I'm looking on everything. I'm going to, welcome to an all-new, great moments in weed history.

Let me start by saying, happy harvest to everyone toiling away in the trim room while listening right now.

Tis the season to ply the scissors.

You know, I've had many, many different weird jobs over

many, many years, and I got to say sitting down around the trim table with some good friends

to snip the leaves off beautiful, fresh-cut cannabis flowers, well, it sure is nice work if you can get it, especially back

when that was a much more lucrative line of employment. Anyway, it would truly be my honor

to have this podcast provide the soundtrack to your trim scene, so please do go ahead and

suggest weed history story time as a listening option to your fellow trimmers.

However, let me just say that for reasons I'm about to explain, this may not be the ideal episode to introduce great moments in weed history into the group chat.

But it is an episode I've been wanting to do for a long time. My guest is Dr. David

Farber, a fellow at the University of Cambridge, a distinguished professor at the University of

Kansas, and the author of War on Dr. Dr. Farber and I are going to explore the many ways that

the war on drugs has laid the groundwork for the most heinous, legal, and human rights abuses

of our current political moment. Yeah, some heavy shits coming your way. Now, for the most part, this podcast exists to celebrate the high points of weed history

and culture.

For example, our previous episode is about a 1987, low-budget monster movie called

Gonjasaurus Rex.

That might be the right episode for your trim scene. But as Thomas Payne wrote,

in common sense, these are the times that try men's souls and women's souls and non-binary

souls, which means that now is not the time to look away from the gathering storm. And I do truly

believe that taking a deep dive into the history of the war on drugs is actually the best way

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