Tmorgan
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2/5/01 09:22 PM
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Re: HIGH TIMES REEKS
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I agree with everything you guys are saying, I usually only look at the THMQ, the Hemp 100, and the grow section... and the centerfolds, most of the articles usually suck so I don't bother reading them. It's all hipped-hopped out these days, to put it mildly their target audience is a bunch of Vanilla Ices... lol Ya'll know what i'm talking about... lol... So, I was wrong to question your bashing... I do have a question though, who the hell is chris eudaley and what qualifies him to teach people how to be a pot star ? From the ad, he looks like one of those vanillas I was talking about... lol...
Don't delay, declare war on prohibition today!
-Tommie Morgan
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Marc Scott Emery
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2/5/01 11:42 PM
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Re: HIGH TIMES REEKS
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As publisher of Cannabis Culture, I read thoroughly every issue of High Times.
Some observations:
Even though there are some good facts and freedom fighters portrayed properly, the magazine's cynical commercial (fake shit ads, ) marketing , what with their sucking up to the east coast music industry, their vain, egomania (POTSTAR, Simuniak's Paradise Burning -Simuniek is a complete drunk much of his public time), their hopelessly dated retro-leftism and cheesy unwashed laundry of the rainbow people (what a contrast, fake bud ad karma vs a back to the earth search for meaning) mixed with dollops of New York/USA paranoia...
Hedonism central passing itself off as the movement. Ugh. I told my staff at our 2000 Christmas staff & friends party that if High Times were the only North American mag about the movement, I would sincerely weep. Its a heartless group of distrustful, back biting paranoid New Yorkers under a weird Peter Pan meets the Twilight Zone leadership of Steve Hager (who, after I wrote a review of the 1995 Cannabis Cup as the disorganized mess it is, accused Ed Rosenthal of actually writing the article and threatened to have Ed fired because, as Hager put it, "I know he wrote it".
Steve has never thanked me even once for distributing High Times throughout Canada when their own distributor and lawyers wouldn't challenge the Canadian gov't ban, that period is May 1994 to mid 1995.
Every High Times event has been atrociously organized. Every single person you'll ever meet who ever had anything to do with High Times has a jaded outlook now.
Contemptible people, contemptible magazine.
Marc Emery - Moderator
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puresativa
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2/6/01 01:38 AM
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Re: HIGH TIMES REEKS
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Hit the nail right on the head Mark.
TMorgan: My suspicions also went into overdrive the first time i saw the POTSTAR article. Read a few articles, and never, not once, could I find this guy Chris write about anything like he had ANY expert knowledge about POT. Nothing. From then on, just ignored the article like I do 90% of the others in HT. But did always wonder WHY it was there.
Then a few issues ago saw a new ad. A book on "HOW YOU CAN BE A POTSTAR". Almost lost a few days lunch. A complete know nothing, with no skill at writing, growing, smoking, or understanding pot gets his own article in High Times.
And now High Times wants to sell you a book on how to be just like him.
Does anybody else smell a another dishonest marketing scam?
Think about it. Who did they have as a mascot? Chef RA - a fake Rastifarian empty of any religion or spirituality.
How do they make their money? Selling fake buds
Idea High Times Staff!!! We can take these people for more money by creating a fake Pot Star, then selling books about him.
Enough!!!!!! High Times is so deep in bad karma it hurts me to think about them. Going to go smoke me a bowl made possible by the GOOD karma people of Vancouver, BC.
Grow Kind, Be Kind
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cannabinol
(journeyman)
2/7/01 00:35 AM
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Re: HIGH TIMES REEKS
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besides all this the organise the Cannabis cup in Amsterdam, claiming it's the worldchampionship for weedgrowers.....
Only 19 coffeshops out of 842 dutch coffeeshops competed last year.
The judges pay a lot of cash for a judges pass, but they have to pay for the weed they test?!!!!
The prestigious cup is the biggest hoax around, just made up to suck money from people who don't see or know they are being ripped off.
High times stinks, big time.
you don't have to be a wizz to win the Cannaquiz!
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Marc Scott Emery
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2/7/01 07:49 AM
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Re: HIGH TIMES REEKS
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As to Chef Ra, that guy is a black American taxi driver from Illinois who is an angry, jaded non-Rastafari posing as some Ital preacher, always trying to get laid and always implying in his articles that women aren't interested and what a bunch of cunts they are because they aren't fooled by his over the hill bogus 'rasta' charm. Ugh.
Marc Emery - Moderator
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Slothbear
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2/7/01 07:13 PM
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Re: HIGH TIMES REEKS
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Kinda like Mr.T...or Gary Coleman. Either way he is about as entertaining as an old soccer mom getting drunk and amerous at the team party...*shivers*
A rock star without cool cloths is just a jock with an identity crisis
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twistinjays
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2/9/01 08:15 PM
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Re: HIGH TIMES REEKS
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That Salon article Dana posted the link to seems a little inaccurate:
"It was begun as Cannabis Canada in 1995 by Marc Emery, a Canadian pot-seed impresario with a profitable mail-order business. To this day, Emery's seed listings, which subsidize Cannabis Culture, take up 10 pages at the front of the magazine, coming before even the masthead and table of contents."
I have an old copy of Cannabis Canada and theres no seed catalog in it at all, the table of contents is on page 4, including the cover as page 1. So by saying 'to this day' they are implying that the first 10 pages of the magazine has always been the seed catalog, or advertisements which is not the case. There is a 4 page Hemp BC catalog that appears in the middle and no sign of seeds for sale. So for Salon to claim that the magazine's origins were to augment a seed catalog is entirely erroneous.
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Edge
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2/10/01 06:06 AM
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Re: HIGH TIMES REEKS
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"I never met anybody like me in Canada, and in a free society, that's appalling. I think it's sad it comes down to some used-book seller to challenge the law to protect people's right to information."
Marc Emery-1992
-"I really believe [Canada] is in serious danger of collapsing, a complete, utter economic and social collapse. And that's a sad thing...they're going to need someone to save their ass sooner or later and I'm eminently qualified."
Marc Emery-1993
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Dana Larsen
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2/19/01 01:48 AM
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Re: HIGH TIMES REEKS
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It's true that the magazine didn't have a seed catalog for the first few issues. I remember the day that Marc decided to run the seed catalog in CC instead of the Hemp BC catalog. It created a bit of conflict over some who felt that it made us too reliant on the unstable seed business. But we had been raided previously and were in financial trouble. Marc figured that the seeds were bringing in more money and that was the way to go. And he was right.
Nowadays I see CC and the Emery Seeds catalog as having a very symbiotic relationship.
Dana Larsen
Editor, Cannabis Culture Magazine
ccmag@cannabisculture.com
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MisterBeanz
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4/27/01 06:17 PM
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Re: HIGH TIMES REEKS
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I guess this whole argument frustrates me. I see allot of people saying "High Times sucks ass!" and then not backing themselves up. I also see alot of people who do back themselves up. I have been a HT subscriber for years. Some of the arguments make sense, and allot of them are simple belly-aching.
I agree that HT portrays the cannabis enthusiast as a "stoner". And many of their stories are simply brushing the surface of the real issues. They need to work long and hard at improving their journalism skills. The fake drugs crap has got to go too. I would be willing to pay more to subscribe so that the magazine can be filled with journalistic excellence rather than trashy advertisement.
On the other hand, CC is a very hard working and truthful magazine. I praise Mark and everyone at CC for all that they do for the cannabis culture. All of the things coming out of Canada are excellent (POT-TV, Emery Seeds etc.) I wish I had such praise for the movement in the United States.
I just think that this debate needs to be elvated from the name calling I so often see. Let's present the facts. Let's show everyone the truth. No name calling will be necessary then.
MisterBeanz
Salt Lake City, UT
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