Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American marijuana farmers sit at the center of "Cornbread Mafia." - SXSW From the jump, documentarians Evan Mascagni and Drew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An infamous chapter in Kentucky history will make its big screen debut at the renowned 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival, held in ...

Kentucky's Cornbread Mafia has launched a new line of THC drinks that are available nationwide. Lawmakers, however, are considering a federal ban on hemp products that could go into effect as early as ...

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 ...

Joe Keith Bickett, a former member of the infamous "Cornbread Mafia" marijuana syndicate, has launched a legal THC beverage brand. The new brand, "The Real Cornbread Mafia," is entering a competitive ...

Joe Keith Bickett, a member of the infamous Cornbread Mafia, has been charged with two felonies in Austin, Texas. Bickett was in Austin for the SXSW premiere of a documentary about the Cornbread Mafia ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- As state and federal investigators came through the front door of a barn in Minnesota during a bust of the 'Cornbread Mafia' in October 1987, Les Berry Jr. went out the back ...

iHeartPodcasts and Graphic Audio are proud to present “Cornbread Mafia,” a new podcast covering the true story of the biggest marijuana bust in U.S. history. Based on the book by Jim Higdon, find out ...

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 ...

NELSON COUNTY, Ky. — John Robert “Johnny” Boone, sometimes referred to as the “Godfather of Grass,” died last week at 80. Boone – a former leader of Kentucky’s “Cornbread Mafia” – died Friday at a ...

If the story of the Cornbread Mafia weren't true, you might think it's something the Coen Bros. had dreamed up. The stranger-than-fiction tale of a motley band of "dirt-poor dirt farmers" from ...

Cornbread Mafia is the true story of the rise and fall of Kentucky farmers who built the largest domestic marijuana syndicate in U.S. history. Part true crime, part cartoon, a whole lot of weed.