Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome back for another episode of

great moments in weed history. Now, if this is your first time listening on this podcast,

Bean and I talk about some of the more interesting points in the very, very long history of

cannabis. We are both cannabis, journalists and media makers,

and we've spent chunks of our lives obsessing over and studying the wonders of cannabis.

And on this show, we get to talk about some of the moments that led up to our cannabis present.

You should know that I have no prior knowledge of anything we're about to talk about.

Bean has done all the research. He's going to be telling me the story, and I'm going to chime in.

We're going to smoke some weed. We're going to have some tea. It's going to be fun. So hang out with us,

and we're going to get into it. Bean, what do you got for us today?

Today's story is really all about resiliency, which I think is actually something we learn right from the plant.

I've seen some weed plants that were really mistreated or nobody turned the lights on for a while or they didn't get, and they, it's a hearty plant, you know, it grows. It is

truly a weed, right?

Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, historically, the resilience of cannabis as a plant and the

adaptability of cannabis as a plant is what led early human beings to carry it all over the

place with them, to take it to new places, to plant the seeds.

You know, you could rely on the fact that it would actually grow in a lot of different climates.

You know, hemp, which a lot of people think is a different plant than the cannabis that we,

the flowering cannabis that we use to get psychoactive flowers from.

But it's not, in fact, it's the same plant just adapted to a different environment.

So, yeah, I'm all about the resilience of cannabis, man.

Yeah, and of our culture and how we kept this going through the dark days of prohibition to ultimately win.

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