Tony Bucher

With the recent legalisation of cannabis in the great State of California, the minds of grizzled veterans of the pot trade wander back to San Francisco in 1968 and the halcyon early days of the embrace of marijuana in hippie paradise. There can be no definitive account of this period, because, by definition, if you were there you can’t remember it. But Tony Bucher was young enough to escape the worst excesses, yet old enough to bridge the early days to the present. Fifty years later, legalization has brought about a new Gold Rush to capitalize on the business of ‘weed’, causing elements of the old counterculture to bud and flower in the mainstream.