HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED. THE KENTUCKY MAN, KNOWN AS THE GODFATHER OF GRASS HAS DIED. JOHNNY BOONE LED THE INFAMOUS CORNBREAD MAFIA AND WAS SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS BACK IN 2018 FOR MARIJUANA ...

NELSON COUNTY, Ky. — John Robert “Johnny” Boone, sometimes referred to as the “Godfather of Grass,” died last week at 80. Boone – a former leader of Kentucky’s “Cornbread Mafia” – died Friday at a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ky. — The death last week of Johnny Boone brought to a close the tale of a childhood farming champion-turned-marijuana-grower-turned-cultural-icon who smoked joints the size of cigars and ...

Two Kentucky boys, 15 acres of farmland, and a homegrown hemp company are hoping to grow the Commonwealth into a new agricultural era by returning the state to its historical roots. This year, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- As state and federal investigators came through the front door of a barn in Minnesota during a bust of the 'Cornbread Mafia' in October 1987, Les Berry Jr. went out the back ...

John Robert "Johnny" Boone, known as the Godfather of Grass for his role as the leader of the Cornbread Mafia, one of the nation’s largest domestic-producing marijuana syndicates, died June 14, 2024.

It's the Italian word for "code of silence." And it's tattooed on the back of Kentucky's most notorious marijuana-growing ringleader. But while secrets around the Cornbread Mafia will forever be ...