Chef RA

Jim Wilson, Jr., was an iconic marijuana advocate, author, and cook. After gaining notoriety as a ganja gourmet, he began writing his High Times column, "Chef Ra's Psychedelic Kitchen", in 1988 at the request of editor Steve Hager. Ra was a fixture of Ann Arbor's Hash Bash, speaking out about the benefits of cannabis for 19 consecutive years before his death."Chef Ra's Psychedelic Kitchen" column appeared in High Times on and off for 15 years. The articles would weave together Ra's insights on life with a new ganga recipe. Ra would also report on travels to cannabis culture events.Chef Ra starred in a pair of home videos produced by High Times: Ganja Gourmet and Chef Ra Escapes Babylon. The latter, featuring Ra’s visit to Jamaica, is apparently long out-of-print, though the Freaky Film Festival did provide Champaign-Urbana a rare public screening of Babylon in 1998.In 1999 Ra was featured in the short film Bumbaclots in Negril, along with fellow High Times staffers. Part of the film can be seen on the 2006 video podcast Jamaica Me High!.