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Johnny Boone was the leader of the Cornbread Mafia and arrested for growing marijuana on several farms in Kentucky.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a story about Marion County, Kentucky, a place with farming, moonshine, and pride in its bloodline. It's a place that laid the foundation for a network of marijuana-growing outlaws called the Cornbread Mafia. Into this world walked a man named Johnny Boone, who set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. But his timing was all wrong, and soon Marion County found itself at the national center of the War on Drugs. In their effort to take Johnny Boone and his syndicate down, law enforcement officials arrested 70 people...all from this pocket of Kentucky. It was the biggest marijuana bust in American history, and no one ever said a word. On Cornbread Mafia, we're going to Marion County and finding out how a turning point in federal drug policy reshaped the story of a local community and had consequences that lasted for generations. Listen to Cornbread Mafia on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cornbread-mafia-103395162/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bourbon and whiskey runs deep in Central Kentucky, but so did one of the largest marijuana manufacturing and trade rings in history. Cornbread Mafia tells the story of how of how Johnny Boone, Bobby Joe Shoemaker, and many others created one of the most highly sophisticated marijuana trades that ran right through Bardstown, KY, the heart of bourbon country. Jim Higdon is the author of the book and he joins the show talk about how this cultural phenomenon really had a very big tie back to the whiskey industry during prohibition. Many got into the illegal distilling business because that's what they knew how to do and was the only means of providing for their families. We talk more about the bourbon connection and how that eventually turned into marijuana territory which opened the door to elaborate plans to evade law enforcement and even had the DEA swarming with helicopters around Bardstown. This story has also put Jim on the path for being an advocate of legalization and he's even started his own CBD gummy business called Cornbread Hemp. If you enjoy stories like these, I would highly recommend reading or listening on Audible to The Cornbread Mafia. Show Notes: This week's Above the Char with Fred Minnick (@fredminnick) talks about infinity bottles. Moonshining was really how this all got started George Remus was a real gangster and had a big role into bootlegging as well. Talk about the history of Basil Hayden. Why was Central KY known as the "Ft. Lauderdale of KY"? Talk about the outlaw side of your family. How important was L&N Railroad to bourbon at the time? Was Lebanon affected by The Temperance Movement? I read during prohibition people were using stills that can produce 1000 gallons a day. Give a background of Johnny Boone and Bobby Joe Shoemaker. Why were they smuggling marijuana from Belize? Talk about one of the biggest marijuana busts. In your research, did you find any fighting between government agencies? Was there any violence involved with The Cornbread Mafia? There was a common thread of "no one talks". How did you feel about how the media portrayed The Cornbread Mafia? What was it like being indicted to find Johnny Boone and almost go to jail? Today, would someone be sentenced to 20 years in prison for marijuana? Talk about your new venture of Cornbred Hemp. Why isn't Cornbread Mafia a movie? @jimhigdon Support this podcast on Patreon
Our two guests this week were both on our NYE 12 hour special together, and we had such a good time since they are so far apart kinda the snoop dogg and Martha Stuart of the adam Dunn show except dukes got the recipes So we decided to have them on again .Well they are still far apart, joining us in our Denver studio @thejanewest canna creator for over ten years putting on events designed to “CLASS UP” cannabis with philharmonic orchestras and products aimed at women that help to destigmatize the stoner aspect and be more inclusive let's call it CannaChique. Also back is the man himself @therealdukediamond this time HE is @coloradoarea420 checking out the scene with his friend and friend of the show @bkroller BK will be showing him the lot we gave to JOHNNY BOONE and THE CORNBREAD MAFIA I'm sure Duke will be stoked to see our little bit of paradise there at area 420. @brainstrap will be running the studio so get ready for a new guy to blame. Get ready for twice as much fun on this show so make sure to have your joints rolled bongs clean and rigs charged and join us 4:20 -7:10 MT YouTube.com/adamdunnshow
The Bo Brothers make a return visit to Raywick Kentucky to visit the Cornbread Mafia and this time... the ultimate member of the Cornbread Mafia -- Johnny Boone! Robbie Bickett with Bickett and Boone treated the Boys with some of Bickett Farms finest homegrown hamburgers as the boys once again listened to some of the finest stories ever of the Cornbread Mafia! Learn more about the upcoming Hempfest 2021 on September 11th on the Bickett farm featuring some of the best local acts and Nashville Artist Ashton Shepherd! For all of your Bickett and Boone Hemp products, you need to visit www.bickettandboone.com! Whatever you do, don't miss this episode with Johnny Boone and the legends that is the Cornbread Mafia! #JohnnyBoone #BickettAndBoone #RedEye #DickHammer #FredHogg #BickettBoys #EagleRare #WhiteLightning #LegalizeMaryJ #GoodOleCountryBoys #ThanksRobbieBickett #HomeGrownIsTheBest
Snowmaggedon is upon us but do we cancel the show HELL NO the show must go on, and we have a great show lined up James Higdon author of “CORNBREAD MAFIA” joins Adam , Dave and MTI to discuss his book that breaks down the infamous Johnny Boone led crew that was involved in the largest bust in American history , in which sixty-nine men and one woman were arrested on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. One amazing detail was that not one person talked! This is how the Name “CORNBREAD MAFIA” Started. Also joining the discussion will be 2 of James' partners in his Hemp company @CORNBREADHEMP from KY We will dig into some samples and see what it takes to run a successful hemp company these days . Finally our friend Peter from @MASSIVE SEEDS will round the show out give us a update on his recovery from last years fires.so let's forget about the crazy weather pack some ice in your favorite bong get those Cartas charged ( Tony ) and spend a fri with us @ YouTube.com/adamdunnshow Fri 3/12/21 5:20 - 7:10 MT #cornbreadmafia #Cornbreadhemp #massiveseeds #sagemastaselect #dunndeal #focusv #iluminarlighting #seedsherenow
One episode 66, James Higdon, makes his 3rd appearance. We discussed his book about the historic Portland neighborhood in Louisville Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln, his new CBD company Cornbread Hemp, Johnny Boone update, Tyler Childers, Storming Area 51, 50th anniversary of the moon landing and the conspiracies associated with it and a ton more. www.rooteddistributing.com RATE US 5 STARS! contact: speakineasypodcast@gmail.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speakineasypodcast/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpeakinEasyPodcast/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJfXpcvNaDk98wgo5jtfnzA Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeakinEasyky Tuck's instagram:https://www.instagram.com/dustintucker502/ Will's instagram:https://www.instagram.com/willwalk2/
Chef Cody Storts is joined by Niyaz Pirani (Knife and Spork PR) from the "I Know But Podcast" and Johnny Boone from Karma Tequila. Girly Drinks are delicious. Karma tequila and the charities they work with. And Working holidays.Check us out at https://www.fatdrunknhappy.com/ and follow us in Instagram @fatdrunknhappy
Finally, after a long break, as well as losing an episode, we are back!! Episode 36! That’s right we are skipping 35 because it actual happened and just never made it to your ears. It’s a sacrificial episode to the podcast gods if you will. Anyway, on episode 36 we talked about the epic life and times of John McCain. We also talked about how huge America’s defense budget is, the Madden tournament turned deadly, Sarcophagus water and it’s relation to white people, Dark Tourism, Johnny Boone, Johnny Deep becoming a different person after encountering Hunter S. Thompson, the undiscovered deep dark ocean, we try to explain space and time, and ton more! Rate us 5 stars! Catch our live podcast streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/speakineasypodcast We have merch now:https://shop.spreadshirt.com/speakin-easy1/ contact: speakineasypodcast@gmail.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speakineasypodcast/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpeakinEasyPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeakinEasyky Tuck's instagram:https://www.instagram.com/dustintucker502/ Will's instagram:https://www.instagram.com/willwalk2/ Rate us 5 stars! Catch our live podcast streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/speakineasypodcast We have merch now:https://shop.spreadshirt.com/speakin-easy1/ contact: speakineasypodcast@gmail.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speakineasypodcast/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpeakinEasyPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeakinEasyky Tuck's instagram:https://www.instagram.com/dustintucker502/ Will's instagram:https://www.instagram.com/willwalk2/
James Higdon made his triumphant return to the podcast! We talked bout Johnny Boone and the infamous Cornbread Mafia. We also talked about Johnny's federal sentence that was just handed down and when he is set to be released, the origin of the term "bourbon", flipper babies, the awesome story behind the first Kentucky Derby, the rich history of Louisville's Portland neighborhood, shotgun houses, we did some bourbon tasting and a ton more. Rate us 5 stars! We have merch now:https://shop.spreadshirt.com/speakin-easy1/ contact: speakineasypodcast@gmail.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speakineasypodcast/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpeakinEasyPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeakinEasyky Tuck's instagram:https://www.instagram.com/dustintucker502/ Will's instagram:https://www.instagram.com/willwalk2/
James Higdon stops by and gives us a once in a lifetime look into the Kentucky's Cornbread Mafia, the largest domestic marijuana production operation in United States history. He spoke with Johnny Boone, the greatest outlaw marijuana grower ever caught, one on one 2 to 3 times a week for a year. Epic podcast. contact us at speakineasypodcast@gmail.com facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpeakinEasyPodcast/