Offers continued upon his escape, rowing 17 miles to Greece and freedom, with offers to buy hash at each turn.

Millions of Cannabis Roots Reportedly Seized in Turkey Hayes doesn’t consider himself a cannabis patient, sticking to smoking flower of sativa from a glass pipe, in lieu of dabs or concentrates. Hayes — slender, gray-haired and physically fit — is an ingratiating presence, something that was even more apparent in his brief talk with the audience after the performance. “Yoga saved my life in prison and it still does every day,” he said. RIDING THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS WITH BILLY HAYES had its World Premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2013.
Mr. Hayes never accidentally killed a prison guard, and, unlike his character in the movie, he did have a brief, physically intimate relationship with another inmate. It’s absolutely mind-blowing to see all the products out there now from this one amazing plant that’s sustained humankind for thousands of years.” The couple are still together today after 39 years of marriage. “It was a common thing to do back then. It was published in 1977 and quickly optioned for a film of the same title, written by Oliver Stone. I was in my senior year of college in Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to become a journalist, when a friend who had just returned from Istanbul shared some hash with me, and that’s when everything changed. “I recently visited every dispensary in Las Vegas,” he shared. But in the late 1960s, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and its army began blowing things up, leading to a crack-down on security, and he was searched. I love Turkey and its people. Hayes has performed his one-man show, “Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes,” hundreds of times around the world.

He was one of hundreds of U.S. citizens in foreign jails serving drug charge sentences following a drug smuggling crackdown by foreign governments. When my one-man show, Riding the Midnight Express With Billy Hayes, played at the Barrow Street Theater in Manhattan in 2014, prominent members of … “As I walk in each door, I can’t believe that this exists. The show then had it’s Off-Broadway premiere at New York’s St. Lukes Theatre in February, 2014 followed by two weeks at London’s Soho Theatre. Billy Hayes: Convicted drug smuggler tells the true story behind Midnight Express The 1978 film made Billy Hayes, … We were in an attic, sitting in a circle and I took a hit. But his sincerity — about his drug experience and affection for Turkish culture — is appealing, and his desperate journey to Greece is stirring.

In light of legalization spreading across the world today, that’s not a stretch. Raised in Long Island, he now lives in Los Angeles but retains a mild New York accent. (© Carol Rosegg) International drug-smuggling just ain't what it used to be. The other fallacy from the film was that the arrest was the first time he had smuggled hash out of Istanbul. Recently, he hit the pavement in his hometown of Las Vegas to promote his one-man play, “Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes.”  The play has him reliving his experience, while telling the truth of his time in a “The movie, Midnight Express, was loosely based on my book, but had a lot of misnomers – specifically of my speaking out in court against the Turkish people. Hayes, who was just 14 hours shy of receiving a degree in journalism upon his arrest, said he wanted to travel to see the world, to be able to tell stories. The irony of his arrest and subsequent prison sentence (reduced from life to 30 years), is that on his very first night in prison he was handed a hash pipe. But the real prize was meeting his wife, Wendy. “They are healing the world, and I’m happy to be a small part of that healing 50 years later.” Yoga keeps me healthy, but more importantly, it keeps me emotionally balanced. He is best known for his autobiographical book Midnight Express about his experiences in and escape from a Turkish prison after being convicted of smuggling hashish. An old hash smuggler tells his story in a new world of weed.Billy Hayes likes to say he’s been in the cannabis industry for the past 50 years, and is amazed at the progress made in the new world order of weed. In fact, of the tourists in prison with him, most of them were there for smuggling hash. I was like a kid in a candy shop! He’s happy to share the … In “Riding the Midnight Express With Billy Hayes,” Mr. Hayes recounts his prison ordeal in Turkey, and how it differed from the Oliver Stone screenplay for the movie. “The first time I smoked I was in college – it was 1966 when I was passed my first joint. It’s surreal, to say the least.” I really, really liked it and knew it was for me.” There are still people sitting in prison all over the world for selling weed, and here I am enjoying the bounty in the now legal state of Nevada. The movie also completely ignores his transfer to an island prison, and his overnight row in a stolen dinghy across a stormy sea to shore and his trek on land to Greece and freedom. By 1978 he was at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film won awards and received accolades.
(That passage is a show highlight.)Mr. There is intrinsic power in escape stories; consider films like By 1970, Mr. Hayes at 23 had thrice carried hashish to America from Turkey, before that country cracked down on airport security to demonstrate to the Nixon administration its commitment to the war on drugs. His friend conveyed how cheap the hash was in Turkey, that you could buy it on the street, and they didn’t check baggage or frisk you before boarding the plane. “ “I like to be high,” he laughed. This was published 5 years ago. Hayes has performed his one-man show, “Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes,” hundreds of times around the world. But, he never imagined a lifelong gig of being the guy who escaped a Turkish prison for smuggling hash. When his sentence was later increased to 30 years, he resolved to free himself. My friends said not to take in too much, but I took a really big hit, held it in for as long as I could. Oliver Stone’s Oscar-winning but overheated, dated and xenophobic script for the movie took liberties.

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