Great Moments in Weed History

By David Bienenstock

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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.

Episode Date
Holidaze Special: Santa's A Psychedelic Mushroom Shaman
Dec 18, 2024
In Search of A Cannabis Utopia
Dec 04, 2024
The Cornbread Mafia: Backcountry Weed Outlaws
Nov 20, 2024
Weed Shall Overcome
Nov 07, 2024
Hunter S. Thompson Ran for Sheriff on A Freak Power Platform
Oct 30, 2024
Weed Voter Guide + Secret Tapes Reveal War on Marijuana Was A Fraud!
Oct 16, 2024
Meet the Ultimate 'Cannabis Couple'
Sep 18, 2024
Your 'Burning Questions' About Weed Answered
Sep 04, 2024
"I Weed A Miracle Every Day" — The Grateful Dead Get Busted and Win
Aug 21, 2024
Higher Education: Now You Can Major in Cannabis Studies
Aug 07, 2024
From 'High Times' to 'Reefer Dadness'
Jul 24, 2024
America's Best Dispensary Has Deep Roots
Jul 10, 2024
An Outlaw Weed Smuggler Started The World's Most Prestigious Pot Contest
Jun 26, 2024
A 1972 Study Had 20 Young Women Smoke Weed for 98 Days In Total Isolation
Jun 12, 2024
Dennis Peron Put the Grass in Grassroots
May 29, 2024
Hip-Hop Lit The Fuse of Weed Freedom w/ Fab 5 Freddy
May 15, 2024
Where Do Weed Strains Come From?
May 01, 2024
Dropping Acid on Bicycle Day (4/20 Special Episode w/ Shane Mauss)
Apr 17, 2024
Carl Sagan and His Best Bud Get Blazed and Save the Universe
Apr 03, 2024
This Total Solar Eclipse Is Gonna Be Trippy AF
Mar 20, 2024
The Epic Tail of Ganjasaurus Rex (featuring Jon Gabrus)
Mar 06, 2024
I Answered Reddit's Weed Questions
Feb 20, 2024
Meet Magu—China's Ancient Hemp Goddess
Feb 07, 2024
The Outlaw Weed Mayor of Lake Tahoe
Jan 24, 2024
Meet Mila—Amsterdam's Hashish Queen
Jan 10, 2024
BAKE TO THE FUTURE: The Year in Weed + 2024 Predictions
Dec 28, 2023
Holidaze Special: Trippin' Balls with Santa Claus
Dec 13, 2023
How "Wooks" Pass the Torch of Weed Wisdom
Nov 29, 2023
The Pot Prince of Bel-Air
Nov 15, 2023
Freaky Beatniks Smoked Tea and Started the Legalization Movement
Nov 01, 2023
How Weed Growing Went Global (w/ Jorge Cervantes)
Oct 18, 2023
From Rope to Dope
Oct 04, 2023
Help Save America's Weed-basket!
Sep 20, 2023
From 'Bong Boy' to Pot Humorist
Sep 06, 2023
What Your Doctor Don’t Know (or Won’t Tell You) About Medical Marijuana
Aug 23, 2023
Planting Cannabis on the DEA’s Front Lawn Led to Washington, DC Legalizing It
Aug 09, 2023
Speaking Truth to Flower
Jul 26, 2023
7/10 Special: Hash's High Holiday w/ Roger from Puffco
Jul 07, 2023
Corruption, Lawsuits and Moldy Bud—WTF’s Going On With Legal Weed?
Jun 28, 2023
America's 1st Legal Weed Patient Smoked 10 Joints a Day Supplied By the Feds
Jun 14, 2023
Chef Roy Choi's Korean Tacos Kickstarted Stoner Cuisine
May 31, 2023
Cannabis in the Ancient World
May 17, 2023
Inside Thailand's Weed Revolution
May 03, 2023
Let's Overgrow the Government!
Apr 19, 2023
4/20 Started w/ a Treasure Map to a Weed Garden
Apr 12, 2023
2nd Annual Weed-A-Thon
Apr 05, 2023
Weed History in the Middle East
Mar 22, 2023
Can Hemp Really Save the World?
Mar 08, 2023
The History of Hip Hop is Lit (feat. Busy Bee)
Feb 22, 2023
How Underground Comix Spread Outlaw Weed Culture
Feb 08, 2023
Let's Nerd Out About Weed
Jan 11, 2023
Meet the Brains Behind the OG Guide to Growing Weed
Dec 28, 2022
The Year in Weed 2022 + Trippin' Balls w/ Santa Claus
Dec 14, 2022
Rush Guitarist Alex Lifeson: "We Only Stop for the Best"
Nov 30, 2022
"Keep Pot Weird" with Reggie Watts
Nov 16, 2022
Celebrating Legal Weed's 10th Anniversary!
Nov 02, 2022
The Weed for Speed
Oct 19, 2022
The Godfather of Glass
Oct 05, 2022
Damian Marley: "Ganja is the Healing of the Nations"
Sep 28, 2022
Laganja Estranja Dragged Weed into Reality TV
Sep 21, 2022
Great Weed Moments in TV History (w/ Ashley Ray)
Aug 31, 2022
Stoners! We Gotta Boycott Krispy Kreme
Aug 24, 2022
The Secret Sesh vs. Corporate Weed
Aug 10, 2022
Bean Told Tucker Carlson to STFU About Weed
Aug 03, 2022
The World's Best Rock Climbers Find a Crashed Plane Full of Weed
Jul 27, 2022
How Growers Foiled the Cops in Humboldt County
Jul 20, 2022
We Get 'High & Mighty' w/ Jon Gabrus
Jul 13, 2022
7/10 SPECIAL: Psychedelic Surfers Invented Dabs
Jul 06, 2022
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Weed (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Jun 29, 2022
"Free Weed For Those in Need!"
Jun 22, 2022
Sour Diesel Put NYC on the Weed Map
Jun 15, 2022
Pot Brownies Have An Incredible Origin Story
Jun 08, 2022
How to Live Your Best Weed Life w/ Jessamyn Stanley
Jun 01, 2022
"I Sold Weed Cookies to Famous Comedians"
May 25, 2022
We Helped Judge A Prestigious Weed Contest!
May 18, 2022
Don't Trust the Same Authorities That Outlawed Weed To Justly Regulate It!
May 11, 2022
Chemdog Scored Some Magic Beans on Grateful Dead Lot
May 04, 2022
Jack Herer Green Pilled the World
Apr 20, 2022
1st Annual Weed-A-Thon!
Apr 06, 2022
Big Tech Tries to Cancel Cannabis... The Hempire Strikes Back!
Mar 30, 2022
Japan Once Revered Cannabis (And Will Again)
Mar 23, 2022
The Hidden History of OG Kush
Mar 16, 2022
How to Land a Legal Weed Job (Like 420,000 Other People)
Mar 02, 2022
The Fight to Save Mom & Pop Weed Farms
Feb 23, 2022
Inside America's Only Magic Mushroom Church
Feb 16, 2022
Why Ricky Williams Chose Weed over Football
Feb 09, 2022
Reggae Legend Peter Tosh Gets Lit & Burns Down The Shitstem
Feb 02, 2022
Snoop Dogg's Producer vs. The Hip Hop Police
Jan 12, 2022
HOLIDAY SPECIAL: The Year in Weed! + Santa's a Psychedelic Mushroom Shaman
Dec 21, 2021
The Commissioner of Cannabis is Cool AF
Nov 30, 2021
"Cannabis Saved My Child's Life"
Nov 10, 2021
Youth Revolt Against the Drug War
Oct 21, 2021
The Race to Preserve The World's Oldest Weed Strains
Sep 29, 2021
Hippies and Freaks Created The Ideal Weed Fest
Sep 08, 2021
David Crosby: "I'm Just Another Stoner"
Aug 12, 2021
Weed vs. The Olympics w/ Ross Rebagliati
Jul 29, 2021
7/10 SPECIAL: Celebrating Hash's High Holiday w/ an IRL Sesh
Jul 08, 2021
A Little Old Lady's Weed Brownies Changed The World
Jun 28, 2021
How Medical Weed Healed The World
Jun 17, 2021
Cannabis Pride and Prejudice
Jun 09, 2021
Making "Dazed and Confused" w/ Jason London (aka Randall "Pink" Floyd)
May 26, 2021
Is Biden Gonna Legalize, or What?
May 14, 2021
4/20 SPECIAL - Game Changing Weed Strains
Apr 19, 2021
Gettin' High With Willie!
Apr 17, 2021
Billie Holiday vs. Harry J. Anslinger
Feb 26, 2021
Santa's A Psychedelic Mushroom Shaman
Dec 18, 2020
John Lennon Was A Weed DREAMer
Jun 04, 2020
The Grateful Dead Fight the Man (And Win)
May 28, 2020
The High Hindu Holiday
May 21, 2020
Bong Hits for Jesus!
May 14, 2020
Oaksterdam's Weed Mayor
May 07, 2020
Hemp for Victory!
Apr 30, 2020
4/20 SPECIAL! - #BlazeAtHome Part 2
Apr 20, 2020
4/20 SPECIAL! - #BlazeAtHome Part 1
Apr 16, 2020
Summer of the Cans
Apr 09, 2020
Psychedelic Surfers Invented Dabs
Apr 02, 2020
Little Women Get Lit
Mar 26, 2020
The Pope of Pot (Live at the Brooklyn Podcast Festival)
Mar 19, 2020
Crash Buds!
Nov 21, 2019
Treetop Flyer: Tom Forcade Pt. 2
Nov 14, 2019
High Times Founder Tom Forcade Pt. 1
Nov 07, 2019
Hunter Thompson Ran For Sheriff on a Free Weed Platform
Oct 31, 2019
Louis Armstrong’s Weed Dealer Transformed Jazz
Oct 24, 2019
A Lesbian Power Couple Invented Weed Brownies
Oct 17, 2019
Smoke Down at the Liberty Bell
Oct 10, 2019
Hooray for Hollyweed!
Oct 03, 2019
WAMM Takes Down the DEA
Sep 26, 2019
Cheech and Chong Go Up in Smoke
Sep 19, 2019
The Iron Sheik Gets High and Destroys Kayfabe
Sep 12, 2019
Barack Obama's Weed Years
Sep 05, 2019
Bob Dylan Gets The Beatles High For The First Time
May 29, 2018
Dennis Peron—the Gay, Hippie, Combat Vet Who Legalized Medical Marijuana
May 22, 2018
How Amsterdam Became an International Weed Haven
May 15, 2018
Brownie Mary Baked THC-Infused Treats for AIDS Patients and Told the Cops to F*ck Off
May 08, 2018
Hashish Arrives in Europe Via Napoleon's Egyptian Invasion
May 01, 2018
A Weed Smuggler's Inspiring Tale of Life After Prison
Apr 24, 2018
4/20 Started w/ a Treasure Map to a Weed Garden
Apr 17, 2018
Carl Sagan and His Best Bud Get Blazed and Save the Universe
Apr 10, 2018
Fela Kuti Takes an Expensive Sh*t
Apr 03, 2018
Did Jesus Use Cannabis to Perform Healing Miracles?
Mar 27, 2018
Maya Angelou Smokes Some "Grifa"
Mar 20, 2018
Willie Nelson Gets High on the Roof of the White House
Feb 15, 2018