redirect" title="Narcotics">Narco</a> Polo,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dennis Howard Marks (D. H. Marks), Hooward Marks, Albi, Mr Tetley, Not, Mr McCarhy and 41526-004 all</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Writer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Ilze Kadegis (1967–??)<br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Judy Lane</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1980⁠–⁠2005)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">4, including <a href="/wiki/Amber_Marks" title="Amber Marks">Amber</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Conviction" title="Conviction">Conviction(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act" title="Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act">Racketeering</a><br />(drug trafficking)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal penalty</th><td class="infobox-data">Imprisoned for 7 years</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Dennis Howard Marks</b> (13 August 1945 – 10 April 2016) was a Welsh <a href="/wiki/Drug_smuggler" class="mw-redirect" title="Drug smuggler">drug smuggler</a> and author who achieved notoriety as an international <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a> smuggler through high-profile court cases. At his peak he claimed to have been smuggling consignments of the drug as large as 30 <a href="/wiki/Ton" title="Ton">tons</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-DailyTelegraph-10204886_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DailyTelegraph-10204886-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was connected with groups as diverse as the <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">IRA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret Intelligence Service">MI6</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Italian-American_Mafia" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian-American Mafia">Mafia</a>. He was eventually charged by the US <a href="/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Administration" title="Drug Enforcement Administration">Drug Enforcement Administration</a>, convicted and given a 25-year prison sentence; he was released in April 1995 after serving seven years. Though he had up to 43 aliases, he became known as <b>"Mr Nice"</b> after he bought a passport from convicted murderer Donald Nice.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his release from prison, he published a best-selling autobiography, <i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Nice_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mr. Nice (book)">Mr. Nice</a></i> (1996), and campaigned publicly for changes in drugs legislation. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marks was born in <a href="/wiki/Kenfig_Hill" title="Kenfig Hill">Kenfig Hill</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Bridgend" title="Bridgend">Bridgend</a>, Wales, the son of Dennis Marks, a captain in the <a href="/wiki/Merchant_Navy_(United_Kingdom)" title="Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)">Merchant Navy</a>, and Edna, a teacher.<sup id="cite_ref-page_22_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-page_22-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brought up as a <a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptist</a>, he later turned to <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, though he did not become a devout follower.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended Garw Grammar School in <a href="/wiki/Pontycymer" title="Pontycymer">Pontycymer</a>. He was a fluent Welsh speaker.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He gained a place at <a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a>, after he impressed <a href="/wiki/Russell_Meiggs" title="Russell Meiggs">Russell Meiggs</a> in his interview,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and read <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a> there from 1964 to 1967. At the university he was first introduced to <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a> by <a href="/wiki/Denys_Irving_(Musician,_Filmmaker)" class="mw-redirect" title="Denys Irving (Musician, Filmmaker)">Denys Irving</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his friend Joshua Macmillan (son of <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Macmillan" title="Maurice Macmillan">Maurice Macmillan</a>) died, Marks swore off ever getting involved with <a href="/wiki/Hard_and_soft_drugs" class="mw-redirect" title="Hard and soft drugs">hard drugs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Marks_1997_39_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marks_1997_39-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his other friends at Oxford were the epidemiologist <a href="/wiki/Julian_Peto" title="Julian Peto">Julian Peto</a> and the journalist <a href="/wiki/Lynn_Barber" title="Lynn Barber">Lynn Barber</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Marks_1997_39_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marks_1997_39-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through a mixture of <a href="/wiki/Academic_dishonesty" title="Academic dishonesty">cheating</a> and last minute <a href="/wiki/Cramming_(education)" title="Cramming (education)">cramming</a>, he passed his <a href="/wiki/Final_examination" class="mw-redirect" title="Final examination">finals</a>; this was despite months of taking drugs rather than attending classes and a serious infection he developed a few weeks before the exams.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1967 he began teacher training, and married Ilze Kadegis, a Latvian student at <a href="/wiki/St._Anne%27s_College,_Oxford" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Anne's College, Oxford">St. Anne's College, Oxford</a>, who was also training to become a teacher.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He gave up teacher training to continue his education at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a> (1967–68; Grad. Inst P.), then back to <a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a> (1968–69; Dip HPh Sc), and then on to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Sussex" title="University of Sussex">University of Sussex</a> (1969–70) to study <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_science" title="Philosophy of science">philosophy of science</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Marks's daughter, <a href="/wiki/Amber_Marks" title="Amber Marks">Amber Marks</a>, is a barrister and pharmacology expert.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Drug_empire">Drug empire</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Drug empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Though involved with drugs at university, he sold <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a> only to his friends or acquaintances until 1970, when he was persuaded to assist Graham Plinston, who had been arrested in Germany on drug trafficking charges.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through Plinston he met Mohammed Durrani, a Pakistani <a href="/wiki/Hashish" title="Hashish">hashish</a> exporter who was a descendant of the <a href="/wiki/Durrani_Empire" title="Durrani Empire">Durranis</a> who had run Afghanistan in the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With Plinston behind bars, Durrani offered Marks the opportunity to sell the drug on a large scale in London, and he agreed to the proposition.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He formed a four-way partnership with <a href="/wiki/Charles_Radcliffe" title="Charles Radcliffe">Charlie Radcliffe</a>, Charlie Weatherly and a dealer named Jarvis. Durrani never contacted them, and so the group acquired smaller quantities of hashish from various sources and began selling the drug in <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a> and London.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After six months he returned to Germany to help bail Plinston out of jail. Marks was a useful means of transferring money as he did not have a <a href="/wiki/Criminal_record" title="Criminal record">criminal record</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Now a free man, Plinston gave Marks a job transporting hashish in <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt" title="Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a>; Marks in turn hired a New Zealand smuggler named Lang as his driver.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After paying Marks £5,000 for his work in Frankfurt, Plinston then sold hashish to Marks and his three friends (Radcliffe, Weatherly and Jarvis) in London; in selling 650 kg (1,430 lb) within a week, the four men made a profit of £20,000.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Durrani then arranged for hashish to be smuggled in the furniture of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistani</a> diplomats who were moving to London; Marks would then intercept the furniture to find the drugs – this arrangement netted him a profit of £7,500.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marks expanded his enterprise, employing two friends from Wales, Mike Bell and David Thomas, to stash the drugs and help with transportation.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The gang became dissatisfied with the way the profits were being split (80% of the money they made went to Durrani) and contacted <a href="/wiki/James_McCann_(drugs_trafficker)" title="James McCann (drugs trafficker)">James McCann</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Arms_trafficking" title="Arms trafficking">gunrunner</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">Provisional Irish Republican Army</a> (IRA).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marks and Plinston persuaded McCann to smuggle hashish into Ireland from <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>, which the pair would then ferry over to Wales and into England;<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McCann would get the drugs into Ireland through the <a href="/wiki/Shannon_Free_Zone" title="Shannon Free Zone">freeport</a> at <a href="/wiki/Shannon_Airport" title="Shannon Airport">Shannon Airport</a> using his IRA connections.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marks avoided the attention of <a href="/wiki/HM_Revenue_and_Customs" title="HM Revenue and Customs">HM Revenue and Customs</a> by creating a paper trail that indicated he made his money from <a href="/wiki/Stamp_collecting" title="Stamp collecting">selling stamps</a> and dresses.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1972, he was making £50,000 with each shipment.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of the year he was approached by Hamilton McMillan of the <a href="/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret Intelligence Service">Secret Intelligence Service</a> (MI6), a friend from Oxford University, who recruited Marks to work for MI6 because of his connections in the hashish-producing countries of Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan, for his ability to seduce women, and for his contacts with the IRA.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next year, Marks began exporting cannabis to the United States to <a href="/wiki/The_Brotherhood_of_Eternal_Love" title="The Brotherhood of Eternal Love">The Brotherhood of Eternal Love</a>, hiding the drugs in the music equipment of fictional British pop groups that were supposed to be touring the country; he further expanded his operations with other smugglers and other methods of trafficking, often using his Oxford connections.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As McCann was in danger of being executed by the IRA should MI6 tip them off about his involvement in drugs, Marks then gave up the smuggling operation at Shannon airport.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Littlejohn" title="Kenneth Littlejohn">Littlejohn affair</a>, MI6 ceased their relationship with Marks, while his American operation came to an end after police opened a <a href="/wiki/Loudspeaker" title="Loudspeaker">speaker</a> full of cannabis and arrested gang member James Gater, leading to other arrests in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marks was arrested by Dutch police in 1973, but <a href="/wiki/Jump_bail" class="mw-redirect" title="Jump bail">skipped bail</a> in April 1974; the British press then made him a nationally known figure, reporting that he was feared abducted by the IRA for his connections with MI6.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With most of his fortune confiscated by the authorities, he made his way to Italy, where he lived in a <a href="/wiki/Winnebago_Industries" title="Winnebago Industries">Winnebago</a> for three months before returning to England in secret in October 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At this point he began a relationship with Judy Lane;<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the couple married in 1980 and had three children together. He had previously been in a five-year relationship with Rosie Lewis, with whom he had a daughter. </p><p>Marks then connected Ernie Combs, member of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, with John Denbigh, a man with connections in the hashish-producing nation of <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the help of the <a href="/wiki/Yakuza" title="Yakuza">yakuza</a>, large quantities of the drug would be exported to <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport" title="John F. Kennedy International Airport">John F. Kennedy International Airport</a> in the guise of <a href="/wiki/Air_conditioning" title="Air conditioning">air conditioning</a> equipment, where Don Brown's <a href="/wiki/American_Mafia" title="American Mafia">mob</a> (headed by <a href="/wiki/Carmine_Galante" title="Carmine Galante">Carmine Galante</a>) would then take possession of the drugs.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 500 kg (1,100 lb) deal was set up and executed on 4 July 1975, leaving Marks a wealthy man.<sup id="cite_ref-page_143_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-page_143-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other deals up to 750 kg (1,650 lb) followed, and Marks continued to live under assumed names in the United Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-page_143_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-page_143-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1976 he travelled to America, and set up a 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) deal between Combs and 'Lebanese Sam' – making himself £300,000 in the process;<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he continued to regularly set up deals between his various American and Far East connections. In need of a new identity after his alias of Anthony Tunnicliffe was compromised in a police sting, in 1978 he bought Donald Nice's passport.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Between 1975 and 1978, twenty-four loads totalling 25 tonnes (55,000 pounds) of marijuana and hashish had been successfully imported through John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. They had involved the Mafia, the yakuza, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Thai_Army" title="Royal Thai Army">Thai army</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">Palestine Liberation Organization</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Armed_Forces" title="Pakistan Armed Forces">Pakistani Armed Forces</a>, Nepalese monks, and other individuals from all walks of life. The total profit made by all concerned was $48,000,000. They'd had a good run.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Marks concluding the JFK episode of drug trafficking in his Mr Nice autobiography; the run had ended after the <a href="/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Administration" title="Drug Enforcement Administration">Drug Enforcement Administration</a> (DEA) began intercepting the drugs and arresting Mafia associates in New York.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p>In the late 1970s, the <a href="/wiki/Trafficante_crime_family" title="Trafficante crime family">Trafficante crime family</a>, under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Santo_Trafficante,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Santo Trafficante, Jr.">Santo Trafficante, Jr.</a>, were importing Colombian cannabis into the US on <a href="/wiki/Cargo_ship" title="Cargo ship">freighter ships</a>, thus driving down the price of the drug on the streets in America.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 1979, Trafficante exported 50 tons of cannabis direct from Colombia to Marks and his contacts in the UK, enough to supply the entire British market for the drug for almost a year.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1980, Marks was arrested by customs officers for his part in importing £15 million of cannabis; police had followed associates of the Trafficante family to a large stash of cannabis.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When arrested, he was in possession of numerous pieces of incriminating evidence, as well as £30,000 in cash.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Defended by <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Hutchinson,_Baron_Hutchinson_of_Lullington" title="Jeremy Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington">Lord Hutchinson</a>, Marks pleaded "not guilty", concocting a story that he was an agent for MI6 (concealing the fact that his relation with MI6 ended in 1973) and the Mexican Secret Service that had set up an identity as a drug smuggler in order to close the net on James McCann (wanted in Britain for his IRA activities).<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The jury found him not guilty of drug smuggling but guilty of using false passports, and Marks was sentenced to two years imprisonment, but was released after five days having already served most of this time before sentence was passed.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> HM Customs then arrested him for his part of a 1973 smuggling operation but following a <a href="/wiki/Plea_bargain" title="Plea bargain">plea bargain</a> and time off for remission he served just three months of a three-year sentence.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Released in May 1982, though with most of his employees still in prison for the crime of which Marks had been acquitted, he spent the next year running a legitimate wine importing business but he continued to spend more money than he was making and the savings he made from drug smuggling in the 1970s began to dwindle.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1983, McCann was still at large and his smuggling enterprise was flourishing; he offered Marks the chance to sell 250 kg (550 lb) of cannabis and Marks accepted.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dutch police confiscated the full shipment and arrested Mickey Williams, a member of the London underworld who had agreed to help Marks on the deal.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marks then travelled to the Far East to set up cannabis deals with Salim Malik, a Pakistani hashish exporter who he had met through Durrani (Durrani had since suffered a fatal heart attack) and Phil Sparrowhawk, an exporter from <a href="/wiki/Bangkok" title="Bangkok">Bangkok</a>; they would smuggle their product over to Ernie Combs in America.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also arranged a 500 kg (1,100 lb) deal with Mickey Williams, who had travelled to Bangkok after his release from prison in <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marks <a href="/wiki/Money_laundering" title="Money laundering">laundered</a> his money through various <a href="/wiki/Front_organization" title="Front organization">fronts</a>: a <a href="/wiki/Travel_agency" title="Travel agency">travel agency</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Paper_mill" title="Paper mill">paper mill</a>, a wine importers, a bulk water transportation company and a <a href="/wiki/Secretary" title="Secretary">secretarial service</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1984, he was approached to sell $300,000 worth of cannabis to a <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> (CIA) agent looking to fund and arm the <a href="/wiki/Mujahideen" title="Mujahideen">Mujahideen</a> in their <a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">war against the Soviet occupation</a> (<a href="/wiki/Operation_Cyclone" title="Operation Cyclone">Operation Cyclone</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The agent's contact on the <a href="/wiki/American_President_Lines" title="American President Lines">APL</a> ship suffered a heart attack and died on the journey to the US, leaving the drugs in the hands of US officials; the agent subsequently fled to Brazil to avoid prosecution.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though under surveillance, Marks continued to expand his underworld operations and set up a <a href="/wiki/Massage_parlor" title="Massage parlor">massage parlour</a> in a Bangkok hotel with the help of Phil Sparrowhawk and <a href="/wiki/Antony_Moynihan,_3rd_Baron_Moynihan" title="Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan">Lord Moynihan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1986, he settled in <a href="/wiki/Majorca" class="mw-redirect" title="Majorca">Majorca</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and continued to make vast sums smuggling Salim Malik's hashish into America.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The DEA were meanwhile <a href="/wiki/Telephone_tapping" class="mw-redirect" title="Telephone tapping">tapping</a> Marks's phones and keeping him under surveillance and having arrested Ernie Combs they came close to busting a large shipment of cannabis, when Marks was tipped off; the ship was redirected to <a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a> and the operation aborted.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As he continued to avoid DEA stings he continued to make millions and continued to add to his underworld contacts, finding that he could use Chinese <a href="/wiki/Triad_(underground_society)" class="mw-redirect" title="Triad (underground society)">triads</a> to launder his drug money more effectively.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>A Philippine-brothel-owning member of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> [Moynihan] was staying at the house of a Spanish Chief Inspector of Police [Rafael Llofriu]. The Lord was being watched by an American CIA operative who was staying at the house of an English convicted sex offender [Jim Hobbs]. The CIA operative was sharing accommodation with an IRA terrorist [McCann]. The IRA terrorist was discussing a Moroccan hashish deal with a Georgian pilot of Colombia's <a href="/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_Cartel" title="Medellín Cartel">Medellín Cartel</a>. Organising these scenarios was an ex-MI6 agent [Marks], currently supervising the sale of thirty tons of Thai cannabis in Canada and at whose house could be found Pakistan's major supplier of hashish [Malik]. Attempting to understand the scenarios was a solitary DEA agent. The stage was set for something.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>The DEA's efforts to apprehend Marks were made extremely difficult thanks to the many wide-ranging contacts Marks had; in September 1987 many of these contacts were with Marks in <a href="/wiki/Palma,_Majorca" class="mw-redirect" title="Palma, Majorca">Palma</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p>When friends of his were busted by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police" title="Royal Canadian Mounted Police">Royal Canadian Mounted Police</a>, Marks decided to retire from drug smuggling to concentrate on his legitimate businesses; citing the fate of his friends and contacts, who were either in jail, informing the DEA, or smuggling heavier drugs.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1988, DEA agent Craig Lovato arrested both Howard and Judy Marks and extradited the couple to the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arrests of those involved in Marks's various criminal activities were made in Britain, Spain, the Philippines, Thailand, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Switzerland, the United States and Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was the work of 'Operation Eclectic', set up in 1986 by both the DEA and <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a> and aided by numerous other law enforcement organisations around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trial_and_imprisonment">Trial and imprisonment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Trial and imprisonment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marks was taken from Palma to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Modelo_Prison&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Modelo Prison (page does not exist)">Modelo Prison</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1rcel_Modelo_de_Barcelona" class="extiw" title="es:Cárcel Modelo de Barcelona">es</a>; <a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pres%C3%B3_Model_de_Barcelona" class="extiw" title="ca:Presó Model de Barcelona">ca</a>]</span> in <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alcal%C3%A1_Meco_Prison&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alcalá Meco Prison (page does not exist)">Alcalá Meco Prison</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisi%C3%B3n_de_Alcal%C3%A1_Meco" class="extiw" title="es:Prisión de Alcalá Meco">es</a>]</span> in <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There he was handed a 40-page document which detailed the allegations of his drug smuggling activities between 1970 and 1987, charging him with operating a racket as described in the <a href="/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act" title="Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act">RICO act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his autobiography, Marks stated that "although the charge against Judy and some others were absurd, the formal accusations against me, in general terms, were true."<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The recently passed <a href="/wiki/Sentencing_Reform_Act" title="Sentencing Reform Act">Sentencing Reform Act</a> meant that he was facing a minimum of ten years to a maximum <a href="/wiki/Life_imprisonment" title="Life imprisonment">life sentence</a> without the possibility for parole.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Audiencia_Nacional_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Audiencia Nacional of Spain">Audiencia Nacional</a> ordered his <a href="/wiki/Extradition" title="Extradition">extradition</a> to Florida.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After being shown the <a href="/wiki/Prosecutor" title="Prosecutor">prosecution</a> evidence against him, Marks attempted to construct the defence that his smuggling operations were directed to Australia and that he never exported to the United States, and therefore never broke US law.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He again cultivated the myth that he was a spy for MI6, and claimed that he was set up by the CIA because he had discovered that CIA agents were smuggling drugs into Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He and his lawyers spent hours reviewing the phone tapping evidence to make the coded conversations about smuggling into America seem to suggest that the drugs were actually being smuggled into Australia; research was done into weather patterns to prove tentative links between what was said by Marks and his associates and what was happening at the time in Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marks and his wife were extradited in 1989, and he was given the <a href="/wiki/Miranda_warning" title="Miranda warning"><i>Miranda</i> rights</a> on the flight from Spain to the US.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Florida, Judy pleaded guilty to her small part in the racket and was released, having already served some months in prison in Spain.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The money Marks made from his smuggling operations was spent on legal fees.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He refused to plea-bargain or to inform on his associates, gambling that he could again convince a jury that the authorities had got the wrong man.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the trial began in July 1990, Patrick Lane, his brother-in-law and fellow smuggler, wrote to Marks to inform him that he was going to testify against Marks in court to get a more lenient sentence himself.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marks still was confident of beating the DEA in court, but Ernie Combs also agreed to testify for the prosecution so as to secure the release of his wife, and Marks had little choice but to change his plea to guilty to racketeering charges.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was sentenced to 25 years in jail and given a $50,000 fine; though he had originally been sentenced to 15 years he was taken back into court after the judge realised he had misspoken and said that his 10 and 15-year sentences were to run consecutively and not, as he had originally stated, concurrently.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He spent seven years imprisoned in the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Correctional_Complex,_Terre_Haute" title="Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute">Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, a rough prison. He had originally been sentenced to <a href="/wiki/Federal_Correctional_Complex,_Butner" title="Federal Correctional Complex, Butner">Butner</a>, but agent Lovato insisted that he instead serve time at Terre Haute.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the six most secure prisons in the country, Terre Haute had the worst reputation of the six for <a href="/wiki/Gang_rape" title="Gang rape">gang rape</a> and violence.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite this, Marks remained on good terms with the many violent inmates housed there as he was "British and a famous non-rat" and avoided conflict "by being nice, charming, and eccentric".<sup id="cite_ref-page_442_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-page_442-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time there he befriended many notorious criminals and members of four of the reputed <a href="/wiki/Five_Families" title="Five Families">Five Families</a>, including: <a href="/wiki/Gennaro_Langella" title="Gennaro Langella">Gennaro "Gerry Lang" Langella</a> (<a href="/wiki/Colombo_crime_family" title="Colombo crime family">Colombo crime family</a>); <a href="/wiki/James_Coonan" title="James Coonan">James "Jimmy C" Coonan</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Carneglia" title="John Carneglia">John "Johnny Carnegs" Carneglia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Locascio" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank Locascio">Frank "Frankie Loc" LoCascio</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gambino_crime_family" title="Gambino crime family">Gambino crime family</a>); <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Indelicato" title="Anthony Indelicato">Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bonanno_crime_family" title="Bonanno crime family">Bonanno crime family</a>); and <a href="/wiki/Victor_Amuso" title="Victor Amuso">Vittorio "Little Vic" Amuso</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Senter_and_Joseph_Testa" title="Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa">Joey Testa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lucchese_crime_family" title="Lucchese crime family">Lucchese crime family</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-page_442_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-page_442-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also made friends with <a href="/wiki/Veronza_Bowers,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Veronza Bowers, Jr.">Veronza Bowers, Jr.</a> (<a href="/wiki/Black_Panther_Party" title="Black Panther Party">Black Panther Party</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Nolan_(biker)" title="Jim Nolan (biker)">James "Big Jim" Nolan</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Outlaws_Motorcycle_Club" title="Outlaws Motorcycle Club">Outlaws Motorcycle Club</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-page_442_84-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-page_442-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Owing to his status as an <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a> graduate with alleged connections to the British <a href="/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret Intelligence Service">Secret Intelligence Service</a> he was treated as a potential escapee and spent many weeks in <a href="/wiki/Solitary_confinement" title="Solitary confinement">solitary confinement</a>, though he never attempted to escape or threatened other prisoners or prison staff.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his time in prison he found success as a <a href="/wiki/Jailhouse_lawyer" title="Jailhouse lawyer">jailhouse lawyer</a> for the other inmates, securing one <a href="/wiki/Overturned_convictions_in_the_United_States" title="Overturned convictions in the United States">overturned conviction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He gave up cigarettes for the last three years of his sentence.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 1995, Marks was granted parole after a prison officer testified that he was a model prisoner who spent much of his time helping his fellow prisoners pass their <a href="/wiki/General_Educational_Development" title="General Educational Development">GED</a> exams.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was released in April 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_after_release">Life after release</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Life after release"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acting">Acting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Acting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He acted in gangster film <i><a href="/wiki/Killer_Bitch" title="Killer Bitch">Killer Bitch</a></i> (2010),<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> starred in the film <i><a href="/wiki/I_Know_You_Know" title="I Know You Know">I Know You Know</a></i> (2009),<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> appeared as <a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a> in the 2006 movie adaptation of the <a href="/wiki/Dirty_Sanchez_(TV_series)" title="Dirty Sanchez (TV series)">Dirty Sanchez</a> television series,<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and had a cameo appearance in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Human_Traffic" title="Human Traffic">Human Traffic</a></i> (1999).<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He appeared as himself in <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=AmStarDam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="AmStarDam (page does not exist)">AmStarDam</a></i> (aka "Stoner Express") (2016). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advocacy_and_politics">Advocacy and politics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Advocacy and politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marks stood for election to the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a> in 1997, on the <a href="/wiki/Single-issue_politics" title="Single-issue politics">single issue</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis" title="Legality of cannabis">legalisation of cannabis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Electoral_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Electoral-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He contested four seats at once—<a href="/wiki/Norwich_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Norwich South (UK Parliament constituency)">Norwich South</a> (against future Home Secretary <a href="/wiki/Charles_Clarke" title="Charles Clarke">Charles Clarke</a>), <a href="/wiki/Norwich_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Norwich North (UK Parliament constituency)">Norwich North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neath_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Neath (UK Parliament constituency)">Neath</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southampton_Test_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Southampton Test (UK Parliament constituency)">Southampton Test</a>—and picked up around 1% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-Electoral_94-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Electoral-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This led to the formation of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alun_Buffry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alun Buffry (page does not exist)">Alun Buffry</a> in 1999; the party reformed as <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_Law_Reform" title="Cannabis Law Reform">Cannabis Law Reform</a> in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-spliffs_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spliffs-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also argued for the legalisation of cannabis in numerous television programmes in the United Kingdom. On 1 October 2010, he was interviewed on Ireland's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Late_Late_Show_(Irish_talk_show)" title="The Late Late Show (Irish talk show)">The Late Late Show</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Dutch Cannabis Seedbank Sensi Seeds dedicated their strain Mr Nice G13 x Hash Plant to Marks for his advocacy work. </p><p>His close links to the likes of <a href="/wiki/Gruff_Rhys" title="Gruff Rhys">Gruff Rhys</a> led to Marks being associated with the radical changes of the <a href="/wiki/Cool_Cymru" title="Cool Cymru">Cool Cymru</a> movement and the changing face of modern Wales. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following his release from prison, Marks published an autobiography, <i><a href="/wiki/Mr_Nice_(book)" title="Mr Nice (book)">Mr Nice</a></i> (1996), which has been translated into several languages.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also compiled an anthology called <i>The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories</i> (2001)<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a follow-on from his autobiography: <i>Señor Nice: Straight Life From Wales to South America</i> (2006).<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Señor Nice</i> differs from his previous book as drugs are not central to the story and, while autobiographical, the book is more Marks's own exploration of his claimed ancestor, the <a href="/wiki/Piracy" title="Piracy">pirate</a> Sir <a href="/wiki/Henry_Morgan" title="Henry Morgan">Henry Morgan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, he penned the thriller <i>Sympathy for the Devil</i>. 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In these live events he regaled his audiences with tales of his smuggling days and his time in prison, as well as offered insight into drug production and the arguments for legalisation of cannabis. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comedy">Comedy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Comedy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was booked to perform at the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Comedy_Festival" title="Welsh Comedy Festival">Welsh Comedy Festival</a> in July 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comics_and_videogame">Comics and videogame</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Comics and videogame"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marks and comic writer <a href="/wiki/Pat_Mills" title="Pat Mills">Pat Mills</a> collaborated on comic strips which tied in with Sony's <i><a href="/wiki/InFamous_2" class="mw-redirect" title="InFamous 2">inFamous 2</a></i> video game.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the music world, he appeared as a guest on the BBC music quiz show <i><a href="/wiki/Never_Mind_the_Buzzcocks" title="Never Mind the Buzzcocks">Never Mind the Buzzcocks</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also collaborated with Welsh group <a href="/wiki/Super_Furry_Animals" title="Super Furry Animals">Super Furry Animals</a> on their album <i><a href="/wiki/Fuzzy_Logic_(Super_Furry_Animals_album)" title="Fuzzy Logic (Super Furry Animals album)">Fuzzy Logic</a></i> (released May 1996), which features a track entitled "Hangin' With Howard Marks". The cover for the album featured a montage of photos of Marks. He also worked on their singles "<a href="/wiki/The_Man_Don%27t_Give_a_Fuck" title="The Man Don't Give a Fuck">The Man Don't Give a Fuck</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Ice_Hockey_Hair" title="Ice Hockey Hair">Ice Hockey Hair</a>". <sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He featured on the album <i>Angel Headed Hip Hop</i> (2009) with <a href="/wiki/Lee_Harris_(South_African_musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lee Harris (South African musician)">Lee Harris</a> and River Styx.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also worked with former <a href="/wiki/Happy_Mondays" title="Happy Mondays">Happy Mondays</a> guitarist <a href="/wiki/Kav_Sandhu" title="Kav Sandhu">Kav Sandhu</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and appeared at numerous British music festivals, including: (<a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_2009" title="Glastonbury Festival 2009">Glastonbury 2009</a> and <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_2011" title="Glastonbury Festival 2011">2011</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Beautiful_Days_(festival)" title="Beautiful Days (festival)">Beautiful Days</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/RockNess" title="RockNess">RockNess</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Camp_Bestival" title="Camp Bestival">Camp Bestival</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kendal_Calling" title="Kendal Calling">Kendal Calling</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Sonisphere_Festival" title="Sonisphere Festival">Sonisphere Festival</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was featured on the <a href="/wiki/Reverend_%26_The_Makers" class="mw-redirect" title="Reverend & The Makers">Reverend & The Makers</a> track "MDMAzing" on their third album <i><a href="/wiki/@Reverend_Makers" title="@Reverend Makers">@Reverend Makers</a></i> (2012). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works_about_Marks">Works about Marks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Works about Marks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marks was the subject of the biography <i>High Time</i> (1984) written by <a href="/wiki/David_Leigh_(journalist)" title="David Leigh (journalist)">David Leigh</a>. </p><p>Marks was also the subject of the film <i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Nice" class="mw-redirect" title="Mr. Nice">Mr. Nice</a></i> (2010), named after his 1997 autobiography.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film featured <a href="/wiki/Rhys_Ifans" title="Rhys Ifans">Rhys Ifans</a> as Marks and <a href="/wiki/Chlo%C3%AB_Sevigny" title="Chloë Sevigny">Chloë Sevigny</a> as his wife Judy.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013, Marks recounted his story in an episode of the television series <i><a href="/wiki/Banged_Up_Abroad" title="Banged Up Abroad">Banged Up Abroad</a></i>. </p><p>In November 2024, the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> released a two part two hour documentary about Marks titled <i>Hunting Mr Nice: The Cannabis Kingpin</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc2024_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc2024-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 25 January 2015, it was announced that Marks had inoperable <a href="/wiki/Colorectal_cancer" title="Colorectal cancer">colorectal cancer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died of the disease on 10 April 2016, at the age of 70.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr_Nice_(book)" title="Mr Nice (book)">Mr Nice</a>.</i> <a href="/wiki/Secker_and_Warburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Secker and Warburg">Secker and Warburg</a> 1996 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-436-20305-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-436-20305-7">0-436-20305-7</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Howard Marks' Book of Dope Stories</i>. Vintage. 2001. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-09-942855-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-09-942855-5"><bdi>0-09-942855-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Howard+Marks%27+Book+of+Dope+Stories&rft.pub=Vintage&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0-09-942855-5&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHoward+Marks" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Señor Nice: Straight Life from Wales to South America</i>. <a href="/wiki/Harvill_Secker" title="Harvill Secker">Harvill Secker</a>. 2006. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-436-21015-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-436-21015-0"><bdi>0-436-21015-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Se%C3%B1or+Nice%3A+Straight+Life+from+Wales+to+South+America&rft.pub=Harvill+Secker&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=0-436-21015-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHoward+Marks" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Two Dragons</i>. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lolfa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lolfa (page does not exist)">Lolfa</a>. 2010. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1847712905" title="Special:BookSources/978-1847712905"><bdi>978-1847712905</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Two+Dragons&rft.pub=Lolfa&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1847712905&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHoward+Marks" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Sympathy for the Devil</i>. <a href="/wiki/Harvill_Secker" title="Harvill Secker">Harvill Secker</a>. 2011. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-09-953273-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-09-953273-6"><bdi>978-0-09-953273-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sympathy+for+the+Devil&rft.pub=Harvill+Secker&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-09-953273-6&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHoward+Marks" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Mr Smiley my last pill and testament</i>. <a href="/wiki/Pan_Macmillan" class="mw-redirect" title="Pan Macmillan">Pan Macmillan</a>. 2015. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5098-0968-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5098-0968-4"><bdi>978-1-5098-0968-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mr+Smiley+my+last+pill+and+testament&rft.pub=Pan+Macmillan&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-1-5098-0968-4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHoward+Marks" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Howard_Marks&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Specific</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Duncan Campbell (11 April 2016) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/11/howard-marks-obituary">Howard Marks obituary</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"the prison guards spoke of him affectionately as “Narco Polo”, one of the many nicknames he had acquired."</p></blockquote> - which is because of: <a href="/wiki/Marco_Polo" title="Marco Polo">Marco Polo</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DailyTelegraph-10204886-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-DailyTelegraph-10204886_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcGrath2016" class="citation news cs1">McGrath, Nick (11 April 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/10204886/Howard-Marks-My-royalty-cheques-are-lifesavers.html">"Howard Marks: 'My royalty cheques are lifesavers'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 June</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Daily+Telegraph&rft.atitle=Howard+Marks%3A+%27My+royalty+cheques+are+lifesavers%27&rft.date=2016-04-11&rft.aulast=McGrath&rft.aufirst=Nick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Ffinance%2Fpersonalfinance%2Ffameandfortune%2F10204886%2FHoward-Marks-My-royalty-cheques-are-lifesavers.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHoward+Marks" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-page_22-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-page_22_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 22</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 23</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 24</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 31</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 38</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Marks_1997_39-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Marks_1997_39_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Marks_1997_39_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 39</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 50</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 54</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 63</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/21/my-dad-mr-nice-amber-marks-howard-marks">My dad, Mr Nice: life as the daughter of Britain’s best-known cannabis smuggler</a> Published by The Guardian on 21 August, 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 64</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 65</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 67</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 68</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 71</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 72</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 74</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 75</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 76</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 78</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 80</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 86</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 85</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 103</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 109</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 111</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 116</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, pp. 122–24</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, pp. 128–31</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, pp. 133–34</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMarks1997">Marks 1997</a>, p. 136</span> </li> <li 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 November</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Hunting+Mr+Nice%3A+The+Cannabis+Kingpin+-+BBC+Programmes&rft.pub=BBC&rft.date=2024-11-21&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fprogrammes%2Fm0024qcd&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHoward+Marks" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-117"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-117">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-30975272">"Ex-drug smuggler Howard Marks has inoperable cancer"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 25 January 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Ex-drug+smuggler+Howard+Marks+has+inoperable+cancer&rft.date=2015-01-25&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-wales-south-east-wales-30975272&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHoward+Marks" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-118"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-118">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/10/howard-marks-dies-aged-70">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Mr Nice' Howard Marks dies aged 70"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. 10 April 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=%27Mr+Nice%27+Howard+Marks+dies+aged+70&rft.date=2016-04-10&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbooks%2F2016%2Fapr%2F10%2Fhoward-marks-dies-aged-70&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHoward+Marks" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <p><b>General</b> </p> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEddyWalden1991" class="citation book cs1">Eddy, Paul; Walden, Sara (1991). <i>Hunting Marco Polo</i>. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-21056-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-21056-0"><bdi>0-316-21056-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hunting+Marco+Polo&rft.place=Boston&rft.pub=Little%2C+Brown+and+Company&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=0-316-21056-0&rft.aulast=Eddy&rft.aufirst=Paul&rft.au=Walden%2C+Sara&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHoward+Marks" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMarks1997" class="citation cs2">Marks, Howard (1997), <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mrnice0000mark"><i>Mr Nice</i></a></span>, <a href="/wiki/Secker_and_Warburg" 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