Willie Nelson Gets High on the Roof of the White House

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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From his first toke in West Texas in 1954, to the joint he's most definitely puffing on right now, Willie Nelson has been America's ultimate weed icon for over sixty years. In the first ever episode of the podcast,, Bean tells Abdullah about the time the Red Headed Stranger smoked a "fat Austin torpedo" on the roof of the White House. PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video shows and seshes, plus access to cool rewards like a signed book or signature lighter. And it truly helps us make the best show possible.

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going, folks? This is Abdullah Saeed.
0:03.0	And hi there. It's David Bean and Stock.
0:05.8	Welcome to great moments in weed history.
0:09.4	Now, on this podcast, what we're going to do is explore some of the lesser known and more interesting points in the long history of cannabis.
0:17.6	And it is a long history. Don't let them tell you otherwise.
0:20.5	10,000 years humans have been consuming this plant. cannabis. And it is a long history. Don't let them tell you otherwise. Ten thousand years,
0:22.1	humans have been consuming this plant. It's probably the oldest and first cultivated plant.
0:29.4	The whole dawn of agriculture was because people back then were not dumb. Yeah. And it's attached to
0:36.8	so many other things as well.
0:38.9	It's attached to spirituality.
0:40.5	It's attached to trade.
0:42.4	It's attached to economics.
0:44.5	And yeah, I mean, we're going to try to cover as much of that fascinating history as we can.
0:49.8	And we have our work cut out for us.
0:51.6	Yeah, once a week.
0:52.9	Like you said, some of the lesser-known stories.
0:55.0	And sometimes we'll talk about the better-known stories in cannabis history and really
0:58.7	dig into those details.
1:01.0	So it's going to be a lot of fun.
1:03.4	My partner is currently twisting one up.
1:07.0	We advise you to do the same.
1:10.2	You can hit pause if you're a little behind that process and we'll wait for you.
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