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Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, And The Sting That Launched The War On Drugs James Westcott And what a year they'reIn the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. These irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboards marshes. Then came their undoing: Operation Jackpot, one of the largest drug investigations ever and an opening volley in Ronald Reagans War on Drugs. In Jackpot, author Jason Ryan