Little Women Get Lit

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Hashish bon bons play a starring role in one of Louisa May Alcott's "scandalous" short stories, but you'd never know that by reading her many biographies. Partially because she wrote Perilous Play (1868) under a pen name, but mostly because her experiences with high-powered edibles have been all but erased from history. With the recent Greta Gerwig adaptation of Little Women sparking a revival of interest in the author, Abdullah and Bean spend the episode recounting Alcott's incredible life story, and uncovering her stoney exploits, including settling in for story time as they read weed-infused excerpts from her jaunty little tale about a group of young society women who pass a most interesting afternoon and evening together by getting absolutely wrecked on hash candy. Special thanks to researcher and activist Ellen Komp, author of Tokin' Women: A 4,000 Year Herstory, which chronicles this story and many others. 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.

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0:00.0	This podcast is for adults 21 years of age or older. We talk about cannabis history and advertise
0:07.7	cannabis products. If you're not 21, come back when you are.
0:14.4	Spoke Media
0:15.4	Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome back for another episode of great moments in weed history. On this podcast, my partner Bean and I go over some of the more fascinating points in the very, very, very long history of human beings and cannabis. Isn't that right, Bean?
0:36.5	That is precisely what we do. And I don't know the story we're going to hear Bean is written and cannabis. Isn't that right, Bean? That is precisely what we do.
0:38.5	And I don't know the story we're going to hear.
0:40.6	Bean has written and researched it, and he's going to be telling it to you and to me.
0:44.6	We're going to smoke some weed.
0:46.1	And yeah, I'm stoked, man.
0:47.5	What do you got for me today?
0:48.9	Today, I've got a story for you about a very unlikely, very unheralded, very unknown weed person who's famous
0:57.4	for other things, but has a hidden weed history that we're going to reveal today.
1:02.9	Whoa. I always love hearing that somebody whose work I'm familiar with is a weed person
1:09.6	because it makes you feel like,
1:11.2	all right, you know, the world is a slightly better place because weed people tend to be
1:16.1	pretty cool people. So I'm stoked, man. I have a joint rolled up for us right here that's
1:22.1	ready to go. Oh, well, that works for us. But what about if you're listening right now and
1:26.8	you just got some button and you didn't roll it up yet.
1:28.8	Well, no worries.
1:30.4	You just hit pause.
1:31.9	Get yourself situated.
1:33.0	Roll up a nice J.
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