The War on Gringo Billy

HIGH TIMES: The War on Gringo Billy

'“The aviation community in Gainesville, Daytona, Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Lake City was small, and it was easy to tell who was having success and who was having bad luck in the airborne-importation industry,” he recalls. “I knew a few pilots who had entered the marijuana-smuggling business, and I did not feel any different towards them than I did before they were smuggling. I had felt the same way back in the '60s when quite a few of my friends began smoking marijuana – I didn't feel like that somehow transformed them into bad people.”'