Pablo Escobar: Beyond Narcos (War On Drugs Book 1)

by Shaun Attwood

In the 2006 documentary film, Cocaine Cowboys,

George Jung – whose life story was portrayed in the movie Blow, starring Johnny Depp.

The suites sometimes housed over 100 guests. Seven-hundred servants attended their needs and kept things running.

An American pharmacist, John Pemberton, made a non-alcoholic health drink, a mineral-water beverage laced with cocaine, which softened his morphine addiction. It became so popular that Pemberton received an offer of $2,300 from Asa Candler for the rights and recipe. Thirty-eight years later, Candler’s $2,300 investment was worth $50 million. The name of the health drink was Coca-Cola.

exposed by the journalist Gary Webb, who was demonised and committed suicide by shooting himself in the head – twice.

By 1982, Pablo was making $500,000 a day, rising to $1 million a day by the mid-80s.

“The War on Drugs is not measured in terms of the amount of drugs that’s seized. It’s a war of the human spirit… the real issue is will. The will of the American people versus the will of the cartel.”

George HW Bush boasted that he operated on the Big Lie principle, whereby big lies would be believed because the public couldn’t conceive that their leader was capable of bending the truth that far,

such as a president railing against drugs while

overseeing drug trafficking wor...