My Father the Smuggler-- video.newsweek.com

Newsweek reporter Tony Dokoupil travels to Cambridge, Mass., to learn about his father's past as a large-scale marijuana smuggler (Video: Josh Fisher, Tony Dokoupil)

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News & Politics

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• crime
• tony dokoupil
• father
• documentary

[JackDMiller]

Your father gave you life and raised you.

What more does he owe you?

You may not approve of how he lived but so what.

You owe him. I wish my dad was still alive so I could tell him how much I love and miss him. And yes bond with him. Grow up, you sniveling wimp.

Soon you father will be just a memory and your guilt will eat you up.

[ronknights]

No father should expose their family to the dangers of the drug world.

[cort87]

Son is a baby bitch.

[DonJokeen]

So sad he does not have any money left.

[watdog98125]

addiction.

aint it cool.

thanks for the slice of reality.

[irmoroam]

Kletterator,

You have to be completely disconnected from reality to think cocaine is not any more potent than alcohol.

[Kletterator]

Same deal with Prohibition and alcohol in the 1920s - when cannabis was legal (federal ban was in 1937).

"It was so addicted to alcohol - it was my downfall. No person was my nemesis, it was just the alcohol - and I could never break the habit. I still do some today."

"You still drink?"

"I drink vodka."

That's why legalization and regulation is the only option that will ever work. Cocaine is not any more potent than alcohol - treat it the same way, and cannabis to.

[mess4opana]

come interview me. ive got better stories. lol not j/k

and my parents are dead so you can't arrest them

[njelectric]

From a sociological standpoint, this is a very valuable piece of work which I find fascinating. I detect no ill-will or 'sniveling' in the reporters comments as some suggest. Thank you for posting.

[cointoast]

There's no reason for him to bring his gather back into his life.

The father took off on him when he was young.

What's the son going to do with him? Watch him smoke crack?

Listen to his stories?

Say no every time the old man hits him up for money for crack?

Would you want his father around your kids?

The father could give 2 shits about the son. All he's thinking about is how to get 10 bucks for crack.

[yahoopl3]

Everybody stay tuned, because next week i'm going to make a video talking about my father sucker punching me when i was 13. I'll be sitting on my porcelain throne pinching off a big loaf.