John Robert "Johnny" Boone, known as the Godfather of Grass for his role as the leader of the Cornbread Mafia, one of the nation’s largest domestic-producing marijuana syndicates, died Friday in ...

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 ...

In Kentucky, Cornbread Mafia leader Johnny Boone faces prison Then-U.S. Attorney Joe Whittle said in 1989 that 182 tons of marijuana had been seized at 29 sites, including 25 farms outside Kentucky.

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 ...

John Robert "Johnny" Boone, known as the Godfather of Grass for his role as the leader of the Cornbread Mafia, one of the nation’s largest domestic-producing marijuana syndicates, died Friday in ...

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 ...

It has come full circle.” Fellow Cornbread Mafia co-founder Bobby Joe Shewmaker, who served a 27-year sentence, noted that growing pot was just a misdemeanor when they started in the 1960s.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Johnny Boone -- the leader of the 'Cornbread Mafia' -- has died. According to author Jim Higdon, John Robert Boone died Friday night at an assisted care facility. He had ...

This is Boone's third federal case, the most infamous in 1989. Boone, the leader of the Cornbread Mafia, was arrested after 182 tons of marijuana was seized at farms in nine Midwestern states.

The government once said the Cornbread Mafia — a group of mostly Kentuckians — pooled money, machinery, knowledge and labor to produce $350 million in pot seized in nine states.

LEBANON, Ky. (WAVE) - Johnny Boone, the man known as the ‘Godfather of Grass’ and as the leader of the marijuana syndicate called the Cornbread Mafia, has died. According to a Facebook post by the ...