7/10 SPECIAL: Psychedelic Surfers Invented Dabs

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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To honor the high hashish holiday, we're celebrating the surfing, smuggling, LSD evangelists known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. That commune's international cannabis concentrate smuggling ring got them dubbed "the hippie mafia" and involved some of the most fascinating characters in the history of cannabis true crime. Including the largely unknown story of Ronald Hadley Stark, who has been pegged by various people at various times as an undercover CIA asset sent to subvert the counterculture, a rogue KGB operative sent to foment a new American revolution, a ruthless career criminal disguised as a peace-and-love flower child, and a cunning snitch who transformed the Brotherhood of Eternal Love from idealistic hippies into big-time drug smugglers. For more on the BOEL, check out these books (The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and Orange Sunshine) and documentaries (Orange Sunshine and The Sunshine Makers). EPISODE SPONSOR: LIFTED MADE Cannabis is meant to be shared, and our newest sponsor Lifted Made has found one of the most accessible ways to do it... with hemp-derived novel cannabinoids like Delta-8 THC, Delta-9, Delta-10, THC-O, HHC, CBN, CBG and more. EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our Great Moments in Weed History podcast feed for 70+ episodes of our classic format, and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every Weednesday. 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.
0:03.0	And welcome to a very special episode of great moments in weed history.
0:09.4	It is 710, as you might know.
0:13.1	This is the holiday associated with cannabis concentrates.
0:17.1	Because if you flip the number 710 upside down, it looks like it says oil, which is another
0:23.1	name for the general term associated with cannabis concentrates. But in weed world, this is kind of
0:29.1	a second 420 of sorts. And it's a big day. A lot of people are celebrating the consumption
0:36.1	of hash oil. Isn't that right? B? Yeah, it is the 420
0:40.7	of concentrates. You know, we've had episodes on this program talking about the long, long history
0:47.7	of concentrates, going back thousands of years. And we have this sort of modern dab culture
0:53.5	that's emerged in maybe the last 15 years.
0:56.6	And we're going to tell a story in this episode that is kind of the intersection point
1:03.5	between the old world of hashish and the new world of cannabis concentrates.
1:09.6	It is, of course, one continuous story, but somebody,
1:13.6	somewhere, had to invent the dab. Yes, that's right. A lot of people do not consider this
1:20.9	as they take their delicious hash rosen hits out of their terp slurpers, crazy double recycler dab rigs, you don't realize that
1:31.3	this is a relatively recent innovation when you look at the very long history of cannabis
1:37.0	and that in fact the origin story of where dabs came from and why they came into existence
1:43.4	is super, super fascinating and it connects with
1:48.0	one of the most interesting facets of American substance culture. Yeah, we're not going to
1:55.8	have a story about research scientists working at a university laboratory, but we're going to talk about people
2:04.0	who were on that level when it came to science and innovation. They just happened to be more
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