With Marijuana Legal, California is Closing Unused Prisons. Saving Taxpayers a Fortune... By Getting a Clue, Lawmakers have Increased Voluntary Taxes while Saving Money wasted on Law Enforcement... Everybody Wins!

and I Don't Pay a Penny in Weed Taxes because I Don't Smoke!

HEADLINE: Northern California prison to close, cutting 1,000 jobs from rural community... Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced plans to close a state prison in rural Lassen County next year, shutting down a site that employed more than 1,000 people and served for decades as a home base for inmate firefighter training.

The announcement follows a long decline in the number of inmates in state custody that accelerated when the coronavirus pandemic hit, compelling the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to quickly draw down its population.

The California Correctional Center in Susanville will close in June 2022, the department announced Tuesday. The 2,064 inmates currently housed there will be transferred to other facilities “based on their housing, custody and rehabilitative needs,” according to a department statement.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article250643064.html

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SEE? Every Day the World Becomes a Better Place to Live... Can You Imagine That Bribed Lawmakers Actually Made Magic Mushrooms Illegal... WTF?

Ongoing research shows that psilocybin could help treat certain medical conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and addiction...

https://www.axios.com/denver-magic-mushrooms-decriminalization-psilocybin-63ffdc19-f2b1-421c-ab09-dcf45559bda4.html

The Recover, a national news provider for mental health and substance abuse, recently began releasing news about psilocybin and their potential health benefits.

Psychedelic drugs such as magic mushrooms have long-lasting medical and spiritual benefits, according to a new study. Magic Mushroom Landscape has established a company to evaluate new treatments related to psychedelics and mental health. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/psilocybin-mushrooms-mental-health-research-070000926.html

Nearly two years after Denver made history as the nation’s first city to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms for personal use, the nightmare of rampant abuse and public intoxication feared by opponents has failed to materialize. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-04-05/denver-dabbles-with-magic-mushrooms-but-using-them-to-treat-mental-health-disorders-remains-underground

Bob Wold spent 20 years trying 70 drugs in an attempt to treat his debilitating cluster headaches. It wasn't until he tried "magic" mushrooms, a psychedelic drug, that he found relief. https://www.insider.com/man-says-magic-mushrooms-psilocybin-cured-excruciating-cluster-migraines-2021-4

California senators pointed to the “failed” War on Drugs and new scientific evidence regarding the benefits of certain hallucinogens. https://www.courthousenews.com/california-inches-toward-decriminalizing-psychedelics/

In a wild, misty corner of the Golden State, Marisa Meltzer discovers an alternate version of the California dream, where fierce independence is as prized as ancient redwoods and empty Pacific beaches.

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/discovering-californias-lost-coast

Fashion History: When I went "to Town" in the 1960s (San Francisco) I was wearing My High School Sports Letterman Sweater... When we went out to a Dance at the Fillmore West, My Friend Loaned my a Second Hand Army Jacket... So I Would Appear Cool...Remember Army Jackets? Like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...

and then much later I bought a Lightweight Camouflage Jacket and Sewed Stripes Running Down The Sleeves made out of Purple Sequins... With a Circle at the End of the Sleeve... My Attempt to Make a Sgt. Pepper Jacket...

My Goal in Life was to Become a Record Cover Artist... OOPS... Didn't Happen... Became a Draftsman at a Computer Company Instead... BUT... I Did Get To SELL DRAWINGS FOR A LIVING... My specialty was Printed Circuit Board Artwork. It was Photographed and Used to Make the Actual Electrical Connections between Integrated Circuits... I Learned that Skill at West Valley Junior College in Saratoga, CA

50th anniversary of the Summer of Love... The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...

The culture of the United States was

radically different After the 1960's...

The conformism of the 1950's was blown away when LSD became widely available. Owsley made the chemical and made it available at Acid Tests with Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead. He also gave it to the Beatles for their Magical Mystery Tour. The spirit lives on in a yearly camping trip called The Rainbow Gathering. It's like Woodstock but the performers are not paid and I'm in the Band.

READ MORE:

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/08/50th-anniversary-of-summer-of-love.html

Currently, a peaceful village called Arcata, California thrives using the basic concepts of Flower Power. It's on Highway 101 near the Oregon Border... Home of Humboldt State University... If you want to experience the bliss yourself, take a loan from the Federal Department of Education and go to college at HSU. Arcata also is the center of Marijuana farming in the USA. The vast majority of the Grass is grown in Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties... The extreme North Western corner of California. http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/did-you-ever-notice-arcata-

california.html

Rainbow Gathering Idaho 2001: A Gathering of the Tribes...

I went to the gathering with a specific goal in mind. I wanted to play my guitar and sing in public. Yes, mission accomplished. I was Living in Chico, California and working at the plastics factory. When there was a layoff, my wife suggested that I borrow the car and drive over to the gathering. My friend Mike Jensen wanted to go and so we checked the oil, brake fluid, transmission fluid and water and set out on a classic American road trip. We made it as far as Reno the first day and slept by the side of the road.... READ MORE:

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/rainbow-gathering-idaho-2001.html

Grateful Deadhead ART and MyStory... American History...

I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote essays about them.

He was attempting to stimulate creative WRITING but more importantly,

creative THINKING.

One was an American flag made out of swastikas and another was a solarized/negative photo of 5 hairy men standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES" type suburban tract homes.

Our English teacher

stopped working for the school system that year and has never been heard of since. That has happened often to people that go to see the Dead... They change their lifestyle and start associating

with a different set of people...

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-deadhead-art-and-mystory.html

Grateful Deadhead Tribute Webpage. Pictures and Stories.

Many thanks to all that made the Grateful Dead an American Miracle... Just remember, if our lives together were written as a fiction story, everyone would dismiss it as being unbelieveable... Yet it all really happened!

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-deadhead-tribute-webpage.html

Rainbow Gathering in California 2004. Photographs and My Story...Om...

What IS the Rainbow Gathering? To me, it is Woodstock with amateur musicians and I’m in the band… Thousands of people go backpacking for a couple of weeks… Every year during the end of June and the beginning of July… The location is different every year but it is always in a National Forest… It’s an intentional temporary village…

This is a description about my trip to The Rainbow Gathering in California 2004… I wrote this to help me remember… READ MORE:

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/p/what-is-rainbow-gathering-to-me-it-is.html

Rainbow Gathering Psychedelic Art by Greg Vanderlaan vandergreg gvan42 purple64ets gregvan

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