Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2018 i High Times

WITH CANADA SET to become the largest country in the world to legalize cannabis this summer, we head north to explore the world’s largest marijuana-production company. Aurora Cannabis is a licensed producer (LP) of pot boasting four state-of-the-art facilities across Canada—including a mind-wobbling 800,000-square-foot greenhouse known as Aurora Sky located in Edmonton. Aurora Sky cost $100 million to build and is capable of producing over 100,000 kilograms of cannabis a year. Our senior cultivation editor, Danny Danko, visited the facility and could only truly appreciate its remarkable proportions by helicopter. And Danko wept for its beauty (this is a really big grow). Impressive as its cultivation locations proved to be, Aurora Cannabis is setting itself apart through quality, consistency and innovation. And, thanks to a recent expansion that has Aurora…

GRANNIES FOR GRASS This organization has grown to include chapters all over the US and international locations in countries such as Canada, Denmark and Australia. There are 73 chapters across the globe (and counting). The group’s site (granniesforgrass.com) is an excellent resource and provides info about medical marijuana and the endocannabinoid system. Grannies for Grass is affiliated with other like-minded groups and provides recipes on its site as well. The group is quick to point out that grandpas are also invited to get involved, as are non-grandparents. AMERICAN LEGION Chartered by Congress in 1919 as an organization focusing on service to veterans, the American Legion has evolved into one of the most influential nonprofit groups in the United States. The American Legion’s national executive committee passed two medical-marijuana-related resolutions in…

Actor Charlize Theron was once a dedicated stoner—“Yes, oh God yes, I was a wake-and-baker for most of my life,” she told E! News recently. “Then,” as she explained to Jimmy Kimmel, “my chemistry just changed one day and I found myself frozen in front of my fridge for like eight hours.” Recently, though, she’s back on the stuff, largely to help with her insomnia, a condition she shares with her mother. Theron shared a charming anecdote with Kimmel about the time her mom, Gerda Maritz, scored some edibles for her. “She was like, ‘So I got some blueberry-covered chocolate ones, but if you want it faster-acting, you should go for the mints. Those you suck, and it works faster.’” Theron was plugging her recent film, Gringo, a darkish comedy…

A Nevada, Missouri, woman did what a lot of people in the Bible Belt do: She delivered the Good Book to a prisoner in jail. Unlike most Bibles given to the incarcerated, however, this one was packed with weed and methamphetamines, the drugs crammed into the book’s binding. Ashley Despain was charged with delivery or possession of a controlled substance to the Vernon County Jail, a felony, the Kansas City Star reported. Despain was arrested in the jail’s parking lot, along with the passenger in her car who had an outstanding warrant. “If you show up at the sheriff’s office with drugs, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get arrested,” Sheriff Jason Mosher said. “Usually [a Bible] is something you bring to help somebody through situations,” the sheriff added. “That’s…

J.J. McCoy is Senior Managing Editor for New Frontier Data IT’S BEEN A persistent urban myth among some cannabis advocates that the Declaration of Independence and its 56 signatures were written on hemp paper. Of course, that theory has been thoroughly debunked by researchers at Monticello (Thomas Jefferson’s estate), the Library of Congress and the National Archives. The final document signed by the founding fathers at the Continental Congress in 1776 was engrossed on parchment made from animal skin. The original rough draft, written by Jefferson and kept among the Jefferson Papers collection at the Library of Congress, has watermarks indicating it to be Dutch-made paper consisting of flax or linen rags. Nevertheless, some 242 years later, hemp is revolutionary in its own way. As recently noted in our December…

HT: How did you approach legalization in Uruguay? We are very aware of what happened in the ’30s in the United States, when they banned alcohol. The hiding of alcohol made things much worse. So we started testing with marijuana, to create a regulated market, where we assured the consumer of this. Because if you have it clandestinely, we saw what happened in America, in Mexico, everywhere. In the end, drug trafficking is worse than the drug itself. Do you think Uruguay will legalize other drugs? We do not know for now. We must experiment with this [marijuana legalization], continue learning and then maybe try. What happens is that there are huge repressive apparatuses whose ability to exist is from the repression of drug trafficking, a complete doctrine, a business…

LET ME TELL YOU A SECRET. The first issue of High Times featured a female goddess on the cover eating a mushroom. It’s true. From our first art director to our longest-tenured publisher, High Times magazine boasts a rich history of strong female leadership. For the past 44 years, we have collaborated with activists, cultivators and tastemakers in the cannabis space. Many of these OGs are indomitable women. It is this breed of female that inspired the formation of the High Times Women’s Council and its inaugural High Times Women of Weed (WOW) event in Los Angeles. Officially dubbed “An Evening With OG Women,” the event also served as a benefit for the Freedom Grow organization—the brainchild of super-OGs Dr. Dina and Stephanie Landa that helps inmates imprisoned for nonviolent…

by @DannyDanko SUBJECT: Female Pre-Flowers FROM: Vasco De Ganja How can I tell what the sex of my plant will be before the flowering stage has begun? Dear Vasco, You need to examine the node where the leaves meet the stems and look for the pre-flowers. Male pre-flowers look like tiny spikes with balls on the end, and female pre-flowers look like tiny teardrop-shaped pods with white hairs sticking out. SUBJECT: Praying Mantis FROM: Bugging Out in Butte A friend of mine told me that having a praying mantis in the growroom can help kill harmful bugs. Is this true? Dear BOB, Indeed, carnivorous praying mantises (or mantids) love to eat many of the insects that plague our ganja gardens, and they are one of nature’s most voracious garden protectors…

Got a question for Dr. Mitch? Email him at 420research@gmail.com. What’s the best strain for treating fibromyalgia? Bar Epstein Hey Bar, Alas, although recent work in Israel confirms that medical cannabis does help the pain, fatigue and mood problems associated with fibromyalgia, we still don’t have any published data comparing strains. What’s the word on the breath test for driving under the influence of cannabis? Sal Iva Hi Sal, Despite alleged improvements in saliva, blood, urine and skin tests, the amount of THC in people’s systems is not a good predictor of driving ability because everyone’s tolerance is so different. Motor-skill tests akin to the standard roadside sobriety checks for alcohol are much fairer. Anybody who can walk that straight line (and remember how many steps to take!), follow a…

E-mail your hi-res digital photographs to mailbag@hightimes.com FLOWER OF THE MONTH RAINBOW COLORS The strain is called Blacklight (Blackberry Kush x Northern Lights #5) by Downinda Basement. DB GROW OF THE MONTH REAL ESTATE Here’s a photo of our farm. Dan S. COLA OF THE MONTH TOP OF THE PUFFIN I’m a photographer based in Portland, OR. The name of the strain is Salmon River OG. Thank you to Stone Creek Farms for letting me photograph their amazing flower. Also, shout out to my dog Bentley. Dylan Kotecki CLOSE UP OF THE MONTH WICKED DARK Rick’s Pupil bred and photographed by Mass Medical Strains and grown by Eastcoasterdam. Mass Medical Strains…

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THE TIME IS MEOW Just got a peek at the June 2018 issue and so excited that you guys put the Super Troopers on the cover. Almost as excited as I am to see the new movie (nice timing by the way). HT and Broken Lizard is the perfect pairing—and that cover is awesome. Well done. Jim Hoboken, NJ MYTH BUSTING In New York State, medical cannabis is legal with physician approval but I have not applied for such a card and therefore, I do not smoke or use it. But I do believe in the healing power of plants and I fundamentally believe that when a natural substance can be used to heal, it should always take precedence over its chemical cousin. A number of years ago, I had…

Drink a lot of coffee? If so, you may be messing with your endocannabinoid system. According to a new study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, something in coffee can make blood metabolites involved in the endo system drop off. Put another way, coffee suppresses the same endocannabinoid chemicals that cannabis consumption boosts, says Marilyn Cornelis, assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who led the study. The researchers asked 47 Finnish adults, habitual coffee drinkers all, to abstain from the joe for a month, then start downing four cups a day for one month, then eight cups per day the following month. It’s unclear what the coffee-cannabinoid connection means for coffee, cheeba and human health. “We hope that this will be hypothesis-generating,” Cornelis…

Hemp has a powerful new friend. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has announced he’ll be introducing legislation to get hemp—marijuana’s straight cousin—off the Controlled Substances Act. His home state of Kentucky was a major producer of hemp back in the day and is at the forefront of the versatile crop’s comeback, with more than 12,000 new acres approved in the state this year. “Hemp has played a foundational role in Kentucky’s agricultural heritage, and I believe that it can be an important part of our future,” McConnell enthused at the announcement. Since the 2014 federal farm bill allowed states to designate hemp projects for research, some 19 states have started growing in limited, strictly controlled amounts. “It’s now time to take the final step and make this a legal crop,”…

JEREMIAH GREEN IS in Issaquah, Washington, trying to find a place to smoke a spliff outside of his grandma’s house. He’s momentarily bothered by a passerby, but he goes about his business like it’s any other day. The Modest Mouse drummer has been smoking cannabis for years to alleviate his depression, a condition that led to his temporary exit from the band he and front man Isaac Brock established over 20 years ago. “I went on antidepressants, and I got all manic and weird,” Green explains. “I just blew up one day. I was acting hella weird. I ended up in the hospital for six hours and realized pretty quick I didn’t want to be there.” But quitting the band wasn’t something Green meant to do. Modest Mouse was still…

The first Perfect Circle album of original material since 2003 revisits the visceral facets of Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan in his musical marriage to guitarist Billy Howerdel. The title track signals a starker aesthetic for APC’s reunion, while “Disillusioned” advises cellphone culture: “Time to put the silicone obsession down, take a look around.” Elephant gets heavier when the pounding percussion of “The Doomed” is reinforced by the furious “TalkTalk.” Closer “Get the Lead Out” plays with expectations of tempo, while the groove hooks listeners just in time. Mark Miller As intriguing as the 11 tracks of late-’60s/mid-’70s hard blues and proto-metal featured here are the bands themselves, rescued from oblivion by this compilation. San Francisco’s esoteric group Gold provide the fuzzed-out opener “No Parking,” while Canadian band Heat Exchange’s…

THE BIGGEST NAMES in the cannabis world converged at Exchange LA in downtown Los Angeles on March 1. As a line of eager attendees formed at the venue’s entrance, a palpable excitement filled the early-evening air. The night before, High Times hosted its first-ever event celebrating women in the cannabis space. This night, HT brought pot superstars like Advanced Nutrients’ BigMike, Select CEO Cameron Forni, AHHS Collective’s Dr. Dina and the King of Cannabis himself, Arjan Roskam, together to celebrate the 100 most influential people in cannabis. While High Times has been hosting events for over 30 years, the HT 100 Awards Show was unlike anything we’ve done before. Our list of the 100 most influential people in cannabis was featured in the May 2018 issue of HT, and as…

Kevin Mahmalji is NORML Outreach Director. Visit norml.org. COLORADO LAWMAKERS ARE well into their fifth legislative session since enacting the retail sale of adult-use marijuana in 2012, and the need to coordinate the various policy discussions around the issue has never been greater. Since Colorado voters approved recreational cannabis, there have been ongoing debates surrounding various aspects of the law and its impact—such as how best to address the question of social consumption, product testing and the use of medical cannabis on public campuses. To best address these issues, state lawmakers have formed the first-ever statewide Cannabis Caucus. Modeled off of the success that we have seen in the establishment of the federal Congressional Cannabis Caucus, it was imperative to create avenues for policy to be discussed and developed at…

As the newly launched medical-cannabis program takes shape in Pennsylvania, news now comes of an unintended consequence: the risk that patients could lose their jobs if they test positive for pot. At a recent Philadelphia City Council fact-finding meeting, a panel of lawyers, medical professionals and other stakeholders discussed the precarious position patients could be put in under the new regulations. Although Pennsylvania law prohibits employers from firing or discriminating against patients, it also states that “Employers may prohibit patients who are employees from performing any task which the employer deems life-threatening to the employee or other employees while under the influence of marijuana.” No one knows if that law will stand up in court, but we’ll probably find out soon enough. The medical-cannabis program is only weeks old and…

California, the nation’s cultural trendsetter, permits marijuana smoking at the point of purchase, so long as the retailer has a specially designed lounge. So far, this Amsterdam-like convenience is available at only a select few establishments in San Francisco. The Barbary Coast Collective on Mission Street is gaining traction as a one-stop shop for flowers and dabs, with a comfy lounge in which to enjoy them responsibly. The director of the city’s Office of Cannabis (a.k.a. the marijuana czar), Nicole Elliot, says new permits will be issued once certain regulations are worked out. City health officials need to safeguard workers from secondhand smoke and protect neighbors from smelling the dank. Elsewhere in the Golden State, West Hollywood plans to issue up to eight lounge licenses and Alameda a couple more;…

“DON’T GET TOO Comfortable” is the title of a track appearing halfway through the Sword’s sixth full-length studio album, Used Future, and though the song itself is a hazy, riff-laden jam in which bandleader J.D. Cronise muses about the dystopian future of our increasingly less green planet, it could also be a warning to the group’s longtime fans that this record represents another step forward in the band’s march away from metal. It’s been a dozen years since the Sword rode in on the doom-cold winds of Age of Winters, the debut album that landed their music in Guitar Hero, their faces on the covers of numerous metal magazines, and the band, eventually, in arenas, heating up the pit for thrash pioneers Metallica. Since then, the Sword have evolved from…

The opening line of Ginsberg’s 1955 poem “Howl” (“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”) seems to have captured more imaginations and rerouted more life paths than any other literature of its time. This commemorative box set includes the poet’s first LP on red vinyl of him reading “Howl” as well as “America,” “Kaddish” and other early classics; the pocket paperback published by City Lights Books that could be found in any hip, cultured pad back in the day; liner notes by Beat scholar Ann Charters and poet Anne Waldman; and other ephemera. Michael Simmons Like other 1960s kids, Jann Wenner idolized the Beatles, Dylan and the Stones. He made millions by starting an incredibly successful magazine devoted to his idols. Rolling Stone became the voice…

INGREDIENTS 15 frozen phyllo cups7 oz. Brie cheese (you’ll have some left over)4 tbsp. cannabis-infused butter, unsalted and melted2½ tbsp. store-bought ginger-mango chutneyChopped fresh parsley for garnishing WITH DECADES OF experience cooking with the herb, Chef Ricky Flickenger teaches eager students how to precisely infuse cannabis into delicious gourmet cuisine with little to no grassy taste. Working in Seattle with legal access to high-quality cannabis ingredients, Flickenger prefers using kief as the active ingredient for his easy, tasty THC treats. Kief is an ideal culinary ingredient because it can be used like many other spices and it melts right into the infusion, requiring no straining. Advising students to quickly activate kief by toasting it for just 7-10 minutes in a 300ºF oven, Flickenger uses a high temperature combined with a…