A Weed Expat Inhales Amsterdam's Glory Years

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Adam Dunn first arrived in Amsterdam as a teenager, and quickly found himself at the center of the city's famed international cannabis scene. In time, Adam would launch his own innovative ventures, including T.H.Seeds, which developed world-famous and award-winning strains including Bubblegum, S.A.G.E., Heavy Duty Fruity, and Chocolate Chunk. He also started Hempworks, Europe’s first dedicated hemp store, with its influential in-house clothing label. Twenty years after first encountering Adam at the Cannabis Cup, where he was fumigating the room with a modified leaf blower full of weed, Bean sits down for an epic sesh with an old friend about the good old days when Amsterdam was the center of the canna-universe. Check out Adam's podcast The Adam Dunn Show. PATREON Please ⁠⁠support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon⁠⁠. Supporters get exclusive access to video versions of this podcast and private seshes, plus cool rewards like a signed book. And it truly helps us make the best show possible. EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our podcast feed for 150+ episodes of Great Moments in Weed History, and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every Weednesday.

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0:00.0	I'm looking on everything.
0:05.0	I'm going to, welcome to an all new, great moments and weed.
0:11.0	Let the bell right take something.
0:14.0	Yes, you're a Bible.
0:18.0	Hi, everybody.
0:19.0	It's Bean. Welcome to an all-new, great moments in weed history. Okay, everybody,
0:27.1	it's time to strap on your clogs and stick a joint between your two lips because we're going to
0:33.8	Amsterdam. Did you catch what I did with that tulips pun? My guess this weed is
0:39.1	Adam Dunn, who I first met in Amsterdam in 2003 when he arrived at the cannabis cup with a
0:46.1	modified leaf blower and proceeded to smoke out the entire crowd at once, with the leafblower's
0:53.1	engine revving away perilously as he blew an ounce of his
0:57.4	finest weed literally right into our faces. Just one of the great moments in weed history were
1:05.8	about to unfurl. As you'll hear in this episode, Adams is an American who relocated to the Netherlands
1:12.6	as a teenager in order to pursue his fascination with cannabis without the constant threat of
1:18.4	arrest he faced back at home. He arrived at the beginning of a golden age for that famed
1:24.1	international weed haven as Amsterdam was then attracting a rogues gallery of fellow weed refugees from around the world.
1:32.4	Within months of hitting the ground, Adam started his dream job at the Hash Museum owned by Sensi Seeds,
1:38.4	and over many years to follow, he would meet and sesh with pretty much every weed legend who rolled through
1:46.7	town. In time, Adam would also launch his own innovative ventures, including TH seeds, which developed
1:54.6	world famous and award-winning strains, including bubble gum, sage, heavy-duty, and chocolate
2:00.7	chunk.
2:01.6	He also started hempworks, Europe's first dedicated hemp store with its influential in-house
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