Hi, everybody.

It's been, welcome to an all-new great moments in weed history.

On this episode, we're going to tell the tale of a second-generation weed outlaw who, as a young man, fought the law and lost but never lost faith in the transformative power of the cannabis plant.

Fast forward to today, and the hero of this tale is now a successful cannabis business owner

and the mayor of Lake Tahoe, California, the very jurisdiction where the authorities once

literally tried to run him out of town.

That's right, after years of running from the police while growing and selling cannabis,

my guest, this weed, the one and only, Cody Bass, decided to run for higher office himself and won.

Now he's running the city.

We'll hear the ballot of Cody direct from the horse's mouth,

starting with his experiences growing up in a family of Texas weed smugglers. Cody is someone I have

personally known for a long time, but I got to say, until we sat down for this session, I never really

understood just how wild his weed journey has been. To me, he embodies the anti-authoritarian

streak that kept the cannabis movement going during the darkest days of prohibition. Because,

think about it. Without weed outlaws, there'd have been no weed, it without weed outlaws there have been no weed and without

weed there have been no weed movement before we settle in a session with cody i do want to pause and say

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