http://hightimes.com en-us 0.4 Corporations do not have the same rights as people.   I was fortunate enough to accompany Ken Kesey and his psychedelic band of Merry Pranksters when the Grateful Dead played the Pyramids – and won – at a series of outdoor concerts in 1978. During that week, Kesey and I were dinner guests at the home of an Egyptian family in Cairo. Later, the men smoked hashish from a huge hookah while the women stayed in the kitchen. I grumbled to Kesey about this gender …More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/7193?utm_source=rss_section_ Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:54:02 -0400 http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/7193?utm_source=rss_section_ Paul Krassner More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/7085?utm_source=rss_section_ Tue, 03 May 2011 15:05:27 -0400 http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/7085?utm_source=rss_section_ Paul Krassner By Paul Krassner   At the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, I participated in a fake debate played strictly for laughs. The resolution: “Whereas they were mostly disheveled, disorganized and doped up, be it resolved that the hippies of the ’60s accomplished nothing.”             Comedian Bruce Clark took the affirmative position. “Don’t get me wrong,” he argued, “I like hippies. Some of my …More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6872?utm_source=rss_section_ Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:02:42 -0500 http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6872?utm_source=rss_section_ Paul Krassner By Paul Krassner   It’s really ironic that California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s current bill to legalize and tax marijuana – much like the legalization initiative that state residents will be voting on this November – are both opposed by some pro-pot activists.             For example, Dennis Peron – the co-author of Proposition 215, which legalized medical marijuana in California over a …More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6767?utm_source=rss_section_ Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:00:19 -0400 http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6767?utm_source=rss_section_ Paul Krassner By Paul Krassner   In 1973, “Captain” Ed Adair, Jack’s partner in the marketing of countercultural items, insisted that they take a joint oath: “We swear by our life, and our love for it, that we will work every day of our lives, all day, all night, to legalize pot – until we’re dead, or it’s legal, or we can quit when we’ve turned 84.”   In 1980, they began a series of protests on the front lawn of the Los Angeles …More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6638?utm_source=rss_section_ Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:05:59 -0400 http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6638?utm_source=rss_section_ Paul Krassner By Paul Krassner   First, Los Angeles Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez wrote: “The excesses of the ’60s gave rise to a conservative counterrevolution. Abbie Hoffman begat Ronald Reagan …. ” Next, New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote that Connecticut millionaire Ned Lamont – then challenging Joe Lieberman for his Senate seat – wasn’t “easily slimed as a reincarnation of Abbie Hoffman or an ally of Osama bin …More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6573?utm_source=rss_section_ Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:11:59 -0400 http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6573?utm_source=rss_section_ Paul Krassner Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents. “For more than half of the subjects here,” he states, “including Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary and the Haight-Ashbury, psychedelics were a major factor in their lives …. ” But recently Gilmore himself had a bad trip resulting from an overdose of that modern drug …More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6448?utm_source=rss_section_ Fri, 14 May 2010 18:06:01 -0400 http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6448?utm_source=rss_section_ Paul Krassner What triggered the transition in you, from being in the Air Force during the Vietnam War to leadership in the medical-marijuana fight? The easy answer is …More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6354?utm_source=rss_section_ Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:57:30 -0400 http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6354?utm_source=rss_section_ Paul Krassner More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6234?utm_source=rss_section_ Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:25:12 -0500 http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6234?utm_source=rss_section_ Paul Krassner Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture, I described Joel Tornabene as “an unheralded Yippie organizer known as Super-Joel. His grandfather was Mafia boss Sam Giancana.” But Super-Joel had dropped out of the family business; instead, he let his hair grow long and distributed LSD.   The intelligence division of the Chicago Police Department warned Giancana that Super-Joel shouldn’t hang around with me. …More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6120?utm_source=rss_section_ Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:02:48 -0500 http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/6120?utm_source=rss_section_ Paul Krassner