Why does High Times even exist?

In New South Wales, back in the 80s, the head shops sold heaps of bongs. In fact, I seem to remember one called The Bong Shop, and it was in a ritzy downtown arcade. Then the state government made the sale of bongs illegal - so the head shops would simply sell all the parts separately.

It was also interesting when I was working in a pub back in about 1987, and I’d chat to the local travelling salesman for the tobacco wholesaler. He said that pubs in certain towns would purchase quantities of cigarette papers that were vastly out of proportion to the quantities of loose tobacco they bought.

Not only a pedant, but an incorrect pedant. The terms “country”, “state”, and “nation”, while in common parlance all synonyms, technically are used for three different concepts:
A state is an individual political entity. A nation is a group of people who identify with a particular territory and seek unified governance. A country, on the other hand, is merely a distinct territory.
Holland definitely falls under the latter category, though it’s part of the state of the Netherlands and it’s people belong to the Dutch nation.

What’s it used for? Some kind of high?

Not only that, does High Times still put LSD in the ink so that readers absorb it through their fingertips and trip whilst reading their latest copy. :stuck_out_tongue:

Down Under you may still have a not insignificant amount of people that roll their own ciggies, but in the US there’s pretty much only one reason why you buy cigarette papers.

I haven’t read High Times since around 1980, but they did have a fair number of well-written articles that weren’t explicitly about getting stoned. Denny O’Neil’s famous article about the life and death of Vaughn Bode and interviews with rock stars like Deborah Harry and Frank Zappa come to mind.

I had a similar question about a magazine for and about graffiti taggers; its advertisers were all spray paint manufacturers. There weren’t any redeeming articles about sidereal, non-vandal activities in it.

I don’t know about that. With the exorbitant state tax hikes on cigarettes in some areas, the only affordable alternative nowadays is to roll your own cigarettes.

Also, one of the unforeseen side effects of these taxes is that smokers are also rolling and smoking less healthy unfiltered cigarettes in greater quantities than ever. It is easier to roll cigarettes by hand or with a hand machine without adding filters, which are also an added expense and not very portable.