(For the record, my acquaintances tell me the current market price on Chattanooga streets is roughly $120 for an honest ounce.)īut back to the story: In 1987 agents soon discovered a vast network of marijuana growers at 29 different farms in nine different states and, within weeks, the startled lawmen had seized 182 tons of pot - which had a street value of $400 million at the time - and made 70 arrests. A recent vote to legalize it in California just failed, but you can now find it just about anywhere. Marijuana has been around for a real long time, but with the Vietnam conflict in the ‘60s and the hippies’ surge for self-expression, America was quick to develop quite a taste for pot.
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Johnny, last seen wearing a full Santa-like beard, has always been a colorful character, as many of those who farm corn and legal tobacco in central Kentucky can be, but he got caught in the spotlight back in 1987 when federal agents swooped down on a farm in Minnesota and found him with 45 tons of fresh-harvested pot.Īccording to a profile posted on the "America's Most Wanted" website, the initial discovery of the huge cache of marijuana opened a proverbial floodgate of those growing massive amounts of “herbs” that contain a mind-numbing substance called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). It’s about 60-odd miles south of Louisville, if that helps, and is in Marion County, which is named for America's famous "Swamp Fox," Francis Marion.īut the better truth is there has never been a greater fox than Boone himself, who is said to be able to disappear "like a whiff of smoke" and has since foiled repeated attempts by DEA and FBI agents to haul him in. Johnny Boone's rather infamous farm is a 250-acre spread located in the geographical center of Kentucky, down near Springfield.
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