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The Syndicate
Buried cash. DEA moles. Sibling rivalries. Skydiving planes. Fast cars. And an exploding hash lab. A group of college friends took advantage of Colorado’s medical marijuana laws to create on...
Episodes
14 episodesWondery Presents: Frozen Head
Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his...
Special Preview Episode: Elizabeth the First. The Early Years
Here’s your special preview episode of the new series Elizabeth the First – about the remarkable life of Elizabeth Taylor. In this preview,...
A POTTED PLANT HISTORY | Bonus Episode 2
An extended conversation with drug historian Emily Dufton about history of cannabis in the United States, the protagonists who shaped it, an...
FOLLOW THE MONEY | Bonus Episode 1
In this first bonus episode, Special Agent Steve Bratten with the Colorado Department of Revenue discusses the prior cases and investigative...
ALL GONE TO POT | Chapter 8
Lifelong friendships and familial bonds shatter as law enforcement pressures members of the Syndicate into ratting on one another to avoid l...
OPERATION GOLDEN GO-FER | Chapter 7
After Joe Johnson flips and becomes an informant, the noose starts to tighten around the Syndicate. In October 2014, police execute 18 simul...
FAMILY MAN | Chapter 6
The backstory of the Syndicate's kingpin. We explore Tri's motivations, his history with the Syndicate's key distributor in Minnesota, and w...
ALMOST LEGAL | Chapter 5
Even as the Syndicate hits its stride as an illegal operation, Tri sets up a big play to go legal. He wants to leave the black market foreve...
PEST CONTROL | Chapter 4
Even as the Syndicate's growing network expands, distribution remains a problem. Getting the organization’s product across state borders is...
MORE PATIENTS, MORE PLANTS | Chapter 3
Tri takes his marijuana business from a cottage industry to full scale industrialization with growing facilities all over Denver. The weed m...
SETTING UP SHOP | Chapter 2
Andrew Cohen moves to Colorado to help his longtime college friend Tri Nguyen start a marijuana business. But when Tri throws a duffle bag f...
THE DRUG RUNNER | Chapter 1
In June 2014, a Kansas State Patrolman pulls over a minivan on a routine traffic stop, only to discover $374,000, a gun, and 66 pounds of po...
Trailer: The Syndicate
A group of college friends gamed Colorado’s marijuana laws and made millions in the most sophisticated black market growing operation we’ve...