Indholdsfortegnelse for July 2019 i High Times

The cannabis world lost a pioneering legend when Nevil Schoenmakers passed away on March 30, 2019. Australian-born to Dutch parents, Schoenmakers, along with just a small handful of others, jump-started the entire cannabis seed-breeding industry. He was also the first seed breeder to advertise in High Times in the early 1980s. His seeds launched countless grow operations around the world, and his Nevil’s Haze is still a staple in many gardens and breeding efforts. In the darkest days of the War on Drugs, Schoenmakers’s distribution of viable cannabis seeds from Holland was an overtly political act and an attempt to quite literally “overgrow the government.” Many of the strains we consume today are hybrids of that original genetic material that he bravely shared with the world at great risk to…

J.J. McCoy is Senior Managing Editor for New Frontier Data “YOU’VE COME A long way, baby.” Fifty years ago, that classic advertising slogan from the Leo Burnett Agency caught fire with Philip Morris’s ad campaign for Virginia Slims, pitched as the first cigarette brand specifically marketed to women. It captured the feminist zeitgeist for liberated women, throwing off the repression of politesse, discrimination, sexism and inequality. While equating tobacco with freedom seems an anachronistic notion ever since the outing of Brown & Williamson and the corporate fat-cat “nicotine is not addictive” scandals of the 1990s, there are nevertheless some social parallels to be considered between the rise of feminism and the sexual revolution in the ’60s as juxtaposed with today’s increasing enthusiasm for cannabis reform. The first recorded instance of…

How did you first get involved with horticultural lighting? Almost 20 years ago I started as a hobby grower. I was growing on just a few square meters with HPS [high-pressure sodium] lights. As my grow setup had to be as stealthy as possible, I realized that temperatures in small cabinets are a big issue to control. A few years later I started mechatronic studies under a master’s program, where I decided to combine my hobby of growing with my technical knowledge, and eventually founded SANlight. What’s most important when considering a grow lamp? Many different points have to be considered, and the first question is where you want to use your grow-light system. For usage in big professional facilities or greenhouses, the protection of LEDs [light-emitting diodes] is important.…

Send your cannabis cultivation questions to @deardanko or deardanko@hightimes.com. SUBJECT: Odor Control FROM: Rob G. I live in an apartment and have a legal prescription for medical marijuana. I am concerned about the smell, though, if I decide to grow my own. What about grow tents or anything else for maximum discretion in terms of cost and practicality? Dear Rob, Odor control is an important part of cannabis cultivation, particularly as you approach harvest and during the drying process when the smell of your medical marijuana will permeate the surroundings. My advice is to use a strong inline fan to exhaust all of your “spent” warm air through an activated-charcoal filter. Filtration will eliminate much of the odor as long as you’re pumping out enough air to cause negative pressure…

Tweet your best high observations and comments our way (@HIGH_TIMES_Mag) for a chance to be featured on this page! And be sure to follow us on Facebook: (Facebook/HighTimesMag) and Instagram: (@hightimesmagazine) for all the latest news as it’s happening! @BillRee20561495: @HIGH_ TIMES_Mag All plants love the Sun. It makes outdoor-grown weed happier then indoor-grown weed. That happiness shows itself in the final product. @merrengue: @HIGH_TIMES_ Mag So true. I’m in CA and I can honestly say the packaging here drives me nuts. It truly is not just child proof but as a grown man I can’t open that shit. @christmas_scott: @HIGH_ TIMES_Mag Please please legalize!!!! I have dealt with this ridiculous plan to keep weed illegal for over 35 years … It just makes no sense! The penal system has…

YOU MAY HAVE heard about the impressive jobs numbers in the cannabis industry. The latest: There are now 211,000 full-time weed jobs across the United States, with a robust 64,000 or so added in 2018 alone. Since the US government doesn’t keep track of such things, and probably won’t so long as cannabis is illegal at the federal level, Leafly and Whitney Economics have painstakingly “gone state-by-state to tally the total number of direct, full-time jobs in the state-legal cannabis industry.” The numbers are staggering. In pioneer states like Colorado and Washington, job growth is beginning to level off, but newcomers to the game such as Florida, with a young medical-pot program, saw leaps in cannabis employment by a whopping 703 percent last year, adding more than 9,000 full-time jobs.…

Colorado’s Institute for Cannabis Research is doing something that no one wants it to do: use taxpayer money to develop a seed-to-sale tracking system that would involve adding a chemical or some such substance to the plant. The Denver Post reported that such a tracking system has already been rejected by the State Legislature “primarily because the state’s marijuana industry loudly told them they don’t want to add a foreign substance to their product.” Critics also object to the fact that the institute, which is part of the Pueblo campus of Colorado State University, is essentially doing R&D that will be used by the private sector. The Daily Sentinel tried to obtain information about the research, but was rebuffed by the school, which doesn’t disclose detailed info on ongoing research.…

A Humboldt County company has come up with a new twist on a classic delivery system: the chew. Cannadips pouches are infused with CBD or THC, and are consumed much the way one would consume a chaw of tobacco, minus the disgusting part. “Our pouches are smokeless, spit-less, and non-visible, giving patients the versatility to medicate when they want, where they want,” plugs the Cannadips website. Company co-founder Case Mandel explained it this way to Green Entrepreneur: “When you put the product in your mouth, it gets absorbed under the tongue and into the back of the mouth, where there is the buccal artery. We believe this causes it to go directly to the brain and bypass the liver completely.” We don’t yet know how this measures up versus edibles,…

Prices by the ounce All indices finished July below their previous month’s average. This is the second consecutive month that prices have dropped across the US Price, Eastern and Southern indices. However, unlike last month, July’s price drops were minor—the biggest decrease in average price was just $4. July’s top five submitted strains saw four newcomers, including a surprise first place finish for Jack Herer. TRANS HIGH MARKET QUOTATIONS High Times wants to know what you’re smoking. Submit your strain information including location and price by the ounce to thmq@hightimes.com, or tweet us (#THMQ).…

his story Subcool’s passion for cannabis started early in life. He began growing in the 1970s and eventually found himself in trouble with law enforcement and in jail. His defiant return to cultivation resulted in a subsequent bust and he wound up serving time in prison, a stint that ignited a passion to change cannabis laws and help free the healing flower for good. Subcool moved west and his prowess in breeding and growing eventually led him to found Team Green Avenger Seeds. He first came to my attention in the forums of overgrow.com, where he shared information and photos of his lovely cannabis specimens. In 2006, I chose his Jack the Ripper as one of our High Times Top 10 Strains of that year, and he was eventually inducted…

Got a question for Dr. Mitch? Email him at 420research@gmail.com. What’s the deal with CBD for dogs? Lil Bow Wow Bow Wow, The only published work suggests that high doses create sedation and diarrhea in canines, but that’s about the worst of it. The medical effects aren’t exactly well-documented, but I assume they’re similar to the ones we see in humans. I should emphasize that the dosage required for a real decrease in anxiety or inflammation is probably going to be expensive. Is marijuana really the most popular drug? N. Vogue Hey Vogue, Usually, folks who say that mean “illicit” drug, a distinction that cannabis won’t qualify for if we keep up the good work. Caffeine is used by more people and more often, and 70 percent of US citizens…

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I FIRST ENCOUNTERED the cannabis seed breeder known as Subcool on the overgrow.com forums in the mid-2000s. He was knowledgeable and helpful to newbies, and he provided rare American-made genetics to the general public. I chose his Jack the Ripper strain as one of the High Times Top 10 Strains in 2006 and entered his seed company into our High Times Seed Bank Hall of Fame in 2009. The following decade wouldn’t be so kind to Subcool. He was diagnosed with a devastating hereditary lung disease, and he suffered the one-two punch of losing his life and business partner to separation and the destruction of his home and all of his possessions in a fire that almost took his life. But Subcool rose from the ashes and put his life…

NEW YORK Andrew Cuomo steadfastly opposed legalized weed until 2014, when he grudgingly allowed medical use (while highly restricted). He then announced support for legalization in December 2018 after being pressured during the gubernatorial primary. Under the adultuse plan, marijuana would be legal for adults over 21. Cuomo is proposing a 20 percent state tax and 2 percent county tax on marijuana transfers from wholesalers to retailers, in addition to a $1-per-gram tax on flower for cultivators. The gov is allowing opt-outs for large cities and counties. NEW JERSEY Phil Murphy has advocated for legalization for quite some time. His deal with the State Senate and Assembly would set up an expedited record-expungement process for people convicted of low-level pot crimes. The measure also aims at encouraging pot-industry participation for…

Shortly after Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle David Irving was suspended for violating the NFL’s drug policy (again), he took to Instagram to end his football career. “Basically, guys, I quit,” Irving declared with a broad smile in a 17-minute video, as he torched up a blunt and expounded on his suspension, the “bullshit” he and other players have to put up with in the league and the healing benefit he derives from cannabis. “Everyone needs to relax, calm down, smoke one.” A few weeks after his blunt announcement, Irving appeared on Tiki and Tierney, a CBS Sports Radio show, to talk about the league’s dopey regs. “Eighty percent of each team participates in the use of medical marijuana, if not higher,” Irving said. “It’s literally our jobs to get concussions…

THE BORDER OF Afghanistan and Pakistan, 1968. A young Dutch woman and her child sit at the desk of a customs official, chatting casually while sipping tea and eating cookies. A large bag rests between the woman’s knees. Meanwhile, machine-gun-toting soldiers are searching the bus she was on for contraband, focusing on the few Europeans who have just crossed the Khyber Pass. The search finishes, the official carries the woman’s bag to the bus for her, and the child waves goodbye. The bag contains 12 kilos of top-quality Afghan hash. The bag’s owner is Mila Jansen, a.k.a. the Hash Queen. The remote steppes of Kazakhstan, 2002. In the company of several police escorts/guides, a group of foreigners drive a jeep into a field of wild marijuana and a middle-aged woman…

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