By Leslie Stackel Conservative voices have held sway over talk-radio’s airwaves since the 1960s, selling a backlash against progressive ideas to a frightened public married to the status quo. How did it happen? Why does it continue, and where can someone tune in to hear a voice taking the liberal or, heaven forbid!, leftist position… Keep Reading
Cacao beans have been revered since ancient times as food and medicine, considered an aphrodisiac due to the… Read More Author: Robyn Griggs Lawrence / High Times Keep Reading
It’s been 70 years since the late rock ‘n’ roll icon Joey Ramone came into the world. Read More Author: High Times / High Times Keep Reading
Singing songs of revolution and resistance since the 1970s. Read More Author: High Times / High Times Keep Reading
They’ve been around since the year 1880. Read More Author: High Times / High Times Keep Reading
Liberating the unconscious mind’s creative potential since the early 1900s. Read More Author: High Times / High Times Keep Reading
Unfortunately, there have been many more well-publicized pot busts since this roundup was first published in 1999. 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
Jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis has been dead since 1991, but his music continues to inspire artists and audiences across the globe. Given the horn player’s legendary status in the world of jazz and beyond, it’s a little odd that it’s taken this long for a high-caliber documentary to profile the man behind the… Keep Reading
Since 1999, Canadian pop and mural artist Daniel Joseph Bombardier, better known by his artistic alter ego DENIAL, has been creating aerosol and stencil artworks that critique contemporary politics, capitalism, consumerism and the human condition. But one of DENIAL’s latest pieces, commissioned for and by High Times, is a more personal project. Part of a… Keep Reading
