Psychedelic Pioneers

Disorganized Crime: Smuggler's Daughter

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4.2 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Rainbow Valentine explores the early lives of her parents Walter and Taffy Lemur as psychedelic pioneers of the 1960s, uncovering the backstory that led to their double lives as Pot Smugglers. Taffy, an LA Prom Princess turned beatnik artist lands at the center of San Francisco's burgeoning counterculture; Walter is bubbly college student in New York City, whose love for psychedelics & music propels him West, to the Bay Area counterculture crux, where he encounters Big Sur LSD that leads him to Taffy.

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0:00.0	School of Humans
0:06.0	Tell me a story.
0:07.0	Once upon a time, I thought my parents were real estate moguls.
0:13.4	You know what, actually?
0:14.7	Are you stoned right now?
0:16.1	Or just tired?
0:17.1	Just tired.
0:19.5	Just a quick reminder, I was unwittingly born
0:22.0	into a Northern California pot-smuggling family and didn't find
0:25.2	out until I was well into my teens.
0:27.8	That my entire world could have come crashing down at any point because my seemingly straight parents were the kind of outlaws that
0:35.6	Nixons were on drugs, and Nancy Reagan's just say no anti-drug campaign, would
0:39.7	sentence to 20 plus years in prison if they were caught.
0:46.3	So the vilification of pot has a long American history
0:49.7	and my dad's journey from LSD loving college kid in Brooklyn to an epic bi-coastal pot smuggler
0:56.5	is because of my mom.
0:59.3	So let's start with my mom's story and her pioneering life in San Francisco's early 1960s counterculture scene.
1:07.1	I'm Rainbow Valentine and this is disorganized crime, smuggler's Daughter. and groovy making it up
1:23.7	as we roll along
1:27.6	rolling along
1:29.6	far out the country road feeling great country roads.
1:36.0	Feeling great in the gold gate, Dine-law, of New York State,
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