Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugs Ryan Jason
Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugs Ryan Jason In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of…
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Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugs Ryan Jason
In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. Then came their undoing: Operation Jackpot, one of the largest drug investigations ever and an opening volley in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs. These irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboard's marshes.
During this golden age of marijuana trafficking, the country's most prominent kingpins were a group of wayward and fun-loving Southern gentlemen who forsook college educations to sail drug-laden luxury sailboats across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. In Jackpot, author Jason Ryan takes us back to the heady days before drug smuggling was synonymous with deadly gunplay. Les Riley, Barry Foy, and their comrades eschewed violence as much as they loved
Ending the War on Drugs