Michigan for Dummies: How Rainbow Farm Inaugurated Dope Culture in the Wolverine State
/Rainbow Farm Hemp Fest, May 28, 2022
Festival atmosphere is not the first thing that pops into my mind as we pull into Rainbow Farm on the first day of the 2022 Hemp Fest, just outside of Vandalia, Michigan. It’s been raining all day and the temperature has moved up grudgingly from the high 50s to the low 60s. Beneath the green forested canopy which covers the southwestern corner of the state, the ground is muddy, and there is a haze in the air whose smell indicates that a skunk is nearby. The first surprise of the day comes when I’m told that the smell comes from the marijuana that everyone seems to be smoking. This is not what marijuana smelled like in the 1960s nor does what is being sold at the Hemp Fest look like the emblematic five-pointed leaf icon that gets handed to me by the festival’s parking attendant. The vendors at the Hemp Fest are selling the buds (or “budz,” to use their lingo) of the marijuana plant, which is much more potent than the nickel bag that got passed around during the Age of Aquarius. During the ’60s, the unsuspecting often bought oregano because that’s what weed looked like back then. Pot now comes in little green balls, which in terms of potency are like martinis compared to the near beer of the 1960s.
The crowd is smaller and more subdued than the crowds I remember at the ’60s festivals. Back then the crowds were strong, and the dope was weak. In 2022, the opposite is the case. After taking our first tour of the vendor section, we sit down to an open-air concert attended by ten people, three of whom are associated with Culture Wars magazine. The band is playing a compelling version of the Bo Diddley classic “Who do you love?” in a way that leaves George Thorogood’s cover of the same tune in the dust. And yet no one is dancing. Like the proverbial bumps on a log, the seven other spectators sit on fallen timbers a good distance from the stage and smoke dope while texting on their cell phones. The Culture Wars staff applauds after each song, but no one else does. Four songs into the set, no one has gotten up to dance, although people hurry back and forth over what might have been the scene of orgiastic writhing fifty some years ago. Had the weather dampened everyone’s spirits? Or was it the dope? Or was it the Zeitgeist? Or was it a combination of all three?
The Age of Aquarius ended a long time ago. Some say it ended at Altamont when the black guy in the green suit got stabbed to death by the Hell’s Angels the Rolling Stones hired as their security guards. Some say it ended when Charles Manson’s killer zombies murdered Roman Polanski’s girlfriend. But closer to home, some of the locals say that it ended in Michigan in 2001, days before the Twin Towers went down in Manhattan, when the FBI showed up at Rainbow Farm and killed Tom Crosslin and his boyfriend Rollie Rohm.
Tom Crosslin and Rolland "Rollie" Rohm
During the 1990s, southwestern Michigan witnessed a concerted attempt to resurrect the utopian atmosphere of the ’60s when Crosslin and Rohm began staging the Rainbow Farm Hemp Fests as a way of overturning Michigan’s drug laws. What started out as an attempt to resurrect Woodstock ended up as an armed insurrection which didn’t turn out well. In a moment of pot-induced paranoia, Crosslin abandoned his hippie peace and love persona, picked up an automatic rifle, and started patrolling the farm as his way of defending his rights. He also started setting the buildings he had built as part of his Utopia on fire, a gesture which attracted the attention of WNDU, the NBC outlet in South Bend, Indiana, which promptly dispatched its helicopter to check out what was going on. The arrival of the WNDU helicopter only heightened Crosslin’s already drug enhanced paranoia, causing him to open fire on an aircraft, thereby committing a federal crime, which drew the FBI into what was up until that moment a local incident. Unlike the local cops, who were willing to wait out a tense situation hoping for a peaceful outcome, the FBI agents put on their camouflage suits and headed into Rainbow Farm, eager to put an end to the siege.
The locals still remember the incident and they direct us to the highest point on the farm, which is where Tom Crosslin made his last stand. The hill was known then as “Mount This,” which could refer to taxidermy but most probably referred to the Dionysian atmosphere regnant at the Rainbow Farm hemp festivals, a pale reflection of which we just witnessed. The crest of Mount This has been shorn of its trees to allow a power line to pass through what was once Crosslin’s property. Past the clearing but not too far into the woods to the east, we discover a small cross wound in blue plastic which marks the spot where an FBI agent in camouflage fired the bullet which blew Tom Crosslin’s brains out, ending the revelry for the next two decades. The FBI agent who killed Tom said that he had raised his rifle and was ready to fire, but we will never know if that was the case because dead men tell no tales.
Twenty years later a different generation has returned to pick up where Tom Crosslin left off. Most of the vendors are too young to have been there in the 1990s. Some of the vendors who were old enough were busy at the other end of the state, but virtually everyone I ask tells me that I have to talk to Rainbow Charlie if I want a firsthand account of what happened in September of 2001, when Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm died at the hands of the FBI. The red-roofed shack where Rainbow Charlie works as a chef is empty when we eventually find it, but as if recognizing me from afar, Rainbow Charlie comes up, introduces himself, and starts talking.
I never asked him for his real name because he announced at the beginning of our conversation that he wouldn’t give it to me, but Charlie, who has a long beard and numerous tattoos and, like most of those in attendance, looks older than his 62 years is eager to talk about his experiences, beginning with a critique of Kuipers’ book, which is now the locus classicus for the story. Like Crosslin, whose father moved to Indiana from Tennessee to work in the RV factories surrounding Elkhart, Rainbow Charlie was a man of the South, who came from eastern Kentucky, which shares the same Appalachian culture. Unlike western Kentucky, which is Catholic, eastern Kentucky is the home of snake handlers and moonshiners, whose culture, like the alcohol they brew, doesn’t travel well. The passport which allowed Rainbow Charlie to leave the realm of the snake handlers was marijuana. He was the first member of his family to use it and the first member of his high school class to promote drug culture to his peers. Becoming eastern Tennessee’s representative of Dead Head culture eventually brought Rainbow Charlie in contact with Crosslin and his Hemp Fests. Rainbow Charlie wasn’t on the farm when Crosslin died because he had just been arrested for an unspecified offense, but he is adamant in defending Crosslin’s lucidity during his last days, shrugging off Kuiper’s contention that his permanent pot high was supplemented by handfuls of Prozac when he made the fateful decision to fire on the WNDU helicopter.
The idyl in the woods ended when Crosslin and Rohm died, but Rainbow Charlie found himself drawn back to Rainbow Farm nonetheless to continue what he referred to as “the movement.”
“What’s the movement?” I ask, as Charlie was busy grilling panini for potheads with the munchies.
He seems taken aback by the question, as if a question about something that basic defied explanation. For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no explanation is possible.
“The movement involved the legalization of marijiuana, didn’t it? Well, pot’s legal now,” I said gesturing to the crowds of stoners who were shuffling over the muddy track between the vender stalls wreathed in clouds of smoke so potent that I was starting to feel high.
Rainbow Charlie seems perplexed, so I try to come up with an analogy which will make my question more comprehensible.
“During the ’60s, the movement was the anti-war movement, but that movement got destroyed by sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll. Did the same thing happen in Michigan in the 1990s?”
A light of recognition flickers for a moment in Rainbow Charlie’s eyes.
“I understand what you’re saying about the ’60s ….”
“But?”
Rainbow Charlie gets called away before I can ask him whether the liberation which Tom and Rollie paid for with their lives wasn’t just a more effective form of control.
The Spirit of Freedom
Twenty-one years have passed since Tom Crosslin was taken out by an FBI sniper. That story began in 1995 when Tom Crosslin and his boyfriend “Rollie” Rohm started holding hemp festivals at Rainbow Farm in southwestern Michigan. Tom Crosslin created Rainbow Farm as a place “where people can be free.”1 Freedom, as he defined the term, meant sex – Crosslin was a homosexual – drugs – the farm had become “the center of the marijuana movement in Michigan”2 – and rock n’ roll.
N. C. Wyeth's Rendering of Natty Bumppo
When Merle Haggard stepped off his touring bus to play at the 1999 Hemp Fest, he told Tom prophetically, “I can’t believe they haven’t killed you already.”3 Haggard then went on to sing his greatest hit, “Okie from Muskogee,” which begins with the line, “We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee.” The state of Oklahoma made a posthumous liar out of Haggard in 2018 when it decriminalized the sale of the drug Haggard had spent his entire career demonizing, by making it available on just about every street corner in Oklahoma City. Beset with a moment of cognitive dissonance when confronted with a crowd of sexually liberated potheads of the sort he had ridiculed in 1969, Haggard opined that his “antihippie anthem,” to use Kuiper’s phrase, “don’t mean what it used to”4 and sang it anyway.
Trying to make sense of the irony, Kuipers concluded that “conservative thinking had moved on,” and that “What had once been an indictment of seemingly treasonous hippieisms had become a paean to rural attitudes since evolved.”5 Michigan, in other words, had become “the marijuana capital of America.”6 Kuipers, who also hails from southwestern Michigan, spends a good deal of his book on Rainbow Farm trying to make sense of the dramatic changes which took place where he grew up:
The Mattawan, Michigan, I grew up in was the marijuana capital of America. Not because my friends and neighbors there were growing that much pot in 1970s and ’80s. It’s not like the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky or Mendocino County, California, where folks grow so much dope they post signs pleading with growers not to shoot at the crop dusters. It was just a place where people smoked a lot of weed, and the conservative position was that it wasn’t the government’s business if you did. Now, evidently, little Vandalia, Michigan, population 429, had taken the crown.7
In keeping with the spirit of freedom regnant at Rainbow Farm, Crosslin stiffed Haggard, who had unknowingly just given a free concert because the gate from Haggard’s show was so “pitiful” that he left without being paid the $10,000 Crosslin owed him for his pains.8 Given the hopeful beginning at Rainbow Farm and its tragic outcome, Kuipers unsurprisingly struggles with the term freedom for his entire book. This comes out even more clearly in his treatment of Crosslin’s relationship with the much younger Rollie, whom Kuipers describes as “one of the lost boys.”9 Rollie was 17 years old when he met Tom, who was one year shy of two decades older than Rollie. Kuipers described Rollie as “still a child” when he fell “into Tom’s arms” in 1990.10
As some indication of just how lost a child Rollie was, he also got married at the age of 17. Two months later, Rollie’s wife Leslie found out that he was a homosexual, and the marriage ended as abruptly as it began, but not before a child by the name of Robert had been conceived by the union. Rollie was “terrified” that Robert would grow up like him, which is to say, “nervous, poor, constantly fighting the pull of self-loathing”11 and addicted to drugs. The first drug to enter Rollie’s system was Ritalin, “a kind of chemical restraint to dull the rage and fear that drove these kids to act out,” which got prescribed by the medical establishment in collaboration with the administration of the public school Rollie attended.12
When Rollie met Crosslin, he found the father figure that had been missing in his life, and as his faux father, Crosslin, who had father issues of his own, introduced Rollie to Elkhart’s version of poor white trash culture, which had many facets, including “smoking, drinking, telling nasty jokes, playing music, getting laid” – but basically involved switching from Ritalin to marijuana as the best way to deal with the vagaries of life. Rollie soon manifested the fantasies that typified life on marijuana:
Rollie’s dream was to travel the world on a mission to gather esoteric knowledge and powers, experiencing medicines and rituals that could be used to heal people and make them whole.13
This project involved watching many cable TV programs while stoned. Seeing “ancient sites like Angkor Wat and Mayan sun temples and Machu Picchu and the Buddhist monasteries in Tibet” on the Internet inspired Rollie to tell Crosslin “that he longed to walk the dirt paths of those monasteries high in the Himalayas, to study with monks, to learn the most important lessons – how to be at peace, how to love, how to attain some moral authority without caving in to the locally oppressive hegemony of the Christian church.”14
Because Crosslin “wanted to get away from the constant threat of being busted for weed and coke, the implied judgment over his relationship with Rollie, the municipality telling him what to do with his property, neighbors with their noses over the fence,”15 he too began to entertain “Utopian dreams”16 of a life with Rollie unhindered by anything that would restrain their increasingly unruly passions. And so instead of heading for Angkor Wat, Tom and Rollie decided to buy an abandoned farm outside of Vandalia, Michigan.
Because Utopia needs a rationale as well as a locus, marijuana legalization became the idee fixe which unified an eclectic mix of half-baked crack pot Utopian schemes which had deep roots in American culture. Crosslin could have been a stoned version of Natty Bumppo explaining to Judge Templeton why his right to get stoned preceded the laws of nascent America. Or he could have been Henry David Thoreau telling us all how to simplify our lives. Or he could have been Nathaniel Hawthorne explaining why things didn’t work out at Brook Farm, but he ended up being nothing close to the literary paradigms which inspired generations of Americans before him for three reasons: sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll…
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