In it, Coolidge recounts her adventures touring as a musician in the swinging 1970s, when she dated Leon Russell, Graham Nash and Steven Stills, and married Kris Kristofferson.
She also had adventures with marijuana, starting as an art student at Florida State. "We always had a lot of weed," she writes, "which we’d decided was
vital to the creative process, thanks to this guy who came through Tallahassee
every year, like Johnny Appleseed, to plant pot and would tell a couple of
people on campus – in the art department, of course – where it was planted."
Later she noticed that in LA, "the drug menu was shifting from pot and
LSD, which put people in a sharing mood" to cocaine, after which,
"People just lost their moral base. It made criminals and liars and
thieves out of people who previously loved and trusted one another."
After she and Kristofferson hooked up, Rita writes about them going to Disneyland with Willie and Connie Nelson after, "As it happened, I had just baked a really nice batch of marijuana brownies...."
After she and Kristofferson hooked up, Rita writes about them going to Disneyland with Willie and Connie Nelson after, "As it happened, I had just baked a really nice batch of marijuana brownies...."
Of Kristofferson, she wrote, "He was a heavy drinker and loved to smoke pot." Indeed, Kristofferson was probably the original hippie outlaw country musician.
