This is the autobiography how Tommy Powell initially instigated the large scale smuggling on the North coast of Colombia to be followed by massive amounts of subsequent smugglers. In 1972, Tommy Powell ventured to Santa Marta, Columbia in search of 20,000 pounds of high grade marijunna - Colombia Gold, but was met with disbelief. An order of that size had never been requested from the Colombians. He settled for 16,000 pounds at 6 dollars a pound and sold it in Ann Arbor, Michigan for 250 dollars a pound. The golden hue of the Colombian weed delivered a more enjoyable high and sold for nearly double the price of the Jamaican weed. Tommy would pack a fleet of shrimp boats with 30,000 to 60,000 pounds per trip, send them across the Carribean Sea through the dangerous Yucatan Channel and Mona Passage to hidden coves scattered along Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Maine coastlines.
"Tommy Powell should be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and nominated for a Nobel Prize."
Leni Sinclair - Famous Detroit Photographer/Founder of the White Panthers - wife of John Sinclair
"Tommy Powell has an epic life story filled with all the adventure and intrigue you'd hope to find in a smuggler's tale."
Jake Halpern, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"He prides himself on having never testified against anyone else in all of his various engagements with law
enforcement."
Lucy Morgan Pulitzer Prize winning journalist - St. Petersburg Times
"At that time the trade route from Colombia had not been established, and Powell went there to make that happen."
Ross Parker - Chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit
In 1972, Tommy Powell ventured to Santa Marta, Colombia in search of 20,000 pounds of high grade marijunna - Colombia Gold, but was met with disbelief. An order of that size had never been requested from the Colombians. He settled for 16,000 pounds at 6 dollars a pound and sold it in Ann Arbor, Michigan for 250 dollars a pound. The golden hue of the Colombian weed delivered a more enjoyable high and sold for nearly double the price of the Jamaican weed. Tommy would pack a fleet of shrimp boats with 30,000 to 60,000 pounds per trip, send them across the dangerous Yucatan Channel and Mona Passage to hidden coves scattered along Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Maine coastlines. Once there, he packed tractor trailers for distribution to eager buyers throughout North America. Tommy's early desire to bond with others by sharing marijuana now stretched from the Caribbean, to Colombia and throughout the United States. Tommy delivered millions of dollars into Colombia month after month and quickly established close business ties with every major cartel family. His massive successes piqued the interest of another drug lord, Pablo Escobar, who approached Powell seeking a deal to transport cocaine through his supply chain. Without hesitation, Tommy brazenly denied the offer, believing marijuana unified people while cocaine tore people's lives apart and he refused to participate. His international operation employed thousands and supplied millions of people, many for the first time, with the highest quality weed the United States had ever smoked.
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