This is the story of one of the largest 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙘 manufacturing operations the world has ever seen. If you bought 𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙙 anywhere in the world in the late 1970s, there was a 60% chance it came from this one source. If you were in the UK, that went up to 90%. It’s a story of love, betrayal, buried treasure, and the UK’s biggest ever police raid (800 officers from 11 forces arrested 120 people). This is the story of The Microdot Gang, and I'm telling it with the help of author James Wyllie.Read James' book on this (out in paperback in July 2026): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microdot-Gang-Network-Turned-World/dp/0750996005

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Max Daly is a veteran crime and drug culture journalist with over 30 years of experience. He’s the co-author of Narcomania: How Britain Got Hooked On Drugs, co-author of Breaking Klad: Russia’s Dead Drop Drug Revolution, and he was the Global Drugs Editor at VICE Media for many years.

In this podcast, we talk about why people in America are taking much less coke, Belgium's narcos, and Russia's dead drop drugs delivery system. And there's a bunch of anecdotes from his journalistic adventures thrown in for good measure.

Check out his book: Narcomania: How Britain Got Hooked On Drugs: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Narcomania-How-Britain-Hooked-Drugs/dp/0099538032

Here are the articles we discuss:

Why America is falling out of love with cocaine

Is Belgium a Narco-State?

Breaking Klad: Russia’s Dead Drop Drug Revolution

Here’s his Substack:⁠https://maxdaly.substack.com/⁠

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