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Hi, everybody. Welcome to an. Welcome to an all-new great moments in weed history. What does it mean to talk about pride when it comes to cannabis? First and foremost, it means celebrating the central role that the LGBT community has played in the global struggle for weed liberation.

If that's not a history that's familiar to you already, please, please, please, take the time

to dig into the archives of this podcast and listen to episodes about Dennis Perron, Brownie

Mary, and the organization Wham.

You will discover that the incredible civil disobedience campaign that rose up to provide cannabis to the sick and dying during the HIV health crisis of the 1990s was indisputably the driving force that led to legalization, first in

California and then around the world. Pride also has a special meaning for all of us weed

enthusiasts who've been stigmatized, criminalized, or ostracized for our love of this plant. Now, I know all kinds of people in the world

smoke pot and getting high is not some magic bullet to loving your neighbor. But if you can be part

of this compassionate, inclusive weed community that has faced government oppression on a grand

scale, plus relentless social

shaming and smear campaigns from the medical establishment, the media, religious leaders,

and even members of our own family. And yet, you still somehow can't make common cause with

people who face all that and much more for simply being who they are

and who also put themselves on the line to help free this plant, then I honestly don't know

what to tell you. My guest on this episode is the inimitable Lagonga Estrangea, a trans woman

who became an overnight weed icon while competing on season six of Rupal's drag race.

Oh y'all wanted a twist, hey! Come on, season six, let's get 60!

Yeah!

Yeah, bitch, work! If for some reason that makes you uncomfortable, may I suggest that you get comfortable and please just keep listening.

So you can hang out while two stoners talk about stoner stuff, just like on every other episode of this podcast.

I'd never met Lig Lagrange before this conversation,

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