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 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. -
HIGH TIMES Pot Smoker's Handbook
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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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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. -
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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. -
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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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. -
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:
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Wed Mar 28, 2012
They know the difference between pot and heroin – even if the Drug Czar doesn’t.Teens are “just saying no” to alcohol, cigarettes and other dangerous drugs in record numbers. Yet the Drug Czar and the mainstream media only want to talk about pot.
That’s the take-home message from the findings of the 2011 “Monitoring the Future” study. The survey, first instituted in 1975, annually polls the self-reported use of various licit and illicit substances by junior high and high school students in the US. This year, some 47,000 teens participated in the study. Their responses indicate that teens are becoming far wiser about the comparative dangers of drugs than many of their elders wish to credit.
This year’s survey reported that teen use of alcohol and tobacco are approaching historic lows. Daily use of tobacco by adolescents is down 50 percent …READ MORE
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Fri Feb 24, 2012
2011: The Year the Drug Warriors Struck Back
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they Fight you, then you win.”—Mahatma GandhiIt should be obvious to marijuana-law reform advocates that 2011 was the year the government decided to fight back – and fight back with a vengeance. By year’s end, it was apparent that President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge to respect state medical-marijuana laws had become ancient history. Instead, that now-empty promise was replaced by a multi-agency, full-court press intended to create a climate of fear and prosecution regarding the use, production and distribution of marijuana, particularly medical cannabis.Obama’s role reversal from cannabis sympathizer to White House weed whacker took many in the reform community by surprise, but it shouldn’t have: In many ways, the …READ MOREtags: 15 « add a comment
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Mon May 16, 2011
Once again, the anti-cannabis forces have seized upon another big lie to demonize the plant.
By Paul Armentano
Prohibitionists have a long history of exploiting tragedy to further their own Drug War agenda. Case in point: Members of Congress in the 1980s seized upon the cocaine overdose of basketball star Len Bias to enact sweeping legislative changes that established mandatory-minimum sentencing in drug crimes, random workplace drug-testing for public employees, and the creation of the Drug Czar’s office.
So it was hardly surprising to see the anti-drug zealots return to this tried-and-true playbook in the days immediately following the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others. Only hours after alleged shooter Jared Lee Loughner was taken into custody, pundits on the political right opined that the 22-year-old former pot …READ MORE
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Mon Jun 23, 2008
In December 2007, UN Drug Czar Antonio Maria Costa made a rare appearance before the drug-law reform community to give the keynote address at the biannual conference of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) in New Orleans. It appears that we made quite an impression. Speaking in Vienna this past March, Costa commented on his brief appearance with this attack: “I attended the meeting of the DPA in New Orleans last December—1,200 participants, 1,000 lunatics, 200 good people to talk to. The other ones were obviously on drugs.”
Mr. Costa also told The New York Times this past March that pot use poses a greater danger to society than heroin or cocaine.
Calling us crazy would be ironic if it weren’t so insulting. But unlike Mr. Costa, I’ve chosen not to express my thoughts with epithets. Rather, I’ve decided to simply post some of Mr. Costa’s previous statements and let HIGH TIMES readers decide …READ MORE
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NORMLizer - THE PUBLIC PRICE TAG
Sat Apr 26, 2008
According to the latest figures from the FBI, 739,000 American citizens were arrested in 2006 for possessing small amounts of pot. Another 91,000 were charged with marijuana-related felonies.
That’s the highest annual total ever recorded—nearly double the number of citizens busted for pot 15 years ago. Those arrested face a multitude of consequences, which are determined primarily by where they live. Most Californians charged with violating possession laws face little more than a small fine. By contrast, getting busted with a pinch of weed in Ohio will cost you your driver’s license for at least six months.
Move to Texas and you’re looking at a criminal record and up to 180 days in jail. If you’re a first-time offender, you may receive court-mandated “drug rehab” (one recent study found that nearly 70 percent of adults in the state’s drug-treatment programs were referred by courts for …READ MORE
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Passing of a Medi-Pot Pioneer – Dr. Tod Hiro Mikuriya
Tue May 22, 2007
By Paul Armentano
Dr. Tod Hiro Mikuriya, one of the world's foremost authorities on the therapeutic use of cannabis, died on Sunday after a multi-year battle with cancer. He was 73-years-old.
Dr. Mikuriya spent the better part of the past 40 years investigating the medical utility of pot, beginning with an appointment as the Director for Marijuana Research for the National Institute of Mental Health in 1967. In the late 1960s, he began publishing some of the first 'modern' scientific papers documenting cannabis' extensive medicinal value, including Marijuana in Medicine: Past, Present and Future (California Medicine, 1969) and Historical Aspects of Cannabis Sativa in Western Medicine (The New Physician, 1969). Around this time, he also began archiving dozens of historical texts examining the drug's therapeutic use in Western cultures in the decades prior to its prohibition. He later republished much of this work in his 1972 self-published …READ MOREtags: 13 « add a comment
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Mon Mar 12, 2007
By Paul Armentano
If you toke in the Big Apple, chances are you’ve had a run-in with one of New York’s ‘finest.’ If you’re African-American or Hispanic, chances are you and the NYPD are on a first-name basis.
That’s the dope from a new study by investigators at the National Development Research Institute (NDRI) - an independent New York City think-tank specializing in substance abuse issues.
The study, entitled “The race/ethnicity disparity in misdemeanor marijuana arrests in New York City,” analyzes NYC marijuana arrest data from 1980 to 2006. Its authors pay particular attention to the startling number of defendants arrested for ‘possessing marijuana in the fifth degree’ (aka smoking pot in public) - a misdemeanor crime that city cops began enforcing en masse under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s “Quality of …READ MOREtags: 68 « add a comment
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Fri Mar 2, 2007
By Paul Armentano
When most Americans think of Flint, Michigan, the first images to come to mind are those memorialized in Michael Moore’s 1989 debut, Roger & Me, which documented the economic decline of the filmmakers’ home town after layoffs ravaged the city in the late 80s. More than 15 years later, Flint may finally have a new image among the American public: one of pot tolerance.
On Tuesday, voters overwhelmingly made Flint (population 125,000) the fifth city in the “Wolverine State” to legalize the possession and use of marijuana as a medicine. In a rare February election, 62 percent of Flint voters said ‘yes’ to Proposal 1, which amends city law so that the possession of cannabis and pot paraphernalia by patients is no longer a criminal offense.
With the law’s passage, Flint joins Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ferndale, and Traverse City – each of which have now voted to shield medi-pot …READ MOREtags: 28 « add a comment
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DEA Judge Just Says No To The Feds' Monopoly On Pot Production
Tue Feb 20, 2007
By Paul Armentano
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen
Bittner ruled last week that the private production of cannabis for research purposes is "in the public interest." Her ruling affirms that the DEA in 2004 improperly rejected an application from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to manufacture cannabis for FDA-approved research.
Bittner's decision comes six months after the DEA conducted hearings on the issue. At that time, lawyers for the DEA argued vigorously that granting UMass' application to produce cannabis in a controlled facility would lead to greater use of the drug among the general public.
The University, in association with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), initially requested a federal license to cultivate cannabis for FDA-approved research in June of 2001. Thirteen months later, the DEA …READ MOREtags: 45 « add a comment
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ELECTION 2006 - Sowing the Seeds of Pot Reform
Fri Sep 15, 2006
By Paul Armentano
While drug law reformers should not view the initiative process as the primary mechanism for enacting substantive legislative reform (that duty still belongs to state legislatures and Congress), there’s little doubt that voter initiatives have been a highly successful way for activists to amend and overturn some of America’s more egregious marijuana policies.
Of the eleven states (Medical Marijuana Programs) that have passed legislation legalizing the physician-recommended use of medicinal cannabis since 1996, eight – Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington – have done so via voter initiative. In addition, activists at the local and county level have been equally successful in recent years passing numerous pot ‘deprioritization’ laws (such as READ MOREtags: 46 « add a comment
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Wed Oct 5, 2005
by Paul Armentano
This fall, all pot politics will be local.
For the second straight year, citizens across the country will decide on a number of municipal ballot initiatives to significantly liberalize their local cannabis laws. Following the success of Seattle's 2003 deprioritization initiative and last year's multiple victories in Oakland, CA (making marijuana enforcement the city's "lowest priority"); Detroit and Ann Arbor, MI (legalizing the use of medi-pot); Columbia, MO (depenalizing marijuana possession to a fine-only offense and legalizing the use of medicinal cannabis); and throughout Massachusetts (where voters in three state Senate and eight House districts overwhelmingly approved non-binding "public policy questions" calling for substantive pot-law reforms,) local activists in Colorado, Kansas, and Michigan are sponsoring their own efforts to bring sensible pot policies directly to the people.
A HISTORY OF SUCCESS
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