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Steve Wishnia's Review of 'Burning Rainbow Farm'
Thu, Jul 20, 2006 1:06 pm
source: bloomideas.blogspot.com
By Steve Bloom
My longtime High Times colleague, former senior editor Steve Wishnia, has reviewed a book - Dean Kuipers' Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke - that's very close to his heart. From 1996 to 2000, Steve attended many events at Michigan's Rainbow Farm, which had a close association with High Times. Sadly, state official targeted the 34-acre property owned by Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, harassing festival attendees and in May 2001, raiding it for tax evasion and pot cultivation. Several months later, in a armed showdown with the authorites, Crosslin and Rohm were viciously gunned down.
"I connected to it immediately when I went to Hemp Aid in 1999," Wishnia writes in his review at inthesetimes.com. "Coming from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I recognized a fellow low-rent counterculture community, a blessed find when my own was being crushed by a ruthless real-estate market and paramilitary evictions. Marijuana was central, but passing the spliff was often more about bonding than intoxication. Being able to burn one openly was liberating [especially coming from Rudy Giuliani’s New York, which led the nation in petty pot busts], but once you left the gates, the descending paranoia was palpable."
Check out Steve's review and buy Kuipers' book.
My longtime High Times colleague, former senior editor Steve Wishnia, has reviewed a book - Dean Kuipers' Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke - that's very close to his heart. From 1996 to 2000, Steve attended many events at Michigan's Rainbow Farm, which had a close association with High Times. Sadly, state official targeted the 34-acre property owned by Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, harassing festival attendees and in May 2001, raiding it for tax evasion and pot cultivation. Several months later, in a armed showdown with the authorites, Crosslin and Rohm were viciously gunned down.
"I connected to it immediately when I went to Hemp Aid in 1999," Wishnia writes in his review at inthesetimes.com. "Coming from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I recognized a fellow low-rent counterculture community, a blessed find when my own was being crushed by a ruthless real-estate market and paramilitary evictions. Marijuana was central, but passing the spliff was often more about bonding than intoxication. Being able to burn one openly was liberating [especially coming from Rudy Giuliani’s New York, which led the nation in petty pot busts], but once you left the gates, the descending paranoia was palpable."
Check out Steve's review and buy Kuipers' book.
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buzzdaily
Nov 14 2006, 1:56 pm
disappointed
Aug 9 2006, 9:22 pm
Yeah. The whole High Times site is aimed much more at selling the magazine than being anything unto itself, and they're just teasing you with a description of the article.
The book is great, and you should read it and pass it on to someone who needs it when you're done. Especially so-called "conservatives" who have lost the semi-anarchistic feel of true American spirit.
steve h
Jul 25 2006, 3:32 am
beamer
Jul 24 2006, 5:48 pm
check it out
Jul 23 2006, 8:38 am
mysterystrainman
Jul 22 2006, 11:36 am
They will be our gov once the beast is out of the way!The country can't keep going the way it is.debt,begeth,debt.Trillions.
Who is to be held accountable for that?The people?
The Bush administration is a disaster!How do the people allow this,..not by choice thats for sure.Bush shouldn't be president.He should be in prison,he's the biggest terrorist of them all!And our voices are unheard.
hmm
Jul 22 2006, 9:20 am
Jethro
Jul 21 2006, 9:49 pm
James 4,5:5-20
moonshine
Jul 21 2006, 2:07 pm
Actually, the rainbow family's got one of the best systems of "government" i've ever seen, maybe they should be the ones running this joint, not the money corrupted politicians. And that's what does it, it's those greenbacks that make them sway and dance; it's not by doing what's best for others.
Mindmed
Jul 21 2006, 1:16 pm
And in your sleep,travel.There you will find those of the circle.And in this house you will be given God like powers.Only the pure of heart and mind shall be allowed to enter.From this place you will See.
Love is the key to open the door.
PokinSmot
Jul 21 2006, 11:20 am
thc
Jul 21 2006, 5:41 am
Aztec Lee
Jul 20 2006, 9:11 pm
Misgovernment ruling nations then ploting NEW WORLD ORDER dictation under the nations of peoples noses
We the people must cast the Beast into the PIT...
why the middleman?
Jul 20 2006, 6:33 pm
much Respect
Jul 20 2006, 6:31 pm
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