George Jung is one of America's most well-known drug dealers, having been immortalized in the Johnny Depp film "Blow."
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Two guys in a Connecticut jail cell helped change the way America does drugs
A chance meeting at Danbury prison would help start one of world's most powerful drug cartels.
George Jung, left, in prison in 2010.
But in 1974, he was a relatively low-level drug smuggler; one who had just been sentenced to four years at the Federal Correctional Institute at Danbury, Connecticut, after being picked up with a car trunk full of marijuana in Chicago.
Danbury, in Jung's words, was a "very mellow, laid-back place." But it was also a place where, "
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