LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The man known for chronicling the war against marijuana in Kentucky now says he is getting into the hemp business. Author and journalist Jim Higdon told the story of a ...

After spending over 20 years in federal prison for his involvement in the largest marijuana farming operation in U-S history, Joe Keith Bickett tells his story in a new book, "The Origins of the ...

HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED. THE KENTUCKY MAN, KNOWN AS THE GODFATHER OF GRASS HAS DIED. JOHNNY BOONE LED THE INFAMOUS CORNBREAD MAFIA AND WAS SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS BACK IN 2018 FOR MARIJUANA ...

Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History (2012, Lyons Press, 375 pp., $24.95 HB) Operation Fly Trap: LA Gangs, Drugs, and the Law, by ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) - The former leader of the Cornbread Mafia in Kentucky has been arrested in Canada after eight years on the run. Johnny Robert Boone was picked up by police Thursday in a ...

John Robert “Johnny” Boone, who once ran a multi-state marijuana-growing operation known as the Cornbread Mafia, has died at age 80. Boone died Friday night, Joe Keith Bickett wrote in a Facebook post ...

LOUISVILLE — Johnny Boone, the leader of one of the largest domestic marijuana organizations dubbed the "Cornbread Mafia," pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday. The 74-year-old Marion County farmer ...

They called themselves the “Cornbread Mafia,'' a group of mostly Kentuckians who pooled their money, machinery, knowledge and labor to create the largest domestic marijuana producing organization in ...