Jamie Kennedy Previews the July 2012 Issue of HIGH TIMES
The July 2012 issue of HIGH TIMES Magazine features a look at how marijuana use has exploded across …
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We've presented all the facts, but ultimately the answer to that can only be determined by you. In case you're still having trouble figuring it all out, here's a few more facts straight from the HIGH TIMES Cultivation Labs: -
With an array of models boasting a wide range of features at vastly differing prices, the current vaporizer market can be confusing-but it doesn't have to be. Selecting the "best" vaporizer for you is about matching the available units with your personal toking preferences. -
JORGE CERVANTES' ULTIMATE GROW DVD SERIES
The world's ultimate ganja guide teams up with HIGH TIMES for a series of instructional DVD's that take you step-by-step from seeds and clones to harvest in high style. -
HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup
The HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup will include prizes for the best and most medicinal cannabis, hashish and edibles from legal medical marijuana dispensaries. -
HIGH TIMES presents How To Pass Your Drug Test! The most comprehensive and current guide to drug testing available is just a click away. -
HIGH TIMES Pot Smoker's Handbook
Check out the definitive guide to marijuana from the world's most trusted name when it comes to getting high. Plus: "420 Things to do When You're Stoned!" -
CANNEX
The Medical Cannabis Index
HIGH TIMES first iPhone app is designed to help patients locate better medicine. Patients can use CANNEX to find medical marijuana dispensaries, view their menus, rate and review the strains the dispensaries carry.
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Every now and then stoners need to clear the air. Here are a few fresh perspectives on the world of pot smoking. -
Sometimes the difference between freedom and incarceration comes down to knowing how to exercise your legal rights. Get a crash course here - and stay out of jail! -
Introducing the first annual inductions into the HIGH TIMES Seed Bank Hall of Fame, our list commemorating the brave pot pioneers and trailblazers that make it possible for us to smoke the tremendous amount of quality strains now available.
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As part of an ongoing project to erect a national Marijuana War Memorial, we're seeking Veterans of the Marijuana War - whether well known or unknown-willing to share their own personal stories of serving on the front lines as growers, smugglers, dealers, activists, convicts, lawyers, politicians, smokers or medical patients. -
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A Beginners Guide
HIGH TIMES Senior Cultivation Editor, Danny Danko, has compiled some of his favorite beginner articles in our ultimate guide to getting started. From popping seeds and determining plant sex, to choosing systems, harvesting and drying, every aspect of ganja growing is exposed to all. -
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DEA Imprisons College Student for 5 Days Without Food or Water
Wed May 2, 2012
For 23-year-old UC San Diego student Daniel Chong, a small, private 4/20 celebration turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare after DEA agents raided the apartment where he was smoking cannabis with friends in honor of the “high holiday,” took him into custody, and then left him alone for nearly five days in a five-foot by 10-foot holding cell. Mr. Chong was left without food, water, and any contact with the outside world.
“They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what happened,” Chong explained at a press conference following his ordeal. “I’m not sure how they could forget me.”
Forced to drink his own urine to stay hydrated, Chong reported that he could hear DEA employees in the general vicinity, and couldn’t understand why they would ignore his pleas for assistance.
Federal …READ MORE
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Dutch Judge Approves “Weed Pass,” Tourist Ban To Begin May 1
Fri Apr 27, 2012
A Dutch judge upheld the government’s controversial Weed Pass law on Friday, paving the way for the new rules to take effect in parts of the Netherlands starting May 1. Dutch coffeeshop owners and their allies immediately vowed to continue their legal battle against the measure’s tourist ban and other aspects of the Weed Pass they cite as unconstitutional, but conceded that their appeal of this ruling would not come in time to stop initial implementation in the nation’s southern provinces.Amsterdam, the Netherlands’ capital and largest city, is not slated to start the Weed Pass until 2013. Meanwhile, Mayor Eberhard van der Laan, who opposes the plan, remains hopeful that he can work out a compromise with national officials to significantly curtail some of its most onerous restrictions. In addition to banning non-Dutch citizens from the coffeeshops, the Weed Pass would …READ MORE
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Hope for Future of Coffeeshops After Collapse of Conservative Dutch Government
Wed Apr 25, 2012
Since the 1970s, the Netherlands’ legendary cannabis coffeeshops have been officially “tolerated” by the government, meaning that while technically illegal, they’ve nonetheless operated openly, with hundreds of locations in Amsterdam alone selling limited amounts of marijuana to the public.
Despite their being tightly regulated and contributing considerably to the nation’s tourism industry, however, the conservative government has been steadily working to curtail or eliminate the coffeeshops, specifically by proposing a “Weed Pass” plan that would restrict access to only citizens of the Netherlands willing to register as a member of a private club, with each coffeeshop allowed just 2,000 members.
The Weed Pass plan was passed into law in 2011 and was set to take effect starting with several locations in the south of the …READ MORE
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Colorado Activists to Spend 4/20 Weekend Working for Legalization
Thu Apr 19, 2012
The broken clock on the wall in Mason Tvert’s office is only right twice a day - at exactly 4:20 - but that doesn’t mean that one of the driving forces behind Colorado’s Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, will be taking a “high holiday” for the upcoming 4/20 weekend. Instead, the Executive Director of SAFER hopes to use the annual celebration of all things cannabis as a way to reach supporters in advance of this November’s historic vote, while taking a positive message about marijuana’s relative safety directly to all citizens of the state.
“4/20 has become a day when people feel a lot more comfortable talking about marijuana, so we’re encouraging our supporters to use the occasion as a way to …READ MOREtags: 24 « add a comment
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Arizona to Begin Accepting Dispensary Applications
Thu Apr 12, 2012
After more than a year of legal wrangling, including an unsuccessful federal lawsuit filed by the governor attempting to block parts of the state’s medical marijuana law, Arizona’s Health Services Department director Will Humble has announced that his office will begin accepting applications to open state-regulated medical cannabis dispensaries starting May 14, and that he expects to issue up to 126 certificates (one for each of Arizona’s “Community Health Analysis Areas”) to qualified applicants by August 7.
The citizens of Arizona approved Proposition 203 (The Arizona Medical Marijuana Act) as a ballot initiative in November 2010, in a contest so close that the results weren’t fully verified until weeks after Election Night, when officials at last confirmed that it had passed by just 4,300 votes.
Already more than …READ MORE
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San Fran’s DA Gives Medical Pot The Green Light
Thu Mar 29, 2012
San Francisco’s District Attorney reaffirms unequivocal support for medical marijuana after conflicting reports.
Less than a week after major media outlets reported that San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon’s office was circulating a memo describing the “continued illegality of selling marijuana,” even by erstwhile legitimate medical marijuana providers, an official spokesperson for the city’s top lawyer has now forcefully denied those reports, confirming that Gascon in fact “unequivocally supports medical marijuana” and that “prosecuting illegal marijuana sales is not a priority.”
As an elected official in perhaps the nation’s most …READ MORE
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Road Block – Several States Push For “Stoned Driving” Limits
Tue Mar 20, 2012
Attempts to established “stoned driving” limits in California, Colorado, Washington and elsewhere threaten to target all marijuana users, even those wholly unimpaired.
With marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot in several states this November, lawmakers across the country have begun pushing a new legislative strategy for targeting cannabis users, one with the potential to strip every one of them of their ability to legally operate a motor vehicle, even if it’s been weeks since the last time they smoked a joint.
While it’s already a crime everywhere in the country to drive a car while impaired by any substance, a new push in California, Colorado, Washington, and elsewhere to set specific limits for the amount of THC in the blood or urine of drivers has marijuana advocates concerned.
In Colorado and …READ MORE
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Born to Rudd: An Interview with Paul Rudd
Sun Mar 4, 2012
Paul Rudd explains how he’s prepared himself to play so many stoners on the silver screen, including a new herb-fueled role opposite Jennifer Aniston in Wanderlust.By David BienenstockSince his breakout performance as young, idealistic pre-law student Josh Lucas in 1995’s Clueless, Paul Rudd has played a super-stony surf instructor (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), a cigar- chomping drug kingpin (Reno 911), a ganja-toking sidekick (multiple films), a naïve pot prisoner (Our Idiot Brother), a washed-up rock star (Veronica Mars), an uptight businessman (Dinner for Schmucks), Phoebe’s husband (Friends) and the coolest kid at summer camp (Wet Hot American Summer) - all with an affable “low-frequency” charm that’s won him fans among the bros and their better halves.Perhaps most …READ MOREtags: 3 « add a comment
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Reform Regroups: 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference
Mon Nov 7, 2011
Drug Policy Alliance Conference in Lost Angeles brings together anti-Drug War activists amid increased hostility to reform from the federal government.
By David BienenstockAttracting national figures like former New Mexico Governor (and current Republican presidential candidate) Gary Johnson, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, PBS travel host Rick Steves, and even a Skype appearance by Virgin CEO Richard Branson, the 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Los Angeles brought together leaders of the global ant-Drug War movement for a bi-annual meeting of the minds held amid an air of uncertainty regarding the federal government’s renewed attempts to “crack down” on medical marijuana.
Sponsored by the Drug Policy Alliance, which advocates for the legalization of all drugs, the Reform Conference featured over …READ MORE
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Tue Apr 26, 2011
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws celebrates 40 years of activism with a major conference in Denver.
A sitting member of the US House of Representatives, the director of the Colorado State Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, and top leaders of the cannabis liberation movement from across the country (any beyond) gathered this past weekend to celebrate the issue’s “Coming of Age” in a city that’s increasingly taking a leading role in America’s ongoing movement toward legalizing marijuana. And with the nation’s first statewide seed-to-sales medical cannabis regulations nearly in place, and a major push already underway for a 2012 legalization initiative, Colorado will remain in the forefront of the movement’s mind for the next year and beyond.
At their annual national convention, NORML celebrated 40 years of changing the world for the better with keynote …READ MORE
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Tue Mar 1, 2011
Take an educational look inside the Dutch medical-cannabis program, where doctors send patients to the pharmacy instead of the coffeeshops, and the national Office of Medicinal Cannabis makes sure the entire supply line measures up to the highest standards.
By David BienenstockShe’s never said so publicly, but it’s well known in international cannabis circles that former Dutch Health Minister Els Borst started the Netherlands’ national medical-marijuana program with her husband in mind. Stricken with terminal cancer, he wouldn’t survive long enough to see the creation of the Office of Medicinal Cannabis in 2000, but it was apparently the reality of watching her life partner seek out a safe supply of Cannabis sativa inside a coffeeshop instead of a pharmacy that inspired Borst to create the first fully legal option for Dutch citizens whose physicians have approved them for the …READ MORE
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Mon Nov 1, 2010
This Tuesday, November 2nd, marijuana is on the ballot in four states, with voter initiatives in Arizona, South Dakota and Oregon seeking to create or expand safe access to medical marijuana, while citizens in California decided the fate of Prop 19, designed to legalize possession and use of cannabis for all adults over 21. With California’s historic campaign driving the discussion, and the state’s battered economy necessitating a search for new tax revenue and green jobs, marijuana – medical or otherwise – has suddenly become a hot topic in the media, including extensive coverage on television news and in print media.
For the first time, and despite some obvious exceptions, we had the beginning of a rational and reality-based discussion about the wisdom (or complete lack thereof) of our nation’s approach to cannabis, along with record high polling of support …READ MORE
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Tue Oct 12, 2010
Story by David Bienenstock
Photo by Robyn Twomey
Richard Lee reaches out to tighten the cap on a small spray bottle of light brown liquid as he rolls through one of his thriving nurseries. These days, he may be the most high-profile marijuana entrepreneur in America, but not even the smallest detail of life in Oaksterdam escapes his attention. Of course, Lee’s not only the mythical town’s unofficial mayor; he’s the founding father of a nine-block stretch of Broadway in Oakland that’s now known to pot smokers worldwide as the home of his cannabusinesses, including the three-story, 30,000-square-foot main campus of Oaksterdam University, two coffeeshops, a medical-marijuana dispensary, a gift shop, a student union and his political headquarters – all of which have helped transform the area from a scene of urban blight into a “green oasis” of commercial viability and …READ MORE
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Tue Sep 21, 2010
HIGH TIMES Medical Marijuana News and Reviews will have a prominent booth at WAMMfest, this Saturday (September 25) in Santa Cruz, California’s San Lorenzo Park, where we’ll show off copies of our new issue, which includes a feature length interview with WAMM co-founder Valerie Corral, and amazing photos of this year’s WAMM garden.
WAMMFEST is a free annual event held to thank the community for its support during the aftermath of the 2002 DEA raid against WAMM. Everyone is invited to join in for a day of music, food, fun and games, with the proceeds benefiting this most worthy organization.
Recognized as the "gold standard" of how a medical cannabis collective should operate according to Prop 215 – which Valerie Corral helped author – WAMM has provided medicine to the most vulnerable in society on a donation basis since …READ MORE
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Fri Sep 17, 2010
By David Bienenstock
No publication in America relies more heavily on our nation’s First Amendment guarantee of free speech than HIGH TIMES, so it should be noted at the outset that the US Constitution clearly protects David Grisham’s right to burn any book he pleases. Ironically, that’s one of the things that distinguishes the land of the free from places where religious extremists like David Grisham have the upper hand in the running of things.
Grisham heads Repent Amarillo, a self-appointed group of Christian extremists who’ve been waging holy war on the small Texas city, including campaigns against a local swingers’ club, a community theater, the mayor of Houston – even a nature preserve they’ve accused of involvement in witchcraft. Basically, they’re …READ MORE
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