Jack became a regular fixture backstage at SNL tapings.and he always brought gifts. By a wonderful twist of fate, some New York friends of his introduced him to some friends of theirs the cast members and writers from Saturday Night Live’s original Not Ready For Prime Time Players. While Jack spends much of his time at the helm of a tuna fishing boat (it’s how he earned the title “Captain”), he eventually made it back to his East Coast roots. Eventually, word hit the streets about Jack’s special crop-one that would nearly never cause anxiety and often would, by many accounts, have a narcotic-like effect-earning Jack’s Gulzar Afghanica the nickname, “Herowanna.” He voyaged to the West Coast United States to the fields of Mendocino where he discovered the ideal latitude and microclimate for emulating Gulzar’s Afghani homeland. There, he slowly endeared himself to the village elders by working alongside them in the fields, growing and harvesting a magical plant called Gulzar Afghanica, or “Garden of Afghanica.”īy the close of the second summer, Jack had gained the respect of the elders and they honored him with a handkerchief full of special seeds, knowing he was spiritually connected to this precious varietal.Ĭaptain Jack quickly set out to grow his own Gulzar Afghanica. Jack spent the summers of 1971 and ‘72 making trips to a remote village in the Northeast region of Afghanistan, outside of Mazar-i-Sharif, past the Hindu Kush mountain range. It imbued a sense of craft, pedigree and terroir that, for Captain Jack, set him on the trajectory of a lifetime. Hash-making had been a 4,000 year old tradition in Afghanistan. Jack found something special in that hash and it struck him on a visceral level. His passion deepened when friends of his returned from a rare trip to the Middle East with a small surfboard shaped piece of hashish from Afghanistan. He began sneaking off into the woods to care for his blossoming patchwork of hidden gardens.Īlthough he went to a prestigious New England school where he studied forestry and landscape architecture, Captain Jack built a career on intuition and the keen acumen he developed while cultivating cannabis clandestinely. Soon, growing cannabis became a prominent passion for Captain Jack and the world of guerilla gardening became a strong presence in his life. Captain Jack grew his first plant in college on the front lawn of his school’s national security house.
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