Today, it’s known far and wide that Kentucky growers produce some of the best cannabis on the planet, a reputation that was earned back in the 1980s and 90s. But, Kentucky’s reputation as a producer of illicit cannabis goes back to the earliest days of cannabis prohibition. Back in 1941, Jessamine County was apparently the hub of a significant multistate marijuana operation. On April 13, 1941 the headline Narcotics Agents Arrest Five: 200 Pounds of Marijuana Seized appeared the front page of the Lexington Herald Leader. At the time, “(t)he haul was the largest ever made in a raid in this section of the country,” and Federal narcotics agents claimed the Kentucky arrests were “believed to have broken up a ring of dope peddlers which supported a wide territory including the states of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky.”
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