I would recommend watching the movie Blow, It has Johnny Depp in it and its about a true story drug smuggler, The guys name is George Jung and its about him Moving to Manhatten Beach, Cali and he started dealing weed and as he got bigger and bigger he went to Mexico and then started smuggling it and as he got bigger and bigger he smuggled cocaine from Columbia and gets busted by the FBI and then goes to jail and when he gets out he trys to set up another plan to smuggle it and move to California with his daughter and start a new life but then he got busted by the DEA and FBI again, set up by his old drug dealing friends to save their ass. Its a real nice movie that happened in the late 60's and early 70's, Heres a website all about it when they interviewed him.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...iews/jung.html
Check it out sometime if you dont know about it, I find it very interesting.