All American Pot Smugglers Podcast
The following is a true story that needs to be told about a group of Good Ol' Boys from the south. Finding their way through their unique spiritual journey in the 1980's. Petey and JJ, the main protagonists of these stories, are accompanied on their escapades by Gyro, a psychedelic engineer from California, and Sugar Bear, a Civil Rights Activist and Vietnam protester. The group of young entrepreneurs made their way by utilizing their individual skill sets, coming together as a team to become the All-American Pot Smugglers, importing medicinal marijuana into the United States in order to help fund green technologies for the planet.
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Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out, just how far they can go. -T.S. Elliot
The All American Pot Smugglers had spent years pushing the limits, the limits of what they could handle both physically and mentally. But now their stories would come to a point where they would be forced to find out just how far they could go emotionally. Both Petey and JJ at different points in their own journeys, ended up spe...
- Out of the frying pan and into the fryer. The crew had cheated death and escaped the law by the skin of their teeth. But all was not smooth sailing, especially not in this waterlogged story. Their backs were to the wall. The word had gotten out that the group was hot. The lawman was on their tails. And no one in the business wanted anything to do with our Good Ol' Boys. So the usual stream of income had been abruptly cut o...
All good things must come to an end. A lastminute job with inadequate time to plan. A landing site that was less than stellar. Crew members who were sleep deprived though this may have been self-inflicted. Unplanned crew switch outs and last but not least a support staff that the crew barely new. That they were forced to use only to find out later that they couldn't fill the simplest jobs or instructions. With all these things...
No matter the path you choose to take in life, there will be moments that truly define not only your character but who you really are as a person, as a group and as a team. The four men stood there on those porch stairs together, bound by brotherhood but frozen in fear.
All good things must come to an end. A lastminute job with inadequate time to plan. A landing site that was less than stellar. Crew members who were sleep depri...
A wise man, William Feather once said, success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. While this holds true in many other facades of life, it is absolutely something to live by in the smuggling business. Far more than once the American Pot Smugglers were faced with adversity that would've swayed most who abandoned all hope and give up on the load. Having to complete your mission 36 hours with no...
Whether you're playing in the Super Bowl or your band is opening up for Aerosmith or you find yourself smuggling pot, two things remain consistent, #1 You've got to be able to rely on your team and straying outside your tried and true can get you into trouble. And two, being able to think on your feet when most would give into panic is the only way to make it unscathed.
Early on in the 1980's before pot smugglers were assembled, Petey was learning the ropes with his original crew. The main product they were moving and selling at the time was Columbian Gold, which while it was better quality than the pot coming out of Mexico, it was nowhere as good as the premium herb that was being grown in Jamica. Always looking to have a leg up on the competition, Petey was trying to find an open door to th...
JJ's trip to secure load of medicinal marijuana ends up in a Mennonite camp in the jungles of Belize.
Prelude to the many exciting tales of The All American Pot Smugglers
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