WP: High Times at 30, Getting Its Head Together

[MountainLaurel]

And now, for something different. . . .

Man, the news from Iraq is, like, a major bummer. Read the mainstream press and all you get is bombings, murders, uprisings, riots and hostages. Fortunately, one publication dares to print the news that won't kill your buzz.

That publication is High Times, the marijuana magazine now celebrating its 30th anniversary. And the news is this: There's plenty of weed in the new liberated Iraq.

"There are few laws in Iraq right now," writes Dave Enders, High Times's man in Baghdad, "so although drug possession was punishable by death before, you can now pass a spliff openly in front of the cops."

Which may not, come to think of it, be exactly the kind of freedom that President Bush envisioned for Iraq.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25915-2004Apr19.html