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In Berkeley, in 1968, it wasn't hard to get the real thing, since Owsley was brewing it up right nearby. But yeah, anywhere else - particularly Haight-Ashbury by then - it was Momma Hold the Door.

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some of the stuff on this coast could be gnarly as fuck. I remember a brief period in which some consumers decided that Strychnine could "enhance the experience," so dealers started to advertise the rat poison as a GOOD THING. maybe THAT's what happened with the bad Whitefish.

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