1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: The state of mind that racing had put me in 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: was trina I put my own team together and end 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 1: up going to India. It will be white and father 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: and Randy Lanier's cap, his name Rookie of the Year. 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: As much as Porsch wanted to spend, I can spend 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: and not. I had plenty of sponsorship coming right from Columbia, 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: all right. By the early eighties, a river of pot 8 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: was flowing from Columbia to the United States. Attorney General 9 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: Jim Smith is drug smuggling the number one industry in Florida. 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: Drug smuggling is probably the number one industry in our country, 11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: and it came in by the barge load thanks to 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: a drug kingpin who was hiding in plain sight, Randy Lanier. 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: He will start this race in the second row. I 14 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: must a race because I was doing loading. How big 15 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: was the load with him? Pounds? How much was that worth? 16 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: Forty four million books? I'm Amy Driscoll and I'm Alex Harris. 17 00:00:54,200 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: As Florida continues its drive toward full legalization of marijuana, 18 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 1: The Miami Herald and McClatchy Studios take you inside the 19 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: stunning rise of a racing prodigy he's still the same 20 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: dad to me, just accomplished a lot more than than others. 21 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: In the fall of an empire. I was living like 22 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: the family life, racing life, smuggle of life. Yeah, I'll 23 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: keep most upward and then from there you go right 24 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: into the wall Randy Law. There against the wall we 25 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: see visible evidence of the federal commitment to the war 26 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: on criminal drug smuggling in South Florida. DA's expertise was 27 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: to identify organizations and then try and take them out. 28 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: The rest of your crews are there. That car is 29 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: totally destroyed. I was sentenced to the remaining balance of 30 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: my natural life for we. For we, they've never found 31 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: a tale of speed. Indeed, there was two guys always 32 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: there that weed. I was the architect of our states, 33 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: mari Wanta laws that those laws need to change, and 34 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: the road ahead being in cultivation. I think it doesn't 35 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: have very much to do with my dad. Punished companers 36 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: do he got it. Let's go on. Our generations gotted 37 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: to be on the right line of pastory on that issue. 38 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: Everybody changes, Everything changes, right Smoked coming July six at 39 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: Miami Herald dot com. Slash Smoked on Apple podcasts or 40 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: wherever you get your favorite shows was an adventure with 41 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: a lot of other inventures in a roll than into 42 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: an adventure