Weed vs. The Olympics w/ Ross Rebagliati

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Ross Rebagliati won the first ever Olympic gold medal in snowboarding, only to have it stripped away when officials reported he’d tested positive for marijuana on a post-race drug test. Ross soon found himself in a Japanese police station, under heavy interrogation for hours and potentially facing a long prison sentence simply for having a few nanograms of THC metabolite in his urine. He tells Abdullah and Bean his entire epic Olympic story, from being fifteen and one of the first serious ski racers to switch to snowboarding, to smoking weed on the chairlift while training for World Cup events, to everything he went through at the 1998 Olympics and its aftermath, and his new career as the founder of Ross’s Gold, a Canadian cannabis company. He also offers words of comfort and encouragement to sprinting sensation Sha'Carri Richardson, who was disqualified from this year’s Tokyo games after testing positive for THC. JOIN US ON PATREON Sign up for our Great Moments in Weed History Patreon for special bonuses and fun surprises PLEASE VISIT OUR SPONSORS! This episode is brought to you by Tweedle Farms, Northwest Oregon's premier, family owned hemp farm, specializing in farm-to-table, terpene rich, high CBD hemp flower, concentrates, vapes, edibles and topicals. Use promo code “greatmoments” for 20% off your next order shipped anywhere in the United States.

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean.
0:03.1	And welcome back to another episode of Great Moments in Weed History.
0:09.8	For starters, we wanted to give a big shout out and a big thank you to everyone who supports us on Patreon.
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0:35.4	That's right. We love each and every one of you who supports us on Patreon, but there's
0:40.0	lots of ways you can support the show. You can post about us on social media. That's a huge
0:46.0	help. Word of mouth is our number one way to reach new listeners. Or you can hit pause right now.
0:53.3	Now, usually when I tell you to hit pause, it's to roll up a joint.
0:57.0	But in this case, I'm just going to say, please text five friends. Tell them about great moments
1:02.3	in weed history. We would love you for it. Thanks. So our episode today relates to something
1:07.7	that's been in the news recently. And I'm talking, of course, about
1:11.7	Shakari Richardson, the American athlete who was barred from competing in the Olympics because
1:17.5	she tested positive for cannabis. And there's been all kinds of hoopla about whether or not
1:23.2	cannabis is a performance enhancing drug. What do you think, Bean? Well, I'd say cannabis definitely enhances my performance when it comes to certain things,
1:31.8	like writing or daydreaming or coming up with new weed puns. But unless the Olympics are
1:38.0	going to add an eating contest, I don't really see how they can call weed a performance
1:42.9	enhancing drug. What we're going to hear a lot about in this episode, however, is that cannabis can play a key
1:49.7	role in supporting the health and the well-being of an elite athlete.
1:54.2	Shakari Richardson actually spoke really movingly on The Today Show about how she turned
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