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CONTENTS

FEATURES

SUMMER OF L VE RE VISITED

FREEDOM LEAF’S GUIDE TO OAKSTERDAM I BY DR. ASEEM SAPPAL AND NGAIO BEALUM

1967 I BY STEVEN WISHNIA The Vietnam War and racial strife helped create the U.S. counterculture.

PIZZA FELLA I BY NEAL WARNER The cartoon character returns to San Francisco 50 years after the Summer of Love.

BIRTH OF THE ROCK FESTIVAL BY HARVEY KUBERNIK Three California events in 1967 catapulted the Summer of Love ethos of peace, love and music into the public eye.

LONG STRANGE TRIP I BY ROY TRAKIN Amir Bar-Lev brings the Grateful Dead’s story to life with his sprawling documentary.

FREEDOM LEAF’S GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO I BY STEVE BLOOM AND NGAIO BEALUM 4

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FREEDOM LEAF INTERVIEW: WAVY GRAVY I BY STEVE BLOOM The clown prince of the ’60s counterculture remembers the Summer of Love.

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CONTENTS NEWS

WORD ON THE TREE BY MONA ZHANG

THE FUTURE OF MARIJUANA SALES IN CALIFORNIA BY PAUL ARMENTANO

24 COLUMNS

NORML: JUST SAY NO TO TRUMPERA ANTI-DRUG POLICIES BY JUSTIN STREKAL

CONNECTICUT JOINS WOMEN GROW NETWORK BY KEBRA SMITH-BOLDEN

SSDP: PEACE, LOVE AND DRUGPOLICY REFORM I BY ELISE SZABO

CANNABIS COMPANIES EXPLORE THE WINERY MODEL BY AMANDA REIMAN

FREEDOM LEAF MAKING MOVES IN THE CANNABIS SPACE BY MATT CHELSEA 6

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NEVADA BECOMES FIFTH STATE TO SELL RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA BY CHRIS THOMPSON

RECIPES: THE SUMMER OF VEG BY CHERI SICARD

GETTING CRAFTY WITH HEMP BEERS BY ERIN HIATT

HOW TO NOT GET STONED IN ENGLAND I BY BETH MANN

70 DR. FRANK RECOMMENDS BY DR. FRANK D’AMBROSIO

REVIEW: SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND DELUXE EDITION BY ROY TRAKIN

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I was 13 years old when the Summer of Love became a national phenomenon in 1967. That year, I was in seventh grade going on eighth and had my bar mitzvah. Psychedelic music might have been all the rage in San Francisco, but I was still listening to AM hits like “Ode to Billie Joe” and “Kind of a Drag.” The year came and went and nothing changed greatly in my life other than I was a year older. But by 1970, one year after Woodstock, I was old enough (just 15) to start going to concerts at the fabled Fillmore East, where I saw Santana, Ten Years After and the Allman Brothers. I finished high school, enrolled in college and traveled around the country during the summer months. In 1972, I made my maiden voyage to California and returned home with the idea of coming back to the Bay Area soon. In 1975, I landed in Haight-Ashbury and spent the next year there. That was my Summer of Love, eight years after the fact, but still a joyous period Steve Bloom en route nonetheless. I worked in a food co-op to Oakland in 1972. (at Veritable Vegetables in the Mission district), played the saxophone, smoked a lot of pot and took the ocstill two years away from Jethro Tull, Fat casional LSD trip. Hippies still dominated Mattress and Grand Funk at the Fillmore.” the Haight neighborhood, just as they had in Also in this issue, Trakin’s friend and col1967. It was the closest I would ever come to league Harvey Kubernik contributes an that hallowed time and place in history. excerpt from his book 1967: A Complete With that spirit in mind, we’ve worked Rock Music History of the Summer of Love diligently over the last few months to conabout the birth of rock festivals (page 38). struct Freedom Leaf’s tribute to the Summer And if you happen to be visiting the Bay of Love. We couldn’t have done it without Area this summer, let our San Francisco Roy Trakin, who penned two articles, one (page 42) and Oaksterdam (page 45) artiabout the Grateful Dead documentary Long cles be your guides. Strange Trip (page 54) and the other about Enjoy the Summer of Love Revisited! Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was released in 1967 (page 72). Where was Roy during the Summer of Love? “I had just seen my very first ‘rock’ concert,” he recalls. “The Four Seasons at Steve Bloom Westbury Music Fair on Long Island. I was Editor-in-chief

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EDITOR’S NOTE THE SUMMER OF LOVE REVISITED

FOUNDERS Richard C. Cowan & Clifford J. Perry

PUBLISHER & CEO Clifford J. Perry

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Steve Bloom

CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER Chris M. Sloan

ART DIRECTOR Joe Gurreri

VP OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Ray Medeiros

CREATIVE DIRECTOR Brandon Palma

VP OF ADVOCACY & COMMUNICATIONS Allen St. Pierre

NEWS EDITOR Mona Zhang

COMMUNITY & NONPROFIT MANAGER Chris Thompson

COPY EDITOR Steven Wishnia

ADVERTISING SALES AJ Aguilar

CONTRIBUTORS: Erik Altieri, Paul Armentano, Marguerite Arnold, Ngaio Bealum, Russ Belville, Scott Cecil, Matt Chelsea, Dr. Frank D’Ambrosio, Mia Di Stefano, Erin Hiatt, Harvey Kubernik, Mitch Mandell, Beth Mann, Amanda Reiman, Dr. Aseem Sappal, Cheri Sicard, Kebra Smith-Bolden, Justin Strekal, Elise Szabo, Roy Trakin, Neal Warner Copyright © 2017 by Freedom Leaf Inc. All rights reserved. Freedom Leaf Inc. assumes no liability for any claims or representations contained in this magazine. Reproduction, in whole or in part, without permission is prohibited.

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market is a government monopoly. At about $1.30 a gram, it costs less than half the $3 black-market price. But don’t expect Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, to become the next Amsterdam. Only citizens and those with permanent residency permits are allowed to buy cannabis over the counter. Users must register with the government and are restricted to just 10 grams per week. “It’s like a police file they’re building of planters and consumers,” activist Daniel Vidart warns. “Why should there be a registry of marijuana consumers and not one of alcohol consumers?” The country has also taken a stand on the international stage. Facing pressure from the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime,

LEGAL CANNABIS SALES UNDERWAY IN URUGUAY IT’S OFFICIAL: As of July 1, marijuana became available for purchase in Uruguay pharmacies. The South American country made international headlines in 2012 when thenpresident José Mujica announced plans to legalize cannabis. The following year, Uruguay became the first nation in the world to fully legalize it for adult use, when lawmakers gave their final approval. Since then, the nation has struggled to implement the measure. Adults are allowed to grow up to six cannabis plants at home and can join cannabis co-ops that can grow up to 99 plants a year. But sales in pharmacies were originally set to begin by the end of 2014. Mujica decided to delay that, however. “If we want to get this right we are going to have to do it slowly,” he said at the time, explaining that legal weed could end up in the black market if the government rushed to implement the law. His successor, Tabaré Vázquez, further delayed sales when he took office in 2015. In a bid to keep prices low, the marijuana 10

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Former President José Mujica’s push for pot legalization has become a reality in Uruguay.

Uruguay has held firm in its view that drug use should be treated as a public-health issue rather than a criminal issue. While allowing legal pot sales openly violates international drug treaties, thus far no action has been taken against Uruguay. Canada may soon join Uruguay, though it’s unclear how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government plans to deal with that conflict.

STATE UPDATES: ARKANSAS, FLORIDA, MASSACHUSETTS, MAINE AND NORTH DAKOTA IN NOVEMBER, VOTERS in eight states approved measures that liberalized their cannabis laws. Half a year later, how’s that working out? In Arkansas, where Issue 7 legalized medical marijuana, advocates have generally been pleased with the way state lawmakers have handled the new law. Efforts to roll back the initiative stalled in the legislature, including one bill to prohibit patients from smoking and another that would delay implementation until the federal government legalizes medical cannabis. On April 12, the state Board of Health approved rules for the program. Lawmakers in Florida, however, modified the Amendment 2 initiative, which passed with 71% of the vote, to prohibit smoking. An earlier version of the bill would have also banned edibles and vaping, but those provisions were deleted after public outcry. The bill passed in a special session June 9 leaves much to be desired: It allows only 17 growers for a state of 21 million people, and recognizes just 10 qualifying medical conditions. Orlando lawyer John Morgan, Amendment 2’s chief architect, says he’ll sue the state to allow smoking. “There are four places listed in the amendment that call for smoking,” Morgan explains. In Massachusetts, the state legislature has delayed implementation of the new law for another six months, until July 2018. Several bills intended to limit it have been introduced, including one for a 16.75% excise tax that would bring the total taxes on cannabis purchases to 28%. After that proposal was widely criticized, state House leaders

David Boyer led the Question 1 effort in Maine.

still approved it on June 21. Another bill would remove authority over recreational cannabis from the Cannabis Control Commission, similar to the panel that regulates alcohol. But state Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg, who would appoint the three members, warned in April that creating a new regulatory body would cause even further delays. While adult use hasn’t encountered the same level of pushback in Maine, lawmakers in the Pine Tree State are considering delaying a key part of the Question 1 initiative: social use. No other legal state has provisions for cannabis clubs. “We see social clubs as part of Question 1,” says David Boyer, who helped lead the effort. “It’s the will of Massachusetts Treasurer the voters.” Deborah B. Goldberg State-licensed medical-marijuana dispensaries are asking lawmakers to let them sell recreational weed before licensed pot stores debut next year. Colorado and Oregon instituted similar measures after they legalized recreational use. In North Dakota, Gov. Doug Burgum signed legislation Apr. 17 to regulate the state’s medical-marijuana program, established by the Measure 5 initiative. While its rules are nowhere as restrictive as New York’s or Minnesota’s, they prohibit smoking except when a doctor or nurse practitioner recommends it, and limit medical marijuana for pediatric patients to 6% THC. JULY/AUGUST 2017

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The Colorado Statehouse in Denver

COLORADO LEGISLATURE FAILS TO RESOLVE PUBLICUSE ISSUE NEARLY FIVE YEARS after Coloradans voted to legalize adult cannabis use and possession, residents are still wondering if it’s cool to blaze on their front porches. State lawmakers debated this during the spring legislative session, but left it on the table. The debate boils down to differing interpretations of Amendment 64, the 2012 ballot initiative that legalized recreational sales. It prohibits marijuana use when “conducted openly and publicly or in a manner that endangers others.” But state lawmakers were unable to agree on whether front-porch cannabis consumption counts as “open and public” use. Republican state Sen. Bob Gardner said he was concerned that in urban and suburban areas “property lines are so close that children walking up and down sidewalks” would be less than 15 feet away. Denver 12

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Democrat Sen. Lois Court said contact highs were “the impact on kids I’m really concerned about.” In Denver, city laws allow for marijuana consumption anywhere on private property— regardless if it’s visible from public space. Pot advocates want to see this standard adopted statewide. Last November, voters there approved a measure to create a pilot program for social cannabis use. On May 12, city regulators released proposed rules for it. They plan to start accepting license applications in July. Businesses that apply for a social-use license will have to ask consumers to sign a waiver that declares he or she “is responsible for his/her own actions, will consume responsibly, will not drive impaired, and will not sell or distribute marijuana for remuneration.” The draft rules also call for restrictions on public advertising and on consuming alcohol and marijuana at the same time, as well as mandating ventilation plans for vaping. A public hearing on the smoke-filled issue was held on June 13. While these proposed rules seem onerous, at least Denver is moving to address the issue. State lawmakers will likely revisit social use, thanks to this local push.

THE DOJ’S SECRET MARIJUANA SUBCOMMITTEE HEARD ABOUT THE Justice Department’s mysterious marijuana subcommittee? The group, headed by Michael Murray, counsel to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, is re-evaluating federal prosecutors’ marijuana policies. It’s part of a larger task force on violent crime led by department official Steven H. Cook. The report is expected to be issued on July 27. However, little else is known about it. The Justice Department declined U.S. News and World

RHODE ISLAND PATIENT WINS COURT CASE ON MAY 23, a Rhode Island court ruled in favor of medicalmarijuana patient Christine Callaghan, arguing that a company discriminated against her for off-duty medical-cannabis use. The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of Callaghan in 2014 after the University of Rhode Island graduate student was denied a summer internship at Darlington Fabrics in Westerly. She uses cannabis to treat debilitating migraines. The company withdrew the internship after she informed its human-resources department she was a registered medical-marijuana patient. “I just want Darlington and other companies in Rhode Island to treat me and other

Report’s request to learn more about who else is serving on the subcommittee and how they’re going about the policy review. Murray, a 2009 graduate of Yale Law School, is a former assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Cook has been described as a “zealous prosecutor” and “unabashed drug warrior” with “hardline views on criminal justice.” He helped write the department’s new policy urging fullforce prosecution for low-level drug offenses, something that former Attorney General Eric Holder had pulled back from. “For me, it’s like the world is turned upside down,” Cook has stated. “We now somehow see these drug traffickers as the victims. That’s just bizarre to me.” licensed patients the same way they would treat any other employee with a chronic health condition who is taking medication, as the law requires,” Callaghan explained at the time. State Superior Court Judge Richard Licht concluded that off-duty cannabis use shouldn’t matter. “Marijuana need not enter the employer’s premises. Indeed, this is all that is required to maintain a drug-free workplace,” he wrote. “What an employee does on his or her off time does not impose any responsibility on the employer.” While a lawyer for Darlington argued that the state’s medical-marijuana law did not give a clear right to sue based on discrimination, the judge ruled that the law implied that it did. The company plans to appeal his ruling to the state Supreme Court. Mona Zhang publishes the daily cannabis newsletter Word On The Tree. Subscribe to WOTT at wordonthetree.com JULY/AUGUST 2017

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THE FUTURE OF MARIJUANA SALES IN CALIFORNIA BY PAUL ARMENTANO

CANNABIS COMMERCE IN CALIFORNIA is about to get a makeover. Beginning January 1, both medical patients and adult consumers will be able to buy marijuana from state-regulated facilities—if state regulators meet their deadlines and all goes according to plan.

THE CANNABIS CLOCK IS TICKING The personal cultivation and possession of medical cannabis has been legal in California since 1996. Yet it took until 2015 for lawmakers to enact legislation that explicitly authorized its licensed sale to qualified patients. That law, the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MCRSA), establishes statewide regulations governing the production, testing, packaging and sale of medical cannabis products. Up until now, medical-marijuana regulations have largely been left up to the discretion of local governments. Not anymore. Beginning next year, dispensary operators who possess a business license from their city will also need an additional license from the state Bureau of Marijuana Control. Applicants will be required to undergo background checks prior to receiving that license, and may be denied one if they have been convicted of a felony drug offense. Those engaged in ancillary services—including commercial growing, manufacturing, testing, 14

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and delivery—will have to pay for state licenses as well. The MCRSA also directs state agencies— the Department of Food and Agriculture, the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Pesticides Regulation—to craft specific rules for various aspects of the medical-cannabis trade. Health regulators will oversee regulations for the production of cannabis-infused edibles and extracts, while the Department of Agriculture will impose “track-and-trace” procedures to monitor plants from seed to sale. Under draft regulations issued by the Department of Health in May, state-licensed dispensaries would have to adhere to specific hours of operation (between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.), have security on site and sell their products in child-resistant packaging. Dispensaries could no longer provide free samples to patients, and edibles must not contain more than 10 mg of THC per serving or 100 mg per package. There would still be no state taxes on medical-marijuana-related sales, but localities would remain free to impose them.

ADULT-USE SALES FORTHCOMING Medical-cannabis sales aren’t all that’s getting a facelift. In January, regulations permitting recreational, or adult-use, marijuana sales also are anticipated to go into effect, under the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, approved by California voters as Proposition 64 in 2016.

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Like MCRSA, it allows local control— meaning that municipalities have the power to prohibit dispensaries and adult-use retailers in their community—and requires retailers to apply for state licenses. However, it sets fewer barriers to entering the business. Applicants for retail licenses won’t need to prove they have local licenses, and those with past marijuana or other drug-related convictions will not necessarily be denied licenses. This may lead to many more adultuse shops opening and far fewer dispensaries remaining. Recreational marijuana will be taxed as follows: a 15% state excise tax on retail purchases and a $9.25 per ounce cultivation tax on producers. These revenues will go into the newly created “California Marijuana Tax Fund” to pay for cannabis-related research, health programs and more. Some revenues will also be returned to counties as grants. However, counties that prohibit marijuana businesses will be forbidden from applying for those grants.

state-approved cannabis retailers. California state Treasurer John Chiang is heading the Cannabis Banking Working Group to develop “actionable steps and recommendations designed to open access to the banking system to cannabis-related industries.” Some cities are also exploring the notion of forming “public banks” for the cannabis industry that would operate independently of the Federal Reserve banking system.

CASH-ONLY TRANSACTIONS TO CONTINUE According to a recent assessment by the market-research firms The Arcview Group and New Frontier, total legal cannabis sales in the U.S. are expected to reach $6.5 billion by 2020. Yet, without changes in federal laws and regulations, this booming retail sector will remain cash-only. The federal government still largely prohibits banks and credit card companies from doing business with 16

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WILL GOVERNOR BROWN MERGE THE MARKETS? One potential wrinkle in these plans comes from Gov. Jerry Brown’s office. In April, his administration floated a plan to merge the medical and retail markets, as Washington state did after the passage of I-502 in 2012. Under Brown’s proposal, one set of regulations would apply to all commercial cannabis providers and retailers, and patients would no longer have a distinct status recognized by the state. However, that change would need a two-thirds majority vote in the state legislature, and lawmakers as of now appear to be largely skeptical about it. Paul Armentano is deputy director of NORML.

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JUST SAY NO TO TRUMP-ERA ANTI-DRUG POLICIES BY JUSTIN STREKAL

OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS, eight states have legalized marijuana, 30 plus the District of Columbia have implemented or enacted medical-cannabis programs, and 16 have authorized the limited use of non-intoxicating cannabidiol. The federal Justice Department now seems to be intent on rolling those changes back. While marijuana remains illegal under federal law, current Department of Justice policy directs prosecutors not to interfere with state legalization programs. A 2013 memo by former Deputy Attorney General James Cole recommends to U.S. attorneys that prosecuting people licensed to engage in the plant’s production and sale should only be a priority if they violate the law with aggravating circumstances, such as selling to minors or diverting marijuana to states that have not legalized its use. If the department chooses to rescind the Cole Memo—which is likely—it would remind federal prosecutors that marijuana cultivation, distribution and sale are against federal law. While states could still decriminalize possession of marijuana, they would no longer be allowed to license companies to produce and sell it legally. Serious anti-drug warriors, starting with Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the top, are now running the department. One of his henchmen, Steven H. Cook, recently directed prosecutors to seek the steepest penalties for low-level drug offenders, reversing the Obama administration’s policy. This move will send more people to prison for longer stretches and is yet another step in the Trump administration’s revival of failed drug war policies. Cook, along with former federal prosecutor Michael Murray, is heading the department’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, which is expected to release new guidelines on a range of issues, including marijuana, by July 27 (see “The FREEDOM JULY/AUGUST 2017 18 18FREEDOM LEAFLEAF JULY/AUGUST 2017

AG Jeff Sessions is intent on bringing back the antidrug rhetoric of the Just Say No era.

DOJ’s Secret Marijuana Subcommittee” on page 13). Cook and Sessions are intent on bringing back the antidrug rhetoric of the Just Say No era, when millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens were rounded up for possessing marijuana and other drugs. At a time when the majority of states allow regulated cannabis use in some form and 60% of voters endorse legalization for adults, it makes no sense to return to the Dark Ages of the Reaganera drug policies. It’s high time that members of Congress take action to comport federal law with majority public opinion and the plant’s rapidly changing legal and cultural status, and protect state medical and recreational marijuana laws from the threat of federal incursion. Make your voice heard: Call the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your representatives, and send them emails via norml.org/act. Justin Strekal is NORML’s political director.

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CONNECTICUT JOINS WOMEN GROW NETWORK BY KEBRA SMITH-BOLDEN

Clockwise from right: Kebra Smith-Bolden. Laura Boehner and Cara Crabb-Burnham

AS A BLACK WOMAN born and raised in the inner city of New Haven, Conn., I grew up around marijuana. I can remember my first experience with it quite clearly. I took a puff and blew it out, failing to inhale like Bill Clinton. I didn’t understand what all of the hoopla was about, and declined all subsequent offers to consume. Fast-forward 24 years, and guess what? I finally know what all the hoopla is about. I’m now a registered nurse and mother of four. I was reintroduced to cannabis in my thirties and immediately fell in love with its ability to help me cope with stress. I decided I wanted to learn more about it, so I enrolled in the accredited 12-course program at the Northeastern Institute of 20

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Cannabis in Natick, Mass. I was subsequently introduced to Women Grow, an organization that holds monthly networking events, and provides support and resources for budding cannabis entrepreneurs. On March 31, I travelled to New York to attend an event billed as “Cultural Diversity in the Cannabis Industry.” I left with the desire to share this new sense of belonging with my home state. I was sure there were others who are also sick of having to hide our affection for cannabis, and ready to form a community to work for legalization and help those most affected by criminalization. On June 1, more than 100 people attended our maiden Connecticut Women Grow networking event in New Haven. Since then, I’ve consistently heard from people who’ve been hoping to become part of a community like this, and feel energized to do the work that’s before us. Connecticut is one of the nation’s 30 legal medical-marijuana states. Nutmeg State cannabis businesses include New London’s Kushley, which sells candles and sprays that eliminate marijuana-smoke odors, and Norfolk’s Topstone, which offers handcrafted vaporizers made in Connecticut machine shops with American materials. The girl who failed to inhale is now a woman determined to see the Connecticut cannabis industry develop from an underground, isolated group of individuals to an inclusive community, with a network of like-minded women and men looking to take that nascent industry by storm. Our next networking event will be held on July 13 at K2 Asian Fusion Restaurant (27 Temple St.) in New Haven. If you live in the area, please join us. Kebra Smith-Bolden is market leader for Connecticut Women Grow.

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PEACE, LOVE AND DRUG-POLICY REFORM BY ELISE SZABO

THE SUMMER OF LOVE IN 1967 was a cultural phenomenon brought about by a fusion of the antiwar movement, a desire for sexual and expressive freedom, anti-authoritarianism, a focus on communal values, and psychedelia. Hippies gathered in large numbers in San Francisco and many other cities. Music festivals sprang up, and the predominantly young community demanded peace and love. Fifty years later, young people are once again leading a movement for peace and love, and demanding justice in drug policy is one of their biggest goals. Many members of Students for Sensible Drug Policy reflect the values embodied by the hippies of the Summer of Love. We’re turning that love into action by educating our peers and working to change harmful policies. HERE ARE SOME OF OUR CHAPTERS’ RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS: •We worked with the University of California at Santa Cruz’s health services to provide drug-testing kits for students. • At Michigan State University in East Lansing, SSDP chapter leader Davin Surio joined the school’s Government Affairs Council. • Our State University of New York at Albany chapter won the school’s Justice Award for Leadership for the second year in a row. The award goes to a campus organization that displays an exemplary commitment to social justice. • At Reed College in Portland, Ore., we led the effort for syringe disposal boxes in campus restrooms. The pilot program will begin with four locations and expand to every restroom on campus by the end of 2018. • At New Mexico State University in Albuquerque, chapter leader Patrick Alcala wrote an article for the school newspaper about the need for public universities in the state. • Three New York SSDP chapters went to Albany to lobby in favor of a state bill that would tax and regulate cannabis. • At Northeastern University in Boston, the SSDP chapter hosted their 7th annual Perspectives in Psychedelic Medicine event, featuring Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies executive director Rick Doblin. 22 FREEDOM LEAF

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Ariefa Kumara (middle) and other members of the Sierra Leone SSDP chapter in Freetown.

• Georgia SSDP chapters did phonebanking for a city cannabis-decriminalization ordinance proposed in Atlanta. • In Dublin, the 4th Annual SSDP Ireland conference was a huge success and received national media attention. • In Freetown, capital of the African nation Sierra Leone, SSDP chapter leader Ariefa Kumara argued in an open debate on drug policy that a public-health approach is needed. Are you a student and want to get involved? Visit ssdp.org to learn how to find or start a chapter at your school. Not a student, but love our work? Consider making a donation at ssdp.org/donate. Elise Szabo is SSDP’s Pacific region coordinator.

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NEVADA BECOMES FIFTH STATE TO SELL RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA BY CHRIS THOMPSON

SINCE THE PASSAGE OF QUESTION 2 in November, the Nevada legislature scrambled to make last-minute changes to the law before legal recreational marijuana sales kicked off on July 1. Plans for an “early start” were threatened by a court case brought by the Independent Alcohol Distributors of Nevada. On June 20, District Judge James Wilson in Carson City granted an injunction in their favor, giving them exclusive marijuana-distribution rights for the first 18 months of legal adult-use sales. The state legislature passed seven of the 23 marijuana-related bills introduced during the 2017 session (see sidebar). Gov. Brian Sandoval signed legislation establishing a 10% excise tax on it, easing medical-marijuana rules, allowing cannabis on Native American lands, increasing restrictions on edibles, regulating industrial hemp and revising the drugged-driving law. The bills tabled included setting up marijuana nonprofits, regulating social use, increasing medical patients’ purchase limits, protecting firearm rights for patients and reinstating home-growing rights. State Sen. Tick Segerblom (D-Las Vegas), who introduced several of those bills, said the Alcohol Distributors’ lawsuit shouldn’t have to delay the beginning of recreational sales. “Even though they’ve issued an injunction, the two sides could stipulate to waive the injunction,” he said. “There are many compromises that can happen.” A day after the distribution ruling, Clark County, home to Las Vegas, announced that 25 dispensaries would receive special-use permits for recreational sales. On opening day of legal sales, Sen. Segerblom was among the Nevadans who waited on long lines to become the state’s first legal cannabis consumers. “Every time you buy something, 33 cents is going to taxes,” he crowed. Chris Thompson is Freedom Leaf’s community and nonprofits manager. 24

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Las Vegas dispensaries like Essence are getting an “early start” on recreational sales.

THE POT BILLS THAT PASSED •AB 135 revises rules for driving under the influence of marijuana, sets a nanogram limit for blood testing and removes urine testing. •SB 277 creates a subcommittee on Criminal Justice Information Sharing and allows parole officers to see medical-marijuana patient information. •SB 344 restricts the types of edibles and dosages that can be sold, increases packaging requirements and limits advertising. •SB 375 allows the governor’s office to work directly with local Native American tribes regarding marijuana sales on tribal lands. •SB 396 sets up rules and regulations for the cultivation of industrial hemp. •AB 422 reduces the cost of Nevada medical-marijuana cards, prohibits marijuana vending machines and allows non-residents to take part in the state’s medical-marijuana program. •SB 487 adds a 10% excise tax on sales of recreational marijuana.

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CANNABIS COMPANIES EXPLORING THE WINERY MODEL BY AMANDA REIMAN

AS IT WINDS UP and down the California coast, Highway 101 often shifts from a fourlane highway to a two-lane country road. North of San Francisco, the urban scenery gives way to a rural landscape. Much of the food and wine consumed in the U.S. comes from California—as does most of the cannabis. As legalization takes hold in the Golden State, how will the intersection between tourism, cannabis and a growing interest in food production affect the northern counties renowned as the “Emerald Triangle”? Recent documentaries like Fed Up and In Defense of Food have prompted people to think more about where their food comes from. We’ve already seen this trend with wine; California hosts countless wine lovers seeking a deeper connection to the grape and the vintner. The sources of cannabis sold in dispensaries used to be a mystery. Like a wine section at Safeway filled with store-brand merlots and cabernets, cannabis flowers were labeled with the name of the dispensary and nothing more. With the introduction of licensing and regulations, farmers are coming out of the shadows with increased comfort to promote themselves and their craft. Consumers are starting to develop product loyalty, and with that, the desire to see the farm and meet the people responsible.

The Emerald Triangle—Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties—has long had the reputation as the world’s premier cannabis growing region. This is largely due to their microclimates, unique soil and optimal growing environment. However, because of prohibition, farmers stayed underground. In the new world of legalization, one can easily imagine these farms hosting the same folks who travel north on 101 to visit the wineries. The offerings are already underway. I recently relocated from the Bay Area to the Flow Cannabis Institute in Redwood Valley in Mendocino. Located on 80 acres previously owned by the Fetzer wine family, we’re creating a retreat and education center where visitors can meet the farmers who grow their cannabis and learn more about their techniques, all in a beautiful winery-like setting. Now that cannabis legalization is becoming a reality in tourist-heavy states like California, it’s the industry’s responsibility to create opportunities for people to make connections to the plants, the farmers and the local environments. With food and farming consciousness on the rise, the cannabis industry and its related tourism are starting to create opportunities to meet this growing demand.

"With the introduction of licensing and regulations, farmers are coming out of the shadows."

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Amanda Reiman is vice president of community relations at Flow Kana in California.

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FREEDOM LEAF MAKING MOVES IN THE CANNABIS SPACE BY MATT CHELSEA

FREEDOM LEAF, INC. CEO Clifford Perry likes to cook. He studied to become a fivestar chef and master baker at Wilson Culinary Institute, and won pastry chef competitions at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and went on to own many other top restaurants before entering the marijuana industry eight years ago. Today, Freedom Leaf (OTCQB: FRLF) has branched out quickly from its roots as the publisher of Freedom Leaf magazine, which has published 26 issues since its October 2014 debut. This year, the company has acquired LaMarihuana.com, the largest Spanish-language cannabis Web portal, launched a line of CBD products under the Hempology name, and signed up several Freedom Leaf licensees in Florida, the Netherlands and Spain. Perry keeps looking for new ways to leverage the Freedom Leaf brand across different specialized markets. “The key is that Freedom Leaf has built this media platform,” he said during New York’s CWCBExpo in June, where the company had a booth. “The point is to become a funnel to bring in deals.” The company con28

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tinues to draw on its management team’s collective 200 years of cannabis-industry experience. That team includes co-founder Richard Cowan, former NORML executive director Allen St. Pierre and editor-in-chief Steve Bloom. “We’re not somebody who just got into the business,” Perry explains. “We’ve been in it a long time. We are the go-to company in the space for all things cannabis and hemp.” Through his business contacts, Perry was asked in 2009 to become executive vice president of business development for Medical Marijuana, Inc. While it didn’t have much of a business at the time, Medical Marijuana, Inc. had the distinction of being the first pot stock listed on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. Perry eventually contacted the second OTC-listed pot stock, Cannabis Science, Inc. That’s when he first spoke to Cowan, also a former head of NORML, who was Cannabis Science’s CFO. “I called him and said, ‘We should really get to know one another,’” Perry recalls. After a year at Medical Marijuana, Inc., Perry went on his own path, focusing on edFreedom Leaf, Inc.

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ucational training ontech.com) to sell, seminars, branding, own and operate sulicensing and event percritical CO2 explanning. While on traction equipment hiatus to determine used to isolate nonwhat he was going to psychoactive cando next, Perry began nabinoids from inassessing his life. dustrial hemp, and “I did a lot of is putting its brand reading on spiritualbehind myhempOLity and reached this OGY.com, a seller peace,” he notes. “I of high-quality CBD realized that if you products, as well. ask for something Perry’s also qualified and believe you’re FRLF stock for the Freedom Leaf founders Richard Cowan and Clifworthy, it happens.” OTCQB, a federally ford Perry on a business trip in Barcelona, Spain. Shortly after that regulated exchange epiphany, Perry received a call from Cowan, for over-the-counter stocks, which has more asking him to fly out to Palm Springs, Calif. stringent reporting and compliance requireto talk about marijuana events and starting ments than the bulletin board. up a business. Cowan left Cannabis Science As the industry continues to evolve, Freein 2012 and was looking for a new venture. dom Leaf wants to expand with it. “We’ve He and Perry agreed to form Freedom Leaf, been here for a long time and we plan on Inc., did a reverse merger into a public combeing here for a long time,” Perry exults. pany and decided to found a new magazine “There’s huge potential overseas. If you think about the good news in marijuana reform. it’s happening quickly here, you should see “Everybody said, ‘Are you nuts to start a how it’s going in other countries, like Israel print publication?’” Perry recalls. But they and Uruguay. The opportunities are endless.” had a plan. “While a lot of bigger magazines and newspapers have folded, targeted publications have been doing well. Marijuana publications are thriving.” Today, Freedom Leaf operates as a small but growing, fully reporting and audited, public company. In the first quarter of 2017, ending March 31, Freedom Leaf reported revenues of $254,084, up from $68,762 STOCK LISTING ON OTCQB: in the same period in 2016. Its net losses shrank to $27,200 from $459,044 in the first FRLF quarter of 2016. The OTC stock FRLF tradLOCATION: ed at about four cents a share in June, and Las Vegas, NV the company’s total stock-market valuation is WEBSITE: about $3.5 million. Perry is always looking for ways to grow freedomleaf.com the reach of Freedom Leaf. The company INVESTOR RELATIONS: owns 25% of Plants to Paper, a new firm that freedomleafinc.com sells rolling papers and blunt wraps made EMAIL ADDRESS: out of legal cannabis instead of wood pulp. info@freedomleaf.com It’s rolling out a domestic licensing business, starting with Spain and the Netherlands, PHONE NUMBER: while developing other international ties. It 702-499-6022 has teamed up with NuAxon Tech (nuax-

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THE VIETNAM WAR AND RACIAL STRIFE IN AMERICA HELPED CREATE THE U.S. COUNTERCULTURE.

he year 1967 may be remembered as the Summer of Love, but it was actually a very violent time that foreshadowed the cataclysms of 1968. It was a weird cusp of optimism and apocalypse, the hopes and dreams of the Kennedy and civil-rights era—yes, we can change the world—reaching a peak, but also the point where the doors started to close. Looming over everything was the Vietnam War, the largest conflict the United States had been involved in since World War II. By the end of the year,

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there were almost 500,000 U.S. troops there, more than three times as many as in 1965. The conflict would eventually kill an estimated two million Vietnamese civilians and soldiers, and 58,000 GIs. Images of children burned alive by napalm—jellied gasoline, an incendiary weapon that sticks to skin—and soldiers with their legs blown off by booby traps permeated magazines and TV.

Vietnam War protests at the Pentagon, October 1967.

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The war intensely divided the country. One side was viscerally repulsed by its imperialist carnage; the other despised cowardly Commies undermining our troops. This schism was much more intimate than the regional polarization of Trump-era America. Bitter arguments erupted within families, neighborhoods and schools, both about the war and the lifestyles symbolically associated with dissent. In 1967, the antiwar movement was growing, but not yet mainstream. When the Rev. Martin Luther King declared his opposition to the war in April, calling it “a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit,” more than 150 newspapers denounced him. The civilrights movement, after scoring a historic victory with the outlawing of segregation in 1964, faced both more complex socioeconomic issues and a vicious white backlash as it moved into the North. The previous summer, whites in Chicago had thrown bricks at a march led by King against segregated housing. The summer of ’67 was the fourth in a row where people in poor urban black neighborhoods rioted, burning and looting after incidents with police set off pent-up rage. In Newark, N.J., 26 people were killed in five days of rioting after a black cab driver was busted and beaten by cops on July 12. Eleven nights later, a raid on an after-hours club in Detroit sparked another five-day riot that left 43 people dead, almost 1,200 injured, and 2,500 stores burned or looted. One more aspect of segregation fell in June, however. The Supreme Court, in its most appropriately named decision ever—Loving v. Virginia—ruled that Virginia’s law forbidding interracial marriage, under which Mildred and Richard Loving were forced to leave the state to avoid a year in prison, was unconstitutional. (The 2016 movie Loving told the story.) If 1964-66 was the high point of modern American liberal politics—the laws enacted in those three years included the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and the Head Start program—1967 was the beginning of the backlash.

A coalition of Republicans and segregationist Southern Democrats regained power in Congress after the November 1966 elections, foreshadowing the election of “law and order” candidate Richard Nixon as President in 1968. Meanwhile, a countercultural movement was growing in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, New York’s East Village, Los Angeles, Boston/Cambridge, Chicago, Detroit/Ann Arbor and Austin. Enabled by cheap rent, it evolved out of the ’50s Beats and the early-’60s folk-music scenes’ desire for an authentic, noncommercial culture, dosed with the pop-culture flash of comics and rock’n’roll. Free-jazz musicians—most notably John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman— sought spiritual liberation via chaos-embracing improvisation, influencing psychedelic rockers like the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin’s band, Big Brother and the Holding Company. Soul music, the dance soundtrack to the civil-rights era, was hitting a peak in ‘67 as well, with epochal records like James Brown’s “Cold Sweat” and Aretha Franklin’s “Respect.” The New York and San Francisco hippie communities also had a significant, if doubly underground, gay and lesbian presence, the fierce outcasts who planted the seeds for Stonewall and Castro Street. “No one knew yet what the hybrid armies in the parks would turn out to mean,” feminist Marge Piercy wrote in her 1979 novel Vida. “The organizers were smoking dope and growing their hair, and the flower children, weary of being beaten by the police, were beginning to talk about the war. A great thick fog had lifted from the American landscape and people in the new sunlight were mixing colors and sounds and cultures and life-

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SUMMER OF L VE RE VISITED styles.” But, she addand Richards received ed, “Mistrust between a year for letting peothe tribes remained.” ple use cannabis on his The activists often property. Both convicsaw the hippies as tions were reversed on apathetic, frivolous appeal after the august dropouts; in turn, the Times of London called hippies dismissed the Jagger’s sentence culactivists as hectoring, tural persecution. uptight downers. The Haight-AshSeveral key figbury and the East Vilures had feet in both lage scenes were an camps. Poet Allen end as much as a beGinsberg spoke at ginning. The summer antiwar protests in invasion of thousands Berkeley and the Janof would-be hippies, uary 1967 “Human many of them teenBe-In” in San Franaged runaways, overcisco. The East Vilwhelmed these counlage rock band the terculture communiFugs celebrated pot ties to the point where Oracle’s coverage of the Human Be-In, which took place January 14, 1967. and group sex while they could barely proalso screaming antivide people with food war screeds (lead singer Ed Sanders had and places to stay. Sadly, Haight-Ashbury served time in jail for civil disobedience). predators Ed Sanders described as Erstwhile civil-rights activist Abbie Hoff“scrounging for young girls using mysman was trying to organize the neighborticism and guru babble” included a justhood’s hippies. On a stoned New Year’s out-of-prison Charles Manson. The OctoEve in his apartment, the political theaterber 1967 murder of Linda Fitzpatrick and prankster Yippies (for Youth InternationJames “Groovy” Hutchinson, a Connectial Party) were born. cut preppie and a Rhode Island workThe American pot-legalization moveing-class dropout turned East Village hipment emerged out of this crossover. pies, was another signal that all was not Ginsberg was one of its first public adpeace and love. vocates. His 1965 essay, “The Great Mar“It was a noble experiment,” Sanders ijuana Hoax: First Manifesto to End the wrote in his 1971 book The Family. “But Bringdown,” hailed the “metaphysical there was a weakness: From the standherb” as a “useful area of mind-consciouspoint of vulnerability, the flower moveness,” and contrasted the peacefulness of ment was like a valley of plump white Moroccan kif-smokers with the “palpable rabbits surrounded by wounded coyotes. poppycock” of prohibitionist propaganda. Sure, the ‘leaders’ were tough, some of He was an early member of LeMar, the them geniuses and great poets. But the first formal pro-legalization organization. acid-dropping middle-class children (For more on Ginsberg, see “Leaves of from Des Moines were rabbits.” Grass” in Issue 22.) Still, people who were involved back Criticism of drug prohibition first enthen talk about an infinite sense of possitered the political mainstream, however, bility. “I really thought love would change in Great Britain. On Feb. 12, 1967, several the world,” John Lennon said a few years members of the Rolling Stones’ social cirlater. As the ball dropped into 1968, the cle were coming down from an LSD trip world was about to get much harsher. at Keith Richards’ country house when police pounded on the door. Mick Jagger Steven Wishnia is author of The Cannawas sentenced to three months in prison bis Companion: The Ultimate Guide to for possessing four amphetamine pills Connoisseurship and the novel When the he’d bought legally in a drugstore in Italy, Drumming Stops. 34

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Jimi Hendrix was the breakout rock star of 1967.

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PHOTOS BY HENRY DILTZ

Three Bay Area events in 1967 catapulted the Summer of Love ethos of peace, love and music into the public eye. BY HARVEY KUBERNIK

Poets Allen Ginsberg (left) and Gary Snyder (center) were among the performers at the Human Be-In in San Francisco in 1967.

THE HUMAN BE-IN

By 1967, San Francisco had become the epicenter of a youthquake that seemingly knew no boundaries. A press release issued by the organizers of the Human Be-In on Jan. 14 stated: “Berkeley political activists and the love generation of the Haight-Ashbury will join together with the members of the new nation who will be coming from every state in the nation, every tribe of the young (the emerging soul of the nation) to powwow, celebrate and prophesy the epoch of liberation, love, peace, compassion and unity of mankind. The night of the bruited fear of the American-eagle breast-body is over. Hang your fear at the door and join the future. If you do not believe, please wipe your eyes and see.” Gavin Arthur, grandson of the 21st U.S. president, Chester A. Arthur, was the Bay Area’s leading astrologer, and he observed that the auguries pointed towards Jan. 14 as the day of celebration. Jan. 14, 1967. Human Be-In: A Gathering of the Tribes at the Polo Grounds, Golden Gate Park. Promptly at noon, Beat poet Gary Snyder blew on a conch shell that the gates of delirium were open for business. The crowd numbered 20,000 to 30,000 love-beaded sojourners, tripping on visions both real and (chemically) imagined. The speakers were Jerry Rubin, Richard Albert (Ram Dass), Dick Gregory, Allen Ginsberg, Lenore Kandel, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure and Timothy Leary. Bands including Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the

Holding Company and Quicksilver Messenger Service supplied the electric music. Among those in attendance were James Rado and Gerome Ragni. The duo, inspired by the freedom and lifestyles, would immediately write the lyrics and book to Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical with composer Galt McDermott. It would debut off-Broadway in New York in October.

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Jefferson Airplane’s second album, Surrealistic Pillow, arrived on Feb. 1. Landing like a giant’s step, it put the world on notice that evocative songwriting, stellar musicianship and a lysergically enhanced attitude could not only top the charts, but also incite a revolution (sort of). With its two hit singles, “Somebody to Love” and the immortal “White Rabbit,” Surrealistic Pillow was a slickly sensual, folk-rocking affair, boldly announcing that San Francisco had game and that this was just the tip of the spear.

THE GRATEFUL DEAD The Grateful Dead’s self-titled first LP on Warner Brothers, was recorded in Hollywood at RCA Studios, then shipped to rack-jobbers and retail outlets in midMarch.

JIMI HENDRIX

On May 12, Jimi Hendrix released his debut album, Are You Experienced, issued by Warner Brothers/Reprise Records in the United States.

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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band landed on June 1 with the force of the Magna Carta, the template against which all subsequent music would be weighed and judged.

MAGIC MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL

KFRC, the San Francisco-based AM radio station, sponsored the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival on top of the mountain in Mount Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, at the 4,000-seat Sidney B. Kushing Memorial Amphitheatre on June 10-11. The Stanley Mouse-designed poster announced, for a $2 ticket price, performances from Canned Heat, the Doors, the Seeds, the Byrds with Hugh Masekela, Penny Nichols, Kaleidoscope, Jefferson Airplane, the Grass Roots, the 5th Dimension, the Chocolate Watch Band, Country Joe and the Fish, the Merry-GoRound, Roger Collins, Blues Magoos, Every Mother’s Son, Wilson Pickett, the Mojo Men, the 13th Floor Elevators, Smokey & His Sister, Dionne Warwick, the Sparrow. P.F. Sloan, the New Salvation Army Banned,

Peter Townsend famously smashing his Stratocaster during the Who’s historic performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.

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Loading Zone, Sons of Champlin, the Steve Miller Band, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, the Mystery Trend, the Lamp of Childhood, and Tim Buckley. The schedule included everything from the sublime (Jim Morrison in full Lizard King persona) to the ridiculously early (Captain Beefheart’s 10:30 a.m. set). Everyone imbibed deeply from the sun-sweetened air, redolent of peace and love, gloriously unaware that they were attending the very first pop music festival

CARLOS SANTANA

“The Summer of Love was about awakening. Away from the Man. Away from the Pope. And away from the presidents and politicians, too. “Consciousness revolution. It did not come from Liverpool or New York. I think it came from San Francisco. The psychedelic shock. Haight-Ashbury. “My timing with my mom and dad was perfect for being in San Francisco when it all hit: the Doors, Grateful Dead, Ravi Shankar, John Coltrane. There was an explosion of consciousness that made you

question authority. Black power, Rainbow power… It blew my mind.”

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Hugh Masekela, the Steve Miller Blues Band, Moby Grape, the Blues Project, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Otis Redding, Laura Nyro, the Paupers and the Who performed during the three-day event (June 16-18).

MICHELLE PHILLIPS: “It was a very for-

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eign thing to tell artists that ‘We’re going to fly you in and pay your expenses, but you’re going to sing for free.’ I mean, some of them were laughing at us. ‘I never played for free in my life.’”

PETER TOWNSEND: “Jimi (Hendrix) and I debated who should go on first. I felt he was a master, a genius. I was not prepared to follow him, not because I was afraid to follow him, but because in my old-fashioned showbiz mind the best artists go on later in the set. In the end we tossed for it, and Jimi lost. We went on first; he then announced if we preceded him, and set the crowd alight with our destruction act, he too would set them alight. So the crowd got two mind-fucking sets.” Johnny Rivers, Ravi Shankar, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Association, Beverley Martyn, Lou Rawls, Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Byrds, Canned Heat, the Mamas and the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel, the Group with No Name, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Mike Bloomfield Thing, Country Joe and the Fish,

“combusted” on stage at Monterey, Hendrix demonstrated that he was not simply an artist, but a magic man shrouded in a nimbus of fuzzy swirls, who stirred his cauldron of darkly alluring potions with his trusty Stratocaster. He ignited the year with his brazen blues-rock attack, his electric showmanship, and an intuitive command of the prismatic forces bending and shaping the musical landscape. His second album, Axis: Bold as Love, released in Britain on Dec. 1 on the Track label (and on Reprise Records in early 1968 in the States), concluded his whirlwind race to the summit of pop superstardom in 1967. Excerpted from 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love. Copyright © 2017 by Harvey Kubernik. Reprinted by permission of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York, NY. All rights reserved.

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By Steve Bloom

he 50th anniversary celebration of the Summer of Love is in full flower in the City by the Bay. All kinds of events are underway or planned. It started on January 14 with the 50th anniversary of the Human Be-In at Gray Area/Grand Theater (2665 Mission St.). The event featured the 1960s All Stars (members of Country Joe & the Fish, Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Blues Project, the Sons of Champlin, It’s a Beautiful Day, the Electric Flag and the Youngbloods), as well as Wavy Gravy and John Perry Barlow. The original event’s performers included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. The organizers of the commemoration were hoping to stage a Digital BeIn on July 1, but that plan was aborted, as have been all efforts to hold a major concert in Golden Gate Park in August. The city has refused to approve permits, which in ’60s parlance, is a major bummer. However, there are plenty of Summer of Love-themed events to attend in San Francisco: • “The Summer of Love: Art, Fashion and Rock & Roll” exhibit, at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park (50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.) through Aug. 20, features “rock posters, photographs, ephemera,

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light shows and avant-garde films.” • The Conservatory of Flowers (100 John F. Kennedy Dr.), also in Golden Gate Park, will be lit up psychedelically until Oct. 21. The “Surrealistic Summer Solstice” lighting event on June 21 included a concert with members of Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Chambers Brothers, the Terrapin Family Band, Ratdog, ALO, Mother Hips and New Monsoon. Attendees were encouraged to wear tie-dye. • “Love or Confusion: Jimi Hendrix in 1967,” at the Museum of the African Diaspora (685 Mission St.), focuses on how “the Jimi Hendrix Experience represented racial and sexual freedom as goals of the ’60s counterculture.” Photos of Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival are on view until Aug. 27. • The “On the Road to the Summer of Love” exhibit at the California Historical Society (678 Mission St.), curated by author and former Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally, includes photos, ephemera and lectures, through Sept. 10. “It had roots. It didn’t just pop up out of nowhere,” McNally explains about the Summer of Love. “It started with the Beats; Ginsberg published Howl in 1955. Avant-garde artists were creating light shows, paintings in motion, deconstructing American culture, looking at it in a different way. In Berkeley, they were protesting the Vietnam War and marching for

free speech.” The police raid on the Dead’s house at 710 Ashbury St. on Oct. 2, 1967, he says, “was the end of the Haight scene. The band moved across the bridge to Marin County and never moved back.” • “Lavender-Tinted Glasses: A Groovy Gay Look at the Summer of Love,” at the GLBT History Museum (4127 18th St.) through Sept. 29, focuses on four queer leaders of the counterculture: Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, filmmaker Kenneth Anger and philosopher Gavin Arthur. • ”The 50th Anniversary of Love and Haight” exhibit, at the Jewett Gallery in the San Francisco Main Public Library (100 Larkin St.), also features photos and literature. • Jim Marshall’s concert photos from 1965-1970 are on display at San Francisco City Hall (1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.). • Elaine Mayes’ photos from the Monterey Pop Festival can be viewed at SFO Airport. • The San Francisco Treasures Tour— Summer of Love Edition “takes you on a magic carpet ride through the city that launched a cultural revolution.” Through Sept. 4, the 150-minute tours will make special stops in Haight-Ashbury and Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park. Contact: 415-357-0700 or extranomincal.com. • The St. Regis San Francisco (125 3rd St.) and the Westin St. Francis (335 Powell St.) hotels are both offering tickets to the Summer of Love exhibit at the de Young Museum with reservations.

The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park will be lit up psychedelically until Oct. 21.

• The Sound Summit on Sept. 9, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Mountain Theater in Mount Tamalpais State Park, will cap off the celebratory summer with a 50th anniversary commemoration of the original Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Festival. Phil Lesh & Friends featuring Bob Weir are headlining, along with Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Jenny Lewis, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Vetiver and more. “After the Monterey Pop Festival, the entire music world turned its attention to San Francisco,” Joel Selvin, author of 1993’s Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Times in the Wild West, wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle in April. “Hippies became a subject of fascination by the national media… In their exuberant, joyful rejection of conventional values, the hippies clearly struck a nerve… Like the cowboys and Indians of the original Wild West, the San Francisco hippies have lived to become an enduring American archetype that is recognized around the world.” Ellen Komp contributed to this article.

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THE FERRY BUILDING

It’s foodie heaven: Oysters, empanadas, fancy cheeses. The Ferry Building at the end of the Embarcadero surely has something deliciously upscale for you to sample. Pair with Sonoma Coma, which is known to give folks the munchies.

HIPPIE HILL

Golden Gate Park has been a haven for stoners and Hippie Hill on 420 hippies ever since stoners and hippies have existed. “Hippie Hill”—Sharon Meadow is its official name—has and continues to be a counterculture hotspot. Smoke weed, play Frisbee, listen to the drummers. Wander over to the children’s playground and hit the snack bar for pink popcorn and a ride on the carousel. Bring your own weed, but if you’re adventurous, you could probably score a dime bag from one of the many Haight Street denizens looking to help out the needy tourists.

SUNSETS AT THE BEACH

Watching the sunset at Ocean Beach is illuminating and exhilarating. It will probably be chilly, so bring a sweater. If you have a little extra money, a nice din44

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ner at the Cliff House (1090 Point Lobos Ave.) is recommended. Kushes are the perfect strains to help you sit still and enjoy the wonder and beauty of nature.

THE WAVE ORGAN

Way out on the tip of the Marina near Ft. Mason (83 Marina Green Dr.) sits a piece of art known as the Wave Organ. Like a giant seashell, it amplifies the sounds of the ocean. Smoke a bowl of Jack Herer and listen to the sea as you gaze out across the water to Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Zeitgeist

DRINKS WITH BUDS

Two Mission St. pubs, El Rio (at 3158) and The Sycamore (2140), are good spots to chill after walking around looking at murals and eating tacos. The Zeitgeist, also in the Mission (199 Valencia St.), has a huge biergarten. The Pilsner Inn (225 Church St.) is an awesome gay bar (well-behaved straights are welcome) with a very comfortable patio. Chocolate Hashberry goes well with Scotch, and pair Tangie with a bottle of citrus-flavored Shock Top.

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years after the Summer of Love, San Francisco and the entire Bay Area have changed drastically, but the spirit of the movement still lives on in the East Bay city of Oakland, in the neighborhood nicknamed “Oaksterdam.” For the past 20 years, the cannabis industry has been revitalizing downtown Oakland. It was home to many dispensary co-ops and Amsterdam-style coffeeshops before they were shut down by the Drug Enforcement Administration five years ago. Oaksterdam has been ground zero in the fight to legalize cannabis, and the industry as we know it wouldn’t exist without the sacrifices made by local activists. Before Colorado legalized adult-use cannabis in 2012 and began to normalize the industry, Oakland was the first city in the U.S. to tax and regulate dispensaries, back in 2004. Canna-businesses have brought money, people and trendy storefronts into the once-desolate area. Uber is now building a headquarters on Broad-

way a few blocks south of the Oaksterdam strip. Oaksterdam is a combination of Oakland and Amsterdam, the Dutch city where marijuana use has been semi-legal for years. The area is home to America’s first cannabis-industry college, Oaksterdam University (1734 Telegraph Ave.), where anyone 18 or older can enroll in courses that cover all aspects of the budding industry, from cultivation and extraction techniques to dispensary and business operations. The faculty is composed of leading cannabis experts and activists (see “The Pioneering Professors of Oaksterdam University” in Issue 23). The same address is also home to the Oaksterdam Cannabis & Hemp Museum. There are plenty of other places to visit in Oaksterdam, like the Fox Theater— right across the street, at 1807 Telegraph Ave. Catch a live concert at this architecturally beautiful former movie theater, built in 1928. By the mid-2000s, the Fox had closed its doors, but the local cannaJULY/AUGUST 2017

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Ed Rosenthal and Snoop Dogg, the Oaksterdam mural, and the Fox Theater.

bis community, including Oaksterdam University, chipped in to help renovate and reopen this stellar live music space back in 2009. July shows include Duran Duran (7th), the Roots (14th), Beck (15th), and Sufjian Stevens and Friends Perform Planetarium (21st). If you’re looking to pick up some 420 supplies, you’ve got plenty of dispensary options, such as Oakland Community Partners (1776 Broadway) and Magnolia Wellness (161 Adeline St.). If you’re on the hunt for high-quality clones, head over to Dark Heart Nursery (1271 Washington Ave., #104). The Patient ID Center (1733 Broadway) is the place to go if you need a medical cannabis ID; referral to compassionate groups, caregivers or lawyers; or just to get educated on the benefits of medical cannabis. If legal advice is what you seek, visit attorney Robert Raich at his office (1970 Broadway, Suite 1200). He argued 46

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for legal medical cannabis in the two Supreme Court cases that considered it: United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Cooperative (2001) and Gonzalez v. Raich (2005). Need a place to stay (and medicate) in the area? Activist and author Ed Rosenthal runs a “Bud & Breakfast” with his wife out of their home in nearby Piedmont, just a five-minute drive from the Oaksterdam area. You can book your stay there at Airbnb. While you’re in the area, it’s just a short walk to the Lake Merritt, where you can relax and feel like you’re in nature, surrounded by the other type of greenery. Another fun thing to do is take in an Oakland A’s game at the Coliseum. Welcome to Oaksterdam, America’s friendliest and most innovative cannabis community in the country. Dr. Aseem Sappal is provost and dean of Oaksterdam University.

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BIRD-WATCHING AT LAKE MERRITT

Oakland’s Lake Merritt has been a protected bird sanctuary since 1870, and is home to more than 100 different kinds of avian splendor. Walk around the lake until you find the geodesic dome, then have a seat and burn one while you look across the water at the giant tree full of cormorants. Imagine what the egrets and herons are thinking. The sweet sativa-dominant flavors of Green Ribbon will enhance your walk. Go early on a Saturday so you can stroll over to the farmers’ market near the Grand Lake Theater for brunch al fresco.

THE PACIFIC PINBALL MUSEUM

Weed and pinball go together like, um, weed and pinball. The Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda (1510 Webster St.) features more than 90 playable machines dating back to the turn of the 20th century. A landrace sativa like Durban Poison is perfect to get your muscles twitching and reflexes popping. Look for a game from the year you were born and go to town. Admission: $10-$20.

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enjoy creation. Wear comfortable shoes, stay hydrated and bring a few snacks in case you get hungry.

AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM & LIBRARY

The African American Museum & Library in Oakland (659 14th St.) has more than 160 collections that document the Bay Area’s African-American history. Pore through the archives looking for your relatives. Museums and edibles are a good mix, because you can almost always find somewhere to sit if you’ve accidentally overindulged (10-15 mg of THC per 100 pounds body weight is a good rule of thumb for first timers). Edibles are also a great choice for watching movies at the New Parkway Theater (47 24th St.).

420-FRIENDLY NEW PARISH

Downtown Oakland has some great live music venues. The Fox Theater (1807 Telegraph Ave.), the Uptown Nightclub (1928 Telegraph Ave.) and the Stork Club (2330 Telegraph Ave.) are just a few. However, the New Parish (1743 San Pablo Ave.) is probably the best choice for pot-smoking music fans. Not only do they have a great patio, they support the scene by throwing plenty of canna-centric parties throughout the year. Ngaio Bealum is a comedian and activist who regularly appears at cannabis events.

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TRIP BY ROY TRAKIN

AMIR BAR-LEV BRINGS THE GRATEFUL DEAD’S STORY TO LIFE WITH HIS SPRAWLING DOCUMENTARY.

erkeley, Calif.-born Deadhead Amir Bar-Lev didn’t set out to make a four-hour-long documentary about his favorite band when he started working on Long Strange Trip, but like a vintage Grateful Dead concert, the final result just mushroomed into its epic length. In this Golden Age of rock docs, Long Strange Trip raises the—pardon the expression—Bar for the form. In its six parts, he explores the peaks and valleys of the Grateful Dead story, often detouring into fascinating tangents, from the band’s roots in Beat culture and the early Acid Tests to its fabled Owsley-designed “wall of sound,” dedicated road crew and troubling relationship with the Hell’s Angels to the fervent Deadhead scene that followed the group everywhere. It’s like a Russian novel, with the Dead’s influence rippling outwards like a pebble thrown in the middle of a pond. “If you’re making a movie about music, it should be musical,” the 45-year-old filmmaker, who now lives in Brooklyn, tells Freedom Leaf. “We tried to set the 54

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medium to the message. The film itself is like the Grateful Dead and, hopefully, mirrors the structure of their songs, where everybody solos at once.” The movie takes as one of its leitmotifs the story of Frankenstein, which fascinated guitarist Jerry Garcia from the time he was six, when his mother took him to a showing of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein less than a year after his father drowned in a boating accident. “That was obviously an impactful experience in Jerry’s life,” notes Bar-Lev, who’s also directed The Tillman Story, My Kid Could Paint That, Fighter and Happy Valley. “It terrified him, and at the same time made him resolve not to have that fear control him. From an early age, Jerry tried to confront and embrace things that were not just different, but repellent to him.” The film is fueled by thoughtful interviews with the remaining original band members—singer/guitarist Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh, and drummers Bill Kreutzmann (his son Justin is one of the producers) and Mickey Hart—as well

THE ORIGINAL GRATEFUL DEAD: (from left): Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan.

as with former manager Sam Cutler, former road manager Steve Parish, longtime publicist Dennis McNally, backup singer Donna Godchaux, Weir-song lyricist John Perry Barlow, former Warner Bros. Records’ president Joe Smith, and Garcia’s daughter Trixie and ex-girlfriend Barbara Meier. Among those omitted are the late concert promoter Bill Graham, Garcia-song lyricist Robert Hunter, and Garcia’s wives Carolyn Adams (a.k.a. Mountain Girl) and Deborah Koons. Thanks to their participation as the house band at the Acid Tests conducted by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters in the mid-’60s, the psychedelic experience is placed front and center in Dead lore; the film includes vintage footage of early CIA experiments with LSD and those under the influence trying to describe its preternatural effects. Another of the film’s recurring themes is the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, which evoked within Garcia an acid vision that his work should never solidify into a single solid shape, but remain open-ended and in the moment. It’s as good an explanation as any as to why the Dead preferred live concerts to the permanence of recording. Writer-fans like New Yorker contributor Nick Paumgarten, Steve Silberman and Sen. Al Franken (who ruminates

on his favorite live version of “Althea”) are summoned to articulate the Dead’s musical and cultural significance, but the movie is strongest when it provides first-hand recollections of specific performances, such as a recording engineer’s astonished memory of Garcia’s solo on “Morning Dew” at the Lyceum Theater in London, captured on Europe ’72. In one of the centerpieces, Bar-Lev juxtaposes still photos, live footage and first-person memories to construct a poignant miseen-scène. “Sometimes photos allow you to listen to the music better than live footage can,” observes Bar-Lev about the segment. “Sometimes it’s the transition from photos to film and back that telegraphs something imperceptibly to the audience, guiding them to where you want their attention to be. One of the things I learned from the Dead is making every part of the endeavor creative. The band never drew a distinction between playing onstage from what the roadies or the people selling the tickets were doing. And that’s how we did this movie. No one person was any more important than anyone else.” The director gets coy when asked if he’d ever taken acid himself. “That’s against the law,” he offers. “I can’t talk about that, JULY/AUGUST JULY/AUGUST2017 2017

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but I will say this: I’m either the most intuitive journalist alive, or I’ve had some experience in these matters.” As celebratory as Long Strange Trip is, it doesn’t overlook the various tragedies that have pockmarked the Dead’s journey, with the deaths of band keyboardists Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Keith Godchaux and Brent Mydland; Garcia’s declining health due to his heroin addiction; and the enormous Deadhead scene that began to overwhelm the band. If Pigpen’s death in 1973 signaled the end of the Dead’s innocence—and the band’s departure from its bluesy roots— and Garcia’s 1986 coma was the impetus for the band’s “Touch of Gray” commercial breakthrough a year later, it’s appropriate that Garcia’s death in 1995 marks a convenient ending for Long Strange Trip. The movie’s final segment offers a cleareyed look at the guitarist’s descent, closing the chapter on the Grateful Dead. “The Dead were a conduit for some life force bigger than them that will out-

“THE GRATEFUL DEAD WERE A CONDUIT FOR SOME LIFE FORCE BIGGER THAN THEM THAT WILL OUTLAST ALL OF US.” AMIR BAR-LEV last all of us,” says Bar-Lev about the film’s denouement. “I feel like the film needed to end on a baton pass to everyone in the audience. It wasn’t about current Dead lineups, the legacy of jam bands in their wake or anything else. I needed to personalize the ending, because that’s how I felt. Jerry talks about getting something from Jack Kerouac, putting him into the life he lived. As a journalist, I’m just hoping, in some small way, a kid watching this movie in the future will tap into the same continuum.” Long Strange Trip, which can be viewed on Amazon Prime, does just that, the kind of lasting monument Garcia early on decided he didn’t want to leave, taking the Watts Towers as an example of 56 FREEDOM LEAF

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that sense of ever-changing permanence. “The Grateful Dead weren’t just the guys onstage, but a phenomenon that included so much more,” explains Bar-Lev. “I couldn’t treat these guys like rock stars on an episode of Behind the Music. They insisted that we not put them on a pedestal, and see ourselves as co-creating the magic. Even if you walk away not a fan of the Grateful Dead, at least you can understand where they’re coming from.” Indeed, Long Strange Trip is not just for Deadheads, but also for music fans and students of counterculture history. All 240 minutes of it. Roy Trakin also writes for Variety and All Access.

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for 400,000.” He married one of Bob Dylan’s ex-girlfriends, Bonnie Beecher, in 1965 (she changed her named to Jahanara Romney). They have one son, who was christened Howdy DoGood Gravy Tomahawk Truckstop Romney in 1971 (he goes by the name Jordan). These days, Wavy Gravy is on the board of the SEVA Foundation, which provides eye care and blindness-curing surgery in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; and runs Camp Winnarainbow in Laytonville, Calif.

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THE CLOWN PRINCE of the 1960s counterculture, Wavy Gravy is still kicking it at the age of 81. Born in 1936 in New York as Hugh Romney and raised in Connecticut, he began his career as a comedian with the help of Lenny Bruce after a stint in the Army. In the mid-’60s, he founded the Hog Farm, a commune and collective in the Los Angeles area. He’s best known for his role as an MC at the Woodstock festival in 1969, where he told the hungry horde at one point, “What we have in mind is breakfast in bed

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Were you in San Francisco during the Summer of Love? No. We had several buses and set up anywhere. It was like the Acid Tests. We supplied the power, and people supplied their heads.

Wavy and his wife Jahanara hosted a benefit concert for Camp Winnarainbow at Ardmore Music Hall in Philadelphia on June 10-11.

What do you think of Donald Trump? Trump makes Richard Nixon look like a piece of delicious chocolate cake. Members of Furthur, Ratdog, Disco Biscuits and more performed at Wavy Gravy’s benefit concert.

Did you go to the Human Be-In or the Monterey Pop Festival? No. We drove through San Francisco around that time, I think. How about the Magic Mount Music Festival on Mount Tamalpais? No, but I’ve gone the last few years and will be at the Sound Summit there in September. Fifty years later, what does the Summer of Love mean to you? It was the beginning of the great transformation that eventually turned into Woodstock and the Woodstock Nation, as Abbie Hoffman called it. Suddenly there were a half a million freaks. Do you see any similarities between now and 1967? Well, then we were bogged down in a hideous war. So much happened. We smoked pot, changed our eating habits and had a big impact on the world that you still see today.

Have you been to any of the Summer of Love commemorations in San Francisco? I went to the exhibit at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate. I wore my rainbow jumpsuit. It’s an astounding representation of that time frame in a museum. Your SEVA Foundation does great work for people without sight. How’s that going? My greatest legacy is SEVA. Now 4.5 million people don’t have to bump into shit anymore. What do you think of the latest version of the Grateful Dead— Dead and Company? I’m enjoying the addition of John Mayer, but I miss Jerry [Garcia]. Do you still do your improvisation workshops? Yes, but I don’t do stand-up anymore. I do sit-down. I taught improv at Columbia Pictures. Harrison Ford was one of my students. How’s your health? I don’t walk so good. I get around camp in a psychedelically colored golf cart. JULY/AUGUST 2017

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THE SUMMER OF LOVE represented the dawn of vegetarian cuisine in the U.S. Publications like the Whole Earth Catalog and Diet for a Small Planet helped usher in a new, conscious way of thinking about food that eschewed the traditional meat-and-potatoes diet. Thanks to “health food stores,” the natural, organic whole foods our ancestors enjoyed before corporate farming took over the food supply. Macrobiotics, based on Zen Buddhist principles of mindful eating, also gained a big foothold in the late 1960s. Today, everyone from classically trained chefs to “fast-casual” restaurants like Panera Bread and Sweetgreen is serving up variations of classic macrobiotic bowls, which consists of whole grains, beans, fresh vegetables, fermented vegetables, sea vegetables and sometimes seafood. Macrobiotic principles encourage people to chew well, pay attention to your body and maintain a positive mental outlook.

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BODACIOUS BREAKFAST BOWL WITH CASHEW TAHINI SAUCE Start the day in a healthy way with this hearty breakfast bowl.

Sauce

raw cashews • ¾¼ cup cup tahini • 2 tsp. • olive oilcannabis-infused vegetable or tsp. garlic, minced • ½1 large green onion • 1 tbsp. soy sauce • 1 tbsp. lemon juice • 2 tsp. cider vinegar • ¼ tsp. turmeric • ¼ tsp. cayenne pepper • ¼ cup warm water •

Bowl

If you ever need to put together a healthy, satisfying, flavorful vegetarian (or pescatarian) dinner, here’s the basic blueprint of how to make a macrobiotic bowl: vegetables; choose a vari•ety40%-60% of fresh raw and/or lightly steamed

veggies and aim for a mixture of leafy vegetables, root vegetables, and other healthy veggies like onions and squash.

20%-30% whole grains, such as •brown, black or red rice; quinoa; barley; oats; millet; and corn.

beans, soy protein and/or •sea5%-10% vegetables, such as black, garbanzo

or pinto beans; tofu; tempeh; miso, seitan; nori; dulse; and kelp.

Add fresh seafood, fresh fruit, fer•mented pickles and nuts in moderation.

cherry tomatoes, halved • 11 cup avocado, peeled and sliced • ¾large cup white beans, cooked • 2 tsp. vinegar • 4 largewhite • 1½ cupseggs red quinoa, cooked • Salt and pepper to taste • Cover cashews with water and soak for at least 4 hours or overnight. Drain cashews and add to blender or food processor with the remaining sauce ingredients, except water. Blend or process to puree. Add water and process. Set aside. Arrange cooked quinoa, tomato, avocado and beans in a bowl. Bring large skillet of water to a simmer over medium-high heat, and add vinegar to the water. Carefully crack 4 eggs into the simmering water and poach them for about 3 minutes, or until the whites are cooked and the yolks are still somewhat runny. Use a slotted spoon to remove eggs, and place 2 poached eggs on top of each bowl. Top with sauce and serve immediately. Serves 2.

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lime juice • ¼½ cup tsp. ground cumin • 2 tbsp. cilantro, chopped • 2 chipotle jalapeños, diced • 1 tbsp. agave syrup • 2 tbsp. cannabis-infused olive oil • 1 tbsp. olive oil • Salt and pepper to taste •

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sweet potato chunks, peeled • 1½cup cherry tomatoes, halved • ½ cup corn, steamed • ½ cup avocado, diced • ¼ cup red onion, diced • ½ cup cup red or yellow pepper, diced • 1 cup torn • ½ cupkale, chopped • ¾ cup cilantro, or black rice, cooked • ½ cup brown pinto beans, cooked • 2 tsp. vegetable oil • 1 tbsp. agave syrup • Combine all dressing ingredients in food processor and process until emulsified. Set aside. Toss sweet potato chunks with vegetable oil and agave, and roast at 350ºF in oven until tender, about 25 minutes. Remove from pan to cool slightly. Assemble bowls by layering hot or cold cooked rice in the bottom and surrounding it with roasted sweet potato and the remaining veggies. Divide dressing between the two bowls and serve. Serves 2.

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THAI STICK BOWL WITH PEANUT SAUCE You can use this versatile peanut sauce with all kinds of dishes.

SAUCE:

cup peanut butter • ¼1 tbsp. agave syrup • ¼ cup water • 2 tbsp. rice vinegar • 1 tsp. sesame oil • 1 cup coconut milk • 2 tbsp. cannabis-infused coconut oil • ½ tsp. garlic, minced • ¾ tsp. curry powder • 2 tbsp. soy sauce •

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cup carrots, julienned • ¾1 cup red cabbage, • 1 cup snow peas shredded • ½ cup green onion, sliced • 2 large Persian cucumbers, peeled and • sliced cup roasted peanuts, chopped • ¼2 cups brown or black rice, cooked • Combine the sauce ingredients in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Place rice and veggies in bowls. Drizzle with sauce and serve. Serves 4.

AWESOME ASIAN-STYLE MACROBIOTIC BOWL The gingery sauce that tops this healthy bowl also makes a terrific dressing for green salads or Asianstyle slaw.

SAUCE

GREEN GREEK MACROBIOTIC BOWL Cucumbers and fresh dill star in this hearty Greek-style bowl.

SAUCE:

cup tahini • ½2 tbsp. cannabis-infused olive oil • ¼ cup water • 2 tbsp. lemon juice • ½ tsp. garlic, minced • ¼ cup fresh dill, chopped • 1 small green onion, chopped • 1 tsp. agave nectar • ¼ tsp. cayenne pepper • 1 tbsp. soy sauce •

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quinoa, cooked • 32 cups cups cannellini beans, cooked • 3 cups chopped • 2 cups kale, chopped • 1 large tomatoes, English cucumber, peeled • and sliced green olives, sliced • ½½ cup • cup red onions, diced Combine all sauce ingredients in blender or food processor. Add more water as necessary for the right consistency. Arrange bowl ingredients in serving dishes and top with sauce. Serves 4.

2 tbsp. cannabis-infused vegetable or • peanut oil peanut oil • 22 tbsp. water • 2 tbsp. tbsp. rice vinegar • 1 tbsp. soy sauce • 2 tsp. tomato paste • 2 tsp. agave nectar • 1 tsp. lemon juice • ¼ cup onion, chopped • 1 tbsp. fresh ginger root, minced • 2 tbsp. cilantro, minced • Salt and pepper to taste •

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cups buckwheat soba noodles, • 1½ cooked green onion, chopped • ¼¾ cup red cabbage, shredded • ½ cup carrots, julienned • ½ cup snow peas • ½ cup cup kimchi • 2 tbsp. seeds, toasted • 2 tbsp. sesame nori, chopped and toasted • Combine sauce ingredients in blender or food processor, and process until smooth. Arrange noodles and veggies in a large bowl, top with sauce, sprinkle sesame seeds and nori on top, and serve. Serves 2. Cheri Sicard is author of The Cannabis Gourmet Cookbook and Mary Jane: The Complete Cannabis Handbook for Women. JULY/AUGUST 2017

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A selection of High Hops’ microbrews

GETTING CRAFTY WITH HEMP BEERS BY ERIN HIATT CRAFT BEER CURRENTLY makes up around 12% of beer sales. While large corporations like Budweiser and Coors rely on brand-name recognition and predictable flavor profiles to keep their loyal customers, craft beer companies are known for innovation, change and experimentation. Some are even starting to add hemp seeds to their brews. The last place you might expect to find hemp beer is in staid Utah—the state did not legalize bars until 2009—but for Jeremy Worrell, field-marketing manager at Uinta Brewing in Salt Lake City (1722 Fremont Dr.), that’s exactly the point. “We joke around that our founder, Will Hamill, moved to the least beer-drinking state to open a brewery just to prove he could,” Worrell tells Freedom Leaf. “Bucking the stereotypes of Utah and showing the world that we not only know how to brew beer, but brew 64 FREEDOM FREEDOM LEAF LEAF 64

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creative and world-class beer, has become part of the culture at Uinta.” Their hemp beer, Dubhe (pronounced “doobie”), is not the pun you expect. Utah designated Dubhe (a.k.a. Alpha Ursae Majoris, the brightest star in the Big Dipper) as the official star of the state centennial in 1996. “So it makes sense on a variety of levels,” Worrell explains. Uinta purchases hemp from the San Francisco Herb Company and adds it to the boil along with hops, creating what Worrell calls an “extremely dark, yet extremely drinkable and dangerously delicious IPA.” For Zach Weakland and his parents—owners of High Hops Brewery and The Windsor Gardener in Windsor, Co. (both at 6461 Colorado Route 392)—brewing is a family affair. Zach is the chief brewer and production manager; his mother, Amanda, runs the greenhouse; and

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“Infusing a beer with hemp brings a flavorful healthy mix of pure, wholesome ingredients.” — COOL BEER MARKETING MANAGER ANDREW COSTA his father, Pat, takes care of construction. In 2000, when the Weaklands opened their garden store, they began experimenting with home brewing. Zach, in high school at the time, was inspired by the real-life applications for brewing in his chemistry class, and a (hemp) seed was planted. For their Honey Hemp Red Ale, Zach adds hemp leaves and seed to ground-up flour at the end of the brewing process, believing at that stage the flavor and aroma of hemp will remain intact. “Get the flavors, get the aroma and everything that hemp is in the beer,” he exclaims. When people try it out, he hopes they will react like “hey, that’s cool! What else can be made with hemp?” At Fitger Brewing Company in Duluth, Minn. (600 E. Superior Dr.), brewmaster Ted Briggs oversees a crew of eight and boasts a catalog of more than a 100 brews. Before he began his professional career at one of the first breweries in Philadelphia, Briggs says, “My homebrewing friends were tired of how uptight I was about my brewing and said I should go pro.” The organic hemp seeds added to the ale are purchased from a food co-op in Duluth. Briggs places the raw seeds in both the mash and kettle boil, which provides its distinctive taste. “It’s well-hopped and has a strong 6.5% alcohol volume,” he explains. “Some say they can taste a nuttiness in the beer.” For now, Homegrown Hempen Ale is a seasonal offering that’s only available each May at the annual Homegrown Music Festival in the Duluth/Superior area. “It’s one FREEDOMLEAF LEAF 66 FREEDOM 66

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of the seasonals everyone looks forward to every year,” Briggs notes, adding that current Duluth Mayor Emily Larson and the previous ones have been fans. “During the opening ceremony, the mayor toasts the crowd with the first pint!” Toronto’s Cool Beer Brewing Company has a hempbased amber lager called Millennium Buzz. They get their hemp seeds from a local farmer and add the hempseed meal to the mash, which, marketing manager Andrew Costa says, “extracts all the hemp goodness. Infusing a beer with hemp brings a flavorful healthy mix of pure wholesome ingredients.” Hemp seeds contain protein, numerous vitamins and minerals, and omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid and omega-6 linoleic acid, which are good for keeping your heart healthy. Craft brewers are known for creativity, using ingredients like chocolate, fruit, chilies, oats and spices in their brews. “The question is,” Worrell asks, “why not hemp?” UINTA BREWING:

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HOW TO NOT GET STONED IN ENGLAND BY BETH MANN IN THE JUNE issue of Freedom Leaf, I shared my tale of woe regarding my inability to score weed since I arrived in the UK in May (“Bud-less in Britain”). I came to the conclusion that maybe there wasn’t any doobage to be found in England. Then one day, I spotted a young woman behind the counter at the local café holding a black mug with a pot leaf on it. After some awkward foreplay, I hit her up. “Hey, do you know where I can get some [I pointed at her mug], uh, tea?” “We have loads of it,” she said. “No, not tea. What’s on the mug.” “Oh, weed?” she brightened up. “Yeah, how much do you want?” What? Could it be that easy? I handed her some cash, and she told me to come back the next day, which I did, as soon as the café opened. She slipped it onto my table along with my coffee. I drank the cup quickly and hurried home with the cellophane-wrapped package. When I opened it at my desk, I felt a crushing blow of disappointment. First off, it was a small amount, like really small. But worse, the quality was pitiful. Not the fresh, 68

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fragrant Cali bud I’m used to, but more like Mexican brickweed, as we used to call it back in the day. Still, I hoped it would get me high. I shredded the shit out of the brown twigs, picking out all of the seeds and, using the entire amount, rolled a well-packed fatty. Sitting in the garden, I lit it up with great seriousness. A lot was riding on this shitty joint; it might be all the pot I’d see for a while. About halfway through, I looked around, waiting for the grass to appear a little greener, the sky to radiate a deeper blue. But alas, things seemed distinctly normal. I took a deeper hit and looked around again. “Am I high?” I asked aloud. I couldn’t quite tell. Then I came to a sobering realization: When you have to ask yourself if you’re high, chances are you’re not. So I was back to the drawing board. At wit’s end, I asked a friend from Northern California what I should do. She suggested I seek out my UK friend’s college-age children, since they’d bound to have connections. Her advice turned out to be spot-on. I’ll report on that next month. Beth Mann is president of Hot Buttered Media.

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DR. FRANK RECOMMENDS WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH MICRODOSING CANNABIS? TAKING LOW DOSES of cannabis so that it will produce therapeutic effects without the full-blown euphoria (or being stuck to the couch) is known as microdosing. It usually refers to edibles, because of the strength and often overwhelming effects of their typical doses. When cannabis is eaten, THC is metabolized by the liver and turns into 11-hydroxy-THC. This form of THC passes through the blood-brain barrier more easily and lasts several hours. Since digested cannabis takes longer to come on, people often mistake the slower impact as it not working and eat more, which can lead to an intense and unpleasant experience. Microdosing tries to prevent this from happening. Microdosing edibles is a great solution for medical-marijuana patients looking for long-term pain relief over a working day. It’s economical, effective and discreet. Concerns about inhaling cannabis smoke can also attract people to microdosing. I recommend people intent on using edi-

IN ISSUE 25, YOU WROTE ABOUT CANNABIS HYPEREMESIS SYNDROME (CHS), WHICH CAN BE TREATED WITH HOT BATHS. IS THERE ANY OTHER REMEDY? YES, CAPSAICIN CREAM. It’s made from the pepper plant, Capsicum, and is used as a painkiller for osteoarthritis. Those suffering from CHS tend to take hot baths in order to stop their nausea and vomiting. Capsaicin cream essentially provides this heat without the need for scalding hot water. The cream activates the same TRPV1 receptor that scalding heat does. An Emergency Medical News report in 2015 credited Jeff Lapoint, DO, an emergentologist and medical toxicologist at Kaiser-Permanente in San Diego, with suggesting “another possible therapeutic option” to 70

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bles to learn to make their own, using small amounts of cannabis (or even low-THC cannabis). If you’re going to buy them at dispensaries or adult-use stores, make sure to get bite-size pieces with fixed amounts per mouthful. Microdosing with smaller pieces makes it easier to measure, and the chances of overindulging and spending the night over a toilet bowl are minimized. Beware of edibles in dispensaries that aren’t labeled properly. Sometimes you can easily get a batch that’s stronger (or weaker) than what the packaging says.

baths for CHS. “Dr. Lapoint was not convinced by the prevailing theory about hot water relieving the symptoms of cannabinoid hyperemesis symptoms, which posited a mechanism involving cannabinoid Type 1 receptors in the hypothalamus. Seeing how the TRPV1 receptor was activated by exposure to very hot temperatures and capsaicin, he wondered if capsaicin could be used for cannabinoid hyperemesis.” Dr. Lapoint was right. Dr. Frank D’Ambrosio hosts the weekly podcast Elevate the Conversation.

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IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: RECONSTRUCTING SGT. PEPPER’S BY ROY TRAKIN Depending on when you were born, the Beatles’ eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, first released on May 26, 1967, in the U.K. and then a week later, June 2, in the U.S., is either (a) a harsh reminder that Frank Sinatra was no longer the King of Pop, (b) an important rite of passage or (c) a relic of a bygone era that’s long been overrated by Baby Boomers who grew up with the Beatles phenomenon. Such is the album’s cultural baggage as a harbinger of not only the Summer of Love, but a countercultural revolution, that it resonates among millennials looking for their own Eugene McCarthy and Woodstock in Bernie Sanders and Coachella, respectively, only to end up with Donald Trump as the ’60s and ’70s generations did with Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. That’s an awful lot of weight to carry, and the 50th anniversary deluxe edition of Sgt. Pepper’s, released by Capitol Records and Universal Music Enterprises, is up to the task. A finely designed box set, it contains four audio CDs offering brandnew stereo mixes (by original producer Sir George Martin’s son Giles, no less), plenty of outtakes and the original 1967 mono 72

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mix, along with a comprehensive 144-page booklet and Blu-Ray and DVD versions of the 1992 documentary of the making of the album. From the 3-D take on the famed cover to the reproductions of the original’s “cut-out” insert to the circus poster that inspired “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite,” the package is definitely one for the coffee table or record shelf. It’s available at Amazon for $117.99. There’s nothing necessarily revelatory here, though I was surprised at “The Run Out Groove” referred to on the tape box as “Edit for LP End,” a mishmash of conversations that follows the fade-out of “A Day in the Life” by a few seconds, etched into the vinyl so it would continue ad infinitum on manual record players whose stylus didn’t automatically pick up at the end of the side. It wasn’t included on U.S. pressings of the album, so its presence here is particularly jarring. If you’re into a Sgt. Pepper’s deep dive, the collection is filled with chestnuts that help re-contextualize the all-too-familiar songs in different settings: “When I’m 64” without the jaunty clarinets; the prominence of a Tex-Mex styled organ on “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”; the lovely melody of “She’s

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Leaving Home” sans those swooning harmonies. Elsewhere, as in four different takes of the “hummed last chord” on “A Day in the Life,” it seems like overkill. Giles Martin’s stereo mix is mostly unobtrusive and stands out only in particular instances, such as the sharpness of the musique concrete interlude on “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” or the articulated intensity of George Harrison’s grinding guitar solo on “Good Morning, Good Morning.” It’s a vivid remix, but one listen to the 1967 mono mix, which puts the listener right in the middle of the maelstrom, shows there’s no real way to improve on perfection. There are revisionists who claim Rubber Soul, Revolver, The Beatles (the “White Album”) or Abbey Road were better, or that the album represents Paul McCartney firmly taking control of the band from John Lennon (further proof here, with McCartney sounding most definitely in charge of some of the recorded in-studio segments). Still, listening to it from start to finish, Sgt. Pepper’s moves inexorably from one song to the next, a song 74

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cycle that rivals the classical greats: The wisecracking laughter that ends the solemn, sitar-induced transcendence of “Within You Without You” and segues into the corny vaudeville shtick of “When I’m 64”; the last strains of barnyard animal revelry on “Good Morning, Good Morning” that leads into the flippant strains of the “Sgt. Pepper’s” theme song; and the nightmarish, black-andwhite-turned-color visions of the epic “A Day in the Life.” While the outtakes show how these songs took shape, in the end, Sgt. Pepper’s is all of a piece, a sonic mélange that essentially chronicles the history of popular music up to that point, from Brill Building pop and English music hall traditionalism to psychedelia, surf guitars and Indian sitars, with a kaleidoscopic vision that was unerringly accurate. If Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was the first rock album to function as a mass-produced product that aspired to high art, then this deluxe edition is the ultimate culmination of that trend, a slice of memorabilia designed for Boomers who now regularly pay $250 for concert tickets. These 13 songs, which clock in at less than 40 minutes (39:52, to be exact), are not just indelible, but also fun and totally instinctive, with themes that remain undeniably eternal. You could even say, Sgt. Pepper’s is getting better all the time. Roy Trakin is Freedom Leaf’s music specialist.

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