Innehållsförteckning för March 2018 från High Times

An Oregon man was busted recently for smuggling weed inside artificial rocks he’d made. Not content with merely being a state-licensed cannabis grower, Curran Millican Manzer, a 36-year-old taxidermist, began shipping weed inside his custom-built fiberglass rocks via UPS to unidentified recipients outside the state, according to the Register-Guard of Eugene. Marion County police caught wind of the scheme and intercepted six of the faux boulders crammed with 143 pounds of marijuana and five pounds of extract. Charges against Manzer are both numerous and severe. On the receiving end of the fully packed ersatz boulders, arrests have also been made, although details weren’t immediately made available by the cops.…

A 12-year-old girl in Colorado is suing the attorney general of the United States, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. Sixth grader Alexis Bortell found that conventional medicine wasn’t helping her severe epileptic seizures, so her family pulled up stakes in Texas and moved to Colorado. There, Bortell began taking a daily dose of Haleigh’s Hope, a CBD-heavy strain named after a 4-year-old with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. “Ever since I’ve been on this cannabis, I’ve actually been seizure-free for—today it’s 974 days, so we’re coming up on 1,000. So I think that’s pretty good,” Alexis told CBS News. Her lawsuit seeks to demonstrate that the Controlled Substances Act is unconstitutional as it relates to cannabis. As if she doesn’t have enough on her plate, Bortell has also written a book, Let’s…

While the Left Coast (plus Colorado) has fully legalized, with some New England states poised to follow, the American South has been mostly absent from the green revolution. That may change soon thanks to Georgia. A recent survey conducted by Georgia College reveals that 77 percent of Georgians support legalizing medical marijuana, with only 19 percent opposed. No other issue examined in the survey—not Obamacare, not same-sex marriage, not even guns on campus—has as much support. Georgia instituted extremely limited medical-pot regulations in 2015, but the expansion of the program to include more patients is now championed by supporters like State Representative Allen Peake, who is expected to be all over the issue again in the 2018 General Assembly. Meanwhile, Atlanta’s City Council recently voted unanimously to decriminalize pot possession,…

In January, we reported on the precarious status of strain names that might infringe on other companies’ copyrights (“A Strain by Any Other Name”). Now a big name in bud is changing its name in a settlement agreement with the adhesive company that called itself “Gorilla Glue” first. Under the agreement, GG Strains and licensees of their Gorilla Glue #1, #4 and #5 have agreed to drop the name and other similarities to the Gorilla Glue Company. GG Strains will also shut down its gorillaglue4.com website and remove the word “Gorilla,” as well as gorilla imagery, from its products. Ross Johnson, a founder of GG Strains, said the dispute and rebranding efforts will cost the firm around $250,000, as reported by the Cannabist. “We’re going to survive; we’re going to…

"IT’S LIKE I’VE TOOK ACID BEFORE, SO I KNOW WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE. I’VE HAD AN EXPERIENCE, AND THAT WILL NEVER LEAVE ME. LIKE WEED, IT’LL NEVER LEAVE ME." IN 1997, I BOUGHT tickets to see PJ Harvey. Tricky opened. He performed entirely in purple backlight. As a hypnotic beat swelled, Tricky’s longtime female singer Martina Topley-Bird eased into the spiraling opening lines of “Ponderosa.” Then Tricky came out. He lit a cigarette—the only time the audience saw his face. Clouds of maroon smoke filled the strictly nonsmoking venue. “I drink ’til I’m drunk / And I smoke ’til I’m senseless.” As the duo sang, I was stunned. I had never heard such music before—a smattering of hip-hop beats distorted and laced with acidic lyrics about drugs, sex, despair and…

HENDRIX: THE ILLUSTRATED STORY Gillian G. Garr (Voyageur Press) The psychedelic 3-D felt cover immediately indicates that this Jimi biography is a cool package—not just another quickie. Upon entry, Hendrixheads will notice that the photos in this visual feast are rare, making it a crucial addition to any fan’s collection. The man radiated charisma. At the same time, the pics and Garr’s text serve as a perfect intro for those less familiar with the greatest guitarist in rock history. That his career as a living star lasted only four years until his death in 1970 is astonishing—but then, singularity is a key element of genius.…

IN THE WAKE of landmark cannabis victories in 2016, there was much momentum to build upon when state legislatures opened up at the beginning of 2017. With NORML chapters in nearly all 50 states, activists took the fight to the halls of state capitols and city councils from Florida to Washington State and everywhere in between. In all, lawmakers in 26 states have passed legislation to advance cannabis reform. Victories include: Nevada expediting the implementation of adult distribution of legal marijuana, becoming the first of the newly legal states to respect the will of their voters and come online in 2017; New Hampshire becoming the 22nd state to decriminalize marijuana, making it so that an individual can be in any state in New England without fear of being arrested for…

WHEN I FIRST BEGAN writing cultivation pieces for High Times over a decade ago, vertical grow systems were an up-and-coming trend for underground growers trying to subvert prohibitionist laws in urban areas. Now that trend has come full circle as more and more commercial growers also turn to vertical grow systems to maximize space, yield and profits. Ironically enough, vertical grow theory did not originate in the cannabis world, but rather through sustainable feed-the-world programs that saw pod growing and bio domes spring up in the harsher climates around the world where improved agricultural output was desperately needed. Today, with medical marijuana legal in more than half of the states in the United States (not to mention nine fully legal adult-use states, including Washington, DC), cannabis cultivation is at an…

Canadian activists have teamed up to embed public-service announcements in the names and purported effects of newly created cannabis strains. R.I.D.E. CHECKS, an organization that promotes road safety, has partnered with medical-pot producer Beleave to use fear as a deterrent by creating three new “Consequence Strains” that warn of the dangers of driving while high. The overwrought names Kourtroom Kush, White Whiplash and Slammer Time are meant to invoke certain consequences of driving while high: dealing with a DUI, auto-related injuries and jail time, respectively. Even the descriptions of the highs are in the form of a mini-lecture. Driving while high is a complex topic that warrants a serious discussion. Unfortunately, this campaign has skipped the conversation and jumped directly to fearmongering.…

Legalization will bring down the price of weed, right? Maybe not so much in California. Some locales in the Golden State could see effective tax rates on recreational pot reach a whopping 45 percent, according to credit-rating and research group Fitch Ratings. The statewide levies include a 15 percent excise tax and a cultivation tax of $9.25 per ounce of flowers ($2.75 per ounce for leaves), as well as state and local sales taxes ranging from 7.75 percent to 9.75 percent. Such onerous taxation can undermine one of the main selling points for legalization—that it can generate revenue for local and state governments. Besides harshing everyone’s mellow with inflated weed prices, hefty taxes could also drive consumers back to the black market. This will deny local governments revenue, which is…

NONA HENDRYX AND GARY LUCAS  The World of Captain Beefheart (Knitting Factory Records) As “reimagined” by vocalist Nona Hendryx and former Beefheart guitarist/chronicler Gary Lucas, The World of Captain Beefheart is that rarity in the world of tribute albums, a respectful but not ass-kissing overview of an artist’s work that reveals intriguing insights into the singularity of the original material by using that material to springboard into fruitful further development. One of the most fascinating revelations here is the genuinely sweet melodicism and sturdy song-craft that Don Van Vliet had kept hidden just below his freaky surface; through his Delta blues DNA lens, any sort of genuine sentiment was best buried beneath clattering, caterwauling heaps of rhomboidal squawk’n’shriek and general musical mayhem. In startlingly alternative ways, tracks like “My Head…

“IT REALLY COMES DOWN TO FIGURING OUT IF CANNABIS IS SOMETHING THAT WORKS FOR YOU AS AN ATHLETE.” Spring is in the air, people are heading back outdoors and the 2018 season of the 420 Games kicks off March 31–April 1 in Los Angeles as organizer Jim McAlpine takes his traveling cannabis fair on the road again. Founded in 2014, the 420 Games are more evangelical than they are competitive—a road show to spread the word and raise awareness of how cannabis can be incorporated into an active, healthy lifestyle. Discussions that would have been almost impossible to imagine hearing in locker rooms during the “Just Say No” era of the 1980s are becoming commonplace. The major professional sports leagues have been reconsidering their policies and prohibitions, and with America’s…

Vic Mensa sounds SLIGHTLY DISAPPOINTED WHEN HE GETS ON THE PHONE. HE’S AT A RANDOM GAS STATION SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF FLORIDA, AND ALL HE WANTS IS A DECENT CUP OF COFFEE AND SOME HEALTHY FOOD. BUT THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. THE CHICAGO RAPPER, WHO’S CURRENTLY ON TOUR IN SUPPORT OF HIS ROC NATION DEBUT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HAS ONE OPTION—FAST FOOD. THE SMALL SACRIFICES ARE WORTH IT, THOUGH, AND IT’S SAFE TO ASSUME THE INTELLIGENT, POLITICALLY OUTSPOKEN ARTIST KNOWS THESE ARE TEMPORARY FIRST-WORLD PROBLEMS. THE BIRACIAL 24-YEAR-OLD GREW UP ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO IN ONE THE MOST RACIALLY DIVERSE AND AFFLUENT (YET UNPREDICTABLE) NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY—HYDE PARK. MENSA’S EXPERIENCED THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE URBAN TRENCHES, WHERE CRIME, VIOLENCE AND POVERTY RUN RAMPANT. THROUGHOUT HIS MUSICAL…

Since its formation in early 2017, Las Vegas NORML has been very active at the local and state level. From volunteering for community gardens across the city and engaging in community-outreach efforts to providing testimony during legislative hearings and meeting with state lawmakers, Madisen Saglibene and her colleagues have worked hard to be a consistent and unwavering voice for marijuana consumers in the Silver State. In her role as co-founder and deputy director of Las Vegas NORML, Saglibene oversees outreach and development efforts for the organization. In this capacity, most of her time is spent educating the public about marijuana in an effort to remove the stigma surrounding cannabis use in the greater Las Vegas area and beyond. Her relentless efforts and passion for the plant continue to inspire others.…

“IT IS CRAZY TO SAY WE WILL LEGALIZE CANNABIS, BUT NOT ALLOW PEOPLE TO GROW IT AT HOME. LET THE PEOPLE GROW THEIR OWN STONE.” HEMP TRAP So, we are being railroaded in Saint George, Utah. We ordered 20kg of hemp from overseas, filing the FDA paperwork to import it and doing everything by the book. On September 28, the drug task force came and treated us like criminals, did some sort of fake test and claimed it was marijuana. Now we have gotten court summons trying to charge us with a third degree felony claiming we are marijuana dealers. We were experimenting with making cosmetics such as shampoos and such. They are also trying to pin intent to distribute charges on us. These charges are laughable. We have all…

BATTERIES It’s obvious that energy-storage technology needs to evolve—and cannabis may spur this along. Alter-net reports that researchers are focusing on using cannabis products to produce more efficient supercapacitors. The key is the development of nanosheets using hemp fibers, in much the same way that graphene, a strong electrical-conductor material, is used. Hemp is much less expensive, so production costs could drop and, hopefully, so could the price of the batteries and chargers. EYEWEAR Hemp Eyewear, located in Edinburgh, Scotland, produces hemp eyeglass frames. More lightweight than plastic frames, which typically weigh around 1.5 ounces, hemp frames reportedly weigh half of that. Each of the frames has its own unique plant-fiber pattern, in a choice of five different styles. While the lenses are still plastic, the company recently announced it…

Mexico has been easing up on draconian drug laws in recent years, from decriminalizing possession of small amounts of cocaine, heroin and other drugs to legalizing medical cannabis in 2017. Unfortunately, liberalization hasn’t extended to the country’s journalism. Mexico’s Commission for the Qualification of Illustrated Publications and Magazines, a branch of the Ministry of the Interior, is threatening to shut down Cañamo, the country’s only pot-culture magazine. The commission wants to revoke the bimonthly glossy’s domestic-circulation certification because it says the magazine promotes “acts against morality and good manners” and “apologizes for the consumption of prohibited substances,” reports the Columbia Journalism Review. The commission’s secretary told the CJR that if Cañamo stuck to covering medical cannabis without advocating recreational use, there wouldn’t be a problem. If the decision about Cañamo…

TRICKY Ununiform (False Idols/!K7 Music) The famously abstruse British producer’s trip-hop mutations have from his rocky start proclaimed an inability to communicate directly, yet imparted a lot about sticky issues of race, male (dis-)empowerment and the banality of loneliness. Ununiform finds him gathering the ultra-spare and shadowy-sinister sound of his earlier influential stuff to make low-key points about having made peace with himself. His non-macho toughness is especially cool when he cedes the mic to Asia Argento in “Wait for Signal,” and Martina Topley-Bird in the deeply moving “When We Die.” JP ELECTRIC WIZARD Wizard Bloody Wizard (Spinefarm Records) Over the course of the last 20-plus years, English doom lords Electric Wizard have regaled us with infectious Sabbathian tales of dopethrones, witchcults and black masses galore. The band’s ninth album…

(Gelato) “This powerful hybrid is called ‘Larry Bird’ back East. Produces frosty nugs!” –Santa Cruz, CA (Bubba Kush) “Good weed here continues to be expensive, but worth it for high quality flowers like this heavy indica.” –South Bend, IN MARKET ANALYSIS The benefits of legalization continue to be enjoyed by an increasing number of Americans, as prices sank across all indices in March. The Western Index experienced the biggest drop, finishing $9 below its previous month’s average. The overall cost for an ounce of cannabis in the US dipped to a reasonable $312. (Akorn) “A near perfectly balanced hybrid offering the best of both weed worlds Auct .” –Roswell, NM TRANS HIGH MARKET QUOTATIONS (Snowcap) “This is one powerful (and happy) sativa smoke.” –Lewiston, ME…

BEST INDICA FLOWER 1st Place: Tina by Exotic Genetics 2nd Place: Lorax OG by Lorax Labs in collaboration with Cannasutra 3rd Place: Créme de la Créme by Team Elite Genetics BEST SATIVA FLOWER 1st Place: LemonAid by Golden State Greens (Point Loma) 2nd Place: N.T.B. Eastside Sativa by Herbal Solutions/Leaf Dr. 3rd Place: YDK Jack by Lorax Labs in collaboration with Cannasutra BEST HYBRID FLOWER 1st Place: Cookies & Cream by Exotic Genetics 2nd Place: Sin Mint Cookies by Pearl Pharmacy and Golden State Greens 3rd Place: Peach Ozz by Team Elite Genetics BEST SUN-GROWN 1st Place: Bananimal by Greenline 2nd Place: Zombie Fields by The Humboldt Cure 3rd Place: Lemon Kush by Wynter Farms BEST BOOTH 1st Place: Brass Knuckles 2nd Place: California’s Finest 3rd Place: THC Design BEST…

SUBJECT: Backyard Growing FROM: Elliot ❧ What can you suggest to get a good outdoor backyard grow started and to maximize the yield? Dear Elliot, The key to maximizing the yield of an outdoor backyard grow is to plan carefully, start early and make sure the plant gets enough light throughout its life. Planning means making sure your backyard is secure and safe to grow in and won’t arouse suspicion or unwanted attention. Stealth is important, even in a legal medical growing situation. The next step is to start early. Plant seeds indoors under grow lights in mid- to late winter and give them a chance to grow into nice-size vegetative bushes before even placing them outdoors in the spring. This is also the time to prune them in order…

I know there was research years ago, but I wonder if there are any new data on marijuana and sexual functioning in women. Curious Georgina Hi Curious, Intrepid researchers at St. Louis University confirmed that the majority of women who choose to use the plant before sex report increased sex drive, more pleasurable orgasm and a better sexual experience without much effect on lubrication. These effects might only apply to a subset of women, but nothing turns absolutely everybody on. Those who like it really like it. There’s no way I could work the swing shift as well as I do if it weren’t for my vaporizer. Am I alone? John Henry Marley Hey Mr. Marley, New data suggest that cannabis can make adjusting to the night shift easier. Smoking…

FLOWER OF THE MONTH SUNSET SENSI White Lavender Outdoor, grown by Zen Premium Cannabis Mike D. GROW OF THE MONTH SCREEN OF DREAMS Growing is art. Would be a dream come true to be featured in your magazine. Check me out at @thescrogking Migz NUG OF THE MONTH TAKE A HIT Time for some Purple Punch! Hope my friends at High Times enjoy this pic. Alphacanna CLOSE UP OF THE MONTH TANTALIZING TRICHOME Hi, I take photos of cannabis that, in my humble opinion, are some of the best you will ever see. I have enjoyed High Times since the 70’s when my roommate Jonathan Ott was writing articles for you. djewell E-mail your hi-res digital photographs to mailbag@hightimes.com…

• CONCENTRATED CANNABIS: PART III The latest installment of our Concentrated Cannabis series examines how non-dabbing extracts like distillate and crystalline can benefit users. We take a closer look at edibles, capsules and tinctures, topicals, Phoenix tears and more. • GROWING SEATTLE’S BEST STRAINS Take a tour of a cultivation facility located in the heart of Seattle that caters to true connoisseurs with superb strains grown the right way. Our own Danny Danko reveals how the House of Cultivar team’s commitment to producing aficionado-quality marijuana and concentrates on a large-scale results in a superior product beloved by Washington’s cannabis consumers. • DRIVING HIGH Driving stoned is a complex topic as marijuana affects people differently and remains in the system well past the point of intoxication. We’re looking into stoned driving…

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