Download or read book God Helped Us Smuggle Hash written by Pepper Sweet and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s, teenage Justin Case finds himself trying to discover who he is in the midst of a tumultuous cultural revolution. Rejecting the elite environment in which he was raised, Justin drops out of college in his junior year and dives headlong into the counterculture. Justin joins up with his high school buddy Sky and Sky's girlfriend Daisy to fully adopt a hippie lifestyle. But when the war in Vietnam escalates and the United States military is drafting every eligible young man, Justin and Sky are faced with a difficult dilemma. Their decision is to cross the Atlantic where the three of them make a beach their new home in the enchanting country of Morocco. Out of the military's reach and longing to contribute to the emerging cultural revolution, the trio begin smuggling hashish into the United States. Soon it appears that some divine presence is helping them to succeed, protecting and supporting their illicit contribution to peace and love. But even as their smuggling seems blessed by a higher power, a love triangle begins to develop that could tear the three apart forever. A bizarre true story, God Helped Us Smuggle Hash returns readers to the spirit and politics that drove the hippie movement through the late sixties into the uncertain seventies.

Download or read book Hash written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions of people across the world, lighting up a joint is no more controversial than having a cup of tea. But in Hash Wensley Clarkson explores the dark and sinister side of this multi-billion pound business: one fueled by a brutal underworld network of dealers, drug barons, bent cops and even terrorists. Sex, intimidation, bribery and murder are all employed in a quest for vast profits. Traveling from the lawless Rif mountains in Morocco to darkened warehouses in Spain, protected by heavily armed gangsters, this is a revelatory roller-coaster ride through the secret world of Hash.

Download or read book Nobody written by Jim Morrison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Morrison takes us on a journey of discovery. Sam Travis must leave his Upper East Side condo, the troubled Nobody Company IPO, sexually aggressive Diane, and all other New York fineries to immerse himself, halfway across the world, in a murder investigation where the accused is his missing brother Michael. Morrison weaves a smart fast paced sexy tale of intrigue, discovery and self-enlightenment as he forces Sam (and the reader) to question his desire for the "proverbial stuff", his values and moralities as he falls for his brother's girlfriend. Chandra. Colorful and enigmatic characters flow throughout the novel creating distractions, personal challenges and new emotions that will forever change Sam's life as he continues his pursuit to prove his brothers innocence. Morrison's provocative detailed style brings vividness to everything Sam experiences. Get comfortable because once you start reading "Nobody", nobody will be able to put it down until all the twists and sub plots are revealed in this well written, unpredictable and vibrant story. Arambol, here we come! Boris Malden, Producer Boom Shanka! Morrison's sexy global romp, Nobody, captures Sam Travis' cultural collision with the humor of David Sedaris at Jack Kerouac pace. His sharp eye and ironic wit combine pandemonium with enlightenment in an exhilarating read. Amy Scherzer, Newspaper Columnist Jim Morrison paints a wonderfully detailed picture of a mysterious part of the world that many may want to experience firsthand the moment you turn the last page. Nat Bernstein, Writer and Executive Producer, Center of the Universe

Download or read book Orange Sunshine written by Nick Schou and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Dubbed the "Hippie Mafia," the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they took to Timothy Leary's mantra of "Turn on, tune in, and drop out" and resolved to make that vision a reality by becoming the biggest group of acid dealers and hashish smugglers in the nation, and literally providing the fuel for the psychedelic revolution in the process. Just days after California became the first state in the union to ban LSD, the Brotherhood formed a legally registered church in its headquarters at Mystic Arts World on Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, where they sold blankets and other countercultural paraphernalia retrieved through surfing safaris and road trips to exotic locales in Asia and South America. Before long, they also began to sell Afghan hashish, Hawaiian pot (the storied "Maui Wowie"), and eventually Colombian cocaine, much of which the Brotherhood smuggled to California in secret compartments inside surfboards and Volkswagen minibuses driven across the border. They also befriended Leary himself, enlisting him in the goal of buying a tropical island where they could install the former Harvard philosophy professor and acid prophet as the high priest of an experimental utopia. The Brotherhood's most legendary contribution to the drug scene was homemade: Orange Sunshine, the group's nickname for their trademark orange-colored acid tablet that happened to produce an especially powerful trip. Brotherhood foot soldiers passed out handfuls of the tablets to communes, at Grateful Dead concerts, and at love-ins up and down the coast of California and beyond. The Hell's Angels, Charles Mason and his followers, and the unruly crowd at the infamous Altamont music festival all tripped out on this acid. Jimi Hendrix even appeared in a film starring Brotherhood members and performed a private show for the fugitive band of outlaws on the slope of a Hawaiian volcano. Journalist Nicholas Schou takes us deep inside the Brotherhood, combining exclusive interviews with both the group's surviving members as well as the cops who chased them. A wide-sweeping narrative of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (and more drugs) that runs from Laguna Beach to Maui to Afghanistan, Orange Sunshine explores how America moved from the era of peace and free love into a darker time of hard drugs and paranoia.

Download or read book Don t I Know You written by Marni Jackson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if some of the artists we feel as if we know—Meryl Streep, Neil Young, Bill Murray—turned up in the course of our daily lives? This is what happens to Rose McEwan, an ordinary woman who keeps having strange encounters with famous people. In this engrossing, original novel-in-stories, we follow her life from age 17, when she takes a summer writing course led by a young John Updike, through her first heartbreak (witnessed by Joni Mitchell) on the island of Crete, through her marriage, divorce, and a canoe trip with Taylor Swift, Leonard Cohen and Karl Ove Knausgaard. (Yes, read on.) With wit and insight, Marni Jackson takes a world obsessed with celebrity and turns it on its head. In Don't I Know You?, she shows us how fame is just another form of fiction, and how, in the end, the daily dramas of an ordinary woman’s life can be as captivating and poignant as any luminary tell-all.

Download or read book Volunteers of America written by Dennis Carlson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the live of a Peace Corps volunteer in Libya in the late 1960s, including the first American account of living through the revolution that brought Gaddafi to power. The author moves from campus protests at the University of Washington in the spring of 1968, to Peace Corps training in Utah and the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, to living and teaching in an isolated village in Libya, to a European summer vacation, to the revolution that led to charges that Peace Corps volunteers were CIA agents, to returning to the U.S. in October, 1969, to witness the anti-war moratorium on the Capital Mall in Washington, D.C. The heart of the story is the author’s own evolving journey as a teacher, during which time he began to question both the official curriculum of English instruction and the broader purposes of teaching for liberation. This is also a story about the author’s education and re-education in Libya as he struggles to learn the rules of everyday life (including the rules of gender and sexuality) as a stranger in the village, and as he begins to see and appreciate the world through somewhat different eyes. Part of his education involved a reconstruction of the history of the village in terms of wave after wave off European colonizers----from the time of the Romans, to the Italian fascist colonizers, to the liberation of the village by the British chasing Rommel’s troops across the desert, to its decline, renaming, and reappropriation as an Arab village. The author brings all this up to the late 1960s by describing the role of U.S. foreign policy in the “development” of Libya in league with global oil, and with the support of the largest air base outside the continental U.S. near Tripoli. This is, finally a coming of age story--about a young man who was desperately looking for something to believe in and live for, and more pragmatically looking for a way out of the draft and Vietnam, and out of an America that seemed to be slipping into collective madness. It is a story (like all coming of age stories) about setting off on a great youthful journey of self-discovery, and a rekindling of the human spirit. Audiences for this book include: college students (undergraduate and graduate) in education, cultural studies, and Arabic studies; former Peace Corps volunteers and those interested in the Peace Corps and its history; readers interested in recent developments in Libya looking for some historical perspective on how Gaddafi came to power and why the revolution turned anti-American; and all those interested in a first-hand account of what America was like at the end of a decade ushered in with Kennedy idealism and the Peace Corps. A powerful story of exile and a search for home, Volunteers of America is the Odyssey of a generation. Awakening to a world in flames, inspired by visions of liberation erupting everywhere, Dennis Carlson heard the chords of freedom echoing all around him and faced the question: Which side are you on? Here is Carlson’s poignant and still timely answer to that question. - Bill Ayers, author of Fugitive Days and many other books on education, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago.

Download or read book Woman Thou Too Art Called written by Cynthia Harris and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woman, Thou Too Art Called, is a true story of spiritual dilemma, spiritual encounters, tragic moments, and over twenty years of running away from God to escape answering his call to preach. Women are not readily accepted as preachers by men as well as by some women. If a woman has been taught throughout life that this is not the norm, that this is outside the will of God, then what is she to do when she is being pulled in that direction? Thus, the spiritual dilemma evolves. God hates our disobedience. However, because he is so merciful and so full of grace, he gives us chance after chance after chance to come into obedience and subjection to him. He creates situations and circumstances in our lives to get our attention and to bring us to a place of humility and understanding so that he can use us for his glory. The problem is that we don't always want what God wants for us. Hence, the flesh begins to war against the spirit. Like Jonah, who spent three days in the belly of the fish, God will allow us to run only for so long. But in the end, he will have the last word. His will is always done. Oftentimes, people run from situations and their circumstances because of fear. Fear has the tendency to paralyze us and make us see things in the darkest and most negative way. Jonah ran out of fear. I ran because I didn't want to give up my lifestyle. In my finite mind, I thought I was doing just fine. God had other plans, and although he allowed me to run my course, he made sure that in the end, I knew just who was in charge of my life. God is always in complete control.

Download or read book Hole in My Life written by Jack Gantos and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Michael L. Printz Honor Book, the Newbery Honor-winning creator of the Joey Pigza books shares the true story of how he became a writer the hard way by learning a valuable lesson while he was in college.

Download or read book Germans on Drugs written by Robert P. Stephens and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of German drug culture in the psychedelic age

Download or read book Jaded For Jesus written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A view of this crazy Christian culture as told through one man's humorous journey. He finds a relational, imperfect, authentic, messy journey to God. If you Likes Blue Like Jazz, This book is written in the same tone

Download or read book The Sacred Wanderer written by Ravi Dass and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spiritual memoir is by one of the first American devotees of the guru Neem Karoli Baba made famous by Ram Dass in the classic Be Here Now. Ravi Dass starts his quest right after college in 1964 at the urging of Allen Ginsberg to go to India for spiritual awakening. It will take you on an extraordinary journey from living with the great saints of India to working for the largest companies in the world like IBM, HP, Grey Advertising and Young & Rubicam managing multimillion-dollar budgets. Ravi Dass encountered Baba Ram Dass when he was a monk at Ganeshpuri, the ashram of the controversial guru of Eat, Pray, Love fame in 1970. After meeting Ram Dass he asked to be taken to his guru Maharaji in the Himalayas. From that moment on, this book interweaves the odyssey of a long time seeker with the mysterious hand of Maharaji that guided him for the next forty years from householder to Maui. Neem Karoli Baba considered Ravi Dass the actual incarnation of the 15th century Indian Saint Raidas.

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-06-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Download or read book Wanna Smoke written by TiPi Paul and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My story starts during the Summer of Love August 1967. Fired from my corporate job on the Friday my summer vacation was to start, I decided to go to Haight/Ashbury and check it out. The six days I spent there aroused the hidden desire to do something I'd always wanted to do-work my way around the world. With Merchant Seaman papers, a passport, a duffel bag full of clothes and $125, I set sail from San Pedro, California, at the age of 26. My voyage ended three years later in Tucson, Arizona, $10 in my pocket, a backpack full of clothes, and 2000 miles short of circumnavigating the world

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-06-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

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Download or read book A Smuggler s Story written by John Leveroni and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Smuggler’s Story, Gypsies in Paradise” is the first part of ‘American Outlaw’s Stories by Jack Collins’. This historical crime drama is set in the 1970’s, during the era of ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll’. The United States and Soviet Union are in a titanic struggle for world dominance, when President Nixon declares a ‘War on Drugs’. Jack Collins’ search for adventure, true love and the meaning of life leads him into the illegal drug underworld from Jamaica across America to Hawaii as a tidal wave of cocaine floods the USA.