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    A Brief History of High Times

    Dec 03, 2019 5 minutes
    BY MIKE GIANAKOS

    AGAINST ALL ODDS, High Times became an internationally known magazine, now celebrating 45 years of continuous publication with more than 500 issues. There is no question that the publication far exceeded the wildest, most ambitious expectations of the men and women who first introduced it to the world back in the mid-1970s.

    High Times was founded in 1974 by the political activist and ace marijuana smuggler Thomas King Forçade. Forçade, it is said, was the first activist to use pieing as an act of protest, back in 1970. He was a brilliant and savvy media mind who co-founded and ran the Underground Press Syndicate, a network of counterculture publications, in the late 1960s. And he kept some of those magazines afloat, just as he later did with during its lean years, with proceeds from his smuggling activities.

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