Hi, everybody. It's Bean and welcome to an all-new great moments in weed history. In this episode,

which I'm calling what your doctor doesn't know or won't tell you about medical cannabis,

we're going to talk with a very cool doctor who has been studying the therapeutic effects of

cannabis for more than 50 years. That's right, half a century.

Dr. Jeffrey Hogan, rather, my esteemed guest, this weed, is a tireless advocate for safe access

to our favorite lifesaving plant, including as a founding member and one-time president of the

Society of Cannabis Clinicians,

the oldest organization of physicians specializing in the use of cannabis as medicine.

As you're about to hear, even way back as a medical student in the early 1970s,

the good doctor recognized that cannabis has tremendous utility in alleviating suffering and promoting good health.

This, despite a coordinated and ongoing to this day, propaganda campaign against the plant by the government, the pharmaceutical industry, the media, and much of the medical establishment.

So, how did Dr. Hergan rather see through all of that book? pharmaceutical industry, the media, and much of the medical establishment.

So how did Dr. Hogan rather see through all of that bullshit?

Firstly, by smoking weed, of course, same way we all did.

Then shortly after becoming a doctor, he witnessed firsthand the plant's incredible potential

for treating a wide variety of conditions

during the seven years he served as in-house physician at the farm, a legendary counterculture commune in

rural Tennessee.

Hey, hey, Doc, it's me, Sunshine Rainbow. Sorry to wake you up. My neuropathic pain is flaring up again.

Do you think I should, uh, you think I should smoke an indica or a sotiva? We'll hear lots more about

that experience in the episode for a little background. The farm was founded in 1971 by Stephen and Ina Mae Gaskin as an intentional community

based on principles of nonviolence and respect for the earth.

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