- Okay, I'm reloaded! Don't worry, it's just pizza. Pizza, no need to demonetize this video. It's just pizza. We live in a world that has become somewhat fascinated with drug lords. After all, one of the most popular series on Netflix is Narcos. But, although those
shows are entertaining, we sometimes forget that
they're based on real people, who did some insane and really bad things. People who built an entire
empire off of illegal drugs. (soft piano jazz) - (maniacal laughter) - Here are the 10 most notorious
drug kingpins of all time. Number 10 is Augustus Owsley Stanley. The Oxford English Dictionary
added the word 'owsley,' which means the purest form of LSD, named after Augustus Owsley Stanley. Owsley first tried LSD back in 1964 while listening to Meet the Beatles!, which inspired him to teach
himself how to make the drug and manufacture the
greatest acid ever made. He provided the original LSD for the Merry Pranksters' acid tests, and was the first sound
guy for The Grateful Dead. He was considered to be magic personified, and funded the band's early
days with LSD's greatest hits, like Monterey Purple and White Lightening. He was a megalomaniac who controlled the hippie underground
throughout the 1960s, that is until his arrest
at the end of 1967. So by the time he got
out of prison in 1972, The Grateful Dead had moved on. Here's a little tiny PSA for you, you might have an issue if the dictionary names a drug after you. Might wanna slow down a little bit. Number nine is Griselda Blanco. Griselda Blanco is one of
the most violent drug lords in history, and pioneered
the Columbian sourced cocaine trade from Miami
in the 1970s and 80s. Sometimes called 'black widow'
for killing her husbands, she was a key member of Pablo
Escobar's Medellín Cartel, working with the Cocaine Cowboys, bringing in 80 million dollars US a month by the early 1980s. Blanco was instrumental
in the Miami drug war, a battle for control
of the lucrative trade, and was responsible for
at least 200 murders before she was finally
apprehended in 1985. Now you might think, "Oh, it's over. "She didn't get any farther." Nope, she actually continued
to traffic in prison until her release 20 years later. Listen, I know I'm behind bars, but I still got that good-good. The irony in this is that
the godmother finally met her grisly end on September
3rd, 2012 by being shot by a motorcycle gunman,
the assassination method that she's credited for inventing. Number eight is Frank Lucas. Frank Lucas was known as 'Superfly', because he was a badass black gangster, who bypassed the New York Italian mafia and ended up dominating the
heroin game in the early 1970s. After his mentor, Harlem mob
boss Bumpy Johnson, died, he took over the syndicate
and leveraged contacts that he made in Southeast
Asia to get heroin right from the source. He used his army within the US Army to fly his product on military transport, sometimes in soldiers'
coffins from Vietnam. No, don't, don't look in there! It's just, it's a dead body. It's scary, so don't look in there. But Lucas was also a brilliant marketer, labeling his product 'blue magic'. So with the best product
and the best marketing, he was making millions of dollars a month. He was also a master
at laundering his money into legitimate businesses,
notorious for the cruelty to the competition, and had
half the NYPD on his payroll. Unfortunately, that corruption is what led to a probe and ultimately his downfall. Number seven is Christopher Coke. Okay seriously, his last name was coke? He couldn't have picked something a little more inconspicuous? In June of 2010, Jamaican
and US authorities had finally apprehended the
notorious Christopher Coke, the leader of The Shower Posse. When they found him, he
was dressed as a woman at a roadblock outside Kingston, but prior to his arrest,
Coke, known as Dudus, had amassed a fortune
upwards of 30 billion dollars from smuggling guns,
cocaine, and marijuana into the United States and Canada. The Shower Posse's name
derives from showering their supporters with gifts,
particularly the poor, who considered him like Robin Hood, and their enemies with bullets. Coke's arrest and prosecution
became a major headache for Jamaica's prime
minister Bruce Golding, Coke's childhood friend. Dudus was eventually
extradited to the United States in June of 2012, and
sentenced to 23 years. If he wants to be that obvious, why didn't he just change his last name to 'Definitely Not Doing Anything Illegal.' Yes, Christopher 'I'm Definitely
Not Doing Anything Illegal' 'cause it's just as obvious. Number six is Robert Platshorn. Today, you can buy medical
marijuana pretty much anywhere in the United States with the proper ID, but 40 years ago reefer
madness was a real thing. That made it profitable for entrepreneurs like Robert Platshorn, who
ran the Black Tuna Gang, the original weed ballers. Big Tuna, as he was known,
had dozens of yachts, fleets of aircraft, private airstrips, and 300 million dollars in profit. What makes it really impressive is that he ran it all from his penthouse in Miami Beach's swanky
Fontainebleau hotel. Boop bip boop, ring ring. Oh hi there, can I get a
grilled cheese sent up, and also can you ship out
a kilo of coke for me? He was finally nabbed in Columbia in 1977 in a DC-3 loaded with
two tons of marijuana, destined to fly back to Florida, and was the first pot dealer to be prosecuted under
the Kingpin Statute. However, today he's now
free and Big Tuna is back in the game promoting medicinal marijuana to the Florida elderly as
part of his Silver Tour. I love how this guy reformed, but he's still called Big Tuna. Hey Big Tuna, what's happenin'? Number five is Manuel Noriega. Back in the 1980s when the
Cold War was still going on, the CIA supported just about anyone that helped their proxy
wars against the USSR, fighting communist
upstarts around the world. For a while, the United States employed democracy Panamanian
general Manuel Noriega, who served as a CIA spy and was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal,
swapping guns for drugs with the Nicaraguan contras. He ended up becoming the
military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989, running
a narco-kleptocracy with the implicit approval
of the United States. This is because while drugs
are bad, communism is worse. In 1985, he nullified a general
election to maintain power, and after providing support
to Cuba's Fidel Castro and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi,
President George HW Bush finally had it, and the United States invaded Panama and
arrested Noriega in 1990. Uh, yeah, George Bush
here, ain't gonna do it, not gonna be prudent,
better take 'em down. Number four is Ricky Ross. Not the rapper, not the (grunts), not him, this is the real guy. Americans have 'Freeway
Rick' Ross to thank for the crack cocaine
epidemic of the 1980s and 90s that led to all those hyper-colored 'Just Say No' commercials. Freeway Rick could've
actually been a tennis star, but he was functionally illiterate, so after his scholarship
prospects dried up, he turned to selling cocaine and cornered the Los Angeles market. Then, he met Oscar Danilo Blandón Reyes, a Nicaraguan financing
the Contra Revolution with Columbia cocaine,
smuggled into the United States on military planes, which, by the way, he sold to Ross at
bargain basement prices. Ross was buying 400 kilos
of cheap coke a week, and with the advent of
crack, he was making two to three million dollars a day. He was conquering American
cities by undercutting his competition, creating a
generation of crack babies and almost got out clean, but his greed led to his arrest in 1989. He also spawned pretty decent rapper. (grunts) Rosé! Number three is Amado Carrillo. Known as the lord of the
skies, Amado Carrillo Fuentes had a fleet of 22 commercial
airliners, private jets, and decommissioned military aircraft, to transport cocaine from Columbia to the United States through Mexico. Originally the son of a peasant, he filled the vacuum left by the collapse of Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel and the Cali Cartel in the mid-1990s. He became the largest shipper
of cocaine in the world, and Fuentes may have
been on the DEA hit list, but he was a folk hero for many in Mexico, and not just the poor
people, in fact especially to the countless local, state, and federal government officials, whom he paid 100 million a month in bribes. That wasn't even that much to him, because he was worth
over 25 billion dollars. He ended up dying during
a botched plastic surgery to change his appearance, but
even in death he was a lord, so the failed surgeons wound up being stuffed inside oil drums. (Spanish accent) Hello señor,
can I please get nose job? And if you screw it up, you die. (laughs) Okay, let's do it. Number two is Joaquín Guzmán. El Chapo, which means 'shortie', Guzmán was the largest importer of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin, making him a billionaire. Raised in a narco-family,
Guzmán was busted in 1993, where he lived comfortably
until his elaborate escape in 2001 that
involved bribing 78 people and two million dollars to an engineer. By 2003, as head of the Sinaloa Cartel, El Chapo was the most powerful drug lord in the crowded Mexican trade. But in 2006 he assassinated
a rival cartel leader, starting the Mexican Drug War. This war led to more than
60 thousand violent murders. El Chapo was eventually
captured again in 2014, but in July of 2015 he
made an even more elaborate prison escape, with
underground train tracks, threatened Donald Trump while on the lam, and was apprehended
again in January of 2016 and extradited to the United States. Man, this guy's like a drug lord ninja. He's like "I'm over here, now
you gotta catch me over here." (high pitched mocking noise) And number one is Pablo Escobar. Like I said, if you watch
Netflix, you knew this was comin'. No discussion of the
most notorious drug lords would be complete without the
narco-terrorist Pablo Escobar, the world's greatest outlaw. Saint Pablo, as he was known to the poor, ran the Medellín Cartel during the 1970s, and was the source of 80% of the cocaine flowing into the United States. Peaking his business at 15 tons per day, the DEA shot him on a rooftop in 1993. But in 1989, Forbes magazine declared him the seventh richest man in the world, with an estimated fortune
of over 25 billion dollars that he tried to make legitimate by muscling his way into
the Columbian Congress. In addition to the countless rivals Escobar's violent crew killed, he assassinated 30 judges,
over 400 police officers, and 110 people in the bombing
of the Avianca flight 203, trying to assassinate
the Columbian president, which turned the public tide against him. See kids, never become a drug lord. You'll just end up dying horribly. You'll get a special or two named after you, but you're gonna die. So those were the 10 most notorious drug kingpins of all time. If you guys enjoyed this, remember to give it a big thumbs up. Also, remember to subscribe to my channel and turn on notifications
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