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Where have all the flowers gone? (A REQUIEM IN REMEMBRANCE OF HAIGHT ASHBURY) By Don Aters

Where have all the flowers gone? (A REQUIEM IN REMEMBRANCE OF HAIGHT ASHBURY) It would evolve into The Dionysian Festival of the sixties, the grand illusion while searching for individual identities. These were the cherubic faces of the counter culture, the vanguard that would inevitably define an entire generation of youthful malcontents. War and political…
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A Little Party Never Hurt Anybody!

Let the Celebration Continue Along the journey of self-acceptance, Celebration-- not occasional, but often-- aides personal expansion. The odds of anyone actually becoming a physical human being equate to something like 1:400 trillion. Upon seeing this, it's easy to become more humble and more exalted simultaneously. The connection between to everyone/thing around me strengthens. Like,…
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The Last Gentleman Smuggler

The High Times Magazine feature article was the 1980 bust of the El Cobre and Mr. Jake operations on the Gulf Coast. Turned out marina manager Tommy Trotter* was a rat. Read all about it in "The Last Gentleman Smuggler" by Steven M. Kalish and Nikki Palomino. Coming the 15-year smuggling life and 8 1/2…
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