The Art of Smuggling

Francis Morland was one of Britain's most brilliant young artists, a leading member of the 1960s "New Generation" movement beside such future giants as David Hockney. At the same time he lived an even more remarkable secret life: as the first major drug trafficker in UK history. He stuffed his abstract sculptures full of Lebanese cannabis to ship to the lucrative US market, sailed yachtloads of hashish from Morocco to Europe and, years before Howard Marks, became the most important dope runner in the country.