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Now...someone may ask "Why is this posted here and not in the news section?"
Because:
We all already know growing, smuggling and often the simple use of Pot is illegal in most cases & in many countries...so it's nothing "news" worthy.
Be careful who you advertise with!
Stick with places such as ICmag where it would be VERY HARD (if not impossible) to get in trouble for advertizing.
The same applies for showing off your grow and the fruits of your work!
Stick with ICmag, the servers are not in the US and I am sure as long as you are not documenting a 500,000 plant warehouse size grow in the middle of New Jersey
you'll be just fine not raising ANY red flags anywhere.
Link to ORIGINAL STORY.
Big Bust at High Times
For almost forty years, High Times magazine has been the premier advocacy rag for marijuana, serving the passionate smoker much as Fox News and MSNBC serve the partisan political junkie. But in their effort to push out “the word of marijuana … the word of legalization … the word of growing,” as managing editor Natasha Lewin has put it, magazine staffers (and one can confidently say readers too) have inevitably pushed up against the law. Some are not just blowing smoke, but smuggling and dealing it too. Sometimes by the ton.
The latest alleged High Times trafficker is Matthew Woodstock Stang, known as “Magazine Guy” in the marijuana underworld. By day he’s employed as an advertising executive and senior writer for the magazine; by night, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, he’s a wholesaler in one of the city’s largest and longest-running marijuana rings.
This week his alleged partner, hip-hop magnate Kareem “Biggs” Burke, pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of conspiracy to distribute some 200 pounds of marijuana. Stang, meanwhile, still faces the much more serious charge of wholesaling multiton loads of pot, most of it grown indoors near Miami and trucked to a New York kingpin. If convicted, he faces 10 years to life in prison. As one federal agent said when Stang was first arrested in 2010, it’s “a case of art imitating real life.”
It’s also a case of history repeating itself. High Times was founded by a smuggler named Gary Goodson, a.k.a. Tom King Forcade, who over the years he has been described by his magazine as an “ace in the dope air force” and a “drug-culture mastermind.” He was certainly the latter. Within two years of High Times debuting in 1974—complete with centerfolds of flowering marijuana plants and prices for every kind of pot on the market—Forcade had as many as four million readers a month.
The alibi was mostly bogus. “I wanted to be a Hemingway character,” he told this reporter a couple years ago at a Manhattan Starbucks. "I was always attracted to criminals and the criminal life. Growing up I wanted to be Al Capone not [Prohibition agent] Eliot Ness. I wanted to be Jesse James, Robin Hood. The American outlaw mythos, that's what attracted me to this life.”
In the mid-80s, domestic marijuana took off, and High Times shifted from smugglers’ guidebook to growers’ bible. But serious clashes with the law continued. Ed Rosenthal, the magazine’s former cultivation columnist—think Ann Landers for ganja—and author of Ask Ed's Marijuana Law, has himself been busted. Twice. Most recently in 2007, when a San Francisco jury convicted him of growing more than 100 marijuana plants.
The magazine itself has drawn fire. DEA agents have dubbed it “the middle man in a dope deal,” a magazine of advertisements and articles that train people for crime. And over the years, three grand juries have investigated the legality of its operations, according to Michael Kennedy, a High Times lawyer interviewed by The Washington Post in 2004.
So far High Times staffers have escaped indictment for their editorial work. But the magazine’s advertisers and vendors haven’t been so lucky. The law in many states once classified a store as an illegal drug-paraphernalia seller depending on whether it also sold High Times. And advertising in the magazine has never been without risk. “This is wonderful,” editor Andy Kowl joked with his staff after the DEA raided dozens of advertisers in the late 1980s. “Buy an ad! Get a subpoena!”
Matthew Woodstock Stang, of course, could get much worse. He’s currently free on a $500,000 bond while his lawyers negotiate with the Manhattan district attorney's office—the latest, but presumably not the last High Times staffer to duke it out with authorities. As managing editor Natasha Lewin put it in 2010, "The message that the magazine is trying to get out to the world is that it's okay to smoke cannabis. It's okay to grow cannabis. It's okay because it shouldn't be illegal in the first place."
Now...someone may ask "Why is this posted here and not in the news section?"
Because:
We all already know growing, smuggling and often the simple use of Pot is illegal in most cases & in many countries...so it's nothing "news" worthy.
Be careful who you advertise with!
Stick with places such as ICmag where it would be VERY HARD (if not impossible) to get in trouble for advertizing.
The same applies for showing off your grow and the fruits of your work!
Stick with ICmag, the servers are not in the US and I am sure as long as you are not documenting a 500,000 plant warehouse size grow in the middle of New Jersey
Link to ORIGINAL STORY.
Big Bust at High Times
For almost forty years, High Times magazine has been the premier advocacy rag for marijuana, serving the passionate smoker much as Fox News and MSNBC serve the partisan political junkie. But in their effort to push out “the word of marijuana … the word of legalization … the word of growing,” as managing editor Natasha Lewin has put it, magazine staffers (and one can confidently say readers too) have inevitably pushed up against the law. Some are not just blowing smoke, but smuggling and dealing it too. Sometimes by the ton.
The latest alleged High Times trafficker is Matthew Woodstock Stang, known as “Magazine Guy” in the marijuana underworld. By day he’s employed as an advertising executive and senior writer for the magazine; by night, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, he’s a wholesaler in one of the city’s largest and longest-running marijuana rings.
This week his alleged partner, hip-hop magnate Kareem “Biggs” Burke, pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of conspiracy to distribute some 200 pounds of marijuana. Stang, meanwhile, still faces the much more serious charge of wholesaling multiton loads of pot, most of it grown indoors near Miami and trucked to a New York kingpin. If convicted, he faces 10 years to life in prison. As one federal agent said when Stang was first arrested in 2010, it’s “a case of art imitating real life.”
It’s also a case of history repeating itself. High Times was founded by a smuggler named Gary Goodson, a.k.a. Tom King Forcade, who over the years he has been described by his magazine as an “ace in the dope air force” and a “drug-culture mastermind.” He was certainly the latter. Within two years of High Times debuting in 1974—complete with centerfolds of flowering marijuana plants and prices for every kind of pot on the market—Forcade had as many as four million readers a month.
The alibi was mostly bogus. “I wanted to be a Hemingway character,” he told this reporter a couple years ago at a Manhattan Starbucks. "I was always attracted to criminals and the criminal life. Growing up I wanted to be Al Capone not [Prohibition agent] Eliot Ness. I wanted to be Jesse James, Robin Hood. The American outlaw mythos, that's what attracted me to this life.”
In the mid-80s, domestic marijuana took off, and High Times shifted from smugglers’ guidebook to growers’ bible. But serious clashes with the law continued. Ed Rosenthal, the magazine’s former cultivation columnist—think Ann Landers for ganja—and author of Ask Ed's Marijuana Law, has himself been busted. Twice. Most recently in 2007, when a San Francisco jury convicted him of growing more than 100 marijuana plants.
The magazine itself has drawn fire. DEA agents have dubbed it “the middle man in a dope deal,” a magazine of advertisements and articles that train people for crime. And over the years, three grand juries have investigated the legality of its operations, according to Michael Kennedy, a High Times lawyer interviewed by The Washington Post in 2004.
So far High Times staffers have escaped indictment for their editorial work. But the magazine’s advertisers and vendors haven’t been so lucky. The law in many states once classified a store as an illegal drug-paraphernalia seller depending on whether it also sold High Times. And advertising in the magazine has never been without risk. “This is wonderful,” editor Andy Kowl joked with his staff after the DEA raided dozens of advertisers in the late 1980s. “Buy an ad! Get a subpoena!”
Matthew Woodstock Stang, of course, could get much worse. He’s currently free on a $500,000 bond while his lawyers negotiate with the Manhattan district attorney's office—the latest, but presumably not the last High Times staffer to duke it out with authorities. As managing editor Natasha Lewin put it in 2010, "The message that the magazine is trying to get out to the world is that it's okay to smoke cannabis. It's okay to grow cannabis. It's okay because it shouldn't be illegal in the first place."
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