Snoop Nominates Wiz for HIGH TIMES Stoner of the Year
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The HIGH TIMES Interview: Kevin McKernan
Thu Jan 26, 2012
By mapping the cannabis genome, Medicinal Genomics founder Kevin McKernan hopes to unlock the mysteries of marijuana DNA.
By Chris Simunek
The breeding of cannabis for medicinal purposes has come a long way since California’s Proposition 215 was passed in 1996. The aboveground status of growers, dispensaries and patients has enabled the sharing of testimonial evidence as to which strains work best for which ailments. With medical marijuana now a quasi-legal, multimillion-dollar industry in 16 states, scientists are looking forward to the day that a serious genetic study of this plant is finally allowed, including clinical studies of all its cannabinoids. Ironically, this longstanding prohibition on marijuana has made it difficult for scientists to gather the empirical data that might one day raise medical cannabis from the status of “folk medicine” and place it in the same approved …READ MORE
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Fri Jan 13, 2012
As the Dutch government threatens to regulate Holland’s coffeeshops out of existence, people are debating where Europe’s next pot hotspot will be. HIGH TIMES says: Go east, young man! To Eastern Europe, that is. With its lax marijuana laws, legal seeds and tolerant attitude, the Czech Republic is the new stoner sanctuary.By Chris SimunekPhotos by FreebiePrague – I’m sitting in the land that my ancestors called Bohemia, participating in a national ritual that has been occurring here since the days when the fashion statements were made in steel, leather and animal pelts. When I say “ritual,” perhaps you imagine me genuflecting before some Christian deity – but no, that doesn’t happen much here in the Czech Republic, which is generally regarded as the most atheistic country in Europe. The ritual that I’m …READ MORE
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Wed Aug 18, 2010
By Chris SimunekOn a bright and scorching morning, I’m assembled with Rootz Underground at Port Royal in Kingston, Jamaica. Back in the late 16th and 17th centuries, this town was the epicenter of pirate life in the Caribbean, and the home base of the infamous Captain Morgan, a few hundred years before he posthumously endorsed a brand of spiced rum.
Not that Rootz Underground has a whole lot in common with the late captain. In fact, this congregation of reggae musicians is an interesting contrast to the stone bunkers and iron cannons of this once-great British garrison that was destroyed by an earthquake back in 1692. (Many will tell you it was God’s hand coming down upon the wicked.) Whereas most acts in Jamaica involve a singer and a support band (or tape), Rootz Underground is a group of six players, five of whom are present today: singer …READ MORE
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Fri Jul 2, 2010
By Chris SimunekInto The WildWhen you’re out in the wilderness, any small gift is magic. Like right now, I’m waiting for the two Steves to wake up, and all I can think about is coffee. And when I get that coffee, I’m not going to care if it’s Jamaican Blue Mountain or Folgers freeze-dried crystals.
Such is the nature of hunger: When want and need grow strong enough, any facsimile of the desired object can be fulfilling. Dogs like their Alpo, but they’ll eat the carpet if you forget to feed them. A man might want a woman, but he’ll settle for the Internet in a pinch. It’s close enough for the moment, and in this modern world, “close enough” is the predominant compromise that enables us to get through the day, the year, the …READ MORE
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Fri Apr 23, 2010
Having spent his early years growing up on a farm in Union County in the north of Florida, William Dekle, a.k.a. “Gringo Billy,” dreamed of being a cowboy like Rowdy Yates, Clint Eastwood's character in the early-'60s TV show Rawhide. His career path changed when he was 16, after he took a bus down to Miami to visit his cousin Reggie. Reggie had a student-pilot's license and took him out for a night flight cruising back and forth over Magic City. Farm boy that he was, machines always fascinated Billy, and an airplane was the ultimate machine. He got a private pilot's license at age 17 and a commercial certificate a year later. Though he hasn't seen the inside of a cockpit in over 20 years, when you ask him about twin-engine airplanes, you find there's still a little jet fuel running through his veins.
“My favorite was the Beechcraft J-50 Twin Bonanza,” he says. “It was the strongest-built airplane I've ever seen. When …READ MORE
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Mon Feb 1, 2010
Story by Chris SimunekPhotos by Rebekah L. HarrisOur intrepid reporter journeys to the most isolated piece of real estate on Earth to learn the secret of survival in the land of the stone giants. Along the way, he finds some bud, too.
In Dog We TrustWithin minutes of disembarking the Lan Chile plane on Easter Island, I ran into what I imagined was the island’s only drug dog. A friendly little mutt – some beagle/spaniel bitch that jumped onto the luggage-filled conveyer belt like a yuppie mounting a Nordic Track. I learned later on that this little pup was a bone of contention for the Rapa Nui stoner crowd, who, previous to her arrival, thought little about bringing a few pounds of bud back with them every time they flew home from mainland Chile. I was told one story of how, a few years back when the Chilean cops felt the need to crack down on Easter …READ MORE
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Mon Jan 18, 2010
“If Michael Jackson smoked weed, he’d still be alive today!” declares Ian Lewis as Inner Circle arrives at the HIGH TIMES offices, a little red-eyed after their flight from Miami.Though known primarily for their 1987 crossover hit “Bad Boys,” which was used as the theme song for the television show COPS, Inner Circle had a long career before someone at the Fox network thought that armchair America might find it entertaining to sit and watch people getting arrested while they ate dinner. Ian, along with his brother Roger, formed Inner Circle in Kingston, Jamaica, in the late ’60s while the two were still in high school. In the ’70s, they teamed up with the inimitable roots singer Jacob Miller, creating a string of memorable hits that included the classic “Tenement Yard.” (If you want to see this lineup in its prime, track down a copy of the seminal 1978 Jamaican reggae movie …READ MORE
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Tue May 26, 2009
Scott Walt is not a murderer or a rapist or even a dealer of harmful drugs, yet he has been in Federal prison for over 15 years. His crime? He sold a plant that grows wild out of God’s earth.
Sometime around October 3, 1994, Scott Walt went surfing in the Pacific Ocean, as he did nearly every day, a luxury afforded him by his life as both a carpenter’s foreman for a large government contractor and a marijuana dealer. The waves had been his passion since he was nine years old, growing up in Encinitas, California, and he felt lucky that he was able to spend as much time on the beach as he did. It would be hard to argue that, up to that point, Scott’s life had been anything but a success. Eight years before he’d married Dawn, a beautiful blonde California girl, and had two young children, who were just starting school. The family went to Club Med twice a year, he’d bought a home on a lake stocked with bluegill, catfish, bass and …READ MORE
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Legalization, The New York Times and the Oncoming Boomer Apocalypse
Sat May 23, 2009
By Chris Simunek
Reading Michael Winerip’s piece “Legalization? Now For the Hard Question” in the May 15, 2009, New York Times I was reminded again of just how damaging and useless the generation that was born into the era of unprecedented prosperity that followed World War II has proven itself to be. It seems like everyday I’m confronted with some new crime, some new hypocrisy of their making.
Before I get to Winerip’s article, let me give you a little history lesson regarding the Baby Boomers. Back when they were in their twenties and thirties, the Boomers were hedonists; they called themselves “hippies” and enjoyed going to rock concerts, doing drugs and fucking each other like bunny rabbits on a tina binge. Along the way they …READ MORE
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Thu Dec 20, 2007
A part of American folklore that dates back to the end of the Civil War, hobos forged a distinct counterculture along the lonely railroad tracks that are the backbone of America. In pieced-together camps (“jungles”) just far enough from town to avoid law enforcement scrutiny, they created a society with its own laws, etiquette and language. Their numbers swelled during the Great Depression as destitute men crisscrossed the country on freight trains in search of work. The post-Vietnam era produced its own surge of itinerant train travelers as veterans, juvenile delinquents and drug culture casualties sought solace and freedom along the American rails. Today the mantle has been passed (however reluctantly) to squatter punks who started arriving on the scene sometime in the early ’90s.
By Chris Simunek
Hidden as it is within the Iowa cornfields, I almost drove right past Britt, host of the National Hobo Convention for the past 107 …READ MOREtags: 11 « add a comment
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Fri Apr 7, 2006
By Chris Simunek
THE MAN IN THE MAZE
It’s an early wake-up call in the barrio as James Fendenheim, my entrée into all things Tucson, AZ, picks me up in his grumbling Chevy Blazer sometime around 7 a.m. He’s limping a bit, the result of a car accident a few months before. James tells me he’s waiting on some insurance money he hopes will buy him one of those hot little Japanese mini-trucks, but in the meantime, to get us to the rez, we have his temperamental Chevy with its bloodred interior, its chrome-dragon foot pedals, its back window that won’t close, its front door that won’t open, its silver-cobra-headed tire valves, its bestial General Motors engine, its guardian angel at the local Exxon station who will pass any vehicle for inspection for a half ounce, and its “For Sale” sign in the window that reads: 1975 cheyenne blazer, $7,000. The high sticker price attests to James’ attraction to the thing. …READ MOREtags: 14 « add a comment
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Wed Feb 11, 2004
By Chris Simunek
My favorite story in the book, Painful but Fabulous: The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge (Soft Skull Press, 2003), concerns a night back in ’76 when his performance group, COUM, was appearing at the University of Antwerp. Next to the performance hall, there was an exhibit of poisonous plants. Not content to lay his usual psychosexual visual assault on a bunch of stoned college yobs, Genesis decided to teach them a lesson on life, death, and the precarious relationship they both have with the human body. He stole some poisonous plants and bark from the exhibit next door, washed them down onstage with a bottle of whiskey, then started speaking in tongues and carving messages into his flesh with a rusty nail. He woke up in an emergency room shortly after the attending physician had pronounced him dead.
But a near-death experience comes with the territory Genesis is surveying. For him, the spiritual mandate of the artist …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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CAROLYN CASSADY: BEAT SURVIVOR
Wed Jan 14, 2004
Story by Chris Simunek
"On the Road was taken by the young as a passport to freedom—or that is, 'forget responsibilities and do anything you feel like.' They didn't look to see that Jack had no responsibilities, but was against ignoring them," explained Carolyn Cassady, wife of Neal Cassady, the real-life model for Kerouac's most enduring literary creation, Dean Moriarty. "So the 'freedom' of the young became license and then chaos. They didn't realize there is no freedom without fences. When he was accorded the titles of 'King of the Beats' and 'Father of the Hippies,' Jack was eventually so depressed at being so misunderstood and misinterpreted, he vowed to drink himself to death. Which he did."
When On the Road was published in 1957 it forever altered the lives of the people upon which the book was based. Kerouac's driving, romantic prose turned the knowledge-hungry, reform school graduate Neal Cassady into a new American …READ MOREtags: 2 « add a comment
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Mon Sep 8, 2003
Interview by Chris Simunek
HT.COM BONUS:: Get your shroom on at the Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado.
Dr. Andrew Weil is the best-selling author of Spontaneous Healing, Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, The Natural Mind, and From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs (with Winifred Rosen). Internationally recognized as one of the leading authorities on medicinal herbs, mind-body interactions, and "Integrative Medicine," Dr. Weil advocates that health must be addressed on the physical, mental and spiritual levels. Founder and director of the Program of Integrated Medicine at the University of Arizona’s Health Sciences Center, he has recently established a nonprofit organization, the Polaris Foundation, "to advance …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment