BACK ON THE RACK I damn near stopped in my tracks when I saw your glorious magazine back on the shelf. I’m 56 ripe years old now, but for a second I was in college again, sleeping on the floor after nights with friends at concerts, trading nugs, rolling our thin little spliffs, reading this magazine like it was scripture. HIGH TIMES was for all of us freaks who knew there was more to life than all the bullshit… work, TV, and behaving. Seeing it at my dispensary feels really full circle, like I’m running into an old hookup, a real dawg with primo shit. — Still Truckin’ Denver, Colorado
training, and accountability, but they can be expensive. The personal-use world is broader and cheaper, but also easier to screw up. If somebody is just selling you mushrooms with spiritual wallpaper stapled to the transaction, be careful. If they are actually sitting, guiding, educating, and taking harm reduction serious- ly, you’re at least closer to the spirit of the law. BRING BACK THE CUP I was at that first HT Cup when it came here… and back then everything felt only half-legal and twice as fun. We stood in the line for like an hour, the whole place was buzzing. It was like you just knew strangers, like they were friends. And then that ridiculous leaf-blower bong fogging an entire tent like a fire drill? They don’t do that kinda shit anymore. And Kid Cudi too! Crazy times, I’ll never forget it (Can you bring back the cup?!) — Ms. Hash Lover Louisville, Colorado DISCO DAMAGE Honestly great work, this takes me way back. I just want to say after growing up reading the Fear and Loathing stories from HST and a bunch of other counterculture stuff from that era, this new small version is looking really retro and familiar. Finding weed used to be so cool and new and dangerous. Things change, I guess, we all grow up... But man, what a Vegas story, and the whole look just felt like a reboot for the era. Didn't even realize how big and insane cannabis business has gotten. Either way, I laughed out loud a couple times. Bravo to the team. — Half-Baked Yo-yo Aurora, Colorado
Amigo! We're so freakin' happy to be here too.
LEGAL SHROOMS? Your Sean McAllister interview was the first thing I’ve read that made our psychedelic laws make any kind of sense. But I’m still confused. If mushrooms are decriminalized, and healing cen- ters are legal, and people can be paid for “harm reduction,” where does that leave a normal broke dude who wants to do this without getting totally conned or arrested? I feel like I should be hopeful but also don’t know where to start. Are people literally just sitting while you lay there? — Cautiously Curious Lakewood, Colorado Editor note: In Colorado, the future seems to show up before the instruction manual. The safest answer is still: start low, go slow, and don’t treat a legal gray area like a free-for-all. Regulated healing centers bring oversight,
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