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Contents: Cheech & Chong & Us (Sure, after the whistle blows they like to put on their gorilla suits and party hearty like the rest of us; but while working on the set of their new movie, they’re all knuckles and know-how (with perhaps just a taste of Humboldt County green); Bedtime For Gonzo (Talk about your cutbacks. Denied: press credentials, a decent place to sleep, common human courtesy and the right to eat hamburgers in a restaurant of your own choosing. Mr. Wilmington goes to Washington to cover the Reagan inauguration); Centerfold: Dope In Space (They may only be pictures, but some readers swear that if you stare at ’em long enough, you can explore strange new worlds and boldly go where no man has gone before); Grass In The Joint (“Almost any drug you can buy in the street is for sale in the yard too: pot and hash and ‘ludes and smack and booze and glue and speed. Sometimes even a bit o’ the blow. LSD, too, if you’re of a mind. What’s more, the Man know it”) Highwitness News – “Mushroom King” murdered…Homicide detectives on cocaine payroll…”Operation Greenback”…Pill speakeasies closed in Frisco…U.N. snubs ICAR…High-school drug crime…Drug angles on top stories); Trans-High Market Quotations Seeds ‘N’ Stems – Ten times more powerful than LSD, PCP, speed and heroin put together, AMM (aminoamide) has cut its deadly swath through this country, breaking up homes and driving America’s teens totally crazy…plus Zippy and the Joe Franklin Story; High Times Classified Interview – G. Gordon Liddy (You’re not going to stop an onslaught of Soviet panzer divisions with rock ‘n’ roll music and blue jeans, the former White House plumber tells High Times interviewer and resident military strategist Legs McNeil); Jim Morrison: When The Music’s Over (Setting the record straight with some hot Lizard King sex stories and assorted gossipy tidbits, our much maligned author responds to the sloppy, inaccurate depiction of himself and his late friend in the best-selling Morrison bio No One Here Gets Out Alive) Departments – Flashes (Readers write us, growers taunt us, Dr. Hip advises us); Getting Off (Don’t let domestic interdiction ruin your summer vacation); Connoisseur (“R” goes gaga over Big Apple Buds); Grow American (Wisdom of medieval Jews makes pot more potent); Cocaine Confidential (To snort or not to snort: Here’s substitute ingestion); Pleasures (The parading penises of Black’s Beach, California); Sounds (King Carrasco and Joe Ely, Two from Texas); Last Words (Michael Bloomfield remembered by editor Larry Sloman)
Issue: June 1981
Condition: Good+