Dennis Peron Put the Grass in Grassroots

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

After discovering the healing power of weed while serving in Vietnam, Dennis Peron smuggled two pounds of high-grade herb home. From there he became a charismatic and defiant leader of San Francisco's medical weed and gay rights movements. A fiery street-fighting optimist, he suffered multiple stints in prison—and even took a bullet in a police raid—all without ever giving up or backing down. The movement he helped lead and inspire liberated the world. If you don't know his story, then you don't know weed history. EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our podcast feed for 100+ episodes of Great Moments in Weed History, 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	I'm looking for everything.
0:05.0	I'm going to great moments in weed history. Welcome to great moments in weed history. Back when I worked at
0:25.5	high times, yes, back when it was cool, a fellow editor at that esteemed publication liked to say,
0:32.7	everybody loves irony. Nobody wants to pay for it. Well, I picked up the irony check recently when I went out
0:41.4	to celebrate being able to eat solid foods again after getting my wisdom teeth out and ended up
0:47.2	biting my tongue so hard that I haven't been able to eat, drink, smoke weed, or even talk
0:53.1	without pain for the past 10 days. The upshot being,
0:57.6	while I heal up, please enjoy an encore presentation of a classic episode from the archives. Given that
1:04.8	we're at the precipice of Pride Month, I selected the story of Dennis Perron, who put it all on the line for cannabis liberation and started a revolution along the way.
1:15.9	This episode is absolutely one of my favorites, and listener note, it also features my former partner on this podcast, Abdullah Saeed.
1:24.9	I'm keeping this intro very brief for obvious reasons, but please, please, please,
1:31.2	blaze one for me, my fellow stoners, and then settle in for truly one of the greatest weed stories
1:37.8	ever told. If you want to support this podcast on Patreon, please visit great moments inweedhistory.com and throw in on this
1:47.3	shit, it will bring me a smile and help me with some dental bills. And I'll see you all next
1:52.8	Weidness Day for an all new great moment in weed history.
2:01.3	Thank you. in weed history. Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah. Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome back for another episode of
2:25.2	great moments in weed history. Now, on this show, we go through some of the more fascinating
2:30.5	points in the long, long history of cannabis. And you should know before we get into it,
2:36.0	I have zero prior knowledge of anything that Bean is about to tell me. He's done the research
2:40.6	and written up the story. And he's going to tell me about it. We're going to smoke some weed,
2:44.8	learn a little something new about cannabis. And we're going to have a good time. So come join us.
2:50.5	Bean, what do you got for us today
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