Great Moments in Weed History
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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.
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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 audi...
'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 th...
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...
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...
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 th...
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 injur...
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 tim...
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 per...
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, dealer...
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+...
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...
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 abo...
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 po...
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 we...
"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 hea...
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 celeb...
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 c...
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 lo...
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. An...
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 marke...
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...
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...
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 l...
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 s...
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,...
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 Sher...
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 th...
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 fir...
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 Histor...
"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 A...
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...
From 'High Times' to 'Reefer Dadness'
Rick Cusick has worn many hats since first getting lit in the 1970s—editor, author, activist, advocate and agitator. He also raised a child solo while...
America's Best Dispensary Has Deep Roots
Since 1990, Housing Works has been actively supporting NYC's unhoused population and people with HIV/AIDS through advocacy, mutual support and entrepr...
An Outlaw Weed Smuggler Started The World's Most Prestigious Pot Contest
Tim Blake has proliferated the cannabis plant since the early 1970s.
About twenty years ago, he left the outlaw life behind to put himself on t...
A 1972 Study Had 20 Young Women Smoke Weed for 98 Days In Total Isolation
This story is pretty wild, extremely weedy, and most people have never heard of it before—including our guest, the esteemed weed journalist Mary Jane...
Dennis Peron Put the Grass in Grassroots
After discovering the healing power of weed while serving in Vietnam, Dennis Peron smuggled two pounds of high-grade herb home. From there he became a...
Hip-Hop Lit The Fuse of Weed Freedom w/ Fab 5 Freddy
From starring in the first-ever movie about hip-hop and graffiti, to hosting Yo! MTV Raps, Fab 5 Freddy has been a weed aficionado at the forefront of...
Where Do Weed Strains Come From?
Breeder Steve started growing weed in Canada in the 1980s, and went on to create some of the most popular strains of the last thirty years. So he's th...
Dropping Acid on Bicycle Day (4/20 Special Episode w/ Shane Mauss)
On April 19, 1943 Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hoffman took the world's first LSD trip, which included a rather harrowing bicycle ride home from his lab t...
Carl Sagan and His Best Bud Get Blazed and Save the Universe
As we gaze upon the Cosmos, let's remember Carl Sagan, the famed astronomer who attributed his most powerful epiphanies to the creative influence of c...