‘American Gangster' takes epic look at Vietnam-era drug war
By his own estimation, New York drug kingpin Frank Lucas could clear $1 million a day selling uncommonly pure heroin. Beginning in the late '60s and continuing until his arrest in 1975, Lucas dominated the drug trade in Harlem , smuggled heroin in the coffins of U.S. servicemen and marginalized the Mob when he took over its traditional territory.
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