Psychedelic Surfers Invented Dabs

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Smuggling hashish out of Afghanistan in the 1970s presented the Brotherhood of Eternal Love with a unique supply side problem, which they solved in a way that forever changed the game for cannabis concentrates and culture. Best known today for their international LSD operation, this legendary group of surfers, smugglers, and psychedelic evangelists also worked together with the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground to break their spiritual leader Timothy Leary out of prison. In this episode, Abdullah and Bean focus in on the Brotherhood's incredible marijuana smuggling ring, which got them dubbed "the hippie mafia" and involved some of the most fascinating characters in the long and fascinating history of cannabis true crime. Including the largely unknown story of Ronald Hadley Stark, who has been pegged by various people at various times as an undercover CIA asset sent to subvert the counterculture, a rogue KGB operative sent to foment a new American revolution, a ruthless career criminal disguised as a peace-and-love flower child, and a cunning snitch who transformed the Brotherhood of Eternal Love from idealistic hippies into international drug smugglers. For more on the BOEL, check out these books (The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, 1984 and Orange Sunshine, 2010) and documentaries (Orange Sunshine, 2016 and The Sunshine Makers, 2017). 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
0:06.5	advertise cannabis products. If you're not 21, come back when you are.
0:13.6	Spoke Media.
0:16.4	Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome back for yet another episode
0:22.3	of great moments in weed history. On this podcast, my partner Bean and I, who are both
0:27.1	cannabis, journalists, and media makers, go over some of the more fascinating points in the
0:32.1	very, very long history of human beings and cannabis. Isn't that right, Bean?
0:36.9	That is exactly what we do.
0:38.7	I don't know the story we're going to hear. I've never heard it before. Bean has written
0:42.1	and researched it, and I'm going to be hearing it fresh along with you, and we're going to
0:47.2	drink some tasty beverages. We're going to smoke a bunch of weed. I'm personally very excited.
0:52.2	Bean, what do you got for us today? Oh, I got a story today about an unheralded hero of weed history
0:59.5	who invented something that changed cannabis forever,
1:05.3	and I had never, ever in my life, heard of this person
1:08.7	until I started researching this story.
1:11.2	Whoa. Okay, so this is an unheralded person. And I mean, that's something we try to do on this
1:18.1	show is preserve history that is otherwise not being preserved. And this sounds like it fits right
1:24.9	into that category. So, I mean, I'm just thinking of so many different things
1:29.2	that this could be. It sounds like a really fun one. I'm ready to rock, man. How are you feeling?
1:34.9	I'm feeling pretty good. I see you got a Jay right there ready to go. That's right. If you're
1:39.6	listening and you're not all caught up, that's fine. You can hit the pause button. You can
1:43.7	roll up a J. You can that's fine. You can hit the pause button. You can roll up a J.
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