The High Times Papers: Inside the Corporate Takeover That Killed The Buzz

By Steven Hager

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE COUNTERCULTURE'S RISE AND FALL

"What the reports show is how steady the ship was when I was the leader, how my reports were so clear and concise about charting a course even though I could never really take the helm, and when I was no longer writing reports or guiding the company in any way the wheels fell off." -Steven Hager

Meanwhile, the devastation of broken families, lost lives, incarceration for profit continued to grow throughout the 1990s, despite an awakening set off by High Times, one that immediately inspired the biggest grassroots protest movement of its time, a movement virtually ignored by the media.

I knew I had a solid plan to build the company into the Disney of the counterculture, with a theme park that held regular events like the Cannabis Cup, WHEE , the Stonys, the Doobies, the World Marijuana Film Festivals.

But the lawyers who stole the company soured on me early on, and instead of being empowered, I was under constant attack from all sides. I never bowed to their commands or felt obligated to follow their nutty ideas. Instead I played whack-a-mole, and every time they beat down one of my creations, I'd have a replacement already popping up, and entirely self-funded.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMHYZR2J
• ISBN13: 9798161153574
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"