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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Kentucky company co-founded by the man who wrote the book on the Cornbread Mafia has reached a milestone. Author and journalist Jim Higdon told the story of a ...

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 ...

Johnny Boone, the marijuana outlaw from central Kentucky who evaded a federal manhunt for eight years, died Friday night at the age of 80. Known as the “Godfather of Grass,” Boone was a leader of what ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joe Keith Bickett was one of many central Kentuckians who was convicted in federal court in Louisville for his role in the infamous “The Cornbread Mafia.” He served over 20 years in federal prison for ...