How a Pizza Hut Worker Built a 32$ million Drug Empire

At 19, Nate Norman was a high school dropout delivering pizzas in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho mocked by peers and stuck in a life going nowhere. Then one night, sitting in a smoke-filled room with his friend Topher, he had an idea that would change everything.
Just an hour north across the Canadian border, marijuana was cheap and plentiful. Back home, it sold for ten times the price. What started as a single trip with a borrowed car and $1,600 quickly spiraled into a $32 million smuggling empire run by teenagers operating with military precision.
This is the true story of how a small-town boy became one of America's youngest drug kingpins not through violence or greed, but through curiosity, ambition, and the intoxicating rush of outsmarting the system. But when rival smugglers, murder, and federal agents entered the picture, Nate's world came crashing down.
From the quiet forests of Idaho to a federal courtroom, this is a raw and unflinching look at consequence, redemption, and the dangerous gap between opportunity and temptation. It's a story about how quickly we can lose ourselves—and how slowly we learn to find our way back.