Hey, how's I going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome to another episode of great moments

in weed history. This month, along with the rest of the world, we are celebrating pride.

You might remember that last year we rebroadcast a couple of episodes, our one about Dennis Perrone,

and our one about Brownie Mary and their struggles

to get patients cannabis during the AIDS crisis. Please do go check out those episodes about

these two intrepid activists who were not only gay rights activists in the San Francisco

area, but also cannabis activists,

because, of course, there was a lot of overlap and remains a lot of overlap between those two

communities. And we are so proud to bring you a couple of different episodes celebrating Pride Month

this time around. Isn't that right, Bean?

Yeah, absolutely. You know, we were talking about how those Dennis Perron and Brownie Mary episodes,

early episodes of this podcast, are foundational to this story of cannabis liberalization,

to the medical cannabis movement, and really to history when it comes to these changes in our society and it just goes to show that it is the most marginalized communities, the most targeted communities that push for and enact these kinds of changes. So whether you're a gay straight or somewhere in between,

this is your story if you love weed. And if you don't know the story of Dennis Perrone,

if you don't know the story of Brownie Mary, please go back in our archives and re-listen or listen

for the first time to those stories.

For this Pride Month, we're starting things off with a classic interview

with Jessamine Stanley, somebody who we've come to know over the last couple of years

as she has moved into this movement with tremendous force of personality, of commitment, and of really

representing the modern face of cannabis activism in so many positive ways, even as she continues

to live in a prohibition state. Yeah, that's right. As a self-described fat black queer woman, Jessamine has been

breaking down barriers in the world of American yoga since she first started posting about her

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