Guy Lawson reports on how 25-year-old David Packouz and his 21-year-old partner, Efraim Diveroli, were awarded a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to supply weapons to America's allies in Afghanistan:

Working with nothing but an Internet connection, a couple of cellphones and a steady supply of weed, the two friends one with a few college credits, the other a high school dropout had beaten out Fortune 500 giants like General Dynamics to score the huge arms contract. With a single deal, two stoners from Miami Beach had turned themselves into the least likely merchants of death in history.

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