In 1992, Gainesville, FL was the hippest place to be.

If you smoked pot, it was also a dangerous place to live.

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We have no way of counting the number of lives affected by Murli Watson, the Gainesville Hemp Festivals, the Doobie Tosses, and the ministry of people who work on behalf of the Sacred Medicine Plants. If you have videos, photographs, stories you’d like to share, and/or materials you believe help to tell the story, please share them with us.

Please upload original materials here. If someone else was the author, owner please give them credit where due. We also need a short description of when you got the good stuff and where. Murli traveled around the world and we're looking for the most entertaining stories and vivid pictures or video.
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Anything you share will be credited to you, so only original materials unless you specify otherwise. We don’t want to rip anyone off. The herb was freely given, give back.

About

One man who is committed to creating something different can change the world. They could create a haven, a home, a community, but centered on the sacred plant.

Dennis (Murli) Watkins came home from Viet Nam a changed man. While in Country he’d experienced an overwhelming realization of damage we were doing through war and the healing provided by the sacred plants. This is his story.

Stories of Victory, Crime, Punishment, and the Sacred Plants

Welcome to the home of the Gainesville Doobie Tosser. Murli will be quick to tell you, that there was not one Doobie Tosser in Gainesville, but a troupe of deputized “doobie tossers” who spread the sacred herb.

Tossing doobies to the crowd, selling a doobie at the corner store, sharing a doobie with the gang, and hiding your weed. It is all part of the legend and legacy of this sacred plant.

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Another Problem

Excerpt “Another problem was that across the street was an old hippie settlement once called Fort Ganja. A Vietnam vet named Murli claimed he saw God on a mountain in South Vietnam and had told him to spread the truth about the weed. So when Murli got back to the states he somehow finagled a financial settlement with …

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It takes a village. If you can help at the Gainesville Hemp Festival, have information to share about your experience with Murli Watkins, the Doobie Tosses, Hemp Festivals, or an encounter with the Sacred Plant you want to share, please contact us.

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