HOLIDAY SPECIAL: The Year in Weed! + Santa's a Psychedelic Mushroom Shaman

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Celebrate 2021's weediest highlights with Abdullah and Bean's inebriated recounting of the year's most impactful cannabis news stories. PLUS: Our annual re-telling of the classic Chrstmas tale "Santa Claus is a Siberian Mushroom Shaman." Recorded IRL in a "holiday hashish hot box," this episode also gave rise to a conspiracy-themed spin-off show called "The Green Pill," and introduced our new sponsors Human Meat and Vlad's Blintzes. PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video shows and seshes, plus access to cool rewards like a signed book or signature lighter. And it truly helps us make the best show possible. ARTICLES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE Our round-up of 2021's biggest marijuana stories featured these articles and journalists:: LEAFLY REPORTS Leafly Cannabis Harvest Report this year (by David Downs) Leafly Jobs Report (by Bruce Barcott, Beau Whitney, and Janessa Bailey) Leafly Seeds of Change Report (by Janessa Bailey) Altria, Maker of Marlboro Cigarettes, Is Lobbying on Cannabis Sales in Virginia By Nushin Rashidian and Alyson Martin in Cannabis Wire How Mitch McConnell Accidentally Created An Unregulated THC Market By Lester Black at 538.com I needed answers. My hunt to find the backstory of the perfect pot pipe By Adam Tshcorn - LA Weekly Marijuana trade group drops lawsuit against state after backlash by Dan Adams - Boston Globe South Dakota Supreme Court Invalidates 2020 Marijuana Legalization Initiative As Activists Pursue 2022 Ballot Kyle Jager - Marijuana Moment VA Secretary ‘Looking At’ Medical Marijuana Policy Change Following ‘Profound’ Discussion With Veteran Kyle Jager - Marijuana Moment Conan O’Brien Celebrates Retirement By Smoking Weed With Seth Rogen On TV Kyle Jager - Marijuana Moment The Oligiarch and the Marijuana Fund Mary Jane Gibson - Rolling Stone Winemakers Collaborate With Weed Growers on New Cannabis Appellation System Jackie Bryant - Wine Enthusiast Celebrity Cannabis by Lindsey Carmela Bartlett in Forbes Steve Urkel Justin Bieber Seth Rogen Lil Kim ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DISCOVERS 17 PSYCHEDELIC COMPOUNDS by Jimi Divine - LA Weekly

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome to the great moments in weed history
0:05.8	holiday special. This episode right here marks the beginning of a new tradition for this show. Isn't that
0:12.8	right, Bean? We're going to go through all the biggest and some of the weirdest and all of the
0:17.9	wildest and a few of the just unbelievable stories that happened in 2021 in the
0:24.7	world of weed and a little beyond. Yeah, absolutely. And of course, that will be followed up by
0:30.3	rebroadcast of our holiday special from last year. Santa was a psychedelic mushroom shaman.
0:36.9	It is all true. And if you haven't heard it,
0:39.8	we highly encourage you to stick around and check out the whole episode. We're certainly
0:44.2	going to be listening to it this holiday season. And also, Bean and I are sitting in the same room
0:51.2	right now, IRL, something that we haven't gotten to do in a long time.
0:55.4	How does it feel, Bean?
0:56.5	Oh, it is a big pleasure, my friend.
0:59.1	I mean, nothing against the Zoom sessions.
1:01.7	The Zoom sessions have been keeping us, I think, all going.
1:05.0	We definitely encourage you to Zoom Sesh with your friends near and far.
1:09.8	But having an ashtray between us that we can
1:12.8	both asch into is really, I think, the way we like to do this show.
1:17.0	Yes, that's right.
1:17.9	And in fact, we are going to be sharing a joint.
1:20.3	This is not something that I do with anyone anymore except for my girlfriend, but you
1:25.5	are the guy that I will share a joint with. First of all,
1:28.7	I have faith in your vaccinated capacities. And secondly, we have this very special joint where
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