In the late 1970s and early \'80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song.
In Jackpot, author Jason Ryan takes us back to the heady days before drug.
Then came their undoing: Operation Jackpot, one of the largest drug investigations ever and an opening volley in Ronald Reagan\'s War on Drugs.
These irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboard\'s marshes.
In the late 1970s and early \'80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song