Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Meet America’s first drug dealer: Arnold Rothstein’s wild, real-life 1920s “Sopranos” story

Meet America’s first drug dealer: Arnold Rothstein’s wild, real-life 1920s “Sopranos” story


As I dug deeper, I realized there was a hole in the story of the start of the drug war—a large and cavernous one. It is possible to piece together how this all began through the eyes of the cops, the doctors, and the addicts. But as I read on, I found they were all obsessed with a fourth force—the new army of drug dealers that was emerging all around them. I wanted to know their stories, and how they saw the world. But drug dealers don’t keep records.

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