In a new branch of Psychedelic Women, Rainbow Valentine presents Smuggler Family Album, conversations with her counterculture smuggler friends and family.  In this episode RV’s parents (from the podcast Disorganized Crime) tell us about Juanita, a shit-talking restaurateur/brothel owner with a wild west heart of gold who ran her infamous restaurant from her bed; plus stories about the people and places of RV’s childhood in Sausalito and Mill Valley, California in the 70’s and 80’s, where it was estimated that 50% of the population were drug smugglers.  

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In the final non-bonus episode of RV's mom's story, Psychedelic wisdom galore is dropped as Kathy Mason Lerner dishes more trippy stories from her decade on the groundfloor of the world-famous San Francisco counterculture between 1960 – 1970.  True stories about the Beatles, Joan Baez, the CIA, the Charlatans, Stoneground, Altamont, the Avalon, the Jefferson Airplane, Howard Hesseman, a trip-to-Hawaii-gone-awry with the Quicksilver Messenger Service, the ongoing battle of good and evil and downfall of the scene; plus, how psychedelics, Big Sur and a VW bus full of redwood led to the birth of host/creator, Rainbow Valentine.

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On June 12th, 1943, Susi Ramstein became the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD and she took the tram home (while tripping).  To commemorate Susie Ramstein’s tenacity, the world’s leading women-centric psychedelic organization, the Women’s Visionary Council, launched a new psychedelic holiday: Tram Day!   In this episode (which drops on Tram Day) Rainbow Valentine talks to psychedelic historian, Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD and Swiss psychedelic researcher, Susanne Seiler, who uncovered the fascinating history of the Psychedelic Eve aka Susi Ramstein.  Discover and celebrate the courage represented by Tram Day by listening to true stories about Albert Hoffman, ergotomine tartrate, Nazis, Sandoz Labs, Novartis Labs, Swiss aristocracy and the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD.

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The late 1960’s in San Francisco unfold and it’s tumultuous. In 1967 the Summer of Love brought 100,000 wannabe hippie teenagers to the City hoping to join RV’s mom’s friend group and the scene starts to fall apart. 

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There’s an 1980’s song by the Jefferson Starship (formerly the Jefferson Airplane) called “We Built This City on Rock’n’Roll” and it’s about the ground-floor peeps of San Francisco’s 1960’s psychedelic revolution who literally did just that: built 1960’s San Francisco on Rock’n’Roll (fueled by LSD); and Rainbow Valentine’s mom was at the center of that inner circle; doing things like making bling for the Jefferson Airplane’s drummer, tripping with the Merry Pranksters and engineering for first rock radio station in the country, KMPX.  In this episode, RV’s mom gets into the mid 1960’s, sharing true stories about actors in the Committee Comedy Troupe falling off cliffs, boating in Mexico with Neal Cassady, chauffeuring Mimi Farina, singing with Joan Baez, designing jewelry for Salvador Dali, gardening with Grace Marchand, working with rock radio pioneers, Raechel and Tom Donahue, the Grateful Dead, Dizzy Gillespie and the continuing saga of her marriage to future-TV star, Howard Hesseman plus much more.

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It’s the early to mid 1960’s in San Francisco and the folk

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After being unwittingly radiated in the biggest secret

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In 1959 Los Angeles there was a nuclear meltdown larger than

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Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and discovered not everyone’s family and friends were  pot smugglers, rock stars and artists activating for peace, justice and equality. Rainbow Valentine’s mom, her friend’s moms and her mom’s friends were the bedrock of the world famous 1960’s counterculture - they were the first women in history to have access to (and take advantage of) The Pill, LSD and Rock’n’Roll.  Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture reveals never-before recorded stories of the sex,drugs and rock’n’roll of the paradigm-shifting 1960’s American counterculture.

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