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Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome back for yet another episode of great

moments in weed history. On this show, my partner Bean and I, who are both cannabis,

journalists and media makers, go through one of the more fascinating points in the long,

long, long history of cannabis. This episode is actually part two in a two-parter about Tom Fassad, the founder of

High Times Magazine. So if you haven't yet heard part one, I suggest you go listen to that first

and then come back and pick it up here with part two. When we last left off, Tom Fassad had

led a crazy life. He had been involved in

the underground press. He had been involved as a drug smuggler, and he had been brought up on federal

charges, and he had not yet started the magazine that we know him for today. Bean, I'm imagining we're

going to get into that today. As said when we left off he had been

federally indicted for a plot to firebomb the republican national convention uh something i think you know

we can all relate to mistakes you make in your youth yeah you know uh young the younger wild

wild in heart you know what i'm saying uh who among us hasn't been indicted on federal

charges uh and of course these charges it's like so much that's thrown at him are bullshit and they

don't stand up to scrutiny uh but at the time him and his girlfriend cindy his partner in crime

his partner in all these creative endeavors,

we're facing like 20 years each. They managed to win an acquittal at trial, and I'll just repeat

this quote from Tom to reset us in the story. He said, I had just been acquitted of an

explosives charge, and I went into a long period of self-examination

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