The Saltwater Cowboy – Tales of Smuggling with Tim McBride

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Today the Friendly Cannabis Show is joined by Tim McBride aka Saltwater Cowboy. While most of us were asleep comfortably in our beds, Tim was hauling loads of cannabis worth millions of dollars through the back channels of the Florida everglades. Join us as we explore his life and get a glimpse into the mind of one of the largest cannabis smugglers in US history.

From his book –
In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet.

But this wasn’t a typical fishing outfit. McBride had been unwittingly recruited into a band of smugglers–middlemen between a Colombian marijuana cartel and their distributors in Miami. His elaborate team comprised fishermen, drivers, stock houses, security–seemingly all of Chokoloskee Island was in on the operation. As McBride came to accept his new role, tons upon tons of marijuana would pass through his hands.

Then the federal government intervened in 1984, leaving the crew without a boss and most of its key players. McBride, now a veteran smuggler, was somehow spared. So when the Colombians came looking for a new middle-man, they turned to him.

McBride became the boss of an operation that was ultimately responsible for smuggling 30 million pounds of marijuana. A self-proclaimed “Saltwater Cowboy,” he would evade the Coast Guard for years, facing volatile Colombian drug lords and risking betrayal by romantic partners until his luck finally ran out.

A tale of crime and excess, Saltwater Cowboy is the gripping memoir of one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history.

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6 thoughts on “The Saltwater Cowboy – Tales of Smuggling with Tim McBride”

  5. hell ya i with you chad never was much for dab's flower power is all i need.. if the weed don't get ya high grow better weed right cheers..

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  6. I love listening to this guy! These guys in the late 70's basically were ahead of law enforcent, DEA in pretty much every aspect. When the law figured out what was going on it was too late 🤪👈 I was just a child while this was going on but growing up surrounded by Colombians, Haitians, Cubans in S. Florida, I was lucky enough of to smoke plenty of good bud as a kid! Priceless! My first plants were str8 up Colombian that must be why I love it so much, it basically trained my EndoCannabinoid system 🙏

    Question: any chance that the shopping center where the drops were made was The Kendall Lakes Shopping Center Kmart parking lot on 88th? There was a bar there called Honky Tonks Lounge it was all swamp and shale up to that point out there. Ive got to get this book! Big ups from Colombia 🇨🇴 Cowboy 🤠🐟🚤

    PS wouldn't be surprised if the weed I personally smoked as a kid was brought in by this guy and his crew! How f'n cool is that?! Sticky, chewy, pressed Colombian flowers 😋

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