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Heroin and coffee _ the saga of Lao Ta Saenlee
From fighting the communist insurgency and drug smuggling, this one-time boy soldier is now branching out into a new line and new life
Heroin and coffee. These two words come to mind when Lao Ta Saenlee, 74, smiles, gestures and chats while sipping Chinese tea at his newly-opened coffee shop in his village, Ban Huay Sarn, in Chiang Mai's Mae Ai district. While coffee is his new-found passion, Lao Ta has long been infamous and associated with drugs and heroin trafficking in the North. Although it's been three years since he was released from jail, a renewed passion for life still bubbles from every word as he talks about plans of starting a franchise of "Lao Ta Coffee" shops across the North
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