A Career Pot Smuggler Reveals A Lifetime Of Drug Trafficking & Being First To Grow Indica In Jamaica

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

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4.3 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Steve James learned the power of money at a young age. In rural Georgia during the 1950s he discovered the basics of business by watching his grandfather hustle ranchers for cattle. He took these lessons and applied them to crime. By the age of 13 he was smuggling in pot from Panama and became the main distributer in his town. He continued scaling his business which eventually led to him trafficking seeds from Afghanistan and starting the first indica grows on the island of Jamaica. He's here to tell us all about his life story; crime, addiction, betrayal and a federal case that landed him the crosshairs of the FBI. Go Support Steve! Website: https://indicathebook.com/ Book On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Indica-Steven-Person-Marijuana-Jamaica-ebook/dp/B09HHNSM4Z This Episode Is #Sponsored By MANDO! Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code MITCHELL at www.shopmando.com! #mandopod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First, we got the seeds.
0:02.2	And if you look on the map, longitude-wise, if you go from Afghanistan, it goes straight to North Georgia and North Alabama.
0:11.7	So we brought the seeds and started climatizing them.
0:15.1	And then after they would grow there, we took them to Jamaica and comitized them there.
0:24.6	They had never seen anything like it.
0:26.7	I've done over 20,000 drug crimes.
0:31.5	I've only been caught for two.
0:33.5	Steve James is a career drug trafficker, what we in the business call a lifer.
0:37.7	He's a baby boomer, born in a small suburban Georgia community.
0:42.0	He began smuggling in bricks of Panama red from South America in the early 1960s when he was
0:47.4	only 13 years old.
0:49.1	Later, after he graduated from college, he moved to Jamaica and became the first person
0:53.6	to ever grow
0:54.3	Indica on the island. He ended up successfully smuggling over three tons of high-grade
0:59.5	Indica bud from Jamaica into the U.S., and he got away with it. Today, he's retired and out
1:05.9	of the business. He has a book out right now about his experience called Indica, which you can
1:10.6	pick up on
1:11.2	Amazon.
1:11.8	For this and more war stories with the oldest drug trafficker we have ever had on The Connect,
1:17.0	head over to Patreon right now, patreon.com slash the Connect show.
1:21.4	Without further ado, I give you Steve James, the Indica King, right here on The Connect with
1:27.4	Johnny Mitchell.
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