Sep 29, 2026 · 40 min · 12 segments
In this episode of Becoming the King of Pot, host Todd Denkin sits down with legendary former drug kingpin Bruce Perlowin to explore how 1970s cannabis smuggling and marijuana trafficking laid the…
think it took so long to, uh, to become legal? You know, cause it didn't become legal.
Um, so that's 30 years later, right? From when you were in the middle of doing your thing and, um, or 20 years later, what do you think took so long?
Now, let me tell you what this brilliant guy did did with his war on drugs, war on marijuana.
You still had the group of people that wanted to do something illegal, had the balls to do it, had the adventurous spirit to do it.
I would say 60 to 80% of them switched over to cocaine, which then went to meth and well, first crack and then meth.
So thank you, Mr. Nixon, for creating a frigging meth epidemic in the United States, because that's what your war on drugs did.
And if I was in a legal state, I would take one puff before I go to bed because, guys, it's medical frigging marijuana.
think it took so long to, uh, to become legal? You know, cause it didn't become legal.
Um, so that's 30 years later, right? From when you were in the middle of doing your thing and, um, or 20 years later, what do you think took so long?
Now, let me tell you what this brilliant guy did did with his war on drugs, war on marijuana.
You still had the group of people that wanted to do something illegal, had the balls to do it, had the adventurous spirit to do it.
I would say 60 to 80% of them switched over to cocaine, which then went to meth and well, first crack and then meth.
So thank you, Mr. Nixon, for creating a frigging meth epidemic in the United States, because that's what your war on drugs did.
And if I was in a legal state, I would take one puff before I go to bed because, guys, it's medical frigging marijuana.
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