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Book
Offer:
Burning
Rainbow
Farm:
How
a
Stoner
Utopia
Went
up
in
Smoke
6/16/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/440/rainbowfarmbook.shtml
Many DRCNet readers remember
the heartbreaking tragedy of Rainbow Farm, the alternative campground and
concert site outside Vandalia, Michigan, where marijuana activists Tom
Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, driven to desperation by a relentless prosecutor,
were killed by FBI and state police in fall 2001. Killed for no good
reason -- as a local sympathizer expressed it to Drug War Chronicle's Phil
Smith at the funeral, "[Prosecutor] Scott Teter said this was their choice,
but it was his choice to hound them and try to take their land and their
son. He's the one who chose to shoot and kill." Rohm and Crosslin
before the end burned down their beloved buildings to keep the government
from getting them.
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Journalist Dean Kuipers of
the Los Angeles CityBeat has now written "Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner
Utopia Went up in Smoke," a 304-page book being released by Bloomsbury
USA this June 13. DRCNet is offering "Burning Rainbow Farm" as our
latest membership premium -- donate $35 or more to DRCNet, and we will
send you a copy -- donate $45 or more and we will send you one signed by
the author. Your donations will help our work to end drug prohibition,
while raising awareness of the recklessness and excesses of drug enforcers
like prosecutor Teter -- click
here to donate and order your copy.
Publishers Weekly writes
of Kuipers' book, "Drawing on extensive interviews, government documents
and news coverage, the author [who grew up 20 miles from the shootings]
verges on portraying the prosecutor as evil incarnate. But Kuipers
doesn't cross the line from sound journalism into advocacy, while letting
the story unfold through superbly detailed characterizations and skillful
pacing."
We also continue to offer
the DVD video Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and the 5th edition of
Drug War Facts. Add $5 to the minimum donation to add either of these
to your request, or $10 to add both of them. Again, you can make
your donation and place your order online, or send a check or money
order to: DRCNet, P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036. (Note that
contributions to Drug Reform Coordination Network, which support our lobbying
work, are not tax-deductible. Deductible contributions can be made
to DRCNet Foundation, same address.) Lastly, please contact us for
instructions if you wish to make a donation of stock. (Also note
that copies of Rainbow Farm will be mailed out from DRCNet during the third
week of June.)
Thank you for your support.
If you want to read more about Rainbow Farm in the meanwhile, please see Phil's
articles in the Drug War Chronicle archive: Michigan
Drug Warriors Drive Marijuana Activists to the Brink, Then Gun Them Down
on 9/7/01; Rainbow
Farm Marijuana Activists Laid to Rest, Friends Not Resting on 9/21; and Phil's book review last week.
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Issue #440
-- 6/16/06
Editorial:
Real
World
Consequences
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Feature:
Death
Toll
Climbs
as
Fentanyl-Laced
Heroin
ODs
Spread
|
Feature:
Among
Whites,
Imprisoning
Drug
Users
a
Minority
Opinion,
Survey
Finds
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Feature:
Industrial
Hemp
Push
Underway
in
California,
North
Dakota
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Offer
and
Appeal:
Important
New
Legalization
Video
and
Drug
War
Facts
Book
Available
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Book
Offer:
Burning
Rainbow
Farm:
How
a
Stoner
Utopia
Went
up
in
Smoke
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Alert:
Important
Medical
Marijuana
Vote
Coming
Up
in
Congress
--
Your
Help
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Government
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Damage"
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Tough
Drug
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Europe:
Britain
to
Reclassify
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Canada:
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Medical
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