STONE FREE — From Choirboy to Ganja Kingpin

STONE FREE IS A TRUE-CRIME ODYSSEY

—AN ELEGY FOR A VANISHED WORLD—

UNTAMED, UNREPENTANT, UNFORGETTABLE.

From the cradle, Warren Anderson’s future had been set out for him. But his parent’s plans for an ordered life collided head-on with the awakening 1960s counterculture that rejected those ideals. Reforged as James “Abdul” Monroe, he emerged not as a compliant citizen but as an outlaw fugitive.

Stone Free unravels the true-life odyssey of a Californian misfit who walked away from the American Dream. What began as a search for meaning morphed into one of the boldest marijuana smuggling operations of the twentieth century. As Thai stick grew in legend, Abdul became a kingpin in the pan-Pacific dope trade, moving over 100 ton of prized bud to the Western world, while living large in idyllic tropical havens.

But living untethered had a price.

As Nixon’s War on Drugs turned up the heat, Abdul was betrayed by a friend, Mike Boyum, and convicted on major conspiracy to import marijuana into America. Unrepentant, Abul—now inmate 52260-098—was shackled and shuffled through 25 federal prisons, doing time alongside outlaw ghosts like surfing’s dark prince, Miki Dora, and the infamous bank robber, Paddy Mitchell.