Higher Education: Now You Can Major in Cannabis Studies

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

College students have always experimented with weed, but there's never been anything like Cal Poly Humboldt's new Cannabis Studies Program. Housed at a state university located in the most famous cannabis cultivation region in the United States, the program is the pipe-dream-turned-brain-child of Dr. Dominic Corva, a professor in the Department of Sociology and a longtime cannabis law reform advocate. For this episode, Bean turned the interview portion of the podcast over to Jada Morrison, a second year student in the program who also served with distinction as the first ever Great Moments in Weed History intern. Jada conceived and produced this episode as part of her final project, for which she earned school credit. Great work Jada! 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 120+ 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	Hi, everybody.
0:03.0	Hi, everybody!
0:04.0	It's been, welcome to an all new, great moments and welcome an all-new great moments in weed history. This is a very special
0:26.5	episode, first and foremost, because we're going to talk about a great moment in weed history
0:32.9	that's happening right now in one of my favorite places on earth Humboldt County. Longtime listeners to
0:41.8	this podcast have heard a lot about Humboldt County, which is famously part of Northern California's
0:48.8	legendary Emerald Triangle, aka America's weed basket. Most recently recently we set our hot box time machine back to
0:58.3	1987 for an episode about the making of a low-budget monster movie called
1:03.3	Gonjasaurus Rex. No, it's not exactly based on a true story, but that incredible film does
1:10.4	tell the all-too-true story of how
1:12.8	Humboldt cannabis growers took on the government and won. It all started in the late
1:18.9	1960s, went back to the land. Hippies first migrated to Humboldt to set up homesteads, and well,
1:26.4	a lot of them ended up growing some weed alongside their
1:29.7	beets and carrots to help make ends meet. Little did they know those small plots of weed were the
1:36.1	start of a movement, an underground economy, and ultimately a really beautiful way of life. Over the
1:43.1	next 50 years, humble growers would fight off an all-out assault on their lives
1:49.2	and livelihoods by the federal and state government's thugs, including a coordinated campaign
1:56.2	of helicopter raids, all while earning an international reputation for being at the forefront of
2:03.5	cannabis cultivation and innovation. Fast forward to the legalization era, however, and many
2:10.2	and Humboldt are struggling as the legal weed industry too often fails to deliver promised
2:16.2	benefits to the very people and communities that pushed back
2:20.2	so hard and so successfully against a racist and oppressive prohibition on a beneficial
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