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.
The Pope of Pot (Live at the Brooklyn Podcast F...
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Crash Buds!
59 min
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Treetop Flyer: Tom Forcade Pt. 2
46 min
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High Times Founder Tom Forcade Pt. 1
48 min
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Hunter Thompson Ran For Sheriff on a Free Weed ...
48 min
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Louis Armstrong’s Weed Dealer Transformed Jazz
48 min
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A Lesbian Power Couple Invented Weed Brownies
48 min
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Smoke Down at the Liberty Bell
49 min
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Hooray for Hollyweed!
43 min
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WAMM Takes Down the DEA
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Cheech and Chong Go Up in Smoke
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The Iron Sheik Gets High and Destroys Kayfabe
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Barack Obama's Weed Years
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Bob Dylan Gets The Beatles High For The First Time
In 1964, Bob Dylan met The Beatles for the first time, and after a bit of awkward small talk, offered to share some of his marijuana. Based on a misheard lyric, Dylan assumed the Fab Four already blazed, but it turned out this would be their first...
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Dennis Peron—the Gay, Hippie, Combat Vet Who Le...
Dennis Peron (1945-2018) first discovered the healing power of cannabis while serving in Vietnam. After smuggling two pounds of high-grade herb home from the front, he became a charismatic and defiant leader of San Francisco's medical cannabis and gay...
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How Amsterdam Became an International Weed Haven
Amsterdam has long been a safe haven for cannabis freedom, but few today remember the subversive, anarchistic, defiantly pro weed Dutch Provo movement (short for provocateurs), which used a mix of radical street theater and outrageous political pranks...
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Brownie Mary Baked THC-Infused Treats for AIDS ...
Mary Jane Rathbun was already selling weed brownies in San Francisco when the AIDS crisis hit. So the self described "little old lady" started volunteering at hospitals and crisis centers, where she made her "magically delicious" treats available for...
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Hashish Arrives in Europe Via Napoleon's Egypti...
In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt in a failed attempt to install colonial rule. French soldiers did succeed in enthusiastically adopting the local custom of consuming hashish, a practice with a long, storied history in the Islamic world. When the...
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A Weed Smuggler's Inspiring Tale of Life After ...
After 29 years in lock-up on a first-time cannabis smuggling charge, Robert "Black Tuna" Platshorn published his memoirs of bringing in planeloads of Santa Marta Gold from Colombia and getting snared in one of the DEA's earliest operations. Then...