Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 8: Greed, Loss and Psychedelic Robin Hoods

You can’t buy your way into the inner circle counterculture - you behave your way in; plus what’s difference between outlaws and criminals?  In this hybrid episode, host, Rainbow Valentine talks counterculture greed, loss, trust and betrayal with her psychedelic pioneer mom, Kathy Mason Lerner (subject of eps 1 – 6) and Kira and Jasper Thelin, whose family opened the first headshop in America.  RV’s mom tells us about Janis Joplin’s best friend/costumer, Linda Gravenites, the ex of Nick Gravenites, who was RV’s mom’s 3rd husband’s drug-dealing partner. Plus, a bag of stolen bling, a smuggler named Anchovy, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s ex and that’s just the first 20 minutes of this psychedelic soap opera.  Next, we hear the story of the visionary boy scout who burned $100 dollar bills aka Ron Thelin, who, along with his wife, Marcia and brother, Jay, started the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street.  Ron’s kids, Kira and Jasper Thelin, tell us about their dad and uncle: all-American brothers intent on creating a free and equal society by becoming Psychedelic Robin Hoods with a counterculture Craigslist. We get into the Diggers, the Death of Hippie, psychedelic art, the theft of the Thelin family crest and much more.  Because talking is medicinal and stories are weapons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices