 In the late 1980s Edison began writing a featured column about television and politics, "Shoot the Tube," for marijuana and counterculture magazine "High Times".In 1998 Edison was named publisher of "High Times", and soon after took control of the editorial side of the magazine as well.As editor and publisher, he caused a furor among staffers by putting Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne on the cover, and then leaking to the "New York Post"s Page Six gossip column that thousands of dollars of pot had gone missing from the photo shoot.