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    After 25 Years of Smoking Crack, How You Like Me Now
    After 25 Years of Smoking Crack, How You Like Me Now
    After 25 Years of Smoking Crack, How You Like Me Now
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    After 25 Years of Smoking Crack, How You Like Me Now

    By Gregory Mack Thomas

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    One of the main points in my book is to show the youth of today the consequences of using and selling drugs and the path that can also led them down my road if there isn't a change within their lives and if they continue to commit petty crimes that are better known as midemeanors what they dont know is once they get into the Federal system all misdemenors are added up as point. Ten midemenors will add up to one year whether you served time or paid a fine or even did community service it doesn't matter they all are counted. My next point to my readers is your closet friends will rat you out at the drop of a dime once under pressure My next point is to show you that my life has changed drastically during my drug use I've done alot of things using drugs that I couldn't image doing today and that I'm embrassed about but that was my life at that time. Today I'm a new and better man
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateSep 16, 2010
    ISBN9781426933615
    After 25 Years of Smoking Crack, How You Like Me Now
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    Gregory Mack Thomas

    My name is Gregory Mack Thomas I'm fifty-one years old and I reside in Brooklyn, New York. This story is based on my struggles with crack-cocaine addiction, the death and murders of my whole family, the path that led me up to five bank robberies and ultimately led me to serve 51 months in a Federal Penitentiary.

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      After 25 Years of Smoking Crack, How You Like Me Now - Gregory Mack Thomas

      After Twenty-five Years

      of Smoking Crack,

      How You Like Me Now

      Gregory Mack Thomas

      Order this book online at www.trafford.com

      or email orders@trafford.com

      Most Trafford titles are also available at major online book retailers.

      © Copyright 2010 Gregory Mack Thomas.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or

      transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or

      otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Printed in Victoria, BC, Canada.

      ISBN: 978-1-4269-3360-8 (soft)

      ISBN: 978-1-4269-3361-5 (ebook)

      Our mission is to efficiently provide the world’s finest, most comprehensive book publishing

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      Acknowledgements

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      I would like to thank God first and foremost for his unconditional love and bringing me through all my trials and tribulations. Also for loving me when I didn’t lov3e myself. I would also like to thank my mentor John Hamilton aka Majestic for helping me to become the better man that I am today. For teaching me all about the Lord Jesus Christ while serving time in the Federal Prison. Thank you Majestic for your time, patience, love and knowledge may our father keep you blessed. I would like to thank Michael Green for being there when I needed him; he wrote all my letters for me to family and friends because I couldn’t, Big thanks Michael. I would never forget what you done for me, God Bless you. I would like to thank my dearest grandmother Flossie Mack without her being in my life this book would not be possible. Also like to thank Jose Canas, James Neal, Lisa Davis and my cousins Loretta and Abul.

      My father Robert, Debbie Edens, Sharon Turman, Charles Perry, and Taiquan Unique thank you all for helping me get this book published. Also would like to thank Lionel Lefevre, MD and his secretary Delores. Thank you to my parole officer Tanya Parris, my sentencing federal judge Sterling Johnson for being patient with me. I also would like to thank the love of my life Vanessa Mitchell.

      Special Thanks

      Thank you Teddy for helping me get my grandmother out of the nursing home and for teaching me everything I needed to know to take care of her and I am still taking care of her to this day. I would like to thank you for helping me; you’ll like a brother to me. Thank you; love always.

      To Benny Cook

      The only man I’ve known to be my father. Thank you for teaching me how to be a man.

      Dedication

      I would like to dedicate this book to my dearest grandmother Flossie Mack, who has struggled all her life to maintain keeping the family together. While I was on drugs she continued to give me unconditional love and prayed for my recovery.

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      My grandmother and I is all the family we have left. In spite of some family members and friends. She out lived all four of her children (My mother and three uncles) who are all deceased. She has two grand children that are also deceased (Derek Mack, my brother and a cousin Pookie Mack). My grand mother out lived most of her family she’s now 90 years of age as this book is being written. She’s been there for me through out my life and my incarceration. I vowed to God to take care of her and to return the unconditional love and commitment that she has given to me. At times it can be very difficult taking care of her because she suffers from dementia so I dedicate this book to my dear loving nana.

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 1

      The day it all began at the age of fourteen, when I stated smoking weed. This became my gateway to hell and ultimately it led me to the belly of the beast. In time you will comprehend where the belly of the beast is.

      Marty and I was smoking weed in the building of 1569 Prospect Place when the police rolled up on us and tried to bust us for a nickel bag of weed. When I resisted arrest the police beat my ass then took me to the 77th precinct and beat my ass some more than they let me go. At the time the police officers names were Batman and Robin, who became my archenemies every time Batman and Robin would see me they would stop me to harass me, smacking me around going in my pockets illegally. Their abuse and their harassment caused me and most of my friends to dislike white police officers.

      At the age of sixteen in 1974 Marty and I were playing hooky from school getting high then we decided to go to Prospect Park as we normally do. We got on the Franking Avenue shuttle train then we ran into a bunch of Tomahawks gang members. Marty and I were surrounded by at least fifteen gang members they asked us what gang were we in so naturally we said the tomahawks from Brownsville. Then the leader of the gang told Marty and me that we were hanging with them. We were not gonna argue with fifteen gang members so we went with them. We winded up going back to Brownsville by the way of the A train. The Tomahawks started walking through the cars of the train Marty and I followed them. As we were approaching Utica Avenue on the A train we came upon two white females. Then the gang members started touching them between their legs, then the girls started screaming. At this time the train came to a complete stop at Utica Avenue and it wasn’t moving. Police officers started coming and running from every direction, the train doors had opened up. Marty and I had separated our selves from the gang members then headed for the nearest exit. When one police officer was coming down the stairs as we were going up he grabbed Marty and me. Marty being bigger and stronger than me he was able to snatch away from the police officer without me knowing his intentions that caused the officer to grab me with both hands. I tried to fight the officer off me but I was too lite in the ass to get away.

      Both of the girls on the train pointed me out then said that I sexually assaulted them, which led me to Riker’s Island for the first time in my life for one month. I was scared as hell at that time because

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