In your September issue I was shocked to see an ad on page 25 for ex-drug dealers and other expert witnesses to testify in the U.S. tax court. I never thought I'd see that in HIGH TIMES. Not quite narcking, but too close for me! Really! You folks are trying to get pot legalized and you have an ad like that in your magazine.
Rube Goldberg: A Retrospective is a rare collection of humorous and satirical cartoons from one of America's most beloved and representative artists. As a cartoonist working in New York in the early part of the 20th century, Goldberg etched his way onto the American imagination by lampooning the country's fascination with the new technological methodology.
WHEN THE ANTISINSEMILLA TASK force swept down on Denny, California, up in the wilds of Trinity County, they operated like a band of marauding cossacks, according to the testimony of the residents there. It was an ugly two-day siege by a small army of federal, state and county narcs armed to the teeth and bristling with hostility.
AFTER DISAPPEARING FROM THE headlines for almost a decade, psychedelics are again being talked about and consumed copiously by the U.S. public. Two recent West Coast conferences, featuring a host of researchers famed for their work with psychoactive substances, reflected this resurgence of interest.
FAKE LEMMONS SHOW WIDE VARIETY OF DILUTANTS IN LAB TESTS
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DON’T LOOK FOR BEVELED edges,” advises Dr. Lee Hearn. Professionally beveled edges on a white tablet calling itself “Lemmon 714” are no guarantee that the tablet is a genuine, honest pharmaceutical Quaalude. “Don’t listen for the sound of a sharp chink when it’s dropped on a metal surface.”
In a rare show of media self-appraisal, news directors from around the country were told recently that studies indicate up to 20 percent of their colleagues are into drugs. This may come as no surprise to those in the media, or even to casual observers, but the candor is unprecedented.
Overdoses can cause psychiatric dissociation, panic, violent behavior and death. Use can cause spasms in arm and leg blood vessels which can in turn result in destruction of tissue and amputation of limbs. NATURE AND USE DOB (4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine) is an analog or variant of 4-methyl-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine (otherwise known as STP or DOM).
As we lurch into 1984, we interrogate one of the most imaginative sci-fi writers on his view of the future. Would you believe—the death of the soul? and Vale
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Andrea Juno
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J.G. Ballard has always been ahead of his time. In 1967he predicted Ronald Reagan as president of the United States (see the following excerpt from his blistering anthology of "Condensed Novels," published in England under the title The Atrocity Exhibition, and in America as Love and Napalm; Export U.S.A.) Before appearing in an ignored edition put out by Grove Press, The Atrocity Exhibition was actually printed and then destroyed before publication by the prestigious Doubleday & Co., Inc., and given similar treatment by E.P. Dutton.
They say great science-fiction writers are seers. In this excerpt from his 1967 novel, The Atrocity Exhibition, J.G. Ballard actually predicted the ascension of Ronald Reagan to the highest office in the land. Any additional comments on President Reagan expressed in this piece are solely the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the management of this magazine. Honest, folks.
During These assassination fantasies
Tallis became increasingly obsessed
with the pudenda of the presidential contender
mediated to him by a thousand television screen.
The motion picture studies of Ronald Reagan
created a scenario of the conceptual orgasm
a unique ontology of violence and disaster.
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Ronald Reagan and the conceptual auto-disaster. Numerous studies have been conducted upon patients in terminal paresis (GPI), placing Reagan in a series of simulated auto-crashes, e.g., multiple pileups, head-on collisions, motorcade attacks (fantasies of presidential assassinations remained a continuing preoccupation, subjects showing a marked polymorphic fixation on windshields and rear-trunk assemblies).
Portrait of the Connoisseur as a young nerd. One time he actually tried to fake he was nigh by flapping his arms in the air and making airplane noises with his mouth, just to impress his girlfriend.
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Asking the Connoisseur what it was like the first time he got high is like, well... like asking Casanova what it was like the first time he made love, like asking Reggie Jackson what it was like the first time he ever saw a hanging curve ball float toward the plate, like asking Brillat-Savarin what it was like the first time he tasted a black truffle.
Labscam Revisited: Four years ago the DEA began peddling chemicals through advertisements in national magazines like this one. Then it all began to unravel, and somehow Richard Hall got greased. Now the true story can finally be told.
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Dean Latimer
Methaqualone? Any time you want methaqualone, my man, you just lay eight hundred dollars on the kid here. He'll set up four reaction vessels dripping out a hundred milligrams a day: four hundred milligrams of concentrated Quaalude every day, two and a half grams a week.
Spanning the globe to bring you the finest buds from around the world, HIGH TIMES international correspondent Laurence Cherniak continues to shock and amaze. Witness his latest batch of photographs.
“The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgement. . . . For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.”
Yeah, it's possible—if you don't mind sleeping with the grow lights on, and the damp air doesn't give your mattress the jungle rot. And if your girlfriend complains, don't worry, Ed's got it all figured out.
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Ed Rosenthal
Dear Ed, Do plants started outdoors in the early spring have a higher mortality rate than those started later? —K.C. Raleigh, N.C. Yes. Plants started in early spring are more vulnerable to the forces of nature than those started later in the season.
Writer's block, to be specific. It can give a man crazy ideas and make him do ugly things. Writer Martin Glisson knows. So does the little girl in the dentist's office.
NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN
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Charles Bukowski
It was 11:45 A.M. when the phone rang. Martin Glisson was hung over. He picked the phone up off the floor. "Yeah?" he asked. "Martin Glisson?" "Yeah." "This is 'The Rodent."' It was the editor of a New York-based magazine who liked to call himself "The Rodent."
As outdoor cultivation becomes increasingly risky, more and more people are bringing their plants inside. Through trial and error they've developed "closet growing" techniques that allow maximum yield with minimum space. Even if all you have is a bit of unused shelf space, you can harvest a 1984 crop.
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Ed Rosenthal
Many people who would like to grow their own don't, because they don't have enough space. But there are novel techniques that enable people to grow grass anywhere. Even if you have only a closet, crawl space or just a shelf, you can grow your own marijuana.
A sprawling drug empire and unimagined political power were the birthright of Santiago Villalba—whether he wanted it or not.
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Jaime Manrique
Like any other industry—only maybe more so—the South American fume trade is subject to drastic change as one generation fades away and another arises. "Santiago Villalba" here—an autobiographical projection of author Jaime Manrique— found himself around 1979 the not-so-proud inheritor of a transhemispheric maracachafa cartel, after he'd smothered his hacendado father on his deathbed, and it was too late to resurrect el cadáver de papa.
NOW THAT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has revived the constitutional prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment," you have to wonder just what sort of grudge they harbored against Roger Davis. Davis, as anyone with even a passing interest in drug law must recall, was sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment by a Virginia court, back in 1974, for possession and sale of about eight ounces of marijuana.
495 SLIM SMOKERS AT RISK: STUDY Chicago (Combined Dispatches) —Leanness in a cigaret smoker means trouble and sometimes an early death from cancer, researchers said yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Robert J. Garrison and colleagues from the National Health, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Md., worked with statistics from a study of middle-aged men in Framingham, Mass.
It's the truth. With his rude raps and Dundus looks, Yellowman has been driving all the little girls wild.
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John Swenson
After a full night of reggae and rap, a weary but game audience of music fans packs Jarrett Park in Montego Bay waiting expectantly for one of the most popular and controversial figures to emerge from Jamaican music in recent years— Yellowman.
Action on the big screen heats up every year at this time as the major studios fight over a piece of the Christmas movie-going pie. Here are three or the season's most interesting offerings.
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Mike Wilmington
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence— Perhaps we should be used to surprises from Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, The Ceremony, In the Realm of the Senses), the enfant terrible and stormy petrel of the Japanese cinema for over two decades. Still, even for the unpredictable Oshima, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence comes as something of a shock.
The pictures below are of marijuana and cocaine respectively, minute amounts of them to be sure—but nonetheless they are marijuana and cocaine. They were produced through an experimental photographic technique known as "color electron microscopy" Neat, huh?