ABSTRACT

In Part I we look at drug trafficking individuals and groups as they have evolved in Britain. We take a broadly chronological perspective, looking at the ways in which drug ‘dealing’ from the 1960s has mutated into drug ‘trafficking’ in the 1980s/90s. This chapter introduces what some nostalgic interviewees referred to as the good old days, when the supply of drugs was not so much a business, and not as nasty, as it has become.