High Times Founder Tom Forcade Pt. 1

Great Moments in Weed History · Nov 7, 2019 · 51m

Weed smuggler/political revolutionary Tom Forcade once described his life goal as going “all the way, whatever that may bring."

In 1974, at just 29 years old, he used profits from flying planeloads of Colombian bud into the country to found High Times magazine.

At the time, Forcade already had a long history of subversive acts under his belt, including throwing a pie in the face of Otto Larsen, head of the U.S. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography during a congressional hearing, getting indicted for a supposed plot to firebomb the 1972 Republican National Convention, forming the Zippies as…