The guest
B-Real: Rapper of Cypress Hill, longtime cannabis advocate and host of the Dr. Greenthumb show
What this episode covers
B-Real joins Joe Rogan for a sprawling, stoned conversation that opens on California's struggles, cannabis taxation and how illegal weed sales undercut the legal market. They dig into psilocybin and ketamine therapy, the dangers of hard drugs like PCP, meth and fentanyl, and the wrongful incarceration of people for weed now that it's legal. The back half drifts through immigration history, David Goggins, breakdancing as an Olympic-level athletic art form, 50 years of hip-hop, and Cypress Hill's New York-meets-LA sound that LA labels rejected. They close on absurd superhero-movie logic (the Hulk's indestructible pants), TV's escalating violence, and B-Real's vocal-coach discipline that preserved his voice.
Recommended on this episode
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David Goggins' two books (Can't Hurt Me / Never Finished)
David Goggins
“two incredible books they're they're amazing”
“David has uh two incredible books they're they're amazing and one of the things about the books that's so amazing is you realize like what he endured as a child”— Joe Rogan
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Trafficked
National Geographic
“it's a great show”
“I had uh Mariana Von Zeller on the podcast from that television show trafficked I don't know if you've seen that show it's a great show on the National Geographic”— Joe Rogan
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Yellowstone
“I love Yellowstone though oh man it's a great show”
“have you been watching Yellowstone at all yes... I love Yellowstone though oh man it's a great show watch the prequel”— B-Real
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1883
“watch the prequel... 1883 I heard it's amazing”
“watch the prequel um the prequel 1883 I heard it's amazing based off the duttons coming from I think Tennessee”— B-Real
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1923
“I heard that's amazing too”
“1923 is that second that second part of uh Yellowstone I heard that's amazing too”— B-Real
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Tulsa King
Sylvester Stallone
“he's killing it I gotta tell you and the storyline is hilarious”
“Sylvester stalling a mobster in Oklahoma and he's killing it but he's killing it I gotta tell you and the storyline is hilarious”— B-Real
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14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
“that's an amazing uh documentary”
“it's crazy that's an amazing uh documentary was it 12 Peaks yeah 12 Peaks there you go I mean when you think what it takes to do that”— Joe Rogan
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The Boys
“it's good man... up in the best way yeah it'll surprise you it's pretty good”
“if you watch the boys... oh it's good man uh both seasons... it is aggressive like the Watchmen it is up in the best way yeah it'll surprise you it's pretty good”— B-Real
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Cocaine Cowboys
Billy Corben
“one of the all-time great documentaries”
“that Billy Corbin documentary Cocaine Cowboy Cocaine Cowboys yeah one of the all-time great documentaries did you see the second part”— Joe Rogan
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Tropic Thunder
“that was amazing amazing”
“was the movie um Tropic Thunder Tropic Thunder that was amazing amazing dancing was incredible”— B-Real
ProductRecommended
Volcano vaporizer
Storz & Bickel
“those are the best man”
“if you don't know what a volcano is folks it's a um vaporizer... it all goes into this bag this Mist... those are the best man you go deep”— B-Real
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Dungee Glass gravity bong
Dungee Glass
“the taste that comes out of it is crazy”
“we did a collaboration with these guys... we use it for concentrates because the taste that comes out of it is crazy”— B-Real
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
John Marco Allegro
“he wrote this book The Sacred mushroom and the cross and in the book he was saying this is all about consumption of psychedelic mushrooms and fertility rituals”— Joe Rogan
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The Oxycontin Express
Mariana van Zeller
“she did this thing called the Oxycontin Express right which she explained the pill Mills in Florida and how people would buy the Oxys”— Joe Rogan
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Claws
“they had this show called claws right that um old girl um that that did Reno 911 needsy Nash right she she starred in this uh TV show called claws”— B-Real
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Aftershock
“it's a documentary that tells you what happened in that earthquake there you go Aftershock it was um man it devastated three places”— B-Real
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Reefer Madness
“in the 1930s they decide to do this propaganda campaign against weed and they do Reefer Madness yeah and all these movies that show people smoking pot and going crazy”— Joe Rogan
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Wild Style
“if you look at this movie called wild style it it it documents that and there's another one I think called Star Wars that documents that”— B-Real
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John Wick
“if you're gonna keep up with John Wick on a TV show this guy's body count is crazy the movie makes the least amount of sense he's the nice guy serial killer assassin”— Joe Rogan
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The Insider
“when Russell Crowe played that um whistleblower oh right look at that Movie Insider yeah wow there goes Russell Crowe on guitar”— B-Real
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Zero Zero Zero
“have you seen zero zero zero on Amazon... Tommy Segura told me about that one he goes that that is a wild crazy show”— Joe Rogan
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Narcos
“she got bummed out after a while with um uh the Escobar show uh narcos narcos yeah after a while I was like Jesus Christ so many people are getting whacked”— Joe Rogan
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Cocaine Godmother
“cocaine godmother on Prime video yeah but the real lady herself was like wow she was no joke”— B-Real
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The Curse of Oak Island
“The Curse of Oak Island The Curse of Oak Island yeah they got a TV show on this... it's a season seven of it so they obviously haven't found it yet”— Joe Rogan
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The Legend of Cocaine Island
“the cocaine Island... this guy went on a path to find like buried two million dollars worth of berry cocaine or something”— Joe Rogan
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Cocaine Bear
“how about cocaine bear no I haven't seen that but that's a true story I heard that's a true story”— Joe Rogan
ProductReferenced
Roor bong
Roor
“we broke out the bong and Rome wanted to hit it... it was made by roar oh look at that thing”— B-Real
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Zong bong
Zong
“that's an eight-footer made by zong how many pieces is that that's just one piece that's insane”— B-Real
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Jerome Baker Designs glass
Jerome Baker Designs
“Jerome Baker came out with his crazy ass pieces man it just blew the whole glass peace world”— B-Real
Big reveals from this episode
- B-Real shares that he used to perform on stage on a full 'melt' dose of mushrooms but stopped because deeply rooted anger issues surfaced until he worked through them.
- B-Real recounts using the Volcano vaporizer to record podcasts and getting too high to form sentences, calling them 'the best.'
- B-Real reveals he uses RSO/full-spectrum oil at 400-500mg in gel caps for his lifelong insomnia, timed hours before bed.
- B-Real explains every California label turned Cypress Hill down because their New York-influenced producer Muggs made them not sound 'West Coast' enough.
- B-Real credits opera vocal coach Elizabeth Sabine, plus quitting whiskey, blunts and soda before shows, for preserving his recognizable voice.
- B-Real and Rogan break down the upcoming Jon Jones vs Ciryl Gane heavyweight title fight.
Worth remembering
- California cannabis tax revenue hit about $1.29 billion versus Colorado's $423 million, but illegal sales rose because legal licensing is so hard.
- B-Real tells of a Southgate gang member who survived being shotgunned at close range because PCP kept him from going into shock.
- Ketamine was given to the Thai cave-rescue soccer team as a sedative to move them through the flooded tunnel.
- Rock art near Villar del Humo, Spain suggests psilocybin mushrooms were used in religious rituals around 6,000 years ago.
- Scholar John Marco Allegro, who decoded the Dead Sea Scrolls for 14 years, argued early Christianity stemmed from psilocybin mushroom rituals.
- In 2021 over 70,600 people died of fentanyl overdose in the US, up about 25% from 2020.
- John Wick has killed 299 people on screen across three films, more than Jason Voorhees' Friday the 13th total.
- The 1985 'cocaine bear' ate cocaine from a plane drop; its stomach was packed to the brim though it only absorbed a few grams.
- A 1983 PCP user reportedly uprooted a sapling, hurled it at a West Covina officer, then grabbed his shotgun and killed him.
- A documented 1877 account describes a young man performing breakdance-like spins on his hand, long before the 1970s scene.
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