http://hightimes.com en-us 0.4 By Robert Platshorn Senior (Old Guy) Contributor HIGH TIMES Medical Marijuana   I was standing on a Miami street corner in deep shock after my van was totaled by a lady who ran a light at full speed. I could barely figure out how to use my cell to call my wife and ask her to call a wrecker to tow away my sweet little old 1993 Villager when I got an incoming call from Art Tifford, my long-time attorney. “Mark Phillips has been kidnapped in Chile and returned …More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6944?utm_source=rss_section_ Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:47:51 -0500 http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6944?utm_source=rss_section_ HT Admin By David Bienenstock and Richard Cusick   Billionaire philanthropist Peter Lewis has left the Board of Directors of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), after resigning his position as Chairman of the Board. In a related development, yesterday ten out of twenty-nine MPP staff members were laid off. MPP Executive Director Rob Kampia told HIGH TIMES, "The purpose of the downsizing was to ensure MPP's long-term health and financial stability.” …More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/rick/6516?utm_source=rss_section_ Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:35:04 -0400 http://hightimes.com/legal/rick/6516?utm_source=rss_section_ Richard Cusick By David Bienenstock and Richard Cusick   Rob Kampia has been officially reinstated as the executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project—following a three-month, unpaid leave of absence—according to a spokesman for the organization.   "Rob is back effective today,” according to MPP director of communications Mike Meno. “The board voted yesterday and we're hoping to continue with the work of ending marijuana prohibition in this …More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/bean/6353?utm_source=rss_section_ Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:51:16 -0400 http://hightimes.com/legal/bean/6353?utm_source=rss_section_ Bean More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6322?utm_source=rss_section_ Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:51:34 -0400 http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6322?utm_source=rss_section_ HT Admin More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/mike_hughes/6189?utm_source=rss_section_ Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:53:18 -0500 http://hightimes.com/news/mike_hughes/6189?utm_source=rss_section_ Mike Hughes By David Bienenstock and Richard Cusick   Rob Kampia has temporarily, and possibly indefinitely, stepped down as Executive Director of the Marijuana Policy Project, which he co-founded 15 years ago, after news broke of a sexual misconduct scandal that saw at least seven full time staffers quit the organization. Kampia has now confirmed having sex with an employee, and exhibiting “poor judgment,” but claims the act was consensual. He will take a “three month …More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/6148?utm_source=rss_section_ Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:33:38 -0500 http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/6148?utm_source=rss_section_ HT Admin By David Bienenstock and Richard Cusick   As part of an ongoing investigation, HIGH TIMES magazine has confirmed that at least seven full-time staff members of the Washington, DC based Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) have quit their jobs in protest of an alleged incident of sexual misconduct by MPP Executive Director Rob Kampia, which took place following an informal staff “happy hour” in August of 2009.   “I left MPP because of an incident involving Rob …More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/bean/6133?utm_source=rss_section_ Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:29:13 -0500 http://hightimes.com/news/bean/6133?utm_source=rss_section_ Bean By Nick Schou   The strange case of the so-called “Hippie Mafia,” the longest, most surreal saga in the annals of American counterculture, is finally over.   On November 20, Brenice Lee Smith, the last remaining fugitive from the legendary band of outlaws known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, pleaded guilty to a single charge of smuggling hashish from Afghanistan to Orange County. In return, the Orange County District Attorney's office, which had originally …More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/6053?utm_source=rss_section_ Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:36:47 -0500 http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/6053?utm_source=rss_section_ HT Admin More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/hager/6052?utm_source=rss_section_ Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:19:43 -0500 http://hightimes.com/news/hager/6052?utm_source=rss_section_ Steven Hager By Nick Schou    Thirty-seven years ago, the biggest raid that had ever been staged in America's war on drugs took place when a task force of state, local and federal law enforcement agencies combined to take down a secretive group of hippie acid dealers and hashish smugglers known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. On August 5, 1972, cops in California, Oregon and Maui arrested dozens of people, sending an even larger group scattering around the world in pursuit of an …More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6011?utm_source=rss_section_ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:19:05 -0500 http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6011?utm_source=rss_section_ HT Admin