"Last year, he and a partner, Matt Stang, purchased High Times, a fifty-plus-year-old cannabis culture brand that had fallen into receivership, for three and a half million dollars. They are in the process of reviving the High Times print magazine, which once published Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs, as a quarterly. The relaunch issue, featuring the rapper Rick Ross on the cover, is out this month."
"Kesselman, who was born in New York, recalled buying his first copy of High Times in the mid-eighties. 'It was wrapped in brown paper,' he said. 'Getting caught with that, with my family, would have been worse than a porno.' The entrepreneur, who has homes in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and in Manhattan, was in town to attend High Times' New York Cannabis Cup Awards, a people's-choice weed competition, that evening."
"At Torches, he spied some of his brand's more unusual wares. 'This is the second-generation smoke helmet,' he said, pointing to a piece of headgear rigged with tubing that allows a wearer to partake of six joints at once. Kesselman explained that the helmet was inspired by the soda-drinking hat in the stoner favorite 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'"
Josh Kesselman, founder of Raw Rolling Papers, is a cannabis entrepreneur known for both novelty products and serious business ventures. He and partner Matt Stang purchased High Times, a fifty-year-old cannabis culture magazine that had entered receivership, for three and a half million dollars. They are reviving High Times as a quarterly print publication, continuing its legacy of publishing notable writers like Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs. The relaunch issue features rapper Rick Ross on the cover. Kesselman, who first encountered High Times in the mid-eighties, also owns Raw Rolling Papers and has created various cannabis-related products, from smoke helmets to joint-holding umbrellas. He maintains homes in Arizona and Manhattan.
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