Chemdog Scored Some Magic Beans on Grateful Dead Lot

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Hop in our hot box time machine set for 1991 Grateful Dead tour, where a "kind bud snob" named Greg first encountered the incredible weed varietal he named "Chemdog." A moniker that Greg then took on himself while spending the next 20 years cultivating and circulating this foundational gas strain.. Chemdog (the man and the strain) in many ways paved the way for modern cannabis, but that road definitely had its rough patches. Hear this incredible story straight from the legend himself, as he tells Abdullah and Bean about being a tour legend, "helping out" Phish and the New York Giants, getting busted, and coming out on the other side as a legal master cultivator. EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our Great Moments in Weed History podcast feed for 60+ episodes of our classic 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
0:06.9	moments in weed history. Oh boy, on this one, we are truly talking to one of the biggest names
0:15.1	in modern weed in more ways than one. Isn't that right, Bean? Yeah, actually in two ways,
0:20.6	because much like our recent episode about Jack Herrer, rhymes with terror.
0:25.1	Terror.
0:25.9	Terror.
0:26.2	Terror.
0:26.6	Today we are telling the story of a strain that is named for a person.
0:32.9	The person is here, and the strain is one of the most beloved in the expanded weed averse. We are of course
0:42.5	talking with Kem Dog. The legendary Kemdog, he started his cannabis journey as a self-proclaimed
0:50.1	kind bud snob on the Grateful Deadlot. Maybe you've met this kind of guy, which is where
0:56.0	he scored some truly Magic Beans. Now, longtime listeners may know, Magic Beans was, of course,
1:03.0	my stage name during my very brief career as an illusionist, but here Beans refer to cannabis seeds. That is a grower slang.
1:14.0	And Ken Dog is going to take us through the entire story how he went from being just a guy who
1:19.7	loves cannabis to the parent of one of the most influential strains, which led to many, many
1:26.4	popular strains today.
1:28.5	Yes, and much like the story of Jack and the beanstalk, it's got its ups, it's got its downs,
1:34.5	these magic beans bring him to magical realms. But like many stories here on great moments in
1:40.1	weed history, you know, we are going to have some dips and dives. But it's a beautiful story that describes cannabis culture at a time when it was all about sharing.
1:50.3	It truly is an important piece of cannabis history.
1:53.7	Yes, younger listeners, before there were dispensaries, before there were delivery services,
1:59.1	before there were apps, there was the Grateful Dead that just
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