Black Tuna Diaries

On May 1, 1979 President Jimmy Carter's Attorney General, Griffin Bell, called a press conference in the nation's capital to announce the arrest and indictment of the Black Tunas. A gang of marijuana smugglers led by Robert Platshorn and his two partners Robby Meinster and Big Gene Myers. Bell called the Tunas the "slickest, most sophisticated pot smugglers of the 70's." He told the gathered reporters that the Tunas used a fleet of aircraft, and five yachts, to smuggle over a half-million pounds of Columbian marijuana into the United States in a six month period. Later, the DEA would claim the Tunas brought in anywhere from one million to three million pounds of high-grade grass and made over three hundred million dollars.

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[littlecarrey]

I really think the government should(although never would) pay a guy like this reparations for the excessive amout of time serverd, WHEN pot becomes legal in the western hemishpere. The fact a NON-VIOLENT pot dealer should served more than 2 years for ANY AMOUNT of weed is ridiculous, and it makes me wanna smoke even more pot just to fuck the feds over!!

[FedArteUrbano]

Long live weed, man!