When friends of his were busted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Marks decided to retire from drug smuggling to concentrate on his legitimate businesses; citing the fate of his friends and contacts, who were either in jail, informing the DEA, or smuggling heavier drugs.

She got out of bed and found two strange men in the hall, one of whom would shortly introduce himself as Craig Lovato of the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Unfortunately, you haven’t got long left to do that – at the time of writing, Marks has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and he’s trying to live out his days by changing the world for the better. Most nice guys are broken and need support to overcome this syndrome and lead a happier, healthier life, including cultivating a healthy sex life.Marks and Plinston persuaded McCann to smuggle hashish into Ireland from Kabul, which the pair would then ferry over to Wales and into England; [24] McCann would get the drugs into Ireland through the freeport at Shannon Airport using his IRA connections. Appropriately, perhaps, Amber now feels that the best home for those hundred archival boxes would be a university. I really can't wait to implement all the suggestions of the book into my love life which is one of my main weaknesses.

Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want is available in hardcover as an audiobook and a podcast. Howard’s regret at the time of his death was that, despite his efforts, catalogued in the archive by posters of him as a candidate for the Legalise Cannabis Party, the laws remained unchanged in the United Kingdom. The DEA's efforts to apprehend Marks were made extremely difficult thanks to the many wide-ranging contacts Marks had; in September 1987 many of these contacts were with Marks in Palma.

As a footnote I would like to mention that even if half of what Marks says about American DEA and its judicial system is true, then the US should start its fight for freedom and democracy on its own yard.

During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Following his release from prison, Marks published an autobiography, Mr Nice (1996), which has been translated into several languages.Marks stood for election to UK Parliament in 1997, on the single issue of the legalization of cannabis. His morale compass (or lack of) makes him very hard to relate to, or sympathise with even during times of apparent hardship. Marks still was confident of beating the DEA in court, but Ernie Combs also agreed to testify for the prosecution so as to secure the release of his wife, and Marks had little choice but to change his plea to guilty to racketeering charges. This was the work of 'Operation Eclectic', set up in 1986 by both the DEA and Scotland Yard and aided by numerous other law enforcement organisations around the world. This often makes him miss out on living a better life because he is always trying to be liked by the people around him.