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Duluth · 02-06-2018, 11:47 PM

Hey everybody, I’m a younger guy but in my high school days I lived around the area. Rainbow farms was a mythological concept none of us were sure of. I know there’s a lot of older cats on here that lived those days. Can anybody shed some light on what rainbow farms was like? What the festival was like? Was the downfall as sad for the Michigan cannabis community as I can imagine?

cryptop · 02-14-2018, 12:39 AM

Wow! Before your post I'd never heard of it but that is crazy. No doubt some members on here have some interesting things to say about it.

juztbudz · 03-16-2018, 05:01 AM

I visited Rainbow Farm in August of 2001, a week before the tragic end of the farm. I had heard that a festival "Roach Roast" was scheduled to
happen in the early fall and went to scout it out prior to gathering some like minded folks to go to the festival with me. I got the opportunity to talk with both Tom and his life mate, Rollie that weekend. Tom took me on a tour of the acreage and told me of their plans for the future. About a week later both Tom and Rollie were dead, murdered by the State Police, led by the A.G. Jennifer M. Granholm (later elected to be Governor), and marksmen from the FBI. Unfortunately this happened only a few days before 9/11 and the news quickly forgot the story of Tom and Rollie. I attended a memorial service, put together by the stoner community a short time later and even went back to the farm about 10 years later with a friend. We were thinking of buying the farm and putting a museum there to celebrate Michigan's cannabis history. The farm had been divided up into small lots and the museum simply wasn't viable. Many of my newfound "cannabis family" return there annually to show our respects.

TheMan13 · 03-17-2018, 02:25 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Farm

https://www.mapinc.org/norml/v03.n1305.a07.html?

WaxyTaxi · 03-17-2018, 03:23 AM

wow, lived in MI all my life and never knew.

TheMan13 · 03-17-2018, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by WaxyTaxi

wow, lived in MI all my life and never knew.

Sadly very few do and that's the way they like it. If Jennifer Granholm's Wikipedia mentioned the Rainbow Farm Siege as Janet Reno's mentions the Waco Siege, one would hope their political careers would have met the same fate. There is nothing worse than a politically climbing lawyer IMHO

WaxyTaxi · 03-18-2018, 01:55 PM

Just read that second link you posted, what a story! Failed utopia indeed, crazy shit.

I wonder what happen to that land?

bigtacofarmer · 03-18-2018, 02:37 PM

Forgot all about this. Such bullshit.

Tiresmoke19 · 03-19-2018, 09:36 PM

I've heard bar stool versions of this, never thought it was fact

02-06-2018, 11:47 PM	#1
Duluth Newbie Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Deep south Posts: 6	Rainbow farms? Hey everybody, I’m a younger guy but in my high school days I lived around the area. Rainbow farms was a mythological concept none of us were sure of. I know there’s a lot of older cats on here that lived those days. Can anybody shed some light on what rainbow farms was like? What the festival was like? Was the downfall as sad for the Michigan cannabis community as I can imagine?
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03-16-2018, 05:01 AM	#3
juztbudz Newbie Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 5	I visited Rainbow Farm in August of 2001, a week before the tragic end of the farm. I had heard that a festival "Roach Roast" was scheduled to happen in the early fall and went to scout it out prior to gathering some like minded folks to go to the festival with me. I got the opportunity to talk with both Tom and his life mate, Rollie that weekend. Tom took me on a tour of the acreage and told me of their plans for the future. About a week later both Tom and Rollie were dead, murdered by the State Police, led by the A.G. Jennifer M. Granholm (later elected to be Governor), and marksmen from the FBI. Unfortunately this happened only a few days before 9/11 and the news quickly forgot the story of Tom and Rollie. I attended a memorial service, put together by the stoner community a short time later and even went back to the farm about 10 years later with a friend. We were thinking of buying the farm and putting a museum there to celebrate Michigan's cannabis history. The farm had been divided up into small lots and the museum simply wasn't viable. Many of my newfound "cannabis family" return there annually to show our respects.
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03-17-2018, 02:25 AM	#4
TheMan13 Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Michigan Posts: 650	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Farm https://www.mapinc.org/norml/v03.n1305.a07.html?
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03-17-2018, 03:23 AM	#5
WaxyTaxi Psychonaut Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Axis Mundi Posts: 2,846	wow, lived in MI all my life and never knew.
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03-18-2018, 01:55 PM	#7
WaxyTaxi Psychonaut Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Axis Mundi Posts: 2,846	Just read that second link you posted, what a story! Failed utopia indeed, crazy shit. I wonder what happen to that land?
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02-14-2018, 12:39 AM	#2
cryptop Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 86	Wow! Before your post I'd never heard of it but that is crazy. No doubt some members on here have some interesting things to say about it.
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03-18-2018, 02:37 PM	#8
bigtacofarmer Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 325	Forgot all about this. Such bullshit.
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03-19-2018, 09:36 PM	#9
Tiresmoke19 Member Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 51	I've heard bar stool versions of this, never thought it was fact
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