Ken Behr

When I started selling, there was no cartel.

There was no Pablo Escobar.

There was no Ocho.

There was no Guzman in Mexico.

It wasn't organized.

What brought in organized crime is the war on drugs.

When you make something illegal that everybody wants, what did it do?

Hey, thanks for having me.

Yeah, so, you know, I guess the elevator speech or the short version is I was just a farm boy growing up in New Jersey in the 60s, and...

living the Norman Rockwell life of just, you know, nothing big happening, you know, a little quiet farm life.

And in 1969, my family moved to New Orleans.

So it was, you know, like I say in the book, that was the exact same year of Woodstock, free love, drugs, sex, drugs, and rock and roll was all 1969, that, you know, changing times.

And then my father passed away when I was 13.

So now I had no father in my life, which...

about 70% of the people in jail come from fatherless homes as an example of what happens with young men like that.

But my mother decided to move us to Florida, to Hollywood, Florida in 1973 to get away from the drugs.

And if she had read the newspaper, she would have read that's like

the epicenter of when the drug wars started.

And so I was 16 years old, me and my brother started selling a little bit of weed and everything was happening right then.

I mean, you know, really good buds were coming in from Columbia and everybody's getting into smoking weed and South Florida was exploding as a tourism area and people moving there.