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Great Moments in Weed History

Jack Herer Green Pilled the World

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8659 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Celebrate today's high holiday with the story of Jack Herer—the man, the myth, and the strain that changed the weed game forever. This is the legendary tale of how a cannabis-hating rightwing military police officer had his life transformed forever the first time he got high (really, really high) off some Acapulco Gold and became the leading voice of the weed resistance. From writing his classic cannabis conspiracy book The Emperor Wears No Clothes, to rediscovering a US government propaganda film called Hemp for Victory, to traveling the country tirelessly with his band of cannabis evangelists, this one-man movement inspired an entire generation of activists and agitators and helped usher in the beginning of the end of the War on Weed. If you only know Jack Herer the incredible strain of cannabis, well, then, you don't know Jack. But you will after experiencing this special live episode, recorded at the Green Street building in Los Angeles. Very special thanks to our sponsors for this episode, High 90s, Podtones, Big Pete's Treats and Heavy Hitters. 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

Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And happy 420! That's right. It is weed

0:09.8

Christmas up in the house and your favorite weed podcast is celebrating in kind. We are so stoked

0:18.6

for this holiday. Bean, how are you feeling this 420?

0:22.2

I'm feeling optimistic.

0:24.4

I'm feeling fired up.

0:26.0

I'm feeling like this story that we're going to drop today is going to inspire a lot of people.

0:32.9

This 420, I'm going to actually be in New York City, a place where I was arrested for smoking weed,

0:39.4

a place where I was handcuffed and put in the police car, you know, not comparing it to

0:43.8

the many people I know who did time. But now I'm going to go back with a friend of mine

0:50.4

to the exact place where we got busted smoking weed and we are going to light one up on the

0:55.8

street and it's perfectly legal to do that now. So if you heard last week's episode, you now know

1:01.9

the history of 420 itself. If you have not, please go check it out. It's a rebroadcast of our famous

1:08.1

Waldo's episode that tells you about the origin story of 420.

1:12.4

But for today, the day in question 420, we have a very special episode that we recorded

1:19.0

live in front of a studio audience at Green Street in Los Angeles.

1:24.8

This was a fantastic night.

1:27.2

It was our first live show post-pandemic.

1:30.4

Of course, we've done a couple before. You might have heard them. Our one with Ben Sinclair

1:34.3

at the Brooklyn Podcast Festival. Our one about the summer of the cans up at Savage Henry.

1:40.2

And this one right here was all about one of the most famous names in cannabis, probably the most

1:47.0

famous name in modern cannabis. And it was a really good time. The person in question, our

1:53.1

subject, his son was actually in the room and he really loved the episode, which was very, very

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