Description
Moonshiners and bootleggers in eastern Kentucky discovered a second living, beyond the soil and the coal mines, during and after America’s Prohibition. Growing cannabis used to be a misdemeanor in Kentucky. A stray patch out back didn’t fetch attention in the holler … or at the local courthouse. But by the 1980s, the War on Drugs had turned an odd “patch of kill” into a felony. As the risks rose, so did the price.