March 2020

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Last month, Chicago, Illinois law enforcement installed “cannabis amnesty boxes” at local airports where travelers can conveniently forfeit cannabis in the event that they forget to leave it at home. But on January 20, predictably, a thief broke into
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EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN ADAM LEVIN CEO STORMY SIMON VICE PRESIDENT OF CONTENT JON CAPPETTA CREATIVE DIRECTOR FRANK MAX ART DIRECTOR STEVE MYRDAHL SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER MICHELLE AGUIRRE SENIOR CULTIVATION EDITOR DANNY DANKO DIGITAL EDITORS CHLOÉ HARPER G
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Contact High
A healthy root system is essential for the explosive plant growth rates associated with hydroponic and aeroponic cannabis growing systems. Learn more about growing plants without soil from hydroponics expert Erik Biksa on page 72. Photo courtesy of E
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Enlisting Hope
Patrick Seifert is founder and president of Twenty22Many Foundation. THIS MONTH I VISIT Todd Larkin, a veteran activist who owns the Pure Wellness CBD medical dispensary and also serves as president of the Texoma Veteran Alliance. I had the great hon
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Sowing Tomorrow’s Seeds
HEMP FARMERS HAVE a reason to rejoice: A flurry of industrial hemp plans have received approval—both on tribal soil and in a growing number of states. After being banished under federal law for more than 80 years, hemp production has finally made a c
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Technology Meets Horticulture
LET’S FACE IT: Many people have a love-hate relationship with technology. We’re attached to the convenience of our smartphones, but we’re not as enthusiastic when they distract us from living in the now. (Prime example: Ever see someone recording vid
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Curry Your Favor
HempCann Solutions selected the city of Bengaluru in which to open India’s first medical-cannabis clinic, called Vedi Herbals. The site, which opened in February, features a wellness center and clinic and prescribes cannabis-infused tablets, oils and
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Get Up, Stand Up
Not all heroes wear capes. Proud citizen Spencer Alan Boston, 20, took performance art to the next level by smoking weed in a courtroom at his own hearing on a marijuana-possession charge. As a defendant in an ongoing court case, Boston gave absolute
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Governors Of Ganja
Perhaps one of the most obvious inclusions in this list, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker easily earned an A-plus grade from NORML due to his willingness to open up cannabis accessibility. Pritzker recently signed Illinois’s Regulation and Taxation Act,
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Untimely Departure
Whoopi Goldberg and edible virtuoso Maya Elisabeth’s foray into the world of female-focused cannabis products ended abruptly when Goldberg submitted her resignation to the company board on January 31. Their company, Whoopi & Maya, will subsequently c
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Mushroom Kingdom
The Santa Cruz City Council in northern California voted unanimously on January 28 to decriminalize the “cultivation of psychoactive plants and fungi” in the city for adults, which includes psilocybin mushrooms. Decriminalizing the substances doesn’t
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Hush Little Baby
Naming your newborn child Sativa or Indica is one way of broadcasting to the world that you might be a dedicated pot lover. One family did just that—twice. Back in October 2018, a Baltimore, Maryland, man named Fred Quinn tweeted that his firstborn n
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Persistence Pays Off
Over one year after the first recreational dispensary opened in Massachusetts, the state’s capital and most populous city can finally open one of its own. Pure Oasis became the first recreational dispensary in Boston to receive a final license from t
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Feel The Bern
On February 1, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spoke to an estimated 3,000 enthusiastic supporters at a packed rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ahead of the state caucuses. There, the candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination pledged to direct
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Potency Power
A novel phytocannabinoid, (-)-trans-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabiphorol (THCP), was recently discovered along with its corresponding cannabidiol homologue cannabidiphorol (CBDP), according to a recent report published on December 30, 2019, in Scientific
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Ain’t Nuthing Ta F’ Wit
THE WU-TANG CLAN runs deep—really, really deep. Beyond the core members of RZA, Method Man, GZA, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, U-God, Cappadonna and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, the Staten Island, New York, crew has dozens of
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Back From The Dead
FINDING A BALANCE BETWEEN competing interests can be a complex challenge for anyone. For masked marauders Hollywood Undead, though, juggling a burgeoning marijuana brand with the demands of international touring and recording works out as harmoniousl
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Grow Tech 2020
AS THE YEAR 2020 takes hold, the proliferation of legal mass-market marijuana and the developments in transcendent high technology are racing on parallel tracks, and when something is considered both inevitable and welcome, the odds are good it will
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Brand Spotlight: Aroya
WHEN GROWING CANNABIS at larger scales, maintaining quality and consistency becomes a challenge. For that reason, cannabis products in dispensaries that are truly craft-quality are either hard to come by or priced high enough to steer many people to
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Pending Progress
J.J. McCoy is New Frontier Data Senior Managing Editor. WHILE NO ONE IS likely to confuse March Madness with Reefer Madness, this month’s annual college basketball bacchanal nevertheless serves to remind us of a cultural disconnect between current ca
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Thmq
(1-95) "Frosty trichomes all over!” -Montclair, VA (NORTHERN LIGHTS) "Top shelf weed at a great price; Colorado is king!” -Louisville, CO Prices by the ounce For March, pot prices rose in all markets from coast-to-coast, driving the average ounce in
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High-tech Safety Net
ONCE UPON A TIME, the level of interest among most cannabis users into the scientific and chemical properties of their weed purchases began and ended with one question: “How strong is it?” Maybe our dealer could tell us what region it came from, such
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Spectrum King Led Crowned With Us Patent
SPECTRUM KING LED, the pioneer of full-spectrum LED grow lights, has recently been granted US Patent No. 10238043 for its proprietary plant spectrum. Based in Los Angeles, California, Spectrum King LED has been designing, manufacturing and selling LE
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2020 High Times hydro Report
For the hobbyist, hydroponics allows for a cleaner growing experience, not only in the buds but also in the growing area itself. Keeping dirt outside rather than bringing it inside makes good sense to a lot of people looking for both big yields of qu
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Ppm, Tds, Cf, Ec, Ph, Orp And Do
PPM, TDS, CF, EC—that is, parts per million, total dissolved solids, conductivity factor and electro-conductivity—are all measures of the concentration of fertilizers in a nutrient solution (as read by electronic monitors). Note that EC is the base n
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Cannabis Crop Staging Basics
One of the big advantages to hydroponics, as mentioned previously, is the ability to optimize each developmental stage taking into consideration the size of the plant and space available. This helps to keep finished plants from each phase stacked wit
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The Insider, Hydro Tech Talk
IT’S AN EXCITING time for the hydroponics industry. Thanks, in part, to an increasing number of highly focused and motivated professional cannabis growers. There is good cause for hydroponics gear manufacturers and innovators to step up their game in
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A Tourist’s Guide To Spannabis
I’LL BE HONEST, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was in for with Spannabis, Europe’s leading cannabis expo. I had heard of the event over the years, and I’ve been to more Cannabis Cups than I could count, but let me tell you: The weekend I had at Spanna
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The interview With Phil Wilkins
THE CONSUMER ELECTRONIC Show (CES) is without a doubt one of the biggest tech-related events in the world. In the show’s own words, it’s a “global stage for innovation.” Ever since its inception in 1978, the CES has featured countless technological i
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Expert Grow Advice
Send your cannabis cultivation questions to @deardanko or deardanko@hightimes.com. SUBJECT: Making Hash FROM: Jake ❧ Throughout my stoner career, I’ve always been intrigued by hash, yet I’ve never been able to get my hands on any. So you can understa
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Hot Products
Prices vary rainsciencegrowbags.com In the past, most fabric grow bags lasted only a couple of harvests before falling apart due to mold or rot. The new reusable Rain Science Grow Bags utilize a special mesh for proper drainage to prevent mildew and
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Dark Chocolate Avocado Cupcakes
AVOCADOS, DARK CHOCOLATE and cannabis create a power food supergroup of healthy fats and essential vitamins that are well-hidden in this recipe for dank cupcake deliciousness. Avocados are naturally creamy and buttery in texture and taste, making the
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Stress-free With Cbd
Got a question for Dr. Mitch? Email him at 420research@gmail.com. If I’ve got a public performance, job interview or stressful interaction ahead, I just hit my CBD tincture and everything’s fine. Any research on people like me? Public D. Fender Hi Pu
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Cannabis Crosswords
1 Cannabinoids that might decrease appetite 3 This recreational cannabis state is home to the most eastern spot in all of the US 5 First head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics 6 In 2019, over 200,000 of these became good reasons to support a legal

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