At that time, marijuana was just as illegal in New York ... an homage to the late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, and Half-Baked, as well as its environmental and social activism.

Jerry Garcia lives near the Tamalpais Mountains ... I was 15 when I got turned on to marijuana. Finally there was marijuana: Wow! Marijuana! Me and a friend of mine went up into the hills with ...

Garcia saw the New Riders, aka NRPS, as an opportunity to hone his skills on the pedal steel guitar. “We practiced at Jerry’s house ... in for a potent strain of marijuana.