Hi there, everybody. It's Bean and welcome to an all-new episode of great moments in weed history.

This is going to be our final episode of 2022, and so I've got to start it off with a brief

public service announcement reminding you that whatever joint you light up a few minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve is going to

set the tone for your entire weed year in 2023. So make sure that you take some time now

to source something very fragrant, very potent, and very special that you'll either want to share with your friends

or your loved ones, or if you're just going to be under the blankets at home, firing one-up

loner-stoner style. You only get one chance to make a first impression on your new weed year.

And please post with the hashtag first smoke of the year

and also the hashtag great moments in weed history. So our whole GMIWH community can join you

and join each other in getting lit in 2023 and making sure that this

is the year of our weed dreams. Now then, for this weeds episode coming to you on

Weedness Day. As always, I am thrilled to welcome as our guest, Bill Drake, that might not be a name that's

immediately familiar to you, but if you love cannabis as much as I know, you all do, and I do as

well, we owe a huge debt to this individual because he wrote the first ever that we can find in the English language

in the Western idiom cannabis cultivation guidebook. This is going all the way back to 1970,

a book called The Cultivators Handbook of Marijuana.

It was written by Mr. Drake, our guest.

It was self-published and it really changed the world.

And this was all based on knowledge that he gained first by traveling around the world

to some of the traditional cannabis cultivation communities in places

like Morocco, Colombia, and Mexico. And then he ended up in Oregon himself at first as a

cultivator and then as somebody who wrote down this incredibly important knowledge and shared it at a time when the homegrown

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