Philadelphia Native, Pot Activist Bobby Tuna Promotes Movie At Cinefest
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Former pot smuggler Bobby Tuna is in town for the weekend for the first time following his 30 year jail sentence. The South Philadelphia native is promoting a new documentary about his life.
The documentary, Square Grouper, is named for the term used in the 70s and 80s to describe the bales of marijuana that drug smugglers threw overboard or out of planes in South Florida. And the name seems to fit.
"I was a fisherman and I was out sport fishing all of the time. Sometimes you'd come up on 30, 40, or even a hundred bales floating out in the ocean," said Robert Platshorn a/k/a Bobby Tuna.
Tuna has since given up fishing for Mary Jane. He currently writes for High Times magazine and travels the country fighting for legalization of pot.
"I spent 30 years in prison. There is no reason for anyone to spend one day in prison for marijuana because there is nothing harmful or anti-social about marijuana."
For show times for Square Grouper, go to phillycinefest.org.
Reported By Cherri Gregg, KYW Newsradio.
