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I'm going to, welcome to annew, great moments in weed history.

Quick listener note, please get one rolled up and ready now,

because we're about to embark on a wild ride with a true OG.

After being incarcerated as a teenager on a felony cannabis charge, my guest this week

joined the military and trained as a deep sea diver only to end up conscripted into performing

anti-drug interdiction raids out in the middle of the ocean. From there, he slid back

into the weed underground, spending the next few decades moving serious weight in from Mexico,

and joining Northern California's second wave of off-the-grid growers, before, at last, coming out of

the cannabis closet entirely and creating yet another

new life for himself, this time as an internationally recognized expert on the plant's

cultivation, classification, and connoisseurship as co-founder of the Gangeser, a first of its

kind, Samay-like program for weed.

More on that later.

Running through my conversation with Kevin Jodry, in addition to these collected adventures,

you're also going to hear an informed, in-depth, and unfortunately, very timely critique of the government's global war on drugs, all based

on his direct experiences. Now, for the past 20 years, as an author, journalist, and the host of this

podcast, I've been telling anyone who would listen that the war on drugs is not just a racist and oppressive system of

social control, it's also a pilot program for American fascism and the transformation of

this country into a modern day police state. Long before our current crisis point, the war on

drugs began eroding our constitutional rights and personal

liberties, all under the guise of a big lie. I mean, does anybody even believe that the war on

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