RIP Johnny Boone, weed farmer and "Cornbread Mafia" Leader

[jack3]

This is sort of that offbeat news story.

The Godfather of Grass is gone.

A good ol' boy from Kentucky, he tried to make a living to put bread on the table and turned that living into the largest marijuana farming operation in U.S. history.

John Robert "Johnny" Boone, known as the Godfather of Grass for his role as the leader of the Cornbread Mafia, one of the nation’s largest domestic-producing marijuana syndicates, died Friday in Marion County. He was 80.

Joe Keith Bickett, one of many central Kentuckians convicted in federal court in Louisville for his role in the infamous Cornbread Mafia, posted on social media that Boone died Friday night.

Read more in the link.

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