Caili in wonderland

The term square grouper was a nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes in South Florida in the 70’s and 80’s. In sharp contrast to the brazenly violent “Cocaine Cowboys” of the 1980s, Miami’s marijuana smugglers were cooler, calmer, and typically nonviolent. Square Grouper paints a vivid portrait of Miami’s pot smuggling culture in the ’70s and ’80s and its major players: the smuggling Black Tuna Gang, the pot dealing Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church and the tiny fishing village Everglades City.