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Great Moments in Weed History

Burning Questions, Lit Answers

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, History, Comedy

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Roll up for a special edition of the pod where Bean answers your w--d advice questions with a little help from green-minded journalist Mary Jane Gibson and the Reddit r/trees community. Think of it as everything you ever wanted to know about your favorite plant but were afraid to ask. Check out Mary Jane (yes, that's her real name) via her incredible "My Sandwich, My Choice" Substack and her videos on Instagram and Tiktok. 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 in weed history.

0:25.6

As always, thanks for getting high on history with me, everybody.

0:29.6

Except this week, I'm interrupting our regularly scheduled weed history lesson for a fan favorite format.

0:37.1

That's right. It's another edition of

0:39.6

Burning Questions with Bean, where I offer heartfelt and or hilarious guidance to random people

0:47.3

who posted cannabis advice questions on Reddit. And this time I'm joined by Mary Jane Gibson, a journalist, media maker, friend of the pod,

0:58.2

and a very rare returning guest here on great moments in weed history. Mary Jane and I met way back

1:05.7

in the day while working together at High Times Magazine, yes, say it with me back when it was cool.

1:12.6

She's since gone on to become a distinguished journalist, frequently covering weed for Rolling Stone,

1:18.2

where this summer she also contributed an incredible and somewhat heartbreaking, long-form investigative

1:25.3

article titled My Best Friends Murder, in which she sought answers to some

1:31.4

very big questions 20 years after witnessing a senseless killing that became a tabloid sensation.

1:38.4

Or you may know Mary Jane as the creative voice behind my sandwich, my choice, a substack and series of social media

1:46.6

videos where she takes on important women's rights issues while making mouth-watering sandwiches.

1:53.2

What's the connection there? Well, it all started when some dumb fuck internet troll told her,

1:59.1

quote, make me a sandwich. You can check out those videos at

2:03.9

It's the Mayo for me on Instagram and TikTok. Now, before we get into the episode, I do want to

2:10.9

first say thank you to all the people who posted such thoughtful questions to the legendary

2:16.4

trees subreddit and really to that entire

2:20.2

community for being one of the coolest and most thoughtful online spaces for stoners.

2:25.8

Your questions provided the perfect jumping off point for some fun and very funny discussions,

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