Inside Thailand's Weed Revolution

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With a homegrown cannabis culture dating back to antiquity, and a well-established reputation for growing the world's finest weed, Thailand has long ranked as a dream destination for herbally-infused travelers. But it's only in the last year that the local authorities have decriminalized cannabis and embraced green tourism, ushering in a new era of freedom and experimentation. To find out how things changed so rapidly, what's happening right now, and what the future holds for Thailand's cannabis movement, we share a sesh with journalist and professional partier Michelle Lhooq. Michelle Lhooq is a drugs and nightlife journalist, and author of the stoner cult classic, WEED: Everything You Want to Know But Are Always Too Stoned to Ask (Penguin Random House). She writes a newsletter called Rave New World, and throws a party called Weed Rave. EPISODE SPONSORED BY PAX It's time to puff, puff, PAX with the world's most advanced cannabis vaporizer. Check out PAX.com for exceptional cannabis experiences made easy. And use the promo code "great moments" for 10% off your order! EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our podcast feed for 60+ episodes of our classic Great Moments in Weed History format, and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every Weednesday. 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

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. It's Bean, and welcome to an all-new episode of great moments in weed history.
0:07.7	I know it was almost two weeds ago, but I got to say, I am still a little bit high from 420.
0:14.6	Okay, not literally, but definitely in the sense that I'm just really excited to be done with winter
0:21.7	and moving officially into cannabis cultivation season.
0:26.2	Get those victory gardens planted.
0:28.9	Everybody.
0:30.0	Flower to the people.
0:31.9	And also,
0:33.0	thank you so much to all of you who rode in with Season seasons greenings for 420 this year. You can email
0:41.0	us absolutely any time. Info at great moments in weed history.com would love to hear from you.
0:48.4	Personally, I had an extremely lit high holiday down in Los Angeles this year. Checked out friend of the podcast, Mike Glazer,
0:57.0	hosting a show at the legendary comedy store, appeared on Friend of the podcast John Gabris's
1:03.5	annual mega-sash live stream, which you can check out on his high and mighty podcast feed. And then I raced across town
1:14.4	just in time to host a weed trivia contest with our friends at Green Street. But that,
1:21.4	my friends, was not the topper because just a few days after 420, I was invited to the Laginitas Brewery where I got to meet
1:30.4	a quorum of the one and only Waldoz.
1:35.3	Now, as great moments in weed history listeners already know, back in 1971, a legendary five-person
1:43.1	weed crew called the Waldoz gave birth to the global 420 phenomenon
1:48.5	when they set 4.20 p.m. as their official time of departure for an after-school safari in search
1:57.0	of a clandestine weed patch hidden way, way out in the wilds of Northern California.
2:03.8	The rest, as they say, is high-stery. If you don't already know this classic cannabis tale,
2:11.7	definitely go back in the great moments in weed history archives and check out our episode about the history of 420. It's a wild
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