Illustrations: Antoine Cossé

The American Businessman Who Went Through Hell in a Burmese Prison

How a pioneering hemp farmer got himself into—and out of—a horrific situation

Mark Healy
Published in
31 min readFeb 26, 2020

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IIt’s a bluebird December day in Colorado and John Todoroki is riding a high-speed chairlift to the top of Vail Mountain. At 10,000 feet, the air is so crisp, the skies so achingly blue, that it feels like the VIP section…

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Mark Healy
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Writer, editor, interactive story-teller as EIC of Ceros Originals. Formerly of Men’s Journal, GQ, Rolling Stone. Tentative tweeter, citizen of Kings County.