Dope History

By: Tad Hussey Chad Westport
  • Summary

  • Hosted by Tad Hussey and Chad Westport, the Dope History podcast weaves you through the lives of those who have been touched by cannabis or have had an influence on the events that shaped our laws or relationship with this plant. You can find us at Dopehistory.com, on instagram and facebook at DopeHistoryPodcast, and on Patreon at Dope History for additional content and ways to support the podcast. Our first season includes 2 posthumous guests, emphasizing the importance of capturing these stories. We have Tommy Chong, Wolf Segal, Jorge Cervantes, Tom Alexander, Eddy Lepp, Keith Stroup, Ed Rosenthol, and Madame Cannoli sharing Frenchy Cannoli’s life story.
    2022 - 2023 Dope History
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Episodes
  • Episode 9: Tommy Chong
    Mar 15 2023

    Tommy Chong has been a lifelong artist. He’s a Musician, an Improv comic, a writer, a movie star, and much more, it is hard to pin Tommy down, he’s an original. Tommy had started an underage music club in his teens and ran a strip club as a young adult. From there are the tales of working for Motown, meeting Mohamed Ali, discovering the Jackson 5, and all of this is before his award winning comedy records with Cheech. This is all prior to "Up In Smoke" being created. Tommy walks us through his legendary career from teen musician to professional actor, writer, and director.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 8: Jorge Cervantes
    Jan 30 2023

    Jorge Cervantes is known as a prolific cannabis author around the world, but his story began in a small rural town on the west coast. It was in this conservative environment he first was exposed to cannabis and it was there he took his first toke. Like many kids raised in the 50’s and 60’s, he was taught many of the common lies about cannabis and having experienced otherwise, the lense through which he viewed things shifted. Jorge Cervantes has authored 50 books and DVDs, in 12 languages and his Marijuana Horticulture handbook is widely known as “the grow bible”. He started by self publishing is work and from there was able to sign with professional printers who could also handle distribution. Although his work had been translated to a dozen languages, there were many countries were his books were banned. That didn’t stop him from shipping his work, but it didn’t always reach the destination.

    There were other risks associated with being the author of books detailing the methods of growing this illegal crop. In 1989 Operation Green Merchant swept the nation and these types of materials and those providing them were targeted. Over his many years documenting thousands of grow rooms, Jorge has seen the technology advance from using traditional film to digital cameras. But did you know Jorge Cervantes has published grow books under another name?

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    51 mins
  • Episode 7: Wolf Segal
    Jan 23 2023

    What we consider commonplace today, was once cutting edge, and it was Wolf Segal who first wrote about Sea of Green as "Farmer in the Sky" in the pages of Sinsemilla Tips magazine. Later on, he smuggled out the blueprints for the SCROG technique under the watchful eye of the law to be published worldwide. Listen in as he describes the origins of these techniques and other insightful ideas he brought to the cannabis community.

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    1 hr and 1 min

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