Very Nice People

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Just outside the doors of Mike D’s coastal home, I’m greeted by Skylar Diamond, the Beastie Boy’s youngest son, and am instantly struck by his good manners. Kind, talkative and charismatic, Skylar looks like any other Malibu surf kid—except he’s a spitting image of his dad’s younger self. As we chat about soccer (I mean,…

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Why House Majority Leader Steve Scalise Is Bad News for Cannabis

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The GOP’s nominee to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) as Speaker of the House—one of the most powerful positions in the U.S. government—has opposed nearly every cannabis bill he’s encountered during the past 15 years in office. Scalise dropped out of the House speaker race Thursday evening. In a closed-door meeting to replace McCarthy as…

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Nova Farms Prepares To Go Supernova

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Nova Farms (Nova), like their CEO and founder, Derek Ross, has been galvanized by adversity, and rose above early challenges to become the largest, privately owned, vertically integrated cannabis operator in the Northeast. High Times recently sat down for a conversation with Ross and Nova’s Chief Operating Officer, Blair Fish, to learn how Nova is…

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Study Explores LSD Influence on Fellini’s Films

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A recently published analysis charts a course between the films of Federico Fellini and his well-documented experimentation with psychedelics.  The analysis, published in July in the journal Drug, Science, Policy and Law, notes in the abstract that “LSD has been used by artists, scientists, and intellectuals, amongst others, to stimulate their creative insights,” and that…

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From the Archives: Racism & Reefer (1990)

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Corporate greed isn’t the only factor which led to the prohibition of marijuana. As Jack Herer shows in this latest excerpt from The Emperor Wears No Clothes, racism, bigotry, and fear are also to blame. Since the abolition of slavery, racism and bigotry have generally had to manifest themselves in America in less blatant forms.…

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Marc Rebillet Doesn’t Need To Practice To Make You Move That Ass

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For over the past year, Marc Rebillet has been a beacon of light in a darkened pandemic world. Armed only with a beautifully eccentric persona and a small table of electronic music equipment, Marc’s live music streams and socially distanced drive-in shows helped captivate hearts, ears and genitals at a time when most people were…

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Jon’s Stone-Cold Cop List #42: Puffcon, Round 3

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I’ve said many times before that Puffcon is one of my favorite events in this scene – it’s like a family reunion – and thankfully this year’s event was no different. If anything, it was better.  Opening to the public for the first time – that is, to people who don’t already own a Puffco…

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I Didn’t Think Microdosing Worked, But This Month Has Me Thinking…

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Microdosing is the often inexact practice of consuming small doses of psychedelics, notably psilocybin and LSD. While some measure 0.1 and 0.3 mg quantities, many eyeball it with an estimated pinch into their mouths or beverages.  The microdosing trend kicked off around 2010, with its popularity surging by 2015, leading to notable publications running with…

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Ed Sheeran Recalls Getting Outsmoked by Snoop Dogg Backstage, ‘I Can’t See Right Now’

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On Monday’s Oct. 2 episode of Conan O’Brien’s podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend on SiriusXM Garage, Ed Sheeran, 32, laughed and discussed many things including getting high as hell at a sesh with Snoop Dogg, 51, backstage after a concert in Australia last March. Even though Sheeran’s mother-in-law and wife were nearby, he couldn’t…

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From the Archives: A Lifetime Supply of Peyote Magic (1977)

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By J. F. Burke Most of my life it’s been boo, booze and blow. I didn’t get into trips until I was 42, in 1957, when a friend of mine in Santa Fe introduced me to peyote. A Taos Indian had given a dozen peyote buttons to each of several persons in Santa Fe’s art…

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