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Shoe Polish, Ping Pong, and Chocolate
DIMITRI MUGIANIS
Marty traveled the world and he was a master smuggler. Once, he had smuggled
all this opium from Thailand, and he had put it in ping pong paddles.
JERRY POYNTON
He took the rubber surfaces off the paddles and smeared the paddles with opium
where the glue used to be and put the rubber pads back on. The opium was the
new adhesive.
DIMITRI MUGIANIS
He also put opium in shoe polish.
JAMES RASIN
He would take a Bocci chocolate box and make balls of opium and then dip them
in chocolate, put them back into the Bocci chocolate box and reseal the box. He
made a box of opium chocolates!
DIMITRI MUGIANIS
He was a genius at smuggling—but not a great business mind!
So anyway he had all this opium in the chocolates, but if we were going to
sell it, we had to know how to get it out. If someone handled it, it melted. At one
point, we found ourselves sitting in the walk-in refrigerator of some restaurant, so
the chocolate wouldn't melt and make a mess of everything. We were cutting the
opium, but eventually the opium slowly but surely dwindled away into our blood-
streams. So by that time, we ourselves had huge opium habits!
Everyone we went to, like these Puerto Rican guys, said, “We don't need no
opium.” We went to Italians, blacks, Israelis, all these different crime groups who
told us the same thing: “First, we don't believe you have opium. Even if you did,
what would we do with
opium?”
JAMES RASIN
HereintheStates,peopledon'treallyknowwhatopiumis.Itwasrawopium,like
black putty. To smoke it, you'd have to have a special pipe, and you have to have
a special chef who cooks it. It's kind of complicated, not an easy thing to cook up
properly. I wasn't really into it. No one knew how to do it You can't really do it in
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