Never Charged, Never Convicted: The Autobiography of a Boston Drug Dealer

Overview

Never Charged, Never Convicted reveals Marvin's Clark's fascinating life as a Boston drug dealer from 1960 - 1990 and a participant in some of the seminal events of the latter 20th century. As a drug dealer. Clark became a rare survivor of the government's attempt to stop the distribution. The value of Clark's memoir is to show us how the government turned quite helpless when a major segment of our future leaders, that is, the college youth of the period, began to defy government policies they viewed as hypocritical and oppressive. Clark relates what it was like to have lived on the edge of this exciting and pivotal part of American history His drug peddling operation was never full time; and he was able to attend college while selling illegal drugs during the desegregation of the schools, race riots and daily demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Clark depicts Boston at the beginning of South: American drug smuggling into the city. Once demands for Clark's drugs became established, politicians began to question whether harsh sentences for marijuana possession was enough, to suppress trafficking it. This valuable memoir begins with the post-World War II domestic migration of Africa Americans from the deep South. Readers may be unaware of the underworld's activities-during the political rallies and marches in support of civil rights and political opposition to the^ Vietnam War Notwithstanding Clark's trafficking, at the end he shows that he was among the idealists, political radicals, and hippies of his era, who were blind to the foreign and underworld drug traffickers.

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