Hippies and Freaks Created The Ideal Weed Fest

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

As America's most thoroughly freak-powered cannabis festival celebrates its 30th Anniversary, we share a sesh with legendary street activist Vivian McPeak,, who co-founded the Seattle Hempfest in 1991. From the event's radical roots as a "protestival" occupation of a public park, to the glory days of legends like Jack Herer and Woody Harrelson addressing 100,000+ stoners at 4:20 from the main stage amid a massive cloud of smoke, Vivian explains how a combination of hippie idealism, pothead pragmatism, mutual support and civil disobedience helped establish Seattle Hempfest as a people-powered working model for every freaky weed fest to follow.. Plus the inside story of the first-annual Bong-A-Thon, and a weed pun battle for the ages. Learn more and get involved at hempfest.org and check out Vivian's podcast Hempresent. SUPPORT "GREAT MOMENTS IN WEED HISTORY" ON PATREON Sign up for our Great Moments in Weed History Patreon for special bonuses and fun surprises PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS! This episode is brought to you by Tweedle Farms, Northwest Oregon's premier, family owned hemp farm, specializing in farm-to-table, terpene rich, high CBD hemp flower, concentrates, vapes, edibles and topicals. Use promo code “greatmoments” for 20% off your next order shipped anywhere in the United States.

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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
0:06.0	moments in weed history. This week's topic is a recurring event. It's celebrating its 30th
0:13.2	anniversary this year and it has been absolutely crucial to the development of cannabis culture
0:19.0	here on the West Coast and throughout the United States.
0:22.3	Isn't that right being?
0:23.2	Yeah, and I'd say throughout the world and what I love about this particular event,
0:28.1	and this is going to resonate with longtime listeners of this podcast,
0:31.4	is it is absolutely 100% freak-powered.
0:36.2	That goes right back to our episode about Hunter Thompson's freak powered campaign to be the sheriff of the town where he lived.
0:43.3	It goes right back to Tom Fasad, personal weed hero of mine, who had a whole freak power movement to start High Times Magazine.
0:52.3	And here we see it applied to an event and we see that it's not
0:56.9	just freak powered internally it spreads that freak powered message as you said to the whole west coast
1:04.1	to the whole country and around the world yeah absolutely and we are talking of course about
1:10.1	Seattle hemp fest our guest is
1:13.3	Vivian McPeek who's a full-time activist and community organizer dedicated to
1:18.6	promoting peace social justice the environment and drug policy reform in
1:23.9	1991 he was a co-founder of Seattle Hempfest, which has been going on for a long time,
1:29.8	but of course has been canceled for the past two years and is struggling currently to survive.
1:35.6	Vivian also hosts the podcast Hemp Present.
1:39.0	And as you'll hear on this episode, he is truly a weed pun master who gives even Bean in Stock a run for his money.
1:47.1	You think so, man?
1:48.3	Oh, man, it's all in the tape, and I'll say it was, I feel like I took a standing A count of weed punnery.
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