From The Vault: Interview With Susan Sontag, The Dark Lady Of Pop Philosophy (1978)
Among American intellectuals, Susan Sontag is probably the only Harvard-educated philosopher who digs punk rock. Sontag became famous in the Sixties when her series of brilliant essays on politics, pornography and art, including the notorious “Notes on Camps,” were collected in Against Interpretation—a book that defended the intuitive acceptance of art against the superficial, cerebral…
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San Francisco Celebrates Hash with Citywide Festival
San Francisco has its Beer Week and its Restaurant Week. Now, for the second year in a row, it also has Hash Week. Running from July 8 through July 14, SF Hash Week brings together some of California’s top extract brands for a week of drop-style events at dispensaries and lounges across the city. The…
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Delaware to Begin Recreational Cannabis Sales on August 1
Delaware will begin legal adult-use cannabis sales on August 1, according to state officials. The launch will mark the start of the state’s regulated recreational market, more than two years after legalization became law in 2023. The first retail sales will take place at existing medical cannabis dispensaries, which were granted permission to convert their…
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From The Vault: ‘I Was JFK’s Dealer’ (1974)
A conversation between Lesley Morrissey and an unnamed individual who said he was JFK’s weed dealer, first published in the Fall, 1974 issue of High Times. The man who claimed to know the Kennedys leaned over his pâté and confided to me. “Before I contacted you, I investigated a bit to see if High Times…
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Ed Rosenthal, ‘The Ganja Guru,’ on the Cannabis Revolution: It’s Not Finished Until Everyone Can Grow
Known as the “Ganja Guru,” Ed Rosenthal is an international authority on cannabis horticulture, a longtime educator, activist and legalization pioneer. He was an early contributor to High Times magazine and is a professor at Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California. Rosenthal is the author of several foundational cannabis books, including the influential Marijuana Grower’s Handbook,…
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Inside the European Takeover of America’s Cannabis Seed Market
The cannabis industry owes much of its foundation to one simple but often overlooked component: the seed. While modern, commercial cultivation frequently relies on cloning and tissue culture to maintain genetic consistency, seeds remain essential for biodiversity and the expansion of cannabis genetics. Despite being the cornerstone of cannabis cultivation, seeds have long taken a…
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Gary Payton: ‘I Never Smoked Weed—But Cannabis Helped Save My Mom’
“My mom was dying from cancer and I wanted her off all the medications that were basically killing her,” says Gary Payton, recalling the deeply personal journey that brought him to cannabis. “I wanted her to live and she wasn’t responding to the things that I was doing. So I tried cannabis, and it brought…
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High Times Greats: Mick Jagger (1980)
For the June, 1980 issue of High Times, Liz Derringer interviewed Mick Jagger, who celebrates his 77th birthday on July 26. Mick Jagger is more than just a singer in a rock n’ roll band. He has been one of rock’s most fascinating and mysterious personalities. The Jagger mystique has been fueled in large part…
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Exclusive: Slipknot’s Sid Wilson Proposes to Kelly Osbourne During Ozzy’s Farewell Show
Yesterday in front of Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon, and their rock royalty friends Sid Wilson, Slipknot’s longtime DJ and sonic architect, got down on one knee and asked Kelly Osbourne to marry him. She said yes. It happened backstage during Ozzy Osbourne’s final-ever performance with Black Sabbath, as part of the historic Back to the Beginning…
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From the Vault: Will Success Spoil Cheech & Chong? Of Course (1980)
Original publication: August of 1980. Who was that sinister, torpedolke figure seen herding Richard “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong into a glossy, opium-black limousine on fashionable Sepulveda Boulevard? Stunned onlookers, witnessing the evident abduction, set all Tinsel Town abuzz with rumors. Was it a Mexico City publishing firm’s hit man, contracted to bump off the…
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