# @hightimesmagazine on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-04-03T17:46:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** High Times (@hightimesmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/hightimesmagazine

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Link in Bio. 🕊 RIP! Political activist, counterculture icon, and poet John Sinclair, 82, passed away of congestive heart failure Tuesday morning. Sinclair would have otherwise appeared at Ann Arbor Hash Bash in Michigan this Saturday to show support for pot reform.

Sinclair advocated to legalize pot as early as 1965, joining his mentors like Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders. Beyond his poetry, he managed MC5 (Motor City Five), worked on the radio, and co-founded a series of underground publications. He later co-founded the anti-racist White Panther Party, a faction of the Black Panther Party and became associated with the radical activist group the Yippies (Youth International Party). His anti-Vietnam War antics wound up catching the eye of the C.I.A., F.B.I., and other law enforcement groups.

“I started advocating for the legalization of marijuana in Michigan in January 1965,” Sinclair told High Times in 2022. “Only Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders were active proponents of legalization then, as well as the lawyer in San Francisco who created the legal brief in support of legalization that I used in my court battle."
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Read more about his life and history with High Times on #HighTimes.com/culture | bybenjaminadams | #JohnSinclair

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