Introducing Smoked

From the producers of Carruth comes the story of racing prodigy Randy Lanier, who shot to stardom at the Indy 500 in the 1980s—and funded his racing through a secret double life as one of the biggest pot kingpins in American history. Now, after serving nearly 30 years in prison, Lanier's tale of weed, speed and the road ahead highlights society's changing relationship with marijuana, and the legacy of those already incarcerated for it.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The state of mind that racing had put me in
was trina I put my own team together and end
up going to India. It will be white and father
and Randy Lanier's cap, his name Rookie of the Year.
As much as Porsch wanted to spend, I can spend
and not. I had plenty of sponsorship coming right from Columbia,

(00:21):
all right. By the early eighties, a river of pot
was flowing from Columbia to the United States. Attorney General
Jim Smith is drug smuggling the number one industry in Florida.
Drug smuggling is probably the number one industry in our country,
and it came in by the barge load thanks to
a drug kingpin who was hiding in plain sight, Randy Lanier.
He will start this race in the second row. I

(00:43):
must a race because I was doing loading. How big
was the load with him? Pounds? How much was that worth?
Forty four million books? I'm Amy Driscoll and I'm Alex Harris.
As Florida continues its drive toward full legalization of marijuana,
The Miami Herald and McClatchy Studios take you inside the

(01:04):
stunning rise of a racing prodigy he's still the same
dad to me, just accomplished a lot more than than others.
In the fall of an empire. I was living like
the family life, racing life, smuggle of life. Yeah, I'll
keep most upward and then from there you go right
into the wall Randy Law. There against the wall we

(01:25):
see visible evidence of the federal commitment to the war
on criminal drug smuggling in South Florida. DA's expertise was
to identify organizations and then try and take them out.
The rest of your crews are there. That car is
totally destroyed. I was sentenced to the remaining balance of
my natural life for we. For we, they've never found

(01:46):
a tale of speed. Indeed, there was two guys always
there that weed. I was the architect of our states,
mari Wanta laws that those laws need to change, and
the road ahead being in cultivation. I think it doesn't
have very much to do with my dad. Punished companers
do he got it. Let's go on. Our generations gotted

(02:07):
to be on the right line of pastory on that issue.
Everybody changes, Everything changes, right Smoked coming July six at
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