So, long story short - in my early 20s I dated a girl that was part Indian from the Akwesasne Rez on the St Lawrence and was part of the larger St Regis Mohawk Tribe.
She introduced me to her brother who said they needed a driver to move hockey bags (25lbs per hockey bag) full of beasters (m39 strain) from the rez in canada to long Island ny for resale. Normal runs to NYC were 50-100lbs. Wholesale prices were around $800 lb on the border and I would charge $1600 lb downstate.
I made this run a few times and got paid according til one fateful evening up north on the river. After making the trip down state n slinging the Asian grown beasters in the city to gangs of Albanians and Blacks I was back up on the St Lawrence River waiting to drop off money to the Indian smugglers and tribal police stop n search me finding the $. I got charged with entering a country illegally (the rez) and not declaring If I had over 10,000$ on me.
Couple days in a holding cell on the rez shook me and having $ taken scared me straight.
Your right, whole house grows of M39 by Asians were how it was grown, transported by Canadian bikers to the Indian rezs and smuggled across by local indians.
Glad them days r behind me bc I was running with a shit crowd , making $ n blowing coke like no tomorrow with no good ending in site. The issue with the tribal police thankfully scared me straight. Good Ole beasters and the craziness around them.
Jimmy Cournoyer or Cosmo- got busted and was the mastermind behind what they said was sending tons of the shit to the states, dude made millions but when he went down , that was the real end of the operation n that's why it all ended. Dude had connections to everyone from political people, to the bikers and even to sports stars like George St Pierre.
