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In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to increase and harvest one of the biggest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he establish into motion a series of events that identified him and his associatesas the greatest homegrown pot syndicate in American history, also called the Cornbread Mafia. Author Wayne Higdon - whose relationship with Johnny Boone, presently a federal government fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed underthe National government - takes listeners back again to the 1970s and '80s and the clash between federal government and local police and a music group of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and delight in their bloodlines. By 1989 the duty force designated to remove men like Johnny Boone experienced imprisoned 69 men and 1 female from busts on 29 farms in 10 expresses, and seized 200 a great deal of pot. From the 70 individuals imprisoned, none talked. How everything transpired is an account of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving individuals caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. Along with a backdrop of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is informed by Higdon in action-packed, colorful, and riveting details.
