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1977: That's a Lot of Pot

Al Sunshine reports from the WTVJ newsroom -- and that's really the newsroom, not a set -- on the boom in marijuana smuggling in the Keys.

Marijuana seizures during the first nine months of 1977 more than doubled those the previous year, a record-breaking haul that kept the Monroe County Sheriff's Department on "almost continuous alert."

And that's just the grass that authorities captured. Sunshine reports that only about ten percent of smuggled marijuana ended up in the hands of law enforcement.

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This clip is derived from news video in the WTVJ Collection. Accession number 086-29; airdate October 9, 1977.