The Cornbread Mafia: a Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence And the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
“But in 1983, pot growers, along with farmers of more-legal crops, faced a far more ancient enemy than the state police and DEA: drought.The growing season of 1983 began with a wetter-than-usual spring that nearly washed out the Kentucky Derby, leaving Sunny's Halo galloping first past the muddy finish line during a "thunderstorm that had frightened off a third of the humans in the infield," according to New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey. That Derby Day drenching would be the last ra...indrops the Bluegrass State would see nearly all summer.By the end of July, so little rain had fallen in central Kentucky that farmers had long stopped hoping for one good rain to solve their problems. Corn farmers had already lost 10 percent of their crops, and for every day it didn't rain, Marion County farmers lost a bushel out of every acre of the fifteen thousand acres of corn grown in the county. In the end, more than 50 percent of the corn would be lost, along with 15 percent of the soybeans.Pastures were so burnt that there was no clover or grass for cattle to eat, forcing farmers to feed them the hay they had been storing for the winter.MoreLess
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