Innehållsförteckning för December 2018 från High Times

Images of dope deals in action occasionally pop up on social media, but none so brazen as the instagram post of a Brooklyn dude executing a weed sale on the back of a police car. The video shows the entrepreneurial fellow placing his digital scale unabashedly atop the squad car’s trunk, weighing product. “You, you want an eighth?” he asks a customer, then generously metes out a bonus tenth of a gram in the transaction. There were no officers on site at the time. The Daily News tracked down David Jiminez, who posted the video on the instagram site NewYorkCityUncut “for laughs,” and not to diss the cops. “Someone was killed in the park a few days prior and everyone was uptight about it, so I thought it would be…

Cannabis companies and entrepreneurs find it tough to advertise for their wares and skills, so they rely heavily on social media to get the word out. Marijuana Business Daily reports that Facebook is making life even more difficult for these weed workers, as “marijuana-related companies, regulators and trade groups around the globe” no longer appear in Facebook searches. The tech giant appears to be screening out results related to “marijuana” and “cannabis,” a form of shadow-banning that has sent tremors throughout the industry. “While Facebook has held a pretty hard line on advertising, which cannabis companies have been dealing with for years, this is a big hit to cannabis businesses and brands,” observed Rosie Mattio of RMPR, a public relations firm that works with cannabusinesses. “A company’s social pages are…

With a brand-new medical-marijuana program taking off in Florida, there will be many job opportunities opening up from seed to sale. Unfortunately, and misguidedly, many good people will be screened from participating in the new market as employers are bypassing folks with cannabis “crimes” in their pasts or those who speak candidly about their current usage. In other words, stoners need not apply. “We get hundreds of applications for every job opening we have,” Michelle Terrell, spokesman for Curaleaf, which opened a dispensary in south Orlando in early August, told the Orlando Sentinel. “And maybe only 10 percent of those are qualified and meet the legal requirements.” Med-pot is expected to generate close to half a billion dollars in sales in 2018, according to Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics.…

THE TIMES KEEP CHANGING: Holidays and alcohol have been linked in North America since before the Puritans saw fit to ship more beer than water on the Mayflower. But with the opening of legalized adultuse cannabis markets in California and nationwide throughout Canada in 2018, the pot industry is ready to take on Big Alcohol as both an alternative to booze and through competition via canna-beverages. While most industry analysts expect beer sales to be at the greatest risk from the popularity of legal pot, the nine states with adult-use laws also feature demographically disproportionate numbers of potential consumers who are wine drinkers. After discerning between consumer bases and then actively marketing toward targeted discretionary incomes, health concerns and dietary (e.g., calorie-free) or lifestyle preferences, producers and marketing experts will…

FLOWER OF THE MONTH AUSSIE OZ-GROWN Gday High Times! Here’s a shot of my outdoor home-bred cross of my original Toe Jam (which is Misty x AK 47/Cheese) with a nice Kush. You can see the hues coming out on this Aussie-bred 100% organic crop. Cheers! Jungle Jim GROW OF THE MONTH SUNSHINE DANKDREAM Nothing beats outdoor sungrown cannabis! High Alai NUGS OF THE MONTH ENDS SWELL Check out my Afghan Kush buds ready to harvest. Smoke Tza COLA OF THE MONTH TOP OF THE MORNING Sunny days and cool nights created this thick cluster that filled out quite nicely if I say so myself. Thanks High Times! Trey Combs E-mail your hi-res digital photographs to mailbag@hightimes.com…

KYLE TURLEY A former NFL offensive lineman, Turley has battled painkiller addiction as well as suicidal thoughts. He was diagnosed as symptomatic of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and with the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease after his playing career. In 2015, after using marijuana to quit pharmaceutical drugs, Turley founded the Gridiron Cannabis Coalition to advocate for marijuana as a treatment option for NFL players. He credits cannabis with helping him deal with the severe effects of concussions, saying it saved his life. LEONARD MARSHALL A former Pro Bowl defensive end who won two Super Bowls with the New York Giants, Marshall was diagnosed with symptoms of CTE in 2013. Marshall additionally suffers from debilitating headaches that he treats with cannabidiol (CBD). Vaporizing CBD has also helped him keep the…

More than 70 people in New Haven, CT overdosed on K2 in a single day in August, as dozens of victims were rushed to emergency rooms from the New Haven Green, a downtown park. There were no fatalities, though at least two people suffered life-threatening symptoms from the nasty drug. The overdoses strained the city’s capacity to treat victims, according to Dr. Sandy Bogucki, director of emergency medical services in New Haven. Emergency medical technicians, she told the New York Times, were “sprinting from patient to patient in the park.” She said crews were rushing people more quickly than usual “just to turn the cars around and get them back out.” New Haven police arrested two men in connection with the overdoses. DEA agents took a K2 sample to a…

(Gobbstopper) “Dispensary purchased. Berryflavored indica-dom strain with tight nugs.”–Chicago, IL (Tahoe OG) “My all-time fav strain. It always delivers!”–Philadelphia, PA MARKET ANALYSIS Prices by the ounce For the second straight month, all indices finished below their previous month’s average. Once again the Western Index experienced the biggest drop (-$6) to reach a year-low average price of $241 per ounce. The Eastern Index also established a year-low average price this month, while the US Index set a two year low, with its average price of $299 per ounce. (Midnight) “This sativa-dominant medicine from Israel was specially designed for nausea.”–Toledo, OH (Mob Boss) “Lots of flavors, from tangy to oily.”–Ann Arbor, MI…

I just saw a robotic bud trimmer. Are they going to steal my job? Optimus Crime Hi Optimus, Trimming machines have been around for 15 years or so. These gizmos use cameras and computer detection to trim a plant in four minutes. But don’t worry. Someone has to load the plants into the machine—and that’s a job that won’t give you carpal tunnel syndrome. I was stoned to the bone when an ambulance ran the siren for hours and I was completely straight again. What gives? Buzz Killed Hey Buzz, Back in the 1970s, Bob Pihl at McGill University (my adviser’s adviser) showed that loud, aversive sounds lowered a subjective high, but there’s been no funding to find out why. If we had more subtle measures of “highness,” I think…

BORDER BULLIES Hi there. I wanted to share an experience with you that is a sad indicator of the federal government’s current viewpoint on cannabis. In July, my wife and I were in San Diego for the Comic-Con convention. We decided to spend the night, but hotels were too expensive so we went to Tijuana where a 5-star hotel is $100. I am a medical marijuana patient in Los Angeles, legitimately prescribed cannabis. Unfortunately, I did not thoroughly go through my backpack and mistakenly left a pipe inside. Upon return to the USA, Customs and Border Protection officers found the pipe via x-ray. They pulled me aside, removed whatever was left inside it and weighed it. They stated I was in possession of 0.1 grams of cannabis. This cannabis was…

It appears that the US government has not quite given up on its failed War on Weed. BuzzFeed News reports that the Trump administration has secretly coordinated a committee of federal agencies in an attempt to counter the ever-growing public support for cannabis. An abomination called the “Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee” has directed 14 federal agencies plus the Drug Enforcement Administration to submit “data demonstrating the most significant negative trends” about weed and the “threats” it poses to the country. In other words, some alternative facts are going to be polluting the discourse around marijuana reform. Of course, the propaganda blitz will be coming right from the top. “This is a terrible political move by the administration,” said John Hudak, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “This is a…

TY DOLLA $IGN fully admits he’s a stoner who “does stoner shit sometimes—like miss interviews.” The platinum-selling producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist, who has been on the Endless Summer Tour with G-Eazy, Lil Uzi Vert and Murda Beatz, recently had a day off in his hometown of Los Angeles. But the night before he was supposed to do this interview, Ty$ stayed up all night at the studio, smoking weed and working on music. Once he finally fell asleep, he was knocked out so hard his team couldn’t wake him up. So he slept, and slept, and slept. The next day, with a renewed sense of vigor, Ty$ finally gets on the phone. “How you doing?” he asks. “I feel like I’ve been waiting for this moment my entire life,” I…

RECREATIONALLY LEGAL in nine states and medically available in 30 (plus the District of Columbia), cannabis products are in demand more than ever. Policy changes have resulted in headaches for business owners and farmers, but the slow erosion of barriers preventing consumers from purchasing cannabis has allowed the industry to boom and new technologies to emerge. One of the biggest changes has been the introduction and incredible success of disposable vaporizers and oil cartridges. These devices are convenient and relatively odorless, making them a hit with consumers. But they also create a host of sustainability issues akin to Keurig disposable pods, which revolutionized coffee drinking while injecting massive amounts of waste into landfills. Flower may still be the first thing many nonsmokers picture when they think about cannabis, but the…

SUBJECT: Harvest Odor FROM: Sparky Gump ?How do I control the odor my buds emit while drying? Dear Sparky, If you’re drying in an enclosed space, any air that’s removed from the space must be filtered. This means you need a strong fan to suck out air and push it through an activated-charcoal filtration device to remove odor particles. Otherwise, the scent will escape and permeate the area. It also helps to have odor-masking materials on the outside of your drying space (such as Ona products) to further hide the smell. SUBJECT: Lighting Auto-Flowers FROM: Atman BG I’ve been growing auto-flowers for about nine months now and I just got into a perpetual cycle. I’ve read and heard a lot of different light/darkness scheduling, ranging from a 24/0-hour to a…

CANNABIS SHOULD NOT be illegal and never should have been outlawed in the first place. If you are reading this article, you probably agree with that statement. To mainstream America, cannabis was, for a long time, a noncontroversial medicine. The United States Pharmacopeia, which lists and standardizes drugs and medications, included cannabis from 1851 until 1943. Cannabis often came in the form of a tincture to be applied sublingually, and medical professionals recognized the various benefits that cannabis provided to patients. On a grand societal scale, cannabis use simply was not an issue. Harry Anslinger changed all of this in the 1930s. Anslinger headed the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a post that he assumed after leading the Alcohol Prohibition Bureau, which of course evaporated with the repeal of the 18th…