The following is taken from Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s by Sean Howe, about life and times of High Times’ enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who—between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts—battled both the US government and fellow radicals. Agents of Chaos is out now through Hachette Books.