![]() He had already gotten himself into trouble with the law for “sweating barrels,” a form of moonshining, so growing marijuana was the next logical step. Johnny Boone got started in the weed cultivation game in 1970. ![]() “The Cornbread Mafia was an exceptionally large operation in terms of both production and manpower as far as marijuana goes.” “Unlike traditional organized crime models of La Cosa Nostra or the cartels, the marijuana underground was largely non-violent,” Chris Simunek, the former editor-in-chief of High Times Magazine, tells me. A hillbilly pot cultivator who consistently grew and produced what we called ‘kind bud’ back in the day. A man that only broke the law because he disagreed with the government’s vilification of the plant he loved. Not like we were pals or anything, but I saw him in passing on the compound.ĭoing time for a weed conspiracy, he would soon return to the world, where he’d become recognised as an “Original Gangster” of the “Weed Game.” A pioneering legend who paved the way for the legalisation efforts that are sweeping the United States right now. A very exact and business-like person that I don’t remember smiling a lot. At only 50-years-old Johnny Boone was still in his outlaw prime. ![]() He kept to himself, didn’t dawdle around, and stayed on the weight pile. Guys like Tom Dooley and Big Pete, loud and colourful guys. He lived in Knox unit with a lot of the other country-boy-outlaws from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. Nobody called him the ‘Godfather of Grass’ or ‘Charlie Grass’ as the media depicted, inside the belly of the beast he was just known as Johnny Boone, expert marijuana grower. When I touched down at FCI Manchester, a federal prison in the foothills of Kentucky in 1993, Cornbread Mafia leader Johnny Boone was already a legend of mythical proportions in the Appalachian Mountains for growing acres upon acres of weed in the National Forests that surrounded the Bluegrass State.
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