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<title>Requiem for an Occupation</title>
<description><![CDATA[In a corporate park in Lower Manhattan, a movement began that spread throughout the country. Now that the concept of the 99% is as familiar to Americans as the face of Tim Tebow, HIGH TIMES takes a look back at the birth of Occupy Wall Street.
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<b>By Chris Simunek</b>
<b>Woodcuts by Stephen Lewis</b>
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The Occupation came in stages and was very confusing in the beginning. I visited Zuccotti Park the first week and saw kids not even old enough to drink standing around in &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/lounge/csimunek/7656">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:27:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The HIGH TIMES Interview: Kevin McKernan</title>
<description><![CDATA[By mapping the cannabis genome, Medicinal Genomics founder Kevin McKernan hopes to unlock the mysteries of marijuana DNA.
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<b>By Chris Simunek</b>
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The breeding of cannabis for medicinal purposes has come a long way since California&rsquo;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 &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/lounge/csimunek/7506">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:45:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Czech Your Head</title>
<description><![CDATA[As the Dutch government threatens to regulate Holland&rsquo;s coffeeshops out of existence, people are debating where Europe&rsquo;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.
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<b>By Chris Simunek</b>
<b>Photos by Freebie</b>
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<b>Prague &ndash;</b> I&rsquo;m sitting in the land that my ancestors called Bohemia &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/lounge/csimunek/7486">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:53:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Rootz Rock Reggae</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>By Chris Simunek</b>
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On a bright and scorching morning, I&rsquo;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.
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Not that Rootz Underground has a whole lot in common &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/entertainment/csimunek/6645">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:38:22 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Foot Soldiers</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>By Chris Simunek</b>
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<b>Into The Wild</b>
When you&rsquo;re out in the wilderness, any small gift is magic. Like right now, I&rsquo;m waiting for the two Steves to wake up, and all I can think about is coffee. And when I get that coffee, I&rsquo;m not going to care if it&rsquo;s Jamaican Blue Mountain or Folgers freeze-dried crystals.
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Such is the nature of hunger: When want and need grow strong enough, any &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/lounge/csimunek/6543">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:19:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The War on Gringo Billy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Having spent his early years growing up on a farm in Union County in the north of Florida, William Dekle, a.k.a. &ldquo;Gringo Billy,&rdquo; 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 &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/legal/csimunek/6406">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:11:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>HIGH TIMES in Easter Island</title>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Story by Chris Simunek</b>
<b>Photos by Rebekah L. Harris</b>
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Our 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.
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<b>In Dog We Trust </b>
Within minutes of disembarking the Lan Chile plane on Easter Island, I ran into what I imagined was the island&rsquo;s only drug dog. A friendly little mutt &ndash; some beagle/spaniel bitch that &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/lounge/csimunek/6177">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:32:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Inner Circle&amp;#8217;s Reality Check</title>
<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;If Michael Jackson smoked weed, he&rsquo;d still be alive today!&rdquo; declares Ian Lewis as Inner Circle arrives at the HIGH TIMES offices, a little red-eyed after their flight from Miami.
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Though known primarily for their 1987 crossover hit &ldquo;Bad Boys,&rdquo; which was used as the theme song for the television show <i>COPS</i>, 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 &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/entertainment/csimunek/6139">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:20:47 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The War on Scott Walt</title>
<description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s earth.
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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&rsquo;s foreman for a large government contractor and a marijuana dealer. The waves had been his passion since he was nine years &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/blog/csimunek/5477">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:11:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Legalization, The New York Times and the Oncoming Boomer Apocalypse</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Chris Simunek
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Reading Michael Winerip&rsquo;s piece &ldquo;Legalization? Now For the Hard Question&rdquo; in the May 15, 2009, <i>New York Times</i> 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&rsquo;m confronted with some new crime, some new hypocrisy of their making.
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Before I get to Winerip&rsquo;s article, let me give &hellip;<a href="http://hightimes.com/blog/csimunek/5469">More</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:04:28 -0400</pubDate>
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