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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Every now and then stoners need to clear the air. Here are a few fresh perspectives on the world of pot smoking. -
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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. -
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. -
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!" -
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: -
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. -
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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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. -
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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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.
By Danny Danko
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Mon Jan 9, 2006
By Peter Gorman
1. ALBERT HOFMANN
Born on Jan. 11, 1906, in Baden, Switzerland, Albert Hofmann graduated from the University of Zürich with a degree in chemistry and then went to work for Sandoz Pharmaceutical in 1929. Hoping to develop a stimulant for blood circulation, he synthesized lysergic acid from ergot in 1938, which led him to discover lysergic acid diethylamide. It took five years for Hofmann to revisit his LSD-25.
On April 16, 1943, when a minute amount of the chemical entered Hofmann’s bloodstream through his skin, the world’s first acid trip was underway. Suddenly, he went into a “very strange, dreamlike state. Everything changed, everything had another meaning.” Thinking he was ill, he went home to lie down, but the altered state stayed with him. “I would think of something,” he told HIGH TIMES in 1995, “and as soon as I did I could see it. It was wonderful.”
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Wed Nov 16, 2005
Story & photos by Peter Gorman
After more than two decades of steady opposition to US-backed coca eradication in Peru, the traditional coca growers in the Peruvian highlands (known as cocaleros) may finally see their efforts rewarded with an opportunity to industrialize their sacred leaf for nondrug purposes—the central goal of a struggle that has transformed these impoverished native farmers into a potent political force. Along the way, the cocaleros report that coca-eradication projects attempting to destroy their one sustainable crop condemn them to poverty, while crop-substitution programs—generally pineapples, coffee or bananas—have mostly failed because the mountainous soil is not right for those crops, or because the infrastructure doesn’t exist to get them to market in a timely fashion, or because there simply was no demand. A matter of life and death for the indigenous farmers involved, the conflict has often turned …READ MOREtags: 130 « add a comment
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Fri Oct 7, 2005
By Peter Gorman
“There are no words to explain my feelings,” said Howard Woolridge shortly after riding in Battery Park on his horse Misty on Oct. 5. “There’s an overwhelming sense of relief and wonder that I actually did it.”
What Woolridge did was ride Misty and his relief horse, Sam, from Los Angeles to Battery Park in New York City, a seven month journey that began on March 4. The ride was made to get the word out that Woolridge, a retired cop, wants drug prohibition to end. For the entire trip he wore shirts that said: “Cops say legalize drugs. Ask me why.”
“I want everything legalized,” he explains. “Heroin, crack, methamphetamine, you name it. Legalized, regulated and sold in pharmacies.”
Though his face is weatherbeaten, the rangy, 54-year-old Woolridge hasn’t been in the sun too long. He’s a member of an organization called Law Enforcement …READ MOREtags: 28 « add a comment
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Tue Sep 28, 2004
A law designed to protect pregnant women is being used against them.
By Peter Gorman
For years, civil rights advocates and defense attorneys have argued that too much power rests in the hands of prosecutors and not nearly enough in the hands of judges. This is particularly true in drug-related cases where mandatory minimum prison terms frequently leave a judge’s hands tied when it comes to mitigating circumstances or simply giving someone a break. But a Texas panhandle District Attorney has taken that concept one step further by interpreting a recent Texas law and combining it with existing law to create an entirely new category of criminal offence.
The District Attorney is Rebecca King, from Potter County, which includes Amarillo. The new law is the Prenatal Protection Act (SB 319) passed in 2003, which notes that for the purposes of murder and aggravated assault, a fetus is considered “an unborn child at every stage of …READ MOREtags: 3 « add a comment
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Wed Sep 10, 2003
Story by Peter Gorman Photo by AP Worldwide
Two years after the aerial fumigations of Colombia’s coca fields were accelerated under Bill Clinton’s Plan Colombia, thousands of farmers and indigenous people have been displaced, huge areas of rainforest have been destroyed, previous gains against coca planting made in Bolivia and Peru are reversing themselves, and the price of cocaine on the streets of US cities has not increased one iota. On the other hand, Big Oil has finally cracked southern Colombia, and new discoveries in "accidentally" sprayed Ecuador have doubled that country’s known oil reserves.
"On the worst days, there are sometimes more than 30," Sister Carmen Rosa Perez says. "They come in to our church with nothing but their muchilas, backpacks. They’ve left everything to get out of Colombia. Or even worse, they come from our own border here in Ecuador. …READ MORE tags: 0 « add a comment
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Tue Jul 8, 2003
Story by Peter Gorman
LONDON—In May, a historic marketing agreement was entered by Bayer Pharmaceuticals and GW Pharmaceuticals to market and distribute Sativex. Sativex is a whole-plant-cannabis extract medicine developed by the British firm GW for use by patients suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) or severe neuropathic pain. Sativex is also undergoing clinical trials for use with cancer patients for pain management, controlling nausea associated with chemotherapy, and as an appetite stimulant. The medicine must still be approved by the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, but the license should be granted before the end of the year.
The agreement gives Bayer the exclusive right to market Sativex in the UK and an option to negotiate marketing rights throughout the European
Union, as well as in several other countries. In exchange, GW Pharmaceuticals receives …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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Thu May 8, 2003
Story by Peter Gorman
A total of 229 cities in 35 countries, including 134 in the US, took part in the fifth annual Million Marijuana March on May 3, letting their voices be heard against the war on marijuana. Some of the protests included thousands; others had as few as four participants, but from Abbotsford, British Columbia to Capetown, South Africa, from Dallas to Moscow, protesters gathered to call for an end to prohibition and the evil it produces worldwide.
HT.COM BONUS: Check out HIGH TIMES' extensive coverage from the marches in New York and San Francisco. The march, held annually on the first Saturday in May, is the brainchild of longtime Yippie activist Dana Beal, founder of Cures Not Wars. It has been …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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TULIA CONVICTIONS TOSSED; NARC INDICTED
Wed May 7, 2003
Story by Peter Gorman
TULIA, TX—An 18-month Regional Drug Task Force investigation of drug dealing in Tulia, Texas that culminated in 46 arrests and 38 convictions in 1999 has now led to the indictment of the deputy sheriff who ran the one-man undercover op, and a legislative call to eliminate Texas’ Regional Drug Task Forces altogether.
Tulia is a small (population about 5,000) Panhandle town surrounded by vast, mechanized combine farms. Outside of a few blocks of middle-class brick houses, the majority of the homes there are tiny, single-storied and wood-framed, most of them weatherbeaten. The town square is centered by an obelisk and dominated by a Thriftway, a Wells Fargo Bank and Tulia’s Market Square Shop. There are not many jobs in town, so many residents have to travel north, to Amarillo, or south, to Lubbock, for work. It’s a long commute in either direction. …READ MORE tags: 0 « add a comment
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Mon Apr 14, 2003
by Peter Gorman
FORT WORTH, TX—The convictions of 38 mostly black defendants stemming from a 1999 Narcotics Task Force drug-sting operation in the small Texas panhandle town of Tulia were ordered thrown out by State District Judge Ron Chapman of Dallas on April 1. The judge determined that Tom Coleman, the undercover police officer who set up the busts—and whose testimony made up virtually the prosecution’s entire case—was not a reliable witness. A special prosecutor investigating the case is not expected to seek new trials.
The scandal in Tulia was a textbook case of racial profiling for drugs. In 1998, Swisher County Sheriff Larry Stewart hired Coleman, a deputy sheriff who at the time was under indictment for theft in another town, to run a sting operation being conducted by a regional drug task force, against 60 people in Tulia whom he claimed …READ MOREtags: 0 « add a comment
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