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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HIGH TIMES Pot Smoker's Handbook
Check out the definitive guide to marijuana from the world's most trusted name when it comes to getting high. Plus: "420 Things to do When You're Stoned!" -
Introducing the first annual inductions into the HIGH TIMES Seed Bank Hall of Fame, our list commemorating the brave pot pioneers and trailblazers that make it possible for us to smoke the tremendous amount of quality strains now available.
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HIGH TIMES presents How To Pass Your Drug Test! The most comprehensive and current guide to drug testing available is just a click away. -
NOVEMBER 2012 - AMSTERDAM
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DANNY DANKO'S
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A Beginners Guide
HIGH TIMES Senior Cultivation Editor, Danny Danko, has compiled some of his favorite beginner articles in our ultimate guide to getting started. From popping seeds and determining plant sex, to choosing systems, harvesting and drying, every aspect of ganja growing is exposed to all. -
HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup
The HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup will include prizes for the best and most medicinal cannabis, hashish and edibles from legal medical marijuana dispensaries. -
As part of an ongoing project to erect a national Marijuana War Memorial, we're seeking Veterans of the Marijuana War - whether well known or unknown-willing to share their own personal stories of serving on the front lines as growers, smugglers, dealers, activists, convicts, lawyers, politicians, smokers or medical patients. -
Sometimes the difference between freedom and incarceration comes down to knowing how to exercise your legal rights. Get a crash course here - and stay out of jail! -
Use our medical marijuana directory to find dispensaries and medicine in your area... -
We've presented all the facts, but ultimately the answer to that can only be determined by you. In case you're still having trouble figuring it all out, here's a few more facts straight from the HIGH TIMES Cultivation Labs: -
CANNEX
The Medical Cannabis Index
HIGH TIMES first iPhone app is designed to help patients locate better medicine. Patients can use CANNEX to find medical marijuana dispensaries, view their menus, rate and review the strains the dispensaries carry.
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Every now and then stoners need to clear the air. Here are a few fresh perspectives on the world of pot smoking. -
JORGE CERVANTES' ULTIMATE GROW DVD SERIES
The world's ultimate ganja guide teams up with HIGH TIMES for a series of instructional DVD's that take you step-by-step from seeds and clones to harvest in high style. -
With an array of models boasting a wide range of features at vastly differing prices, the current vaporizer market can be confusing-but it doesn't have to be. Selecting the "best" vaporizer for you is about matching the available units with your personal toking preferences.
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Mon Apr 9, 2012
How to use pruning and trellising for big advantages.
Story and photos by Nico Escondido
There are many ways to achieve bigger yields in your garden. Some methods focus on feeding programs, others on system type or lighting setup. However, one of the best ways to improve yields is to use simple plant science and biology to allow a more natural increase in production.
Understanding the physiology of cannabis plants can be beneficial not only for the quality of the final product, but also for its quantity. This means you won’t have to sacrifice one for the other, which can sometimes be an issue when choosing to increase yields via chemicals or technology. What follows is a basic breakdown of a two-part method for improving yields that focuses on two relatively simple gardening techniques: pruning and trellising. Together, they can provide a powerful tool for …READ MORE
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Wed Mar 14, 2012
Story & Photos by Nico Escondido
It’s been a long time since anyone found gold in these parts – but that doesn’t mean it’s no longer here. Much like the fabled alchemists of yesteryear, who sought the secret of turning base metals into gold, the savvy farmers of NorCal have known for generations that gold grows in trees.
Sustainable, Responsible Gardening
Rather than start at the botanical beginning with the basic horticultural how-tos, let’s start at the ideological beginning with just exactly what a top-rated outdoor grow entails. The first word that comes to mind is responsibility. Just as with wheat farmers in Nebraska or cattle ranchers in Texas, cannabis farmers must adhere to the same set of guidelines and regulations put in place to protect our natural resources and the surrounding environs – as well as the people who use them and live …READ MORE
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Tue May 31, 2011
By Nico Escondido
Mechoulam The ManThe history of Israel marks it as a place of intense spirituality for many religions, most notably in Jewish, Christian and Islamic cultures. Ironically, a much more recent counter-culture can also point to the Holy Land as a major component of its heritage, not to mention the ground zero, of sorts, of the modern medical-marijuana movement.
In 1964, at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, Dr. Raphael Mechoulam – along with his colleagues, Dr. Yehiel Gaoni and Dr. Haviv Edery – succeeded in the very first isolation and elucidation of the active constituent of cannabis, D9-tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC. The discovery of the THC compound – now almost 50 years ago – started a revolution in thinking about cannabis that carries on to this …READ MORE
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Fri Feb 18, 2011
By Nico Escondido
Hydroponic gardening has become one of the most popular methods for indoor cannabis cultivation over the past two decades. We all know that hydro has the potential for big yields and excellent quality, but getting there isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve dedicated the February issue to hydroponics for the past 12 years. The growroom shot exclusively for this year’s Hydro Report is perhaps one of the best ever recorded by HIGH TIMES – and, of course, its home is in the great state of California.
Mind-Blowing MarijuanaLet’s take a look at the questions that everyone wants answers to: What type of hydro system is running in this room? How many plants are in there? How many lights were used? How much did this room yield? HOW DID THEY DO IT?!?
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Grow Like a Pro Soundtrack Opportunity
Tue Dec 14, 2010
Are you a musician who loves fine cannabis? Do you like education projects that help and teach people how to grow their own medicine? Do you want your music to be heard by thousands of people who believe in the same cause? Well here is you chance!
HIGH TIMES Magazine is currently searching for artists to be a part of the sound track for their latest video project, Nico Escondido's Grow Like a Pro DVD.
From now until December 20, 2010, HIGH TIMES Magazine is accepting submissions from bands and solo artists who would like to donate a few tracks to a worthwhile endeavor that aims at serving the cannabis community with premier, expert information on how to grow excellent cannabis for medicine or recreation.
Please note this is not a contest nor is compensation involved in anyway. The benefit for artists is to gain exposure and have their music distributed to a large, like-minded …READ MOREtags: 5 « add a comment
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Tue Mar 23, 2010
You may have heard such terms as Beasters or beasty buds once or twice before, phrases referring to the thick, heavy sinsemilla grown in western Canada, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, or BC (hence the name). Over the years, the reputation of Beasters has climbed steadily as new varieties have been produced by BC breeders—strains that compete every year in the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, and whose seeds are now popular in seed banks in Canada and all over the world.
Not surprisingly, most of these strains are developed in, and well-suited to, outdoor climates. But you may be taken aback just a bit by precisely where and how some of these seed companies are doing it. As the New York City slickers from the HIGH TIMES cultivation department navigated our way from city to island, it quickly became evident that there was going to be a lot more here than we had previously expected.
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Tue Feb 16, 2010
This story is dedicated to the memory of Todd M., a good grower and a good friend.Allow me to first throw out a few disclaimers. Our chief concern here in the Cultivation Department, as always, is the safety and well-being of our readers and growers, as well as the families and neighbors of said growers. To grow marijuana safely is sometimes contradictory to doing it inexpensively. Cutting corners can be easier and may save time and money, but remember this: It’s one thing to get busted growing weed, but it’s an entirely different thing to get busted growing weed because you burned down your house, or an entire apartment building, and people suffered or were injured because of you. This is what we want to avoid. Growing quality cannabis should be a safe and soothing experience, not the contrary.
So in order to protect yourself and …READ MORE
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Fri Feb 12, 2010
There is a revolution happening in Spain.
Indeed, all throughout Europe, a debate has ensued that spans the entire longitude of the EU. Particularly in the south of Europe, in areas like Spain, Portugal and parts of Italy, cannabis growers share some distinct differences not only from their North American counterparts, but also from Dutch and other northern European growers.
Large outdoor, commercial-style grow operations are less prevalent here than one might expect, given the mild Mediterranean climate. With small indoor grow ops on the rise for both medicinal and recreational use, growers in Spain have increasingly turned to seeds instead of clones as their preferred method of propagation. There are several reasons for this. For one thing, cannabis seeds happen to be legal in Spain; for another, obtaining and transporting genetics in seed form (versus, say, a rooted plant cutting) is always a much easier …READ MORE
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Staying Safe Inside: Story Supplement & Appendix
Tue Nov 10, 2009
Editor's Note:
In our January 2010 issue we run a grow-related security piece entitled "Staying Safe Inside" (pg. 64). As part of our indoor grow-themed special we wanted to include an article that served the interests of every stealthy grower. Unfortunately, we could fit all the info into four small pages, so we decided to run the more technical (and boring) details here in an online supplement. The appendix includes a parts list (from the story) as well as step-by-step instructions on assembling the door locking device discussed in the article... plus a few installation tips! Wow. - Nico.
Additional Note: Crimestopper’s instruction manual for the CS-2000 III can be found here. This manual will aid you greatly when assembling the elecrical components of the …READ MORE
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Mon Oct 19, 2009
Every year for the past two decades, the Who’s Who of Pot has gathered at the world’s Mecca of weed to compete for the crown as King of the Cannabis Kingdom. It is here, in this wonderfully sensuous city of Amsterdam, that the HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cup sets the benchmark each year for the best marijuana on Earth. And where else would we do it? After all, Amsterdam has been the world’s most progressive trendsetter for the legalization of the sacred herb.
Still, there have been rumblings and grumblings that perhaps that tide is shifting. California is now one of the world’s preeminent hotbeds not for just legalization routes, but also for growing and breeding. Could this signal a possible move for the Cannabis Cup, back home to its roots in the United States? Regardless of what the future holds, this year’s 22nd Annual Cannabis Cup will be held in the same place it has been for over two decades, and we …READ MORE
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Advanced Grow Feature – Spinning Lights!
Thu Jul 30, 2009
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Light and the LED Zeppelin: Will LED’s Sink or Soar in the Growroom?
Sun May 24, 2009
An Advanced Grow Feature by Nico Escondido
A Light Introduction
When people talk about indoor cultivation and the lamps they use to light up a growroom, some standard words and phrases come to mind. You have terms such as HPS and MH, referring to high-pressure sodium and metal halide bulbs, respectively. You have units of measurement such as wattage, lumens or lux thrown around to describe a particular lamp’s discharge or intensity. Lately, however, there have been a couple of three-letter words that are used more and more with relatively little understanding. But these words (which are actually acronyms for larger phrases) may play an even greater role in what takes place in growrooms in the very near future… Welcome to Part II of our Advanced Lighting Series.
P.A.R.PAR is a term usually synonymous …READ MORE
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Fri May 8, 2009
Selena Roberts is, for starters, a NARC. But the gravity of her flaws run even deeper than that.
By definition, a NARC is technically a narcotics agent (federal or otherwise), who busts people involved in criminal activity surrounding illicit drug use or distribution.
We, as normal people, take that term and apply it in a broader sense to anyone who turns on - or "rats out" - others, usually to save their own ass or protect some other shameful self-interest. These people themselves are usually involved in a drug-related crime. They were busted and rolled over on someone else to save their hide, whether it be in terms of a job, school or with law enforcement in general.
With that said, where does Selena Roberts fall into play? Some might argue she is just a journalist doing her job. But, in fact, writing a potentially libelous, unauthorized biography about someone else is not actually a job - at least not in the traditional …READ MOREtags: 1 « add a comment
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Fri Mar 27, 2009
Well, music lovers, if you haven't noticed, there's a new scam in concert tickets, but it's coming from an old source.
Ticketmaster has once again figured out a way to bang you in the head and somehow keep its grip on a monopoly that, for all intents and purposes, should be deemed completely illegal. But somehow the corporate giant has circumvented anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws and has now created a legitimate avenue of their own for ticket scalping.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce Ticketsnow.com - "a Ticketmaster Company." Have you tried recently to log-on or call-in when tickets went on sale for your favorite band? Phish and Dead fans have recently seen the horrors, as have older folks like our parents - trying to score tix for Bruce Springsteen or the Allman Brothers.
The tickets sell out in about three minutes and the system usually crashes multiple times during those minutes. The …READ MORE
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Tue Feb 10, 2009
Well, here is some irony for you.
A drug guy, writing a blog about how wrong it is to do drugs.
I should qualify that statement. My arguement here is to all those who say, "So what, put all the 'roid users in the Baseball Hall of Fame - they're still great players."
Sorry, not quite. These guys are no greater than Hank Aaorn, Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle. You want to put them in the HOF, here's how you do it - you make a Cheater's Wing.
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