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"BLOW"

STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE

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STORY CHAPTER LINKS
1. STORY PREFACE
2. GEORGE AND CARLOS
3. COCAINE - IT'S NOT CHOCOLATE
4. COCAINE AND THE COCA PLANT
5. COCAINE-LACED DRINKS
6. WHAT DOES COCAINE DO?
7. GEORGE MEETS COCAINE
8. GEORGE MEETS PABLO ESCOBAR
9. GEORGE'S FAMILY
10. GEORGE MAKES A DEAL
11. PABLO'S END
12. A GLOOMY FORECAST
13. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES

PREFACE

George,
Do you know anything about
Cocaine?

Carlos Lehder to George Jung
Danbury Prison
1974

It was a fateful meeting that would lead to dire consequences for many people. George Jung, doing time for smuggling marijuana, met Carlos Lehder,* doing time for smuggling cars across the US/Canadian border.

Within a few years of their discharge from Danbury Correctional Facility, Jung and his cell mate Lehder (who was also serving time for marijuana possession) found a way to do business together. Carlos had a plan: To flood America with cocaine which would destroy the political and moral structure of the United States.

As Carlos liked to say (scroll down 60%): Cocaine was the atomic bomb, and he was going to drop it on America.

*In the movie "Blow," Diego Delgado is the Carlos Lehder character.

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Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.