(1973) Paul McCartney - Band on the Run

About getting busted?

(1973) Stevie Wonder - Living for the City This is the short version, the bit about the black man getting framed for drugs is missing. Please refer to the 7 min long album Version.

The song begins with Wonder describing the life of a boy born in "hard time Mississippi". His family is poor, but his parents work hard and encourage him, in spite of the dreadful conditions they live in, which include lack of food and money, and racism. As the track progresses, the tension and anger build in Wonder's voice, matching the growing frustrations of the subjects in the song.

A spoken interlude midway through the song has the young boy, now a young man, arriving in New York City for a new beginning. He is tricked into transporting drugs, arrested and sentenced to 10 years in jail. The tension in Wonder's voice boils over at this point into an angry growl, but then subsides again as he ends the song on a positive note. In commercial radio airplay, the spoken dialog is usually edited out, possibly because the word "nigger" is used as he is thrown into a jail cell. Also, the last two verses, following this scenario, are omitted as well. The song ends, during the wordless instrumental break, leaving the listener, hanging, on which note is the song going to end on.

The spoken interlude can be seen as an electro-acoustic experiment, exploring the composer's main sensory input. Stevie Wonder's growling voice reveals the inner rage that has been building throughout the song. "Living for the City" still holds a substantial edge in social commentary. Source

1969 Playboy Playmate, Gloria Root Got Busted on the Hippie Trail

The late Gloria Root had a very distinguished career in the San Francisco Bay Area before dying of cancer in 2006. Her Wikipedia entry is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Root

In the late sixties she felt the lure of the road and traveled the Hippie Trail. Ms. Root financed her road trip with money earned as the December 1969 Playboy Playmate of the Month.


Source for Pic

Ms. Root’s centerfold was the first to actually show a tiny wisp of pubic hair. If you look really hard you can see what I’m referring to here(notice the Jimi Hendrix album Axis: Bold As Love in the foreground-so 60s!:

More Playboy shots of Gloria Root

Unfortunately for Ms. Root, the Hippie Trail ended in a Greek jail on Corfu:

Drug offense

With the money from Playboy she decided to tour Europe. Root went to Afghanistan, traveled to Turkey, and then to Greece. In January 1970, Root was detained in a Greek jail on a charge of marijuana smuggling. She was arrested with her boyfriend, Cory Parker, in a Volkswagen loaded with 17.5 kilos of hashish, then valued at $50,000. She was sentenced to eighteen months in jail. Parker received a term of five years.

Both appealed their sentences. While imprisoned in Corfu, Greece the Playmate was interviewed by journalist Georgie Anne Geyer. Root denied knowing about the hashish, which was beneath the car seat. She disclosed that her boyfriend knew it was there. She told Geyer that even if she had known about it, "I wouldn't have done anything about it. I'm not sorry we did it but I'm sorry we got caught."

Geyer talked with Root's parents who lived in Flossmoor, Illinois. They were worried that their daughter was sick. Root said she was all right but had run out of birth control pills shortly after her arrest, and feared she might become pregnant because she was upset. In jail she was occasionally allowed to walk outside in a small courtyard. She claimed to have funds on hand from her Playmate fee. Root believed her problems began when she worked with the telephone company. "I was bored to death. I couldn't stand it. Then one day I tried methadrine, and I just never went back to work again." Source

Thanks to Ganjadin for finding this one, I took the liberty of posting it here for him. I also took the liberty of editing his post a bit

(1971) Marihuana Reconsidered - Lester Grinspoon, M.D.

From the back cover:

Lester Grinspoon, noted Harvard psychiatrist and scholar, strips away the myths, lies, and distortions surrounding marihuana and its use!

Is marihuana the first stepping stone to heroin addiction?

Can prolonged use of marihuana cause brain damage?

Are crime and violence connected to pot smoking?

Does the use of marihuana lead to sexual debauchery?

Can marihuana enhance creativity?

Does smoking marihuana affect a person's genetic balance?

Will American society change drastically if marihuana is legalized?

If you work with young people - Your own or someone else's - you owe it to them and to yourself to find out all you can about this controversial issue.

(1974) The Marijuana Conviction - A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States - Richard J. Bonnie and Charles H. Whitebread II

The Back Cover
Originally printed in 1974, The Marijuana Conviction is the first comprehensive history of marijuana use and prohibition in the U.S. Bonnie and Whitebread's historical overview examines the origins and history of marijuana prohibition as well as the laws' unintended consequences.

"The book is a crisply written and well documented account of the complex political, social, legal and medical factors that led to the codification of Draconian laws at both federal and state levels."
-- New England Journal of Medicine

"...the book is a scholarly, objective account of America's experience with marijuana...This book can be recommended to those who are interested in marijuana's past and its future."
-- JAMA

"Judicious in tone, relying heavily on Bureau of Narcotics archives, Professors Bonnie and Whitebread expertly intertwine sociological, psychological, medical, political, and legal strands into a richly complex history of marijuana attitudes and control...."
-- American Historical Review

"...nothing less than a pot encyclopedia....This unique book will become essential for any drug collection in public and academic libraries."
-- Library Journal

About the Authors
Richard Bonnie is the John S. Battle Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and Director of the University's Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy.

Charles H. Whitebread II is the George T. Pfleger Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law Center as well as a faculty member of the FBI National Academy at Quantico, Virginia.

(1989) Rude Awakening - Trailer

(1989) Rude Awakening - Siskel and Ebert Review They were very hard on this movie, It's worth a look.

Cheech gives a fish a drag on his massive Bat.

In the late 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who see them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside war. In the late 1980s, they find out that a secret war is about to start in the US, and decided to return to New York to tell someone about it. What they find when they return is that all of their fellow hippies have become rich yuppies, like everyone else, and that no one wants to save the world anymore -- they just want to buy it. Source

(1971 or 1972) Lawrence Welks - One Toke over the Line

(1969)Lawrence Welk - Dressed like a Hippy


Following airplay of the single [One Toke Over the Line], President Richard Nixon labeled Brewer & Shipley public miscreants. In retaliation, they referred to Nixon by name in their song, "Oh Mommy," (from Tarkio).

Oddly, the song was performed on The Lawrence Welk Show, a television program known for its conservative, family-oriented bent, by a duo known as "Gail and Dale." At the conclusion of the performance of the song, Welk remarked, without any hint of humor, "There you've heard a modern spiritual by Gail and Dale."

This led Michael Brewer to comment:

"The Vice President of the United States, Spiro Agnew, named us personally as a subversive to American youth, but at exactly the same time Lawrence Welk performed the crazy thing and introduced it as a gospel song. That shows how absurd it really is. Of course, we got more publicity than we could have paid for."[1]

Brewer & Shipley have performed with many notable acts, including Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills & Nash, Bruce Springsteen, Black Sabbath, and Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead fame, who played pedal steel guitar on "Oh, Mommy". Source

(1969) John Sebastian - Younger Generations [Live @ Woodstock]

(1996) CC5 - ...And the Pigs went MAD! - by David Malmo-Levine with Dana Larsen

The GrassTown Police Riot of 1971.

Some Georgia Straight History

THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT

The most vocal and eloquent outlet for Vancouver's counter-culture
was the Georgia Straight, which published its first issue on May 5th, 1967.
The Straight was an eventual member of the Anarchist Press Movement, a loose collection
of publications that didn't believe in copyright and stole material from
each other. Every two weeks the Straight brought forth a dazzling array of articles
and artwork from the perspective of the Gastown freak scene, consistently
attacking prohibition, censorship, racism, and capitalism wherever it could find
them. Source



The Allen Ginsberg Connection through the Vancouver Group 1963

Georgia Straight's rock pics from the Sixties