From Ancient China to the War on Drugs: A Historical Journey Through Cannabis Use

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac

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5 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome back. This is Andy and this is the almanac of the poor proles.
0:21.0	Today we're talking about everyone's favorite spice, the spice of life, your spice, and mine.
0:26.5	Marijuana.
0:27.5	Yeah, buddy, we're here today doing a holiday special here with Nash Flynn, who is going to tell us about all kinds of things about one of the coolest plants on Earth.
0:36.4	We're going to do a little bit of history and
0:38.1	try to bring it up to modern times today. Hey everybody. So let's talk about cannabis, baby. Cannabis is the
0:46.3	Greek and thereby the OG name for weed. Now there's a reason we mainly call it marijuana in the
0:51.6	US and why the term cannabis is just for when you're feeling fancy about it.
0:55.0	And guess what?
0:55.8	Is it a racial issue?
0:57.2	Ding, ding, ding.
0:58.0	It's racist.
0:59.2	But more on that in a few minutes, because the history of cannabis actually predates
1:02.6	written history.
1:03.6	And I'd like to think that means it also predates racism, but I'm not that much of an
1:07.7	optimist.
1:08.7	Well, that's a cannabis.
1:11.3	What?
1:12.0	Nothing?
1:13.1	Fine.
1:14.1	So, wait, wait a second.
1:16.2	Weed predates written history.
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