4/20 SPECIAL - Game Changing Weed Strains

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, History, Comedy

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

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 the legendary landrace varietals of Nepal, Thailand, Nigeria, India and Morocco all the way to today's modern super hybrid strains. Due to prohibition, however, the history of these strains and the people who helped breed and proliferate them have been all-too-often lost, obscured or subverted. So to sift the myth from the legend, we're joined by the illustrious Danny Danko, longtime cultivation editor at High Times magazine before branching out on his own with the podcast Grow Bud Yourself. This is our official 4/20 episode for 2021, please share it with your buds while celebrating the high holiday. For a history of 4/20 itself, check out our Season 1 episode about the Waldos: "4/20 Started With a Treasure Map to a Weed Garden." PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video shows and seshes, plus access to cool rewards like a signed book or signature lighter. And it truly helps us make the best show possible.

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome to the 2021 420 special of great
0:08.6	moments in weed history. We're so excited that you're spending the day with us. Isn't that right,
0:14.7	Bean? Absolutely, man. I mean, it's our second 420 in quarantine. We're definitely looking forward to Puff Puff PASS coming back
0:22.5	next year. But for now, we've all got to celebrate 420 everywhere and every way that we can.
0:29.9	Yeah, absolutely. And today we're going to be getting into the weeds, as it were, and we're going to be
0:36.6	talking about some pretty serious strain history.
0:40.3	And for that purpose, we've got a very special guest, none other than weed legend, Danny Danko.
0:48.5	Yeah, Dan has been at the forefront as a cannabis journalist, as a grower, and with a long underground history
0:55.6	that predates all of that. And he was also really kind of my weed mentor when I started at
1:01.4	high times. I literally thought every strain name was made up. I'd never seen more than two
1:08.0	weed plants in one place at any one time.
1:11.0	And Dan took me under his wing.
1:12.7	And it's an education that continues to this day for sure.
1:16.5	So he's the perfect guest.
1:17.9	Yes, absolutely.
1:19.1	He's got a long, long rap sheet of weed experience.
1:23.4	And he currently hosts the podcast Grow Bud Yourself,
1:27.3	which is filled with really, really excellent
1:30.5	information on cannabis for anyone who's curious. You can check out Grow Bud yourself wherever
1:35.5	you find your podcast. We've done a couple different things for our previous 420 specials.
1:41.6	For our first one, we traced the history of 420 itself, which goes back to the
1:46.4	Waldoz. For our second one, Bean and I talked about some of our individual and collective
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