Journalist James Higdon tells the true story of the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, a band of Kentucky farmers descended from Prohibition-era moonshiners who went up against the War on Drugs.
By 1989, task forces had arrested seventy people across ten states and seized 200 tons of pot tied to Marion County grower Johnny Boone’s network, yet not one of them ever talked, a code of silence Higdon traces back to the same hills’ history of Prohibition-era whiskey running.
Published 2012
400 pages
$19.95