Things finally started getting too hot in southern Florida. With a warrant for my arrest for that Jamaican smuggle back in 1975 (with “The Daring and Dashing Smith Brothers” as the newspapers called Darrell and Tracy Boyd – my co-conspirators in that case) I packed up and moved my entire smuggling organization to northern California.
In California I became the largest marijuana smuggler in US west coast history, pioneering a new smuggling route from western Colombia to the San Francisco Bay going under the Golden Gate Bridge to a 1,000 concrete pier I owned in Richmond. The news media dubbed me “The King of Pot” and I earned over $100 million dollars by the time I was 30 years old (I wonder if that’s “Another Victory For Norland High”).
That part of my life will be aired on a CNBC Documentary Special on the marijuana industry in northern California in January 2009 (covering my adventures 30 years after the fact). Four and half years after moving to California (in March of 1983) I was arrested in Chicago and went straight to prison, without passing GO. This event ended my marijuana career which all started by selling nickel bags of marijuana in high school at Norland Senior High. Go Vikings!