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Mon Jun 23, 2008
Few domestic glass-smokeware manufacturers remained in business following “Black Monday” in February ’03. That was the day that the Feds launched Operation Pipe Dreams, conducting nationwide raids on the glass industry. Black Monday resulted in multiple arrests and convictions, most notably of Tommy Chong, who served a year in jail for his involvement in his family’s bong-making company, Chong Glass.
But while the US government failed to eradicate the functional side of the domestic glass-art industry, it did succeed in handing over a tremendous portion of the business to not-so-nice people in volatile and not-so-nice nations like China and Pakistan, which manufacture shoddy and potentially harmful glassware.
Ken, a glassblowing artist and the owner of Chameleon Glass, based in Phoenix, AZ, packs your bowl with a dose of reality. So the next time you light up, first stop and ask yourself: What am I actually …READ MORE
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Thu Jul 19, 2007
Interview & photos by Dan Skye
“Everything I do, I treat as art,” says Tommy Chong. “Cars are just part of my art projects.”
Well, this time he’s produced a masterpiece—a tricked-out, electric-powered, 1946 Oldsmobile lowrider equipped with a vaporizer. He calls the car “The Ace,” and it’s the debut of the first revamped, electric-powered auto from Hippy Motors, Tommy’s new company.
As always, Tommy’s got a number of projects in the works. He’s shooting a TV pilot and writing a TV special based upon Shelby & Chong, the touring comedy act he’s formed with his wife. He’s also getting political: After his glass-smokeware company was busted in the federal raids known as Operation Headhunter and Operation Pipe Dreams in 2004, he spent nearly a year in jail. The experience transformed him into an ardent activist: Now he’s running for Drug Czar. (It’s …READ MOREtags: 39 « add a comment
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Thu May 24, 2007
He’s part clown, part firebrand, and utterly fearless. When comedian Katt Williams takes the stage, he becomes a veritable buzz saw ripping through pretense and exposing the elemental humor in this earthly journey we all share. He has been embraced by black and white audiences alike and has been compared (prematurely, he believes) to some of the greatest comedians of the recent past. He’s appeared in movies, television and music videos, but the nightclub stage is where Katt thrives. His new DVD, The Pimp Chronicles Part 1, is a tour de force of comic mayhem that is rocketing his career toward new heights.
Interview & photos by Dan Skye
When did you first realize you had the talent to make people laugh?
It didn’t really occur to me until I was onstage for the first time. You don’t really consider it a talent as a child; you’re just a goofy child. I was silly and I was really smart-alecky. My upbringing …READ MOREtags: 16 « add a comment
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Tue Apr 24, 2007
Performing must be in his genes. David Arquette represents the fourth generation of actors in his family, along with his four siblings: Rosanna, Patricia, Richmond and Alexis. Older TV fans may remember his grandfather, Cliff Arquette, the lovable “Charley Weaver” on Hollywood Squares.
David is pretty lovable himself: He’s easygoing, friendly with fans and passionately committed to enjoying himself.
He first came to prominence as Dewey, the simpleminded but dogged cop in the trio of Scream films, but he has since scored repeatedly in films like Never Been Kissed, Eight Legged Freaks and The Grey Zone. He and his wife, Courteney Cox, are now producing the hit FX TV series Dirt, in which she also stars.
On National Stoner Day, April 20, Arquette will release his first directorial effort, The Tripper. Naturally, HIGH TIMES wanted to cover a flick that opens on such an auspicious …READ MOREtags: 15 « add a comment
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Thu Jan 18, 2007
By Dan Skye
It was going on 40 hours since I'd slept. That lovely sensation of surrender was beginning to envelop me - the feeling of dropping the reins, when one's thoughts scurry and skitter along, untethered by our normal obsession with categorizing and compartmentalizing the stimuli of the outside world.
I arrived in Amsterdam early in the morning after an overnight flight, too early to check into my hotel. Immediately, I hit Barney's coffeeshop (which opens, thankfully, at 7 a.m.) for breakfast and buds and dropped in on several more throughout the day. It's called decompression; shaking off the effects of a long, smokeless flight. But decompression for me had morphed into stoned exhaustion.
Late in the day, I had lost the desire - actually, the ability - to communicate effectively. I'd wandered over to the location where strains were being registered, but I was just a listless, pleasantly ripped witness to the parade of coffeeshop …READ MOREtags: 17 « add a comment
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Thu Jan 11, 2007
Story & Photos by Dan Skye
In the past century, Jack Herer and a host of courageous marijuana activists spawned the modern marijuana movement by educating millions on the myriad uses the plant has. Whether it was recreational smoking, medical use or the industrial applications of hemp, cannabis received a huge makeover. But the activistsí zeal didnít prevent them from inflating the facts from time to time.
Your hemp jeans will last a lifetime!
Hemp is God's miracle plant!
Hemp can save the planet!
In reality, the jeans wore out like any others, and the plant is no more miraculous than poison ivy. As far as saving the planet, hemp can hardly do that single-handedly.
But over the course of 20 years, the modern marijuana movement has matured. Although the legal consequences of casual pot-smoking remain barbaric, huge victories have been won on the medical-marijuana battlefront. Nationwide, proponents of …READ MOREtags: 29 « add a comment
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Sun Sep 24, 2006
By Dan Skye
There are upwards of 150,000 medical-marijuana users in California. Most of them acquire their medicine from the dispensaries that can be found throughout the state. At last count, well over 150 dispensaries were already operating, and every month a few more open their doors. The dispensaries offer a variety of strains that patients can purchase over the counter. Edible cannabis medicine is also available in the form of candy bars, cookies and drinks. Many of the dispensaries also provide clones for those who prefer to grow their own medicine.
The more advanced outlets—like the Farmacy, located in West Hollywood—even provide healing alternatives beyond the scope of cannabis, including aromatherapy and massage. If you’re a member of the Farmacy, you can also purchase herbal (non-cannabis) remedies to be used separately or in conjunction with marijuana. And while you decide which of these treatments is best for your …READ MOREtags: 95 « add a comment
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ROLLIN’ WITH Z-BOYS (OCT. '02)
Wed Jun 1, 2005
Interview by Dan Skye
Who planted the seeds of the action sports industry, now estimated to be a $5 billion juggernaut? The skateboarders, pure and simple. They were the first to challenge the laws of physics.
But more specifically, it was a posse of skateboard freaks known as the Zephyr Team (a.k.a. Z-Boys) who haunted a Los Angeles beach ghetto between Santa Monica and Venice called Dogtown. They surfed in the morning and skated in the afternoon, and developed an edgy, dangerous style all their own. Desperate to ride, they used guerrilla tactics, invading backyards in upscale neighborhoods to skate empty swimming pools.
The Z-Boys revolutionized skateboarding with their low-slung, fluid surfing style, making them international teen superstars.
Twenty-five years later, two of the original crew, Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta, sat down with HIGH TIMES to talk about the phenomenon the Z-Boys spawned. Alva is an international skate …READ MOREtags: 17 « add a comment
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Mon Oct 6, 2003
Story by Dan Skye Photos by Will Blochinger
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It all started back in 1948 with Allan Funt and Candid Camera—film an unsuspecting dupe in an outlandish situation with a hidden camera. It’s a formula that has forever appealed to the television voyeur and, over a half century later, Candid Camera is still going strong. But the success of the show also lends credence to a comedy maxim: "All humor has its roots in hostility." We laugh when someone falters in uncertain circumstances. We howl when someone is flustered or gets embarrassed or loses their cool. Funt even made a movie based on the premise, What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?
Basically this kind of …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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Thu May 29, 2003
Interview and Photos by Dan Skye
In the year 2000, two crops of hemp were sown on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota—one by the Slim Buttes Land-Use Association and one by the family of Alex White Plume. Unfortunately, the DEA raided both crops at gunpoint and seized the crops.
Now, only Alex White Plume is growing hemp—or at least he has tried. In each of the past two years, he has defied federal authorities and planted seeds on his land. Both times, those crops were seized.
Now the hemp is growing again. Not because of Alex, but because the elements have scattered seeds far and wide across the 2,000-acre White Plume ranch. Here, in one of the poorest communities of the US, one family is keeping the embers of hope for legal hemp burning.
Describe growing up on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
I have a total of nine brothers and …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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Wed May 7, 2003
Interview and Photos by Dan Skye
In 1993, the husband-wife team of Valerie and Mike Corral cofounded WAMM (the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana). Their aim was to educate the general public about the medical usefulness of marijuana, and to ensure that seriously ill patients had access to a safe, natural supply of it to treat their conditions as recommended by their physician.
Valerie’s leadership role in the battle for medical marijuana is unquestioned. Before WAMM, she was already using cannabis to help prevent epileptic seizures brought on by head injuries suffered in an automobile accident. But as the organization flourished, she became a leading proponent for medical marijuana in California, and helped lead the 1996 battle to pass Proposition 215, the state’s historic medical-marijuana law.
Mike has always been WAMM’s master grower …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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Mon Dec 2, 2002
Dan Skye
For over four decades, the Smothers Brothers have remained atop the show-business pile and conquered all mediums with sold-out live performances, million-selling comedy albums and one very controversial television show.
In the '60s, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was a freewheeling, hour-long variety program that skewered the political establishment with sharp satire, and drew a hip, young audience by showcasing the world's hottest rock acts. Although the brothers were given complete creative control over the show, CBS censors fought them tooth and nail and ultimately, fired the duo.
The ensuing court battle turned the Smothers Brothers into free-speech icons.
Tommy Smothers says he's still "philosophically angry" about the episode. In fact, he sees the forces of censorship still working, but in a more pernicious manner. When we caught up with …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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