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Great Moments in Weed History
Great Moments in Weed History delves deep into humanity's 10,000+ year relationship with cannabis (a.k.a. marijuana) to explore the humor, heart, and historical importance of the planet's most revered and maligned plant. Hosted by David Bienenstock.
Episodes
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Vote! (Like Your Stash Depends on It)
Your favorite plant is on the ballot, because the midterm election will have a massive effect on the future of legalization. Do you want pharmaceuticalization…
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A True OG Helped Legalize Trees (and Treehouses)
In the 1970s, Michael Garnier was a first wave outlaw weed grower in Southern Oregon, which became, and remains, a legendary cannabis growing region. Michael…
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How Sour Diesel Lit Up NYC
New York City's most legendary strain first surfaced at a downtown hippie rock club, and ascended into being the premier smoke among the Baked Apple's…
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Reggae Vibes, Underground Herb and Pet CBD
Aaron Argueta’s weed journey touches on the Southern California reggae scene, the freewheeling medical cannabis grey market, and the emerging world of CBD for…
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Let's Nerd Out About Weed (w/ Alec Dixon)
From terpenes to THC, the biochemistry of the cannabis plant is endlessly fascinating. So get yourself rolled up and ready to delve into "the weeds" with…
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A Psychedelic Rock Star's Greatest 'Hits' (w/ Jorma Kaukonen)
As lead guitar for Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen performed at Woodstock, Altamont, the Monterey Pop Festival and on some of the most…
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How Do We End the 'War on Drugs?'
For 35 years, Families Against Mandatory Minimums has resisted America’s War on Drugs by sharing the stories of people subjected to unconscionable prison…
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'Pizza Movie' Made Stoner Comedy Cool Again
Meet the brains behind "Pizza Movie," which hit Hulu a few months ago and became something of an instant cult classic. Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher joined…
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Can Cannabis Boost Your Creativity? (with Sklyer Higley)
Acclaimed comedian Skyler Higley discusses the highs, lows and potential pot-holes of using cannabis as a creative tool, While also recalling his own weedy…
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7/10 Special: Psychedelic Surfers Invented Dabs
Best known for distributing massive amounts of LSD , the Brotherhood of Eternal Love was an outlaw group of surfers, smugglers, and psychedelic evangelists who…
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Survivor: Ethan Zohn on Soccer, Cannabis, Cancer and Reality Show Stardom
In 2002, professional soccer player Ethan Zohn won Africa: Survivor, netting himself a $1 million dollar prize and overnight fame. But it was his subsequent…
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A Teenage Weed Bust Planted a Seed of Resistance ( feat. cartoonist Brian "Box" Brown)
Like many lifelong weed activists, Brian "Box" Brown’s radicalization began with a youthful arrest. His form of resistance? Brian is an acclaimed comics…
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Getting Lit with Latin America's #1 Weed Enthusiast
Simon Espinosa, a young comedy writer from Santiago, Chile, turned a stoned text message chain with his brother into by far the largest Spanish-language…
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A Doctor Explains Why Grandma Should Probably Get a Little Lit
Dr. Peter Grinspoon—author of the new book Aging Well with Cannabis: Feel Better, Sleep Better, and Live Better with Marijuana and CBD—explains that senior…
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Is Cannabis Rescheduling a 'High Point' to Celebrate or a Corporate Take Over in the Making?
This week saw weed history happen in real time when the federal government announced its officially rescheduling cannabis out of Schedule 1, the most…
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4/20 Weed-a-Thon w/ Gabrus + Hulu's New Weed Doc Series
Comedic 'heavy hitter' Jon Gabrus joins the year's weediest episode. Plus Bean shares details from 4x20 Quick Hits, a new Hulu original series he worked on…
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High & Low Maintenance (w/ Ben Sinclair)
Writer, actor and director Ben Sinclair is best known as co-creator and star of the HBO series High Maintenance. A recent New York Times headline asked: “What…
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Sparking a Weed Uprising in Minneapolis
Angela Dawson is a fourth generation farmer, albeit the first of her name to farm cannabis. She’s also a leading weed activist in the state of Minnesota, who's…
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4/20 Origin Story + A High Holiday Manifesto
Gettin’ lit on 4/20 used to mean something special. And it will again. So on this episode, to spark that return to glory, we’re going to trace the origin story…
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True Crime: A Killing in Cannabis
In 2019, Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur Tushar Atre met a tragic end after paddling out into the rough waters of the underground cannabis scene in…
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Reefer Madness 2: Electric Boogaloo
A prominent anti-weed editorial in this week's NY Times is just the latest attempt to resurrect the kind of government propaganda and media hysteria that…
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A Smuggler's Daughter Tells All
Rainbow Valentine is the creator behind Disorganized Crime: Smuggler’s Daughter, a first-person podcast series that explores her life growing up as the…
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Burning Questions, Lit Answers
Roll up for a special edition of the pod where Bean answers your w--d advice questions with a little help from green-minded journalist Mary Jane Gibson and the…
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Meet the Biggest Weed Smuggler in History
Harold Derber pioneered the modern narcotics trade with his groundbreaking invention: the mothership. By operating a fleet of clandestine motherships floating…
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Holidaze Special: Santa is a Mushroom Shaman
Get ready to experience a beloved annual tradition as we celebrate the many surprising ways that Santa Claus is based on old trippy traditions around…
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Soul Survivor
In January, Martin Olive was shot seven times outside the Vapor Room dispensary, which he co-founded in San Francisco in 2004. Located in the legendary Haight…
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The 'War on Weed' Paved the Way for Authoritarianism
The most heinous legal and human rights abuses of our current political moment all have their roots in the War on Drugs, from corruption and racism, to…
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Ganjasaurus Rex to the Rescue!
In 1987, real life outlaw growers in Humboldt County, CA made a low budget monster movie called Ganjasaurus Rex, a cult classic that we explore in this episode…
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I Told The Ultimate Corporate Weed Bro to STFU
Fed up with finance d-bags enshitifying everything? Well, I can't stop them from trying to take over weed too, but I did just tell one of the worst offenders…
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LSD Fueled the Grateful Dead's 'Wall of Sound'
An underground chemist, acid-soaked sound engineers, a bestselling author, and a psychedelic band all set out together in the 1970s in pursuit of audio…
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'What is Hype Weed?' w/ The Highest Critic
Caleb Chen is a weed enthusiast, researcher, reviewer and academic, who runs "The Highest Critic," and is well on his way to earning a doctorate in the…
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Weed History in the Middle East
From ancient traditions to the evolution of modern cannabis culture in Morocco, India, Egypt, Nepal, and other traditional hashish regions, get ready for a…
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From Shy Weed Nerd to Supernova Woman
Amber E. Senter’s impressive legal cannabis career began with years of underground weed growing, hashmaking and edibles slanging. Amber is the founder and CEO…
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Can 'High Times' Rise from the Ashes? (w/ Josh Kesselman)
When a bunch of vulture capital d-bags ran High Times into bankruptcy, the magazine's illustrious fifty year history appeared to be burnt out. But then, in…
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The 'Mayor of Oaksterdam' Fought the Man to Free the Weed
Richard Lee's life changed forever in 1990 when he slipped on a catwalk while setting up the lights for an Aerosmith concert, suffering a spinal injury that…
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Meet the Founder of An Iconic 1970s Weed Magazine
Charlotte Parker started Head magazine while working an entry level publishing job at Penthouse, in order to cover the world of weed in depth at a time long…
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How A Weed Outlaw Became The Ultimate Cannabis Connoisseur
After being incarcerated as a teenager for weed, Kevin Jodrey joined the military and trained as a deep sea diver, only to end up conscripted into performing…
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High Times, Free Weed, and Home Grown: The Danny Danko Story
From judging the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, to touring Northern California during harvest season, to seshing with the steady stream of growers, dealers…
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Celebrating Weed, Pride and Weed Pride w/ Laganja Estranja
What does it mean to talk about Pride when it comes to cannabis? First and foremost it means celebrating the central role that the LGBTQ+ community has played…
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A Weed Expat Inhales Amsterdam's Glory Years
Adam Dunn first arrived in Amsterdam as a teenager, and quickly found himself at the center of the city's famed international cannabis scene. In time, Adam…
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How 'Appellations' Will Put Cannabis on Par With Champagne
Much how wine, cheese, and other agricultural products are authenticated as coming from their traditional geographic zone of origin, a new program about to…
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John Lennon's Hash Bust Set Off an Immigration Battle for the Ages
In 1971, John Lennon performed publicly, for the first time in five years, at a rally decrying the injustice of Michigan police targeting a radical political…
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4/20 Special : Mylar Bag Art Show + "How The Waldos Created a High Holiday"
As our annual celebration of 4/20 rapidly approaches, please roll up and get ready for the incredible true story of how a small Northern California weed crew…
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"Weed brings slack to the ever-tightening vice inside my body."
Faced with the rare neurodegenerative condition Friedreich's ataxia, John Cernosek decided to become a patient-advocate and write a book about his healing…
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The Trailer Park Boys— 'Baked on a True Story'
Whether rolling up a six-paper-joint or hiding their hashish by making it into a driveway, the Trailer Park Boys have been growing, smoking, and celebrating…
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From Rock Star to Weed Connoisseur
System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian has won a Grammy and played on multi-platinum selling records, all fueled by the creative boost he gets from cannabis…
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Bob Dylan Got the Beatles High for the First Time
In 1964, in a NYC hotel room, Bob Dylan met the Beatles for the very first time and turned them on to cannabis. Sounds like the stuff of legend and lore, but…
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Seth Ferranti: From LSD Kingpin to Weed Fugitive to Jailhouse Journalist
This episode features an outlaw, a fugitive, an inmate, a journalist, a weed dealer, an LSD distributor, a defendant and an accomplished filmmaker. And they’re…
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Ramon Reyes Went From Slanging Dime Bags to Leading an Industry
Ramon Reyes started out selling herb on the streets of NYC as a teenager and subsequently climbed through the ranks of the underground, the gray market and the…
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From 'Blair Witch' to GrowGirl
In 1999, this week's guest starred in one of the most financially successful films of all time, but the circumstances around the making and marketing of Blair…
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Holidaze Special: Santa's A Psychedelic Mushroom Shaman
Celebrate stony seasonal traditions old and new with our GMIWH Holidaze special. In addition to our annual retelling of the story of Santa's origin as a…
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In Search of A Cannabis Utopia
Back when cannabis was barely legal, an eco-minded off-the-grid ganja farm strived to create a sustainable vision of decentralized, utopian agrarian life that…
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The Cornbread Mafia: Backcountry Weed Outlaws
How did a bunch of farmers from Kentucky create the biggest pot growing and smuggling syndicate in American history? We hear that barn burning story straight…
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Weed Shall Overcome (w/ Dr. Mariana Hoyo)
Weed history teaches us to overcome the forces of oppression with the help of our favorite plant ally. In this episode we talk with Dr. Mariana Hoyo, a bright…
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Hunter S. Thompson Ran for Sheriff on A Freak Power Platform
Election season anxiety? Take a break from the horserace and travel back to 1970, when the Gonzo author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ran for Sheriff in…
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Weed Voter Guide + Secret Tapes Reveal War on Marijuana Was A Fraud!
This episode includes a recently discovered audio tape exposing the War on Marijuana as a total fraud, a state-by-state guide to voting for weed in the 2024…
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Meet the Ultimate 'Cannabis Couple'
For over fifty years, Michelle and Michael Aldrich have tirelessly advocated for the cannabis plant. A joint life's journey that started when they first met at…
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Your 'Burning Questions' About Weed Answered
What have you always wanted to know about the herb but were afraid to ask? Bean scoured the Reddit /trees forum and asked Great Moments in Weed History…
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"I Weed A Miracle Every Day" — The Grateful Dead Get Busted and Win
Jerry Garcia and Mountain Girl sat rolling joints and cleaning the stems and seeds from a brick of weed when a fateful knock came at the door of 710 Ashbury…
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Higher Education: Now You Can Major in Cannabis Studies
College students have always experimented with weed, but there's never been anything like Cal Poly Humboldt's new Cannabis Studies Program. Housed at a state…