Taking hold of the hand truck, he began pushing the load of cartons through the doorway of the shed and out onto the rocky ground. “That looks like over a hundred pounds,” his technician said critically, as Steiner came up pushing the hand truck. “Very light cartons,” Steiner said. They contained a dried grass which, back in the Philippines, was processed in such a way that the end result very much resembled hashish. It was smoked in a mixture with ordinary Virginia burley tobacco, and got a terrific price in the United States. Steiner had never tried the stuff himself; to him, physical and
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