What you’re looking at is the largest drug seizure in the history of South Florida back 40 years ago I was very lucky to be the first photographer on site I was working for the Key West citizen newspaper at the time I heard about it through the grapevines a large Freighter was cruising through the international war away 30 miles of the shores of Key West it was packed with a 90 pound bales of panama red It was great marijuana 200 tons that’s what they seized on the boat the freighter already unloaded at least 30 tons there was also a lot of it dumped over board that’s where the word came from square grouper that month of March 1980 everybody and their mother had a garbage can of this weed We all called it the wicked weed to this day I have still been selling this photo this category you were on has hundreds of great Key West photos my grandfather Captain Tony took a lot of them from the 40s through the 70s I had to go over in the 70s and while both of us were taking photos grea