Associated Press - Politico / April 2, 2024 John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert to free him, has died. He was 82. Sinclair died Tuesday morning at Detroit Receiving Hospital of…
John Sinclair, cannabis activist, poet and counterculture figure, died at 82. Imprisoned for marijuana, freed after John Lennon's concert in his honor.