America's Best Dispensary Has Deep Roots

America's Best Dispensary Has Deep Roots

Author: David Bienenstock July 10, 2024 Duration: 37:57
Since 1990, Housing Works has been actively supporting NYC's unhoused population and people with HIV/AIDS through advocacy, mutual support and entrepreneurship. Two years ago, the once radical organization was awarded the city's first recreational cannabis license, and quickly opened a beautiful, inclusive, welcoming dispensary in lower Manhattan that serves the community while giving back to those in need. On this weed's episode, we get the inside story on all that from Sasha Nutgent, Housing Works’ Director of Retail Cannabis. While Bean, our host, recalls his own "great moment" of buying legal weed just blocks from where he was arrested for smoking a joint. ALSO: HAPPY 7/10 TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE Check out our 7/10 Holiday Episodes from Years Past: Celebrate Hash's High Holiday w/ Roger from Puffco Psychedelic Surfers Invented Dabs Celebrating Hash High Holiday w/ an IRL Sesh PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video versions of this podcast and private seshes, plus cool rewards like a signed book. And it truly helps us make the best show possible  EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our podcast feed for 120+ episodes of Great Moments in Weed History, and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every Weednesday.

Great Moments in Weed History delves deep into humanity's 10,000+ year relationship with cannabis (a.k.a. marijuana) to explore the humor, heart, and historical importance of the planet's most revered and maligned plant. Hosted by David Bienenstock.
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Meet the Founder of An Iconic 1970s Weed Magazine [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:46
Charlotte Parker started Head magazine while working an entry level publishing job at Penthouse, in order to cover the world of weed in depth at a time long before legalization. Looking back at a few covers from those 19…
How A Weed Outlaw Became The Ultimate Cannabis Connoisseur [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:00
After being incarcerated as a teenager for weed, Kevin Jodrey joined the military and trained as a deep sea diver, only to end up conscripted into performing anti-drug interdiction raids out in the middle of the ocean. F…
High Times, Free Weed, and Home Grown: The Danny Danko Story [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:31
From judging the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, to touring Northern California during harvest season, to seshing with the steady stream of growers, dealers, breeders, smugglers, rogues, outlaws, musicians, celebrities, and a…
Celebrating Weed, Pride and Weed Pride w/ Laganja Estranja [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:32
What does it mean to talk about Pride when it comes to cannabis? First and foremost it means celebrating the central role that the LGBTQ+ community has played in the global struggle for weed liberation. Pride also has a…
A Weed Expat Inhales Amsterdam's Glory Years [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:27:52
Adam Dunn first arrived in Amsterdam as a teenager, and quickly found himself at the center of the city's famed international cannabis scene. In time, Adam would launch his own innovative ventures, including T.H.Seeds, w…
How  'Appellations' Will Put Cannabis on Par With Champagne [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:46
Much how wine, cheese, and other agricultural products are authenticated as coming from their traditional geographic zone of origin, a new program about to launch is California will help old school growers in traditional…
John Lennon's Hash Bust Set Off an Immigration Battle for the Ages [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:19
In 1971, John Lennon performed publicly, for the first time in five years, at a rally decrying the injustice of Michigan police targeting a radical political activist for an elaborate undercover sting operation, resultin…
"Weed brings slack to the ever-tightening vice inside my body." [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:44
Faced with the rare neurodegenerative condition Friedreich's ataxia, John Cernosek decided to become a patient-advocate and write a book about his healing journey with cannabis. He's currently headed to Las Vegas as an i…
The Trailer Park Boys— 'Baked on a True Story' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:46
Whether rolling up a six-paper-joint or hiding their hashish by making it into a driveway, the Trailer Park Boys have been growing, smoking, and celebrating the herb on their hit TV series for more than 25 years. So when…