You ever sit on a couch with a bunch of stoned pot heads watching cartoons at 2 am? Well, imagine that times 200 people minus the cartoons. That’s what Studio B was like last night. The Village Voice sent me there to cover the High Times 420 party. There were only about 50 people downstairs in the main room of Studio B watching the Miss High Times Pageant because everyone else was on the roof deck getting stoned out of their minds. Now I don’t smoke the pot, and I never have. I got high exactly one time and I spent most of that time telling my friends how I wasn’t high… and then we went to IHOP. Weed makes boring things fun, which makes people who are high, very content to do nothing. This is the biggest danger with marijuana. If anti-drug commercials had just shown footage of my high school stoner friends watching Cartoon Network we would have won the war on drugs. Let’s just say that the party was not the most exciting event of my life.

That being said everyone was really nice, and it was cool to see these hippies get along with these thug dudes so well, everyone united in drugs. I was nervous that people wouldn’t want me taking pictures of them smoking, but everyone just wanted to know where they could see the photos. I would have spent more time up in the roof deck, where the real party was at, but I was getting sick from the smoke. When I got home that night I spent several minutes in pitch black darkness before I realized my power wasn’t off, I just hadn’t turned on the lights yet.

The Miss High Time Pageant was a weird thing. As you might have expected the crowd was 99% dudes, and they really enjoyed leering at the girls in their bikinis. I missed most of the talent contest, but the stage was filled with $1 bills. I am not sure what it is about smoking weed that makes you want to debase women so much… I know this sounds odd coming from a guy who tries to get girls naked all day, but some of the shit I saw was pretty fucked up. Anyway, the pageant didn’t exactly run so smoothly since the people running the contest and the people in the contest were both so fucking stoned. It was pretty hilarious and moved very slowly. If you think some of the answers Miss America contestants give are dumb, imagine if they had to give them high as fuck.

Okay, lastly, I just wanted to say that I don’t want this to come off like I am talking down to pot heads. I am not. I think weed is a pretty boring drug, but I know a lot of people that it has really helped and I certainly support medical marijuana. I have dated no less than 3 serious pot heads seriously.  And I think that if you are going to abuse a drug it is a far better choice that coke or booze… it is just not as much fun for me to take photos of…

Okay, these photos mostly suck, but I hope you dig them anyway.

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