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Thomas King Forçade (1945 – 1978) was an American underground press reporter and activist in the 1970s. For many years he ran the Underground Press Syndicate (later called the Alternative Press Syndicate), and was the founder in summer 1974, along with several anonymous associates, of High Times magazine. High Times ran articles calling marijuana a "medical wonder drug" and ridiculing the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
According to the 1990 nonfiction book 12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols and America, by Noel E. Monk and Jimmy Guterman, Forcade and his film crew followed the Sex Pistols through their chaotic January 1978 concerts of the U.S. South and West, using high-pressure tactics in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade the band's management and record company to let him document the tour.
He committed suicide in November 1978 after the death of his best friend.
External links
- Profile of Forcade at A White Sportcoat and Woodstock Nation (inactive)
- Profile of Forcade from Cures not Wars
- Biography of Forcade from World War 4 Report
- Thomas King Forcade profile on NNDB
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