High Times

High Times covers a wide range of topics, including politics, activism, drugs, education, sex, music, and film, as well as photography.{{cite web |title=New owner of 'High Times' sees a business ready to be fully baked |first=Leon |last=Lazaroff |date=2017-06-02 |publisher=The Street |url=https://www.thestreet.com/story/14159408/1/high-times-gets-passed-to-first-new-owner-since-1974.html |access-date=2018-04-06 |archive-date=2018-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407182722/https://www.thestreet.com/story/14159408/1/high-times-gets-passed-to-first-new-owner-since-1974.html |url-status=live }}

Like Playboy, each issue of High Times contains a centerfold photo; however, instead of a nude woman, High Times typically features a cannabis plant.{{cite news |title=High Price Paid for High Times |work=CNN |date=2017-06-02 |url=http://kdvr.com/2017/06/02/high-price-paid-for-high-times-magazine/ |access-date=2018-04-06 |archive-date=2018-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407053630/http://kdvr.com/2017/06/02/high-price-paid-for-high-times-magazine/ |url-status=live }} (The magazine, however, often featured women—occasionally crowned as "Ms. High Times"—on the cover to help newsstand sales.) In addition, the magazine "published writers like Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, and Truman Capote."

Forçade's previous attempt—via the Underground Press Syndicate/Alternative Press Syndicate—to reach a wide counterculture audience of underground papers had failed, even though he had the support of several noteworthy writers, photographers, and artists.{{cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/1999/10/26/our-buds-ourselves/|title=Our Buds, Ourselves|first=Cynthia|last=Cotts|work=Village Voice|date=1999-10-26|access-date=2018-04-06|archive-date=2018-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407115827/https://www.villagevoice.com/1999/10/26/our-buds-ourselves/|url-status=live}} Through High Times, Forçade was able to get his message to the masses without relying on mainstream media.{{Cite news|url=http://hightimes.com/legal/kstroup/5916 |title=NORMLizer – Here's to HIGH TIMES! |last=Stroup |first=Keith |date=October 9, 2009 |work=High Times |access-date=March 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120527074926/http://hightimes.com/legal/kstroup/5916 |archive-date=May 27, 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite news|url=http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/5894 |title=Brain Damage Control: Tom Forçade: Prisoner of Romance |last=Krassner |first=Paul |date=October 1, 2009 |work=High Times |access-date=March 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120527074925/http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/5894 |archive-date=May 27, 2012 |url-status=dead }} Forçade was quoted as saying, "Those cavemen must've been stoned, no pun intended."{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}

High Times was originally meant to be a joke: a single-issue lampoon of Playboy, substituting marijuana for sex.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/style/high-times-wants-to-be-the-playboy-of-pot.html |title=High Times Wants to Be the Playboy of Pot |last=Williams |first=Alex |date=2016-04-02 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2017-03-15 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2017-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704185418/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/style/high-times-wants-to-be-the-playboy-of-pot.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news|date=October 30, 2013|title=Baking Bad: A Potted History of 'High Times': The editors of the nation's most popular pot magazine on its four decades-long fight to end cannabis prohibition|first=Atossa Araxia|last=Abrahamian|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/baking-bad-potted-history-high-times/|work=The Nation|access-date=March 10, 2024|archive-date=March 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310182345/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/baking-bad-potted-history-high-times/|url-status=live}} Brainstorming for the first issue's contents was conducted by a group that included Forcade, Rex Weiner, Ed Dwyer, Robert Singer, A. J. Weberman, Dana Beal, Ed Rosenthal, the underground cartoonist Yossarian a.k.a. Alan Shenker,{{cite web|title='Totally Righteous' Lower East Side Cartoonist Dies: Alan Shenker AKA Yossarian, March 3, 1945-January 14, 2013|first=Patrick|last=Rosenkranz|date=January 25, 2013|work=The Comics Journal|url=https://www.tcj.com/totally-righteous-lower-east-side-cartoonist-dies/|access-date=March 10, 2024|archive-date=March 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310222303/https://www.tcj.com/totally-righteous-lower-east-side-cartoonist-dies/|url-status=live}} and Cindy Ornsteen a.k.a. Anastasia Sirocco.{{cite web|department=Culture|title=6 1/2 Things You Didn't Know About High Times|first=Rex|last=Weiner|work=High Times|date=9 October 2014 |url=https://hightimes.com/culture/6-12-things-you-didnt-know-about-high-times/amp/|access-date=2024-03-10|archive-date=2024-03-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310220237/https://hightimes.com/culture/6-12-things-you-didnt-know-about-high-times/amp/|url-status=live}}

The first issue, 50 pages in total, with the tagline, "The Magazine of High Society," appeared in the summer of 1974. Advertising for the first issue had been pre-sold at that year's National Fashion and Boutique Show. "High Times #1 made its debut at the June 1974 show and was an instant success, selling out its first run of 10,000 copies and getting reprinted twice."

The magazine's first editor was Ed Dwyer, who had earlier written the text of the Woodstock music festival program booklet (as well as the Woodstock film program booklet).{{cite news|last=Dwyer|first=Ed|url=https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/08/by-the-time-i-got-to-woodstock/|title=By the Time I Got to Woodstock: The author of the Woodstock festival's program book recalls one helluva wild ride|work=The Saturday Evening Post|date=August 5, 2019|access-date=October 14, 2020|archive-date=November 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129230416/https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/08/by-the-time-i-got-to-woodstock/|url-status=live}} The magazine was initially distributed by Homestead Book Company{{cite web|url=http://www.homesteadbook.com/store/history.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031125090713/http://homesteadbook.com/store/history.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-11-25 |title=Homestead Book Company |publisher=Homesteadbook.com |date=2003-06-09 |accessdate=2012-05-20 }} and Big Rapids Distribution.

High Times was at the beginning funded by drug money from the sale of illegal marijuana,{{Cite news |url=http://www.laweekly.com/news/high-times-is-moving-to-los-angeles-7831069 |title=High Times Is Moving to Los Angeles |last=Romero |first=Dennis |date=2017-01-18 |work=L.A. Weekly |access-date=2017-03-15 |archive-date=2017-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316024844/http://www.laweekly.com/news/high-times-is-moving-to-los-angeles-7831069 |url-status=live }} But the magazine found an audience, becoming a monthly publication with a growing circulation, and the staff quickly grew to 40 people.{{When|date=December 2020}} Marijuana hydroponics growers were a large part of the magazine's advertiser base.

High Times founder Forçade committed suicide in November 1978.{{cite book |first=Martin |last=Torgoff |author-link=Martin Torgoff |title=Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000 |year=2004 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7432-5863-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cantfindmywayhom00torg/page/269 269] |url=https://archive.org/details/cantfindmywayhom00torg |url-access=registration}}{{cite book|title=Resistance: A Radical Political and Social History of the Lower East Side|author=Clayton Patterson|isbn=9781583227459|publisher=Seven Stories Press|date=2007|pages=514–517}} He bequeathed trusts to benefit High Times and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). (Forçade had been a supporter of NORML since the organization's founding in 1970.){{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Following Forçade's death, the magazine was controlled by "mostly by Forçade’s relatives" and lawyer Michael John Kennedy.

Under the editorship of Larry Sloman (from 1979 to 1984),{{cite magazine |title=High Times Greats: Larry 'Ratso' Sloman: A rare interview with author, comedian, Yippie warrior and former editor-in-chief of High Times |date=July 9, 2020 |magazine=High Times |url=https://hightimes.com/culture/high-times-greats-larry-ratso-sloman/ |access-date= |archive-date=December 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224001032/https://hightimes.com/culture/high-times-greats-larry-ratso-sloman/ |url-status=live }}

the magazine consistently struggled against marijuana prohibition laws, and fought to keep itself alive and publishing in an anti-cannabis atmosphere. Reflecting the time period, High Times began to feature positive coverage of cocaine as a recreational drug.

The magazine's former associate publisher, Rick Cusick, said the only way High Times managed to stay in business and never miss a publication date for over four decades was, "Really, really good lawyers, even though everybody knew I was talking about just one—Michael Kennedy."{{cite magazine |title=Requiem For a Dragonslayer, Michael Kennedy, 1937-2016 |first=Chris |last=Simunek |date=2016-01-26 |magazine=High Times}} Kennedy served as the general counsel and chairman of the board for High Times for over 40 years until his death in 2016, when his wife and board member, Eleanora Kennedy, took the reins.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

In 1987, High Times was audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulation as reaching 500,000 copies an issue, rivaling Rolling Stone and National Lampoon.{{cite news |title=What to read if you just don't say 'no' |first=Bob |last=Greene |date=1987-03-30 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/03/30/what-to-read-if-you-just-dont-say-no/ |access-date=2018-04-06 |archive-date=2018-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407053749/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-03-30/features/8701240626_1_high-times-anti-drug-magazine |url-status=live }}

In 1988, Steven Hager was hired as the magazine's editor. He changed the focus from the promotion of hard drugs (e.g., cocaine and heroin), and instead concentrated on advocating personal cultivation of cannabis.{{cite web|url=https://cannabuff.com/2021/04/26/q-a-with-steven-hager-former-editor-of-high-times/|title=Q & A with Steven Hager, former Editor of High Times|work=CannaBuff.com|date=Apr 26, 2021|quote=I understood High Times had lost their way promoting cocaine and other white powders and needed to get back to the original hippie spirit. Coke and heroin were ruining too many lives.|access-date=December 24, 2022|archive-date=December 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222184647/https://cannabuff.com/2021/04/26/q-a-with-steven-hager-former-editor-of-high-times/|url-status=live}} Hager became the first editor to publish and promote the work of hemp activist Jack Herer.Cizmar, Martin. [https://www.wweek.com/potlander/2017/04/18/the-story-of-one-of-the-greatest-cannabis-advocates-who-ever-lived-and-the-strain-that-bears-his-name/ "The Story of One of the Greatest Cannabis Advocates Who Ever Lived and the Strain That Bears His Name: With the closure of Third Eye, the Potlander wanted to revisit the life of Jack Herer,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224001030/https://www.wweek.com/potlander/2017/04/18/the-story-of-one-of-the-greatest-cannabis-advocates-who-ever-lived-and-the-strain-that-bears-his-name/ |date=2022-12-24 }} Willamette Week (April 18, 2017).

In 1988, under Hager's leadership, the magazine created the Cannabis Cup, a cannabis awards ceremony held every Thanksgiving in Amsterdam that later expanded to a number of U.S. cities. He also formed the High Times Freedom Fighters, the first hemp legalization group.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} The High Times Freedom Fighters were famous for dressing up in Colonial outfits and organizing hemp rallies across the United States. One rally, the Boston Freedom Rally, quickly became the largest marijuana-related political event in the country, drawing an audience of over 30,00 to the Boston Common in 2013.

The magazine advocated for the widespread use of hemp in the 1990s, publishing a quarterly magazine called Hemp Times and operating a retail location in Manhattan called Planet Hemp.

In 1991, the magazine began featuring celebrities on the cover of the magazine. Over the years, these included Cypress Hill, The Black Crowes, Ziggy Marley, Beavis and Butt-Head, Milla Jovovich, Ice Cube, Wu-Tang Clan, George Carlin, Ozzy Osbourne, Kevin Smith, Frances McDormand, Pauly Shore, Sacha Baron Cohen, Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson, and Snoop Dogg.{{cite web|title=Celebrities on the Cover of High Times|first=Steve|last=Bloom|date=July 7, 2017|work=CelebStoner|url=https://www.celebstoner.com/blogs/steve-bloom/2017/07/07/celebrities-on-the-cover-of-high-times/|access-date=March 10, 2024|archive-date=March 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310222302/https://www.celebstoner.com/blogs/steve-bloom/2017/07/07/celebrities-on-the-cover-of-high-times/|url-status=live}}

In 1997, the magazine and Hager founded the Counterculture Hall of Fame, with inductions held annually on Thanksgiving as part of the Amsterdam Cannabis Cup event.

In the late 1980s Mike Edison began writing "Shoot the Tube," a featured column about television and politics for High Times. In 1998 Edison was named the magazine's publisher, and later took control of the editorial side of the magazine as well. As editor and publisher, he caused a furor among staffers by putting Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne on the cover, and then leaking to the New York Post{{'}}s Page Six gossip column that thousands of dollars of pot had gone missing from the photo shoot.{{cite news|title=Drug-Addled Rock Star Pilfers Pot, Chaos Reigns at Stoner Photo Shoot|work=New York Post|date=January 26, 1999}} After taking the magazine to new heights in sales and advertising,{{cite news|title=Press Clips|work=The Village Voice|date=October 27, 1999}} Edison was instrumental in producing High Times{{'}} first feature film, High Times' Potluck.{{cite news|title=Dropout Produces Pot Film|work=Washington Square News|date=October 5, 2003}} Edison left High Times in 2001.

In 2000, the magazine established the Stony Awards to recognize and celebrate notable stoner films and television episodes about cannabis. Six High Times Stony Awards ceremonies were held in New York City beginning in 2000, before the Stonys moved to Los Angeles in 2007. Award winners received a bong-shaped trophy.{{cite web|accessdate=July 3, 2009|url=http://www.tvguide.com/news/James-Franco-Weeds-19394.aspx|title=James Franco, Weeds Among High Times Stony Award Winners|work=TV Guide|publisher=OpenGate Capital|date=September 29, 2008|archive-date=May 31, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531025953/http://www.tvguide.com/news/James-Franco-Weeds-19394.aspx|url-status=live}} Starting in 2002, the Stonys presented the Thomas King Forçade Award for "stony achievement" in film.{{cite web|accessdate=July 5, 2009|url=http://www.nypress.com/article-5555-scissorfight-franzeses-bully-party-stony-awards-more-shopping-and-fucking.html|title=Scissorfight; Franzese's Bully Party; Stony Awards; More Shopping and Fucking|date=March 5, 2002|first=Ned|last=Vizzini|work=New York Press|archive-date=June 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606203031/http://www.nypress.com/article-5555-scissorfight-franzeses-bully-party-stony-awards-more-shopping-and-fucking.html|url-status=live}}

In 2003, Steven Hager was fired, and High Times' board of directors shifted the magazine's focus from marijuana to more literary content, hiring John Buffalo Mailer as executive editor.{{cite news |last=Stevenson |first=Seth |url=https://slate.com/business/2021/07/high-times-weed-legalization-magazine-brand.html |title=For High Times, Weed Legalization Is a Mixed Bag: The magazine was a countercultural icon. Its new owners want to make it a name brand |work=Slate |date=July 26, 2021 |access-date=December 24, 2022 |archive-date=December 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224001030/https://slate.com/business/2021/07/high-times-weed-legalization-magazine-brand.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Leland |first=John |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/style/who-s-smoking-now.html |title=Who's Smoking Now? |work=The New York Times |date=Nov 16, 2003 |access-date=December 24, 2022 |archive-date=December 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224001032/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/style/who-s-smoking-now.html |url-status=live }} As a result, the magazine "lost a third of the circulation in nine months." Mailer left the magazine within a year—a succession of editors followed, including David Bienenstock, Rick Cusick, and Steve Bloom.{{cite web |last=Bloom |first=Steve |url=https://www.celebstoner.com/blogs/steve-bloom/2018/08/02/my-30-years-in-cannabis-from-high-times-to-freedom-leaf |title=My 30+ Years in Cannabis: From High Times to CelebStoner |work=CelebStoner |date=September 5, 2020 |access-date=December 24, 2022 |archive-date=December 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224001042/https://www.celebstoner.com/blogs/steve-bloom/2018/08/02/my-30-years-in-cannabis-from-high-times-to-freedom-leaf/ |url-status=live }}

In 2004, High Times returned to its roots, releasing the CD High Volume: The Stoner Rock Collection. Hager was rehired, first as the creative director,{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} and then in 2006, back to the position of editor-in-chief, but by 2009 he had returned to the role of creative director.{{cite news |last=McKinley |first=Jesse |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/us/20marijuana.html |title=Marijuana Advocates Point to Signs of Change |work=The New York Times |date=April 19, 2009 |page=A13 |access-date=December 19, 2022 |archive-date=December 18, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218011241/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/us/20marijuana.html |url-status=live }}

In November 2009, High Times celebrated its 35th anniversary.{{cite news|last=Krassner |first=Paul |url=http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/5894 |title=Tom Forçade: Prisoner of Romance |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005012208/http://hightimes.com/lounge/pkrassner/5894 |archive-date=2009-10-05|work=HighTimes.com |date=October 1, 2009}}

In the period 2010–2013, the magazine put out a standalone publication that advocated for medical marijuana.

Hager was again let go by the magazine in 2013, eventually successfully suing High Times for defrauding him of his ownership shares in the company.{{cite news|last=Russell |first=Josh |url=https://www.courthousenews.com/longtime-high-times-editor-sues-magazine-over-ouster/ |title=Longtime High Times Editor Sues Magazine Over Ouster: The former editor of High Times magazine claims in court that he was defrauded of his shares in the counter-culture monthly|work=Courthouse News Service|date=January 10, 2018}} Hager subsequently released a 20-part series on YouTube, titled The Strategic Meeting, showing the internal machinations inside the company. The video series asserts that Michael Kennedy stole the company from the rightful employees and subverted the original mission for his own private gain.{{cite video|title=The Strategic Meeting|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLLfd8EAs_NNcLWh_i8sLQ-inqbarLqgEi|last=Hager|first=Steven|publisher=YouTube|date=Nov 11, 2022|access-date=March 10, 2024|archive-date=March 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310194644/https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLLfd8EAs_NNcLWh_i8sLQ-inqbarLqgEi|url-status=live}}

In October 2014, the magazine celebrated its 40th anniversary with a party attended by celebrities such as Susan Sarandon.Coscarelli, Joe. [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/10/high-times-hits-middle-age.html "WEED-STAINED WRETCHES: High Times Hits Middle Age: How the Marijuana Magazine Stays Relevant,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224001030/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/10/high-times-hits-middle-age.html |date=2022-12-24 }} New York (Oct. 17, 2014). In 2014, the High Times website was read by 500,000 to five million users each month.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/02/12/high-times-seeks-marijuana-momentum/5292975/|title=For marijuana magazine, high and heady times|first=Roger|last=Yu|work=USA Today|date=2014-02-12|access-date=2018-04-06|archive-date=2018-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407121309/https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/02/12/high-times-seeks-marijuana-momentum/5292975/|url-status=live}}

In January 2017, the magazine announced it would be permanently relocating from New York to Los Angeles. This followed the legalization of marijuana in several West Coast states, including California.{{Cite news|url=http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170112/REAL_ESTATE/170119947/high-times-magazine-leaving-new-york-for-los-angeles|title=High Times magazine is leaving New York for Los Angeles|last=Flamm|first=Matthew|date=January 12, 2017|work=Crain's New York Business|access-date=March 15, 2017|archive-date=March 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331182623/http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170112/REAL_ESTATE/170119947/high-times-magazine-leaving-new-york-for-los-angeles|url-status=live}}

In the summer of 2017, High Times was sold to a group of investors led by Adam Levin of Oreva Capital for an amount estimated from $42 million{{Cite web| last = Smith| first = Aaron| title = The new CEO of High Times most definitely inhales| publisher = CNNMoney| access-date = 2020-04-04| date = 2017-06-06| url = https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/06/media/high-times-marijuana-adam-levin/index.html| archive-date = 2020-07-25| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200725181958/https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/06/media/high-times-marijuana-adam-levin/index.html| url-status = live}} to $70 million.

High Times acquired cannabis media company Green Rush Daily, Inc. on April 5, 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2018/apr/04/high-times-acquires-green-rush-estimated-69-millio/|title=High Times Acquires Green Rush for Estimated $6.9M | Los Angeles Business Journal|date=4 April 2018|access-date=15 October 2018|archive-date=15 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015192438/http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2018/apr/04/high-times-acquires-green-rush-estimated-69-millio/|url-status=live}} The deal was valued at $6.9 million. Green Rush Daily founder Scott McGovern joined the magazine as senior executive vice president.{{Cite web|url = https://www.greenmarketreport.com/high-times-acquires-green-rush-daily-in-all-stock-deal/|title = High Times Acquires Green Rush Daily in All Stock Deal|date = 5 April 2018|access-date = 15 October 2018|archive-date = 25 July 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200725180147/https://www.greenmarketreport.com/high-times-acquires-green-rush-daily-in-all-stock-deal/|url-status = live}}

• "Almost Infamous" by Bobby Black (2004–2016)—lifestyle and entertainment[https://web.archive.org/web/20111101230539/http://hightimes.com/tags/almost_infamous "Almost Infamous,"] High Times website. Retrieved Dec. 23, 2022.
• “Ask Ed: Your Marijuana Questions Answered" by Ed Rosenthal (1980s–1990s)Zamora, Jim Herron. [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/02/25/MN208192.DTL "Pot Growing Icon Takes Raid in Stride,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205204441/http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2002%2F02%2F25%2FMN208192.DTL |date=February 5, 2007 }}. San Francisco Chronicle. 2002-02-25. Retrieved on 2007-08-11. ({{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2002%2F02%2F25%2FMN208192.DTL%2F |title=Article Not Found! |accessdate=2017-09-17 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205204441/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2002%2F02%2F25%2FMN208192.DTL%2F |archivedate=February 5, 2007 }})
• "Brain Damage Report" by Paul Krassner (late 1970s–2000s)
• "Cannabis Column" by Jon Gettman{{cite web|url=http://hightimes.com/legal/jgettman/748|title=The Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis.|last=Gettman|first=Jon|date=2002-09-05|work=High Times|accessdate=2009-10-10|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717204006/http://hightimes.com/legal/jgettman/748|archivedate=2011-07-17}}
• "Chef Ra's Psychedelic Kitchen" by Chef Ra ({{circa}} 1988–{{circa}} 2003){{cite news | last = Hager | first = Steve | author-link = Steven Hager | title = RIP James 'Chef Ra' Wilson | work = High Times | date = 2006-12-26 | url = http://www.hightimes.com/read/rip-james-chef-ra-wilson | accessdate = 2014-08-29 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140903105940/http://www.hightimes.com/read/rip-james-chef-ra-wilson | archivedate = 2014-09-03 }}
• "Sex Pot" by Hyapatia Lee (from 2013){{cite magazine |url=http://www.hightimes.com/read/5-questions-hyapatia-lee |title=5 Questions for Hyapatia Lee |magazine=High Times |date=2013-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316201837/http://www.hightimes.com/read/5-questions-hyapatia-lee |archive-date=2016-03-16}}
• "The Stoned Gamer" by Alana Evans (from 2014)—gaming{{cite magazine |url=http://business.avn.com/articles/technology/Alana-Evans-Scores-Gaming-Column-for-High-Times-551821.html |title=Alana Evans Scores Gaming Column for 'High Times' |accessdate=September 18, 2014 |first=Peter |last=Warren |date=March 10, 2014 |magazine=AVN |archive-date=October 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023141557/http://business.avn.com/articles/technology/Alana-Evans-Scores-Gaming-Column-for-High-Times-551821.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.xbiz.com/news/176352 |title=Alana Evans Lands Column in High Times Magazine |accessdate=September 18, 2014 |first=Lila |last=Gray |date=March 10, 2014 |publisher=XBIZ |archive-date=May 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517150758/http://www.xbiz.com/news/176352 |url-status=live }}
• "Toasted Tweets" by Jessica Delfino (2016)—weekly cannabis-themed Twitter round-up
• "The Stone Cold Cop List" by Jon Cappetta (2020) - monthly collection of newly released products{{cite web | url=https://hightimes.com/?s=cop+list | title=Searching for cop list | High Times Magazine | access-date=2023-09-07 | archive-date=2023-09-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907173829/https://hightimes.com/?s=cop+list | url-status=live }}

By 1976, High Times was publishing comics in its pages, by the likes of underground comix creators such as Gilbert Shelton ("The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"), Kim Deitch, Josh Alan and Drew Friedman, Bill Griffith ("Zippy the Pinhead"), Paul Kirchner ("Dope Rider"), Milton Knight ("Zoe"), Spain Rodriguez ("Trashman"), Dave Sheridan, Frank Thorne, and Skip Williamson ("Snappy Sammy Smoot"). Later, artists like Bob Fingerman and Mary Wilshire contributed comics to High Times as well.{{cite web|url=https://www.comics.org/series/79881/|title=High Times Magazine, Trans-High Corporation, 1974 Series|work=Grand Comics Database|access-date=Dec 9, 2022|archive-date=December 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209232020/https://www.comics.org/series/79881/|url-status=live}}

Andrew Weil was a regular contributor to High Times from 1975 to 1983.{{cite journal | last = Simunek|first=Chris | date = September 8, 2003 | journal =High Times | url=http://www.hightimes.com/ht/grow/content.php?bid=247&aid=2| title = Grow: Interview, Dr. Andrew Weil| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303162751/http://hightimes.com/grow/csimunek/1054|archive-date=March 3, 2009 }} For a time, William Levy served as the magazine's European editor.

In 1976, Bruce Eisner became a contributing editor for the magazine. Chip Berlet was the magazine's Washington, D.C. bureau chief in the Seventies. Jeff Goldberg was an editor in 1978–1979.

Kyle Kushman is a former cultivation reporter for High Times and has been a contributing writer for over 20 years.

Bobby Black had a long association with High Times, from 1994 to 2015,{{cite news |author=WSJ Staff |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/09/20/fortune-new-york-times-other-publications-are-wild-for-weed-stories-a-high-times-editor-offers-pointers/ |title=Fortune, New York, Other Publications Are Wild For Weed Stories; a High Times Editor Offers Pointers |work=wsj.com |date=Sep 20, 2009 |access-date=December 19, 2022 |archive-date=July 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704130045/https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/09/20/fortune-new-york-times-other-publications-are-wild-for-weed-stories-a-high-times-editor-offers-pointers/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news|author=Staff |title=Ever get Hauled into Jail for Smoking Pot?|work=New York|date=July 14, 2008|page=13}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.marijuanatimes.org/the-high-times-of-a-pot-journalist-an-interview-with-bobby-black/|title=The High Times of a Pot Journalist: An Interview with Bobby Black|publisher=The Marijuana Times|last=Klare|first=Joe|date=7 June 2016|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-06|archive-date=2020-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406202007/https://www.marijuanatimes.org/the-high-times-of-a-pot-journalist-an-interview-with-bobby-black/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=chicpeajc|date=2014-10-03|title=Bobby Black|url=https://lynnhazan.com/people/bobby-black/|access-date=2021-04-08|website=Lynn Hazan|language=en-US|archive-date=2022-12-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219222423/https://lynnhazan.com/people/bobby-black/|url-status=live}} including being a senior editor{{cite news |last=Green |first=Joshua |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/the-high-times-2012-presidential-straw-poll/237908/ |title=The 'High Times' 2012 Presidential Straw Poll |work=TheAtlantic.com |date=Apr 27, 2011 |access-date=December 19, 2022 |archive-date=December 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219222415/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/the-high-times-2012-presidential-straw-poll/237908/ |url-status=live }} and columnist. His involvement at High Times included production director and associate art director; writing the monthly lifestyle and entertainment column "Almost Infamous"; writing feature articles and interviews; creator and producer of the magazine's annual Miss High Times beauty pageant; producer and host of the annual High Times Doobie Awards for music;{{cite web|last=Cowan |first=Darren|url=http://www.blistering.com/fastpage/fpengine.php/link/1/templateid/15675/tempidx/5009/menuid/5 |title=2009 High Times Doobie Awards |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730021028/http://www.blistering.com/fastpage/fpengine.php/link/1/templateid/15675/tempidx/5009/menuid/5 |archive-date=2012-07-30|work=blistering.com|date=March 20, 2009}}{{cite web |last=Fresh |first=Mikey |url=http://www.theboombox.com/2010/02/18/eminem-kid-cudi-asher-roth-up-for-doobie-awards/ |title=Eminem, Kid Cudi, Asher Roth Up For Doobie Awards |work=theboombox.com |date=February 18, 2010 |access-date=December 19, 2022 |archive-date=April 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402075844/http://www.theboombox.com/2010/02/18/eminem-kid-cudi-asher-roth-up-for-doobie-awards/ |url-status=live }} lead reporter, judge, and competition coordinator for the Cannabis Cup and the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup; and A&R, producer, liner notes and art director for High Volume: The Stoner Rock Collection CD (High Times Records).{{cite web |last=D'Angelo |first=Joe |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451700/high-times-forms-record-label.jhtml |title=High Times Records: The Greenest Label In The Biz Marijuana-friendly magazine's label plans to drop first release, THC (The Hip-Hop Collection) Vol. 1, April 16 |work=mtv.com |date=Jan 9, 2002 |access-date=December 19, 2022 |archive-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224131510/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451700/high-times-forms-record-label.jhtml |url-status=dead }}

At age 19, Zena Tsarfin started as an intern for the magazine.{{cite web|url=http://canadaartsconnect.com/2012/02/girls-metal-zena-tsarfin/ |title=Girls Don't Like Metal Interviews Zena Tsarfin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170521124701/http://canadaartsconnect.com/2012/02/girls-metal-zena-tsarfin/ |archive-date=2017-05-21|work=Canada Arts Connect|date=29 Feb 2012}} She later returned to High Times, serving as the magazine's managing editor until 2001 and then again from March 2006 to January 2007. From 2014 to 2016, Tsarfin was High Times' director of digital media.

Danny Danko is the magazine's former Senior Cultivation Editor.

The careers of a number of writers/editors from the comics industry overlapped with High Times, including Tsarfin, Josh Alan Friedman (High Times managing editor, 1983), Lou Stathis (High Times editor, late 1980s), Ann Nocenti (High Times editor, 2004), and most significantly, John Holmstrom, who began to work for the magazine as managing editor in 1987, was soon promoted to executive editor, and in 1991 was promoted to publisher and president. In 1996 he stepped aside to launch and oversee the High Times website, and left the magazine for good in 2000.

Andrew James Parker, a.k.a. Chewberto420, is a cannabis photographer and author, based out of the Western United States (predominantly Huntington Beach, California and Pagosa Springs, Colorado), who has made contributions to the magazine since 2016. Parker is known for his images based in macro photography. He discovered naturally occurring purple hash through experimentation with anthocyanins within cannabis.{{Cite web |url=https://hightimes.com/author/chewberto420/ |title=Andrew Parker aka Chewberto420 |website=hightimes.com |access-date=2024-01-30 |archive-date=2024-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240128070100/https://hightimes.com/author/chewberto420/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://hightimes.com/grow/so-you-want-to-learn-how-to-make-purple-dabs-do-you/ |title=So You Want to Learn How to Make Purple Dabs, Do You? |website=hightimes.com |date=22 August 2016 |access-date=2024-01-30 |archive-date=2024-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240128071753/https://hightimes.com/grow/so-you-want-to-learn-how-to-make-purple-dabs-do-you/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://hightimes.com/grow/cannabis-anthocyanins-a-closer-look-at-the-color-purple-in-cannabis/ |title=Cannabis & Anthocyanins: A Closer Look at the Color Purple in Cannabis |website=hightimes.com |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=2024-01-30 |archive-date=2024-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240128064549/https://hightimes.com/grow/cannabis-anthocyanins-a-closer-look-at-the-color-purple-in-cannabis/ |url-status=live |last1=Chewberto420 |first1=Andrew Parker aka }}

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• {{cite book|title = The High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs|publisher = Stonehill Pub Co|year = 1978|isbn = 0-88373-082-0 | first1= Michael R. | last1 = Aldrich | first2 = Richard | last2 = Ashley | first3 = Michael |last3 = Horowitz}}
• {{cite book

| last = Bienenstock

| first = David

| title = The Official High Times Pot Smoker's Handbook

| publisher = High Times Books

| year = 2008

| isbn = 978-0-8118-6205-9

}}

• {{cite book

| last = Danko

| first = Danny

| title = The Official High Times Field Guide to Marijuana Strains

| publisher = High Times Books

| year = 2011

| isbn = 978-1-893010-28-4

| author-link = Danny Danko

}}

• {{cite book

| last = Eudaley

| first = Chris

| author-link =

| title = How to Be a Pot Star Like Me: What Every Marijuana Enthusiast Should Know

| publisher = High Times Books

| year = 2000

| isbn = 1-893010-06-6 }}

• {{cite book

| last = Gaskin

| first = Stephen

| author-link = Stephen Gaskin

| title = Cannabis Spirituality: Including 13 Guidelines for Sanity and Safety

| publisher = High Times Books

| editor-link=Steven Hager

| editor-first= Steven

| editor-last = Hager

| year = 1998

| isbn = 0-9647858-6-2 }}

• {{cite book|authorlink=Steven Hager|last=Hager|first=Steven|title=Adventures in the Counterculture: From Hip Hop to High Times|publisher=High Times Books|year=2002|isbn=1-893010-14-7}}
• {{cite book

| last = Krassner

| first = Paul

| author-link = Paul Krassner

| editor-link=Steven Hager

| editor-first= Steven

| editor-last = Hager

| contribution = Foreword by Harlan Ellison

| title = Pot Stories for the Soul

| publisher = High Times Books

| year = 1999

| isbn = 1-893010-02-3

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/potstoriesforsou00paul

}}

• {{cite book|title = Psychedelic Trips for the Mind|last = Krassner|first = Paul|publisher = High Times Books |year = 2001|isbn = 1-893010-07-4|author-link = Paul Krassner | editor-first= Steven |editor-last=Hager}}
• {{cite book

| last = Lewin

|first = Natasha

| title = The Official High Times Pot Smoker's Activity Book

| author-link =

| publisher = Chronicle Books

| year = 2010

| isbn = 978-0-8118-6206-6 }}

• {{cite book|editor1-last= Nocenti|editor1-first= Annie|editor1-link= Annie Nocenti|editor2-last= Baldwin|editor2-first= Ruth|year= 2004|title= The High Times Reader|url= https://archive.org/details/hightimesreader0000unse|location= New York|publisher= Nation Books|isbn= 1-56025-624-9|url-access= registration}}
• {{cite book|author-link=|last=Raskin|first=Jonah|title=Marijuanaland: Dispatches from an American War|location=New York|publisher=High Times Books|date=2011|isbn=978-1-893010-30-7}}

• Cannabis Cup
• High Times' Potluck
• Counterculture Hall of Fame
• Stony Awards
• High Times Medical Cannabis Cup

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