Big Tech Tries to Cancel Cannabis... The Hempire Strikes Back!

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Social media deletes, throttles and shadow-bans weed related accounts regularly, often without warning and with clear bias against independent creators. When YouTube erased Arend Richard's account "The Gay Stoner" with nearly 200K subscribers, he did get mad, but he also got even by bringing together a group of prominent "weed tubers" to form their own independent platform. Abdullah and Bean talk with Arend about the highs and lows of fighting the system. While exploring the suppression of cannabis education and entertainment as a free speech issue that's all-too-often ignored in the raging debate about cancel culture. EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our podcast feed for 60+ episodes of our classic Great Moments in Weed History 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 versions of this podcast and private seshes, plus cool rewards like a signed book. 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 back for another episode of great
0:06.7	moments in weed history. We have got a very special interview episode for you today with a really
0:14.6	interesting cat who started a platform for people who had been booted off of other social media platforms for
0:23.5	showing weed, smoking weed, loving weed, and we thank him for this act of digital protest.
0:30.9	Isn't that right, Bid?
0:32.0	Yeah, I mean, we are talking about big tech trying to cancel cannabis.
0:37.3	You really cannot deny that these big corporations
0:41.5	looking at the Instagrams of the world, the YouTube's of the world, the TikToks of the world,
0:47.1	and beyond are kicking people off their platforms, keeping you from saying what you want to say about a plant that is an incredible
0:57.7	medicine. We're talking about an important social justice issue. We're talking about a culture that
1:03.3	millions of people in the United States and tens hundreds of millions of people around the world
1:09.4	identify with. And yet yet we're being silenced
1:13.0	every single day. And, you know, I don't hear a lot of people talking about it.
1:18.5	Yeah, absolutely. You know, like it or not, social media platforms have incredible reach and
1:24.8	influence on people all over the world. It is truly the way in which we
1:29.8	all remain connected today. And while many companies reserve the right to control the type of
1:36.6	content that they want to display or allow, in this situation, what we're seeing is an erasure
1:43.6	of an entire segment of the world's population.
1:47.0	Because these platforms do allow the sales in advertising of alcohol, of diet pills, of supplements,
1:54.8	of all kinds of questionable products. And yet, a product that is legal in many places at some level in the United
2:02.6	States, a product that has never killed a single person.
2:05.3	And as you said, a product that happens to be a medicine for very, very ill people of all
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