February 5, 2020 • 43 mins
Rainbow Valentine reflects on her parent's life since smuggling and talks with an old friend who had a completely different childhood with her psychedelic smuggling parents. And The Lemurs make a phone call 30-years overdue.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
School of Humans. Welcome to the final episode of Disorganized
Crime Smuggler's Daughter. Thanks for joining us on this long,
strange trip into the history of my family, past and subculture.
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In the previous episode, my dad confessed a secret to
my mom he'd been holding for almost thirty years. In
nineteen ninety two, my senior year of high school, and
four years after my mom thought dad had retired from
outlaw life, my dad and his New York smuggling partner
High Fi loaded up a car with a RinkyDink smuggle
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of fifty pounds of poor quality pot in the Midwest.
Soon after, Hi Fi was busted and his freedom ended
up costing HIGHI ten years of debt to the Mexican cartel.
Dad got out of pot smuggling a free man by
the skin of his teeth. Despite his arrest, High Fi,
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a man of honor, never rolled on my parents. In
this episode, my parents speak to High Five for the
first time since nineteen ninety two. I'm Rainbow Valentine. This
is Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter. Want to do young, free
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and groovy. Making it up. We rolled along, running along
country he did in the Golden Gag State, making it
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up as we roll, I had a great childhood because
I had wonderful, invested, supportive, loving parents, a stable home
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and family, and the immense privilege of wealth which provided education, opportunity,
and freedom. I was a lucky child because my parents
were careful, industrious, and creative, along with her adrenaline loving
risk taking. Being blissfully unaware of my parents were pot smugglers,
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I never felt burdened the way other children of smugglers,
privy to their parents illicit activities may have felt. My
big sister, Vertica, didn't want to speak on tape for
fear of hurting our parents feelings because for her, growing
up aware our parents were smugglers was difficult. Now this
podcast has prompted most of my childhood friends to reveal
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they too are smuggler's kids or smuggler adjacent and one
of my oldest best friends, we'll call Saffron, is a
smuggler's daughter who was aware of her mom's unlawful occupation
like my older sister. Last time I was in California,
I sat down with Saffron, and although I've known Saffron
for forty years, I'd never heard these stories. Okay, so
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I want to talk about you growing up with smuggler
parents and knowing having the knowledge as a child that
your parents were involved in this tree, which was not
my experience, but it was the experience my sister. So
I just want to tell me about that. Tell me
about So I did know. I knew two things. I
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knew that both of my parents did drugs, because they
did them. I'm like in front of me. So it
was not there was nothing hidden in my world at all,
nothing at all. I guess I was aware of the smuggling.
I was aware of the smuggling because I remember having
kind of an underlying sense of fear all the time.
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I remember I got a note sent home to my
biological father, um, and it was spelled the wrong way,
and the way they spelled it was the name of
a federal agency, and so I freaked out because I
thought that it was about that agency and that they
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were after us. I was like, it's first grade or
something at that point. Yeah. Um, but yeah, So I
remember sort of a constant underlying sense of fear or
dread or concern, you know, like knowing that that something
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was not right and knowing that like at a at
a legal level, but then also knowing it at a
um the functionality of my parents' level, like they were
inebriated a lot of the time, and so that created challenges,
and also knowing it at a very practical level, like
when I would bring a friend over, I would have
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to make them wait at the door so I could
run up and put away all the drugs that were
upstairs in our house. And I was always afraid that
a friend would see the drugs. It was only later
that I learned. In fact, it was only really recently
that I learned that so many of my friends parents
were doing drugs. And I had no idea. Yeah, you
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didn't described to me, like sitting on bals of pot. Yeah,
when I was really little, like for maybe our house
didn't have very much furniture, but there were bales of
pot that were like our seats and our table. Yeah,
that was to me, that was normal. Like I didn't
I didn't really have any judgment about the stuff itself,
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except that I knew societally it was bad, and I
knew that. I got really annoyed when my parents were stoned,
and I would call them stoned old people because they
would make me crazy because they were stupid as I
perceived it. While Saffron and I both come from psychedelic pioneers,
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a lot of her experiences were shaped, unlike me, by
parents with addiction. For many years, her mom was an
addict and her biological father was mentally unstable, and her
parents were into cocaine as well as pot, so Saffron's
childhood is sprinkled with more danger and risk than mine.
Her mom regularly took her to the interior Amazon jungle
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where her biological father lived, and being a single parent,
her mom would now and again take Saffron to work
with her, meaning gope do deals. Saffron remembers accompanying her
mom to various marine homes, sitting in a corner and
reading books about horses while her mom and colleagues would
conduct business aka drug deals smuggled for How did you know?
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This is the whole child? So, I guess I don't
know if this is a specious distinction, but I actually
make a distinction between smuggling and dealing to My dad
was never a dealer. Yeah, so my mother was a
dealer most of my life. I think she only smuggled
for a little while when I was really young and
when we were going back and forth from South America.
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So Saffron's mom was a dealer, which means she was
selling much smaller quantities than my dad, a distributor who
was selling quantities in the thousands of pounds. Saffron's mom
was probably working in the twenty pounds to one hundred pounds.
Saffron's mom also dealt cocaine in addition to pot, whereas
my dad only distributed pot except for that one time
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in nineteen seventy two with a Rose Cooke. Saffron and
I started talking about moneycause I didn't really put money
together with pot as a kid. Oh no, I do.
I knew money was associated with drugs because I remember
this one time that my mother had done a particularly
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large deal and she was talking to me about what
we should do with the money. Oh, I was somewhere
between eight and twelve. I always felt like we had enough.
It didn't feel like we didn't. I didn't feel like
we're rich. And part of it was also that she
was a single mom, so it was there was a
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bit of struggle in there, but nothing, not not real struggle.
You know, we had a house and all of that.
I asked what happened with her biological father. We hadn't
talked about it much growing up. So what would happen
was my biological father. She'd send me down there to
live with him and with a round trip ticket, and
then he would herself. Have I not shown you those photos?
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I have amazing photos of me, like with with shapebo
Amazonian spears on the airplane. I think in that I
was like six, Oh my god. Yeah, but she would
she would send me down. I went down a couple times.
I don't remember how many, but I remember at least once,
and I think more than that. My father sold the
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plane ticket m probably for drugs and so so yes,
so she had to come down and get I mean
essentially he kidnapped me sort of depending on how you
look at it, and so she would have to come
down and get me. So, you know, they were both
like super coked up. I remember I had this very
vivid memory if she came down to get me, and
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we were I don't I don't remember where we were,
but we were in a hotel room and it was
very white, and they got in a fight and he
threw a hairbrush at her and it hit her nose
and because she was so coked up that blood just
bladdered everywhere. Um yeah, it was that was horrible. That
was definitely not a good not a good memory. But anyway,
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so she would come and take me home. And then
we moved from Mill Valley out way out to West
Morin and my biological father was arrested for dealing or
something in Peru and went to a Peruvian jail when
I was eight. Then he and I would write letters
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to each other. Then um, well, he had such a
crazy story, so he went to jail, and then somehow
he managed to get married in jail to the woman
that he'd been arrested with, and then because of that,
they sent him off to live in the middle of
the jungle, like weeks from nowhere. So he was out
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of jail, but he was in the middle of nowhere
with this woman and then on a finko, which is
means a farm, and then they managed to escape from
there somehow, and they got up to Mexico. And then
that was when I was sixteen, and I went down
to visit my father, thinking that his wife would be
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there and so he would be somewhat sane. But I
was very wrong. I got there and his wife had
just left him two weeks before, and he was a
total lunatic, but he wasn't dealing drugs at that point.
But yeah, so that was like a very real consequence
of the drugs. There were no consequences ever with my
mother because she was never caught. Today, Saffron has a
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much better understanding of her mom and a lot of
respect for her. She admires her mom's ability to survive
as a single mom and eventually get sober, because ultimately,
Saffron understands her mom did the best she could at
the moment, and everyone is making it up as they
roll along. In my case, with my mother, I always
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knew no matter what, that she loved me like that
was never a question for me. But she was crazy.
I mean that's sort of how I saw it, as
she was crazy, And as I've gotten older, I've come
to see it as she was doing the best she could.
She you know, she was she was trying to provide
and um, she's sort of naturally risk the opposite of
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risk averse risk compelled. Yeah, so she there was something
about that that she liked. And I also think she
liked being a woman in a sort of largely male
dominated world, and it was also a big sort of
fu to the societal norms. It was, you know, I'm
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not good because she had a pretty um, pretty uh
not standard, but a pretty impressive academic, you know, pedigree,
and she was super smart, and she could have done
a lot of things, but she she didn't want to
do those things. Was part of the you know, the counterculture.
Saffron recently told me she always envied my family life
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because it appeared un chaotic compared to hers. Of course,
she didn't know my dad was a smuggler like her mom,
so to her, my parents appeared to be law abiding
and normal. Saffron points out that I enjoyed the best
parts of being a smuggler's daughter, a childhood of great
abundance and free of adult worries. Now. Like several of
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my hippie kid friends, Saffron experienced psychedelics in childhood, and
while she looks back at those events with some distress,
she also believes taking psychedelics in childhood had benefits, revealing
to her at an early age the comforting, harmonic unity
of humans and nature. Oh, I think I was talking
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to my mother about like the first time that I
did mushrooms and she said, well, actually, and I said yeah,
and she said, actually, the first time you did mushrooms
you were about two, isn't really And she said, yeah.
We had just they were living on a commune in
South America and they had just cooked up first of all,
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I don't even understand, like why you would have mushrooms
this way, but they had cooked up a magic mushroom omelet.
And I had toddled into the kitchen and I just
only ate the entire thing, That's what she says. And
so I said what happened? Like what do you do
you do? And she said that she took me down
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to the river and just held me for like four hours,
and I just kind of stared at the water and
she said I was fine, She said, I was happy.
It was all okay. And then my my biological father
also wanted me to be part of the experience. And
so when I was like four and five, I participated
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in several ayahuasca ceremonies. Do you not know this I need? Yeah, yeah,
so I purchased. Uh, now I don't, I don't. I
don't think I took acid when I was a little child.
That's quite a statement to me, but it's also like
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normal state. You just sound like it didn't phase me.
M But I you know, at some level. Just last year,
I was talking to a fellow mom about this, and
I realized that I think that maybe the combination of
the mushrooms and the ayahuasca, Like it's always been just
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fundamentally clear to me that everything is connected, that all
humans are connected, that we're connected to nature. That's never
been that like, I never had a revelation about that.
That was just the way it is. And it has
occurred to me that maybe those early psychedelic experiences, like
because that's what people say psychedelics experiences do, right, They
open your mind, Yeah yeah, and they open your mind
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to that, and so the kind of um, while I
spent a lot of my young adulthood, my teens and
young eulthood being you know, fairly pissed off about the
neglect what I considered to be the neglect. And I
am not advocating this as a parenting philosophy, and I
have not exposed my children as psychedelics. But but you're right,
but I do part of me thinks that maybe that
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having those early psychedelic experiences contributed to that understanding is
my only point. I did remember this, I do, yes,
I do so, particularly so the so the you know,
we would all lie around um in the brucho who
was the leader of it, in his hut basically, and
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one time I usually got a kiddies gored um, which
was swearing a god children. It was just me, that's yeah,
that's what I remember. Yeah, yeah. But one time I
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drank from the from the grown up score, and what
I remember of it was that my father found me
far away from the hut. I had wandered away, and
what I told him was that I was in a
bombed out building in Dresden. In Dresden, mind you, yeah, yeah,
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and that I was next but wait, it gets even muder.
I was next to a surgical operating table. But it
was all okay because because Frosty the snowman, what's with me? Yeah,
isn't that trippy? My hippy childhood home life was suburban
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compared to Staffron's cinematic psychedelic adventures, affirming my parents dedication
to stabilly routine remaining invisible in order to successfully conduct business.
Saffron's stories remind me how valuable it was to be
unaware of my parents in legal activities and how valuable
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their sobriety was. I'm Rainbow Valentine and this is disorganized crime.
We'll be right back. After Reagan's Anti Drug Abuse Act
Laws of eighty six and eighty eight, the three Strikes
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Your outlaw was passed in Washington State in nineteen ninety three,
followed by California in nineteen ninety four. The three strikes
law significantly increases prison sentences of people convicted of a
felony who've been previously convicted of two or more violent
crimes or felonies, and limits the ability of these offenders
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to receive a punishment other than a life sentence. Now,
possess sing marijuana is still a felony, although it's gradually
being decriminalized state by state, city by city. There are
a huge number of people in prison for life because
their third strike felony was possessing pot. Here's our cannabis lawyer,
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Bill Panzer telling me about three strikes and its ramifications.
So what happened. What was the consequence of the three
strikes law in California. Well, it's among other things, you know,
for other reasons too, it it was filling up the prisons.
Of course, you know, it gets applied inequally. I mean,
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if you look at percentage of non white people to
white people in the general population, and then you look
at percentage in the prison population, they ain't the same,
right you know, if you have you know, color is
critical here. But the color that's critical is not white
or black. Color. It's critical is green money. And if
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you've got the money to afford representation and afford a
good lawyer and all that, you're bound to do a
lot better now. Because of very socioeconomic factors in the
last two hundred years in this country, there's a strong
correlation between people with money and white people, and people
without money and people of color. Today, while it's still
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federally a Schedule one drug and possessing it a felony,
eleven states have decriminalized cannabis. However, unfortunately, legalization has come
with big corporations and big money crushing small family farms,
destroy the economics of small towns reliant on the pot industry,
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including much of northern California. Today, many towns in California's
Mendocino and Humboldt Counties once thriving with pot prosperity of
the black market, are struggling with joblessness and poverty, manifesting
an empty scorefronts throughout the Emerald Triangle, the region's nickname,
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so obviously, cannabis is part of the fabric of northern California,
which brings me back to my pot smuggling parents. So
after my dad quit smuggling, the nineties were tough financially
and it took a mental toll, but fortuitously Marine County
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real estate appreciated and my parents were able to live
off their only asset, our Mill Valley home, until my
dad successfully built his own legal business in sales. The
Mill Valley house and its continuously growing value, was like
a bank account for many years until the economy crashed
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in two thousand and eight when my parents lost it,
but their positive outlook and cical thinking skills enabled them
to move forward without regret. Mill Valley and Marin County
have changed from home spun hippie hamlets to uber wealthy
enclaves of investment bankers and techies, displacing my family along
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with many psychedelic pioneers who moved further north to Sonoma
Mendesino and Humboldt Counties and the Pacific Northwest. In the
thirty years since my dad quits smuggling, he's lost and
rebuilt everything at least three times, because even though he
quits smuggling, he never lost his love of the adrenaline
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rush from financial risk taking. For years, Dad, accustomed to
playing with money like monopoly, couldn't resist investing in various
smooth talking scam artists and doomed entrepreneurs. In the early
two thousands, my parents finally got married to each other grandparents,
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and reinvented themselves in hospitality. Today they're in their seventies
and once again emerging from total economic loss and starting
a new business. They are tenacious, industrious, visionary, humpty dumpties
with absurd senses of humor, and in the darkest days,
their cup remains half full. I'm at their house in
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northern California, and it's shortly after my dad revealed to
my mom that his smuggling partner High Fi, had been
busted in nineteen ninety two, a secret Dad buried for
almost thirty years. So Dad's confession propelled my parents to
call Hi Fi to make amends. And incredibly I got
to be a fly on the wall for the singular moment.
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This is the first time they've spoken in twenty seven years.
Not realizing my parents had begun the call with Hi Fi,
I started recording midway through or conversation. After Hi Fi's
initial surprise adhering from my dad passed. You might hear
a buzz as technology, like people is imperfect. We just
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got through talking about you and my whatever's so oh fuck,
oh oh fuck. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorged. It's
such a like rapture of life. We couldn't help you.
I mean, it was just crazy. Yeah, I couldn't tell her.
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I was I was too embarrassed and whatever. It's no excuse.
I don't have any excuse for it other than I
didn't tell her until just now. And it's it's kind
of a good thing you feel at Listen, I fucked
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up big time. That that doesn't give you back. Your
life goes and number one, you know, that's it, that's
that's gone. You know, it wasn't you know, will never
be Oh boy, Yeah, I don't know how you got
through that. Well, it was it was, it was, it
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was a challenge if it kind of snowballed. And that
is only one facet of oh no, of my, my,
my downward slide. Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, one one
thing left through another and it kind of you know,
there was the immediate problem, but there were there were
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other other things that manifested horrible. Yeah. Yeah, you know,
it's it's like I said, you know, it's it's it's history.
You know, it's here, it's history, but it's it's lives
and years. Well, you can't change the lives and years.
But we can uh be in the present and and
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move forward. Yeah, and that's what we've done, haven't we.
And uh, you know, and we you know, we're kind
of you know, found each other again, you know, so
you know, so that's that's a positive thing. Yeah, and
you know, who knows the future. I don't, you know,
I don't have a crystal ball. I wish I did,
you know, because you know, if if I did, I
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wouldn't be where I would Well I might be, you know,
I mean I didn't know these guys. I vaguely knew him.
It was no man, throw you to the wolves. Thank
you for throwing us, Thank you it it. I still
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have very few words because I have so little to say. Well,
I can say I'm sorry. Well, yeah, that's kind of
a want thank you. It's it doesn't mean much at all. Oh,
it kind of does. Well, you know me, and I
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don't believe I'm especially frivolous with my feelings and the bullshit,
you know, I mean, fuck, we're we're sort of we've
we've grown a little older and would your fine go too? Yeah?
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Better late than never, as they say, my parents call
with High Fi was a start to mending their broken bridge,
and I was struck by my mom thinking High Fi
for not turning my parents to the wolves. As she said,
reconciliation is complicated. But I took the fact that high
Fie and my dad were ribbing each other to be
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a good sign, as well as the laughter from everyone.
I'm Rainbow Valentine and this is disorganized crime. We'll be
right back. So I started this podcast after seeing billboards
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for weed delivery apps all over California and concerned the
pot smoking kids in weed legal states were unaware of
the extreme risks undertaken by the pot smugglers of your
I embarked on this project to illuminate cannabis's rocky path
towards legality. History is important, and as America moves towards
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national cannabis legalization, pot smugglers stories are archival prohibition tales
which must be preserved and told so we don't repeat
patterns of behavior based on racism and hate. Remember reef
madness propaganda started because alcohol prohibition ended and a government official,
Harry Ann Slinger, wanted to preserve his power, hence the
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frenzy of anti cannabis hype for a largely harmless drug
primarily used by Mexicans and African Americans, and then beat
nix and artists, leading to the counterculture. Harry Ann Slinger's
professional ambition and bigotry led to the reagans egregious anti
drug laws of the nineteen eighties that destroyed and continue
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to destroy people's lives. And the thing is, so many
people throughout history and today believe pot is good. It's
a powerful, non addictive plant with positive benefits for many people.
Of course, not every human has the same physiology, so
not everyone has the same reaction to smoking cannabis. But
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current medical science is proving that cannabis has medical properties
including anxiety and information reduction, pain management, and inducing the giggles.
After all, laughter is the best medicine. I called my
parents one last time to record. They've gotten a lot
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better at it since we started recording about a year ago.
Is it recording, Yeah, it looks like the little red
lines are moving. Yes, it's recording. Well, what do you
guys want to say? Anything you want to say? And
here we are in the final episode conclusion. You go first.
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I've been holding in an important informative part of our
family's life for thirty plus years, and I had no
idea how cathartically freeing. Speaking about it and listening to
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other of my friends what it's done for me, I
think for Taffy can speak for herself. But it's just
our lives, you know, which that's how we live. We are,
We're very fortunate on so many levels, especially after listening
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to the stories you've I've heard from other of my friends,
some of whom I had absolutely no idea about what
the hell parts of their lives were going on. Mom, Yeah, yeah,
excuse me. The truth will set you're free, will lock
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you up. Yeah. But if I had it to do
over again, because I'm a real sixties idealist, I could
see no reason for me to be criminalized and taking
joy away from the people. They the people, the populist
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has enough problems and suffering, and if you could relieve
suffering could make people laugh. I thought it was like
your highest calling. What are the theories on why you
guys never got caught? Why didn't we Why do we
think we didn't get popped? Ever? Yeah, because I mean,
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I'm fairly clear about because it was the way I
did business. I was very strange about who I hung
out with that I had. I did most all of
my own driving locally. The less moving parts, the less people,
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the less potential for somebody getting in trouble for who
knows what and doing who knows what to whom. So
that's I was really very cautious about that. And consequently
I didn't have a lot of people working for me,
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and I wasn't so greedy as to as to do
something that foolish, only greedy enough to do something as
foolish as losing my money several times. But we're still
here and I feel quite rich now, you know, full,
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which is a level of something. Yeah. Yeah, I like
the idea of fulsomeness, you know, from having let an
interesting life and striving to create some truth. And I
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think that we were two heads are better than once
sometimes and we when there's all these bozos around there
doing like weird things, am not being prepared? I think
we were super prepared because we were so paranoid, you know.
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So it's great about now is that we don't we're
trying to lift the paranoia from a lifetime a paranoia
and change our behavioral patterns. You know. So that's interesting too. Yeah, yeah,
that's interesting. You mean by being by revealing your stories, wow?
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Well yeah, by being able to like be on the
phone and talk about weak now, that was like something
like you know, to overcome like for thirty five years
or fifty years or whatever, like you've been afraid to
talk on the phone because the phone would be tapped
or people of surveillance, and like, you know, there's a
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point when you're just like can you got to stop
worrying about it because now because it does, it doesn't exist.
It's it's a structure that it was like completely paralyzing structure.
We didn't take chances like being hung out there to
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dry usually like except when when high fi like you know,
like that that would have been a that was a
disaster like but any upstanding like jog dealer would have
lots of lawyers well uh, and lots of luck, lots
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of look and God loves um dealers, good pot dealers, artists, gods,
artists and people that take risks. So I think that
even though I don't believe in God, that God was there. Well, yes,
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that's us. That's us. Ridiculous is us? I mean you know,
I mean the Lord and passed the potatoes. As I
considered what to say in the final episode, I read
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this quote by Polish poet, writer and translator sis Law
Maloje Sorry I said his name wrong, winner of the
nineteen eighty Nobel Prize Literature. He wrote, when a writer
is born into a family, that family is finished. Thank you,
family for supporting my writing about you, because now I
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know myself so much better, and may our story inspire
you to uncover an archive your family's narrative. I started
this project without any idea of what I discover, learn
or the consequences, and I'm pleased to report that while
it's been intense and all in experience, uncovering the chronicle
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of cannabis prohibition and my parents and friends. Historic Secrets
has been overwhelmingly positive, especially for the pot smugglers who
bury their biographies for so many years. The truth will
set you free. When we humans hold onto secrets and emotions,
they become a heavy load and revealing, communicating, and storytelling
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releases one from the power secrets and emotions have over us.
Stories inform us and remind us who we are. I
am a smuggler's daughter. I am the child of psychedelic counterculture.
Outlaw artists, storytellers and podcasts are the modern day campfire,
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and since songs are part of the traditional camp fire,
I felt sharing my latest song would be a cozy
way to end this chapter of disorganized crime. Smuggler's Daughter,
I've told my story to the world. Who knows who
will be next? Thanks for listening. Camp Fire style, camp
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fire style Live, no fancy tricks. I'm a Smuggler's daughter.
Water sign, my Heart's rainbow. Valentine raised a mixt disorganized crime.
That time has come for the stories of pot smuggler
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glories and downfallns calling all you himmy kids, calling ah
you counterculture misfits. The world wants the word from our buses,
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your Santipees Well, words the same sun in sixty Peace, Peace, love, peace, love,
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I'm a Smuggler's daughter, hippie kid. Did you think I've
seen of other things? Like she strings and string keys
and she's take with key lime. That time has come
for the stories of hot smuggler glories and downfalls, Calling
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all you hippie kids, calling all you count of culture misfits.
The world wants the word from our communes and cobhouses. Well,
the words the same sung in sixtys Peace, peace, peace,
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and love. Stories are like good de deserts. A word
treats for the heart and mind, chronicles a human kind.
That time has come for the stories of hot smuggler
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glories and downfall, Calling all you hippie kids, call all
you counterculture misfits. The world wants the word from our
hands made off the bread cribs. While the words the
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same sun in sixties sing along, Speace, be and love.
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I'm a fucking hippie disorganized crime. Smuggler's Daughter is written
and recorded by me Rainbow Valentine. Our producers are Gabby
Watts and Taylor Church. Executive producers are Brandon Barr, Brian Livin,
Elsie Crowley and Me at School of Humans and Connel
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Burn and Charles Bryant at iHeartRadio. Our music is by
Gabby Lala and Claire Campbell, with original theme by Mark,
Karen and Me. You can follow us online at Disorganized
Crime podcast dot com. Story Do It As with Me,
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Stephen Princess, the Dreams, She cats us, Keep it Real, Handshake,
Seals the Deal, Wrap the sky, Seal, Meal, Road Up
these all greens rolling the Dooby, Young, rich and groovy,
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making it up as we roll along, Rolling along far
O Country, Roll, Rolling along far Our Country, Roll, Rolling
along far Our Country. Roll
School of Humans. Welcome to the final episode of Disorganized
Crime Smuggler's Daughter. Thanks for joining us on this long,
strange trip into the history of my family, past and subculture.
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In the previous episode, my dad confessed a secret to
my mom he'd been holding for almost thirty years. In
nineteen ninety two, my senior year of high school, and
four years after my mom thought dad had retired from
outlaw life, my dad and his New York smuggling partner
High Fi loaded up a car with a RinkyDink smuggle
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of fifty pounds of poor quality pot in the Midwest.
Soon after, Hi Fi was busted and his freedom ended
up costing HIGHI ten years of debt to the Mexican cartel.
Dad got out of pot smuggling a free man by
the skin of his teeth. Despite his arrest, High Fi,
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a man of honor, never rolled on my parents. In
this episode, my parents speak to High Five for the
first time since nineteen ninety two. I'm Rainbow Valentine. This
is Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter. Want to do young, free
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and groovy. Making it up. We rolled along, running along
country he did in the Golden Gag State, making it
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up as we roll, I had a great childhood because
I had wonderful, invested, supportive, loving parents, a stable home
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and family, and the immense privilege of wealth which provided education, opportunity,
and freedom. I was a lucky child because my parents
were careful, industrious, and creative, along with her adrenaline loving
risk taking. Being blissfully unaware of my parents were pot smugglers,
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I never felt burdened the way other children of smugglers,
privy to their parents illicit activities may have felt. My
big sister, Vertica, didn't want to speak on tape for
fear of hurting our parents feelings because for her, growing
up aware our parents were smugglers was difficult. Now this
podcast has prompted most of my childhood friends to reveal
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they too are smuggler's kids or smuggler adjacent and one
of my oldest best friends, we'll call Saffron, is a
smuggler's daughter who was aware of her mom's unlawful occupation
like my older sister. Last time I was in California,
I sat down with Saffron, and although I've known Saffron
for forty years, I'd never heard these stories. Okay, so
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I want to talk about you growing up with smuggler
parents and knowing having the knowledge as a child that
your parents were involved in this tree, which was not
my experience, but it was the experience my sister. So
I just want to tell me about that. Tell me
about So I did know. I knew two things. I
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knew that both of my parents did drugs, because they
did them. I'm like in front of me. So it
was not there was nothing hidden in my world at all,
nothing at all. I guess I was aware of the smuggling.
I was aware of the smuggling because I remember having
kind of an underlying sense of fear all the time.
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I remember I got a note sent home to my
biological father, um, and it was spelled the wrong way,
and the way they spelled it was the name of
a federal agency, and so I freaked out because I
thought that it was about that agency and that they
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were after us. I was like, it's first grade or
something at that point. Yeah. Um, but yeah, So I
remember sort of a constant underlying sense of fear or
dread or concern, you know, like knowing that that something
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was not right and knowing that like at a at
a legal level, but then also knowing it at a
um the functionality of my parents' level, like they were
inebriated a lot of the time, and so that created challenges,
and also knowing it at a very practical level, like
when I would bring a friend over, I would have
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to make them wait at the door so I could
run up and put away all the drugs that were
upstairs in our house. And I was always afraid that
a friend would see the drugs. It was only later
that I learned. In fact, it was only really recently
that I learned that so many of my friends parents
were doing drugs. And I had no idea. Yeah, you
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didn't described to me, like sitting on bals of pot. Yeah,
when I was really little, like for maybe our house
didn't have very much furniture, but there were bales of
pot that were like our seats and our table. Yeah,
that was to me, that was normal. Like I didn't
I didn't really have any judgment about the stuff itself,
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except that I knew societally it was bad, and I
knew that. I got really annoyed when my parents were stoned,
and I would call them stoned old people because they
would make me crazy because they were stupid as I
perceived it. While Saffron and I both come from psychedelic pioneers,
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a lot of her experiences were shaped, unlike me, by
parents with addiction. For many years, her mom was an
addict and her biological father was mentally unstable, and her
parents were into cocaine as well as pot, so Saffron's
childhood is sprinkled with more danger and risk than mine.
Her mom regularly took her to the interior Amazon jungle
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where her biological father lived, and being a single parent,
her mom would now and again take Saffron to work
with her, meaning gope do deals. Saffron remembers accompanying her
mom to various marine homes, sitting in a corner and
reading books about horses while her mom and colleagues would
conduct business aka drug deals smuggled for How did you know?
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This is the whole child? So, I guess I don't
know if this is a specious distinction, but I actually
make a distinction between smuggling and dealing to My dad
was never a dealer. Yeah, so my mother was a
dealer most of my life. I think she only smuggled
for a little while when I was really young and
when we were going back and forth from South America.
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So Saffron's mom was a dealer, which means she was
selling much smaller quantities than my dad, a distributor who
was selling quantities in the thousands of pounds. Saffron's mom
was probably working in the twenty pounds to one hundred pounds.
Saffron's mom also dealt cocaine in addition to pot, whereas
my dad only distributed pot except for that one time
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in nineteen seventy two with a Rose Cooke. Saffron and
I started talking about moneycause I didn't really put money
together with pot as a kid. Oh no, I do.
I knew money was associated with drugs because I remember
this one time that my mother had done a particularly
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large deal and she was talking to me about what
we should do with the money. Oh, I was somewhere
between eight and twelve. I always felt like we had enough.
It didn't feel like we didn't. I didn't feel like
we're rich. And part of it was also that she
was a single mom, so it was there was a
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bit of struggle in there, but nothing, not not real struggle.
You know, we had a house and all of that.
I asked what happened with her biological father. We hadn't
talked about it much growing up. So what would happen
was my biological father. She'd send me down there to
live with him and with a round trip ticket, and
then he would herself. Have I not shown you those photos?
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I have amazing photos of me, like with with shapebo
Amazonian spears on the airplane. I think in that I
was like six, Oh my god. Yeah, but she would
she would send me down. I went down a couple times.
I don't remember how many, but I remember at least once,
and I think more than that. My father sold the
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plane ticket m probably for drugs and so so yes,
so she had to come down and get I mean
essentially he kidnapped me sort of depending on how you
look at it, and so she would have to come
down and get me. So, you know, they were both
like super coked up. I remember I had this very
vivid memory if she came down to get me, and
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we were I don't I don't remember where we were,
but we were in a hotel room and it was
very white, and they got in a fight and he
threw a hairbrush at her and it hit her nose
and because she was so coked up that blood just
bladdered everywhere. Um yeah, it was that was horrible. That
was definitely not a good not a good memory. But anyway,
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so she would come and take me home. And then
we moved from Mill Valley out way out to West
Morin and my biological father was arrested for dealing or
something in Peru and went to a Peruvian jail when
I was eight. Then he and I would write letters
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to each other. Then um, well, he had such a
crazy story, so he went to jail, and then somehow
he managed to get married in jail to the woman
that he'd been arrested with, and then because of that,
they sent him off to live in the middle of
the jungle, like weeks from nowhere. So he was out
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of jail, but he was in the middle of nowhere
with this woman and then on a finko, which is
means a farm, and then they managed to escape from
there somehow, and they got up to Mexico. And then
that was when I was sixteen, and I went down
to visit my father, thinking that his wife would be
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there and so he would be somewhat sane. But I
was very wrong. I got there and his wife had
just left him two weeks before, and he was a
total lunatic, but he wasn't dealing drugs at that point.
But yeah, so that was like a very real consequence
of the drugs. There were no consequences ever with my
mother because she was never caught. Today, Saffron has a
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much better understanding of her mom and a lot of
respect for her. She admires her mom's ability to survive
as a single mom and eventually get sober, because ultimately,
Saffron understands her mom did the best she could at
the moment, and everyone is making it up as they
roll along. In my case, with my mother, I always
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knew no matter what, that she loved me like that
was never a question for me. But she was crazy.
I mean that's sort of how I saw it, as
she was crazy, And as I've gotten older, I've come
to see it as she was doing the best she could.
She you know, she was she was trying to provide
and um, she's sort of naturally risk the opposite of
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risk averse risk compelled. Yeah, so she there was something
about that that she liked. And I also think she
liked being a woman in a sort of largely male
dominated world, and it was also a big sort of
fu to the societal norms. It was, you know, I'm
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not good because she had a pretty um, pretty uh
not standard, but a pretty impressive academic, you know, pedigree,
and she was super smart, and she could have done
a lot of things, but she she didn't want to
do those things. Was part of the you know, the counterculture.
Saffron recently told me she always envied my family life
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because it appeared un chaotic compared to hers. Of course,
she didn't know my dad was a smuggler like her mom,
so to her, my parents appeared to be law abiding
and normal. Saffron points out that I enjoyed the best
parts of being a smuggler's daughter, a childhood of great
abundance and free of adult worries. Now. Like several of
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my hippie kid friends, Saffron experienced psychedelics in childhood, and
while she looks back at those events with some distress,
she also believes taking psychedelics in childhood had benefits, revealing
to her at an early age the comforting, harmonic unity
of humans and nature. Oh, I think I was talking
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to my mother about like the first time that I
did mushrooms and she said, well, actually, and I said yeah,
and she said, actually, the first time you did mushrooms
you were about two, isn't really And she said, yeah.
We had just they were living on a commune in
South America and they had just cooked up first of all,
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I don't even understand, like why you would have mushrooms
this way, but they had cooked up a magic mushroom omelet.
And I had toddled into the kitchen and I just
only ate the entire thing, That's what she says. And
so I said what happened? Like what do you do
you do? And she said that she took me down
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to the river and just held me for like four hours,
and I just kind of stared at the water and
she said I was fine, She said, I was happy.
It was all okay. And then my my biological father
also wanted me to be part of the experience. And
so when I was like four and five, I participated
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in several ayahuasca ceremonies. Do you not know this I need? Yeah, yeah,
so I purchased. Uh, now I don't, I don't. I
don't think I took acid when I was a little child.
That's quite a statement to me, but it's also like
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normal state. You just sound like it didn't phase me.
M But I you know, at some level. Just last year,
I was talking to a fellow mom about this, and
I realized that I think that maybe the combination of
the mushrooms and the ayahuasca, Like it's always been just
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fundamentally clear to me that everything is connected, that all
humans are connected, that we're connected to nature. That's never
been that like, I never had a revelation about that.
That was just the way it is. And it has
occurred to me that maybe those early psychedelic experiences, like
because that's what people say psychedelics experiences do, right, They
open your mind, Yeah yeah, and they open your mind
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to that, and so the kind of um, while I
spent a lot of my young adulthood, my teens and
young eulthood being you know, fairly pissed off about the
neglect what I considered to be the neglect. And I
am not advocating this as a parenting philosophy, and I
have not exposed my children as psychedelics. But but you're right,
but I do part of me thinks that maybe that
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having those early psychedelic experiences contributed to that understanding is
my only point. I did remember this, I do, yes,
I do so, particularly so the so the you know,
we would all lie around um in the brucho who
was the leader of it, in his hut basically, and
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one time I usually got a kiddies gored um, which
was swearing a god children. It was just me, that's yeah,
that's what I remember. Yeah, yeah. But one time I
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drank from the from the grown up score, and what
I remember of it was that my father found me
far away from the hut. I had wandered away, and
what I told him was that I was in a
bombed out building in Dresden. In Dresden, mind you, yeah, yeah,
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and that I was next but wait, it gets even muder.
I was next to a surgical operating table. But it
was all okay because because Frosty the snowman, what's with me? Yeah,
isn't that trippy? My hippy childhood home life was suburban
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compared to Staffron's cinematic psychedelic adventures, affirming my parents dedication
to stabilly routine remaining invisible in order to successfully conduct business.
Saffron's stories remind me how valuable it was to be
unaware of my parents in legal activities and how valuable
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their sobriety was. I'm Rainbow Valentine and this is disorganized crime.
We'll be right back. After Reagan's Anti Drug Abuse Act
Laws of eighty six and eighty eight, the three Strikes
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Your outlaw was passed in Washington State in nineteen ninety three,
followed by California in nineteen ninety four. The three strikes
law significantly increases prison sentences of people convicted of a
felony who've been previously convicted of two or more violent
crimes or felonies, and limits the ability of these offenders
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to receive a punishment other than a life sentence. Now,
possess sing marijuana is still a felony, although it's gradually
being decriminalized state by state, city by city. There are
a huge number of people in prison for life because
their third strike felony was possessing pot. Here's our cannabis lawyer,
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Bill Panzer telling me about three strikes and its ramifications.
So what happened. What was the consequence of the three
strikes law in California. Well, it's among other things, you know,
for other reasons too, it it was filling up the prisons.
Of course, you know, it gets applied inequally. I mean,
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if you look at percentage of non white people to
white people in the general population, and then you look
at percentage in the prison population, they ain't the same,
right you know, if you have you know, color is
critical here. But the color that's critical is not white
or black. Color. It's critical is green money. And if
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you've got the money to afford representation and afford a
good lawyer and all that, you're bound to do a
lot better now. Because of very socioeconomic factors in the
last two hundred years in this country, there's a strong
correlation between people with money and white people, and people
without money and people of color. Today, while it's still
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federally a Schedule one drug and possessing it a felony,
eleven states have decriminalized cannabis. However, unfortunately, legalization has come
with big corporations and big money crushing small family farms,
destroy the economics of small towns reliant on the pot industry,
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including much of northern California. Today, many towns in California's
Mendocino and Humboldt Counties once thriving with pot prosperity of
the black market, are struggling with joblessness and poverty, manifesting
an empty scorefronts throughout the Emerald Triangle, the region's nickname,
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so obviously, cannabis is part of the fabric of northern California,
which brings me back to my pot smuggling parents. So
after my dad quit smuggling, the nineties were tough financially
and it took a mental toll, but fortuitously Marine County
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real estate appreciated and my parents were able to live
off their only asset, our Mill Valley home, until my
dad successfully built his own legal business in sales. The
Mill Valley house and its continuously growing value, was like
a bank account for many years until the economy crashed
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in two thousand and eight when my parents lost it,
but their positive outlook and cical thinking skills enabled them
to move forward without regret. Mill Valley and Marin County
have changed from home spun hippie hamlets to uber wealthy
enclaves of investment bankers and techies, displacing my family along
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with many psychedelic pioneers who moved further north to Sonoma
Mendesino and Humboldt Counties and the Pacific Northwest. In the
thirty years since my dad quits smuggling, he's lost and
rebuilt everything at least three times, because even though he
quits smuggling, he never lost his love of the adrenaline
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rush from financial risk taking. For years, Dad, accustomed to
playing with money like monopoly, couldn't resist investing in various
smooth talking scam artists and doomed entrepreneurs. In the early
two thousands, my parents finally got married to each other grandparents,
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and reinvented themselves in hospitality. Today they're in their seventies
and once again emerging from total economic loss and starting
a new business. They are tenacious, industrious, visionary, humpty dumpties
with absurd senses of humor, and in the darkest days,
their cup remains half full. I'm at their house in
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northern California, and it's shortly after my dad revealed to
my mom that his smuggling partner High Fi, had been
busted in nineteen ninety two, a secret Dad buried for
almost thirty years. So Dad's confession propelled my parents to
call Hi Fi to make amends. And incredibly I got
to be a fly on the wall for the singular moment.
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This is the first time they've spoken in twenty seven years.
Not realizing my parents had begun the call with Hi Fi,
I started recording midway through or conversation. After Hi Fi's
initial surprise adhering from my dad passed. You might hear
a buzz as technology, like people is imperfect. We just
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got through talking about you and my whatever's so oh fuck,
oh oh fuck. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorged. It's
such a like rapture of life. We couldn't help you.
I mean, it was just crazy. Yeah, I couldn't tell her.
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I was I was too embarrassed and whatever. It's no excuse.
I don't have any excuse for it other than I
didn't tell her until just now. And it's it's kind
of a good thing you feel at Listen, I fucked
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up big time. That that doesn't give you back. Your
life goes and number one, you know, that's it, that's
that's gone. You know, it wasn't you know, will never
be Oh boy, Yeah, I don't know how you got
through that. Well, it was it was, it was, it
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was a challenge if it kind of snowballed. And that
is only one facet of oh no, of my, my,
my downward slide. Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, one one
thing left through another and it kind of you know,
there was the immediate problem, but there were there were
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other other things that manifested horrible. Yeah. Yeah, you know,
it's it's like I said, you know, it's it's it's history.
You know, it's here, it's history, but it's it's lives
and years. Well, you can't change the lives and years.
But we can uh be in the present and and
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move forward. Yeah, and that's what we've done, haven't we.
And uh, you know, and we you know, we're kind
of you know, found each other again, you know, so
you know, so that's that's a positive thing. Yeah, and
you know, who knows the future. I don't, you know,
I don't have a crystal ball. I wish I did,
you know, because you know, if if I did, I
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wouldn't be where I would Well I might be, you know,
I mean I didn't know these guys. I vaguely knew him.
It was no man, throw you to the wolves. Thank
you for throwing us, Thank you it it. I still
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have very few words because I have so little to say. Well,
I can say I'm sorry. Well, yeah, that's kind of
a want thank you. It's it doesn't mean much at all. Oh,
it kind of does. Well, you know me, and I
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don't believe I'm especially frivolous with my feelings and the bullshit,
you know, I mean, fuck, we're we're sort of we've
we've grown a little older and would your fine go too? Yeah?
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Better late than never, as they say, my parents call
with High Fi was a start to mending their broken bridge,
and I was struck by my mom thinking High Fi
for not turning my parents to the wolves. As she said,
reconciliation is complicated. But I took the fact that high
Fie and my dad were ribbing each other to be
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a good sign, as well as the laughter from everyone.
I'm Rainbow Valentine and this is disorganized crime. We'll be
right back. So I started this podcast after seeing billboards
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for weed delivery apps all over California and concerned the
pot smoking kids in weed legal states were unaware of
the extreme risks undertaken by the pot smugglers of your
I embarked on this project to illuminate cannabis's rocky path
towards legality. History is important, and as America moves towards
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national cannabis legalization, pot smugglers stories are archival prohibition tales
which must be preserved and told so we don't repeat
patterns of behavior based on racism and hate. Remember reef
madness propaganda started because alcohol prohibition ended and a government official,
Harry Ann Slinger, wanted to preserve his power, hence the
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frenzy of anti cannabis hype for a largely harmless drug
primarily used by Mexicans and African Americans, and then beat
nix and artists, leading to the counterculture. Harry Ann Slinger's
professional ambition and bigotry led to the reagans egregious anti
drug laws of the nineteen eighties that destroyed and continue
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to destroy people's lives. And the thing is, so many
people throughout history and today believe pot is good. It's
a powerful, non addictive plant with positive benefits for many people.
Of course, not every human has the same physiology, so
not everyone has the same reaction to smoking cannabis. But
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current medical science is proving that cannabis has medical properties
including anxiety and information reduction, pain management, and inducing the giggles.
After all, laughter is the best medicine. I called my
parents one last time to record. They've gotten a lot
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better at it since we started recording about a year ago.
Is it recording, Yeah, it looks like the little red
lines are moving. Yes, it's recording. Well, what do you
guys want to say? Anything you want to say? And
here we are in the final episode conclusion. You go first.
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I've been holding in an important informative part of our
family's life for thirty plus years, and I had no
idea how cathartically freeing. Speaking about it and listening to
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other of my friends what it's done for me, I
think for Taffy can speak for herself. But it's just
our lives, you know, which that's how we live. We are,
We're very fortunate on so many levels, especially after listening
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to the stories you've I've heard from other of my friends,
some of whom I had absolutely no idea about what
the hell parts of their lives were going on. Mom, Yeah, yeah,
excuse me. The truth will set you're free, will lock
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you up. Yeah. But if I had it to do
over again, because I'm a real sixties idealist, I could
see no reason for me to be criminalized and taking
joy away from the people. They the people, the populist
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has enough problems and suffering, and if you could relieve
suffering could make people laugh. I thought it was like
your highest calling. What are the theories on why you
guys never got caught? Why didn't we Why do we
think we didn't get popped? Ever? Yeah, because I mean,
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I'm fairly clear about because it was the way I
did business. I was very strange about who I hung
out with that I had. I did most all of
my own driving locally. The less moving parts, the less people,
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the less potential for somebody getting in trouble for who
knows what and doing who knows what to whom. So
that's I was really very cautious about that. And consequently
I didn't have a lot of people working for me,
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and I wasn't so greedy as to as to do
something that foolish, only greedy enough to do something as
foolish as losing my money several times. But we're still
here and I feel quite rich now, you know, full,
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which is a level of something. Yeah. Yeah, I like
the idea of fulsomeness, you know, from having let an
interesting life and striving to create some truth. And I
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think that we were two heads are better than once
sometimes and we when there's all these bozos around there
doing like weird things, am not being prepared? I think
we were super prepared because we were so paranoid, you know.
(34:48):
So it's great about now is that we don't we're
trying to lift the paranoia from a lifetime a paranoia
and change our behavioral patterns. You know. So that's interesting too. Yeah, yeah,
that's interesting. You mean by being by revealing your stories, wow?
(35:09):
Well yeah, by being able to like be on the
phone and talk about weak now, that was like something
like you know, to overcome like for thirty five years
or fifty years or whatever, like you've been afraid to
talk on the phone because the phone would be tapped
or people of surveillance, and like, you know, there's a
(35:30):
point when you're just like can you got to stop
worrying about it because now because it does, it doesn't exist.
It's it's a structure that it was like completely paralyzing structure.
We didn't take chances like being hung out there to
(35:51):
dry usually like except when when high fi like you know,
like that that would have been a that was a
disaster like but any upstanding like jog dealer would have
lots of lawyers well uh, and lots of luck, lots
(36:18):
of look and God loves um dealers, good pot dealers, artists, gods,
artists and people that take risks. So I think that
even though I don't believe in God, that God was there. Well, yes,
(36:39):
that's us. That's us. Ridiculous is us? I mean you know,
I mean the Lord and passed the potatoes. As I
considered what to say in the final episode, I read
(37:02):
this quote by Polish poet, writer and translator sis Law
Maloje Sorry I said his name wrong, winner of the
nineteen eighty Nobel Prize Literature. He wrote, when a writer
is born into a family, that family is finished. Thank you,
family for supporting my writing about you, because now I
(37:24):
know myself so much better, and may our story inspire
you to uncover an archive your family's narrative. I started
this project without any idea of what I discover, learn
or the consequences, and I'm pleased to report that while
it's been intense and all in experience, uncovering the chronicle
(37:47):
of cannabis prohibition and my parents and friends. Historic Secrets
has been overwhelmingly positive, especially for the pot smugglers who
bury their biographies for so many years. The truth will
set you free. When we humans hold onto secrets and emotions,
they become a heavy load and revealing, communicating, and storytelling
(38:12):
releases one from the power secrets and emotions have over us.
Stories inform us and remind us who we are. I
am a smuggler's daughter. I am the child of psychedelic counterculture.
Outlaw artists, storytellers and podcasts are the modern day campfire,
(38:35):
and since songs are part of the traditional camp fire,
I felt sharing my latest song would be a cozy
way to end this chapter of disorganized crime. Smuggler's Daughter,
I've told my story to the world. Who knows who
will be next? Thanks for listening. Camp Fire style, camp
(38:58):
fire style Live, no fancy tricks. I'm a Smuggler's daughter.
Water sign, my Heart's rainbow. Valentine raised a mixt disorganized crime.
That time has come for the stories of pot smuggler
(39:21):
glories and downfallns calling all you himmy kids, calling ah
you counterculture misfits. The world wants the word from our buses,
(39:41):
your Santipees Well, words the same sun in sixty Peace, Peace, love, peace, love,
(40:06):
I'm a Smuggler's daughter, hippie kid. Did you think I've
seen of other things? Like she strings and string keys
and she's take with key lime. That time has come
for the stories of hot smuggler glories and downfalls, Calling
(40:27):
all you hippie kids, calling all you count of culture misfits.
The world wants the word from our communes and cobhouses. Well,
the words the same sung in sixtys Peace, peace, peace,
(41:03):
and love. Stories are like good de deserts. A word
treats for the heart and mind, chronicles a human kind.
That time has come for the stories of hot smuggler
(41:27):
glories and downfall, Calling all you hippie kids, call all
you counterculture misfits. The world wants the word from our
hands made off the bread cribs. While the words the
(41:48):
same sun in sixties sing along, Speace, be and love.
(42:15):
I'm a fucking hippie disorganized crime. Smuggler's Daughter is written
and recorded by me Rainbow Valentine. Our producers are Gabby
Watts and Taylor Church. Executive producers are Brandon Barr, Brian Livin,
Elsie Crowley and Me at School of Humans and Connel
(42:36):
Burn and Charles Bryant at iHeartRadio. Our music is by
Gabby Lala and Claire Campbell, with original theme by Mark,
Karen and Me. You can follow us online at Disorganized
Crime podcast dot com. Story Do It As with Me,
(43:02):
Stephen Princess, the Dreams, She cats us, Keep it Real, Handshake,
Seals the Deal, Wrap the sky, Seal, Meal, Road Up
these all greens rolling the Dooby, Young, rich and groovy,
(43:25):
making it up as we roll along, Rolling along far
O Country, Roll, Rolling along far Our Country, Roll, Rolling
along far Our Country. Roll
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