High Times March 2016

High on the Street The great thing about High Times being based in New York City is that the entire world seems to come here at one time or another. So we’ve made it our task to talk to everybody! (Well, not everybody—but almost.) The High Times video crew now hits the street regularly to conduct “man on the street” interviews. Of course, our man on the street is actually a woman—the vivacious Allie Peck, who you can find in Times Square or Columbus Circle or Central Park posing questions about pot to anyone and everyone. Join Allie as she traverses the Big Apple in “High on the Street.” • Glass Artist of the Month In August 2000, PB Torcher began shaping glass in a small community shop, where several…

Greetings, amigos! Welcome to another epic edition of High Times, packed with the usual awesomeness of news, features, strains and, of course, glorious bud photography. This month we’re unveiling our newest feature, “The Best-Tasting Buds on Earth”—a guide that we hope will fast become an annual fixture with our readers. In today’s terp-crazed cannabis world, the flavors of pot are nearly as important as its potency. Employing both sophisticated lab-test results and the Cannabis Cup’s human analytics, this article is the first of its kind to compile strain-specific terpene profiles for some of the planet’s tastiest lineages. Also, given that some overly eager extract artists are beginning to adulterate their concentrates with non-cannabis-derived terpenes, it’s more important than ever that we bring the focus back to the buds with the…

Outdoor Advice It’s curious that outdoor growing doesn’t seem to have evolved simultaneously with the cutting-edge indoor production techniques that can also apply outdoors. A predominance of outdoor growers shoot for—and boast about—multipound yields from gigantic 10-foot-tall bushes. Yet this old-school notion is very inefficient when you consider the square footage of the growing area. Moreover, only the upper canopy yields massively dense, high-quality nugs; the rest of the yield is typically mediocre—lots of impressive-looking plants that yield only marginally in terms of quality. The ancients in Pakistan, Lebanon and along the Hindu Kush trail learned long ago about high-yield, high-quality production outdoors, and today’s growers shouldn’t change anything in that regard. Those fields looked like massive Sea of Green–style operations, and for good reason: The main cola is the…

FLAVOR COUNTRY Go inside a state-of-the-art greenhouse built by DNA Genetics and Crockett Family Farms to house crops of Tangie, Strawberry Banana, Lemon Skunk and more . Learn how the legendary strain Tangie got its start and see what amazingly flavorful strains Crockett currently has in store on page 74. Photo by Lochfoot GARDEN TWINS These two nearly identical specimens of Purple OG #18 were basking in the autumn sun on Sunday. On Monday morning, Michigan State Police chopped them down. They also looted the property of growers. Why? Because state forfeiture laws allow cops to steal. Read “Michigan’s March to Legalization” on page 89. Photo by Dan Skye GREEN LIGHT DISTRICT Only the graffiti reminds you you’re still in the 21st century as you stroll through a neighborhood in…

A proposal to legalize marijuana in Ohio, put forward by a would-be cartel of 10 financial backers of the bill who would have gained exclusive commercial-cultivation rights in the state, lost overwhelmingly on November 3, 2015. The initiative, sponsored by a group calling itself ResponsibleOhio, was included on the ballot as Issue 3, a measure that “Grants a monopoly for the commercial production and sale of marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes.” Issue 3 managed to get just 1,122,386 “Yes” votes, or 35.9 percent of all votes cast; the “No” votes totaled 2,003,641, or 64.1 percent. The initiative was supported by NORML on the grounds that, for better or worse, it legalized marijuana in the state, which has been the organization’s prime concern. It was opposed by High Times, the…

Packaging With legal ganja heavily regulated by state governments to avoid accidents like unintended consumption by kids, proper packaging and labeling are imperative. Kush Bottles, for example, manufactures child-resistant plastic pot containers, and Stink Sack makes odor-free opaque bags with childproof slide locks. Real Estate CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real-estate-services firm, reports that legal cannabis “kick-started the recovery of the industrial market in Denver,” resulting in record-high rents and record-low vacancies. From 2009 to 2014, a third of all industrial space leased in Denver was for cultivation purposes. Industrial Agriculture Companies are producing cutting-edge agricultural technology, as in Washington. Innovative firms like Ambient Water have developed a process to capture moisture in the air and convert it into water for plants, while companies like Black Dog LED create products…