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SNIFF, DRINK, LIVE

He loved the attention and the power kick of being the island’s number-one dope boss. If anyone wanted a quality smoke, he was the man, even trademarking the name Lemon Juice, and printing hundreds of T-shirts with ‘Lemon Juice 100% bagus’ (good) written on them in bold fluorescent lettering. Everyone from surfers and expats to rich and poor locals wore them.

I work Lemon Juice for more than 12 years. Nobody knows because people are so stupid. I just call my friend and say, ‘Let’s have a drink of Lemon Juice,’ but really, ‘Let’s smoke some pot, ganja.’ That’s the way, nobody knows. And then it gets famous the name Lemon Juice, everybody talks about Lemon Juice, and then I open one small Lemon Juice company.

– Marco

He organised people to sell for him, as Rafael had originally done, as well as selling it himself to friends.

With Lemon Juice he was very famous.

– Rafael

Although most bosses kept a bit of distance from their horses, Marco liked keeping them around, reminding everyone he was the boss. It had been Marco who’d started the trend of using the word ‘horses’ instead of mules, initially as a typical Marco joke, using it solely for his best runners – his ‘pure bloods’. But it had soon become generic for all runners and widely used by the Bali drug crews, because it was more cryptic, therefore safer.

Marco lived at the small rustic resort, Bali Village, in Legian, in fairly basic rooms nestled in overgrown gardens near the

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