JANUARY 2010

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FEATURES

CHU KNOW IT!
By Carl Schreck
Journey to Kazakhstan’s legendary Chu Valley, where potent pot grows wild and the locals make up to 6,000 tons of high-quality hash every year.

PSYCHEDELIC DESERT TOADS
By Elise McDonough
In the Sonoran Desert, there lives a strange toad called Bufo alvarius, whose venom contains the natural entheogen 5-MeO-DMT. Drying and smoking the venom brings on an intense psychedelic experience that can change the user’s reality forever.

INDOOR GROW SPECIAL
By the HIGH TIMES Cultivation Department
Whether you’ve grown 10,000 pot plants indoors or are making the leap for the first time, HIGH TIMES’ all-new official guide to indoor marijuana growing will give you the information you’ll need to raise a crop of spectacular plants, from seed to harvest, time and time again.

THE MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION
Story & photos by Freebie
The Mothership sets a new standard for commercial-warehouse grow ops. Pay attention, all you attic growers and backyard fanatics: That pot factory you always dreamed of is only a few blocks away.

RICK SIMPSON'S HEMP-OIL MEDICINE
By Steven Hager
Why is the Canadian government persecuting him, why does the media ignore him, and where is the American Cancer Society when you need them?

THE HIGH TIMES INTERVIEW: ALANIS MORISSETTE
By Dan Skye
She’s one of the top female recording artists of all time. But Alanis Morissette is more than just a rock star: She lives her life according to her own ever-evolving code, which includes an unabashed affection for cannabis. Check out Alanis in the gardens of NoCal!

DEPARTMENTS

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HIGHWITNESS NEWS/BUZZ
Edited by Dan Skye
Wrestling vixen tokes up; Mexico decrim; Rhode Island rules; Boston Freedom Rally; Peltier denied; Glass major; Bottle bats; Brownie buzz; Knight of rock; Showbuzz; San Diego dispensaries raided; Justice in Colorado; Marijuana: the Real Smart Drug; HIGH TIMES Stony Awards; Easy Star All-Stars; Blazed and Confused; Black Dahlia Murder; Reviews; Band of the Month; Miss HT; Almost Infamous; Brain Damage Control.

GROWORLD
Edited by Danny Danko & Nico Escondido
Pix of the Crop; Cannabis Clinic; Munchies; NORMLizer; Freedom Fighter; Ask Dr. Mitch; Growroom Security; Gear/Hot Products; Dear Danko; Grow Quiz; Tip of the Month.

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POT 40

COVER: HT ARCHIVE strain: JACK HERER
CENTERFOLD: FREEBIE strain: GRAPE KUSH