Great Moments in Weed History

From his incendiary album "Legalize It" to his defiant speech denouncing Jamaican officials to their faces for their downpressive laws against ganja (delivered while smoking a spliff on stage), Peter Tosh fought for the equal rights of cannabis people around the world. While also promoting the plant's myriad of therapeutic benefits in detailed ways decades before the medical establishment started to catch up.

Along the way, he created some of the most seminal and iconic reggae music of all time, working solo and as part of The Wailers alongside Bob Marley and Bunny Livingston.

We're honored to have Niambe McIntosh—Peter Tosh's daughter and founder of The Peter Tosh Foundation—as our guest to discuss her father's life and work.

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Whenever cannabis and capitalism collide, legacy weed farmers find themselves caught in the crossfire—trapped between hyper-capitalized mega-grows with corporate lobbyists and the corrupt government bureaucrats who do their bidding.

In a just-published article for Rolling Stone, ace cannabis reporter and longtime friend of the podcast Mary Jane Gibson details how a shady backroom deal pulled the nug out from under California's old-school weed growers. As a result, a confluence of extinction-level-events now threatens to bring down the state's entire legal weed system via an impending market crash.

But fret not—the Hempire has only begun to strike back.

Mary Jane Gibson joins us for this episode of Moment in Weed, which includes a ceremonial smoke sesh.

Here's a link to Mary Jane's original article in Rolling Stone.

Find Mary Jane on Instagram here.

And connect with Weed + Grub, her podcast with brilliantly blazed stand up comedian Mike Glazer.

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With the highest of holidays just a week away, we're creating a new 4/20 tradition by revisiting one of our earliest episodes—a detailed and delirious telling of the true underground history of this extremely stoney global celebration.

First, Abdullah and Bean reveal their big plans for this year's 4/20, which falls on a Weednesday! Heads upt: Listen carefully if you're going to be in NYC that day!

We also give an update on the Weed-A-Thon, our ongoing effort to get to 420 supporters on Patreon. And then Bean gets way too stoned from puffing on a Podtone.

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In remote areas of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, indigenous farmers cultivate cannabis on small plots that date back centuries. Maintaining their precious landrace strains has been an uphill battle in an age of rapid industrialization, but now the effort to preserve this living cultural and botanical history has gone global.

The Indian Landrace Exchange is a a grassroots, locally-led, globally crowdsourced effort to support these traditional cannabis-growing communities while preserving some of the oldest cannabis strains on Earth before they're lost forever.

In this episode, Abdullah and Bean speak with @irrazinig—co-founder of the Indian Landrace Exchange—about growing up surrounded by post-colonial cannabis, making a fateful trek to "the Humboldt County of India," and forming a mutually beneficial bridge between indigenous communities and the world of legal weed.

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