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“The master plan to irradiate marijuana growing across the US, that became the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, was conceived and ordered from Reagan administration offices…During that same final post-Sixties summer, as a majority of the country was about to embrace an anti-counterculture crusader as their national leader, southern Humboldt County counterculture was flourishing.”
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“People who did not routinely come down the hill for the nightlife of music or the bacchanalia of large music events like Reggae on the River, found a way to attend at least one day of Summer Arts, the seminal annual gathering of the region’s hippies and hippie-friendly neighbors.”
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What good are these pages from the past? To call forth fond memories? To spark Wow’s of discovery if you weren’t there?
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“By the mid-1980s, Southern Humboldt’s Pure Schmint Players was the theatrical voice of the region’s back-to-the-land hippie settlers.”
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They rented the back room of the Redway laundromat and by the mid 1980s they built the modern clinic residents of the region know well.
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Exploring the roots of local marijuana culture: For some growing illegal cannabis was a “duty and privilege,” for others it was a sign of moral corruption–“Using the land to grow a product that easily converts into large amounts of money, whether that product be redwoods or grass, impairs the spirit of the land.”
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“I just want to say that I love our town, I love our little community. And it’s got a lot of heart and soul and we’re a part of it, …it’s happening, we’re doing it, and it takes a village to make this village bloom. We’re already blooming but we’re let’s continue to do that,” she said sitting in front of her latest mural in a paint-splattered smock.
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