Folly Cove. Kermit Schweidel

      Folly Cove: A Smuggler’s Tale of the Pot Rebellion. Copyright © 2018 by Kermit Schweidel. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written consent from the publisher, except for brief quotations for reviews. For further information, write Cinco Puntos Press, 701 Texas Avenue, El Paso, TX 79901; or call 1-915-838-1625.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Schweidel, Kermit, author.

      Title: Folly Cove: a smuggler’s tale of the pot rebellion / by Kermit Schweidel.

      Description: First edition. | El Paso, Tex.: Cinco Puntos Press, [2017]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017028060 | ISBN 9781941026830 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Schweidel, Kermit. | Drug dealers—United States—Biography. | Marijuana—United States. | Drug traffic—United States.

      Classification: LCC HV5805.S39 A3 2017 | DDC 364.1/77092 [B] —dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017028060

      Cover design by Scott Crum

      Interior design by Bluepanda Design Studio

      TO EMMY JEAN

      Who believed in me more than I believed in myself.

      And inspired me as only a mother can.

       CONFESSIONS OF A CONVICTED FELON

      Though the story is true, I have changed the names of several participants who wished to remain anonymous. In some cases, I have composited characters and associated them with events they may not have been part of. The stories themselves are true, but introducing more names would only confuse the narrative. So I took a few liberties in the interest of adding connective tissue without getting tangled in a sea of names. Otherwise, I have stuck to the facts as we recalled them some forty years later. After all that time, I readily admit that our operating systems may have fallen a few upgrades behind. But we still have a shitload of memory. And memories like this are made to last a lifetime.