High Times is a United States based magazine. The publication strongly advocates the legalization of marijuana. For a brief period it moved toward an overtly leftwing lifestyle magazine under publisher John Mailer, Norman Mailer's youngest son. It has since returned to its earlier roots in the marijuana subculture.
High Times was originally modeled on Playboy magazine, except that rather than catering to consumers of recreational sex, it caters to consumers of recreational drugs. Each issue has a centerfold photo, not of a nude woman, but typically of a choice grade of Marijuana plant.
The magazine was founded by Tom Forcade of the Underground Press Syndicate, along with several anonymous associates.
Writers for High Times have included Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Terry Southern, William Burroughs, Ed Rosenthal, William Levy, A. Craig Copetas , Chip Berlet, and Dennis King.
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Further reading
- Annie Nocenti, Ruth Baldwin, and Paul Krassner, eds., The High Times Reader,
Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books, 2004 ISBN 1560256249.
