Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2014 i High Times

For 40 years High Times has been fighting prohibition, ignorance, cops, lawmakers, presidents, half-told truths, oft-told lies, DARE, NIDA, the ONDCP, the IRS, the DEA, the FBI, the CIA, newspaper editors, television pundits, misinformation, disinformation, recrimination, drug tests, drug dogs, drug rip-offs, drug agents, postal agents, customs agents, pathogenic agents, spider mites, bad trips, worse weed, commercials that try to convince you that your brain on drugs is something like a fried egg, no-knock warrants, mandatory minimums, stop and frisk, subpoenas asking for our subscribers list, paraquat, sexism, racism, fascism, imperialism, the prison-industrial complex, international narcotics interdiction, Dravet Syndrome, AIDS, cancer and snitches—to name but a few of our more notable adversaries. Occasionally we fight among ourselves, but we get over it. With truth as our sword and the First…

AS WE CELEBRATE THE VICTORIES THAT MARIJUANA, BOTH MEDICAL AND RECREATIONAL, IS EXPERIENCING ACROSS THE NATION, LET’S NOT FORGET HOW LONG IT TOOK TO GET US TO THIS POINT. ONE MAN WHO’S BEEN WITNESS TO THE UPS AND DOWNS AND INS AND OUTS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR LEGAL CANNABIS IS KEITH STROUP, THE FOUNDER OF NORML. WE ASKED KEITH TO RECOUNT THE DIFFICULT LOWS AND EXTRAORDINARY HIGHS OF THE PAST 40 YEARS. Marijuana cultivation in the United States can trace its lineage back some 400 years. For most of this nation’s history, farmers grew marijuana—hemp—for its fiber content. The first American hemp crop was planted in 1611. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson cultivated marijuana and advocated a hemp-based economy. Some colonies even made hemp cultivation compulsory and called its production…

“Darth Raider” spent 22 years exterminating marijuana fields inside the United States. A trained Special Forces soldier, he was inserted into stateside narcotics enforcement and, as it turned out, excelled at his job. Now retired and disillusioned, he contacted High Times to tell us the story of what it was like fighting for the other side in the War on Drugs. Journey to the Dark Side “Darth Raider” lives in a small community of attached cooperative homes in the southeastern part of the United States, a couple of miles from the urban sprawl one usually finds near the tentacled off-ramps of America’s interstate highway system. En route to his home, you’ll find the usual landmarks: Waffle House, Chili’s, Motel 6, Walgreens, McDonald’s, and an AM/PM selling shirts inside that read…

HIGH TIMES’ FOUNDER, TOM FORÇADE, WAS KNOWN FOR BIG THINKING—AND BIG SPENDING. INSPIRED BY THE SEX PISTOLS’ REVOLUTIONARY “FUCK YOU” ATTITUDE, FORÇADE SET OUT TO MAKE A DOCUMENTARY MOVIE ABOUT THE LEGENDARY BRITISH PUNK BAND’S ILL-FATED 1978 TOUR, AND HE WAS WILLING TO SPEND WHATEVER IT TOOK TO GET THE JOB DONE. THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS, HE NEGLECTED TO INFORM THE PISTOLS OR THEIR RECORD COMPANY, WARNER BROTHERS, ABOUT HIS PLANS, AND THE BAND’S ROAD MANAGER BECAME CONVINCED THAT HE WAS WORKING FOR THE CIA. In May 1976, a man dressed in a western-style three-piece suit barged into the offices of Punk magazine, took a seat, plopped his cowboy boots on my desk and announced: “I’m going to make you rich and famous.” He briefly went over his plan, then…

“Field of Dreams” (January 1995) Article by Chris Simunek (Gene Christian), photos by Kent Sea Grower: Jack the Dirt Farmer Plant count: 300 Medium: Soil and cow manure In 1995, our intrepid then-reporter, Chris Simunek (now High Times’ editor-in-chief), traveled below the Mason-Dixon Line to visit one of the ballsiest and most eye-popping outdoor gardens ever grown. The breathtaking centerfold tells it all: hundreds of flowering plants grown in full sun, just barely concealed by the surrounding cornstalks serving as camouflage. And all this was taking place in the Deep South, where the penalties for pot growing are beyond harsh. The plants would go outside around the first of June and then grow all summer long in the hazy Southern heat. By harvest time, the huge colas on these naturally…

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION WITHOUT LESTER GRINSPOON. AN APOCRYPHAL VERSION OF HIS ORIGIN STORY MAINTAINS THAT DURING THE 1960S DR GRINSPOON, AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, WAS CONCERNED THAT HIS FRIEND, ASTRONOMER CARL SAGAN, WAS SMOKING TOO MUCH POT. “CARL, THAT CAN’T BE GOOD FOR YOU,” THE DOCTOR ASSERTED. “LESTER,” SAGAN REPLIED, ARCHING A BUSHY BLACK BROW, “I THINK YOU SHOULD RECONSIDER.” BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. IN 1967, BY HIS OWN ASSESSMENT, GRINSPOON WAS “IN AN IVORY TOWER LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW, AND I WAS FASCINATED BY THE 1960S,” HE TOLD HIGH TIMES. “BUT MARIJUANA WAS AN UNCOMFORTABLE PART. I THOUGHT THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE WERE BEHAVING IRRESPONSIBLY.” LESTER AND CARL DID AGREE THAT THERE WAS A SURPRISING LACK OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE SUBJECT,…

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KING HARVEST HAS SURELY COME Travel back with us through the High Times archives as Danny Danko chooses “The Greatest Pot Gardens of All Time.” Beginning on page 70, we highlight some of the most innovative and ballsy grows from our 40 years of groundbreaking cultivation coverage. This sweet shot is an outtake from our Jan. ’99 feature “Trichome Technologies: A Scientific Approach to Growing.” Photo by Kent Sea STAYING LIT Serious weed puffer and top pro rider David Gravette braved 30 mph winds at a DIY skate spot overlooked by a pot garden on the California coast. Lochfoot calls this challenging shot one of his all-time favorites, pointing out that burning one down while boosting massive frontside airs isn’t a game for amateurs. Photo by Lochfoot LEAFY LAGOON A…

Last year, I was asked to collect images for a new book, Cannabis Under the Microscope: A Visual Exploration of Medicinal Sativa and C. Indica by Ford McCann, and I decided the time was ripe to use modern imaging techniques to photograph this unique plant. Scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) were used for the majority of the images in the book, and also for the majority of the pictures selected for this article. Preparing samples for electron microscopy is quite dificult, as all liquids have to be removed before the sample can enter the high vacuum required by the SEM. Several growers in California donated samples preserved in glutaraldehyde. (The samples used in an SEM are typically less than one-eighth of an inch in size.) The samples then go through a…

What better way to celebrate High Times’ 40th anniversary than to pay homage to the best of the cannabis plant, which provided our founder, Thomas King Forçade, and so many others with the inspiration to cultivate a movement and put forth a publication dedicated to one goal for so many years. You’re probably wondering just how, exactly, we came up with The List? We do admit it’s not a bad gig to have, deciding which strains are the best of all time—but still, the task did come with its challenges. Sorting through the varied histories of these strains wasn’t exactly easy as the lineage, parentage and even the birthplace of some of these strains are murky at best. So we had to rely on a few main factors, the first…

Our right to control our own bodies is the foundation of the battle to legalize cannabis. Prohibition, whether aimed at alcohol or cannabis, subverts this basic right. Our right to oversee our own health should never be circumscribed by legislation either. Volumes of evidence now prove that cannabis can improve one’s overall health and well-being—something that can never be claimed of booze. But the fundamental right that prohibition tramples is spelled out in Article 21 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government”—something our own government seems to have forgotten. In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 215, making it the first state to legalize medical marijuana. But the Feds moved quickly to quash the law.…

Send your cannabis cultivation questions to @deardanko or deardanko@hightimes.com. SUBJECT: Plant Sex FROM: Russian Kush How can I tell if my plant is male or female? I planted a seed two months ago and still can’t figure out what I’ve got. Dear RK, You should be seeing pre-flowers any day now, appearing at the middle of the node where the branches meet the main stem. Use a loupe to look closely at any growth at this joint. Females will have fuzzy white hairs extending from a teardrop-shaped bract (also known as a calyx); male pre-flowers resemble a fist at the end of a very short arm and eventually turn into what looks like a tiny bunch of yellow bananas hanging down. SUBJECT: Online Seeds FROM: Chadwick I live in the…