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    Oct 20, 2021 3 minutes

    When the cannabis-smuggler Howard Marks died in 2016, aged 70, the obituaries were affectionate. He was portrayed as someone akin to a national treasure.

    He had already been the subject of a popular film, (2010), starring Rhys Ifans, based on his bestselling 1997 memoir of the same name. A new book, , has just been compiled by his daughter, Amber Marks. It includes a photo of him smiling broadly at the Notting Hill carnival with a group of Met police officers, cheerfully posing

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