A 2003 New York Timesstory about MailerвЂ™s seizing of the reins described his вЂњlimited journalistic resumeвЂќ and reported that he planned to вЂњround out the magazine with voices opposed to marijuana use, including people who think pot has ruined their livesвЂќ- which was awfully disquieting to longtime readers who were, like, really into pot. They banned weed from the cover and got rid of the bud centerfolds. (Relax: Mushrooms were still cool.) In a slightly bizarre turn of events in the early 2000s-a вЂњfoul epoch,вЂќ in the words of former editor Chris Simunek-a new leadership team featuring Norman MailerвЂ™s 25 year-old son, John Buffalo Mailer, attempted to reshape the magazine into a highbrow journal of literature and opinion. There was an early dalliance with cocaine as an editorial subject, but it soon became evident that this alienated the magazineвЂ™s core pothead demographic. No word on whether Rupert Murdoch joined for the postgame toke.)ДЄs Skye and Danko tell it, High Times has been up and down over the years. (The Bonghitters went on to beat the Wall Street Journal for the 2014 NYMSL crown. Their weed was so fricking gnarly that I nearly lost my shizz before I reached the subway. I took a teensy hit, mostly just to say I had. This past summer on a field in Central Park, after theyвЂ™d demolished the squad I was playing for, they sang вЂњTake Me Out to the Bong GameвЂќ-a subtle reworking of the old standard-and then invited us back to their dugout to smoke us all up. But other than as a punch line to lame, weed-themed jokes, my only interaction with High Times in recent years has been via the New York Media Softball League, where the Bonghitters are a perennial powerhouse. He bought a few more issues over the next few months, and weвЂ™d flip through them to admire the gargantuan bongs, ogle the bikini-clad tokers, and catch a faint whiff of freak culture. HeвЂ™d hoped its botany tips would fill out the spindly weed plants he was growing in his bedroom closet. hey guys dope dope dope song i love it dope please to share my songs too up up hot hot dope dope rap. I first encountered High Times as a teen, when a high school pal bought an issue at a newsstand. Dope ass song 'DOUBLE CUP' nice they got the game on this track he killed it and Jezzy. A commemorative book, High Times: A 40-Year History of the WorldвЂ™s Most Infamous Magazine - a slightly slapped-together anthology of cover images, old celebrity interviews, and essays from High Times employees-goes on sale this week.

The November issue of High Times will, somewhat improbably, mark the publicationвЂ™s 40 th anniversary. The magazine heвЂ™d founded had by then won a steady readership and had begun to publish monthly. Article contentДЇorГ§ade shot himself inside his New York City apartment in 1978. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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