My name is Bruce and I am the owner and craftsman for our Mystic Timber tools. In the 60’s and 70’s I was a syndicated editorial cartoonist, producing four toons per week for over 350 North American newspapers under my pen name, jorgy. My work also appeared regularly in High Times magazine from September 1976 through June 1983. Going over them recently for an upcoming book project I was struck by how much has changed and particularly how much has not! Going forward, I’ll be revisiting a selection of them in this space, with commentary.
To start off lets take a look at these two marijuana policy toons which are still relevant after 35 years!
Published in High Times, April 1977
From the April 1977 issue of HighTimes– Pot sniffing dogs had become a fixture of American life by this time. This particular story was about a Georgia german shepherd named Blitz, who had dimed out 2000 lbs of cannabis and caused 50 arrests. 39 years later this nonsense continues.
Published High Times, September 1980
From September 1980 HighTimes– Lobbying to overturn cannabis prohibition was already more than a decade old, and encountering the same mindless resistance we deal with today.
