"THE REAL PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN"
Woodstock Generation hippie and peace activist Sean O’Reilly drew on his 30 year career of
Marijuana smuggling to write the book, “21st Century Pirate.” It’s full of treachery and greed and disasters at Sea, just like the legends of the Pirates of olde.
The book also exposes the Conspiracy against Marijuana, (the real reason it’s illegal) and the hypocrisy of the phony Drug Wars.
The author takes you on a wild ride from his early days in Key West and South Florida through the islands of the Caribbean, up the Atlantic to New York and across the Ocean to Europe. You’ll be sailing on the fastest and finest vessels with the Buccaneers who run the blockade against the Herb as they evade law enforcement to deliver their fresh contraband to the world’s Pot smokers.
The popularity of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies makes “21st Century Pirate” especially newsworthy right now. In fact, the book is being made into a movie by Native Films of Miami ( www.nativefilms.com ).
The author is a sailor, ship’s carpenter and musician who believes that Marijuana is a medicinal Herb (and a versatile resource) that shouldn’t be denied to the people. In a recent interview the author said, "I’m a sailor. I love to sail, it gives me an incredible feeling of freedom. In fact my crew and I loved sailing so much, we took the long way from Jamaica to New York. Instead of heading north from Jamaica through the Mona or Windward Passage, we steered southeast through the Caribbean to Trinidad. It was thousands of miles longer but hundreds of times safer because the US. Coast Guard was guarding those seaways in the Mona and Windward Passages. We’d sail and fish our way through the Caribbean and when we got down between Trinidad and Grenada, we’d shoot out into the Atlantic Ocean. Then we’d sail hundreds of miles east before we turned north towards New York. This way, we never looked like we were headed directly to the US. from Jamaica when the Coast Guard and Air Force drug interdiction planes flew over us. In the northern Caribbean we were constantly buzzed by these planes.
Life at Sea refreshed me spiritually. We packed the boat with books and caught up on our reading. Fishing in the Caribbean was excellent and we always had fresh fish to eat. We dragged a yellow feather lure everywhere we went and occasionally we hooked into some sea monsters. At night we were pelted with flying fish that landed on deck. If they were big enough, we ate them for breakfast. We never carried alcohol onboard because we didn’t want to get sloppy, but we always had plenty of fresh Jamaican Pot to smoke.The book is 216 pages and can be purchased at: www.piratebook.com for $12.95 ISBN: 1-934248-20-7 ISBN: 978-1-934248-20-1
Contact the author: ed3541@hotmail.com 561-376-3216
About the Author: Woodstock Generation hippie and
Vietnam War era peace activist Sean O'Reilly moved to the Enchanted Island of Key West in 1970, one year out of high school. He fell in with the Ganja Pirates who partied on this tiny island between their Marijuana-smuggling missions. He soon became a top lieutenant in a major Reefer-running organization. When the Cocaine Cowboys turned South Florida into a dangerous war zone in 1980, he moved to St. Croix in the Caribbean. From there, he ran his own organization, smuggling Jamaican Reefer to New York. After hurricane Hugo destroyed St. Croix in 1989, Sean moved to the friendly island of Sint Maarten/St. Martin where he continued his blockade-running business.
He’s a sailor, musician and ship’s carpenter who believes that Marijuana is a medicinal herb that’s been given to mankind by our creator and shouldn’t be denied to the people. He did the crime and he did the time (in some of the Caribbean’s cruelest prisons).
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