Smuggling Weed in the Florida Everglades

In the 1980s, Everglades City, Florida, was raided three times by federal law enforcement. This small fishing town of about 500 people was hiding a complex, highly organized drug smuggling network responsible for running millions of pounds of marijuana from Colombia to Miami. Former pot hauler Tim McBride took a ride out to the backwaters to explain how it all went down.

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