Happy Birthday, #JerryGarcia - seen here age 25 burning one outside the Grateful Dead’s house at 710 Ashbury in San Fran, 1967. 🎸 ━━━━━ "Garcia started smoking pot in his early teens. He loved to get stoned w/ friends and go to a drive-in movie. In those days you could get a matchbox of m*rijuana—15 skinny joints' worth—for as little as $5. It was not surprising that years later, one could find a kilo of Acapulco Gold in the kitchen of the Dead house. "Jerry taught me how to roll joints," recalls Steve Parish. "He was a great joint-roller. He liked seeded weed best. He thought weed went downhill when everybody did sinsemilla." Garcia used to tease #GratefulDead songwriter Robert Hunter by threatening to leave a big pile of joints in the middle of the dining-room table for his parents to find. Hunter later became a participant in the Veterans Administration program of experimentation with psychedelic dr*gs, and Jerry pumped him for info about LSD. And, in 1965— with David Nelson and ...