Rainer Werner Fassbinder was the central German film director of the whole post-Hitler era. He was the greatest in terms of productivity (43 films in barely over a decade), range and impact on his own generation—both in Germany and abroad. The “New German Cinema” revival of the ’70s is unthinkable without him, and among his… Keep Reading
One of High Time’s 25 Greatest Strains of All Time, Acapulco Gold is a legendary cultivar that is so rare these days the gold in the name might as well be a reference to its scarcity, rather than its color. Yet it was once one of the most commonly found cultivars in the hippie days… Keep Reading
The orgiastic life and tragic death of Germany’s greatest filmmaker, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Read More Author: High Times / High Times Keep Reading
50 after her death, we revere Janis Joplin as America’s greatest female rocker ever, but still don’t know what made her tick. Read More Author: High Times / High Times Keep Reading
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A rare conversation with one of America’s greatest writers from a 1979 issue of High Times. The post High Times Greats: Interview With William Burroughs appeared first on High Times. Read More Author: High Times / High Times Keep Reading
Opium has fueled people’s dreams since the dawn of creation. Some of history’s greatest writers have been partisans of the poppy. Michael Aldrich, drug scholar, explores the laudanum literature in the November, 1982 edition of High Times. Opium, raw opium—the best painkiller known since the dawn of creation: yet historians, delicately embarrassed, seem reluctant to… Keep Reading
