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Great Moments in Weed History

2nd Annual Weed-A-Thon

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8659 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Time to roll a joint, split a blunt, pack a bong, endabulate a dab—or do all of that everywhere all at once. Because it's the freaking Weed-A-Thon, my friends! 'Tis the weediest episode of the year, as we puff tough while revisiting top shelf clips from all of the best episodes and interviews in the long run of Great Moments in Weed History. All to raise money for a very good cause, namely keeping this podcast from disappearing into the ash tray of history. And if you do find it in your heart to throw in on this, and help us preserve cannabis history and spread knowledge of the plant around the world, well... all you've got to do is visit greatmomentsinweedhistory.com. Help Make This Podcast Possible! Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to a video version of the show and extra seshes, plus access to cool rewards like a signed book. And it truly helps us make the best show possible.  EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our Great Moments in Weed History podcast feed for 90+ episodes of our classic format, and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every other Weednesday.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, it's Bean and welcome to an all-new episode of great moments in weed history,

0:07.3

and more specifically, welcome to the second annual weed-a-thon.

0:12.3

Now, you may be asking yourself, particularly if you missed the first annual weed-a-thon last year,

0:18.6

what the fuck is a weed-a- i'll start with the weed this is the

0:23.2

episode where i puff tough from start to finish as i'm doing right now getting in shape for

0:32.7

420 and you know it wouldn't be a weed a thon without a lot

0:37.7

of lot of weed as far as the thon

0:40.6

as far as the athon part

0:43.7

go

0:44.4

that is because

0:47.0

oh who

0:48.7

it should start and for real

0:50.6

that is because

0:53.5

this is our annual fundraising drive, fund raising drive, where we first of all are going to start out thanking all of our supporters on Patreon who make this show possible, and we're going to invite all of the rest of you to please join in. You can go to great moments in weed history.com

1:13.1

and find out more about how to support this program. The whole weed-a-thon idea came to be

1:21.7

when I saw this clip online of, you know, you've probably heard of the Jerry Lewis telethon or old

1:30.4

comedian from before pretty much anyone's time at this point would go on TV for hours and

1:36.9

hours to raise money, to support children with developmental disabilities. A great cause, but

1:43.7

on one of these many telethons that he hosted,

1:48.0

things got a little weird late one night when he,

1:52.0

how else can I put it? He made a direct appeal to the nation's cocaine dealers.

1:58.0

You know that last year there was about $80 billion spent in this country for

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