" EXCLUSIVE:Since our introduction of the first Mushroomkit over five years ago, thousands of people just like you have learned the joys of successful mushroom cultivation. The Homestead Mushroomkit contains two pounds of our renowned high-yield compost for the largest crops possible. Also included are a lifetime supply of proven-fertile Psilocybe Cubensi spores, professional tools and supplies. Ten pages of illustrated instructions are excerpted from Bob Harris’ manual Growing Wild Mushrooms. VISA or MasterCard orders call Toll-Free at 800-426-6777, except Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii All other information, please call (206) 782-4532. OUR 10t ANNIVERSARY! Homestead Book Company * 1972 1982 G Wild Mushrooms a hates amt belie ctel Mushroomkit Deluxe Psilocybe Cubensis Kit Growing Wild Mushrooms, Recommended Pellocybe Mushrooms And Their Allies, Most complete Book available Plocybe Cubenss spores only otal Enclosed: $ Addeess ISA__ MC__ Es Card Number Signature OK COMPANY PO. Box 31608 Seattle, WAS8103 (206) 782-4532 ae e Dealer inguities WeGROW LIGHTS-HYDROPONICS INDOOR SUN™ 20 INCH ADJUSTABLE: BEANEREFLECIOR Designed especially for varying plant heights. Provides additional ight where necessary, Removable reflector INSOORSUN ™ STANDARD 18 INCH REFLECTOR Metal halide, OOO watt grow light with remote Ballst. M1000 butb. No assembly required, 18950 HIGH PRESSURE SODIUM GROW LIGHTS a Same asabove but with SUPER DELUXE W1000 bulb. VENTILATED BALLAST BOX $294.50 Heavy duty, durable steel i. construction. On/off rocker Soaeun™ ECONOMY ‘switch with self contained aoeoetiad Indicator ight and ci Includes prewired oven breaker, Ballast) M1000 bulb and socket set. Reflector @ptional (not depicted) Someassembiy required $12450 NUTRIENT SUPPLY KIT Featuring autornatic nutrient replenishment as plants develop. No electricity requires. This entire storter system $100, includes shipping SUPERPOTS Seven gailon copacity, Piggyback ‘add-on Superpot units $29.95 $100. for four. r $200 for nine. = We ship all stondard orders within 24 hours. ‘One year parts and labor guarantee on all of ‘ourproducts COD. orders welcomed. We are your complete growing system company. We have it all lights, hydroponics, nutrients, books, timers, s.81C. As manufacturers of our own growing systems, we can save youmoney by selling directly fo you. ‘A Fal Price For A Proven Product. E.S. MANUFACTURING CORP 22138 SOUTH VERMONT AVENUE, TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA 90502 IN CALIFORNIA CALL COLLECT ; TOLL FREE OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA (213) 775-1094 — ge ne (800) 421-2994No. 81 HIGH TIMES FEATURES Interview: Bill Griffith by Greg Blair "Taco sauce for my Ding Dongs and a pifia colada for my pet dolphin, Repent, for the end of the rinse cycle is at hand” That’ right, friends, its Zippy—well, sort of. This month we present an exclusive interview with the ‘man behind the pinhead. Find out if Zippy discusses makeup technique on the first date and how many green stamps it takes to redeem the father figure of your choice a Negative Girls by Victor Bockris Lama photograph fixed in the imagination of men’ slobbered one Negative Girl recently, after she'd finished drinking for the evening. "Sex is either boring or embarrassing, but nothing disgusts me more than a guy pleading fora hand job" From Helen of Troy to Holly Golightly, Negative Girls have been the most exciting and stimulating creatures ever to order a la carte 40 The Gorilla, the Nun and the Kangaroo by Gerald Carpenter A blind man led by a seeing-eye dog walks into a bar and orders a drink. As the bartender takes his order the blind man grabs the dog by the tail and starts swinging it over his head. "Hey, whattya think you're doin,” shouts the bartender. “I'm just having a look around’ replies the blind man. More inside 6 Centerfold: The Lost Treasure of Santa Marta 53 Dr. in Peru by Ron Siegel and Dave Sheridan ‘Who says doctors don't make house calls anymore? Dr. McDope does. Come with him as he pays a bedside visit to an ailing South American coca- producing country. A Cocaine Confidential Cartoon Special 56 HIGHWITNESS NEWS Virginia Man Gets 40-Year Sleep for Sale of Nine Ounces. .. Rehnquist's Knock-out Drops... Operation Firebase: DEA Wins First Round... .Narcs Seek Smack, Lose $20,000. .. Dope Tiger Slain by Sheriffs... Arctic Tokers Call One-Pound Limit Mush. .. Administration Declares War on Drug-Law Enforcement. .. Hawkeye Radar Jets to Blip Pot Planes Bes 9 ‘Trans-High Market Quotations 29 DEPARTMENTS Flashes . a Thelifestylemurderers 7 Connoisseur. “Ri remembersBelushi 16 ‘Abuse Folio Setups:Glutethimideandcodeine 30 Grow American .. Californiasmoke-out 62 Seeds'n’ Stems. ‘Your QuaaludeGrowers' Guide, muchmore 79 High Times Classified 88 Pleasures Graffitiart 93 Sounds ‘Talkin’ withDr. John; backstage withthe Kinks, more 96 Last Words. ts Birdbrain!by AllenGinsberg 106 Cover photo by clockwise from lower let: Jeremy Bigwood, Bill Griffith, Bettman Archive, Marcia Resnick os High Hitler 50°" in the two years before his death, Adolf Hitler consumed more drugs than any ten HIGH TiMgs readers ccould absorb in 50 lifetimes. But hold the little black mustaches, kids. According to our author, the Fihrerman’s stashbag was loaded with morphine, coke and antiflatulents—pulverized bull testicles cut with grape sugar notwithstanding, of course. Flesh of the Dead oy Dr. Andrew Weil ‘This one's going out to all you drooling mycophiles ut there who stalk the forests hungry for a taste of the unknown, driven by an unwholesome compulsion to make contact with the “night side of the mind” 4 MaveOUTRAGEOUS HALIDE DEALING fee Obtrageous and we're dealing high formance 1000 watt in the world at the For $134, ualty tee {ist 8247), lamp sage, Vania 110.000 lumens o lumens 1000 watt metaf (ist $114) and Alzak arc rfl can wire the Critter up and use Into your own installation. It's an ugly Critter but nothing ‘works better, so youll be laughing all ‘the way to the bank Want something ail set up and super safe and neat looking with a higher resale value? GET THE BODACIOUS For $167.50.you get the same equip- ‘ment but you aso get the finest vent. lated ballast cabinet, a super deluxe fixture with alzak arc reflector (by pop: ular demand) and heavy castiron hook, assembled ready to grow. ‘The Bodacious has everything — and don't be fooled by our low prices. The parts In our Halide Critter list for nearly $400 and the Bodacious is an ‘even better deal ‘Why buy an OUTRAGEOUS HALIDE? You will save a ton of money, that's why. These things grow pounds of precious plants pronto— indoors. They pay for themselves quick We ship COD. so you can just pick fein ‘comes (caution: high voltage) or build e NOTHING BEATS A GOOD HYDROPONIC SYSTEM — FOR GROWING MONSTER PLANTS. . . FAST ‘Why? Because everything they need for optimum growth is delivered auto- matically by our patented” secret system. Plants grow like crazy. To get results lke this in sili nigh on to impossible. You might think the dirt in your back- Yard is great. .but watch out .. soil Usually has lots of problems. .. you'll waste time and money perfecting outmod- (ed techniques. So go HYDRO ‘But buying hydroponics is tricky, too. Why? Some systems are great and some are terrible plant killers. Like WICK and other “BUNK” hydrosystems. ‘But relax already! OUTRAGEOUShas the ted safe secret system—and get B: you get TWO FOR ONE PRICE. mntl ours le system for yoy ale system. Two gf oir, double nutri ar ee tins orc Gg fe eae } | ~~ OUTRAGEOUS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115 (415) 567-2272 HIGHTIMES. 5__ THIS BUG COULD DESTROY YOUR BUSINESS! Save it with THE PERSONAL Deed Tipe eee et eerie STU eet ed Se cuca ca ec See ee eee ra OTe ean STA a eee een ty OSes et PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS — PROTECT YOURSELF! Eye ee Reet ened Detar Uae ele RURAL Mal emo R eC seltg Ce eu ee a ee cS ee ee eet) ORM ig ele leery Peed PUR Lau gee ee erage na {633 Third Ave, New York, NX. 10017 (212) 682-4731 Washington, D.C, (202) 659-3432 Miami (305) 358-4336 ee MUD e een ert eee eer foe eee rent oad co ANTL-BUGGING ANTL-WIRETAPPING CORP, — NAME (633 Third Ave,, New York, NY. 10017 ess) nar. TELEHci Tives has been seized by various au- | and to petition the Government for @ re- thorities in such places as Texas, North Caroline, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wiscon- sin and Colorado. That's right, police with bbadges and guns walked right into stores ‘and actually confiscated issues of our megs TTechnicaly, lam pleased to report, Hick “Twes snot illegal anywhere in these free United States, and so fer none of these ‘goon-squad raids have been done to im- press judges or juries. They are, though, blatant attempts to intimidate store own- fers and newsstands to stop carrying Hick “Ties. In each of the raids so far, the au- thorities have also hauled off various items they call drug paraphernalia: items ike pipes, mirrors, razor blades, posters, T-shirts ‘and belt buckles. Of course, HichTiesinva- riably is returned immediately upon the re- ‘quest of our attorneys. But the point isnot Jost on the merchants and advertisers. “Congress shall make no law respecting {an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, If you want to send a contribution to help ‘combat the abuse of your rights, there is @ ‘group thar is instrumentalin fighting these ‘repressive laws. No amount is too smal. Make your check payable to American Businesses for Constitutional Rights, 1111 ‘Stahiman Bldg., PO. Box 121311, Nash- vile, TN 37212. Or at least let us know what you think by sending your comments ‘on this matter to High TEs, 17 W. 60th ‘St., New York, NY 10023. dress of grievances.” ‘Thats the First Amendment. Thatis the entre First Amendment. There is no more ‘to the First Amendment, not another com- ‘ma or syllable. “No law." And don't give ‘me any shit about the Founding Fathers not having magazines like Hick Tives in ‘mind those Founding Fathers were some ‘of the most accomplished subversives and rabble-rousers and smugglersinallhistory, ‘and when they seid “no law’ that's exact Jy what they meant. No damned law abridg ing freedom of speech. | recently satin the U.S. Supreme Court only in the visitors section so far—and listened toa debate about one of theselaw: listened to an eloquent attomey from a town called Hoffman Estates, linois, argue ‘that what this whole problem boiled down ‘to was a question of lfestyles. He insisted that government has the right to legislate against any iftestyle it fees is undesirable. ‘This whole “‘ifestyle” pogrom is even weirder and fouler than your standard pol- itis of paranoia. Those Nazi bastards ‘out to get you, if you reed and like ‘magazine. Orif you have certain pipes and books and other things. What other things? Don’t worry, they'll know them when. they see them. Look around you these people are deadly serious. Calling themselves churches and fami- lies, there is a whole group of people (or lifestyle, if you will who think they shoul ‘supply you with their set of rules. The fight ‘gets costly and draining at times, which is ‘exactly what the other side wants. But I'm ‘not worried, this is America. | was born ‘and raised here, and | know fora fact that there are a hell of alot more real, traditional ‘Americans than the New Right will ever Understand. We will never let them get away with it Getin on the backlash bandwagon now! Any time there is @ “lifestyle” pogrom in Your community, send the details to us at Hic Twes. Let us know the organizations. involved and the victims. Don’tletit goun- noticed or unprotested in your town. Who knows, yours may be the next lifestyle they want to legislate out of existence. As for Hic Ties, they will not silence “Andy Kowl, PublisherExpand Your Horizons Add th, iC een Foray ene ee ete eee ees VilaBlend Ltd. P.O. Box 180 Newcastle, Ca 95658 (916) 669-1000 Rac INEED NEW ID?...CREDIT? START LIFE OVER! HERE'S HOW: + Get“AAA” credit in 30 days, even It!New Inarea, Divorced, Bankrupt, or Have No Credit + Create new name, change age + Cover negative records + Getaiplomas, degrees + Find better-paying jobs + Loans up t0'33,000 — with no + Change citizenship. questions asked * Disappear perfectly — + Clear present bad creait Reappear undetected Get all kinds of credit cards + Return from”exile + Beat debtswithoutbankruptey « Secrets of fingerprinting 2 Increasing creat * CremtenewidentitywithGovt- > Yourrights under [sued ID: Birth certificates, ‘Credit Acts SSN, Drivers licenses, + Inside credit bureaus Passports, State ID + Clever credit maneuvers + PLUS much, much more In {+ Inside “pro” secrets In THEPAPERTRIP1 $12.950 —CREDIT!$7.950) 82.000 i Collector $5000 SPECIAL OFFER—ALL FOUR BOOKS ..... only $19.950) ‘Total amount of ems checked patie as Your Regular Postage and Shipping oe choice {Fitcian Mating $00 5 Enclosed it my 1 cash, © check, Ol money: E''Send book Catalog anty. Here 51.00 (return NAME, am piste ‘ADDRESS. Pe cians STATE ZIP. Mail to: EDEN PRESS «0 Box BA10-HT Fountan Valley, CA92708 CALL HER CANVAS-BACK They call it foxy boxing. Pretty girs dressed in G-strings and oversized foam- rubber gloves cavort in a ten-foot-squere shooting eft jabs, righthooks and oc- casionally a bit of beaver. The matches are usually held in bars and discos, with each contest consisting of three one-minute rounds. Between rounds # few lucky spec: ‘ators are called ringside to help cool the Girls off by spraying a fine mist of water on their tight-fitting T-shirts. Though matches ‘are held in three weight divisions—light, ‘and heavy—it's the heavyweight that bring the boys out. Why so? t's simple,” says aficionado Luke New: ton of Atlanta. "The bigger they are the harder we get ‘LUDE AWAKENING I don’t know how long | slept or why | dreamed the dreams | dreamt, but somehow all my blankets fled to drape the partner in my bed and how my pillow came to share its place with such a stranger's face is quite the question to be pressed when we are up and fully dressed. —Allen J. SheinmanLet's let Contributing Editor and country- ‘western star Kinky Friedman make his ‘own pitch for his brand new album, Live at the Lone Star: “-Thisis the first LP made exclusively for | TV/" Kinky told us over dim sum in Chine. town. “It’s also the first album made this year by an artist with a quantum of spiri- tual integrity, with the possible exception ‘of Jim Nabors. The Kinkster grabbed a cher shew boi ‘and gesticulated earnesty, “The beauty of this album is I don’t have to worry about ‘gaining @ bullet or losing a bullet or some ‘asshole in Detroit playing the fucker on the air, I's available only by calling (800) ‘453-9000 after the boogers see the adon the tube. Look, you can play it at parties, argue to it, hose to it or raunch someone in ‘Actor Robert Conrad is said to be in stable condition after swallowing his fake mustache while timing the disaster-plagued movie version of Balls—The G. Gordon Liddy Story. If Pappy Conrad is unable to Continue in the film, based on the hit TV special, studio poop has the role going to warbler Andy Gibb, Execs feel the Aussie twit has boffo drawing power ‘and the burly stash and a pair of black contact lenses will make him look mucho macho. . .This gadabout was one disappointed cowboy after seeing Warren Beatty's Reds. Tums out it's about some politcal bullshit that happens around the turn of the century or something, way before Seconals were even invented. Just when I thought filmmakers were starting to get hip again. . . Word is that porn queen Marilyn Chambers has been inked to endorse a new “adult” breakfast cereal called “Pelvic Thrustes. Wonder ifthe one-time Ivory Snow gir! will put her face on the box? Even more important, will the pot ‘able Ms. Chambers acknowledge this plug by putting her box on Bendix’s face? Only time and tides will toll KANT RANT Editor: |idon’t know about the other Hic TIMES readers, but when | plunk down $2.95 for ‘@ magazine | either want to see pictures of naked girs in lewd and suggestive poses, cr ead interesting and provocative articles and interviews. The fact that you would devote 7 whole pages of @ 108-pagemag- azine to someone as intellectually insipid as Stevie Nicks upsets me not a litle. Did ‘the bum tunnel to it.” Live at the Lone Star, which was record fd that way at the famous NYC country hotspot, contains some Kinky originals as well as terrific covers of “Wabash Can- ‘nonball” "Luckenback, Texas,” “Redneck Mother” and more. For Kinky, it's his first album after a five-year hiatus. Why? "I don’t. know.” Kinky swallowed 2 spring roll. "Maybe | have to come to grips with the reality that'm not Juice Newton. But | got @ good feeling about this one. | think this album is gonna go cardboard in Cenada.” Liveat the Lone Star goes for $7.98 for the LP, $9.98 for 8-track and cassette, payable by cash, major credit card, and Blue Cross-Blue’ Shield. Operators are standing by. you know that within the space you a forded Ms. Nicks you could have reprinted. all of Immanuel Kent's Prolegomene to Any Future Metaphysics? ‘Alexander Lipkin ‘Omaha, Nebr. This is trly amazing! You may not believe this, but we actually plenned to reprint Kant’sProlegomena in our March issue un- 1ilour receptionist pointed out that his syn thesis of Leibniz-Wolffian rationalism and Humean skepticism was, on clase examin: ation, clearly specious and that, all things considered, we'd be on much safer ground with the Nicks interview. Sorry.—Ed. HIGHTIMES 9PROFESSIONAL, ‘THOROUGHLY ENGINEERED, EPPICIENT: | THE FINEST HYDROPONIC. SYSTEM AVAILABLE FOR HOME OR GREENHOUSE. CAN BE USED. TRDOORS “OR OUTDOORS. EXPANDABLE, MADE TO PIT AKY SIZE AREA. SIMPLE ENOUGH FOR THE AMATEUR COMES COMPLETE WITH A SIX MONT! DYNA-GRO SUPER-PURE, THE ONLY Wi DESIGNED 70 BE FUNCTIONALLY ORGAN! YOU MAY BUY CHEAPER, BUT YOU CAN'T BUY BETTER. FROM AEON PRODUCTS, MANUFACTURERS OF HYDROPONIC SYSTEMS, AGRICULTURAL ELECTRONICS, HORTICULTURAL LIGHTING, TEST EQUIPMENT AND FULL ACCESSORIES. FOR PLEASE WRITE: FREE CATALOGUE AEON PRODUCTS INC., 7 COMMERCIAL BLVD., IGNACIO, CA., 94947 Use Re eur) Preyer PrateyeNd rea re “4% QUANTITY PRICES * * 2-4 ounces @ $1200 oa. = 546 ounces @ $10000 oa —17'32 ounces @ $60.0 55-68 ounces @ $60.00 oa Total Encloted + $1.75, od Where Poi By Law adore: : at Dam 18 years or oer 1 ‘Send cre eect of money ere PARRA DISTRIBUTORS 2813 Nawport Boulovar, Ne ‘Or Call (714) 675-743 for more information or Mas 10 MAY a HEARKEN HEARKEN MS. ELLEN BARKIN ‘Actress Ellen Barkin, whose new film, Di- ner, opened to rave reviews across the country, is being hailed by West Coast in- siders as the dazzling new star in Holly wood's Aureole Borealis. We sent her brother, associate editor George Barkin, to Texas to interview Ellen, who's currently shooting Tender Mercies, in which she co: stars with Robert Duval Gorge: Firstoff,'dlke to say that! forone always enjoyed it when we used to take baths together and Mom used to wash our hair in the tub and kiss us when our eyes were closed. Do you feel the same? Ellen: | enjoyed taking baths together per ‘od. Especially when we used tohave those ‘swimming races. That was the greatest. George: Ellen, what did you really think of Grandma? len: Well, that’s kind of tough to answer because, as you know, she never liked me asmuch as she did you, because you were named after the son she lost and everyone ssid how much you looked ike him and al. So, | guess, to be honest, | really resented her a lot and— George: 'm sorry. t's okay, it wasn’t your fault. "an we talk about Aunt Mir for 8 George: ‘minute? Ellen: Sure. George: How could she leave Uncle Stan: ley for that jerk Louis after 35 years of mar riage? | mean, if she resily hated Uncle Stanley like she said, why did she wait 80 long for a divorce? Ellen: She said she was waiting forthe chil- dren to die. George: | think she's senile. Ellen: So do. Gorge: Remember the time | dared you to call Daddy a dirty name to his face? You turned around and called him a “fuckaroo” ‘and then when he started spanking you ‘you began screaming, “Buckaroo, | ssid buckaroo, | swear.” Ellen: Of course | remember, I'l never forget it. | was getting beat and you were standing in front of me laughing ike crazy. In fact, you actually had a bowel move- ‘mentin your pants, if|remember correctly George: That's right. Elen, one last ques- tion. Did it bother you very much when Mommy and Daddy told you that youwere ‘adopted? Ellen: Wheat! ‘Next month George interviews second ‘cousin Caspar Weinberger.FULL FACTORY SERVICE CENTER ROCKWELL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 14700 Biscayne Bivd RIC Lal eee Sase are pleased to introduce cigarette rolling papers fine enough to put our name on. Produced from a high-quality lightweight Spanish rice paper, it has gummed edges and is cut midsized for easy rolling. Order by the box- 24 packs for $12 plus $1.75 ; ing shipping and handling. Sendme box(oe)@ $12 = 7 7 Shipping and handling @ $175 per bor” Gift Special- Senn re en 0 Give High Times rolling papers abet as gifts and save. ApoREss ___ a Five boxes for only $50, ny stare__21 postage paid. Look for them in your favorite smoking accessories shop. Retailers’ and distributors’ inquires invited.Se wae’ BY far a 2 Soviet soidir sta-, fered in Afghanistan. | game across 3 copy of your ee publication one day last meek while raping and pil laging in and around the Ka- but area and thought you might enjoy 2 photograph of ‘be excellent hashish they produce in this country, To get this particular block of Restish all | had to do was promise a local peasant that would kill his goat and burn down his hut with his femiy inside. But after he BOOKS ON HIGHER EDUCATION (2 COMPLETE CANNAt EUTIVATOR = Dstt ow to plant gow, hanes cure plant Saeuey wisi nga! tno moe ea MARUUANA CONSUMERS: AND handed the hashish to me | DEALER'S GUIDE. Extract, hav, went ahead and did these PSD mescaline, others "Cleary ar > irae eee, ae SXiyosheKnoknekov a ine ne Kabul, Afghanistan INTRODUCING BOCKRISAURUS Punk rock preppie Victor Bockris, who wrote this month’s “Negative Gir,” is the internationally acclaimed author of Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie (in collabora tion with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein) and With Wiliarn Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker. "Negative Gir!” is his portrait of the girls who ride the new wave. Asked what attracted him to them most, Bockris replied, “That left ‘over feeling,” in between tak ing a piss in the gi’s room at the Mudd Club, his favorite F Manhattan night spot. Bockris numbers among his friends Cleopatra, Desde mona and the notorious Car. } lotta Smith, who will be mak ing her appearance in his up coming Bad Sex. An instruc: tor at New York's innovative New School, where he is re sponsible for the unique Suck face 101 and Advanced Suck face 54 courses, Bockris ap ears regularly on “Glenn O'Brien's T.V. Party,” @ New York cable show, and is also working with theBBC ona film of Making Tracks. SUPERMoTuERS cooxING WITH ‘inner conversation. Burd HERBAL APHRODISIACS - Natura! {nde eal sbaances whch ene tnd wo Basi) HOME GROWN HIGHS - Orpen hgh at home: payehedee mush coms peta er ac orang ny GUIDE To. GROWING CaNNanis SEND FOR YOUR FLASH) BOOK Now DEPT. raz P.0. Box 14416 Philadelphia, Pa, 19115 Amt. enclosed §_ Plus? 5nandling HIGHTIMES 13,Now you can reduce the hazards of smoking. Withou reducing the pleasures. With The Tilt, the world’s most intelligently engineered smoking system. Instead of burning your * smoking materials, The Tilt heats them electronically: Just enough to release their active ingredients....at their height of potency. Theres no combustion, so there’ up to 96%* less tar in your smoke. Less bite and harshness. Nothing comes ugh but the richest essences of your smoking materials. And more of them, because ingredients destroyed ng are released intact Tit f you don't plan to quit smoking, take up Tilting... the intelligent alternative. Order The Tilt with a toll free call (credit cards only) or the coupon below. 800-528-6050 71551) THE TILT. {THE ULTIMATE SMOKING SYSTEM. F coasts (@ $4000 ech nclung shipping and hod (Add sales tax where applicable) Al | oe MASTER CHARGE ACCT NuMBER (ITIL ‘Signature _ visa 0 w 4-6 weeks for delivery, le Tit, Woodstock, NY 12 Exp. Date *For copy of reports by independent laboratories send $2.00 Dealers’ inquires invited. The 14 Mave od by FTA Inors, oF with llega substances. ¥ INFORMATION PLEASE Editor: ‘As one who's seen firsthand the inside of the baloney machine commonly called @ broadcast news department, Abbie Hoff man's Us vs. Them. (Hick Twes, Feb. '82] rang in my head as truthful as anything on ‘broadcasting I've read in a national maga zine in years. However, there is one bit of information which would serve as a slight supplement to Abbie's piece, and that’s listening to foreign radio broadcasts on shortwave or, depending on the area of the country you liven, on any standard AM radio. In shortwave terms, almost every single ‘mejor world broadcaster sends highpow: fered transmissions to the United States: the 8BC, CBC, Australian Broadcasting Commission and Radio Nederland are among Washington's “allias," and Radio Habana Cuba, Radio Moscow and Radio Peking broadcast for the other side of the Curtain. All of them have their transmis- sion schedules printed in the World Radio- TV Handbook, which most libraries have | orhave access to. This way, one can hear exactly what the Russians are saying be- fore Dan Rather translates from English to Amerikan ‘As for the AM listeners, the CBC has several 50,000-watt stations in English ‘and French which are easily picked up in the Northern thied of the United States, ‘which, although not too horribly different from the U.S. networks, sometimes pro- vide a lot of different perspectives on me jor stories in their news broadcasts. The English stations most likely to be received are CBX Edmonton (740), CBU Vancouv- er (690), CBW Winnipeg (990), CBA Moncton (1070), CBO Ottawa (920), CBL Toronto (740), CBE Windsor (1550), | CBM Montreal (940) and CBK Regina (540). The French stations are CHFA Ed- ‘monton (680), CBOF Ottawa (1250), CJBC Toronto (860), CBEF Windsor (540) and CBF Montreal (690). ‘At the other end of the country, Castro has this 150,000-watt blowtorch on 590, call letters being CMW Havana, and. ‘another on 600, CMKV Holquin. On one or the other, and sometimes both, the Eng- lish-language broadcasts of Radio Mos- cow and Radio Habana Cuba's shortwave services are repeated. ‘Although as prone to horseshit as the New York brandof radionews, these other outlets serve as nice altematives to Frank Reynolds. And | assume that any regular reader of Hick Tives would know enough by themselves which stories are barnyard and which are pine forest. —Dave Saint-Germain Kimbery, Wis.Casco Novelties introduces the Real Rock, 100% Pure Rock mirror-mounted Act out your fantasies with the Real Rock. One hundred percent pure rock permanently mirror-mounted for a lifetime of enjoyment. We think our portable3”x5" "Conversation Piece” and our 10"x10” “Home Entertainer” will soon be the most popular novelty items ever! And who nose better than we do? GET ALINE ON ONE TODAY! = ee ee Casco Novelties, Box. 426 Pawtucket, R.1. 02862 Conversation Pieces” at $5.95 each plus si.00 ‘per order for shipping and hanling-(approx isgram of rock ona Sxs mirror) "Home Entertainers’ at $10.95 each plus $1.00 por orderforshipping andhanaling- (approx. "gram of rock ona 18"x10" mirror) Enclosed isa check of money order for § .l-residents add 6% sales tax Allow 4 106 woeks for delivery LL ea * ware UN GET.VHEBESTIDCARD DURLTTYS OOF REPUTATION SHOW AFREND Your 0 Card wi be processed by tn same mathed used on ties Nenana. Date tne mr tor pgp tmponed oer wave oi Ae Ssalol tne tenncndon Daren Coetstmemor oawertnsomac ner. | Tefolowing Flonase ei spencer cr STYLEA This style not available. STYLEHS Thissiyie not PLEASE PRINT CAREFULLY! es Es ute z = vig voor ou oat e Soe. See. No, corty he above ntomation corect Sigraive + Your signature on 0 cara! ‘edvess + Photo mposed on card—not glued on os iy suse ze 4% Driver license size—not smal student iO size Yos No 1 Please sera ‘more ord forms, aed ieoas aaron See fiereoene ee foe sores Se ems einen ere ‘SOME PEOPLE OFFER ID CARDS WITHOUT YOUR SIGNATURE ON I ‘Po smal than 1" 8a per tet 11 The omer re WE WOULDN'T THINK OF IT. GET THE CLUE DONT GET THE GLUE ‘oto te bei your IO card wi ot Do rot ses ty 8 ure ‘Ar THE ID BUREAU WE ARE DEVOTED TOGUATY. ee ae (ORDER TODAY. DON'T DELAY! Mailto: 1D Bureau afte sare te. Cash or money order ony! Orders pai by Pe 829 Univesity Avenue Dept. HT ‘Sonal check are mele 30 days ater eceip of appentin. Borkeley, CA 94710-2096 ‘oa 0. Bureau Pesos send my I wan 72 hows of eceing ie Woresevenerehreksesmvcrla atone Werenpelaneatsmesendurcarsee I norman Encoras ter Dewee : © 1861 IDENTIFICATION BUREAU. SUS TD! Seat cx larioemeet Berkey, CA 047102006c oO N N O Belushis Belushi was a man who loved grass best. It’s too bad he got sidetracked by other substances. et me tell you about two strange encounters the ‘Connoisseur had with the late great John Belushi. And some- thing about a dream he had that hasn't appeared in the pi ‘ous postmortem. ‘The first meeting was a riot ‘ous evening financed by Hicit ‘Times, The magazine was put ting Hunter Thompson up ata ‘weied but hip hotel in lower Manhattan for a HiGh Tives interview. ‘Thompson had made several demands.as con ditions for doing theinterview, ‘one of which was that Hich ‘Tipsuseitsinfluencetomake the best drugs in the Western Hemisphere available to abet the interviewing process, not just for Thompson but for a couple of his friends. The friends tumed out to be Be- lushi and Aykroyd and the in terviewing process turned into a three-day intensive party ‘which shifted back and forth from hotel room tovariousres: taurants around town, In the course of the inter view it became apparent that Belushi was quite the aficiona: do of grass, Although other substances were consumed, although Belushi would occa: sionally disappear into a res taurantmen'sroomand return in a chemically altered state, although my memory ofall the discussions that evening (in cludingan intense three hours of watching a pro basketball playoff that resulted in certain items of furniture being set ablaze in the poorly ventilated hhotel room fireplace) is dein itely impaired, T do: recall smoking a lot of good grass with Belushi and getting the impression he was extremely knowledgeable about the sub- ject. Almost as knowledgeable as the Connoisseur himself. ‘The next time I saw him I was emerging from the Hicit ‘Tus office and he was head- ing up Park Avenue in a cab, When he saw me he got the driver toscreech toa halt, tying up traffic. He told me toclimb into the cab and produced a joint of something he calléd Humboldt County purple, which we proceeded to smoke fon a long, stalled craw! ‘through rush hour traffic. Well it was rush hour inside the cab after that. Humboldt thunderbolt got burning, We hada longdiscussion about the virtues of California purplesas ‘opposed! to Hawaiian purples. We reminisced about great grass experiences of the past, and I could tell that Belushi ap- proached smoke with the same wonder, delight and sense of discrimination as the Connoisseur. He didn't talk about grass with that stereo- typed Blutorlike, let sget- wrecked attitude, but with a sense of the subtleties and dis- tinctions among the highs that ‘marks connoisseur conscious- ‘And so, feeling Uhad a kin dred spirit, I revealed to him ‘my seeret identity a8". the Hioit Tiss Connoisseur, and got from him the kind of sur- Prise and awe I get fom most ff my devoted fans out there “Soyoute R," Belushi sad read your column all the time. What have you got to smoke?” Tjusthappenedtohave some continued on page 18 16 Mavmelee M elimi PN ee eae) ry tne eee Ree) Cea UM Ce eed re mea 103 Scale—2or. $17.00 104 Pocket Container § 3.00 oreo tna t) ‘108 26", S030 FREUDOCANE > OD Noose S2760 Re ye A085 gr 827.5 107 1 02. $115.0 SUPERIOR SPARKLE MANNITOL, > 8109 1/202. $9.00 ‘A102 Sr. $27.50, BCs ce F108 oz Small Bar $4.75 $115.00 fe104 Kilo (100 bars) $375,00 SUPERIOR nnanwirou B107 1/202. $9.00 B103 202, $28.50 Peruvian Bolivian ©111 Vila Spoon $2.50 1 gr-card $9.00 Aue AIZI C12 QuickHitVial $2.00 1/Boz $1850 A112. ANITA C113. Bullet $425 PERUVIAN FLAKE epcin eres, 1408 «sad. Aig AI23 C15 Amber Viaidz, $5.25 1202 $65.00 aL Aiz4 Incenses yor $125.00, 4120 4125 We will match any price in this issue! ULTRA CAINE FR SP A A ST A TT No Item is Intended For Any Illegal Use. Void Where Prohibited By Law. Visa, M/C, Certified checks allow 14 to 20 days delivery. Personal checks allow 4 additional weeks, Free treight over $25.00. ders under add Ye and handling, CALL TOLL FREE 800-453-4100 Inatury. ar serie $600 edéltonal Inaba, big UT/AK: Hand Canada CALL 80160-1444 hurry, specify Federal Express; min. $20.00. M/C, Visa calls only 24 hrs/day, 7 days/week eae hoe a price Please order by code numbers “ MAILTO PARAMAIL zi P.O. Box 510046 Salt Lake City, UT 84151 Be en Cache ——— Expiration Date Sub Total Signature Shipping: —______ Name ___ TOTAL: City, State, Zip SF PR OT TY OE IAS A PT ST NT A CY a cop's Extra Shipping: AddressNow Spiral Bound — MARIJUANA GROWER’S GUIDE Warluana Gromer Guay Ne Frick soda Rosa te moet Sees linees gs rer Oeste 1's mare ere and auauct $296 rom your otter, QUICK TRADING CO, re 2 Doniek Trading Co. Serving you since 1976. Take a toke of your favorite tobg without offending! 18 May CONNOISSEUR continued from page 16 very special Punta Roja rolled up. Genuine primo redbud, rich and ripe, heady dreamy stuf. As the traffic got thicker and wwe got higher, Belushi started to tell me about his dream movie. It would be about the whole outlaw marijuana culture that changed the consciousness of America. Be- lushi was fascinated by the mysterious workings of grower-smugaler networks, the anonymous heroics of underground grass superstars, the ones who moved ‘whole mountains of marijuana on at, land and sea to fil the eager bongs of America. Belushi wanted to give these daring cap- tains courageous of eonsciousness the cred- it they deserved, he told me. He wanted to starine major marijuana movie tobe called "Kingpin." He wanted to play the tt role. In some ways this movie might have turned out o be Belushi tribute to people ‘who made his meteoric rise to High Priest of a generations Saturday nights possible. Because if it had not been for those mer: chants and medicine men who made mari- juana a Saturday night rte, the kind of care nabistinged comedy the Not Ready For Prime Time Players specialized in would not have become the powerful cultural phenomenon it was, and Belushi would have been just another struggling bit player in a suburban improv troupe. But I sensed the movie idea was more than @ tip of the hat to the people who hrelped him on the way up. It was tribute to the pure pleasure he got from smoking grass. Say what you will about is alleged Indulgence in coke and other chemicals. ‘This was a man who loved grass best. He told re 0 that afternoon during our taxicab séance onthe subject. It's too bad, in retro spect, he got sidetracked by other sub- stances. People smart enough to stick with ‘good ol grass and not get heavily involved ‘with white poveders seldom OD on their Pleasures Belushis dream: that, too, kept getting sidetracked by certain other turkeylike projects that were "safer" by Hollywood standards and so Belushi died without get- ting to make the movie that might have ‘been his greatest. Imagine camera-trekking through the upland Colombian forests and coming into clearing, where ensconced in the total luxury and decadence and bliss that only a powerful combination of strong rarijuanaand much money can create the Kingpin reigns over his vast marijuana growing lands and the fleets of planes and boats of teatoking titans that brought him to that eminence, the many mansions in Florida and Hawaii he inhabits, the final soba strugale with the strailaced forces of repression. A global Animal House, if you wl Tn fact, the most fiting tribute our cul ture could pay to Belushi would be to final- ly make that grand grass movie the right way and make his dream come true. ©THE RIP VAN WINKLE’ CASE VIRGINIA MAN GIVEN 40-YEAR NAP FOR SALE OF NINE OUNCES N \* CNet ok RUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT” IS THE NAME OF A new hit tune by the Supremes and it’s a real chart- buster. In fact, it just knocked about 40 years off the life chart of one Roger ‘Trenton Davis, 36, a Virginia black man whose ultrasevere 40-year sentence was the result of being busted for grass in the same rural racist county where he dated and eventually married a farmer's blonde daughter. The Supremes, in case you were wondering, aren’t the zaftig ebony beauties who gave us “Baby Love” and “I Hear a Symphony” but what a shocked press and legal pro- fession now call the nine jurists who perch so haughtily upon the leather rocking chairs of the Supreme Court, the same nine who upheld Davis's out > = ee | ‘undiluted contempt. ‘Davis, once the rebel hero of a village underground eat KNOCKOUT DROPS: Winlkle-length bid for acrime feicciet 1S JUSTICE STONED BLIND? “a a galistic catch-and-toss with a human life, three times feder- alcourt judges have called his sentence “cruel and unusual ind. overruled punishment” tthe state judge who imposed it in 1974. Perhaps troubled by his conscience, theoriginal | WE QUESTION REALLY ISN'T WHETHER HEAVY TRAN- quilizers like Placidyl, with tremendous addiction ‘and deliriant liabilities, should be prescribed by doc- tors, an irritated neurosurgeon aptly pointed out in last January 22's Science magazine; “it is whether Supreme Court justices should be taking them. ‘Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist's trank habit had been the source af Washington gosip and speculation even before he cast the crucial votein Hutto v. Davis ast December Grocer lef, sentencing a Virginia man othe equivalent fe imprisonment for the crime of possessing a personal ‘stash of marijuana in the same redneck town where white prosecutor in the case has Said the sentenceistooharsh. | The maximum sentence for second-degree murder in Vir- ginia is 20 years. But the Supremes, imbued witha sense of justice and fair | By. the sentence ‘women went to bed withhim. Hutto v.Davis, besidesabsolute- ‘rebuffed the U.S. Court |. ly trashing the concept of forbidding cruel and unusual punish- ‘continued oa page 26 5 ‘continued om page 25 HIGHTIMES 19‘Among the carusities of Mideast war are these slabs of hashish that washed up on the shore of the ‘south Lebanese port of Tyre. LEBANON HASH TRADE BOOMS IN FREE-FIRE ZONE ingsarerelated tohashish ex- ports. ‘Obviously, nobody is cer- tainhow big the crop was, but ‘mambers of the ten biggest farming. families who. met Use ee, cate that 1981 was a record yore for Lebanon's hashish and smugglers, Pro- duction is conservatively es timated to have totaled 8,000 | with buyers at the Palmyra to 10,000 tons, a spectacular | Hotel in Baalbek, Lebanon, ‘nea from the 4.000 ons | caine wa thi bet yr ‘produced in 1980. in decades. They cited bi Lebanese govern: | fields, less interference ‘ment: believes that as | Lebanese police and govern ‘much as 30 percent of Leba- | ment officials, and increased nnon’s foreign currency earn- | security from Syrian army Standing downwind from the fragrant fumesof burning hashish are these soldiers and children ofthe National Movement (eftist forces) ‘We thought Arabs knew how to rol joints, 20 Mavs US goverment according i ty a to leading Lebanese govern: ‘ment officials. | | “Lebanon's hashish dealers | boast they regularly move at | one time shipments of several | hundred tons from the Syri- | argocupied Beka Valley to | ocean-going freighters a ut oF Jounieh, Lebanon's | twomafor seaports. Thedeal- | ersclaim that unofficial taxes id to intermediaries. for | Righ-anking Syrian officials insure unimpeded movement. ae eens ee cao seine a aoe heme | Kaa Valley, and Ali Haidar, | eerie | | ades (Sanay Al Difaa) in Leb- [eceeesbeaae ee ae i ceemiarais eee eae Siceues oe | saeco eect Gentes et occupied by Soviet-supplied aera | Sareea a i ese Pe ‘Of course since the oceups- | 122mm rockets, and various tion last epring of Lebanon's | Soviet-supplied heavy artil- Bekaa Valley by the Syrian | lery guns including 122mm army, the presence of Leba- | TypeD0, and long-range ‘ese police or army personnel | 152mm, hhas not been possible, since | _ One thing is certain. Leba- | the Syrians are at war with | mon's endless war, coupled the Libanees wan ‘Syrah “occpeten, Tharyajr hashish fain | tombing aide by te oral | have allt “red prvate a> | air orot en ongoing feuds fuss fo protect thor Sele: | between the 80 of moe par Gnetandyissaidtocwntwo | miltary and queria reaps, tanks, while another near the | has virtually eliminated all | northern mountain town of | Western hashish smugglers Hermil employs a renegade | and U.S. narcotics agents Christian "guerrilla group | Only small-time dealers who armedby Syriaandied by Su- | remain in Beirut are men- Teiman Franjieh, Lebanon's | tioned by Lebanese dealers, former president. Several farmers, who asked While the US. Drug En- | to remain anonymous, said forcement" Administration | they had not sgn or heard of touts success in curtailing | any Western buyers dur production, both Lebanese | 1981) Toatend, most buyers government, officials and | are Lebanese, whilea few are Rashish dealers claim other- | Syrians or Egyptians. “They wise. Two years ago, farmers | are well dressed and they {ried to increase their profits | know what they are looking by growingopituminaddttion | for” said. a. farmer. who tohashish, butthefieldswere | claimed to have harvested burned by the Lebanese po- | several hundred acres. "They lice, Supposediy, the United | just rub their fingers on the States threatened to curtal _plantsandsmellthei hands,” economic assistance unless | he said. Supposedly, the buy- Soyed eopiumerop Snes | guns, “Tey lng and are stroyed theopiumerop. Since “They laugh and are that ine, therehavebeenno | ftendly.”"” sad” anocherHIGHWITNESS NEWS = CAPITOL JESTS: ADMINISTRATION DECLARES WAR ON DRUG- LAW ENFORCEMENT "Wile Lebanon's war cap- ‘teres headlines, destroys ssections of the country- by Mark Swain ‘and creates hundreds of ‘eusends ofrefugeos, smart- =e ‘ z= dressed gangsters cruise Siete a ser Reece cee |v csasnozon mc) _Wimibametommier | Soci ote Feeal Be Sie etts nn nee tevin eee dollar penthouse apartments. di niprcutous spor | lican-controlied Senate is | than half his “halfway hous- Most of the buyers and story in last February's | fierce enough. The wonderful | es," with their excellent drug- Sees a | Sl Mi SE | tare Gimmaern stcnioomeperes sates | ae cesT | Suni eal Te | genet’ Sle oe Setar peeaenis | Hit Goer he bope Oe | Sel n'New NRC Be | Eafe SEeaireiotisicas | semuretiate Bea | noes ansh cette | "Shea kya Smear igne ies | BiverAeerhaa™ay | PR a | penis data a Stee ipae rs | ex ave tam eh amg’ | oad | Sine Meee caer, | Saatey coe Tasees | tr nging cps | Sova eee, Sa EE ATS en | WPvadcwet ge | iff Nei “of"nt | cess say so Re cccarcrre | Sorc cetetben | Rint unts ‘hess | Seeintees opti Serene | Sealy cat vciy carat | Daphnia ade | Sart Aa eoarese"Tecs | (elevate way tlngen | ReSeciior"netiog | fc Rete oc Sicerooucine ‘he says, | administration and its New | manent Im tions Sub- | forever. BATF for thelast few “when youcouldnottravelup | Right phalange in Congress | committee has almost exclu- | years had been bragging SS SS Se ee men. But now it is safe, be- | of combating tr in weed traffic, ever since Sen. cemene ors eee ead SS esas rs | Soca etre wie | Sms Teee (Gere | Sivcegns Tne Sy ee nas | Sasa is |e wale rordf ey el eg en a Secansolterateten “| Del menace ae | ene wire teenie | Soar eal Seek ee | ee | Se SEES Be ce Se | Seer cece Renlocance Fis invectige| prise the Natoaal is Ar FROM NARCS TO NIPPLES, | series ses arte | satin entogen. toon ee COURTESY OF TODAY'S FBI |g. s heise ies" Seat wien | smuggling exists” or that an siecle ite “ea rosin tape en | mustnaupaene act | Bia eats | ee Sa risa tade eye | quomegumnenect andyomidithlir | fey oi ent Hee Seer aTDe | Rete ef | Scar ger vey | Retr te eee aie | mealies | ay orl a RA Ore jan penta? | cae peste |S Kym | tn a SS ee pa ee Se py ee id agg ge ee Gee ‘Andsoon, | screen of reefer smoke, the ‘iphia really doesn't teeta eee | cee | ee em pera lamecend inkiee meng, Sheena Aim vicar fia ne ay over a few brews ae eg lpr Te ea tet tae fre tnd ier do thr Mey gee ber paceoqerblemie |store teen os | Setar "round the of. | damn near wentdry. it seems, [ictal eaeeee [basin neces eeieeae Seats | erties | meena | nae on peg ee Ee ere Eebscpielioaloe | punta somata See tame, | ete ames | Metiaray toc | Gen ny ene Deg tee: few i ed | Mex Bm az | hm pertieaie ges | so Abel cecis | Spy eho | mace ee Saeeeedloie | See? cakes ee | eonee GH TIMES. 21B ‘Hicuwrewess News | So ee wal rg tee te | QPERATION FIREBASE: ==s=<- DEA WINS eg el Ing or possessing such “para sca FIRST ROUND Cee eae et any ‘rolled substance by Bob LeBrasca DEA’s confiscation of ‘Thai- emer Says are manufactured and | the federal agents had to | tained instructions onhow to salt theparpoce tbh come tied with to doc | mike hash land brew up o> potencyol marijua | ments a complaint written | tensibly miperpotent pot, it na. BEA agente and US. | and signed by the same U.S. | also carried directions for ex- ‘marshals seized the Vernon, | Attorney who would eventu: | tracting essences from other California, firm's entire stock | ally prosecute the case, and a | herbs as well. It was unfair, ofthe devices baccin July of | sezure warrant bearing the | they fall, forthe DEA to cal 1961 under thecivlforfeiture | signature of a deputy clerk of | their property. contraband SeeeAa ortavest | sates tiptwiadaesy | hreniingneciantcde: ct Therelevant authority, they trucked away | by nothing morethan the sig- etn Aiterow Gleatan tenure mente hy chs ton | aararets Dopey nk | pany’s estimate, $100,000 re- For its », the gov- everything ‘used orintended | tal emment produced an 180.2 in ring, In a twoday trial in No- | machine, chased under- compounding, processing, | vemberbeforeiederaldistrict | cover by DEA agent June delivering, or ex: | judge Matthew Byrne, law- | Miller, along with instruction porting. sub- | yers for ThaiPower argued | manucls and advertising government had vio- Seances." The case is one of a | thatthe Pomars, Agent Miler ete few that comprise the skin of | lated. the company’s Fifth | fied that she had, in fact, pur- DEA test balloon known as | Amendment rights by sei: chased the machine, (Miler Operation iebace ing goods without “due pro- | alsosaidon thestand thatone Togltimiz Ui raid on cas Thy pind ot that, | of her arinipal duties at the the Thai-Power warehouses, | while the {50-2 package com: | Los. Angeles district office TEXAS UPDATE FROM THE FAR FLING EATLEFRONTS OF TE GOVERNORS WAR OM DRUG ABUSE: [A Visit ro the ROSS PEROT DRUG PARAPHERNALIA RANGERS! 2 Mave used to convert delta-8 THC ALELIE ‘a idle‘rare in Operation Firebase it twas the frst tocome tojudg- ent. DEA agents grabbed 50 "Kik” machines in Long Island City, New York, overa ago, but the owner, City Eontalner, made no effort to reclaim its property. A sec. fad case, also in spring of Sei, involved Select Indus: tries in Walnut Creek, Calif tenis, where a huge stock of cocaine reebasing that, judging from the cau- ees ees Ea Se T Operati mn Firebase seems | Sacer ea eer coerce oes Shrough Congres, Such [ae in committee. It is highly im- probable that the legislators zea ee Pex ave NavAL Ain tion here recently completed a threemonth training} inthe radar detection of lowdiying pot Blanes. The Navy slack C2 Hawk: tyes can supposedly pik out and track a twin-engine Beech, treetopping over the Florida Glades at 300 foot, | : | ‘ended it tobe used to attack merchants in accessories, since there was no substan: tial lnindustry when the law was, written. Rather it was meant to allow drug agents to confiscate, in the course of busts, the var fous accoutrements traffick- fers had used to perpetrate their "drug crimes Th el fate proach, however, if it wi Sands future legal testa, wil provide a. virtual free ride through the courts for the DEA and. federal, prosect tore: First, it allows them to Confiacate whole inventories fof goods, representing large {nvestmente on the part of the owners ith nd ore “due process” required than land the cooperation of ucourt cooperation ofa clerk, Second, once they have farted off the loot, the legal burden of proof shifts to the owner Th alls pare phernalia. ‘The Seed not prom fan the ex tractors, Blades, the owner must prove that they are not. Sings the onk thing that defines these mul | pou ota te band isan accom tent that somebody use them ‘vith drugs, the owner must prove he lacks that intent nd proving that one does not possess particular state of rind can Bes heavy bur. den indeed “The 1802 case, having been deciged atthe lowest irl offer cour tem, wil have no binding fecton the outcomes of oer azes, But for the could be the impetus fora jullecal assault on the santana from sx miles up in the shy. In fact, navy . mouthpieces boast that they picked out ‘two pot movers in the course of the exercise iteelf—a mar imba-loaded helicopter, sup- posedly, and an even more ro- ‘anticaly improbable WWII “flying fortress” B-25, stuffed to therear gunner turret with bales of Colombian fume. Ttisnotknownifthenavy’s high-tech spy gear isalsocap- Eis caters res | biel pe | Qysercpiromun'swone | HIGHWITNESS NEWS HAWKEYE RADAR JETS TO BLIP POT PLANES DOPE TIGER SLAIN ee dpeptch a> —a200-p0u eer its been gunned down by Sen Mateo sheriff's officer The tiger, part of a guard team consisting of five Oneleopard and fourbigdogs. Soc ent tales lowe Shot end bullets following four days on the prow after bring ved from teenage by mudslide at fall the tiger and its teammates became tle calebrties when. police found them guarding a patch of more than 500 pie mari Juana plans one San Grog te ary Loe Butler and his wie Shar "hugh the gee _tanpar eect | able of determining whether | the pot pilots they're alleged iy id oging In tis way originally gained their avi Sok dare ofthe iment. HOW mnnyofthow C2 Hawkeye ceys may already be ped- ding ha Yopoec tobe fal ‘expertise to. cokemob bribe artists is @ question ‘upon which the navy has ab- solutely no official eomment. BY SHERIFFS by Michael! Dorgan time, one of the dogs fulfilled Seema wiets ieee me aes ounce ae Soros Sacre gy licensed. So the vicious coeene per {nother tour of guard duty. ee ama Pe the young Bengal roamed free through the suburban eaten ares ayer, who lives about. two sae sae ing to seal the fence of his iia eatee Sieur soa Srpsaece aoe: =aoe Ba =e sone where Sgt. Irv © Sa ue ed an ere Soe having been told that isa sig- ae fee oe Suconn ence HuGHTIMES 23ARTIC TOKERS CALL ONE POUND LIMIT MUSH x_a| broaking teint for person | alposeession asia covvon, Jax | per person legal ce bard | Wasilalawyer Eric Jensen Hammond stepped nto round here is known | said the new laws should not a political roughout “the greatand” | make felons out of tent he began issuing shril | as "*Matanuska’ thunder- | who harvest the su cal for possesion of more | fick” and here, must be | for tha own ue thana pound of pot to becate- something in the bush, con- », who has eg ea ee i among “the best in this or | marijuana laws through an “users” by | any other galaxy.” that ization he founded | virtueofsmokingatleastone | makes its “users” 80 out: \Cannabis Users United joint per month, Matanuska spoken, Defense Fund, estimated Valley growers and tokers | Kent Larsen of Wasilla, | that 0 percent of the green- took the lead in denouncing | who said he had grown mari | houses in the Matanuska- attempts to restrict their | juana on a small scale for | Susitna area were used in legal rights to possess suffi- | many a moon, testified at | part for cultivation of mari Cleat marjuand forthe own | House Judiinty Commits | Jonna: He also maintained tse. Although itis tue that | hearings that he had never | that some parents advised very few states would even | set aside enough to “get me | their kids to grow the plants Consider making one pound | through the year” for fear of | to guard against purchasing Base Se STEPPING OUT FOR | a aS A DANISH ees ‘usly opened the door to the days, th polis fet | oe empty, Altnougs tas Ucn naeaKe mAs TAKEN | days, the narcotics police felt | pletely empty. fnew meaningforthe Dany | thatthe ‘case was serious | doors te bulk inhlogaleystemafteritsrun- | enough to warrant anexten- | ing were locked to outsiders See ae ee Stefanos Rocsiz Rocsiz was. again brought | one inside to turn the knobs (On arrival at Copenhagen | before the coure fon the automatic locks. Its Kastrup Airportlast Novem: | Once the formalities had | thena short walk down some perl Hoceis Si, wasstopped | been dealt with, Thomas Roc | stepe into the freedom ofthe peemareed | mre ras ecens | emtaeran ie ects ets | ede 6 dang up Cer ih | Gheprison. Unfortunately, no narcotics police, Pe paaciayirighe | Gensectopadite: | cepemaecee a : = harming | ebreeteenieg | Seales with thefirst sevendaystobe prisoner” tothe prison | then, maybe everyone is still Spent inieolaton, Afra few | personnel. Sc, when ‘court | out tolunch, 24 Mave parsquat-contaminated we “Some people just Berit eae they te the s of the plant,” said . “Old people,” young propie—they i row i oot ‘He explained to the non- smokers on the committee iia ot al and female ts were or Euctive harvesting. The vol tine Tegured fF auch an operation meant keeping on ind more than one pound. When an official asked how much was “needed” for per- ‘Alaska has the distinction of being the first state to le fgalize marijuana possession when, on May 27,1975, he Police searches of homes pos sessing less than lent ‘ounces of herb or persons pos- sessing less than one ouncein public to be a violation of the Emnsticational right to acy Aas tarot the Alaskan laine isscon hl Proving for aazimum $100 fine for po session of small quantities in private. For the many thou- sands of dopers residing on 10,000 square miles of inter ior Alaska, smoking grass, in effect, is But, with the Moral Major ity incontrolof thestate’s publican Party, smokers are ‘nthe alert fr regressive e- gal trends.HIGHWITNESS NEWS T FEELS NO PAIN drawal dependably prompts, | sedative.” fie daye'or mo attr tis | How lng Rehoguit may “which may bedifficult todis- | preme Court arguments and | confers a profound twochour’| tinguish from delirium trem- | ‘Supreme Court deci- trank high, during which the | ens associated with convul- | sions behind this “mystery | patient's back muscles are | sions.” | sedative” is unknown. The profoundly relaxed. which | | In fact, during his detox, | faci, in many ofthe states lpshack pinconsderably. | Rehnquist sustained ‘distur, | from which such cases rise The high, however, ch ‘ances in mental clarity” and | the high court, laws specific- for years of “pretrial” deten- tion, unable to go to trial at all without proper medication. a ————— | This courtroom ban on there. O'Leary also conceded | “‘peychotropics” like Thora- ‘that the justice had been on | zino might well be appealed the drug for “at least two | someday on constitutional ‘woeks”—was definitely ad- | claims to equal protection. dicted to it, that is—but the | Schizophrenia, like diabetes, exact lengthofhisdaily useof | is a chronic, physically based Meesety Gnsent aloo estab | perceptions ant iniics coor | “iotrtons" of percoption, | ally prohibit peopl fren tee Bites e permasent catch22 | Sintion oven of ip end | concedseDr. Dents O'Leary incor ender the SS ei | I | ciccn neler is ec | ee igepeieeis: teach During his detox Justice See grote made clear. Appeals courts | * * sane, lucid testimony behind Secwoch mott dey her Rehnquist sustained ‘rasnargabeokty am ie ee 3 ae ca without, SS “disturbances in mental clarity” | 16 vhs rot in mental wards tures for minor violations, | “dis i a ie Sm fo minor voutions | and “distortions of perception. egotens of thaws Secees | ———________—— as | tengo mele; and iepasoes In was listening to | uc ery quick, witch gies thisand numerousothercriti- | the druganabusepotential” Saiismes one natign'stop | conageraby higher” Guan fevch Justice “Netnguit | fnorphine ite which lasts Sreaverytequenivunableto | much longer and ebb much | sce “lng. technical | more gnaly, | the'drugis unknown. many | diaorder: therelore i’ just as fords with multipleeyllbles | "Placidyl's makers, Abbott | event, ere agreed at | arbitrary to withhold anti | | | ‘in them. His speech was de- Laboratories, urge doctors | the of the 1982) psychotic drugs from - Senbed. as. Mhalting and | nottofurnishiteontinoously | court term, that Rehnquist | chotisin court aatowit slurred” by the New York | to patients for Shan | sppearedisbesharpasetack | insulin from diabetic. IFthis Times, and the main specula- | onéweek at astretch, witha | again, asking all the proper | ever got to. the Supreme Gonrevolvedaround whether | week's abstinence ‘in. be: | questions in crisp, lear die: | Court; Rehnquist. to go from he was strung out behind | tween, lst tolerance and ad: | Gon, and. wisecracking as | bis Ifelong record, would be {ere Valium er something | diction set in. Addiction to | usual ‘with attorneys and | likeliest to decide agninstthe eave. sthchlorvyndl particular. | court Sunkies, He was atthe | schizophrenics, Bend what Twas something consider. | ly hazardous, pints out The | time, Science discloses, on “a | sort of mindsbending. drug ably heavier—Placidyl, a | Pharmacological Basis of | sortofmaintenancetherapy” | that decision might be made, Powerful shortacting hyp | Therapeutice, sinc its withr | involving eome “mystery | no one can say. otic sedativethe Times de- — z termined around last: New A ae Years Day from physician at George Washington U versity Hospital, care Retnguist had spent Christ agrees a dos ust itturns out has for years suifered from “de- generative lumbar dis dis fase afflicting him with se ‘vere lower beck pain which ‘omes and goes at frequent Intervals, Doctors commonly frosted ke Pac uch conditions, warming patients to take them only 10:S0mn-HAVE NDE READ DAYS. ESE Mee cenceinore evra Min EYES CLOSED. eee ee gee ae [cate Pak cavaorne ee eee aed 3 sg 8 Caer Tetind en hake | “SS ANTE ADD a SR se uist, irom the looks oft, was (and may still be) operat tthe highest court in the lacidylor something Tike it. mes HiGHTIMES 25eee HIGHWITNESS NEWS 40 YEARS FOR 9 OUNCES st Appeais forthe Fourth Ci tlt, the most recent federal ‘court torulein Davis's favor. Aer ther contention the a court het “te moet eeriane tet siatl ‘courts not interfere with sen- tenes handed out under wa legal precedent that “mustbe by the lower federal courts no mat- of the 60s, one of hundreds of ‘A diligent attorney, Hog- shire says he will ask Virgin- ia’ new governor, Charles S. | The basic issue was not marijuana but miscegenation, | the mixing of the races through through the ity of their backwater haven. Said Davis, "I was about free. dom, good times, a lot of | Supreme friends, into ev exybody else was into. }don't thought about the future.” “Roger Davis became» icc oaienae=e NARCS SEEK SMACK, LOSE $20,000 hn, wa st jon petition for Davis. But when a plague of bust descended upon W: County beginningin January 1973, the good times came to an abrupt end. Davis took ‘bwo tumbles, once for selling | four tabs of LSD and once on the pot charge. In the interim between his first bust and the first afternoon of his trial in March 1974, the Southuvest these enlightening tales were about the expat of ger vis. He spent three years at Powhatan Correctional Cen:#1 Blown Glass Pipes #1 ‘tm Quality Chemistry *1 ‘tp Lobware & Accessories NOW complete very select line ‘of smoking, snuff & other accessories! Get our latest full color 72 page Catalog $3.00 oiresting Write: SELECT INDUSTRIES Box 5551 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 MAIN LABS PRESENTS EXACTACAINE (Our Bost Seer) "Tha Best” — All Rock Semple 2am-$12.00 ‘5¢m$30.00 192$130.00 PSUEDO.CAINE (Hot on the market) ‘asses All Tests With ying Colors Semple Born 10.00 '5pm-$30 00 Tor'$130.00 SUPERIOR.CAINE (The Name Says It Ail) New, New: New Try It! ‘Sample rm$12.00 $30.00 10¢$180.00 Toor “Avs A Blast — It Las Semoie *2:759m-$12.00 “Avaliable ia hor, only $75.00 SUMMA.CAINE (Quolity-Economy) gm $25.00 tor$130.00 We ship C.0.D. All samples must be repeld with certified check or money order, For more information, ‘col MAIN LABS (419) 475.0621 P.0. Box 6776, Toledo, Ohio 43613 OFFER VOID WHERE PROMIBITED SEXUAL MASTERPIE (routs a eave Poe Ba So awleceeeecien Schian raeerwnetee sate Adame Eve tree Where all the smokers and jokers make themselves at home ‘oz voorburgwal #90 telephone 25.98-64 hours 10:00 pm ti 3:00 am REFUNDABLE WITH CE FIREWORKS U! ‘Catalog Kit—$2.00 INUMITED HEAD SHOP BY MAIL Get a FREE copy of the NEW Krupp Catalog and we'll give you $1.00 off on vour first order! Send to Krupp's New Catalog PO Box 9090 Dept M182 Boulder, CO 0301 fda28 Don't Waste Gr Get Rid of Male Plants GROW ONLY iosaaans eet nN tor WORKS ON ALL PLANTS Ri multi-color T-shirt design 7.95 includes postage Sizes SOMOLOXLO Send check or money order to: BLOW YER LUNCH BOX 460 BREWSTER, MA _ 02631 MAY? Not solong ago the Lone Star State had a nutation as the baddest state of them all—so fearsome that marijuana pilots routinely flew thousands of miles out of their way to avoid detection by the dreaded El Paso Intelligence Center ra- dar. Those who took a fall in Texas re- themselves to growing old along with the century cactus that aged in the esert: But that sallin th past now. say the pro. smug Explanation is, say these same pros, big money and liberal poitics, just ke California and. New York, beloved by smugglers for their short jal ime on dope Counts. Now Texas, with ts ptzoblions and New World flavor in towns like Aus tin, Houston (where a "70s movementoid just became mayor) and San Antonio, is slowly going through the changes that the rely liberal nerve centers like New Yorke and Sen Francisco have already en- dred. “The smugglers love it. For one thing, the old trading centers of South Fl 3 op bun, to many mouths to eed ticians, judges, portauthority off- Eeisand tides ith Roar hand on. Tex: sis stil mellow that way HOW TO CHEAT ON COLLEGE TESTS WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT lers. Texas {8 the hottest. | ida, ‘More importantly is the quality of pot | HicHwrmess News THE YELLOW BUDS OF TEXAS by Bud Bogart tering bobo iin Toe a Sekepression ena (Sie ten rie aaa Sei ips ls al aa Sicily "tar yeine Oe ie fovmaeena Ts Rely tse Eoescen simelren om er cps wi etn Sel peas, colas so strong they're peddled by UE sce seco gee Nolte lgetinobe bataie son of eingbng fam lasts ot Cad Susi Eas cae required a pilot or sailor at least, but Mex- Soa Kr nen betpacas e peste un crept nnd as smalléry jump in on the gold rush, Sihons aen cote he cuenta seme pee oa fe pie Tash ony enloa not enough money. You can make just | Bacto SSS Sa ay oat | Ria ee activity beneath ts br gerund hen bernie hn ee See eee aed eng by pia rev Rio Grande regularly forded by cannat Sener 7 foloa pos—ieal pldl erately ae ‘until the a tobe fier ats ganas Eameoag ais pote ea ti ales Pasadena becttwil tester coveta la Sppesregsl ep Means Aa, aes talents ae) aad wien Sia heey iota Thelen Tal agae Wit al bb shit about ““MexiThai?” That's what con- di eho ge cosets ee | arma he nds ave a sn seo eae 1 prey ioe ot bay Fors hate ieee begets ae et carrie tnoenee Tikes gn boo th rumor cal Tal rnb the oe teal a Hain ae bet tiorrtas loersone eal 20 ethan salar eral Ssistiitar mael toaacualy ou tar pat | foate satan Pure atone ose Hoi Twwrs qleomes anonymous reports, bat nae te specie about the are, type, Gunny tnd Eualty (Gope refered to It'you ar aware of Other Brees or he othe lev etm sles nd Se ne THN Sent au am bucmnent to ga civ or an Endocr. dope usage or etching aac Scroement of any partials dope.5 UEDABADARAR REBER ® By i ageseaes = Gort the ‘ety Ea FRANCE ‘ne denen Fj it pegese ae HR oy PORTUGAL be yee Califor niaand put them towork in the pot business. There's no business like it says. "There's no expensive inery to buy, no book: ing to do and no neces toadvertise.It'sall cash and no bills to pay. Hell, if it hadnt been for weed, Idbe in debt fo the rest of my life Everyone on the mountain indebted to pot, and by sm ing upastorm tonight th in effect, paying ho acknowledging its power their lives. Indeed, lam in the power of the pot god no more stoned than I had thought was humanly pos sible enjoying myself im mensely and yet a bit uncasy about the fact that I am losing ime and space. | begin wondering, "Am losing trol, will I ever be able find my way home from th infernal m sound ofthe host ‘willbe starting soon: Allthemarijuana on th table is California home: grown, but the original, ger inating seeds are from all over the world—Colombia, Mexico, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, Pakistan, India and Af weed is, if "Try this one! a né insists. "Its Malawi? No one knows for sure where Malawi is, and though the grower 5 ifs east of India, he can't find it on the big globe perched on top ofthe color TV. We are all gathered arounc the table, staring at the moun: tain of marijuana. "No one leaves here until allthis might be serious. ‘make a tactical retreat to the kitchen to war on another front, filing my plate with stuffed mushrooms, wafers and banana loaf. And for dessert an array of sweets that would satisfy the most in satiable of sugar addicts. jed on next pageererenenaiang setices rene ‘GROW AMERICAN continued from preceding page ‘Around midnight there's a knock on the door and in fom the rain comes atall,thin ‘man witha golden beard. Offcomes hisfelt cap and his black cape, and from the folds of ared velvet shirt he produces a cigarette case that matches the color of his beard. In side the case the joints are stacked up one agains the other, as neatly rolled as can be and it is with the impeccable grace of @ courtier, o ofa gentleman out of the fata sy world ofR.R. Tolkien, that the stranger offers a smoke to our host. "My African” he sys, “I think you'll en joy it ‘They are dropping off like flies. I am dropping off likea fly. can smoke no more, ‘sort no more. 80 undeess and go into the sauna that my host has ha fired up forthe last few hours. I feel the heat penetrate to the bone, I feel the weight fall from my shoulders. Cleansed, I dry off and get dressed agin, ‘NO ONE LEAVES HERE UNTIL ALL THIS POT IS CONSUMED.” Tt is a few minutes after three in the ‘morning and the rain is pounding down. 1 borrow a yellow slicker and walk back to the cabin I have been given for the night, with only a flashlight to guide me. But find ‘my way, build fire and fall soundly asleep. Late the next morning I return to the scene ofthe festivities and find my host still seated at the oval table, "You're justin time for the fist joint of the day” he tells me. Clearly he isthe undisputed Pot King of the Mountain, "Lhave never smoked that much mari- juana,’I confess a bit sheepishly. "L never have either’ the hostess says, “In fact, I've never seen that much marijua nna consumed in one evening” And she goes ‘on to tell me that out of 49 varieties that were sampled, the consensus is Vietnam: ese isthe best. ‘A man L have already met from the night before arrives and announces, "I woke up this morning with an incredible craving for marijuana! "You've come to the right place,’ the host says, and tosses a bag of marijuana on the table. There's at least a pound there and I know I had better get out before itis too late. 5st ee ee enna soremox cane Ho —, \ ¥i beg \ i ‘ a Ge oeenag ‘Superior Cut ‘02. 810." 139 12% oe, 10 MANNITE ‘CONOSCENT! SEND TO: 2 oe NAME seit Ghee tat a ‘ADDRESS —_ eset ap pian |b; ay PHONE# ——— srs nek)Dr. Andrew Weil The Mexicans call it la carne de los muertos: ‘flesh of the dead.” Ethno- botanist Andrew Weil, author of The Natural Mind, learned to respect the mushroom’s magic one night in the smoky hut of a poor curandera of Oaxaca. GORDON WASSON, WHO REDISCOVERED THE RITUAL USE OF PSYCHEDELIC MUSHROOMS IN MEXICO, WROTE SOME YEARS ago that people can be divided into mycophiles and mycophobes— mushroom lovers and mushroom haters! There seems to be no middle ground. To some individuals and to some entire cultures, mushrooms are not fit for human consumption, and the idea of eating them is dis- gusting. This deeply felt revulsion might be linked with fear of being poisoned. Stories of mushroom poisonings evoke images of ghastly deaths, and I know some persons who shun even cultivated mush- rooms in the fear that they might really be “toadstools. Tama longtime mycophile. To me, mushrooms are strangely beau! ful; fascinating, delicious. I prefer wild ones to cultivated ones and find myself curious to sample some of the species that books call poisonous. ‘Tome, fear of toadstools looks irrational. The percentage of mushrooms that are deadly is very small, and the deadly species can easily be Jearned and avoided. As for some of the other “poisonous” ones—well, ‘one man’s toxin is another man's psychedelic. But I readily admit that mushrooms are strange, magical and, therefore, dangerous. Perhaps because I do not eat meat, I am particularly sensitive to the meaty nature of cooked mushrooms, They resemble animal flesh more than anything vegetable, and I find them quite satisfying as the principal ‘component of a meal. When I was eating many wild mushrooms, was 66 MAY happy, healthy and creatively productive Mushrooms filled my senses and thoughts and imagination. I spent many hours in the company of people who were similarly in volved with mushrooms, some of them people with whom I had nothing else in common. Mycophilia cuts across all social cultural, age and class lines, forging real bonds of communication among otherwise disparate individuals, In view of the intensity of cravings that some of us experience for mushrooms, itis puzzling to read nutritional analyses of them, for nutritionists make mushrooms out to be very uninteresting. According to them, mushrooms contain only 66 calories per pound, mostly as protein, along with {race minerals and vitamins. This informa: tion leads many people to conclude that ‘mushrooms have litle worth as food and are merely useful as flavorful garnishes, Now, the question of the food value of ‘mushrooms really is a question about the ‘energy content of mushrooms, for calories are a measure of available energy. Nutri tionists are saying that mushrooms contain little energy relative to other foodstuffs. Yet itis clear to me that mushrooms are high in some kind of energy. T have often eaten shaggymanes (Copri- rus comatus). These delicate mushrooms and other inky caps are distinguished by the peculiar habit of melting nto inky black liguid as they mature. Shaggymanes come ‘out ofthe ground overnight in bunches that look just like white eggs. They elongate rap- idly and may be a foot above ground by mid ‘morning. By the end of the day, there may be nothing left of them but a puddle of black liquid. This tendency to dissolve isre lated to their high water content, which ‘makes them tricky tohandle, They must be gathered quickly, taken home and cooked ‘almost immediately. Any delay or mis: handling in their preparation willleave you ‘with a puddle of black liquid in your kiteh- en. But these fragile mushrooms come out of the ground with such relentless force that they can push upasphalt. Ifadriveway is aid over one oftheir fruiting spots, it ean ‘be broken up by the emerging mushrooms. ‘That is evidence of energy. Once, in suburban Washington, D.C, 1 found an enormous mass of brilliant orange ‘mushrooms bursting from the stump of a dead tree on a residential street. Each cap was six inches across on a long stalk that joined many othersat the base. There must hhave been well over a hundred in the mass. I gathered an armful, took them home and ppored over my mushroom books in hopes of making an identification. I was in juck because they were so distinctive in their ap- pearance and habit of growth. They were the jack-o'lantern mushroom (Omphalotus ‘learius or Citocyb illudens), and my book told me they should glow in the dark. Itook a large cluster of them into a dark room. To Ape perio othe eth om The Mara ean and he Men Boston Houghton Mii 080 by Andrew Welmy delight, the underside of each cap slowed with a brilliant biue luminescence; the light ofthe whole cluster was consider- able. That is energy. MUSHROOMS THAT CAN KILL PEO: PLE PROVIDE FURTHER EVIDENCE OF ‘energy. Most of the deadly speciesare in the genus Amanita. They are large, beautiful ‘mushrooms with white gills and pleasing tastes. They contain unusual chemical ‘compounds that poison the most basic pro- cesses of cellular metabolism, leading to death through destruction of liver and ki: ney tissue. There is no antidote for ther ef fects, and mortality may be over 50 per ‘cent. Symptoms do not appear possible un- til 12 to 36 hours after ingestion, making it impossible to remove much of the toxic ma terial from the stomach. The devastating ef fects of deadly amanitas on the human or. ganism are another clue to the nature of ‘mushroom energy. That energy can over ‘whelm the balance of life. Other mushrooms, mostly litle ones in the genus Psilocybe, can precipitate us into the most profoundly different states of con sciousness that can be utterly terifying or inexpressibly beautiful. Anyone who has experienced their power will not dispute the statement that mushrooms are highly energetic things. ‘What nutritionists ought to be saying then, is that mushrooms contain insignifi cant amounts of the energy nutritionists measure. That kind of energy, caloric ener {gy, comes from the sun. Calories are simply ‘units of solar energy bound by green plants or transformed chemically by animals that have eaten green plants. Mushrooms have little to do with the sun, Most of them are destroyed by sunlight and are best gathered in early morning before the light of day is too intense. Human societies in all parts of the world associate mushrooms with the ‘moon. This association may not be fanciful Friends of mine who lived near the village of Silvia in the Colombian state of Cauca told me thatthe growth of San Isidro mush rooms there was correlated with phases of the moon; Whenever rainfall was suffi cient, a new crop would appear each time the moon waxed, disappearing just after the full Many people also associate mushrooms with water the feminine or lunar element as opposed to fire, which is masculine and solar. Not only do mushrooms contaip high percentages of water, their growth is trig- gered primarily by rain. When I have picked mushrooms in wet forests on misty ‘mornings after fall rains, they have seemed to me to be entirely creations of water. Mushrooms are, above all, perfect sym: bols ofthe “other” side of consciousness, of ‘what Robert Ornstein in his book, The Ps chology of Consciousness, calls the “night side, the nonordinary mode ofthe dreamer, the visionary the artist, the intuitive think: er. Omstein, a psychologist interested both in neurology and esoteric systems of mind development, presents evidence that the two hemispheres of the brain serve very different functions, One isthe locus of lan guage, of linear thought, of masculine or ‘day” consciousness; the other is the locus of nonlinear, nonrational, feminine, recep- tive, intuitional consciousness. Of medita- tion, Ornstein writes: [isa technique for tuming down the bri liance ofthe da, sothat evenpeesent and sub- te sources of energy ean be perceived with in, Itconstitutes a deliberate attempt o Sepa rate oneselt fora short period from the flow of daily life, and to “turn of” the active mode of normal consciousness, in order to enter the complementary mode of "darkness" and receptivity? What we calla mushroom is the fruiting, body ofa form of life that exists in the soil as @ vast network of microscopic cellular threads, invisible tothe naked eye except in mass. The fruiting body is a gigantic, com: pact aggregation of these threads, the result of rapid cell division and growth. Some ‘mushrooms ean develop in several hours after a soaking rain. It is this character of springing up fullgrown in all of their strange beauty that makes mushrooms such potent symbols of the workings of our un- conscious minds. Intuitions, flashes of in- sight, mystical raptures all burst into ordi nary consciousness in all their vividness from the dark, invisible substratum. of ‘mind that exists below and within the day light world of everyday. Like mushrooms, they cannot long exist in the sun but must be taken advantage of as soon as they appear ‘Mushrooms lack chlorophyll, so they ‘cannot derive energy directly from the sun bbut must feed on live or dead organic mat ter. In nature they are vital intermediaries in the life cycle: They dismantle complicat ‘ed organic structures to simplest constitu: tents that can be used again to build the ma- terial shels of living things. Their fruiting bodies are works of great complexity com: pared to the simple strands of cells woven Uhrough the soil below. It is hard to look at certain mushrooms HGHTIMES 67‘without being struck by their phallic shape Some species, the stinkhorns in particular, are so flagrant in this resemblance that te carry the word phallus in their botanical names. Here is another meaningful corre spondence: The form of the mushroom is homologous with the form of a part of the ‘human body that has very direct connec: tions to the night side of the mind Soit snot surprising that mushroomsare associated with mysteries, with fights of the soul from the body, and with death it self Forall ofthese experiencesare rooted in unconscious mental activity have suggested that some mushrooms called poisonous in books might equally be called psychedelic. »All psychedelics are in toxicants—that is, poisons. The decision to ‘use a positively or negatively loaded term has nothing to do with the reality of the thing itself, Amanita muscaria is an ex ample. Its called the “fly agaric®(agaric is another word for "mushroom") because an infusion of it in milk was set out in olden times to kill houseflies. Nearly all books call Amanita muscaria dangerous, if not deadly, probably because it isa relative of a much ‘more dangerous mushroom, Amanita pha! loides, the death cup. Yet there is no ques- tion that A. muscaria can transport people quite safely to realms of powerful, nonordi- nary experience. At the present time, many ‘people in Northern California are using it to take themselves on such trips, some by drinking infusions of it in milk A simple explanation of this dispar the reported effects of the fly agaric in man isthat people are differently set tointerpret effects ofthis sort. Amanita muscaria does not kill but itdoes make the body feel very ‘unusual, This strong but neutral change ‘may be interpreted in one of two ways: asa negative, outside force operating against 6s Maye - Sana mycophile. I find myself curious to sample mushrooms that books call poisonous. the egothat is, as sickness or intoxication —or as an opportunity to withdraw atten: tion from ordinary things and pay attention to strange ones—that is, as an altered state of consciousness or high In other words, there is no line between poisonous and psychedelic: mushrooms. ‘Mushrooms are a pharmacological contin uum, from the white cultivated variety that has no action as a drug to species like the death cup that can easily kill. fone likes to get high by eating mushrooms, he can choose species aver a wide range of toxicity 1 INTERESTED IN. TRACKING DOWN CASES OF INGESTION OF THE panther amanita in the Pacific Northwest land soon found that they were of two kinds Some people ate the mushrooms by accident. They were foraging for edible species and made a mistake. Thinking the ppanther was some innocuous edible, they took it home, cooked it and ate it. This ‘mushroom produces an intoxication of rap- id onset. Within 15 to 30 minutes, it made all ofthese people feel very peculiar "Now, none of them had had any contact ‘with the drug subculture, Their only prior experience with psychoactive substances had been with alcobol, tobacco and coffee. Aso, like many mushroom hunters in the English-speaking world, these people were unconsciously mycophobic. When they be- gan to feel peculiar, all of them decided they had egten a poisonous species and ‘were about fo die. One woman first called hher lawyer to change an item in her will, then summoned an ambulance. Allof them got sick. All lost consciousness for varying periods of time, from a few minutes to a half hour, All were taken to emergency ‘wards of hospitals, where they uniformly received incorrect medical treatment: large doses of atropine that made their condli- tions worse. They were admitted to medi cal wards and discharged in 36 to 48 hours, since it is the nature of this intoxication to subside quickly, usually within 12 hours. Most of these victims said they would never eat mushrooms again. One man said he could not look at mushroomsin the store for months afterward. When told some people ate the same mushroom for fun, they shook their heads in disbeliet. ‘The other cases of panther amanita inges tion I uncovered occurred in members of the drug subculture who ate the mushroom. deliberately because they heard it gave a high. These people had extensive experi- ‘ence with marijuana and halhucinogens, in cluding psilocybin mushrooms. They be- lieved that nature provides us with all sorts ‘of natural highs just waiting to be picked in the woods. When these people felt the rap- id effects of Amanita pantherina, they wel- comed them as signs that the mushroom ‘was really working. None of them got sick. (A few mentioned transient nausea but did not regard it as important.) None of them lost consciousness. None of them felt tnec- essary to summon help. All of them liked the experience and most said they intended to repeat it. Some had already eaten the panther a number of times. When I present this information to groups of physicians, they try hard to come ‘upwith somesimple, materialistic explana: tion for the difference in response to the two kinds of cases. A question they always. asks: “Might there have been a dose differ cence?" The answer is, yes, there wasa dose difference; the people who ate the panther deliberately ate more of it than the people ‘who ate it accidentally ‘The only way to interpret this tory is by reference to set. The panther mushroom produces a powerful but neutral change in psychophysiology. People with strong fears can turn this feeling into mushroom poi- soning by concentrating on its negative as- pects and, eventually, by putting them- selves in the hands of others who actually do make them feel worse, People with strong hopes of a new high can turn theseme feeling into a welcome state by ignor- the negative aspects and concentrati mn the interesting changes in mood and per- ROBABLY THE BEST MUSHROOMS SE AS PSYCHEDELICS ARE THOSE taining psilocybin, a drug thet is rela fly gentle on the physical organism ye strongly capable of inducing visionary ex: perience, A number of spe ance, many in the genus Ps which it is named. Of the several kinds of psilocybin mushrooms available in Mexi where their ritual consumption isan old Indian tradition, I tried only one: the spe ies Pailocybe (or Stropharia) cubensis, wn colloquially as San Isidro. This mushroom grows widely through- out tropical and subtropical America. Ithas a light tan cap, darker at the center; dark gills: and a blackish veil around the stem. Any part of it that is bruised turns blue within minutes. It grows in open cow pas- uresat the edges of clumps of cow manure, and its size is variable. [have seen caps up 10 a foot in diameter. Because its appear- ance and growth habits are so characteris tic, one can easly learn to distinguish itand collet it The San Isidro mushroom is eaten by Mazatec and other Indians n the Sierra Ma zateca.in the northeastern corner of the Mexican state of Oaxaca and by many out siders who come to the area to “do mush rooms" It is available during the rainy season from May to September and also a any time rain falls during the rest of the year. I arrived in Hudutla de Jiménez, the ‘main town of the area, just after a fortuitous out-of-season downpour at the end of Janu ary 1972 and so was able o obtain and eat a quantity of San Isidro mushrooms. Thad the good fortune tobe taken intothe house of Julieta, a curandera (healer) who ives in a tiny village near Hudutla and who ‘uses mushrooms in religious services and medical curings. But the village council ‘was not happy with my presence and told ‘me I would be put in jail if I stayed beyond sunset. After much arguing {not easy, since almost no one spoke Spanish], I wangled a 24-hour permit to stay, and Julieta said she ‘would keep me hidden away in her kitchen fo minimize my visibility. Because her house-was directly across the street from the little town hall, I was constantly aware of the tension surrounding my presence and of the need for secrecy in all things to do with the mushrooms. "The Sierra Mazateca is a breathtakingly beautiful area of Mexico, with steep green peaks, rushing rivers, and hillsides of coffee fand banana trees, The litle villages are clustered on the very tops ofthe mountains 0 that going from one to another means Jong and difficult descents and ascer rough roads. From Julietas house one could see Hudutla on a neighboring peak and oth ss contain this e ine are associated with flights of the soul from the body, with death itself. cr settlements in the distance—a splendid vista. The house itself had three rooms: a tiny kitchen; a large, sparsely furnished liv ing room; and a bedroom, where eight or nine persons slept at night. Julieta was the head of the household, and her husband seemed to defer to her in all important mat ters. They had five children. A young gir! who tended the house also lived with them. From morning to night, a constant stream of patients came tobe treated by Ju Tieta, to chat, to drink coffee. Mothers with sick babies, children with bad cuts, grown ups with stomach trouble all wandered in, stayed for minutes or hours, got their medi cine, andleft, Julieta hada garden of medicin al herbs growing in back of her house. She talked much about hongos—sacred mush rooms—as the gran remedio that cured all ils, bt in the everyday situations that con fronted her she relied on modern drugs. A table in the living room was heaped with antibiotics and other chemicals, mostly in injectable forms. Like many curanderas in Mexico, Julieta is skilled in giving injec tions, and most patients who come to her ‘want injections, even of drugs that can just as well be given by mouth, The Mazatecs have come to see injection as a magical technique, more magical than their tr tional practices. Antibiotics and other pow erful drugs (many of them dangerous, in my view) are widely available without pre scription in Latin America and wind up in the hands of nonprofessional therapists like Julieta. Although I disagree with her meth- ‘ods of treatment, I must say that she knew ‘what she was doing and that she inspired faith and confidence in people who had no cone else to turn to when they were sick There seemed to be a lot of sickness in and around Huéutla, fostered by inbreeding in an area long isolated from the outside by difficult mountains. [lines is also encour ‘aged by the damp chill that permeates the region whenever clouds block out the tropi cal sun ‘Shortly before my arrival, Julieta had picked a bunch of San Isidro mushrooms. They were obviously meant for me, she said, although I had arrived out ofthe blue with no forewarning. The mushrooms ‘were wrapped in a sheet of newspaper, hid den in the bedroom, waiting for the right ‘moment to be used. ‘That moment came af- ter midnight on the night after my arrival, which was also the night ofthe full moon in January, after the last patient had gone hhome, the children had been put to bed, and the house boarded up for the night. Ju licta, her husband, the servant giel and 1 gathered in the kitchen by candlelight. Juli feta unpacked a bag of paraphernalia for the ‘ceremony while her husband set upa small altar on a low table. The centerpiece of the altar was a framed portrait of San Isidro. San Isidro is the patron saint of agricul tural workers and a popular household HIGHTIMES 69saint throughout Mexico. Julieta explained that he was her husband's patron saint and that she used him topreside over her mush- room ceremony. It was just "coincidence" that the variety of mushroom we were go- ing to use also bore his name. The standard depiction of San Isidro is striking: In the ‘midst of a beautiful pastoral scene, an obvi sly holy man in brown robes kneels in prayer beside cart and oxen, looking upto heaven. Above, through an opening in the ‘ky, psychedelic rays pour down upon him from some other dimension. Julieta told me to.concentrate on the picture while she got things ready. In front ofthe altar was a small charcoal fire. On it Julieta burned incense—copal (a resin related to frankincense) and palo santo (an aromatic wood). She sat beside me ona ‘woven mat, purifying her handsand facein the fragrant smoke while whispering pray ers. She asked me to cleanse myself in the ‘smoke in the same way. Then she took up the mushrooms in the sheet of newspaper, studied them for a long time, picking up ‘one and then another, all the time praying and wafting incense smoke over herself. ‘The mushrooms were about two days old by now, somewhat wrinkled and dry, with many larvae and little winged insects ‘crawling over them. Julieta bathed them in the smoke, praying more fervently. Her ‘husband and the servant girl retired several paves to a darker area of the kitchen and waited in silence, ‘When the incense was consumed, Julieta took a small dried chile pod and placed iton the glowing charcoal. She passed the mush rooms through the acrid smoke that went up from the chile, and instantly the larvae and insects crawled out of the mushrooms and died on the newspaper. The chile was removed and more copal put inits place. Now the time had come. With great de- liberation, Julieta took the two largest mushrooms (threeinch caps), arranged them ona litte dish, and handed thedish to ‘me. She told me the mushrooms were like the Eucharist and that taking them inside ‘me would enable me to participate in the mystery of the service. Then she smiled sweetly and asked me where my parents were and whether it wasall right with them that I was doing this. [told her they werein Philadelphia and trusted me. She seemed ‘Satisfied and told me to eat the mushrooms. T began chewing the cap of the larger ‘mushroom, It was a bit dry and surprising- ly tasty: a strong. penetrating, wild mush. room flavor that became more intense as 1 chewed. I had not anticipated how good these things would be to eat. So many Indi ‘an drugs! have tried are intensely bitter, x plete with warnings tothe senses that they are not supposed to be eaten. But here was something delicious. Before I knew it, had finished both, stems and all. Julieta now prepared another dish, ths time with 7 or 8 smaller mushrooms. She bathed them in incense, praying as before, and handed the 70 Marre dish tome. Ite them one by one, chewing thoroughly. This operation was repeated twomore times, so that Tate a total of about 20 smaller mushrooms. Julieta then fed several mushrooms to her husband and to the servant girl, asking them first to wash their hands and faces in the scented smoke and praying over them quietly as they ate. She then told me tosit still while she made sure all the children were asleep, Tt must have been one in the morning. ‘Through a crack in the kitchen window I could see that the lights of the town hall were sill burning. Doubtless, the council ‘was still debating whether or not o put the intrusive gringo in jail. But in back of the ‘house, all was dark: the eerie blackness of the Sierra Mazateca and now the brilliant splendor of a full moon, high over the ‘mountains ina cloudless sky. Isat watching San Isidro in the flickering candlelight, feel ing extraordinarily content and well. Juli elas husband leaned over from time to ‘time, asking if was allright and assuring ‘me that his wife would soon be back. I told him I was fine, By the time Julieta reappeared, I was just beginning to feel unusual. The effect of the ‘mushrooms was very gentle, definite, and progressive, beginning as a sensation of lightness and well-being. Julieta placed ‘more incense on the charcoal. Now her husband and the servant girl lft us alone. I ‘was kneeling in front ofthe little altar: Jui ‘eta knelt to one side, praying continuously to San Isidro and other intercessors to help ‘me in my lifes work. She asked me to re: peat the Lord's Prayer three times. I began to see color hallucinations—pastel spots and gentle undulations of surfaces—all de- lightful. My recollection is that we prayed togeth- er for some time during the peak of the ef- fect of the mushrooms, probably from 45 minutes to an hour and a half after I had ceaten them. I felt fresh, alert, healthy and cleansed. Then, the formal part of the ser: vice over, Julieta and I chatted for a long ‘while about personal matters. She commu: nicated to me much of her own vitality, op- mism and goodness of spirit, leaving me elated and more confident in my own abil ties and powers. Finally {it was now quite late), she told me to go outside and “learn from the moon” She said she had to go to bed and that I should stay up as long as I wanted and then sleep late the next day. Outside, the night was magnificent. [felt privileged to have arrived at such a spot on such a night, feeling the way I did. The ‘mushrooms were still strongly working on ‘me. T could taste them more powerfully than ever, and the taste seemed to be dif fused throughout my body, making me feel in a very real way that the spirit of the ‘mushrooms had entered into me. I recalled ‘Wasson's suggestion that the word bemush- roomed would bea good term for this state. I ‘was certainly bemushroomed.I gazed at the moon and the landscape for ‘an hour, then spent some more See with San Isidro in the kitchen. He, too, seemed bemushroomed out there in the Geld with all those heavenly rays raining down upon him. Then, after another inter- weal, I went back outside. But now it was euch darker, and a great many stars were feat, whereas only a few had been visible before. I could not find the moon at firs. Then I saw it, low over the western moun- Sains: a crescent of silver along a dull gold isk. Itwas being eclipsed. I waited, breath less, asthe eclipse progressed to totality — ‘ep unexpected, wonderful spectacle. The szillness ofthe night was complete; I doubt that very many people were awake to see the show in the sky. ‘Then the moon began to set behind the ‘mountains, still in eclipse, and I felt tied for the first time. I went back inside, said ‘good:night to San Isidro, Blew out the can dies, crawled into my sleeping bag and fell asleep quickly In the morning, I awoke refreshed, feel ing better than I had in a long time, and. went off for a day in Hudutla of shopping land negotiating with the military authori ties. (The council in Julieta’s village was ‘making more threats of jailing me, and 1 ‘wanted some sort of safe-conduct pass.) When I got back, Julieta told me there were some mushrooms leftover and that might as well finish them that night. I really did rot want to since I had just had a perfect mushroom experience, but instead of tell: ing her that, T agreed. So that night we re- peated the service with incense, prayers and San Isidro, and then Julieta went to bed. But everything was different, A heavy ‘bank of fog.and cloud closed in, the temper- ature dropped, and suddenly nearly every fone in the house was sick. There was much crying and coughing from the bedroom, and I began feeling unwell, too. A great ‘sense of depression and isolation came over ‘me, I could not get to sleep. The mush rooms seemed to be working against me, snot with me, and felt faraway from where 1 was supposed to be. ‘Toward dawn, still awake, I began to un- derstand that this experience, too, was part of the lesson: that mushrooms, like other agents of pychedelic experience, must be ‘a proper context, that their magic is res eae earramsteras well a good. To take them just because they are available, when the time is not right, isa mistake. The negative experience of this second night did not in any way de- tract from the goociness ofthe first night. If anything, it made me more aware of the vvalue of that experience and more eager to retain it and use it in my life, I hoped that I ‘would be able to be bemushroomed again, but I resolved to be patient until the right ‘moment came, At the fist light of dawn, I got up and ‘packed my things. We had decided it would ’be best for me to leave before the sun was ‘up so that I could be out of the clutches of, those officials who wanted no outsiders on their mountaintop. | said good-bye grateful- ly toJulietaand started down the mountain toward the world outside, COLOMBIA IS A SORT OF CORNUCO- PIA OF PSYCHOACTIVE PLANTS. IN AD- dition to producing a multitude of exotic “Amazonian drugs, like yage, its the main source of potent marijuana in western South America and alarge coca producer as ‘well. Now, it seems, itisa second home for psilocybin’ mushrooms. Psloeybe cubensis, {he San Isidro of Mexico, has established it selfin many parts f the country, and many people consume't. Theres no tradition for Use of mushrooms as intoxicants by South “American Indians, so that knowledge of use of this species must have come from ‘outside. Quite probably it ame by way of hippies—North American, South American or Buropeen—who knew the mushroom fom the Hudutla area of Oaxaca and recog, nized it in Colombia. In some cass, these people have recently introduced Coiombi fan Indians to the drug, the reverse ofthe ‘sual order of things. “Many stories about Pailagybe cubensis cir- culate among travelers in Colombia. One is that it grows wherever volcanoes, fireflies and avocados occur together. Another is that it follows Brahma cattle, which were imported into South America in this centu- ry because of their resistance to heat. Butit ‘seems to be growing allover the place with- ‘out regard to any particular conditions and ‘even fruits in great abundance in central Florida and along the Gulf Coast of the United States, where voleanoes, at least for the moment, are not much in evidence, | first ate Colombian mushrooms outside Cali in an idyflically beautiful field with clumps of woods, a clear river and enor ‘mous, gray, humpbacked Brahma cows ly ing peacefully in the bright green grass. It ‘was the beginning of the dry season, but there were enough hongas to bemushroom 1 group of us, and we ate them as we found them. To eat them fresh from the ground ‘was a great treat to the senses. ‘We sat in the grass, about ten of us, and let the mushrooms transport us to a realm ‘of calm good feeling in which we drank in the beauty of the setting. There were color visions, as I hac! experienced before with San Isidroin Mexico. In Mexico Thad eaten the mushrooms late at night, in darkness and secrecy, in the very shadow of menac ing police authority. Now it was broad day. light, in open country, with no one around but friendly fellow travelers. In Mexico I had fel like an early Christian pursuing the sacrament in a catacomb, wary of the ap- proach of Roman legions; here everything continued on page 73 INCENSE -Acrystal ike, pre white rock Florida Rocks a aly unique Incense that hasbeen expecially reat for long lasting pleasure Andis the BEST buyin town, Retaler and ditebutornquines welcome, ‘contacts foreut complete line Deep South pharmaceutical Co, Ine ieinralareahc cis 3) 541.2606 oF 3541-2607 C3 HGHTIMES 71With Halide Systems— YOU CAN GROW IT...ANYWHERE! eee ey See wean) roductive-and profitable- indoor garden once you have the right eed Dee td Uae cme rs Ce eae for the right equipment Cees CE Aca Dene ay Oe ea Certs lessly bring in the bounty you Pu) Cen! in your es aide lamp (110.00 remote b ‘$289.00 System 81000 watt super metal nalige lamp (12500 lumens}, porcelain retector, remote ballast. 308,00 ir 3284.00, stem D—1 er mata halide amp (155004 lumens}. te ballast. '$995,00 $378.00 Catalog & information $1.00. Prices exclude freight Cee Rec RO eed Seema orcl Ee ecg Pee See eee er Cee eid Per ukeess Ee me aes Pe es ac See Crore Seattle Washington cone vane eee Moen seater nt aed ee oh system aventty Price PAE Heargoneraing CO? ondeFLESH OF THE DEAD continued from page 71 | | Beseboveground.and open The ndlansof Be Serr Macaca soy that mushrooms Bea cs be ete in cayine, thet they Hunt elen aight Yethere we were | Bia deyigh bavi wooderal une. tn Bibel Tpeeer ts te pychetts eu | Ie it dayton, war thet ae the thythane of my body. 1 fel that way Iie ebro total poe Tore Heed tat the Inca abl eting must ene a right i not oo tredtonl oi es ates bak oly tote arial cf the spaiahand persecutions of ave ies | byte church I ara aca wo ecco tl eg te partie Seah past te rivet ue othe ead ere Peale our truck Ancther nice Wing bout I sectnatatha inc wear att path ers oe boureacncre convenient cure | fon ofacton than the hour ips of SD, Boe esate, snd DAT We bad Bie ye it fee Kier se Some Sys: | Bee lec ocr ahore ow nbc tnt | _Seepahehriere|| Bia ihared nese ind rao | tnd again fel their map. Though they sil | Be ies ne asco Bary so ea I BELIEVE STRONGLY-THAT PSYCHE DELICS MERELY TRIGGER OR RE lease certain experiences that originate in the human nervous system and that one canlearn to have these experiences without | taking drugs. [believe also that psychedelic | substances are useful in certain people at certain times. For example, when us properly they have great potential for bringing about medical as well as psycho logical cures of morbid conditions. Of psychedelics I am familiar with, few ap- proach mushrooms in overall desirable ‘qualities, such as ease of consumption, lack of toxicity and manageability of effects, At the same time, I must caition that the abrupt onset of major alterations in percep tion can easily cause panic reactions, espe cially in people who take the mushrooms casually in poor circumstances, rather than ceremonially. By standardizing set and set ting, ritual and ceremony work to minimize the potential of drugs to cause negative ex periences. Mushrooms have that potential Tad sat be used with due reepert. 3. Gendon Wasson and Valenti F. Wasson, Mat Teoma Russia and Histy. (New Yorke Panton Books 1957 San Francia: Frecran, 1972p 107 ‘The smusroocn cloud is an archetypal symbol of ath forthe 20h cota. ‘Sore of thee cae wert fst esrb by Jonathan Ontinhis aici “Prycho Mycologia Stas of rma. fa: From Ancient Sacrament to Modern Pha Jana of Pcie rage 8 1 (1975 2735. Ce) see Ce ea eo Cet st eee ee ee et ae specific plant. Using the broth floatation method developed by AEON PRODUCTS you can quickly and easily make copies of your favorite plants - as many as you like ~ all will be genetically similar. The KLONE-KIT is easy to use and is guaranteed to give you results. You'll love it! Enea sed SUT ee Lae HYDROPONIC SYSTEMS, AGRICULTURAL Ae eM SCALAR CCL LSC (ce Bee EUAN coe De eo oc aM Sc Fee ee CE | WIRED ROLLING PAPERS Ed eT Te ag Ole Bet ald SR kere SPECIAL T-SHIRT OFFER! pope sit HIGHTIMES 73‘The High Times Classified is a monthly feature. ALL ADS ARE ACCEPTED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE PUBLISHER. (rte oF call for copy of Advertsing Ac ceptabilty Policy) Rates: Onetime ad '4001word. DISCOUNT FOR FULLY PAID CONTRACTS: Three consecutive ads, $275Iword, six consecutive ads, | $3soWword: twelve consecutive ads, $5.25word. Minimum ad Is ten words FG. Bor rumberasgiianlet narrbexe Count as two words each. Cassie d-| play Is avaliable at $125.00 per column | Inch (columa wish i 1 5/8 inch). Al ads ‘must be typewritten. CHECK OR MONEY ‘ORDER FOR THE CORRECT AMOUNT MUST ACCOMPANY COPY. Ads will ap pear 6090 days after receipt. Mal ads to | High Times. Classified, 17 West 0th Street, Now York, NY 10023. Use the nancy order frm below: | Mall to: High Times Classified, 17 West 60th Stroct, New York, NY 10023, Cost ofad erword = — 1D Remittance Enclosed ‘money order) words.at Total cost (check or Name Address city State__Zip Phone( —) — 7 MavRe ng vent to the gases produced table matter in his digestive sys pened the way to one of his most dreaded phobias. The Master of Germany had a deep and abiding fear of farting! To meet this challenge, the industrious doctor provided at least ten separate con coctions for his friend's digestive tract. To fight flatulence, aid digestion and inhibit in testinal flora, Hitler was consuming myriad mixtures of amino acids, metabolic en mes, proteases and hemicelluloses amy. ase, But the little black pills from Linge’s wondrous drawer that Hitler gobbled with each meal and whenever else he felt likeit) fervor that almost top pled Morell ‘The ineident occurred in September 1944 when an increasingly twisted Hitler was groaning about head pain, dizziness, stom ach aches and displaying obvious signs of jaundice this seizure that he retired this "magic mountain’ retreat and dreamed up the disastrous Ardennes offen sive, (Infact, some Nazi officials insist that the so-called scorched earth policy, the Werewolf defense and the all-out destruc tion of the Jews were all orders issued from this condition ) Hitlers sickroom was visit ed in this period by Dr. Giesing who made an interesting find in Linge's stash. "The medication was called Dr. Koster's Tt was durin Antigas Pillsand, according to Morell'sown | records, it had originally been prescribed against flatulence in 1986. The dedicated Dr. Giesing tried some of them on himself and was laid low within a week. The pills contained strychnine and the belladonna alkaloid atropine. Hitler had a mess of the little black suckers and was popping them like dinner mints. Alarmed, Giesing consulted with col leages in Berlin and, braced with their sup porting opinion, informed Hitler that Mo- rell was literally poisoning him. At this point, the lawn mower hit fresh manure, In the resultant uproar, Morell was re moved and the Berlin doctors attended to Hitlers care, But Hitler had more faith in his “witch doctor" than in the accusing physicians, He later bemoaned this brief period of Morell’s absence to his private secretary, saying: "lam lied to on al sides. 1 can rely on no one. They all betray me. The ‘whole business makes me sick. If Thad not {got my faithful Morell should be absolute- Iy knocked out—and those idiot doctors ‘wanted to get rid of him. What would be- come of me without Morell was a question they didn't ask In Hitlers eyes, Morell was no more a mere doctor than he himself was an ordi nary statesman. Ordinary mortals couldn't be expected to comprehend judgments of visionary genius. Morell understood the ef- fectshe wanted toachieve and whatever heBeyond everything else Morell w pumping into the Fubhrer, there wasalist of hormones: Cortiron, Testoviron, extracts of prostate glands and seminal vesicles taken from young bull (orchikrin and prostacri- tum}. These were injected supposedly to avoid depression and promote potency, but | there is a great question mark about this If Morell believed that pulver- ized bull testicles in grape sugar could sup ply sexual energy for outlets other than sex: ial, we have an obvious answer to the problem except for the lack of real evidence about Hitler's sex life. If we rely on Schel Jenberg and the extrapolations of psycholo- gists from the scant evidence elsewhere, dumped into the witches cauldron of Hit ler's veins seemed to work to that end. The key to this attitude was revealed by er’ chief of foreign intelligence, Walter Schellenberg. A guileful individual who bad progressed rapidly through the Nazi ranks, Schellenberg believed the Fahrer was suffering from Parkinson's disease and that this was enough excuse to oust him od his escalatingly insane rule before Ger many was utterly destroyed. He unsuccess ally pressed Himmler to take Hitler into protective custody’ We are left with a consistent, if uncertain, projection of abstinence. So much specu E tion has surrounded Hitler's sex life that it . would seem imprudent to fatten the ac E Counts when perhaps only Eva. Braun knew for sure. But Hitler tates and prac tices di tine pattern. Again, the ‘occultist would claim that they were the i While he expressed no qualms about his dependence upon Morell. weird and witchy jugaling of potions, he conscien tiously abstained from alcohol, condemned Jat about the Fihrer's behavior. He report ed in his book, The Labyrinth: “They showed that Hitler was so ruled by the demonic forces driving him that he cease to have thoughts of normal cohabitation with a woman. The ecstasies of power in every form were sufficient for him. During his speeches hefell or rather worked himself in to auch orgistc frenaies that he achieved through them complete emotional satisfac tion. But the inroads thus made upon his ner vous eystem— and perhaps his own eware- | ess ofthe diagieting strangeness of such @ Condition-drove him to seek medical advice from his frien, Dr. Morell and also from Dr [Kar] Brandt. Dr. Morells. diagnosis and treatment, however didnot lead to an allev ation ofthis condition: on the contrary it in tensified it For Morel believed that these sym toms were inseparably bound up with Hitlers power of mass suggestion, that It was this Intensiy which worked upon his audience as 2 magnet works upon iron fling. lempbasis ded), tobacco and was such a strict vegetarian SCHELLENBERG HAD GOTTEN A GLIMPSE | that he suffered rotein deficiency | of German intelligence fileson Hitle'scon- | despite Morel injections of proteins and | duc and fun that ey xine ge | be is srage the common col i Rete hone egret So, in his ministrations to Hitler, Morell was deliberately catering to some bizarre theories of mesmerism. It is difficult to | judge the true effectiveness or cause of Hit ler’ incredible emotive mastery of crowds because, apparently, it was entirely an im- ‘mediate and local phenomenon. Very little of is special charisma survives the transla tion to film or sound recording to help in solving the mystery, but an occultist would fell you that his particular disciplines and attentions to "sexual energy” are quite re- vvealing and that there are traditions in the ‘murky, irrational tangles of occult lore over the ages that address thernselves to its use c Poet and “will” it doesn't seem at all unlikely hat he abstained from normal sexual prac: o channel his sexual energies ‘The high rollers of Nazidom had more han just politics in their kit bag. Adolf Hit ler may have believed that he was acting as Germa realm of the pagar ell: manipulations very start, been de maintain not only cal state that many celebrities sek to present before the public, but one that channeled the micro cosmic energies ofthe old nature gods into im of mind control that obliged his Fuhrer’s and his own strange occult convi ons, He did not believe that he was treat ing a mere man, He was treating a super The Nazi superstar suffered an all too predictable fate, Somewhere along the way she struggled to keep his levels of rhythm rolling, he sacrificed his health, his sanity [and probably some good nookie). along with the lives of 30 million people. tthe end, with the help of his “faithful” companion, he wvas a twitching, blthering wreck stagger ing from one cloud of quasi-consciousness to another. One possible consolation was through it all, there probably weren't omplaints from Hitler's close nat his farting. High Hitler! widence leading the ‘world back into the xls. Dr. Theodor Mor- have, from the create and Protect Your Stash Cee Sota Ret Lor icy Brae) Pee Seems guard year's worth of High Times abi ee HIGHTINES. 75INTERVIEW: BILL GRIFFITH continued from page 38 give ita whole new life. Then it eventually ‘comes back to the United States again. But they wouldn't do that until it had been first certified by the Buropeans. Higa Times: Why is that? Gaurerrn: Its probably not as much of a phenomenon now but its got to do with ‘Americans thinking of their culture as throwaway. Buropeans have the culture but if Europeans say, “Hey, your popular culture, even though its kinda sleazy, is great” the Americans say, “It is? Its?” and they look and say, "Hey, gee, maybe itis Fortunately this process has not made Amer ican popular culture lose the sleazy quali ty itstill has. Imean, if youwant sleaze, this {s where itis. You dont go to France. You don't go to Amsterdam. You don't goto Bar: celona. You'go right here HicHTiwtes: How many of your characters are finding audiences in Burope? Grurrrrit: What inroads I'm making is all through Zippy. The Zippy phenomenon seems to bridge the ocean. Its funny be- cause theres so much of Zippy that is Amer ican, like Ding Dongs and taco sauce. The publisher for my newest book in Germany is really into doing quality stuff. He has hired a translator who's going to print pamphlet to go with the book. And the pamphlet will bea glossary basicaly a dic tionary of American popular culture stuf, like what is a Ding Dong. GH Times: What is a Ding Dong? Grurrrri: What is a Ding Dong. So the Germans are now going to have a para ‘graph on what is a Ding Dong, who is Frankie Avalon, why is that funny. They're going to read my strips now and they're go- ing to come to the word Ding Dong and if they want to find out about Ding Dongs they can look in ths little book. HIGH Times: That is wonderful. GrurrrmH: Is great, I think its grand. I ‘mean, the publisher isa wonderful human, bbeing to do that. It wasn't even my idea. It was his own, Once again Idonttquite know whether they are getting the Ding Dong in- gredients right, HiGH Times: Send him a Ding Dong, (Grurrrrit: Send him a Ding Dong? HiGHTimts: Just, you know, pack tin sty- rofoam and ship ittohim.It'llbe fine to eat ‘when it gets there, Gruerri: Right. No matter how long it takes to go across the ocean. Hic Times: The next step is to include ‘Americanized things in with the package. Gnurrrm: A Zippy gift pack. Yes. Likeabig box of Zippy paraphernalia HicH Times: Sure, Ding Dongs. Grurririt: And taco sauce. HGH Times: Do you think comics have a future in the American culture? Gnurrrrt: Comics aren't super real like TY, ‘but they are visual and what's happeningin the culture is the visual forms are being ele- vvated to the levels that literary forms used 76 Mave tobe. People are watching more TY, more ‘movies. Comics came along the same time as film and photography, and they were all related to each other. They fed off and in fluenced each other. And comics definitely have a niche in the present and future, at least for a while. They might eventually be replaced by photo fumeti. Have you seen those? HicH Times: Photo what? GGruverrit: Furet. Its Italian. It started in Ttaly in the'50s If comics that are photo- graphs. Bach panel is photographed. The ‘National Lampoon uses ita lt. They have a page a month or more of people talking with balloons. They're real popular in New ‘York. You see people inthe subway reading them all the time. They might eventually wind up competing with comics. Hicu Ties: How well do you think comics will bear up against photo fumeti? Grurrim: Obviously, the quality of the drawing that Land alot of other cartoonists do, the kindof drawing that is comics, isnot asslickas most photograph-type images. So itmight eventually present more of prob- Jem to people in the future than it does now. Some da, if things continue the way they are, people may not understand what a drawing is. They may look at a drawing land be sor of disgusted by it, the way peo- ple were disgusted by” Impressionism, When artists first stared breaking down the way you see something. We may be mak ing a whole circle back toward the realism that was taken as art in anywhere from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries that ‘was broken down by the Impressionists Now we've sen the end of abstraction and the beginning of another phase of realism ‘which T think coincides largely with tele Sion, and which may then eventually be ‘broken down again, by some form of at re bellion. [don't know. TV andall kinds of o- phisticated realistic imagery may be too powerful for its position to ever be chal: lenged again HiGHTiMEs: The thing with comic stripsis you've got portability Grurerm: The nice things about comics is the intimacy. It has the quality of intimacy ‘of a novel and at the same time it has the visual stimulation that people crave. Its “If Europeans say, ‘Hey, your popular culture is great,’ the Americans say, ‘Tt is? It is?’” likeadrug. People have to have visual kicks ‘constantly, it seems. Comics provide that to ‘degree. And you can regulate it. Its not a passive experience. That's another nice thing about it for me. Even for little kids reading Marvel comics, its not passive ‘They get real involved and they put them- selves in it. Readers in general respond to ‘comics with a more detailed attention span ‘than they would to other things. When you read comics or a book it slows you dawn, No one is in control of the speed at which ‘you're receiving the information. Only you HicH Times: What about those people who are too TVed to read comics? Grurrrrut: Comics are a language and there are some people I've come in contact with ‘who don' read the language. And if you ‘watch people reading comics, they read just the balloons. They look at the picture only for a split second. They know it's there ‘but they're not looking tit. They're not get- ting any detail, any sight gags. Which is ‘weird, because most people get ita an ear- ly age, before you get too literate, before you've read too many books. When you're Seven years old and you're reading comics. Itsan instinct. Its not aproblem. Butas you get older, if you didn't read comics as a kid, you're too trained to read those words 50 ‘you don't look down atthe pictures. Hio# Ties: Or up or sideways depending ‘on where you've got the balloons. Grurrrr: Yeah. And in my stuff, that ‘would be fatal. T'm often criticized for put- ting too much in a panel HiGH Tiatss: Too much visualness or too many words? GraFriTH: Too much drawing. Well, some people say too many words, too. [just puta lot in. Tve tried to hone it down some. T wasn't aware of the overload when I first started, but withina couple of years of tar ing comics I realized I was just cramming too much in, HIGH Tivees: Of the original thirty or so original underground cartoonists that you ‘mentioned, how many are stil doing tn- derground comics? GRIFFITH: A lot of them have gone on to other things. Things that are connected to ‘what they were doing then too. Victor Mos-“Gees ads for Levi's. He does a lot of one- Senate animation commercials. That cam- ‘elcoming out ofthe circle in the KMEL Ra- Be poster, thats Victor Moscoso. One of them is a tattooist, works on Broadway Tbere. He's a good cartoonist. Hs name is ‘Greg Icons. He was in Young Lust #6. A cou- ipl just have jobs, just stopped doing com. Fes One is kind of a welfare case. Justin ‘Green isa sign painter, which isa great loss fe underground comics, or to any kind of ‘comics. Some cartoonists, for one reason or fenother couldn't make a living out of un- | dergroud comics, either because their work ‘wasnt popular, even though they might Ihave been good, or because they didn't pro- duce enough, or because they were bad at business, bad at pushing their own stuff. A Jotof the tuff that I've done, I've made hap- fpen. I didn’t just wait for someone to ap- [proach me. [approached them. And if you didn't do that it was hard to make a living But there are about five or six cartoonists, ‘with Gilbert Shelton at the top as far as ‘making money goes, who have only done ‘comics since they started. They are still do- ing them and sill making a living or mak- ing even better than that. Gilbert isiving in Spain. HicH Times: Is he really? (Grurerru: He did very, very wel HIGH Times: And just sending his stuff to his publishers? Graver: Yes. HIGH TiMes: Can't knock that. Grurrrmi: Crumb, of course, could have ‘been incredibly wealthy and chose not to, | ‘which was a very admirable step, very cou- | rageous, considering he was the most ex- piloitable comic. I mean, he had nothing to | do with the movie Fritz the Cat HIGH Times: He dicin't get the rights? (Grarrrri: Its a real long story. Manipule tive lawyers. His estranged wife atthe time hhad the power of attorney, and all kinds of dliggusting things happened. People think of Crumb as ‘60s. Actually hhe was early "70s; but where the word ‘605 hhasacertain meaning, Crumb is stuck with that, 1 and some other cartoonists who didnt get anywhere near that kind of atten tion at that time in a way were more for tunate, because we didnt get eaten alive and he got negatively affected by all that stuff, It happens to a lot of artists, writers, ‘any kind of people who do media stuff ‘They don't do it to get attention and money necessarily. When that happens, some of them handle it, some of them don't. Some of them get carried away and that'sall they ‘want is money and fame. And some of them are so afraid of it that itactually nega tively affects their work and makes them Jose their vision, which happened to Robert for a while. But he got it back. For a long time hejust didn't do anything, He didn't do ‘any comics. He hated anything to do with people. He's had contemipt forall these peo- ple who came to ask him to sell out. But he got over it. ee ae a DIVERSIFIED DISTRIBUTORS BRINGS YOU LOWEST PRICES ANYWHERE All of the well known Insenses your familiar with. High quality products at new reduced low prices. WI7. ZO fee Hig GRE ooo So eOmNIMCENSES. | Prooucrs + COMPARE OUR PRICES % 2 At ores ceoypxcapes. | 7 + Cashiers check or money ordet en ‘Shipped immecatey I 4 Orders 1 and over we pay the | 1 Cold. resident 24 6% sales tox. ‘Subtotal Postage & handing “otal amaunt encloses e SEND To: DIVERSIFIED DISTRIBUTORS P.O, Box 5242 North Hollywood, CA 91616 pon site — z— 77 J AT AL | ss meme mmm SDMA L b PURE NITROUS CHARGERS ‘MIX COOL NITROUS WITH WARM SMOKE. ‘Bur Bom son MgO erburted pipe Sloped wits precon saan cowl ave IIS NOT A ONE Hit BALLOON INFLATOR. Bune Bombe us sepattes 1) poche sie i, econ ctsclie wah yal seep dro TO FREE PORE Ro = _ Duca = Piet (@ SEND FOR YOURS, Now! g e NN (ine Sw ae oe ie Sera io ames ( he a ip Postage and handling wiser Sipvce_ | etten Bratt Sten IN Signet suite LIND WS LI SSWSSLIoSS. 3 2 i 2 : : 7 : £ i WY | | : f=| So Hh Tims ck eses | gpm BUY BACKISSUES == i 1 Octaber 7 Dis: November 76 Cs: December'76. OW: mary 77 SPECIAL BINDER OFFER C Total number of issues checked x $3.00 per back issue = © Issue #ordate(it not shown) C Also sendme— binders at $9.95 each plus $1.75 postage and handling Total amount enclosed (check or money order) MeAttn rag UPL une py GROWERS: GUIDE QUAALUDE BOTANY AND CULTIVATION 1S INTRI- cate and sometimes confusing for the neophyte, but it is no longer a specialty best left up rup to socalled experts, New devel ‘opments in backyard technology have brought the Quaalude ‘growing field within the range of capabilities of any reasona- Diy diligent amateur and a vast repository of formerly eeoter- iccultivation techniques is available and waiting to be tapped. While investment is minimal, many working hours are re- uired to bring up a superior Quaalude crop. There is also the inevitable risk of being apprehended by the authorities—a particularly frustrating impediment when it happens in mid- Season, just as the Quaslude vines commence to show their viability and promise—and steps must be taken to avert this. But the final returns are well worth the effort, bth in terms of ‘commercial profit and the simple, pleasurable pride of a job ‘well done, HIGHTIMES. 79Quaaludes, which are often mistaken as “biscuits” by people who should know bet- ter, are really more akin to ‘grapes in their original state, before being dried, flattened and pounded into commer cial form. They are the fruit of the perennial vine Mecha- qualonicus —philadelphius Mofiosos, a hardy but rare natural inhabitant of North and South America. In 1974, the intrepid Sicilian ethno- botanist Guglielmo “Little Boots” MalodorioBaccala carried some slips of Meth: ‘aqualonicus philadelphius M, to his native land, Today the European cultivar, called “Mandrax,” has spread throughout the continent, and even found flourishing 80 Maye roots inthe Republic of South Afric, among. the struggling ‘minority white tribes there. Methaqualonicus has tra ditionally been used, in cere | monial fashion, to alleviate | ets, to induce sep, to promote a mysterious, but | Rot-always-unplowsant “trance” state, and for in- | credible sexual orgies. ‘The | dried: and fattened pellets are frequently imbibed along with preparations from the | Andean shrub Erythroxylon | coca: Laiarck (see Cocaine | Grower’. Guide, Merck Sharpe Dhome, 1981) for rea lice ext ois slain by ethnobotanists. Feld re search inthis area is proceed: ing apace osu Bala ee)s Jude cultivation, the topmost consideration tokeep in mind is reasonable expectation of | privacy. The Quaalnde vine | flourishes in virtually every tercltural madam om bayou muck todesert sand to kitty litter, but privacy is the single most critical factor in the plant’ lifecycle. A Quaa- | | icemesicee lude plant exposed to nosy Moral Majority neighbors — has little chance of to fuk tion and harvest; and consid ‘ering that such neighbors commonly have small chil- ‘dren who are excrementally curious, inquisitive and per- petually anxious to get back fat any grownup they can possibly drop the hammer on, really extraordinary pre- cautions must often be taken to insure the Quaalude plant's vital privacy. ‘The best way to insure @ reasonable expectation of privacy is to declare it force fully. A 12-foot_ steel. chain- link fence with electrified | barbed wire projecting out: | ‘ward from the top is a pretty good way of doing this. Some growers prefer moats stocked with piranhas, barra- sey tat wil the ending the fish requires some extra labor, the spectacle furnished by the occasional nosy neigh- bor or inquisitive child who tries to wade over into “plain wer” of the Goes path more then makes up for the added effort. Armed guards patrolling the perimeter with feral timber wolves is @ pret- ty solid sign thet the grower hhas reason to expect privacy for his expensive herbiage, ‘but such individuals also hhave an annoying tendency right at harvest to hold the cultivator at submachine- gun point and make away with the crop. In selecting and preparing « plot for Quaalude eultiva- tion, all these factors must be ‘weighed and considered care- fully beforehand. Just take this critica, fundamental bo- tanical requirement of Meth- ‘aqualonicus philadelphius ‘M.—reasonable expectation of privacy—as your basic fac- tor, and adapt it to your local environment. ‘And, above all, remember: Daring Quaalude growing season, you are not Mr. NiceQuaide eultivation is the | essence of simplicity. Simply select from each stash of Quaaludes you score the two cr three smoothest, crispest, ‘most hard-edged tabs. When ‘you have a couple dozen of ‘these, plant them individual- Ty, atleast eight feet from dne ‘another, in six-inch holes in ‘the ground, about the second ‘week in April. The shoots will ‘appear in late May, and by ‘mid June you will have to set up sticks or trellises for the vines to wind around. ‘About this time, pink and white Quaalude "blossoms willabundantly appear. Each blossom represents an incipi- ‘ent Quaalude, so pluck them ‘carefully, leaving ampleroom for the ultimate Quaalude | fruits to flourish to their ideal size—about thesizeof plums, that is, ‘The Quaalude plant is de- pendably weather resistant, requiring only normal sun- light and water to flourish satisfactorily. tis, however, ty range of natural pests Foremost among these are: Flied lice: These irritating vermin first appear in cob- web egg sacs hanging below the Quaalude leaves. Many morbidly absorbing hours can be spent blowtorching the little sacs themselves; or you can wait for the eggs to hatch and then fry the squirmy lit te critters one by one with a magnifying glass as they emerge. Big Black Slugs: There is not ‘much you can do about big black shugs. When they ap- pear on your crop, it’s best just to uproot the entire af flicted vine and toss it into the backyard of someone you don't particularly care for. Bugger Chiggers: Most often you can blow the typical ‘saucer-sized bugger chigger away with a single well aimed .45 bullet, but the oc: casional dinner-plate mother- fucker will need a 12-gauge. Be careful. Neighbors and Their Chil- prey to an exceptionally nas- | dren: Feed ‘em to the dogs. Around late August, your Quaaludes, now about the size of plums, will turn from pink to milky rose, and then pure white, At the same time, the letters and numbers will emerge. The “Lemmon 714’ often matures about two wwooks earlier than the “Rorer 714." Sometimes a mutant strain will give rise to anoma Jous markings such as “Lem- on 714,” “Limon 714,” and 80 on. This does not necessarily mean the ultimate Quaalude at harvest will be inferior or poisonous, though by no ‘means should it be unques- tioningly trusted, either. Just before frost. season, ‘the Quaaludes will spit open neatly along the backsides. ‘This will happen overnight, ‘and the vines should be har- vested first thing the next morning. Each vine should yield approximately 250 to 300 Quaaludes ‘The Quaaludes ore then piled into burlap bags and left in cool, dry place until they dehydrate and shrink to about the sizeof olives. After | month or s0, they will be | | ready for pressing into final | | commercial form. | | Donot try this all by your self!” Quaaludepressing is tricky, and ean be dangerous, | For proper pressing, you'll | needa special “Seeds ‘a’ | | Stems” Quaalude presser | Send. $1,245.98 today. to Seeds 'n’ Stems,” Box 374, | | Old Chelsea Station, NY | 10091. Don't delay! No one needs any special vviee in the proper merchan- dising of Quaaludes. Just hire a doctor and a pretty re- ceptionist and open up a stress clinic. The world will | beat a path to your door. So | will the Mafia eventually, and then the police, but you should have enough stashed | away by then to leave town and set yourself up in another state under a new ident HIGHTIMES 81