High Times / High Crimes - Have You Been Ripped-Off?

[Douglas.Curtis]

Anything High Times is such a turn off.

When you walk into a grower's house, you can usually tell their quality will be low, when you see a bunch of High Times magazines hanging around. Have yet to meet anyone growing decent cannabis that still reads that rag.

Tainted is as Tainted does...

Douglas

 

[H.T.ClassAction]

Sad to hear. ...
I guess what Im trying to say.. is that High Times will always have a small piece of my heart.

We know what you mean.

Over the intervening decades, we remained proud of our involvement with the magazine.

The feeling of betrayal is something we might never get over.

The very people who were essential to the success of High Times turned out to be the ones who they've screwed the worst.

Thanks for sharing your feelings.

We're certain that you're not alone.

 

[Brother Nature]

I remember smoking at my best friends house in high school. His dad was cool as shit and used to let him gank a good 8th of weed a week. First time I was introduced to real strains. I recall his Jack Herrer was still one of the best buds I've ever had.

Anyways he had his 70's collection of High times and their ads were all full of shit back then too "A tape that plays sonic waves that make you feel like you're on LSD", "Manitol, the best cutting agent ever", "Lettuce opium, as good as the real thing, but not addictive".

Can't beat those 70's pull outs of Maui Wowi though. Or those early 70's, late 80's ones of high heels weirdly standing in a crushed up pound of kinda shiny blow.

Gotta say his penthouse collections had better articles. (and bush ) Haven't read a high times since then though, have had no reason to.

 

[HughGhasso]

I can attest that the "cylocibe fanaticus" mushroom ads in the back were the real deal. Holy fuck were they the real deal.

I have to give them props for lighting the fire to get me to grow however, I lost all desire to continue our relationship when they claimed that the "golden harvest" brand jars cured the best. That was the final straw.

 

[GuerrillaRed]

Ordered a subscription months ago...

...still haven't got a High Times.

Meanwhile have gotten two Cigar Aficionados in the same amount of time from the same magazine order.

I realize High Times is 90-99% hype and bullshit. But I like the Senior Cultivation editor Danny Danko. Also, I deal with a lot of media and normie people who's base of reference is High Times, so I like to keep up with what normies are being told.

I admit I know very little about High Times except all the content from the 70s that gets posted online and is bad ass. From some of the stuff I've seen of the modern content, I like Danko's stuff, some of their cultivation stuff is interesting mind candy and all the rest of it looks childish. But again I think I've flipped through a HT once in the last few years and I've read two or three of their online articles.

BUT I WANT MY GODDAMN MAGAZINES BRO! I was as excited for my HT subscription as I was when I got my Mad Magazine subscription as a kid. Neither one ever fucking send you their magazine.

 

[shithawk420]

so are we just gonna forget that high times were busting a bunch of people? i know they had something to do with green merchant but i think it had something to do with something else.my dad knows what the deal is.ill ask him.

 

[H.T.ClassAction]

Not That We Know Of ... etc.

Not That We Know Of ... etc.

so are we just gonna forget that high times were busting a bunch of people? i know they had something to do with green merchant but i think it had something to do with something else.my dad knows what the deal is.ill ask him.

Never heard of H.T. actually busting people.

( Though I've heard first-person accounts about Dan Skye, at a Cannabis Cup event in Amsterdam, threatening people with physical harm and behaving like noxious bully. )

Green Merchant, as we recall, was the Feds trying to bust H.T. & other paraphernalia distributors. That was decades ago.

It is true, however, that when the guy who produced the "Sea of Green" videos tried to get paid for his work, H.T. screwed him blue. He was destitute, and his family became homeless, and H.T. furnished bogus figures, refused to honor their contract or pay him, and then actually threatened to have him busted.

Their excuse for not paying the $100,000+ that they owed was basically "He's a felon, so we don't have to pay him."

That disgusting state of affairs came straight from Michael Kennedy, the attorney who controlled everything at H.T. until his death earlier this year. Then, after H.T. refused to honor an arbitration award, it took a court order seizing the H.T, bank account to finally set things right.

That story comes straight from the attorney who filed the lawsuit, and who was not required to sign a confidentiality agreement.

One thing we've already decided: When our case is filed, no matter what the outcome, there will be No confidentiality agreement, and the dirty laundry will be aired for all to see.

Speaking of seeing, take a good look at the dirtbags who actually produced that ripoff H.T. book. The two stupid, thieving, turds, let themselves be videotaped at a seminar.

https://vimeo.com/128212184 Skip ahead to the 1:00 hour mark, when the lights come up.

Dante Carlos, and River Jukes-Hudson. We know where they are ( in Pasadena ) and now we know what they look like.

If you see them on the street, ( before we do ) send them our best regards. ; )

 

[H.T.ClassAction]

A Big Step On The Road To Justice

A Big Step On The Road To Justice

We received some very welcome news this week.

After an 8 month wait, the Visual Arts Division of the U.S. Copyright Office made it official.

Formal copyright registration was granted to our image that was ripped-off by High Times for their "40 Year" book.

Even though a copyright notice was originally printed on the March 1985 center-spread, ( and cropped out by the dirt-bag designers ) we still needed formal registration of the image in order to have standing to sue in Federal Court.

Now our case can proceed without impediment, and while the papers are being drawn, we can file for copyright on another image that they ripped-off and used in the "H.T. Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs".

It's our firm intention to drag their "brand" through the mud, and then take a leak on it.