Cannabis, circles, cycles, caring and sharing

Cannabis, circles, cycles, caring and sharing

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Cat Nope

Although its effect on cats is similar to pot's effect on humans, catnip and marijuana are not part of the same botanical family. Marijuana itself is toxic to felines, so be sure to keep it well hidden from curious cats.

Smokescreens

Method: Ionizer

Advantages: Magically clears air through some science related process

Disadvantages: If you had the money for an ionizer, you'd just buy more weed with it anyway

High Times All-Stars:Michael Phelps

If anyone deserves to kick back with a bowl, it's the guy who won 16 Olympic gold medals by the age of 23. But not everyone, it seems, agrees. In 2009, after a British tabloid published a photo of Phelps with a bong, he was suspended from competitive swimming for three months and lost his endorsement contract with Kellogg's. Which, if you ask us, makes no sense. Stoners buy a lot of cereal. Who better endorse it?

Thank you High Times

Marijuana At The Movies: Super Troopers (2001)

What if the cops had a sense of humor? In Super Troopers, a group of Vermont state troopers stuck in a small town spend more time getting baked and playing pranks on each other than actually fighting crime. Police work takes a backseat to high-jinks until the troopers find themselves tasked with busting up an herb-smuggling ring moving weight across the Canadian border.

Thank you High Times!

Skill Of The Month: Setting Up A Grow Room

For an experienced marijuana horticulturist, constructing a fully functioning grow room accommodating up to sixty plants will take less than a day, once all of the required components and materials have been assembled. Building the grow room, however, is really just the beginning. In an outdoor garden, Mother Nature takes care of most of the plant's needs, but indoors, it's up to the grower to provide light, air, water, and nutrients, consistently and in the proper amounts.

The first thing you need is seeds or clones. Whichever you use, try to get the best genetics possible, and make sure you're growing a strain of cannabis bred for indoor gardens. The more you know about the strain the better, including it's strengths and weaknesses, how tall it usually stretches, how much it yields, and how many weeks it will flower before the buds peak.

What Determines Pot's Potency?

The potency of pot varies widely, with THC levels ranging from .3 percent in hemp to 25 percent in the strongest marijuana strains. The amount of THC is determined by a number of factors, including the plant's genetics, its growing conditions, and the point at which it's harvested.

Mighty Mites

Got an infestation in your garden? Why spray your medicine with dangerous, chemical pesticides when you can let loose these mighty warriors instead? Predator mites show no mercy. They will kill the bugs and eat their eggs. Just make sure they don't come after you.

Mr. Nice Guy

Mr. Nice Guy is a mellow high, from what most of reviewed to us. A great way to sit back and cure yourself of stress, pain, anxiety, insomnia and migranes. It will certainly uplift and bring out that creative force in you. Maybe it's exactly what the doctor ordered.

 

 

 

 

Medical Marijuana: How Can You Be Against It If You Drink?

Medical Marijuana: How Can You Be Against It If You Drink?

"Whether you were a pothead in college, enjoy an occasional toke, or are straight-laced and never touch the stuff, you’ve probably taken part in at least one debate about medical marijuana." Read more here at BLISS TREE.

Hug A Cop. No, Really.

Not all cops are anti-pot. The good men and women of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (http://www.leap.org/) are actually working to make pot legal. Modeled after Vietnam Veterans Against the War, which used the credibility of combat veterans to denounce an unwinnable and disastrous conflict, LEAP membership is open only to cops, DEA agents, prosecutors, and other accredited law enforcement officers. Even still, most members wait until they retire from the force before taking the leap into the opposition, as dissesension in the ranks is not tolerated in the War on Drugs. So if you're a cop, and you know firsthand the horrible hypocrisies of the drug prohibition, please join up with LEAP and help everyone come to their senses. You owe it to every citizen you were forced to fuck with because of a system that's out of control. And if you're not a cop, thank your lucky stars that there are men and women out there brave enough to risk their reputations by telling the awful truth about the War on Drugs.

Things To Do When You're Stoned

*Meditate

*Run away and join the circus.

*Do your laundry.

Things To Do When You're Stoned

Meditate.

Run away and join the circus.

Do your laundry.

Skill Of The Month: Surviving Cannabis Cup

Avoid tobacco mixes. Odds are, if you live in the United States, you can't get good imported hashish with any regularity. So make the most of the opportunity to taste the best of Nepal, Morocco, Kasmir, and other hash hotspots from around the world, but watch out for any joint you didn't roll yourself. Europeans often mix their weed with tobacco, and almost always mix it when rolling hash.

If you don't normally smoke tobacco, puffing down on one of these "blends" will turn your face the deep green of a late-summer sativa, and be a waste of good hash, as well as your lunch. And if you do regularly smoke tobacco, you should stop immediately. Sure, it's legal in the United States, but it's also addictive and deadly, unlike cannabis, which is illegal in the United States-one of the reasons you came to Amsterdam in the first place. Fucked up, isn't it?

Burning Books: Marijuana Horticulture (1983, 2006)

Cannabis cultivators have been referring to this classic by Jorge Cervantes as "The Bible" for over twenty-five years, and with good reason. Don't expect any divine intervention on behalf of your plants, but you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about how to grow pot directly from the world's ultimate ganja guide. A new edition was published in 2006. Full-color photos and easy-to-follow illustrations make this a must have reference title for anyone growing reefer.

Thank you High Times.

Hash Bash

Today hashish is obtained by scraping resin from flower heads, but in nineteenth-century Asia, it was gathered in much wackier ways. In India, men clad in leather dresses would run through marijuana fields, knocking into the plants as much as possible so resin would stick to the dresses. It was then scraped off and formed into balls.

Over The Counter

Back in the late 1800's, marijuana was easily obtained at American pharmacies. Believed to have powerful analgesic properties, it was also a common ingredient in medicinal tonics.

Stoner Subgenre: Metalheads

When you're nice and stoned, it's a lot easier to deal with one of those twenty-five-minute drum solos featuring crashing cymbals, satanic chants, and throwing up the horns the whole time.

Things To Do When You're Stoned

Write a letter to the editor.

Go barefoot.

Make a new friend.
You might start by sharing the rest of that joint.

Your Brain On Drugs

Because the brain naturally has THC-specific receptors, scientists have long thought there must be a naturally-occurring brain chemical similar to THC. In 1992, Israeli scientist Raphael Mechoulam found it: arachidonyl ethanolamide, or "anandamide," from ananda, the Sanskrit word for bliss. Compounds very similar to anandamide have also been found in dark chocolate.

A Good Word

"Up betimes and to my chamber to do business, where the greatest part of the morning. Then out to the 'Change to speake with Captain (Cocke), who tells me my silver plates are ready for me, and shall be sent me speedily; and proposes another proposition of serving us with a thousand tons of hempe, and tells me it shall bring me 6500, if the bargain go forward, which is a good word."

-The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1666

Skill Of The Month: Surviving Cannabis Cup

For more than twenty years, the Cannabis Cup has been the world's premier marijuana event. bringing together up to two thousand aficionados from around the world to crown the best cannabis from Amsterdam's famous "coffeeshops." Finding enough time to smoke it all can present a real high-class problem. Here are a few tips to make sure you're still standing when the smoke clears:

Drink water. Most "Amsterdamage" actually occurs when people don't drink enough agua. High Times recommends roughly one glass of water per joint for optimal performance.

Use the bud-dy system. No matter what kind of trouble you're getting into in Amsterdam, it'll be a lot easier to get out of if you're rolling with a friend. Two "heads" are truly better than one, after all, whether you're trying to remember the name of your hotel or puzzling over the menu at your first coffeeshop.

ASA sues DoJ over California medical marijuana crackdown

Thank you NORML for the link.

"(LA Times) A medical marijuana advocacy group has sued the U.S. attorney general and the top federal prosecutor in Northern California, asking a federal court to halt recent ... read more.



ASA sues DoJ over California medical marijuana crackdown

Smells Fishy

Rotten fish has been used in fertilizer since civilization first made the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and while liquified fish may get stink to high heaven, the nitrogen levels and trace nutrients within make this a must-have elixir for the discriminating marijuana gardner. So, does something smell fishy? Yeah, it's called great weed.

Thank you High Times.

MARIJUANA AT THE MOVIES: The Breakfast Club (1985)

Today on the High Times Magazine desk calendar pull off is ...

Marijuana At The Movies: The Breakfast Club (1985)

What could finally bring together a princess, an athlete, a brain, a basket case, and a ciminal? How about a few fat doobies during detention? In this classic tale of teen angst overcome, the mismatched Breakfast Club find their common ground after fumigating the school library with pungent marijuana smoke. Then they dance like crazy.

FUNTOWN!

SMOKESCREENS: HIGH TIMES REVIEWS METHODS OF STONER SCENT REDUCTION

http://www.soycandlescatalog.com/ for starters. :) Great scent throws in soy, hot or cold.

Nor for High Times Magazine's suggestions.

Method - Towel under the door.

Advantages - Prevents people from entering or leaving the room.

Disadvantages - Relying on the towel alone is like using the rhythm method for birth control. It might work for a while, but roll the dice enough times and eventually you're going to lose.

Yeah! I say stick to candles. @soycandlestweets

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Go rock climbing.

Stare at the ceiling.

Respect your elders.
(do that when you're not stoned please)

GANJA GLOBETREKKING: "VANSTERDAM"

The massive plane, boat, truck, and helicopter loads of "BC bud" that arrive in America every year take their name from Canada's westernmost province, and all that exporting makes marijuana a big business in British Columbia, which, not coincidentally, includes Vancouver, the greenest big city in North America, and an excellent budget option for stoners who can't quite afford to make the pilgrimage to Amsterdam just yet. Hit "Vansterdam" instead, and you can spend your "high holiday" making world-class snowboarding runs in the nearby mountains, trekking through the amazing Pacific Northwest rainforest, swimming on a nude beach next to the University of B.C. campus, or relaxing downtown, enjoying some of the cheapest and best sushi in the world.

- High Times

DOGGFATHER'S DAY

Happy Birthday Snoop Dogg.

Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., aka Snoop Dogg, turns forty today. A longtime fan of the goodly herb, Snoop played a pot dealer in the 2001 movie The Wash.

- High Times

"NOT APPRECIABLY HARMFUL"

In 1893 the British government, then ruling India, established the Indian Hemp Co,mission to investigate the use of cannabis in the country. After consulting with over 1,200 "doctors, coolies, yogis, fakirs, heads of lunatic asylums, bhang peasants, tax gatherers, smugglers, army officers, hemp dealers, ganja palace operators, and the clergy," the commission concluded in its 3,281-page report, the most comprehensive, scientific study ever undertaken of the herb, that "for the vast majority of consumers ... the evidence show the moderate use of ganja or charas not to be appreciably harmful ..."

- High Times

SKILL OF THE MONTH: Become a Legalization Activist

If you're a student, and you're pro-weed, then Students for Sensible Drug Policy (http://www.ssdp.org/) is for you. IT began to protest a provision to the Higher Education Act that banned federal financial aid to anyone with a drug conviction - even for simple possession of a single joint - but imposed no such sanctions against serial killers, arsonists, or crooked politicians. The nation's fastest-growing student organization, they've already partially repealed the Aid Elimination Penalty, and plan to take it all the way down.

Also worth checking out: Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (http://www.saferchoice.org/). SAFER asks: Which is safer, alcohol or marijuana? A cursory glance at the number of deaths caused per year by each (alcohol: around 100,000, marijuana: 0) should answer that, and yet we all know where the law comes down on this subject. Starting out on college campuses, and working up to a ballot initiative for the entire state of Colorado, SAFER has been bypassing the politicians and putting the question directly to the voters.

- High Times

THERE IS HAPPINESS

"There! there is happiness; heaven in a teaspoon; happiness, with all its intoxication, all it's folly, all its childishness. You can swallow it without fear; it is not fatal; it will in nowise injure your physical organs."

-Charles Baudelaire, "The Poem of Hashish"

High Times thank you.

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Get a massage.

Give a massage.

Love thy neighbor.

Thank you High Times

LIFE'S A DITCH

Want another reason to resent the federal government? How about this: They're spending your hard-earned tax dollars on ditchweed, and you don't even get to sample the goods.(Not that you'd want to anyway, but that's not the point.)

According to the DEA (now there's a name you can trust), in 2003, the agency's Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Supression Program destroyed 247 million marijuana plants, which sounds like an impressive "victory" in the War on Drugs, until you read a bit more closely and discover that 243 million (around 99 percent) of those plants were actually feral hemp. Commonly called ditchweed, the DEA defines feral hemp as "wild, scattered marijuana plants [with] no evidence of planting, fertilizing, or tending," which, unlike cultivated marijuana, contain virtually no detectable levels of THC. Many of these wild hemp plots are descended from the U.S. government-subsidized crops planted during World War II.

- High Times

THE MUNCHIES, EXPLAINED

Why does pot make you hungry? Not, as many believe, because it speeds your metabolism (it doesn't), or because it lowers your blood sugar (ditto). The real culprit is pot's endocannabinoids, naturally occurring chemicals that act on the brain to stimulate hunger.

- High Times

FUNGUS AMONGUS

Mold is good news for blue cheese, but bad news for your weed crop. What are you, mold? A plant? An animal? Why do you even exist? What possible motivation do you have to wake up in the morning and be mold, unless it's another day of ruining a beautiful garden?

-High Times

AND THE OSCAR FOR BEST STONER GOES TO ...

Sean Penn may be a major movie star and a radical political activist, but the perennial Oscar contender got his start as Jeff Spicoli, a struggling high school student who's a lot more interested in buds, babes, and waves than the finer points of American history. If you've only seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High on TV, get yourself an uncensored DVD and discover the true stoner Spicoli within.

-Agreed High Times. One of the all time best flicks out there.

SKILL OF THE MONTH: Become a Legalization Activist

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving.

SKILL OF THE MONTH: Become a Legalization Activist

If you like weed, but hate jail, then the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (http://www.norml.org/) is your friend. It's the oldest and largest marijuana reform organization in America. With a large base of small donors, NORML's heavily involved in all aspects of reform, including medical, legislative, and educational campaigns, while always retaining its focus on issues of concern to America's recreational pot smokers. Join them as a paying member, or simply volunteer your time, and you'll help work towards NORML's stated goal of "moving public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of cannabis prohibition so that the responsible use of this drug by adults is no longer subject to penalty."

In addition to the national office in Washington, D.C., NORML supports more than one hundred state and local chapters, including many on college campuses. NORML advisory board members have included Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Altman, and Rick Steves.

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Things to do when you're stoned -

Stop shopping.

Make a time capsule.

Play a round of Frisbee golf.

-High Times

MARIJUANA AT THE MOVIES: EASY RIDER (1969)

Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson all toked on real grass while filming this cannabis cult classic, including the legendary campfire scene where they introduced Nicholson's character to marijuana for the first time. When the smoked cleared, this low-budget, high-concept tale of hippie bikers who were "born to be wild" had ignited an American independent cinema movement. Easy Rider also changed the way stoners could be depicted on the silver screen, replacing the usual homicidal maniacs with freethinking, freewheeling revolutionaries. As Dennis Hopper explained to High Times: "It was the first time anybody went out and smoked marijuana in a movie and didn't kill a whole bunch of nurses."

-High Times

STONER SLANG: "Muggles"

One of the oldest American nicknames for cannabis, muggles dates from the jazz musicians of the '20s and '30s, who spread out New Orleans, bringing new sounds, smokes, and seeds with them as they played gigs all across America. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra recorded a song titted "Muggles" in Chicago in 1928, almost a decade before federal law outlawed marijuana.

-High Times Magazine

HIGH SOCIETY

"I think marijuana is much better than liquor. I think a society which is addicted to a very destructive and unhealthy drug - namely alcohol - certainly has no right to complain or be sanctimonious or censor the use of a drug which is made less harmful."

-Susan Sontag, (High Times, Interview, 1978)

How To Make An Apple Pipe

How To Make An Apple Pipe

1) Remove the ink from a disposable pen so you have a small plastic tube with nothing inside. (Subsitute with a glass stem ... we suggest. Get a stem cheap at a smoke shop near you. Re-use it over and over.)

2) Jam the pen halfway into the apple at a shallow angle. Start near the core where it's easiest to push it in. This will eventually be your bowl.

3) On the opposite side of the apple, poke another hole that meets up with the first. This is where your lips will go.

4) Poke another connecting hole close to the bowl, which will serve as a carb. Keep your finger over the carb when you light the bowl and then release your finger to clear the smoke in the pipe.

5) Use a knife to carve out the bowl deep enough to hold at least one solid hits worth of weed, and start smoking.

Here Here Here High Times Magazine.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs has given us all a gift with his creative mind and amazing ideas.

RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Meet Mary Jane: Panama Red

Made famous by the New Riders of the Purple Sage song of the same name. Panama Red is powerful sativa named for it's red hairs. Not commercially available since the 80's (at least outside of Panama), the famous Red lends its genetics to some of today's top strains, including Love Potion #1, a winner at the 2005 Cannabis Cup.

SKILL OF THE MONTH: Become a Legalization Activist

You can get involved by joining up with medical marijuana activists wherever you live, whether it's helping  start a ballot initiative in your state, or lobbying Congress to end the federal prohibition against medical marijuana once and for all. For as long as these laws have been enforced, dedicated activists have been working hard to change them, either by educating their fellow citizens, lobbying their elected officials, or engaging in civil disobedience and public protest.

Each of the organizations that makes up the "grassroots" marijuana movement has a different approach to making our dreams a reality, but all of them can and will make you part of the "green" team. And remember, getting involved not only feels great and created positive change, it's also an excellent way to make kind new friends who share a common interest.

-High Times

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Things to do when you're stoned -

Create a collage.

Play paintball.

Ride a bicycle.
(It's fun, good exercise, and saves fossil fuels.)

STONER SONGS: "How To Roll A Blunt" (1992)

Named for an instructional High Times centerfold, Redman's hip-hop classic took the art of blunt rolling to new heights - and new heads. Lately, Redman's been into hanging with his favorite magazine, explaining that after hosting our 2006 Doobie Awards, "Redman is an official High Times member."

-Thank you High Times.

WHY IS HEMP ILLEGAL?

Officially, America's drug warriors fear that farmers will hide pot plants in their fields, using the look-alike hemp plants to cover up a major marijuana operation. But as anyone who's ever actually grown marijuana can tell you, a field of low-THC hemp would be about the last place on Earth you'd want to hide your lovely, all-female, high-THC marijuana. Just as soon as your girls started to bud, the male plants among the hemp would have a "field day" fertilizing all those virginal ladies, instantly turning your weed into seed. The hemp plants might be proud papas, but from the smoker's point of view, your (very expensive) garden got ruined.

-High Times

Crappy Crop

Whether Peruvian, Malaysian, or off the Jersey shore, all seabirds drop "guano" rich in the nutrients your crop needs for vegetative and flowering stages of growth. The best way to collect it is by either putting on a clean, white shirt or eating an ice-cream cone on the beach.

Marijuana Martyr

On October 2, 1937- the very day the Marihuana Tax Stamp Act was enacted - a 58-year-old unemployed laborer and part-time reeferman named Samuel R. Caldwell set up shop in Denver's seedy Lexington Hotel. Local police and FBI officers raided, caught Caldwell in the act of selling two joints, and took him down for dealing - the first person ever charged under the brand-new federal law. "I consider marijuana the worst of all narcotics, far worse than the use of morphine or cocaine. Under its influence men become beasts," the judge declared, sentencing Caldwell to four years of hard labor. "I have no sympathy with those who sell this weed. The government is good to enforce this new law to the letter."

Samuel R. Caldwell served every day of his sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary, on top of a $1000 fine, and died a year after his release.

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Things to do when you're stoned -

Start a business.

Whistle a catchy tune.

Tune a piano.

-High Times Tips

SKILL OF THE MONTH: COOKING WITH CANNABIS

While many frequent users don't notice any adverse effects from a daily dose of weed, the daily dose of brownies is another story. It's just as easy to add cannabis to healthy foods as it is to not-so-healthy ones. Consider putting your bud in more wholesome options, such as guacamole, spaghetti sauce, smoothies, or stir fries.

Thank you High Times for the tip.

SHOTGUN!

The term shotgun originated among U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, who sometimes smoked the plentiful local sativas out of their shotguns by fitting a loaded pipe into the chamber, lighting it, and having one soldier blow the smoke from the pipe down to his buddy waiting at the business end of the weapon. Nowadays, the same concept can still be applied, albeit without the actual shotgun. The shotgunner simply puts a smoking joint into his mouth backwards, holding the lit end inside so that it doesn't burn his lips. The "shotgunned" then inhales from the unlit end at the same time his buddy exhales in the opposite direction.

Warning: This result may blow your mind.

Thank you High Times for the knowledge.

Kush Expo in Anaheim Convention Center

ABOUT KUSH EXPO – No Med Card Needed

Kush Expo OC (Nov. 18-20, 2011) is Orange County, California’s biggest Medical Marijuana Mega Show!  There will be a smoking section as well as hundreds of booths and tons of giveaways including free coupons from dispensaries.  Live concerts and a Hot Kush Girl Contest.  The resting lounge will include food, a full liquor bar and massage chairs.  Doctors will be at the convention providing med cards.  There will also be a custom rides car show.
ARTICLE WRITTEN ABOUT KUSH EXPO 2010 ANAHEIM, CA – CLICK HERE
Click here for:  VENDOR APP + CONTRACT (Nov. 18-20, 2011)
WHO WILL BE THERE?

• Dispensaries/Collectives (HANDING OUT COUPONS!)
• Paraphernalia (Glass Bongs & Pipes)
• Hydroponics
• Marijuana Apparel
• Vaporizers
• Grow Experts
• Growing Equipment
• Nutrients/Chemicals/Fertilizers
• Seed Companies
• Clubs/Associations
• Clothing
• Publications
• Artists/Glass Artists
• Graphic/Web Design
• Lawyers/Doctors

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Dig a hole to China.

Keep a journal.

Build a fort.
Once it's built you'll have a great new place to smoke weed.

Thank you High Times.

MOROCCAN HASH FACTS

 In 2004, the United Nations' first Cannabis Survey revealed that 134,000 hectares of marijuana had been cultivated to Morocco in the previous year, yielding 42 percent of the world's hashish, and establishing the famous Rif Mountains as the leading international region in the production and export of hashish. Cannabis cultivation in Morocco dates from the arrival of Arab invaders in the fourth century, and has survived countless sultans, kings and even Spanish rule.

TRIBAL HEMP

In 2000, the Lakota began planting hemp on their tribal lands, enduring the federal agents who showed up each year to raid the reservation at gunpoint and seize the crop. Suing to stop the raids, Alex White Plume, who planted the hemp, declared that he had approval from the tribal council, and pointed to the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, which encouraged Native Americans to farm their land. Although a federal court ruled that White Plume must cease cultivation, hemp continues to florish on the Pine Ridge Reservation, growing wild from seeds spread across the land when the authorities dragged the previous crops away. "This hemp is more that just a crop to sell," White Plume told High Times. "We've prayed over these crops and done ceremonies. This hemp represents our sovereignty, our ability to live our lives and use our land as we see fit."

HIGH TIMES ALL STARS: JEN O'BRIEN & BOB BURNQUIST

Could this be the world's most high-flying cannabis couple? O'Brien (a former High Times cover model) and Burnquist (a nominee for an ESPN Espy Award), both rank among the top skateboarders in the world.

"Pro boarding is such a go-go-go thing, and marijuana is the perfect way to wind down," Ms. O'Brien told High Times. "You can use it for inspiration as much as relaxation."

Thank you High Times

SKILL OF THE MONTH: Passing A Drug Test

High Times magazine suggests that you drink as much water as possible in the days leading up to the test, to flush your system. THC can also be sweated out of the body. Urinate as much as possible at home before arriving for your drug test. Avoid giving the urine at the beginning and end of your stream.

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Bodysurf.

Jump on top of a cuddle puddle.

Go fishing.
The art of angling requires the patience and peace of mind to sit quietly and wait for something to happen - naturally, stoners are naturals.

Mary Jane at Ole Miss

In 1968 the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) established the Drug Supply Program to provide clinical investigators with cannabis. THC, and other controlled substances for medical research, contracting with the University of Mississippi to grow marijuana for the program.

Smells Bad

A canine can be trained to search for the scent of illegal drugs, or it can be trained to detect the presence of dangerous explosives, but it cannot be trained to do both - at least not at the same time. In other words, given a world in which a limited number of dogs will be trained, every dog trained for antinarcotics work equals on less antiterror dog available to sniff out explosives down at the airport.

Thank you High Times.

This Is Your Brain On THC

Better known as THC, tetrahydrocannabinol is the most famous of the marijuana's active ingredients, though hardly the only compound in cannabis that gets you stoned. A complex interplay of over seventy known cannaboids accounts for the plant's highly unique effect on the brain.

SKILL OF THE MONTH: Passing A Drug Test

High Times suggest the best way to pass a drug test is to put time between getting high and unzipping your fly. Most drug test solution products insist on a minimum forty-eight -to-seventy-two hour window of abstinence before the test. THC appears in urine two to four hours after smoking, and may persist in detectable amounts for up to thirty days. Secondhand marijuana smoke should not cause a positive urine-test result.

MARIJUANA AT THE MOVIES: WOODSTOCK (1970)

If you were born too late for the Age of Aquarius, this beautiful, sprawling concert film may be the best way to relive the high spirits of the '60s without risking a trip to Vietnam. Inventively spliced together using a series of split screens, Woodstock offers up a sense of psychedelic overload, not to mention a front - row seat for the music festival that defined a generation, including the tokers, the trippers, and the victims of the brown acid. Highlights include musical performances from the biggest(and baked-est) names classic rock, featuring Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Who, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, and Sly & the Family Stone performing their latest hit, "I Want To Take You Higher."

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Things To Do When You're Stoned -

Clean out the garage.

Blink rapidly.

Make prank phone calls.

Thank you High Times for the tips.

Uncle Miltie Knows

"There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana," according to Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman (fried man), a leading voice in the promotion of free-market economics, a founding father of the Reagan Revolution, and about as far from a "hippie" as you're likely to find on planet Earth. As Friedman declared shortly before his death at age ninety-four: "It's absolutely disgraceful to think of picking up a twenty-two-year-old for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of marijuana for medical purposes."

Marijuana Messages

"I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I can stave those off when I'm not high. When I'm high-well, they come in and there's less of a veil, so to speak. So if ever I need some clarity, or a quantum leap in my own consciousness, or a quantum leap in terms of writing something or getting an answer, it's a quick way for me to get it."

-Alanis Morissette, (High Times interview, 2009)

SKILL OF THE MONTH: Passing A Drug Test

Not that we support trickery, you need to hear these words of wisdom from High Times for today.

The first thing you need to know about drug tests is that they're total bullshit. And the biggest bullshit of all? The hard stuff (coke, heroin, alcohol) leaves your body in a matter of days, if not hours, while freeloading, couch-surfing marijuana can crash out in your fat cells for a month or more.

But rest assured that just as there's a $6 billion-per-year drug test industry profiting off all this bullshit, there's also a "drug test solutions" industry offering products to help you cheat your way to a brand-new job. Simply find a company you trust and visit their Web site for more information on their products. And don't feel guilty in the least: If someone has the nerve to ask for your urine, they deserve what you hand them. 

Happy Birthday Jerry Garcia

Jerry would have turned sixty-nine today. He died a week after his fifty-third birthday in 1995. Contrary to rumors, he did not die at 4:20, but almost; the official time of death was 4:23pm.

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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Go snorkeling.

Write a screenplay.

Man a scavenger hunt.

BURNING BOOKS: The Emperor Wears No Clothes

An underground publishing phenomenom, Jack Herer's "authoritative historical record of the cannabis plant, marijuana prohibition, and how hemp can still save the world" remains the seminal text of the modern hemp movement. Although Jack "The Hemperor" Herer may be best known these days for the super-potent cannabis strain that bears his name, well-rounded readers will still find astounding facts in this well-researched work of stoner scolarship. Just don't try to smoke the pages.

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Baker's Dozen

Baker's Dozen

Most American dealers actually weigh out a 448-gram "pound," which is preferred because it's even divisible into eighths. Unklike the traditional "baker's dozen," which benefits the consumer with an extra donut, bagel, or pastry, the "dealer's ounce" benefits the house.

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HIGH TIMES ALL STARS: Nate Newton

The six-time Pro Bowl offensive lineman was arrested in 2001 when police pulled over a van he was riding in and discovered 213 pounds of pot stored in cardboard boxes in the back seat. Five weeks later, he got popped again, this time with 175 pounds of herb in the car.

Newton, who had retired a year earlier after fourteen seasons in the NFL, was convicted of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and sentenced to thirty months in federal prison.

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MARIJUANA AT THE MOVIES: ANIMAL HOUSE (1978)

Professor Pothead (aka Donald Sutherland) invites a few of his prized pupils to a very special session of "office hours" in the most popular college comedy of all time, locking the doors, shuttering the windows, and killing the lights before lighting up some grass and sparking a philosophical debate that ends with the timeless question: "Can I buy some pot from you?"

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FAQ: Where can I find a cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary or delivery service?

Where can I find a cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary or delivery service?

See our list of Cannabis Patients' Cooperatives and Support Groups and Cannabis Delivery Services. Cal NORML makes no representation as to the quality, service, reliability, or compassion of any of the coops, dispensaries, delivery services or patients' groups listed.

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STONER SONGS: "STONED IS THE WAY OF THE WALK" (1991)

Their first "hit" in more ways than one, the higher-than-high Cypress Hill initially inhaled fame with this ganja-soaked ode to hip hop potheads and then held it in with "Hits from the Bong," "I Want to Get High," and other blunt inspired ditties.

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SMOKESCREENS: HIGH TIMES REVIEWS METHODS OF STONER SCENT REDUCTION

METHOD: Cigarettes

ADVANTAGES: The powerful, socially acceptable stench of tobacco effectively covers the sweet, life affirming scent of cannabis.

DISADVANTAGES: They will slowly kill you, after decades of expensive addiction.

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*We advise soy candles or incense. :)

SKILL OF THE MONTH: Debunking Marijuana Myths

Argument: Alcohol and tobacco are bad enough, so why add to our troubles?

Myth Debunked: Marijuana is by far the least harmful of the three. Also, millions of Americans already use cannabis regularly. And most marijuana-related problems stem from the prohibition against it, not its use.

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Beer Bud-Dies

Once thought to be related to nettles or mulberries, cannabis is now grouped with the family of plants that includes hops. Which is probably a good excuse to have a beer with that bowl - it's practically a family reunion.

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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Go bungee jumping.

Perform a striptease.

Start a food fight.

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MEET MARY JANE: NORTHERN LIGHTS X HAZE

MEET MARY JANE: NORTHERN LIGHTS X HAZE

Developed by Amsterdam seed breeders, this hybrid combines Northern Lights, an easy-to-grow, abundantly yielding indica, with the soaring high of Haze, a slow-growing, wispy sativa. The result blends the best of both worlds, yielding dense, resin-soaked buds that bring a clear, uplifting intoxication.

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ANTICIPA-A-TION

ANTICIPA-A-TION

It takes at least thirty minutes, and sometimes as long as two hours, to start feeling the effects of ganja food, depending on how strong it is, what else you've been eating, and the many subtleties of the human mind. The experience will then grow steadily more intense for a few hours before gradually receding. So start with a little taste and see what happens. You can always eat more later.

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SKILL OF THE MONTH: Debunking Marijuana Myths

Argument: Alcohol and tobacco are accepted parts of our society, making them fundamentally different from marijuana.

Myth debunked: Precendent is no excuse for bad policy. Slavery and child labor were once accepted parts of our society, along with opium-laced baby medicines.

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Red, White and Blue - Add Green

Happy 4th of July!

Whether you're hanging at a lake, in the street or on a beach.

Don't drink and drive. Smoke and vibe.

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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Things To Do When You're Stoned

Expand your horizons.

Smile.

Solve a mystery.

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Happy Canada Day - OH, CANADA

Happy Canada Day!

OH, CANADA

One more reason to love our neighbors to the north: the Marijuana Party of Canada, a political party entirely dedicated to the legalization of weed. In 2006, the party finished ahead of the Greens.

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Obama Administration Overrides 2009 Ogden Memo ...

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Obama Administration Overrides 2009 Ogden Memo, Declares Open Season on Pot Shops in States Where Medical Marijuana Is Legal

Mike Riggs | June 30, 2011

The Department of Justice sent out a memo Wednesday instructing the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration and leading officials in the U.S. Attorneys Office to treat medical marijuana shops as top priorities for prosecutors and drug investigators.
"Persons who are in the business of cultivating, selling or distributing marijuana, and those who knowingly facilitate such activities, are in violation of the Controlled Substances Act, regardless of state law," the memo reads. "Consistent with resource constraints and the discretion you may exercise in your district, such persons are subject to federal enforcement action, including potential prosecution. State laws or local ordinances are not a defense to civil or criminal enforcement of federal law with respect to such conduct, including enforcement of the CSA."
The memo, authored by Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole, "clarifies" a memo released in 2009 that declared medical marijuana sales in states that have legalized it to be a low priority for law enforcement and prosecutors. The so-called "Ogden memo" first appeared to drug law reformers as evidence that Pres. Obama was dialing back the war on drugs. The DEA and U.S. Attorneys office continued to go after state-legal grow operations and marijuana shops after the memo was first circulated, leading reformers to conclude that Obama was lying when he said on the campaign trail that he had no interest in going after medical marijuana.
The memo written by Cole and addressed to DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart and several members of the U.S. Attorney's office is a severe amendment to the Ogden memo. "The Department of Justice is committed to the enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act in all States. Congress has determined that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that the illegal distribution and sale of marijuana is a serious crime that provides a significant source of revenue to large scale criminal enterprises, gangs, and cartels," the memo reads.
"The Ogden Memorandum provides guidance to you in deploying your resources to enforce the CSA as part of the exercise of the broad discretion you are given to address federal criminal matters within your districts." The memo also says that the meaning of the Ogden memo has not changed since its writing.
Then memo continues:

[T]he Ogden Memo reiterated to you that prosecution of significant traffickers of illegal drugs, including marijuana, remains a core priority, but advised that it is likely not an efficient use of federal resources to focus enforcement efforts on individuals with cancer or other serious illnesses who use marijuana as part of a recommended treatment regimen consistent with applicable state law, or their caregivers. The term "caregiver" as used in the memorandum meant just that: individuals providing care to individuals with cancer or other serious illnesses, not commercial operations cultivating, selling or distributing marijuana.
The Department's view of the efficient use of limited federal resources as articulated in the Ogden Memorandum has not changed. There has, however, been an increase in the scope of commercial cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana for purported medical purposes. For example, within the past 12 months, several jurisdictions have considered or enacted legislation to authorize multiple large-scale, privately-operated industrial marijuana cultivation centers. Some of these planned facilities have revenue projections of millions of dollars based on the planned cultivation of tens of thousands of cannabis plants.
The Ogden Memorandum was never intended to shield such activities from federal enforcement action and prosecution, even where those activities purport to comply with state law. Persons who are in the business of cultivating, selling or distributing marijuana, and those who knowingly facilitate such activities, are in violation of the Controlled Substances Act, regardless of state law. Consistent with resource constraints and the discretion you may exercise in your district, such persons are subject to federal enforcement action, including potential prosecution. State laws or local ordinances are not a defense to civil or criminal enforcement of federal law with respect to such conduct, including enforcement of the CSA. Those who engage in transactions involving the proceeds of such activity may also be in violation of federal money laundering statutes and other federal financial laws.

The above reveals that the DOJ is attempting to rewrite history, as Jacob Sullum pointed out last month:

In October 2009, David Ogden, then the deputy attorney general, sent a memo that seemed to fulfill this promise. "As a general matter," he told U.S. attorneys, they "should not focus federal resources" on "individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana."
Yet the DEA's medical marijuana raids not only have continued but are more frequent under Obama than they were under George W. Bush. Americans for Safe Access (ASA), which argues that patients who can benefit from marijuana should be able to obtain it legally, counts well over 100 raids in the two years and four months since Obama's inauguration, compared to about 200 during Bush's eight years in office. "The Obama administration really is being more aggressive than the administration of his predecessor," says ASA spokesman Kris Hermes.
At first, it seemed the DEA was targeting growers and sellers who arguably were not "in clear and unambiguous compliance" with state law, since the rules for supplying medical marijuana were fuzzy in jurisdictions such as California, Colorado and Montana. But the U.S. attorney letters conclusively show that, contrary to the impression left by the Ogden memo, complying with state law provides no protection against federal prosecution.
Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler insists there is "no inconsistency" between the recent threats and the Ogden memo, which she says "talks about not investigating sick individuals who might be in compliance with state law." Actually, the memo refers not to "sick individuals" but to "individuals" generally, and it cites as examples not only patients but "caregivers" who supply them with marijuana.
In any case, the Justice Department's distinction between patients and suppliers cannot be reconciled with Attorney General Eric Holder's description of the new policy. "The policy is to go after those people who violate both federal and state law," he said in March 2009. "Our focus will be on people, organizations that are growing, cultivating substantial amounts of marijuana and doing so in a way that's inconsistent with federal and state law."

The Ogden memo did not make medical marijuana legal, but it clearly advised federal law enforcement agencies to go after pot shops that showed signs of being tied to organized crime. From the Ogden memo, released in 2009:

Typically, when any of the following characteristics is present, the conduct will not be in clear and unambiguous compliance with applicable state law and may indicate illegal drug trafficking activity of potential federal interest:

• unlawful possession or unlawful use of firearms;
• violence;
• sales to minors;
• financial and marketing activities inconsistent with the terms, conditions, or purposes of state law, including evidence of money laundering activity and/or financial gains or excessive amounts of cash inconsistent with purported compliance with state or local law;
• amounts of marijuana inconsistent with purported compliance with state or local law;
• illegal possession or sale of other controlled substances; or

When I asked the White House in 2010 if continuing to raid medical marijuana dispensaries--which it had been doing less often than under Bush, but more often than never--a senior staffer told me, "Yes – that enforcement is focused on those incidences where both federal and state law are being violated – and is therefore focused largely on drug traffickers. It has not spent its limited resources on ind. patients with cancer and other serious disease." 

Quantum 'graininess' of space at smaller scales? Gamma-ray observatory challenges physics beyond Einstein

Something to ponder while your medicated.

Quantum 'graininess' of space at smaller scales? Gamma-ray observatory challenges physics beyond Einstein

Hemp Through History

Hemp Through History

Hemp has played a pivotal part in many of history's greatest moments. The Gutenberg Bible was printed on hemp paper. Hemp provided the sails and ropes for Christopher Columbus's ships. And both the Declaration of Independence and the first American flag were made of hemp.

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MARIJUANA SYNONYMS, I-M

Indica, indo, ism, J, Jack Herer, jane, jazz cigarette, jimmy, joint, KB, kef, KGB, kif, killer, kind, kind bud, Kona Gold, krippie, Kryptonite, Kush, lamb's bread, lamb's breath, leaf, lid, love blossom, love bud, m, mafu, Mary, Mary J, Mary Jane, Maui Wowie, method, mex, mezz, MJ, moss, mota, Mother Mary, muggles, muta

It's Science

Of the seventy known herbal cannabinoids, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD), and cannabinol (CBN) are the most prevalent, and their medical properties have received the most study.

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Butter Up

Yes, you can simply eat buds straight off the stem until you get high, but it will take a lot of chewing and cost a ton of money, because when you eat "raw" marijuana, your stomach can only absorb a small portion of the THC and other cannabinoids in the plant. You need to give those molecules something to bind onto, which means the most efficient way to ingesting cannabis resins involves slowly simmering, the buds and leaves in something with a high fat content, like butter, cream, or oil.

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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Live the life you've imagined.

Overcome your prejudices.

Quit your job.

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Going Green TEN Ways To Beat The Price Of Gas

Well having a delivery service for your medical marijuana is a sure start. Here are the Top Ten by Bud Lee.

*ONE* If you have a smart phone, download a "gas app." There are lots available, but I like #GasBuddy because it's free and simple to use. Another is #CheapGas, (also free) which gives you precise directions to the closest, cheapest station. These are for the iphone, but no worries, there are plenty for you Android types.

*TWO* Use cash when possible. Many stations charge a few cents less per gallon if you don't flex the plastic at their pumps.

*THREE* What's up with topping off with premuim all the time? The fact is most cards don't need it, despite what it says in the owner's manual. To be sure, ask a good independent mechanic if it's safe to use regular or the middle-grade gas in that chick (or dude) magnet of yours.

*FOUR* Now this is sort of a no-brainer, but ... consider carpooling, especially for shopping trips, a day at the beach, etc. Yup, there's even an app for that! Download the Carpicipate App to find new friends and neighbors who also want to share a ride.

*FIVE* And speaking of shopping ... do it online whenever possible. (like http://www.kushcandles.com/) There's actually a study out there that shows shopping on the net saves up to 35% in fuel consumption, not to mention ancillary items like parking, bridge tolls and that impulsive "gotta' have it" latte. Ok, go ahead, have the latte, but don't make it a special trip.

*SIX* Also in the no-brainer department, you can assume, if it's ultra convienent, then you're paying through the nose. So, steer clear of gas station located right off the freeway. Their rents are higher and they charge more, plus they know you want your fill-up to be fast and easy, so they mark it up to whatever traffic will bear.

*SEVEN* Next, you've heard it before, "sometimes you've got to spend money to save money." Sounds like an oxymoron. But in this case, it's totally true. Keep your ride tuned up and you'll get better mileage, and performance too. Clean filters, properly adjusted belts and hoses, good spark plugs and fresh fluids all count, and check the air pressure in those tires now and then. For every three pounds your tires are underflated, fuel economy drops about one percent. It all adds up.

*EIGHT* And, try to control that lead foot. Aggressive driving, while it might be fun attracting the attention of potential girlfriends and or boyfriends, not to mention traffic cops ... it burns a lot more gas.

*NINE* How quickly you accelerate and how fast you go makes a huge difference. How huge? Well, for every mile per hour over sixty you drive, you're spending an extra ten cents a gallon. And, according to Department of Energy studies, erratic and hard braking can waste an additional fifty cents per gallon.

*TEN* Last, do the math. Decide if venturing out on the highway is really worth it. Driving ten miles across town to buy sunglasses on sale probably won't save you anything. In fact, as the price of petrol continues to rise, those new shades may be a lot more expensive then you bargained for.

In the end, the price of gas moves up and down based on world politics and economics, and that probably won't change. But adopt some of these strategies, and you can survive this mess.

SKILL OF THE MONTH: IMPROVE YOUR JAY-DAR

Listen for verbal cues. Dude, if someone says "dude" a lot, then, "fucking dude"-that's a good sign. Listen carefully for the stoner's telltale conversational pause, the likelihood of repeating good story more than thrice, and casual mention of any of the many, many monikers marijuana goes by-everything from muggles to Mary Jane. Also, don't be afraid to drop a few well-placed hints of your own, which can be accomplished with a minimium of risk. For instance, if they don't smoke 'dro, then they won't know what you're talking about when you ask them to pass it. Warning: The word is out on 420, so beware when interacting with the straight world-they have cracked out code. Please remain calm and continue to smoke as you would normally.

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STONER SONGS: "I Want To Take You Higher" (1968)

Recorded the year of the moon landing and brilliantly performed the next summer at Woodstock, Sly  & the Family Stone's jubilant anthem embodied the yearning of an entire generation of young potheads that wanted to turn on everyone in the world and show them all a new, and "higher" way to live.

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HIGH SOCIETY

"I was out in the car listening to the radio. Some jazz came on. I'd been listening to jazz for years, but it had never meant all that much to me. Now, with the powers pot offered, simple things became complex; complex things clarified themselves. These musicians were offering the inner content of their  experiences to me."

-Norman Mailer, (High Times interview, 2004)

GROW IT FOR YOUR COUNTRY

Believe or not, the first American law regarding marijuana was actually pro-pot. A law established in the American colonies in 1619 required farmers to grow hemp, as colonists could use it for clothing and rope.

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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Look through old photo albums.

Go birdwatching.

Get married.
Scientific studies prove that cannabis couples have more fun, stay together longer, and always finish their slices of wedding cake.

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A COOL, DARK PLACE

Okay, you went off and got yourself some weed. You rolled some, you smoked some, and you passed it to the left-hand side -- all very good. But what about the rest of your stash? For best results, store your dried herbs in an airtight container that's large enough not to crush them, and then hide it in a cool, dark place. Most importantly, don't forget your hiding place. Yes, it happens, and the ensuing search is a very frustrating way to waste an afternoon.

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MARIJUANA AT THE MOVIES: GRASS (1999)

Director Ron Mann's powerful documentary film examines the history of the marijuana laws, revealing the rascism, fear-mongering, and social control at the root of cannabis prohibition, and then taking a chronological approach to recounting our illogical War on Chronic. Marijuana activist Woody Harrelson lent his voice as narrator free of charge, telling the long, sordid story of antipot propaganda while over four hundred hours of compiled archival footage gets ably edited down to a highly enlightening eighty-seven minutes.

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Are There One Million Medical Marijuana Patients in California?

The folks at CA NORML have released their most recent estimate on the number of medical marijuana patients in California. They put the number at between 750,000 and 1,125,000 people, or 2-3% of the population of the state.

Since very few patients are involved in the state ID program, the number has to be estimated, and CA NORML used several criteria to come to their conclusion. First, Colorado reports 2.5% of the state’s population is finding relief with medical marijuana, and Montana puts the number at 3%. Since CA has an older MMJ law and is in some ways more liberal when it comes to medical marijuana, it’s safe to say MMJ use has to be at least 3%.

A 2%+ patient population estimate is [also] supported by data from the Oakland Patient ID Center, which has been issuing patient identification cards to its members since 1996. The OPIDC serves patients from all over the state, but especially the greater Oakland-East Bay area of Northern California, where its cards are honored by law enforcement. As of 2010, the OPIDC had issued ID’s to 19,805 members from five East Bay cities (Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Hayward and Richmond), amounting to 2.4% of the local population. Because the cards were issued over a period of 14 years, they include numerous patients who have lapsed, moved, or deceased. On the other hand, they do not include many other local patients who have current recommendations but never registered with the OPIDC.

Even higher numbers have been reported by the Peace In Medicine collective in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, whose members number 3.6% of local residents [02].

And contrary to the predictions of medical marijuana opponents, CA’s liberal MMJ law hasn’t seemed to have spurred increased use in the overall state population.

Despite this, there is no evidence that liberal access to medical marijuana has spurred overall marijuana use in California. According to U.S. SAMHSA data, the total number of users in the state, including non-medical ones, amounts to 6.7% of the population (2.5 million) within the past month, or 11.3% (4.1 million) within the past year. This places California only slightly above the national average in marijuana use ( 6.0% monthly and 10.4% yearly), and below several states with tougher marijuana laws. Use of marijuana by California school youth has declined since Prop. 215 passed, according to data from the Attorney General’s Survey of Student Drug Use in California. The increase in medical marijuana use therefore appears to reflect a tendency for existing users to “go medical,” rather than the enlistment of new users.

So it’s very possible that more than a million medical marijuana patients exist in CA. A very large voting block, if they come together to change things. State politicians should fear crossing medical marijuana patients, yet they clearly don’t.

Until medical marijuana patients are truly united, their rights will continue to be trampled by federal and state governments. It’s time to stand up and say you won’t take it anymore.

-Joe Klare

SKILL OF THE MONTH: IMPROVE YOUR JAY-DAR

If only there was some obvious way for pot smokers to signal their "green light" status to one another. Much like homosexuals, who claim to have gay-dar. we heads must hone our own jay-dar, so we can combat the tactic of divide and conquer that has kept us in the closet for the past seventy years. How do you find the herb smokers in your midst? Start with the obvious: physcial appearance. Sherlock Holmes could draw the most elaborate deductions from simply observing the appearance of a person who entered his flat. You should do some detective work of your own. Look carefully for the following clues, any one of which should set your jay-dar tingling: dreadlocks, tie-dye, hemp, yellowing of the thumb and forefinger, red eyes, droopy lids, dry lips, wide smile, corn rows, Birkenstocks, Rasta colors, yoga mat, skateboard, beard, tattoos, guitar case ...


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SKILL OF THE MONTH: Traveling With Weed

Go incognito. The Grateful Dead have millions of fans and have played music live before more people than anyone else in history. They will survive without your bumber sticker, and you will stand a far better chance of surviving a routine traffic stop without that Steal Your Face above your license plate.

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High Times All Stars: Orlando Cepeda

The original OC was baseball's rookie of the year in 1958 and the league's first unanimous MVP award winner in 1967. The son of Puerto Rico's most famous baseball player, Cepeda was a hard hitting first baseman who put up Hall of Fame numbers, but was initially denied entry to those hallowed halls because of one tiny mistake: in 1975 he was arrested in the Miami airport after attempting to pick up a shipment containing 160 pounds of Puerto Rican pot.

Cepeda, who started smoking in the late '60s to treat the pain from ten knee operations, served almost a year in prison.

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GARLIC ASPARAGUS with LIME

A delicious vegetable for the highest palate. Recipe by CHEF HERB.

Garlic Asparagus w/ Lime

INGREDIENTS:

1 teaspoon THC butter
1 tablespoon THC olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced
1 medium shallot, minced
1 bunch fresh asparagus spears, trimmed
1/4 lime, juiced
salt and pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS
Melt THC butter with THC olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Stir in garlic and shallots, and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in asparagus spears: cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Squeeze lime over hot asparagus, and season with salt and pepper. Transfer to serving plate, and garnish with lime wedges.

THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Things To Do When You're Stoned

*Get lost.

*Get found.

*Resolve a dispute
Hey, they don't call it the "peace pipe" for nothing.

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OLD-SCHOOL HASH MAKING

Old School Hash Making

Traditional hash making includes several methods of extraction that produce varying grades of end product. In the oldest practice, a collector simply walks through the still-budding fields of cannabis, rubbing the plants by hand and rolling the resin (or charas) that collects into balls. After harvesting and drying, the same buds can later be shaken over screens, beaten against carpets, and pushed through sieves of varying size to filter out the rest of the trichomes from the surrounding plant matter.

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HIGH SOCIETY

- High Society with Dave Chappelle -

"When I think about the people I have smoked pot with, they're such an eclectic mix of people, and I probably never would have spoken to a lot of them if it weren't for pot. Alcohol doesn't bring people together like that."


Quote from High Times interview with Dave Chappelle.

All In The Family

All In The Family

Cannabis belongs to the botanical family Cannabaceae. Other plants in the Cannabaceae family include hops, Jamaican nettletree, white stinkwood, and Bunge's hackberry.

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Skywalker Kush Review

Strain Name: Skywalker OG Kush
Grade: A+
Type: indica
Looks: light green with dark green spots, covered in crystals and hairs.
Smell: really danky cant really explain smell.
Taste: taste is one of the best i have ever tasted, but cant really explain.
Effects: one of the highest ive ever been. One of my favorites.
Potency: very potent gets you really high
Reviewed by: weedman00 at http://www.medicalmarijuanastrainreviews.com/

Good Strain For: stress, back pain and just to have a good time.

Product Suggestion: Iolite Portable Vaporizer

Happy Trail Blazers had experienced some fantastic products for a cleaner and smoke free way to smoke your medical marijuana. Here is a review from (Cyree Jarelle Johnson). You find this is the great California magazine called Kush. http://www.dailybuds.com/

Iolite Portable Vaporizer is smaller than most cell phones, the IoLite is available in over nine colors for all of your moods and it's lightweight, sleek look goes well with any outfit. Powerful enough for all your vaporizing needs and rechargeable, the Iolite is a greener alternative to battery operated portable vapes. Weighing in at just under three ounces, the IoLite is a lightweight, sleek, and popular way to get your dose of girly green. The Iolite is produced by Oglesby & Butler Ltd, an irish company renowned for it's gas products, which makes it a great mix of quality and sex appeal. In addition to it's good looks, the IoLite also provides friendly customer service through its American and European help lines. The IoLite promises a full two hours of vaporizing before recharging and upgrades are available, so for those who can afford the price tag the Iolite is the epitome of usability and taste.

Happy Birthday Tommy Chong

Tommy Chong turns 73 today.

Happy Birthday from MaliBUD Dispensary Delivery - Happy Trail Blazers.

BURNING BOOKS: The Botany of Desire (2001)

First off we would like to say HAPPY VICTORIA DAY to our fellow Canadians.

Burning Books: The Botany of Desire (2001)

In this 2001 book, Michael Pollan, the gardening editors at the New York Times Magazine, tells the compelling life stories of four of our most common plants: apples, potatoes, tulips, and marijuana. Obviously, High Times subscribers will have the cannabis stativa section "highlighted" for special consideration, but may we humbly suggest that you kindly consider reading all four entries, as you'll learn not only the long and winding tale of how high-grade marijuana came into exsistence, but also how all cultivated plants have shaped and reshaped themselves to satisfy mankind's desires, and how mankind has served those plants in kind.

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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

The first tip is a great one if you were one that cleared out your accounts thinking the end of the world was here.

Demand  a raise.

Plan a picnic.

Start a lemonade stand.

Skill Of The Month: Traveling With Weed

Skill Of The Month: Traveling With Weed

If you're driving across state lines, take the time to review the various laws to which you can make an informed choice about what to bring with you in the car. Also, consider driving around Oklahoma.

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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Learn to sew.

Take a siesta.

Call mom.
She'll be happy to hear from you, and over the phone there's no way she can tell you're stoned - plus, there might be some cookies in it the next time you see her!

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THC FOR TEETOTALERS

In the 1980's, temperance activists recommended marijuana as an alternative to alcohol, arguing that marijuana didn't lead to domestic violence while alcohol often did.

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HIGH SOCIETY

"I don't get stoned before shows, but afterwards I get real high ..."

-Jimmy Buffett, (High Times interview, 1976)

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EAT IT, WEAR IT, BUT DON'T SMOKE IT

Cannabis sativa L. subspecies sativa variety sativa sounds like some kind of futuristic space-weed, but you wouldn't want to smoke it. That's actually the specific variety of hemp grown legally in Europe, Canada, China and elsewhere around the world for food, fuel, and fiber. Industrial hemp contains only trace amounts of THC (0.3 percent by Canadian standards which means you'd have to ingest a whole field of the stuff in one sitting to get anywhere near the effect found in one joint of today's high-grade grass.

HIGH TIMES ALL STARS: Bill Walton

Introducing the absolute worst person to have sitting in front of you at a Grateful Dead show: former NBA all-star, current TV commentator, and major deadhead Bill Walton. At six foot eleven, you have no chance of seeing over him, and if he finds you during the set break and starts talking about help-side defense, you're in for a long night.

Walton, who saw dozens of Dead shows, including private performance in front of the Egyptian pyramids in 1978, says he learned everything he really needed to know about playing hoops  from Jerry and the boys:"They taught me the importance of deliverying peak performance on demand, and to always play with a sense of joy and creativity," Walton says of the Dead. "They were just like a great basketball team ... a group of outstanding individuals realizing that the strength of the team was the strength of the individual."

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SKILL OF THE MONTH: Traveling With Weed

First of all, no matter what you tell yourself, your driving doesn't improve when you're stoned-it's just that the music sounds a lot better. Also, getting high in the car increases your chances of getting pulled over, and the odor and appearance of pot smoking greatly increases your chances of a search.

Don't speed. And you'll want to get a vacuum sealer-especially if you're carrying around more herb than you'd care to answer for in a court of law. These miracle devices store your greens airtight, keeping them fresh, and on the go. They're also popular among the foodies of the world and will therefore raise no eyebrows at the point of purchase-unless, of course, you ask which brand works best for weed.

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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Things To Do When You're Stoned

Grow a beard.

Talk like a beatnik.

Plant a tree.

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Stash From The Past

Happy Arbor Day.

In 2008 archeologists found what is believed to be the oldest existing marijuana in the 2,700-year-old tomb of a Shaman in the Gobi Desert. The stash, weighing nearly two pounds, was still green and contained measureable amounts of THC.

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MARIJUANA AT THE MOVIES: Romancing The Stone (1984)

The "stone" in the title has  nothing to do with marjuana, but this high-action adventure story does take a stony turn when Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner find themselves stranded in the jungles of Colombia with a crashed plane filled with bales of marijuana. As night falls, they build a fire to stay warm... not to mention very, very happy.

SKILL OF THE MONTH: CULTIVATING

Most modern marijuana horticulturists prefer plants that tend toward the indica side, mostly because they grow short and fat with thick buds, producing far greater yields in far shorter time periods than sativas. But that doesn't make indica a better smoke. Ask any pot snob worth their pipe, and he or she will tell you that ounce for ounce there's no finer herb in the world than a purebred sativa like Burmese, Nigerian, or Colombian.

For first-time growers, however, High Times recommends starting off with a hearty indica that will give you a nice, heavy yield, along with allowing some room for error while you learn the art and craft of cannabis cultivation. Find a seed company your trust, and ask them for a good beginner's strain with some Northern Lights on it.

HIGH SOCIETY

"Me can roll up two spliffs using one hand - dat iz why iz known as bein' double-jointed, aight?

-Ali G, (High Times Interview, 2003)

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BURNING BOOKS: VINELAND (1990)

Considered a solitary genius, and among America's top contemporary novelists, Thomas Pynchon may be best known for long and challenging epics like Gravity's Rainbow and V., but in this novel he turns his considerable talents to a highly readable evisceration of the War on Drugs by taking one of its victims and making him human. Zoyd Wheeler lives a quiet stoner life in Humboldt County, California, until one day a vindictive DEA man abd a federally funded anti-marijuana operation turn his wife against him, and his life upside-down.

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THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU'RE STONED

Things To Do When You're Stoned

Find a bingo night

Wander in the desert.

Play hacky sack.
A bit cliche perhaps, but it's a lot more fun than kicking around a bowling ball.

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THEY CALL ME MELLOW YELLOW...

In 1972, Mellow Yellow, Amsterdam's first marijuana coffeeshop, opened for business. Today, hundreds of coffeeshops operate in Netherlands, legally selling weed, hash, and pot foods, while countless small store fronts sell marijuana seeds both over the counter and through the mail.

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SKILL OF THE MONTH: CULTIVATING

Spanish for "without seeds," sinsemilla growing describes the process of producing the highest-grade ganja possible by planting only females and keeping them all frustrated virgins until harvest. So when you're growing weed, it's all about the ladies. Male plants not only don't get you high, but they're not to be trusted in the garden.

Start by germinating ten seeds and growing them until the seedlings develop sex organs. Get rid of the males immediately, and then eventually select the best of the females to be your "mother plant." Grow the mother plant for a few weeks, and then start taking genetically identical clones by cutting off stems from the bottom and replanting them in small containers. Once you have a large, healthy mother plant, you can keep her alive, and keep her taking clones off her, for many years.

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