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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
- Great Moments in Weed History
Sour Diesel Put NYC on the Weed Map
Sour Diesel first surfaced at a downtown hippie rock club, and ascended into being the premier smoke among New York City's celebrity set and lit-erati. Talk…
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Pot Brownies Have An Incredible Origin Story
Weed-infused edibles date back more than a thousand years, but did you ever wonder how the humble "pot brownie" become a cultural icon? It's a wilder and more…
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How to Live Your Best Weed Life w/ Jessamyn Stanley
Whether living in legal states or under prohibition, weed smokers continue to face stigmas and prejudices of all kinds. So to kick off our official Pride Month…
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"I Sold Weed Cookies to Famous Comedians"
What was it like to be the in-house weed cookie dealer at Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC during the legendary improv theater's glory days? Our guest John…
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We Helped Judge A Prestigious Weed Contest!
The Emerald Cup began in 2003 as an underground locals-only harvest celebration among outdoor organic cannabis growers in Northern California’s famed Emerald…
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Don't Trust the Same Authorities That Outlawed Weed To Justly Regulate It!
Social equity programs designed to remediate the damage done by the War on Marijuana have all-too-often had the opposite effect. To find out why, Abdullah and…
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Chemdog Scored Some Magic Beans on Grateful Dead Lot
Hop in our hot box time machine set for 1991 Grateful Dead tour, where a "kind bud snob" named Greg first encountered the incredible weed varietal he named…
- Great Moments in Weed History
Jack Herer Green Pilled the World
Celebrate today's high holiday with the story of Jack Herer—the man, the myth, and the strain that changed the weed game forever. This is the legendary tale of…
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1st Annual Weed-A-Thon!
Abdullah and Bean get high non-stop in this very special episode, fueled by the huge stash of cannabis and edibles they've been tasked with judging as part of…
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Big Tech Tries to Cancel Cannabis... The Hempire Strikes Back!
Social media deletes, throttles and shadow-bans weed related accounts regularly, often without warning and with clear bias against independent creators. When…
- Great Moments in Weed History
Japan Once Revered Cannabis (And Will Again)
Cannabis is a sacred plant in Shinto and Sumo wrestling—two of Japan's oldest and most vital traditions. And hemp was once the island nation's second biggest…
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The Hidden History of OG Kush
From Afghanistan's Kush Mountains, to LA's early 90s hydro grows, the story of game-changing weed strain OG Kush is one of the greatest cannabis tales ever…
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How to Land a Legal Weed Job (Like 420,000 Other People)
A new report confirms the cannabis industry added over 100,000 new jobs last year —a 33% increase—so there's never been a better time to start your legal weed…
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The Fight to Save Mom & Pop Weed Farms
Whenever cannabis and capitalism collide, legacy weed farmers find themselves caught in the crossfire—trapped between hyper-capitalized mega-grows with…
- Great Moments in Weed History
Inside America's Only Magic Mushroom Church
Within the Church of Entheogenic Plants, a dozen varieties of psilocybin (aka "magic") mushrooms await those who wish to incorporate use of psychedelic fungus…
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Why Ricky Williams Chose Weed over Football
When Heisman Trophy-winning tailback Ricky Williams famously chose natural grass over professional football back in 2004,, the NFL, sportswriters and many fans…
- Great Moments in Weed History
Reggae Legend Peter Tosh Gets Lit & Burns Down The Shitstem
From his incendiary album "Legalize It" to his defiant speech denouncing Jamaican officials to their faces for their downpressive laws against ganja (delivered…
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Snoop Dogg's Producer vs. The Hip Hop Police
In 2004, Weldon Angelos was sentenced to 55 years in prison for selling $900 worth of weed. That's what you get for bringing some of the earliest hip-hop shows…
- Great Moments in Weed History
HOLIDAY SPECIAL: The Year in Weed! + Santa's a Psychedelic Mushroom Shaman
Celebrate 2021's weediest highlights with Abdullah and Bean's inebriated recounting of the year's most impactful cannabis news stories. PLUS: Our annual…
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The Commissioner of Cannabis is Cool AF
When cannabis and capitalism collide, our community's best laid plans for an equitable industry all-too-often go up in smoke. Enter Shaleen Title, a longtime…
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"Cannabis Saved My Child's Life"
When prominent author Marie Lee published an essay titled "Why I Give My 9-Year Old Pot" in 2009, it set off a media sensation. Years before CNN's Dr. Sanjay…
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Youth Revolt Against the Drug War
In the 1990s, a new federal law banning any student with a drug conviction from receiving financial aid led to the formation of Students for Sensible Drug…
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The Race to Preserve The World's Oldest Weed Strains
In remote areas of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, indigenous farmers cultivate cannabis on small plots that date back centuries. Maintaining…
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Hippies and Freaks Created The Ideal Weed Fest
As America's most thoroughly freak-powered cannabis festival celebrates its 30th Anniversary, we share a sesh with legendary street activist Vivian McPeak…
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David Crosby: "I'm Just Another Stoner"
Upon turning 80, rock legend David Crosby gets lit with us and lovingly recalls the greatest moments of his own illustrious weed history. From blazing out The…
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Weed vs. The Olympics w/ Ross Rebagliati
Ross Rebagliati won the first ever Olympic gold medal in snowboarding, only to have it stripped away when officials reported he’d tested positive for marijuana…
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7/10 SPECIAL: Celebrating Hash's High Holiday w/ an IRL Sesh
July 10th (7/10) is the 4/20 of hashish, a day to celebrate cannabis concentrates and culture in all forms—from the traditional sieve and hand-rub methods used…
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A Little Old Lady's Weed Brownies Changed The World
Brownie Mary's "magically delicious marijuana brownies" brought healing and joy to thousands of AIDS and cancer patients in San Francisco, even as she shouted…
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How Medical Weed Healed The World
Dennis Peron first tried cannabis in Vietnam. After smuggling two pounds of high-grade herb home from the front, he became a charismatic and defiant leader of…
- Great Moments in Weed History
Cannabis Pride and Prejudice
Whether living in legal states or under prohibition, weed smokers continue to face stigmas and prejudices of all kinds. So to kick off our official Pride Month…
- Great Moments in Weed History
Making "Dazed and Confused" w/ Jason London (aka Randall "Pink" Floyd)
From blazing a joint at his audition, to smoking Austin, TX completely out of marijuana during the shoot, Dazed and 'Confused star Jason London tells Abdullah…
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Is Biden Gonna Legalize, or What?
Support for ending weed arrests is at an all-time-high, but our newly elected President has long been a leading proponent of the War on Drugs. So where does…
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4/20 SPECIAL - Game Changing Weed Strains
From Acapulco Gold to OG Kush, the history of cannabis breeding dates back thousands of years and spans the entire globe, spawning a story that stretches from…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryGettin' High With Willie!
Willie Nelson has smoked Snoop Dogg, Woody Harrelson, Ricky Williams, Chelsea Handler, Toby Keith, Johnny Knoxville and many other famous faces under the…
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Billie Holiday vs. Harry J. Anslinger
In a tale of weedy vengeance, Abdullah and Bean investigate the life of Harry J. Anslinger—America’s first “drug czar,” author of Marijuana: Assassin of Youth…
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Santa's A Psychedelic Mushroom Shaman
Explore Santa Claus’s psychedelic roots in Siberia in the only Christmas Special where Old St. Nick gifts you magic mushrooms and even the reindeer get high AF…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryJohn Lennon Was A Weed DREAMer
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…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryThe Grateful Dead Fight the Man (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…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryThe High Hindu Holiday
Once a year, Hindus celebrate cannabis and the god Shiva with the ancient festival of Maha Shivaratri, an all-night affair of fasting, meditation, chanting…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryBong Hits for Jesus!
A weed-fueled stoner prank escalated to the highest court in the land after a student in Juneau, Alaska used the opportunity of the olympic torch passing…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryOaksterdam's Weed Mayor
Richard Lee's life changed forever when he slipped on a catwalk while setting up the lights for an Aerosmith concert, suffering a spinal injury that left him…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryHemp for Victory!
Native American leader Alex White Plume planted his first hemp crop on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 2000, sparking a long battle over tribal…
Great Moments in Weed History4/20 SPECIAL! - #BlazeAtHome Part 2
Roll another one, and celebrate the high holiday with part 2 of Abdullah and Bean's #BlazeAtHome420 special, which features even more of their personal…
Great Moments in Weed History4/20 SPECIAL! - #BlazeAtHome Part 1
Celebrate 4/20 at home this year with Abdullah and Bean, in a special two-part episode where the hosts of Great Moments in Weed History share their own…
Great Moments in Weed HistorySummer of the Cans
When 22 tons of weed washed up on Brazil's beaches one magical summer, the locals interpreted it as a gift from Yemoja, a sea goddess deity with African roots…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryPsychedelic Surfers Invented Dabs
Smuggling hashish out of Afghanistan in the 1970s presented the Brotherhood of Eternal Love with a unique supply side problem, which they solved in a way that…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryLittle Women Get Lit
Hashish bon bons play a starring role in one of Louisa May Alcott's "scandalous" short stories, but you'd never know that by reading her many biographies…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryThe Pope of Pot (Live at the Brooklyn Podcast Festival)
His newspaper ads read 1-800-WANT-POT, promising New Yorkers quality cannabis at a fair price, delivered in under an hour, by bicycle, at a time when legal…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryCrash Buds!
In the middle of the night on December 9, 1976, a pair of Vietnam vets turned international weed smugglers stood on a makeshift runway in Baja, Mexico…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryTreetop Flyer: Tom Forcade Pt. 2
High Times founder Tom Forcade's story concludes in part 2, which features a special guest — Rex Weiner — who was there for the magazine's wild early days, and…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryHigh Times Founder Tom Forcade Pt. 1
Weed smuggler/political revolutionary Tom Forcade once described his life goal as going “all the way, whatever that may bring." In 1974, at just 29 years old…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryHunter Thompson Ran For Sheriff on a Free Weed Platform
In 1970, the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ran for Sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado as the anointed candidate of the newly formed Freak Power…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryLouis Armstrong’s Weed Dealer Transformed Jazz
Reefer, muggles, gage — whatever jazz-age slang you prefer, marijuana most definitely played an outsized role in the development of this most unique and…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryA Lesbian Power Couple Invented Weed Brownies
Alice B. Toklas was born in 1877 in San Francisco, but she relocated to Paris after the earthquake of 1906 destroyed 80% of her hometown. And on the very day…
Great Moments in Weed HistorySmoke Down at the Liberty Bell
In 2013, renegade weed activists in Philadelphia vowed to host a monthly public smoke-out in front of the Liberty Bell. Despite clashing with heavily armed…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryHooray for Hollyweed!
On New Year's Eve 2016, Zach “Jesus Hands” Fernandez risked his life to change two letters on the world's most iconic sign. For the very first time, he tells…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryWAMM Takes Down the DEA
In 1973, twenty-year-old Valerie Leveroni Corral was riding in a Volkswagen bug through the Nevada desert when a small airplane swooped down low enough that…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryCheech and Chong Go Up in Smoke
Everybody knows Cheech and Chong as the world’s ultimate stoner icons, buthow did they rise from obscure road comics to writing, directing and starring in one…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryThe Iron Sheik Gets High and Destroys Kayfabe
What would happen if one of the biggest heroes and one of the biggest villains in professional wrestling got arrested for smoking a joint together? Just ask…
Great Moments in Weed HistoryBarack Obama's Weed Years
Ever wonder what President Barack Obama was like as a pot-smoking teenager in Hawaii? We did, so we dug deep into Barry's time with his high school weed crew…