In this chapter from the his book Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s, author Sean Howe explores the origins of a magazine that became the lifestyle bible of the pro-pot movement

In 1969, the mysterious Tom Forçade insinuated himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics by taking control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of anti-establishment newspa…