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- <text id=90TT3171>
- <title>
- Nov. 26, 1990: Business Notes:Marketing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 26, 1990 The Junk Mail Explosion!
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 75
- Business Notes
- MARKETING
- From One Joint To Another
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Amid the welter of toll-free 800 numbers, this one certainly
- stood out. Callers to 1-800-WANT-POT got exactly what they
- wanted--$50 envelopes containing one-eighth of an ounce of
- marijuana delivered by bicycle to Manhattan street corners. The
- service was allegedly the brainchild of Michael Cesar, 48, a
- felon who formerly ran a similar service under the name
- DIAL-A-JOINT. Now Cesar faces serious time in a joint of a
- different kind. Last week he was arrested by New York City
- narcotics officers at his Greenwich Village comic-book shop--where cops on the scene noticed a conspicuous absence of comic
- books--and charged with possession of reefer madness.
- Conspiracy counts are likely to follow.
- </p>
- <p> On the streets Cesar is reportedly known as the "Pope of
- Pot," high priest of the Church of the Realized Fantasy, whose
- ad hoc philosophy preaches the evil of money and the virtue of
- easy access to sex and drugs. For all Cesar's fulminations
- against hard cash, however, he certainly did not spurn it.
- Police say that, by Cesar's own estimate, the pot line netted
- $40,000 a day, enough for him to purchase a luxury Eastside
- Manhattan apartment and a mansion in New Jersey.
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- </body>
- </article>
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