Indholdsfortegnelse for November 2015 i High Times

Not Obama’s #1 Fan I’ve been reading your publication since it first started, and I’ve learned so much. I read every issue cover to cover. That being said, I promise that if I ever get another issue with Barack Obama’s picture on the cover, I will terminate my subscription. This man is the biggest mistake in America’s history. He’s a disgrace to our country. I’m returning your cover because I’m particular about what I use to wipe my ass! T. Sanford Lake Isabella, CA Cup Congrats I’d like to say thanks for putting on such a great Cannabis Cup in San Francisco, and especially for the outstanding Super VIP experience that my wife and I shared. All of your staff, the writers and editors and Cristina Buccola, your general counsel,…

Not Enough Studies Myth: Feds claim there’s insufficient research to allow rescheduling of pot under the Controlled Substances Act, Reality: Marijuana is among the most analyzed plant substances in human history, with over 20,000 scientific studies and reviews worldwide published to date concerning the chemistry and pharmacology of cannabis compounds and the endocannabinoid system. Gateway Drug Myth: Cannabis use is a conduit to abusing hard drugs like heroin and coke. Reality: This theory has been roundly debunked. Researchers since the 1980s have identified alcohol as the main “gateway drug.” Furthermore, an extensive study by University of Florida researchers in 2012 found that high-school seniors who drink are 16 times more likely to use illegal drugs. Causes Cancer Myth: Smoking pot is as dangerous as smoking tobacco. Reality: Several studies indicate…

Starting on January 1, 2016, California medical marijuana patients will finally be eligible for organ transplants. Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 258, which modifies the state Health and Safety Code to prohibit hospitals, physicians and procurement organizations from denying organs to potential recipients based solely on their pot use. While better late than never, this law is long overdue: Medical marijuana has been legal in California since 1996, and many med-pot users have died after being unfairly rejected for organs that might have saved their lives. Passage of the Medical Cannabis Organ Transplant Act was critical because so many people with diseases that require transplants—such as hepatitis C—use marijuana to treat their symptoms. This bill should finally put an end to the illogical and appalling denial of life-saving organ…

Rapper Too Short and Colorado ganjapreneur Giddy Up (owner of EmoTek Labs) got together to help out a medical marijuana patient who was shamefully treated by police during their raid on a California dispensary. Last month, we reported that officers from the Santa Ana PD were caught behaving badly on security cameras during a raid of Sky High Holistic. A lawsuit filed on behalf of the dispensary alleges that the police used excessive force and caused $100,00 in damages. However, the most disgusting part of the raid happened when two cops mocked wheelchair-bound amputee Marla James, 54, who works at Sky High. In the video, a male o›icer asks, “Did you punch that one-legged old [woman]?” To which a female cop replies, “I was about to kick her in her…

Bud Greenfield and Nugget are the stars of The Green Report, a YouTube news show about cannabis. The show, like the puppets, is the brainchild of puppeteer Chris Chappell, a marijuana-legalization activist who delivers The Green Report from his home studio in North Carolina. Chappell operates Bud and Nugget simultaneously—one on his left hand, the other on his right—in front of a green screen adding the weed-leaf background in post-production, as well as a cloud of smoke whenever Nugget does a bong rip. The stoner puppets deliver the latest from the CAN newsroom (get it?) with a laid-back, lighthearted tone, but their message is a serious one: It’s high time to end the War on Drugs and legalize marijuana. Check out the Green Report at youtube.com/cannewsroom .…

When it comes to indoor cultivation, it’s all about atmospheric control—after all, that’s one of the primary advantages of growing indoors. But what exactly does this entail? What are the best practices for refining your garden to get the best quality and the highest yields? Let’s take a look at some of the major aspects of atmospheric control, as well as some of the latest resources and developments that today’s technology has to offer in making your garden a happy home for our favorite plant. The Basics When we discuss atmospheric control, it all comes down to three major components: light, temperature and humidity. There are tangents to each of these categories that we will touch on as well, but this basic breakdown covers the general elements that most affect…

SUBJECT: Balcony Grow FROM: Smokeahontas My boyfriend and I are growing marijuana for the first time. We found two seeds in some weed we bought, and we also have seeds that we got at the Cannabis Cup. We are currently growing them outdoors on our balcony in Southern California. The plant we have in a hanging pot seems to have stopped growing. The other seeds are growing in a 3-gallon pot. My question is: Can wind affect the plants? Also, what would you recommend to help them continue to grow and be healthy if they are outside plants? Dear Smokeahontas, Wind can definitely affect plant growth: Strong winds in particular will keep growth stagnant, as the plant works hard just to stay upright and alive. I would recommend transplanting the…

With his flamboyant shirts, pin-bedecked derby and jovial disposition, there were few in the cannabis community as universally beloved as Oregon activist Larry Kirk—known affectionately to his friends simply as “LK.” A lifelong advocate of marijuana legalization, Larry was a proud supporter of NORML and a personal friend of Keith Stroup and the late Jack Herer. He was also an annual fixture at both the Seattle Hempfest and Portland’s Hempstalk festival (where they even named a stage after him), and served as the grand marshal at the Portland Global Cannabis March in 2015. An Army veteran, LK followed in the footsteps of one of his idols, fellow Oregonian Dr. Phillip Leveque—a distinguished forefather of today’s medical marijuana activism by vets—helping to establish a veterans’ night at the World Famous Cannabis…

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Gamers have been put on notice to clean up their acts as the world’s largest competitive gaming organization, the Electronic Sports League, has initiated a drug-testing program. The ESL began testing for performance enhancing drugs at its ESL One tournament in Germany and is working closely with the German and World Anti-Doping agencies to decide the scope of its banned substances and the penalties to be doled out to violators. PED use in gaming became an issue for the ESL when a player claimed he and his team used Adderall during a tournament in Poland while playing for $250,000. The amphetamine is banned in most professional sports. Gamers could also be tested for beta-blockers, which are popular in e-sports. No word yet on pot’s status in the ESL, however, it…

Next time you’re flying from Portland to Eugene, you can keep that stash of legal chronic in your carry-on, since passengers on all in-state flights in Oregon will be permitted to board with up to 1 ounce of cannabis—the state’s legal limit—in their possession. Portland International Airport changed its policy on July 1, the same day that recreational cannabis became legal in Oregon. Passengers with pot don’t have to take any special measures, though if TSA agents discover the weed, they’ll notify airport police, who will then verify that the amount doesn’t exceed an ounce and that the passenger is booked on an in-state flight. Unfortunately, although neighboring Washington also has legalized weed, carrying it across state lines falls under the jurisdiction of the federal government and its blanket pot…

Details continue to emerge in a tragic case that left an African-American man paralyzed, amid continuing questions about a police raid. Julian Betton, 30, was shot at least nine times by local drug-enforcement officers in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, during an April raid, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and in a coma for six weeks. Police obtained a warrant after an undercover informant bought weed from Betton twice—once for seven grams, the second time for eight grams. The cops allege that Betton, who was armed at the time of the raid, fired first as they burst through the door of his apartment—a claim that Betton denies. He was eventually charged with three counts of pot possession with intent to sell, but an independent prosecutor reviewing the case found…

Undercover Solutions’ PortaPocket This versatile little carrying case comes with interchangeable bands for use on your ankle, wrist, calf or arm. The lightweight, discreet, Velcro-mounted pocket lets you stash your hash and your cash comfortably. Wear it over your clothing to show off the embroidered pot-leaf design, or under your outfit to sneak weed past the inquisitive eyes of the po-po. The sweat- and water-resistant PortaPocket Essentials Kit contains a credit-card-size pocket and a larger belt-loop one that easily fits a couple of doob tubes and a lighter. As the company puts it: “Lose the worry… not your stuff.” $18–$35, portapocket.com…

Inspired by cannabis legalization in Colorado, this fragrance collection from Dawn Spencer Hurwitz speaks to, and of, a cannabis culture that has been thriving since the Jazz Age and is now moving into a monumental new era. Four fragrances are available: The Green House is redolent of a growroom; I Love You Mary Jane reflects the aroma of sticky nugs; Agrestic conjures the scent of an outdoor grow; and Rocky Mountain High is a smoky, woody scent. A little dab (of fragrance) will do you! dshperfumes.com…

I INTERVIEWED JESSE VENTURA FOR HIGH TIMES BACK IN 1998, AS HE WAS BEGINNING HIS SUCCESSFUL BID FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP OF MINNESOTA. SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER, THE FORMER WRESTLER, ACTOR AND NAVY SEAL HAS LOST NONE OF HIS PASSION FOR SEEKING OUT THE TRUTH—OR THE COMMON-SENSE APPROACH TO POLITICS THAT GOT HIM ELECTED. HE’S NOW THE HOST OF ORA TV’S “OFF THE GRID,” PROVIDING SHARP INSIGHTS INTO AMERICA’S MOST PRESSING PROBLEMS. IN THIS WIDE-RANGING INTERVIEW, VENTURA TALKS ABOUT HIS TENURE AS GOVERNOR AND HIS DEFAMATION LAWSUIT AGAINST CHRIS KYLE, THE MYTHOLOGIZED CENTRAL FIGURE OF AMERICAN SNIPER. AND, OF COURSE, NO INTERVIEW WITH JESSE WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT HIS RINGING ENDORSEMENT OF LEGALIZATION! You often say you’re worried about America. Very much so. There was a time when you would look at…

Ashleen Lewis walks across the expanse of greenery that’s at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, the art sanctuary and interfaith church founded by artists Alex and Allyson Grey. It’s a quiet oasis in Wappinger, NY, about 80 miles north of New York City. Ashleen, born and raised in the Poughkeepsie area, calls it one of her favorite places. “It’s a representation of freedom,” she says. “Nowadays, we think we’re free, but there are so many stipulations, so many rules. Here, you can experience real freedom.” As she walks, Ashleen limps slightly, the result of a severe car accident last winter. As a member of NORML, Ashleen is involved in the efforts to legalize marijuana in New York, where she learned that the best way to get young people involved in…

Elected policymakers and activists should take heed: The nonpartisan advocacy group Third Way recently published a set of surveys focused on marijuana-law reform. The surveys revealed in great detail who does (and who doesn’t) support the end of pot prohibition, as well as what some of the possible winning (and losing) campaign narratives are for reformers. The surveys found that over 50 percent of the American public supports legalizing cannabis. Not surprisingly, Democrats are heavily in favor, with 87 percent supporting medical marijuana and 64 percent backing recreational use. Seventy-eight percent also support “safe haven” legislation,” with 53 percent strongly backing such measures. (Safe-haven legislation would protect states that have legalized marijuana from reprisals by the federal government.) Republicans, for their part, overwhelmingly support medical use (68 percent) but not…

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Scientists identified cannabidiol in 1940, some two and a half decades before the discovery of pot’s most popular cannabinoid, THC. But until recently, fairly little attention has been paid to CBD. Unlike THC, cannabidiol does not induce euphoria in those who consume it—rather, the compound tempers THC’s psychoactivity. Like THC, CBD possesses a variety of therapeutic properties, including anti-psychotic, anti-tremor, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative and anti-diabetic activity. A limited number of human trials report that the compound is safe and well tolerated. In recent years, the majority of attention paid to CBD has revolved around its potential to mitigate symptoms in children with rare forms of intractable seizure disorders, such as Dravet syndrome. One recent study, published in May in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior, reported that 85 percent of epileptic children…

New Jersey Governor and noted glutton Chris Christie is attempting to earn some socially conservative street cred for his long-shot White House bid by taking on marijuana legalization. While legal pot in Colorado and Washington State has proven both popular and profitable, Christie nonetheless threatened that, should he be elected president, the party would soon be over. “I’m anti-marijuana. I believe it should still be illegal,” Christie warned while campaigning in New Hampshire. “If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it until January 2017, because I will enforce the federal laws against marijuana as president.” While Christie has supported state’s rights when politically convenient, he dropped that act when discussing states that have legalized recreational marijuana. “We have a federal law on the books that says marijuana is illegal…

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has once again placed herself at the forefront of progressive politics in America, issuing a letter calling on the heads of various federal agencies—including the DEA, the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Department of Health and Human Services—to answer a series of detailed questions regarding the federal government’s role in medical marijuana research. The letter, which was signed by seven other senators (all Democrats), insists that the federal government has a responsibility to investigate the efficacy and benefits of medical cannabis. (It has long been standard operating procedure for the Feds to fund only those studies that seek to find harmful effects in marijuana use.) The senators proposed that the Feds should be collecting data and performing clinical trials in the 23 states…

Have you tried “microdosing” yet? It’s the new international phenomenon of consuming modest quantities of hallucinogens like acid and ’shrooms. According to proponents, the primary advantage of microdosing is achieving some of the psychological benefits of tripping without the overwhelming mind-melt. Some microtrippers have reported improvements in their perception, mood and focus. A typical micro-dose is 10 micrograms of LSD; standard doses run anywhere from 50 to 150 micrograms. One method of ingestion is to soak a blotter hit in water and then drink a portion of the “acid aqua.” Although microdosing is becoming a 21st-century trend, some believe that the practice actually predates the dawn of humankind. According to the late Terence McKenna’s “Stoned Ape” hypothesis, microdosing by primates assisted their cognitive evolution and helped us become the rational…

Colombia: Peace Talks Resume as War Escalates Colombia’s FARC guerillas called off their six-month-long unilateral ceasefire after a military airstrike in the country’s Cauca region on May 22 left 26 of its fighters dead. When a new phase of peace talks opened in Havana, Cuba, three days later, FARC leaders appealed to the Colombian government to instate a bilateral ceasefire. Instead, the very next day, Colombian forces carried out a mixed land-and-air assault on a camp of the FARC’s 18th Front in the Pacific coastal region of Chocó, killing 41 guerrillas, followed a day later by new airstrikes targeting the FARC’s Fourth Front in Antioquia, killing 10 more fighters. Among those killed in the Cauca strike, according to FARC, was a guerrilla leader taking part in the Havana peace talks.…

As the California cannabis industry expands and matures, more patients are seeking healthy cannabis-infused food options, including several that won big at the recent High Times Cannabis Cup in San Francisco. Maya Lapid, the founder of Om Edibles, scored a first-place win with her Raw CBD Sipping Cacao, as well as a third-place win with her Cinnamon Maple Tree Hugger Coated Nuts. “I predicted this year was about superfoods!” Maya exclaims. “I wanted to make something healthy and delicious, gluten-free and vegan, that had a long shelf life.” Cannabis, as we all know, is a positive, life-affirming substance with many medicinal benefits, so it makes sense to combine it with foods that contribute to an overall feeling of vitality. “Superfoods,” which include whole foods like kale, hemp, salmon, blueberries and…

Legalization has enabled new talent and fresh business perspectives to enter the cannabis industry. It’s not too hard to understand why: When the threat of having your life upended for cultivating a plant—much less smoking it—no longer exists, creativity blossoms. New business models are created, new products emerge, and new networks of commerce evolve to sell them. In 2000, Colorado voters passed Amendment 20, which made access to medical marijuana part of the state’s constitution. But for nine years, the fledgling medical marijuana industry languished, because the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment barred individual caregivers from providing medicine to more than five patients. Then, in 2009, the state Board of Health overturned that five-patient limit, and the cannabis industry found its footing. Dispensaries opened across the state, and…

ALTHOUGH CONNOISSEUR CONCENTRATES WAS FOUNDED ABOUT 18 MONTHS AGO, THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ITS CLOSED-LOOP EXTRACTION DEVICE, MR. EXTRACTOR, HAS BEEN UNDERWAY FOR ROUGHLY SEVEN YEARS. WE SAT DOWN WITH CONNOISSEUR CEO DREW JONES TO DISCUSS THE COMPANY’S FLAGSHIP PRODUCT AND THE FUTURE OF EXTRACTION. When did you first start working in the cannabis industry? I’ve been growing and extracting since I was young. Cannabis has been my life’s work. It’s my distinct pleasure to run this company and supply my devices to every legal location on the planet. It seems fitting. Tell us about the Mr. Extractor R&D process? As the inventor of Mr. Extractor, I was inspired years ago by the Tamisium Extractor. I set out to create my own system with improvements that I felt would…

According to my brother, new research proves that medical marijuana really isn’t any good. Help! I. Needmymeds Hi I.N., A review in the Journal of the American Medical Association addressed medicinal cannabinoids and found that some ailments respond well to them and others poorly. But here’s the catch: The research under review was overwhelmingly about synthetic THC (such as Marinol) and THC-like drugs; only two of the studies looked at actual cannabis. So the conclusions don’t really apply to medical marijuana—and, needless to say, nobody has claimed that pot is a cure for everything. Unfortunately, the media jumped to the wrong conclusions and ended up botching the message. Can our beloved plant protect me from cigarette smoke? Nick O’Teen Hi Nick, A team of researchers, including investigators from California and…

Chris Thompson grew up on a steady diet of misinformation from anti-marijuana groups like DARE and the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. But soon he discovered that the War on Drugs was based solely on political propaganda and lacked any scientific backing. Chris took action by forming several NORML chapters across Indiana—organizing informational meetings, hosting public demonstrations and building a network of grassroots volunteers, while maintaining positive relationships with his state and local representatives. Chris currently serves as the executive director of Purdue NORML and also sits on the board of Indiana NORML. In addition to his activism reforming the Hoosier State’s marijuana laws, he is majoring in biological engineering at Purdue University. Most recently, Chris accepted a position as an intern with national NORML, working out of the organization’s Denver…

NUG OF THE MONTH FLOWER POWER Feel free to publish this photo I took of my own strain called Ghost Berry Haze. J.Vans CLOSE-UP OF THE MONTH WALLY WORLD Here’s a shot of Wally OG (Phantom OG x Ghost OG) from Kind Pain Management’s OG harvest. Cheers! @fillyoureyes GROWER OF THE MONTH GREEN MOUNTAIN HARVEST Here’s a pic of last year’s sativa/indica cross breed in a buddy’s back yard. I’m 6’1” and not crouching. You may print my face as I’m way too old & sick to care anymore. Thanks! Steve Merrill, North Troy, VT COLA OF THE MONTH UNITED KIND-DOM Guide Dawg from Holy Smoke Seeds. Nick T. E-mail your hi-res digital photographs to mailbag@hightimes.com.…