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It's been, welcome to an all-new great moments in weed history. Please roll up and get ready for the third ever episode of this podcast to explore an aspect of the cannabis-fueled cultural phenomenon known as the good old grateful dead.

And when you finish this one, you can go back in our archives to hear tale of the band's

1967 weed bust and how they fought back against the man.

And separately, the story of how the all-time game-changingchanging legendary weed-strain chem dog got its start as

bag seeds sourced out on Deadlock in the 1990s. Now, on to this Weeds episode, my guest is an

old friend and colleague, Brian Anderson, who just wrote an incredible new book called

Loud and Clear, The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound and the quest for audio perfection,

which recently made the New York Times bestseller list. Congratulations, Brian. I'm only a

little bit jealous. Loud and Clear is currently flying off the shelves at your local independent bookstore and on that big website too, because it's the first book to ever tell the full story of the Grateful Dead's unprecedented and unparalleled wall of sound speaker system from the 1970s, which was as tall as a

school bus is long and more than a hundred feet wide. What's that got to do with weed?

Well, for one thing, that massive speaker system was outfitted with multiple hidden compartments where the band and their roadies would stash their stashes of tallyweed as they toured around the world.

But really? Let's be honest. It was high-grade LSD and legendary underground chemist Stanley Owsley that powered the band's obsessive quest for audio

perfection. As for my guest, Brian Anderson is someone I'm proud to call a friend, and he was

also my truly brilliant editor at Vice back when I was actually getting paid to produce

in-depth, insightful, and even

investigative weed journalism. Brian and I first met when he was hosting and producing a 2013

video for Vice on the future of weed, and he stopped by the first ever post-legalization

high times cannabis cup in Denver, Colorado.

We bump into our buddy David Bean in Stock, who helped organize the event.

I just got a joint-handed man.

I think it's a really important thing that this culture celebrates itself

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