Gainesville Is Green
(CONTENTS)
Growing Marijuana (Ganja, Flowers, Weed) is, and always has been one of the biggest businesses in North Florida. Including Gainesville, of course.
1979 — PETER TOSH @ THE BANDSHELL
((( “Legalize It” )))
“Halloween High” by stan badz
Contents
GREEN GRASS & HIGH TIDES
Weed: Always Big Business in Gainesville
LEGALIZE IT
NARCS AMONG US
POTTED PLANTS
IF BONGS WERE OUTLAWED
HOMEGROWN (WILDWOOD) WEED
College Educated Grower
MY FRIEND STEVE (Z) After graduating UF with a Botany degree, Steve Z, a Rockledge High mate of mine, bought five-acres of land on Lake Orange, in Cross Creek two miles down the road (Alachua 325) from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings house. Back in the 1940s, Rawlings was known by her neighbors for the marmalade she made from the cumquats that grew all around her small wooden house. Steve Z’s house was similar, but his crop wasn’t citrus.
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS
Cumquat Marmalade
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
St Johns River Tangerines
OTTO’S GREEN ACRES (Kim Kulish)
DEAN OF THE PIT (Bull Dog Life)
“Marijuana is illegal because it makes you God.”
“I’d like to fertilize her buds” (GATOR GROWL)
A “sexist” and “drug related” skit in 1982 added to what the administration called the lowest point in Gator Growl history. Critics called that year’s headliner, Robin Williams, was “vulgar,” filled with too much sex and drugs, and not enough football.
At the time, Williams was in the middle of his “Mork & Mindy” fame, after rising from a stand up comedy career, where he honed the act he did in front of 65,000 Gator fans who filled Florida Field.