Howard Marks (1945–2016), the Welsh writer known as Mr Nice, read physics at Balliol College, Oxford, before spending two decades moving cannabis across continents. Arrested in Spain in 1988 and given a 25-year sentence in the United States, he was freed in 1995, wrote the 1996 memoir Mr Nice (filmed in 2010) and spent his later years touring as a speaker and arguing for drug law reform.
Brian Rose interviewed Marks on London Real in 2013, with co-host James “The Colossus” Thompson. London Real remembers him. The most-watched London Real interview with Howard Marks is Meeting Mr Nice (116,000 YouTube views). Every appearance is listed below.
Meeting Mr Nice (March 2013). The full interview: smuggling, prison, writing Mr Nice and the case for legalisation.
Howard Marks (1945–2016), the Welsh writer known as Mr Nice, read physics at Balliol College, Oxford, before spending two decades moving cannabis across continents. Arrested in Spain in 1988 and given a 25-year sentence in the United States, he was freed in 1995, wrote the 1996 memoir Mr Nice (filmed in 2010) and spent his later years touring as a speaker and arguing for drug law reform.
Start with Meeting Mr Nice from March 2013.
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