The HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup Returns to the Bay Area
HIGH TIMES is heading back to the Bay Area for the third year in a row! The HT Medical Cannabis Cup …
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NORMLizer – Here’s to HIGH TIMES!
Fri Oct 9, 2009
By Keith StroupThirty-five years and still growing! Not bad for a magazine started by a radical political activist who funded his venture (and his lifestyle) by smuggling marijuana – tons and tons of it, much of which he flew into the country himself in his own plane.
Tom Forçade, whose real name was Kenneth Gary Goodson, was a lefty political activist with the Youth International Party (a.k.a. the Yippies) who spent much of the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami – the one that nominated George McGovern for president – sitting in what he designated as the People’s Pot Tree, selling bags of marijuana to anyone willing to approach from below with a fistful of cash. I know this for a fact, as this is how I first met Tom – and I’m happy to report that the pot was first-rate.
A couple of years later, I was …READ MORE
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Thu May 19, 2005
by Keith Stroup
On the wall of my office, directly across from my desk, hangs an amazing photograph, a treasured possession presented to me by my dear friend, the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, in appreciation of the small role I played in keeping him out of prison as the 1980s came to a close. The photo captures the Good Doctor, shotgun in hand, getting knocked on his talented ass by a gargantuan lick of flame while the spectral image of Ronald Reagan laughs from the sidelines.
You see, for a time Doc dabbled in art. He’d set up framed black-and-white posters of his enemies (Reagan, Nixon et al.) at the far end of the shooting range behind his house, and would then proceed to fire high-powered weapons at pressurized cans of red paint strategically placed nearby. The paint-splattered posters, signed and numbered by the artist, sold for big bucks in the chi-chi art galleries of downtown Aspen, CO. On this one occasion, however, there was obviously …READ MOREtags: 52 « add a comment
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