Indholdsfortegnelse for September 2019 i High Times

◗ MARIJUANA & MENTAL HEALTH While cannabis advocates maintain that marijuana is safe and effective medicine, naysayers point to a lack of scientific research and FDA approvals. Of course, any lack of research is directly caused by the government’s irrational scheduling of cannabis, which puts the plant in the most restricted category of the Controlled Substances Act. However, people have been using marijuana for thousands of years and anecdotal evidence supporting its efficacy in treating numerous conditions abounds. Our new series of articles, “Mental Health and Cannabis,” looks at how marijuana works with different medical conditions by exploring the available scientific research as well as anecdotal evidence. The series kicks off with a discussion about pot and posttraumatic stress disorder. Read more about how veterans are treating symptoms of PTSD…

Elliot Curtis, a broadcast operations manager for KPIX-TV in San Francisco, was tasked with repairing a vintage “analog music modular instrument”—more popularly known as a synthesizer—that belonged to Cal State University East Bay’s music department. “There was like a residue… a crust or a crystalline residue on it,” Curtis explained to KPIX. The residue was LSD, a remnant of a simpler time, the 1960s, when musicians of a certain bent tuned up and turned on, and Curtis got some of it on his hands. He says he felt a “tingling” sensation, then tripped for about nine hours. The dosed synthesizer was a Buchla Model 100, the invention of the late Don Buchla, an acid enthusiast and friend of Owsley Stanley, who was both an LSD maven and the genius behind…

BACK IN THE HAZE Founded in Amsterdam by Karel Schelfhout in 1985, the Super Sativa Seed Club (SSSC) was one of the first companies to sell seeds directly to the public through its catalog as well as ads in the back of High Times. In fact, the SSSC was only the second cannabis-seed company, after the Seed Bank, to operate openly in the Netherlands. At that time, Karel was a squatter, taking over abandoned properties and fixing them up to be habitable as well as turning them into some of the very first indoor growing facilities in Europe. In these growrooms, Karel and his compatriots pioneered and developed the techniques to grow indoors using horticultural lighting, rockwool mediums and mineral nutrients in liquid solutions delivered directly to oxygenated plant roots.…

WHEN PLANTS CANNOT GET the nutrients they need, they do not function properly, adversely affecting growth and yield. This can occur in any growing medium, while using any planting mix or technique—coir, rockwool, soil, soilless, hydroponic or aeroponic. Plant disorders are characterized by their symptoms, which appear more quickly in hydroponic gardens than in planting mixes or soil. An overabundance of nutrients can result in nutrient burn or toxicity and can also lock out other ingredients. Unless the damage is slight, individual leaves do not recover from nutrient deficiencies. Some nutrients are mobile and are translocated from older to new growth, so the damage is seen in older leaves, not in new growth. Other nutrients are not mobile. Their deficiencies are apparent in new growth. All fertilizer packages list three…

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Piers Morgan, the goofy host of Good Morning Britain, took his goofiness to Mike Tyson’s podcast Hotboxin’ recently. They talked for an hour and a half about a number of topics, from the Dalai Lama’s thoughts on sex to hallucinogenic toads. At the close of the broadcast, Morgan picked up one of the many joints from a well-used ashtray in the hazy studio and asked, “What am I supposed to do with this, Mike?” Tyson replied with the only possible rational answer: “Smoke it!” As Morgan would later write in the Daily Mail, “He exploded with laughter as he passed me a lighter and carried on roaring as I lit up the joint and took a long—legal!—puff.” Legal, because they were at the 40-acre Tyson Ranch in California City, CA,…

AS PERRY FARRELL PREPARES TO TOUR IN SUPPORT OF KIND HEAVEN, HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM IN 18 YEARS, IT’S APPARENT THAT THE MAN BEHIND JANE’S ADDICTION, PORNO FOR PYROS AND THE LOLLAPALOOZA MUSIC FESTIVAL HASN’T SLOWED DOWN MUCH. DESPITE TURNING 60 THIS YEAR, FARRELL IS WORKING TIRELESSLY ON REHEARSING FOR AND PROMOTING HIS UPCOMING TOUR—ALL WHILE MANAGING TO SET ASIDE PLENTY OF TIME TO PLAY. DURING A BREAK FROM ONE OF HIS REHEARSALS, FARRELL SPOKE TO HIGH TIMES ABOUT THE NEW ALBUM, HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH CANNABIS AND, OF COURSE, THE AFTERLIFE. How are things in your world? I feel a little stressed because we’re putting the shows together for the tour, and we’re in rehearsal. You want to be great, and you’re breaking in a new band on a new…

Frenchy is extremely passionate about protecting the multigenerational farms and their elite genetics from the onslaught of regulations and commercial interests. FRANCE IS NOT a country known for cannabis. Most smokers there only have access to hashish, which is widely known by its slang name, shit. (Sadly, sometimes this moniker proves accurate; a recent analysis of some European hash has found it to be tainted with nasty fillers such as tar, dirt and even human feces.) However, there is a rich tradition of beautiful Moroccan and Indian hashish being smuggled into the country for hundreds if not thousands of years. In the mid-19th century, there was the famous Club des Hashischins in Paris, a secret haven where writers such as Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas and Honoré de Balzac met in…

A PLATE DROPPED at the restaurant where Kristina, a combat vet of 14 years, worked. She dove under a table. “It was around the 4th of July—that’s when the fireworks happen, which is a very stressful time for me,” she says. The national holiday is difficult for many vets, as fireworks can sound like a war zone. A younger male coworker wasn’t doing his job and ignored Kristina’s requests to pick up the slack. “I asked him repeatedly to do it, and then I lost it and almost went for the kid’s neck,” she recalls. Thankfully, a friend was present to bring her out of the flashback and into the present. “She nudged me with her elbow, and I was like, ‘Whoa, what just happened?’ I went to the VA…

Got a question for Dr. Mitch? Email him at 420research@gmail.com. I heard you were bad-mouthing a study that showed weed was great for sex. You’re not going all puritanical on us in your old age, are you? Lothario Thunder Hey Thunder, A 2019 study reported significant links between cannabis and satisfying orgasms in women. But a close look reveals that the investigators ran a lot of other analyses and didn’t control for chance findings. (Statisticians call these chance findings a “Type I error.”) If a paper that suggested that cannabis hurt your brain used the same analyses, HT readers can count on me to call investigators out. I gotta use the same standard for the good news as well as the bad. I know the idea of using some Big…

SUPER SATIVA SEED CLUB Back in 1985, SSSC became one of the first bud breeders to make their genetics available to the public. Now they’re back with strains made from combining old-school genetics with new varieties. Their creeper sativa strain, Frosty Friday, tastes amazing and produces large yields of hash. Learn more about the return of SSSC on page 64. Photo courtesy of SSSC. MASTER OF HASH Expert hashmaker Frenchy Cannoli emphasizes terroir (taste of place) for the cannabis he uses to make his concentrates, as well as eco-friendly, sustainable farming. Learn more about his hashmaking techniques and philosophy on page 44. Photo by Mme Cannoli ED ROSENTHAL ON NUTRIENTS Feeding your plants properly is the key to successful harvests of clean-burning flavorful cannabis. Legendary grow guru and cultivation author…

A 1,000-year-old pouch made of fox snouts is cool enough, but its contents—ayahuasca and other hallucinogens—are truly mind-bending. Anthropologist José M. Capriles discovered the pouch in 2010, and he’s one of the authors of the research recently published in the journal PNAS. Capriles found the stash remnants at a dig in Cueva del Chileno, a rock shelter in the Bolivian Andes with evidence of human activity dating back 4,000 years. Among the find was a leather ritual bag containing the fox-snout pouch and other goodies, including, as National Geographic put it, “a carved tube and small wooden platforms for inhaling substances.” The researchers found chemical traces of harmine and dimethyltryptamine, the two primary ingredients of ayahuasca, as well as bufotenine and cocaine, “Suggesting,” the researchers say, “that at least three…

Two billionaires and an actor get on an airplane… is not a joke—not when the plane is loaded with about $1.3 million worth of cannabis products. Coca-Cola bottling heir Alki David and billionaire buddy Chase Ergen jetted into Saint Kitts and Nevis in May, bringing 12th Man actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers along for the ride. They also brought about 5,000 pot plants and other cannabis products, thinking they’d pitch a CBD business to the Caribbean island. But the prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Timothy Harris, opted to bust the group instead, reportedly after biz negotiations broke down. “Jonathan Rhys Meyers’s mother-in-law and wife were cavity searched,” David told the Daily Mail. “We left the airport after the search but were then arrested after trying to leave the island…

AS LEGAL WEED is spreading throughout the land, a whole new generation of cannabis lovers are discovering the joys of growing their own. Many home growers—we don’t know how many, but we do know the numbers are increasing—are in the game for the first time, and so could use some guidance. When High Times senior cultivation editor Danny Danko set out to write a how-to book for novice growers, he surmised that the best guide needed to be at once simple and comprehensive. To that end, his Cannabis: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Marijuana is an invaluable tool for DIY farmers. Danko’s preferred prosaic style is succinct and to the point. Just a couple of pages into the text will tell readers everything they need to know about a marijuana…

THE HURDLES With the realization that concentrates that are closer to their pure starting material are of higher quality, there’s a strong push now for products that are clean, smooth, loudly flavored and kept as close to their original genetic expression as possible. The use of synthetic salts, foliar sprays and sulfur burners just won’t do. Even words like “organic” are no longer held in as great esteem these days, as there are many organic elements that one would not want to smoke or ingest. Dead ladybugs, insect feces and even the once popular sulfur burners impart organic material that can affect the taste, quality and healthiness of a cannabis product. Cleaning cannabis is not an option, unlike with most other crops. Concentrates themselves have become cleaner, and the extraction…

Twenty22Many, a nonprofit suicide-prevention, PTSDawareness and medical-cannabis organization for veterans, has a mission to give out 8,000 cannabis clones to as many US military veterans. Sadly, that figure is approximately the number of veterans who kill themselves in the United States over the course of a year. Most of these fatalities involve Vietnam War vets, who take their own lives more frequently than their younger peers. Speaking to High Times, project founder Patrick Seifert points out that this general age group makes up the bulk of the crowd that comes to the Twenty22Many center—located alongside the Olympia outpost of Washington State’s annual marijuana festival, the Seattle Hempfest, in a building that used to house Seifert’s dispensary, Rainier Xpress. Within these walls, people can make CBD purchases, pick out hemp clothing…