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.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter