Oct 17, 2026 · 36 min · 11 segments
In this episode of Becoming the King of Pot, host Todd Denkin sits down with legendary marijuana kingpin Bruce Perlowin to reveal explosive smuggling stories from the front lines of the 1970s…
coming up through the Windward Passage from Columbia to Florida, had 50,000 pounds on.
And next thing I know, I get a call from one of the crew members and said, we're in Puerto Rico.
The captain freaked out because he was storing cocaine and he threw the whole load overboard.
And now, by the way, that is not the only story about smugglers losing millions of dollars because someone on board that boat was storing cocaine.
And when I say most of us, the gentleman smuggler, the hippie mafia, the blue jean millionaires, you know, the nonviolent marijuana smugglers.
Had a rule, no cocaine, especially on the frigging boat or off at the offload.
Right, with Craig, with the dockmaster, with his famous cocaine prostitute parties.
So were the guys that you were buying marijuana from, were they different from the guys that were selling the cocaine or are they the same
And my guy, I went down to Columbia like two, maybe three times, met all the people, all the connections.
coming up through the Windward Passage from Columbia to Florida, had 50,000 pounds on.
And next thing I know, I get a call from one of the crew members and said, we're in Puerto Rico.
The captain freaked out because he was storing cocaine and he threw the whole load overboard.
And now, by the way, that is not the only story about smugglers losing millions of dollars because someone on board that boat was storing cocaine.
And when I say most of us, the gentleman smuggler, the hippie mafia, the blue jean millionaires, you know, the nonviolent marijuana smugglers.
Had a rule, no cocaine, especially on the frigging boat or off at the offload.
Right, with Craig, with the dockmaster, with his famous cocaine prostitute parties.
So were the guys that you were buying marijuana from, were they different from the guys that were selling the cocaine or are they the same
And my guy, I went down to Columbia like two, maybe three times, met all the people, all the connections.
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