"Just prior to the split, people who I had lived with in the premie house and
I had become aware of a lot of goings on behind the scenes that were not
appropriate. It was common knowledge, for example, that GM's first U.S. visit
was financed by a hashish deal that premies had made. Reportedly, an entire
table of carved hashish -- that was shellacked to look like wood -- was
smuggled in, then broken apart and sold to finance the place trip for GM and
some of his Mahatmas. Most of us being ex-hippies shrugged our shoulders as the
idea of good smoke financing GM's visit."

https://ex-premie.org/pages/journs/j_bob.htm