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As the Allied armies advance,
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Hitler's Generals devise a master plan
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to counter the Allied attack.
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With the German army ready to defend itself to the end,
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Germany's High Command visit Hitler
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at his mountaintop retreat at Berghof.
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However, once there they are rebuffed by the Fuhrer himself,
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who tells them he has more important matters at hand:
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his birthday celebration.
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On 4-20-1944, Hitler celebrates his birthday
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while his armies are decimated in Western Europe.
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His generals conclude that the Fuhrer's recent pacifism,
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paranoia, and indecisiveness
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are due to his recent hashish habit
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that he acquired while invading Morocco.
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Without a clear plan and heavy losses,
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the Germans hastily retreat,
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leaving the Allies victorious.
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The men who fought this bloody campaign will never forget
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a date that will live forever in history,
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the legend of 420.
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Wait, that's not the legend of 420.
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This is the legend of 420.
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How often do I transport cannabis?
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Every time that I get a large enough order.
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It could be anywhere from 50 to a few hundred pounds.
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Why is it that there's this attraction
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to being in an altered state?
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Because that's the source of the problem.
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Anyone here never been high before?
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Wow, all right.
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I'm the last guy.
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I do stand up comedy, I've never smoked weed.
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And when you tell comics that, you blow their minds.
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I basically get a couple of responses.
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Either they'll be like "Dude, just try it, man.
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It's gonna open up your mind,
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you're gonna be so much funnier,
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like next level stuff, bro."
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Or they'll be like, "Dude, stay away from that stuff."
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You don't need it, it's gonna ruin your life."
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And what's scary is it's the same guy
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telling me both those things.
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I was a kid in the 70s, when it was outlawed.
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It was the devil's weed.
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It was good for you.
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So therefore, I always felt it was legal.
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I was really tired of going to shops
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and seeing a lot of crappy meds.
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So I thought, "Fuck it, I'll grow my own."
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People are purchasing legal marijuana
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that's quality controlled, and they know what
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they're getting
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in legal shops in the United States.
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Nobody that anybody can ever show
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has ever died of marijuana.
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I don't think cannabis is a problem,
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I think the ignorance is the problem.
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The war on drugs has been a war on young people;
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people of addiction issues, people of color,
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and people from the lowest socioeconomic backgrounds.
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There's been voluminous studies on the topic
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that have completely debunked
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that marijuana is a gateway drug.
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There's a lot of money in this and now business,
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it's starting to come in and say,
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"You all gonna take this shit over."
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The mindset that I was brought up with was yes,
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that marijuana and cocaine and acid,
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all those hippie drugs, that they're all the same.
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The time is long overdue
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for us to remove the Federal prohibition on marijuana.
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We have got to stop imprisoning people who use marijuana. The
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marijuana thing is such a big, such a big thing.
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I really believe you should leave it up to the states.
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I like where it is now.
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If the state wants to try it, they can. I
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think California's gonna vote to legalize it in November
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and I think that's really gonna be the tipping point.
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Yeah, if we remember to vote.
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California is just weeks away
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from a pivotal vote on the future of pot.
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It is one of the most controversial measures
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on California's ballot this November. Voters
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approved medical marijuana use 20 years ago.
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Now, Prop 64 would legalize
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and tax the recreational use of marijuana.
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Potentially, those taxes could bring
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in a billion dollars in revenue.
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Supporters say Prop 64 could end the drug war,
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and safely regulate the widely used drug.
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Prop 64 is the Adult Use of Marijuana Act.
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Essentially what it does is it establishes
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a licensing structure for recreational use.
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You as a private citizen over 21 years of age
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could have an ounce of marijuana in your pocket.
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And you can grow six plants in your house
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and keep what you produce from those six plants.
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An officer could pull you over,
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and if you have an ounce of marijuana
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and you're not under the influence,
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he'll hand your cannabis back to you, have a nice day.
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No crime.
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By January 2018, they'll have the structure in place
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where people can actually apply for licenses
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and go into business to sell marijuana recreationally.
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Today, California voters cast their ballots
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on Prop 64, which will legalize recreational use
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of marijuana. Advocates from marijuana...
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I voted.
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-I voted yes. -I voted yes.
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I voted for Proposition 64.
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I'm tired of Colorado being the coolest state in the nation.
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The legalization of marijuana passing 56% to 44%...
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Marijuana is now legal in California.
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This moves it from the cooperatives,
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and the small, and the clinical sales of it
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to full-scale recreational use.
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A number of states have decriminalized
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the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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Seven states and the District of Columbia
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have adopted the most expansive laws
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legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
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My buddies are all potheads.
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It's always funny too you know, we're always sick.
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Always have like flu or something.
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He's always smoking a joint.
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Your like, "No way, you have a cold?"
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I just got over one last week."
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That's fuckin' weird." There you go."
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"Mono, flu, cold.
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Hey, thanks man."
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"I'm just as dumbfounded as you, there you go."
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I was the youngest player for Australia at 18
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in the World Championships. I played in two Olympics.
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I became a playing coach in Australia,
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won every national championship that could be won
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in my entire career.
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When I got into trouble in 86 for smoking marijuana
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with my team at the end of a season, all hell broke loose.
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Well that was the first time that I can ever,
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ever know of in any top level sport in the United States,
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or Australia, or anywhere where they fired the coach
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a week before the finals with the best record
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in the history of the league
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which still stands today 30 years later.
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The team refused to play until they reinstated me.
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The whole city was incredibly supportive,
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and the committee had to back down and reinstate me.
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Any sport that is a contact sport that develops pain,
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if the athletes can get some marijuana,
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I believe it would be an absolute blessing
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for top level sporting people.
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I use a substantial amount for my cancer
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on an everyday basis.
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And as far as I know at this stage,
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it's the only reason that I'm still alive.
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I'm born and raised in Detroit, Michigan,
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where there used to be 50,000 plus
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manufacturing jobs in the city alone.
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When GM went bankrupt and I lost my job.
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It was like, cannabis was there.
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And I took my severance pay and I built a grow room in Michigan.
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And since then I've been in the caregiver network,
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in the medical marijuana industry of Michigan.
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Marijuana does 400 different things.
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Helps with 400 different maladies.
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When you take all of that into account,
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why would you deny a medical use?
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You have Pfizer and all the other big pharma companies
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that can produce medicines for us at very high cost,
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or you can have marijuana that you can grow
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in your own backyard that'll treat a myriad of symptoms.
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It's a folk remedy that's been used
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for 3,000 years.
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It's only the last 75 years that it's been demonized
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in the United States and the rest of the world.
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There is an increasing body of evidence
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that the active ingredients in cannabis, cannabidiol,
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or CBD, are showing benefit in children
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with difficult to control seizures.
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My husband Jason and I relocated from Oklahoma
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as cannabis refugees for our son Austin.
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Austin's condition is known as Dravet syndrome.
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It's the catastrophic form of epilepsy.
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They are full-body convulsions where you stop breathing.
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He would have dozens to hundreds every single day.
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He has cognitive and physical decline,
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similar to Alzheimer's or Parkinson's Disease.
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Any legally prescribed pharmaceutical for epilepsy,
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our son has tried.
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He would have significant weight gain or weight loss, rage,
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anger, sadness,
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and none of them stopped the seizures.
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None of them, over fourteen years.
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When I returned to the University of Oklahoma
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to do some studies on neurology and our son's condition,
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I stumbled across the U.S. Patent number 6630507,
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which in that particular patent, it proves that cannabinoids
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are neuroprotectants.
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There was 40 years of post-World War II,
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modern era's research that supported not only
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the plant as medicinal,
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but as non-toxic and non-lethal.
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We knew that cannabis was never gonna be an option
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with Austin in Oklahoma.
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The doctors said, "That there was nothing more
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that they could do for our son."
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The pharmaceuticals were shutting down his organs,
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and basically to take him home.
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So in a way we did, we took him to Colorado.
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When you watch your son dying
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and the doctors tell you there's nothing else that they can do,
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and then this little plant stops his seizures,
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it's like we could live again.
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We had hope again.
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We knew...
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We knew that we were gonna have Austin a little longer.
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Now that he's on cannabis,
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I mean he tells us that he loves us.
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He will come over and just hug us to give us a kiss.
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Oh,
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thank you baby .
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He can talk to his little brothers.
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He can play with his little brothers.
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He can comprehend and understand things.
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He's happy now.
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You know, we used to think that cannabis was bad too.
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I used to think it was the devil's lettuce
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and that it caused people to do crazy things.
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Now I've learned it's not. That's not the case at all.
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Moving to Colorado saved our son's life, it saved our life.
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If you're telling me that a family has to leave a state
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to get something to make their kid feel a little better,
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are you kidding me?
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People have to leave their state
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to alleviate their children's pain?
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That is outrageous and worth, you know,
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breaking down the barricades of injustice.
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In 2004, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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I quickly saw what the
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chemotherapy was going to do to me,
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and I understood that these cures,
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these medicines that they were giving us
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were terribly destructive to the body.
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I couldn't imagine someone going through chemotherapy
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without this for appetite, for depression,
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for pain, for sleep.
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And after I'd gone through that experience,
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I realized that I felt very passionate about cannabis
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and I really wanted people to know that it was a big part
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of my recovery.
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Instead of writing prescriptions for
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five or six different medicines,
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I can recommend that they try one medicine,
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and that's cannabis.
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It's from the earth, that's why I fuck with it.
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If I get a headache I don't go
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to the fuckin' aspirin bush and pick an aspirin.
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No, I roll a joint.
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Some good haze or some good OG that's FV OG.
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Something good and heavy.
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Just something to make me sit my ass down and think.
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Yeah.
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I smoked before I go to this Rolling Stones show.
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I was out of my gourd high,
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and I remember walking over there thinking, "Ah shit,
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you just spent a thousand fucking dollars on tickets,
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hope you remember the show you idiot."
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The experimentation of drugs
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is an essential rite of passage for any artist.
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What they do is they amplify who you really think you are
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and want to be.
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The first time I tried it, it was cosmic.
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I mean very cosmic.
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It was enough to make me feel like I was part
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of a bigger intelligence system,
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and I just thought that was totally beautiful.
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There's a reason we call it, getting high.
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It lifts you up.
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It takes you to a place that an artist is not so afraid of.
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Everything from "Awakening On", was completely written
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and produced and created with the influence of cannabis.
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I definitely think some of the best things
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that pot gave me were perspectives
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that I wouldn't normally see when I was sober.
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I'm an artist, a creator.
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My art is definitely cannabis inspired.
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Cannabis allows me to kind of melt away all the distractions.
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To get in the zone quicker. To be in the zone longer.
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and to focus on what I love doing, my passion.
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I'm big on painting what I feel.
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I'm big on expressing...
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emotion in a visual aspect.
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People will pick up a piece, they'll buy it,
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come to the counter and I explain what it means.
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And they'll be amazed that
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that's exactly what they were feeling at the moment.
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This is The Climb, this represents, kind of,
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in life when you're trying to achieve your goal,
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all the obstacles and everything that you have to overcome
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to get to the top, to be right over here in this little spot.
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And this is the guy that's trying to get to the top.
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So, it's like how you have to balance things in life,
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you have to carry a bunch of stuff on your back.
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♪ As the day go by, let me tell you what I see ♪
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♪ I see the fear in the heart and the demon in the eye ♪
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Everyone who looks at this art smiles.
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I feel like it's the happy wavelength.
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When it hits your eyes, you just feel happy.
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The biggest support I get is from the cannabis community.
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The cannabis art community, it's huge.
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If you smoke weed, you enjoy visual art.
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It's just that they go hand in hand.
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Dunkees art in the cannabis community
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is definitely highly, highly rated.
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Definitely one of the top artists for sure.
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His stuff is really cutting edge.
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It allows exposure to people that don't normally get
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close to the vendors, that really get to see
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top quality medicine up close and personal.
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♪ As the day go by ♪
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♪ Let me tell you what I see ♪
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♪ I see the fear in the heart ♪
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♪ And the demon in the eye ♪
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♪ Hate on Heaven's Earth ♪
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♪ Keep your truth on the edgy faith ♪
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♪ That's why today ♪
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♪ We all pray to ease our sin ♪
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♪ If not we'll close the eyes of the lie ♪
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I had a guy here when I moved here.
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This one comic goes, "You wanna buy some weed?"
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I go, "Yeah, fuck, sure, I'll try yours out."
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He goes, "How much you wanna buy?"
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I go, "I dunno, maybe an eighth?"
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Dude looks at me with a straight face and goes,
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"Sorry man, I just have half quarters."
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"Wow, well I really wanted an eighth.
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I guess your half quarter will have to do.
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I'm not paying eighth prices."
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How does a drug dealer not know fractions?
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The three rules of transport: have a buyer,
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have a supplier, don't get popped.
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You could have all the weed in the world,
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but if you don't have a buyer, you just got weed.
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The selling of it here, is usually handled
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before it's even brought here.
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And then the purchase of it is handled
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on the phone before you go up there.
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So it's really no nervousness about it.
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The worst part is the transport.
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That's the only place you're gonna get caught up.
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So stay low-key.
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Don't stand out.
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Don't be flashy.
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My car is a Subaru, man,
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just like everybody in Humboldt has.
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Black limo tint around it, has a long trunk.
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So when I go there,
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I just look like I'm from town.
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I've got a sticker on the back for like,
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the local college radio station.
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So, when I'm in Humboldt,
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I look like I'm really supposed to be there.
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You gotta blend in 'cause they're bored.
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Humboldt cops are bored.
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They'll pop you on the way out of town, that's what they do.
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They just sit there and wait. Don't speed.
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Like, when you're leaving Humboldt County,
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just keep it chill.
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Just drive the speed limit.
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'Cause that's where they're at, that's where they're chilling'.
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Driving's not hard enough as it is.
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Why don't you put a blowtorch and point it at your lap.
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And then plan on having your eyes closed
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in a coughing fit for 35 seconds straight at 80 miles an hour.
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Record homicide rates, mass graves, mass incarceration,
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kidnappings, corruptions, drugs, guns, violence and money.
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These are all words that best describe
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the last 45 years of the War on Drugs.
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The War on Drugs is a war on people.
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We've succeeded in putting a whole bunch of people in jail,
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non-violent drug users.
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We're filling up our jails with those people.
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Parents are sick of their kids getting arrested
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and thrown into prison where they could get raped,
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murdered, and they get turned on to heroin.
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They get turned on to crystal meth.
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And they become institutionalized
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and criminalized.
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And when they get out they got criminal records
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so they can't get jobs.
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Lost human potential.
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People going without members of their family
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for years on end and the massive cost of incarceration.
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A lot of people I know did time because of drugs,
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and in my mind they're not criminals.
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They just got caught up
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in what became a money making industry.
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One of the worst crimes ever perpetrated
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by the American government on the American people.
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Pelican Bay is one of the most secure prisons
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in the entire country.
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It's where we put the worst of the worst of the worst.
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That prison has an opiate overdose rate several times
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that of what exists on the street.
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If you can't keep drugs out of Pelican Bay,
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you can't keep drugs out of your local high school.
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We would rather demonize drugs,
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we would rather make drugs mysterious,
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we would rather give these moral qualities to drugs,
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than simply recognize the fact
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that these are chemical compounds
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that have psychotropic effects on the human body.
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You know we've taken this out of the back alleys.
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We've taken it out of the shadows.
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We've created an environment where people can go
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just like you go to a liquor store
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and can get something that's regulated.
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You know what you're putting in your body,
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so we've taken money out of the pockets of our cartels.
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We've actually seen some decline in crime.
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We haven't seen teen use of marijuana go up.
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We've taken in about 135 million dollars in in-state taxes.
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They're gonna legalize pot
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so they can mend the fucking potholes.
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Am I wrong?
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Am I wrong?
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You, you legislators, am I wrong?
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Are you gonna take the money?
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Well if you don't it'd be a remarkable change in politics,
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wouldn't it?
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So if we can write the rules and create an industry
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and create a culture that is good for working people,
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that's good for the environment,
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that's a huge opportunity, and it's something
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that is developing right along with legalization.
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NORML did a congressional scorecard
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where we graded every member of congress
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based on their statements
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and their voting record with regard to marijuana policy.
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Five percent of the members of congress were graded an A,
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which meant that they had backed publicly
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the legalization of marijuana.
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That's a public policy that is now supported by 60%
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of America,
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but only 5% of lawmakers
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in congress embrace that policy.
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We did a governor's scorecard, all 50 governors,
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we found exactly the same results.
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Only two governors out of 50
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were on record supporting the regulation of marijuana.
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Again,
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at the political level,
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we simply don't see the support we see among the public.
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The democrats and the republicans all have to take
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a certain amount of responsibility
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for these racist laws.
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So in terms of this administration,
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it defies common sense.
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Conservatives tend to uphold the ideal of states rights,
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so I'm hoping that Donald Trump adheres to that,
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but I have no fucking idea.
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This drug is dangerous.
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You cannot play with it.
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It's not funny.
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It's not something to laugh about.
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And trying to send that message with clarity,
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that good people don't smoke marijuana.
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"Good people don't smoke Marijuana"
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In that voice that sounds like it was spawned
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from like twelve generations of moonshiners.
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Like Keebler just opened a still.
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That breaks my heart that I won't be invited
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to Jeff Sessions' good people party.
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I hear it's very formal,
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white hood only.
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And if we go back into this path,
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we're going to regret it.
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On a Federal level, because it's still Schedule 1,
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this despot is gonna stand up there and he's gonna say,
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"Look, this is what the law is, and I'm gonna go after you.
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Even though in your state you've all agreed
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that this is what you wanna do."
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How mad can the reefer madness get?
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You've got a president that's worried about terrorism
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and he wants to spend money and time
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going after law abiding cannabis users.
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But we have some bad hombres here
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and we're gonna get 'em out.
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Could troops be coming in here?
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Could the National Guard be deployed?
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If they wanna come in and pull the rug out
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from under the state of Colorado
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when we're doing successfully economically, socially,
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and even providing new resources
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for people struggling with drug addiction.
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If they wanna pull that rug out from under us,
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I'm ready for a fight.
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And look at this! Trump!
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Donald Trump!
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Donald Trump, oh my God!
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The hostile takeover of Donald Trump.
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I'm okay with legalization as long as a few things happen.
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Number one, you get that person off of our healthcare system.
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Number two, you take away their driver's license.
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Number three, you take away their kids and you isolate them.
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If they sell or smoke weed,
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they should take away their healthcare,
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they should take away their children,
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and they should take away their fucking citizenship.
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Like, dude, that's not a weed smoker.
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That's a Mexican. That's what that is.
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I was arrested seven times for having weed.
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A small amount for a blunt.
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If your skin happens to be a little darker,
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you have a 50% to 75% more of a chance
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of going to jail for the same crime.
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How do we solve the problem of getting minorities
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into the legal market and getting them to be able
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to participate just as much as, as anyone else?
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People with less means, whether that's economic
523
00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:08,455
or educational, a person of color, or a woman,
524
00:29:08,455 --> 00:29:11,917
there's these barriers to entry into the legal market
525
00:29:11,917 --> 00:29:14,920
that in some ways have been set up just by the regulations
526
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,423
that we put forward as lawmakers.
527
00:29:17,423 --> 00:29:19,341
In many states, you're not allowed
528
00:29:19,341 --> 00:29:21,594
to work in the industry if you have a conviction.
529
00:29:21,594 --> 00:29:23,303
And those that are convicted,
530
00:29:23,303 --> 00:29:26,181
especially on marijuana crimes, these are our experts.
531
00:29:26,181 --> 00:29:28,892
So it's kind of ironic that the very people
532
00:29:28,892 --> 00:29:31,770
that got us started are now being excommunicated
533
00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:34,147
from participating in a legal market.
534
00:29:34,147 --> 00:29:35,941
And it's not fair because it's the people of color
535
00:29:35,941 --> 00:29:37,735
that went to prison for this plant.
536
00:29:37,735 --> 00:29:40,613
Now, you have, you know, all the suits making billions
537
00:29:40,613 --> 00:29:43,365
of dollars, and they're trying to cut everybody out.
538
00:29:43,365 --> 00:29:44,991
That's not okay.
539
00:29:46,744 --> 00:29:49,622
They came to my house at five in the morning
540
00:29:49,622 --> 00:29:54,710
with a SWAT team fully armed with riot gear,
541
00:29:54,710 --> 00:29:56,169
and masks,
542
00:29:56,169 --> 00:30:00,340
and helmets and automatic weapons.
543
00:30:00,340 --> 00:30:03,761
These guys are looking like they're in downtown Mosul,
544
00:30:03,761 --> 00:30:05,596
a special forces team type of deal,
545
00:30:05,596 --> 00:30:07,431
and they're just decked out head to toe.
546
00:30:07,431 --> 00:30:09,933
That militarization of our police force
547
00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:11,435
has gotten a little bit out of control.
548
00:30:16,398 --> 00:30:18,108
It's SWAT style raids.
549
00:30:18,108 --> 00:30:20,860
And I have clients that have PTSD as a result of these raids.
550
00:30:20,860 --> 00:30:22,529
My name is Gary Levine.
551
00:30:22,529 --> 00:30:26,325
For the past 35 years, I've been preparing kids
552
00:30:26,325 --> 00:30:27,993
and adults for the tests
553
00:30:27,993 --> 00:30:30,870
to get them into the next phase of their education.
554
00:30:30,870 --> 00:30:33,373
Over the years, I've helped people get into college
555
00:30:33,373 --> 00:30:35,292
and grad school and medical school,
556
00:30:35,292 --> 00:30:37,544
that they probably wouldn't have been able to do
557
00:30:37,544 --> 00:30:39,879
were it not for our work together.
558
00:30:43,175 --> 00:30:45,010
About 14 years ago,
559
00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:48,430
I bought this property that had an avocado farm on it.
560
00:30:48,430 --> 00:30:52,184
About six years ago, they did away with agricultural water
561
00:30:52,184 --> 00:30:55,771
for my district and my monthly water bill
562
00:30:55,771 --> 00:30:58,231
went from about a thousand dollars a month
563
00:30:58,231 --> 00:31:00,233
to about three thousand dollars a month.
564
00:31:00,233 --> 00:31:02,569
So I told everybody that we're gonna get out
565
00:31:02,569 --> 00:31:04,363
of the avocado business.
566
00:31:07,032 --> 00:31:10,910
One day, a guy knocks on my door and he said,
567
00:31:10,910 --> 00:31:12,912
"We're a group of disabled veterans,
568
00:31:12,912 --> 00:31:16,124
and we would like to rent that space to grow."
569
00:31:16,124 --> 00:31:19,085
When I started doing it, I had visions that, you know,
570
00:31:19,085 --> 00:31:21,672
I was gonna make some money, and isn't it gonna be ironic
571
00:31:21,672 --> 00:31:24,341
that Gary is making money in the pot business.
572
00:31:24,341 --> 00:31:27,886
When Gary is the guy who's never smoked pot.
573
00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:31,431
The second day of trimming, the police raided us.
574
00:31:32,224 --> 00:31:33,892
And it was the police.
575
00:31:33,892 --> 00:31:35,185
It was the sheriffs department.
576
00:31:35,185 --> 00:31:36,645
It was the DEA.
577
00:31:36,645 --> 00:31:38,731
There were some Federal agencies.
578
00:31:38,731 --> 00:31:41,358
There were probably 40 or 50 police.
579
00:31:41,358 --> 00:31:44,695
With at least one helicopter overhead the whole time.
580
00:31:44,695 --> 00:31:47,740
All had their guns pointed at different people.
581
00:31:47,740 --> 00:31:50,075
They threatened us with prison.
582
00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:53,036
They took me to jail.
583
00:31:53,036 --> 00:31:56,998
They enjoy intimidating and hurting people.
584
00:31:56,998 --> 00:31:59,084
They sent me to strip naked
585
00:31:59,084 --> 00:32:01,002
and to put on their jail clothes,
586
00:32:01,002 --> 00:32:03,714
all the while knowing that my bail had been posted.
587
00:32:03,714 --> 00:32:06,508
They were trying to make an example out of us
588
00:32:06,508 --> 00:32:10,345
and anybody else who might grow weed.
589
00:32:10,345 --> 00:32:14,683
Because I used the word sell instead of the word donate,
590
00:32:14,683 --> 00:32:17,644
they came down really hard on me.
591
00:32:17,644 --> 00:32:21,064
You see people that have given their, their body
592
00:32:21,064 --> 00:32:24,484
and their soul to fighting for our country
593
00:32:24,484 --> 00:32:26,319
and to fighting for our way of life,
594
00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:29,114
and they come back and in many cases they're ignored
595
00:32:29,114 --> 00:32:32,576
and there aren't a lot of treatments out there for PTSD.
596
00:32:32,576 --> 00:32:34,745
And we're starting to see that marijuana
597
00:32:34,745 --> 00:32:36,705
is one of the most effective treatments.
598
00:32:36,705 --> 00:32:39,416
In many cases these people end up being arrested
599
00:32:39,416 --> 00:32:42,085
and prosecuted for cultivating for themselves
600
00:32:42,085 --> 00:32:43,879
or providing it to other vets.
601
00:32:43,879 --> 00:32:45,964
And it is an emotional experience.
602
00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:49,301
It's very difficult to see these people prosecuted.
603
00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:51,845
I would like to share my story
604
00:32:51,845 --> 00:32:53,889
about me facing five years
605
00:32:53,889 --> 00:32:56,600
in prison for six cannabis plants.
606
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,477
I'm a veteran of the United States Marine Corp.
607
00:32:58,477 --> 00:33:00,813
I served for ten years. I did three tours.
608
00:33:00,813 --> 00:33:03,398
They were treating conditions associated with PTSD,
609
00:33:03,398 --> 00:33:06,944
so it was meds for anxiety, depression, paranoia,
610
00:33:06,944 --> 00:33:11,197
as well as a large amount of opiate-based meds
611
00:33:11,197 --> 00:33:15,201
to include Vicodin and actually pure OxyContin.
612
00:33:15,201 --> 00:33:19,665
Roughly a year ago, I was on over 13 pills a day,
613
00:33:19,665 --> 00:33:23,001
and as of March of 2016,
614
00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:24,670
I am pharmaceutical free,
615
00:33:24,670 --> 00:33:26,630
living only a cannabis lifestyle.
616
00:33:26,630 --> 00:33:29,675
Within a day, I'm actually playing
617
00:33:29,675 --> 00:33:31,760
with my newborn son at the time.
618
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,011
So it was a dramatic difference.
619
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:36,598
Cannabis has literally changed my life.
620
00:33:36,598 --> 00:33:39,351
My kids understand why daddy needs the medicine he does,
621
00:33:39,351 --> 00:33:42,228
and they truly love me on cannabis.
622
00:33:42,228 --> 00:33:43,897
I'm a happier dad.
623
00:33:43,897 --> 00:33:46,232
I'm a better person to be around. I live a better life.
624
00:33:46,232 --> 00:33:49,653
This is not just for me, it is for veterans everywhere.
625
00:33:53,532 --> 00:33:55,868
The drug trafficking business has always been one
626
00:33:55,868 --> 00:33:57,536
that generates a ton of cash.
627
00:33:57,536 --> 00:33:59,830
The attorney general's office says that it's estimated
628
00:33:59,830 --> 00:34:02,332
that drug trafficking profits in the U.S.
629
00:34:02,332 --> 00:34:05,711
are about 65 billion dollars a year.
630
00:34:05,711 --> 00:34:07,504
As soon as you made it illegal,
631
00:34:07,504 --> 00:34:09,798
the price of it shot up on the black market.
632
00:34:09,798 --> 00:34:12,342
Now, when the price shoots up on the black market,
633
00:34:12,342 --> 00:34:17,305
what happens is it's basic economic supply and demand.
634
00:34:17,305 --> 00:34:18,849
I am Mr. Purple.
635
00:34:18,849 --> 00:34:22,602
I distribute cannabis products through the darknet.
636
00:34:22,602 --> 00:34:25,731
People go on there, they make a selection.
637
00:34:25,731 --> 00:34:28,483
The buyer's money, which is in bitcoin,
638
00:34:28,483 --> 00:34:31,820
goes into an escrow in the darknet market
639
00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:36,658
until we send the package and is received by the buyer.
640
00:34:36,658 --> 00:34:41,371
The protocol usually consists of gloves, no fingerprints,
641
00:34:41,371 --> 00:34:43,582
no handwriting, no hair.
642
00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:48,587
There is no smell coming from the package in any way.
643
00:34:48,587 --> 00:34:50,589
That's one of the primary ways
644
00:34:50,589 --> 00:34:54,968
that packages are confiscated is by poor packing.
645
00:34:54,968 --> 00:34:57,679
From there, you then do a little bit of extra security
646
00:34:57,679 --> 00:35:00,849
by putting anything that you ship into Mylar.
647
00:35:00,849 --> 00:35:05,729
The Mylar is completely un-X-rayable
648
00:35:05,729 --> 00:35:07,940
and it's impermeable to scent.
649
00:35:07,940 --> 00:35:10,358
A lot of it goes to the east coast.
650
00:35:11,484 --> 00:35:13,528
Very seldomly does it head west.
651
00:35:13,528 --> 00:35:17,699
It's not as gangster as people think it is.
652
00:35:17,699 --> 00:35:21,912
It is the sellers in the black market
653
00:35:21,912 --> 00:35:26,165
that want cannabis to be illegal,
654
00:35:26,165 --> 00:35:27,960
'cause that keeps the price high
655
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,087
and it keeps their profits rolling.
656
00:35:30,087 --> 00:35:32,422
If you look at statistics on the number
657
00:35:32,422 --> 00:35:34,340
of marijuana seizures that are happening
658
00:35:34,340 --> 00:35:35,842
at the border right now,
659
00:35:35,842 --> 00:35:38,595
they are down significantly from previous years.
660
00:35:38,595 --> 00:35:42,181
They don't need to buy the black market marijuana
661
00:35:42,181 --> 00:35:45,060
that in many cases has chemicals, pesticides,
662
00:35:45,060 --> 00:35:46,686
they don't know what they're getting,
663
00:35:46,686 --> 00:35:49,522
and that money is going to fuel organized crime.
664
00:36:19,636 --> 00:36:22,305
We're told we don't know enough about cannabis.
665
00:36:22,305 --> 00:36:24,808
We're told it hasn't been adequately studied.
666
00:36:24,808 --> 00:36:26,559
Again,
667
00:36:26,559 --> 00:36:28,812
the reality is,
668
00:36:28,812 --> 00:36:31,314
is that we have ample evidence
669
00:36:31,314 --> 00:36:33,025
with regard to cannabis.
670
00:36:33,025 --> 00:36:36,569
We have more than 25,000 peer-reviewed studies
671
00:36:36,569 --> 00:36:38,571
in the scientific literature
672
00:36:38,571 --> 00:36:41,700
that reference the marijuana plant.
673
00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:45,244
That's more than the total volume of literature
674
00:36:45,244 --> 00:36:47,205
we have for Tylenol,
675
00:36:47,205 --> 00:36:49,457
or for ibuprofen.
676
00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:52,085
When it comes to cannabis,
677
00:36:52,085 --> 00:36:54,671
there is so much for people to learn.
678
00:37:03,513 --> 00:37:05,306
What is Oaksterdam University?
679
00:37:05,306 --> 00:37:06,933
For those that might not know,
680
00:37:06,933 --> 00:37:09,061
it's America's first cannabis college.
681
00:37:19,154 --> 00:37:21,447
I focus on curriculum and making sure
682
00:37:21,447 --> 00:37:24,659
that what we offer the students matches
683
00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:27,370
what they'll need once they get out on their own.
684
00:37:32,375 --> 00:37:34,044
And just removing the leaf.
685
00:37:34,044 --> 00:37:35,336
And we wanna remove the leaf,
686
00:37:35,336 --> 00:37:37,047
remember, this is called the petiole,
687
00:37:37,047 --> 00:37:38,631
that's the stem of the leaf.
688
00:37:38,631 --> 00:37:40,759
We wanna remove the leaf at the base of the petiole.
689
00:37:56,066 --> 00:37:59,277
They're learning everything from starting with seeds
690
00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:02,030
and seed germination to transplanting,
691
00:38:02,030 --> 00:38:03,990
to what's called vegetative growth,
692
00:38:03,990 --> 00:38:05,408
all the way through the reproductive
693
00:38:05,408 --> 00:38:07,160
and flowering stages of the plant.
694
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,163
Through to harvest, and how to design
695
00:38:10,163 --> 00:38:13,374
their own grow room from scratch and fill it with lighting
696
00:38:13,374 --> 00:38:15,001
and all kinds f ventilation equipment.
697
00:38:16,544 --> 00:38:19,631
You're gonna sit in probably the most diverse
698
00:38:19,631 --> 00:38:22,092
classroom setting you're ever gonna be in your life.
699
00:38:22,092 --> 00:38:23,843
You're gonna have high school graduates sitting next
700
00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:26,763
to neurosurgeons next to grandmothers sitting next
701
00:38:26,763 --> 00:38:29,266
to policymakers and city council members.
702
00:38:29,266 --> 00:38:30,976
We have nine academic departments,
703
00:38:30,976 --> 00:38:33,436
of which our legal department is our largest.
704
00:38:33,436 --> 00:38:35,647
Before we teach you anything, we teach you the law,
705
00:38:35,647 --> 00:38:37,774
so you understand what you shouldn't be doing,
706
00:38:37,774 --> 00:38:40,026
and how to operate safely and responsibly.
707
00:38:41,653 --> 00:38:43,696
In this industry, when you talk to somebody about cannabis,
708
00:38:43,696 --> 00:38:45,991
99% of the time, you know what they're giving you?
709
00:38:45,991 --> 00:38:47,742
Their opinion.
710
00:38:47,742 --> 00:38:49,786
And there's a difference between being opinionated vs. educated.
711
00:38:49,786 --> 00:38:51,913
And that's why we have Oaksterdam University.
712
00:38:51,913 --> 00:38:55,834
We graduated over 30,000 students from over 30 countries.
713
00:38:57,294 --> 00:38:59,087
When you graduate from Oaksterdam,
714
00:38:59,087 --> 00:39:00,379
it's just the beginning.
715
00:39:04,259 --> 00:39:06,594
They should be teaching this to kids.
716
00:39:06,594 --> 00:39:09,097
You know, fuck that avocado with the toothpicks in the jar,
717
00:39:09,097 --> 00:39:10,265
get that out of here!
718
00:39:11,808 --> 00:39:14,269
Let's get Timmy and Scotty to cutting some clones.
719
00:39:15,561 --> 00:39:19,191
Yeah? We're gonna crack seeds today, kids!
720
00:39:20,358 --> 00:39:22,277
"Hey, what are you working with Kyle?"
721
00:39:22,277 --> 00:39:25,238
"Oh, I, I, I have a hybrid."
722
00:39:25,238 --> 00:39:27,615
"Really, did you cross"
723
00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:29,159
"Yes."
724
00:39:29,159 --> 00:39:31,953
My senior year in high school I was in honors English.
725
00:39:31,953 --> 00:39:33,705
My teacher hated me.
726
00:39:33,705 --> 00:39:36,541
She just did not like me at all.
727
00:39:36,541 --> 00:39:39,002
And just to piss her off I wrote a paper
728
00:39:39,002 --> 00:39:40,879
on the legalization of marijuana.
729
00:39:40,879 --> 00:39:42,255
The paper was well written
730
00:39:42,255 --> 00:39:44,382
so she had to give me a high grade ,
731
00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:45,800
High grade.
732
00:39:48,053 --> 00:39:50,096
Kids are learning in high school
733
00:39:50,096 --> 00:39:54,184
that marijuana's just as bad as heroin, cocaine, LSD,
734
00:39:54,184 --> 00:39:57,020
and as a result, when they try it
735
00:39:57,020 --> 00:39:58,646
and realize it's not that bad,
736
00:39:58,646 --> 00:40:00,232
then maybe they think, "You know what?
737
00:40:00,232 --> 00:40:02,317
Maybe heroin, LSD, and cocaine,
738
00:40:02,317 --> 00:40:04,194
maybe they're lying to me about that as well."
739
00:40:04,194 --> 00:40:05,820
Marijuana is a gateway drug.
740
00:40:05,820 --> 00:40:08,698
That's the number one drug people say they started with
741
00:40:08,698 --> 00:40:11,034
before they got onto harder drugs.
742
00:40:11,034 --> 00:40:13,828
The notion that it's a gateway to heroin
743
00:40:13,828 --> 00:40:17,498
is like saying sugar is a gateway to, you know, suicide.
744
00:40:17,498 --> 00:40:21,794
I mean, it's such a pedantic, pedestrian,
745
00:40:21,794 --> 00:40:24,505
immature, irrelevant, unliterate,
746
00:40:24,505 --> 00:40:27,008
stupid fucking thing to say.
747
00:40:27,008 --> 00:40:29,677
If you're gonna make cannabis, or marijuana,
748
00:40:29,677 --> 00:40:32,097
a Schedule 1 controlled substance right there
749
00:40:32,097 --> 00:40:34,933
with ecstasy, heroin, and LSD,
750
00:40:34,933 --> 00:40:37,352
then let's put alcohol in there too.
751
00:40:39,104 --> 00:40:42,815
I never quite understood why there was such a taboo
752
00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:46,945
and consequence around the use of cannabis,
753
00:40:46,945 --> 00:40:50,907
whereas alcohol was free-range if you're 21 and up.
754
00:40:50,907 --> 00:40:52,700
There are statistics that suggest
755
00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:55,245
that there might be a two-fold increased risk
756
00:40:55,245 --> 00:40:56,662
of a driving accident,
757
00:40:56,662 --> 00:40:59,082
compared to an eight-fold risk with alcohol.
758
00:40:59,082 --> 00:41:01,459
But in states that have approved cannabis
759
00:41:01,459 --> 00:41:03,086
and made it legal there appears
760
00:41:03,086 --> 00:41:06,298
to be a decrease in fatal traffic accidents.
761
00:41:06,298 --> 00:41:09,175
People that drink alcohol tend to drive faster,
762
00:41:09,175 --> 00:41:10,593
take more chances,
763
00:41:10,593 --> 00:41:15,348
and they're less aware of their intoxication.
764
00:41:15,348 --> 00:41:18,684
Marijuana on the other hand, people are driving slower,
765
00:41:18,684 --> 00:41:20,270
following distance are greater,
766
00:41:20,270 --> 00:41:22,563
the risk-taking behaviors are less,
767
00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:27,777
and the awareness of the level of intoxication is much higher.
768
00:41:27,777 --> 00:41:29,446
I'm not saying smoke a joint and drive,
769
00:41:29,446 --> 00:41:31,030
but I'm just saying,
770
00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:33,825
sometimes when you smoke joints you gotta go places.
771
00:41:35,368 --> 00:41:36,995
Don't get me wrong, I drink, I have a few drinks.
772
00:41:36,995 --> 00:41:39,080
I hang out with Mr. Alcohol, That's my boy.
773
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,291
But I'm just saying, it's a big difference.
774
00:41:41,291 --> 00:41:43,835
All right, here's hanging out with Mr. Alcohol:
775
00:41:43,835 --> 00:41:46,379
"Oh hey Mr. Alcohol,
776
00:41:46,379 --> 00:41:47,797
what you wanna do?"
777
00:41:47,797 --> 00:41:50,175
"I dunno know man, let's get on the freeway."
778
00:41:50,175 --> 00:41:52,677
"Okay Mr. Alcohol, let's go."
779
00:41:53,886 --> 00:41:56,264
Then you and Mr. Alcohol be on the freeway.
780
00:41:56,264 --> 00:41:57,890
"Wah what now?"
781
00:41:57,890 --> 00:41:59,434
"Speed up!"
782
00:41:59,434 --> 00:42:01,644
"All right Mr. Alcohol!"
783
00:42:02,854 --> 00:42:06,065
"Oh shit, Mr. Alcohol, it's the police.
784
00:42:06,065 --> 00:42:07,650
What the fuck should I do?"
785
00:42:07,650 --> 00:42:09,110
"Go faster."
786
00:42:09,110 --> 00:42:11,737
"Okay Mr. Alcohol, , what next?"
787
00:42:11,737 --> 00:42:14,407
"I dunno know, pull over, tell him to suck your dick."
788
00:42:14,407 --> 00:42:16,575
"That's a great idea Mr. Alcohol."
789
00:42:16,575 --> 00:42:19,745
"Alright, here they come, here they come.
790
00:42:20,372 --> 00:42:21,914
Suck my dick!"
791
00:42:23,375 --> 00:42:24,792
"Huh?
792
00:42:24,792 --> 00:42:27,795
Oh, hold on I gotta roll down the window right."
793
00:42:27,795 --> 00:42:29,588
Suck my dick, bitch!
794
00:42:29,588 --> 00:42:33,259
"Oh Mr. Alcohol, they whoopin' our ass!"
795
00:42:33,259 --> 00:42:35,803
And Mr. Alcohol would say, "I didn't say, say bitch."
796
00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:39,516
But that's how he'll do you.
797
00:42:39,516 --> 00:42:42,477
You see, hanging out with Mr. Weed, it's totally different.
798
00:42:42,477 --> 00:42:44,103
Hanging with Mr. Weed:
799
00:42:44,103 --> 00:42:46,105
"Hey Mr. Weed, what you wanna do?"
800
00:42:46,105 --> 00:42:48,274
"Uh, I don't know,
801
00:42:49,401 --> 00:42:51,194
I think we're hungry though."
802
00:42:53,696 --> 00:42:56,533
"Right again, Mr. Weed.
803
00:42:56,533 --> 00:42:58,743
Well, let's go to the store,
804
00:42:58,743 --> 00:43:00,328
you think we should drive?"
805
00:43:00,328 --> 00:43:02,788
"Hey man, we're not gonna go fast."
806
00:43:04,999 --> 00:43:08,336
"Besides, you've driven a thousand times."
807
00:43:08,336 --> 00:43:10,129
"This is true."
808
00:43:10,129 --> 00:43:14,050
And there you'll be, driving Mr. Weed.
809
00:43:14,050 --> 00:43:17,636
"Oh yeah, you become a precision driver when you're high."
810
00:43:19,055 --> 00:43:20,473
"I'll take this left."
811
00:43:24,394 --> 00:43:26,438
"I didn't like that turn there, Mr. Weed.
812
00:43:26,438 --> 00:43:29,190
I think you should've leaned into it more."
813
00:43:29,190 --> 00:43:32,277
"Yeah alright Mr. Weed, what now?"
814
00:43:32,277 --> 00:43:34,529
"Let's get on the freeway go to that McDonalds."
815
00:43:34,529 --> 00:43:37,823
"Alright, they do got the hot nuggets down there."
816
00:43:39,451 --> 00:43:41,578
"Check the mirror, check the side,"
817
00:43:41,578 --> 00:43:43,538
"check the side, check the mirror."
818
00:43:45,373 --> 00:43:47,375
"We are so good at this man."
819
00:43:47,375 --> 00:43:48,460
"Oh yeah."
820
00:43:48,460 --> 00:43:49,502
"Whoo-woo!"
821
00:43:49,502 --> 00:43:51,963
"Oh shit, oh shit, Mr. Weed."
822
00:43:51,963 --> 00:43:56,593
"Hey, hey motherfucker what's this panicky shit?
823
00:43:56,593 --> 00:43:58,553
You're not a rookie."
824
00:43:58,553 --> 00:44:03,224
"That's right, that's right, I don't get paranoid anymore.
825
00:44:03,224 --> 00:44:05,184
I know what to say. Right, Mr. Weed?"
826
00:44:05,184 --> 00:44:07,937
"That's right, compliment him on the uniform first off the bat.
827
00:44:10,648 --> 00:44:12,484
"Why hello officer.
828
00:44:12,484 --> 00:44:15,653
My are they tailor fitting you guys nowadays?"
829
00:44:17,947 --> 00:44:19,031
"What now?"
830
00:44:19,031 --> 00:44:20,116
"Relax.
831
00:44:20,116 --> 00:44:21,909
Not that much.
832
00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:25,246
Give him the paperwork."
833
00:44:28,458 --> 00:44:29,750
"What now?"
834
00:44:29,750 --> 00:44:32,629
"Just relax, ten o'clock two o'clock."
835
00:44:37,258 --> 00:44:38,635
"All right.
836
00:44:38,635 --> 00:44:40,345
Thank you."
837
00:44:41,220 --> 00:44:43,055
"Don't say anything else."
838
00:44:49,061 --> 00:44:52,982
There was always a differentiation between
839
00:44:52,982 --> 00:44:54,900
the hard drugs
840
00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:56,944
and the psychedelic drugs.
841
00:44:56,944 --> 00:45:00,573
And I knew, and especially having, you know,
842
00:45:00,573 --> 00:45:04,076
Jerry be a heroin addict and watching how
843
00:45:04,076 --> 00:45:07,205
that can devastate good people,
844
00:45:07,205 --> 00:45:08,873
that that's a huge difference.
845
00:45:08,873 --> 00:45:12,084
If you're using marijuana, particularly as a young person,
846
00:45:12,084 --> 00:45:14,379
you are definitely playing Russian roulette.
847
00:45:14,379 --> 00:45:16,297
I don't care whether it's marijuana, heroin,
848
00:45:16,297 --> 00:45:18,299
crack cocaine, they're all the same.
849
00:45:18,299 --> 00:45:19,800
See the thing about pot is,
850
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,136
is it deserves its own category among everything.
851
00:45:22,136 --> 00:45:24,138
Like among all of the intoxicants,
852
00:45:24,138 --> 00:45:26,349
it stands up favorably,
853
00:45:26,349 --> 00:45:29,101
except for like happiness, you know, shit like that.
854
00:45:30,436 --> 00:45:33,523
But, you know, people compare it to coke.
855
00:45:33,523 --> 00:45:35,983
I've seen people compare it to heroin,
856
00:45:35,983 --> 00:45:37,402
comparing pot to heroin.
857
00:45:37,402 --> 00:45:40,821
Which tells me, one, you've never tried either.
858
00:45:40,821 --> 00:45:43,866
And B, you've never even seen a movie.
859
00:45:45,243 --> 00:45:47,953
Like fucking watch Trainspotting
860
00:45:47,953 --> 00:45:49,163
and a Seth Rogen movie,
861
00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:50,456
and then come back and talk to me.
862
00:45:51,457 --> 00:45:53,376
I don't consider marijuana
863
00:45:53,376 --> 00:45:55,503
and pot use as gateway drugs.
864
00:45:55,503 --> 00:45:58,881
I consider it up to par with heroin,
865
00:45:58,881 --> 00:46:00,883
the opioids, and the other drugs.
866
00:46:00,883 --> 00:46:03,135
Some people are talking about how, like,
867
00:46:03,135 --> 00:46:07,181
weed is kinda like crack, like it's just as dangerous.
868
00:46:07,181 --> 00:46:09,475
I think that's ridiculous, because I feel like
869
00:46:09,475 --> 00:46:11,018
no one's so addicted to weed
870
00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:13,854
that they're just blowing people for it, ya know?
871
00:46:15,565 --> 00:46:17,942
When you have an opioid crisis,
872
00:46:17,942 --> 00:46:21,529
to trivialize that by comparing it to cannabis
873
00:46:21,529 --> 00:46:24,616
which hasn't caused a single death in the history
874
00:46:24,616 --> 00:46:26,117
of the United States,
875
00:46:26,117 --> 00:46:27,577
I mean it's just irresponsible.
876
00:46:27,577 --> 00:46:30,371
And it's disrespectful to the people
877
00:46:30,371 --> 00:46:33,040
who struggle with opiate addiction,
878
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,918
and it's disrespectful to that entire issue.
879
00:46:35,918 --> 00:46:38,671
It is ludicrous, absurd,
880
00:46:38,671 --> 00:46:41,132
crazy to have marijuana
881
00:46:41,132 --> 00:46:43,342
in the same level as heroin.
882
00:46:43,342 --> 00:46:46,803
Ask the late Philip Seymour-Hoffman if you could.
883
00:46:46,803 --> 00:46:48,931
Nobody dies from marijuana.
884
00:46:48,931 --> 00:46:52,727
And every death, including Mr. Hoffman's.
885
00:46:52,727 --> 00:46:54,687
is partly the responsibility
886
00:46:54,687 --> 00:46:57,148
of the Federal government's drug priorities,
887
00:46:57,148 --> 00:47:01,152
and heroin and meth is where all of your priorities should be.
888
00:47:01,152 --> 00:47:03,988
The myth of cannabis being a gateway drug
889
00:47:03,988 --> 00:47:06,073
has been dispelled multiple times now,
890
00:47:06,073 --> 00:47:10,703
by multiple multinational investigations.
891
00:47:10,703 --> 00:47:13,164
In fact, cannabis is actually an exit strategy
892
00:47:13,164 --> 00:47:16,793
to many of those dependence problems on other drugs.
893
00:47:16,793 --> 00:47:20,505
♪ But then when opiates got too hard ♪
894
00:47:20,505 --> 00:47:21,964
♪ Tore all my stomach ♪
895
00:47:21,964 --> 00:47:24,383
♪ And my skin started breaking out ♪
896
00:47:24,383 --> 00:47:26,385
♪ And I lost all my money ♪
897
00:47:26,385 --> 00:47:28,680
♪ And I showed up late for things ♪
898
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,973
♪ And well this is getting pretty serious, yeah ♪
899
00:47:30,973 --> 00:47:33,225
♪ But my life was falling apart ♪
900
00:47:33,225 --> 00:47:35,645
♪ So I locked myself in a room ♪
901
00:47:35,645 --> 00:47:37,896
♪ And I smoked a bunch of weed ♪
902
00:47:37,896 --> 00:47:42,694
♪ Because I wanted the withdrawal to go away ♪
903
00:47:42,694 --> 00:47:45,321
For me, pot was a gateway to sobriety.
904
00:47:45,321 --> 00:47:47,990
I mean, I used pot to get off the other drugs.
905
00:47:47,990 --> 00:47:50,117
I'm a clinical social worker by training,
906
00:47:50,117 --> 00:47:52,244
and I work in chemical dependencies.
907
00:47:52,244 --> 00:47:54,539
High Sobriety is what it's called.
908
00:47:54,539 --> 00:47:57,834
And it's the first of its kind, that we're aware of anyway,
909
00:47:57,834 --> 00:48:01,253
that includes cannabis as part of a medication protocol
910
00:48:01,253 --> 00:48:03,214
to help people with their addictions,
911
00:48:03,214 --> 00:48:06,258
which sounds nuts, but it's not.
912
00:48:06,258 --> 00:48:10,429
Lots of drugs, specifically amphetamines make people crazy.
913
00:48:10,429 --> 00:48:13,224
There's 88,000 people a year drink themselves
914
00:48:13,224 --> 00:48:15,309
to death with lethal doses of alcohol.
915
00:48:15,309 --> 00:48:19,230
There's 115 people who drop dead every day using opiates.
916
00:48:19,230 --> 00:48:21,733
Heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine,
917
00:48:21,733 --> 00:48:23,984
all of those drugs have a dose
918
00:48:23,984 --> 00:48:26,237
where people will just drop dead.
919
00:48:26,237 --> 00:48:29,615
Nobody finds any recovery at all if they drop dead.
920
00:48:29,615 --> 00:48:31,992
There's no known lethal dose of cannabis.
921
00:48:31,992 --> 00:48:36,664
People have that ability to replace their drugs
922
00:48:36,664 --> 00:48:39,458
with cannabis, that creates room for change.
923
00:48:39,458 --> 00:48:42,628
You can have a conversation with a chronic cannabis user.
924
00:48:42,628 --> 00:48:45,548
That's how we believe that cannabis is used
925
00:48:45,548 --> 00:48:46,923
as an exit drug,
926
00:48:46,923 --> 00:48:49,427
as an off-ramp from these other drugs,
927
00:48:49,427 --> 00:48:52,764
and it can give people a softer landing into abstinence.
928
00:49:00,145 --> 00:49:02,981
This is in my nature, I think, as a collector,
929
00:49:02,981 --> 00:49:04,233
and collecting the herb
930
00:49:04,233 --> 00:49:06,736
just seemed like something fun to do,
931
00:49:06,736 --> 00:49:09,154
and everybody I show it to is always impressed
932
00:49:09,154 --> 00:49:12,241
and enjoyed the whole experience.
933
00:49:15,077 --> 00:49:17,580
I've got over a thousand different pieces
934
00:49:17,580 --> 00:49:21,292
of beautiful herb from 1972 to the present day.
935
00:49:21,292 --> 00:49:25,880
A little piece of Hawaiian from 1985.
936
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:30,509
Colombian Red and it's from 1978.
937
00:49:30,509 --> 00:49:32,720
This is, I think, everybody's favorite.
938
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:36,265
This Thai Stick from 1978.
939
00:49:36,265 --> 00:49:38,434
You'll notice the stick, and then it's wound
940
00:49:38,434 --> 00:49:41,186
with this little bit of like hemp string.
941
00:49:41,186 --> 00:49:42,939
Like, really fine.
942
00:49:42,939 --> 00:49:44,816
And they generally went for $10 a stick,
943
00:49:44,816 --> 00:49:46,734
sometimes up to $15 or $20.
944
00:49:46,734 --> 00:49:50,154
Black Indica from 1979,
945
00:49:50,154 --> 00:49:53,365
that's a stupendous part of the collection,
946
00:49:53,365 --> 00:49:54,991
'cause that was the best,
947
00:49:54,991 --> 00:49:56,911
nobody could beat it.
948
00:49:56,911 --> 00:49:59,204
Acapulco Gold, that's
949
00:49:59,204 --> 00:50:02,166
badass weed.
950
00:50:02,166 --> 00:50:04,961
It's a one of a kind collection of beautiful herb,
951
00:50:04,961 --> 00:50:08,046
and maybe someday it can help by getting the genetics out of it,
952
00:50:08,046 --> 00:50:09,548
the DNA.
953
00:50:09,548 --> 00:50:11,091
I don't think you can resurrect it like Jurassic Park,
954
00:50:11,091 --> 00:50:13,135
but it's possible. Who knows?
955
00:50:18,766 --> 00:50:20,351
Hawaiian Punch.
956
00:50:20,351 --> 00:50:24,313
You just look for that smell, and you know what it is.
957
00:50:24,313 --> 00:50:29,025
And you can only imagine, tropical vibes,
958
00:50:29,025 --> 00:50:31,487
sea breezes.
959
00:50:31,487 --> 00:50:36,200
Kinda makes you feel like, euphoric and elevated.
960
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,495
Feeling of everything's gonna be okay.
961
00:50:39,495 --> 00:50:41,539
It's the Hawaiian Punch.
962
00:50:42,790 --> 00:50:45,376
We have this Lemon OG.
963
00:50:47,628 --> 00:50:52,048
And I picked it out because Lemon,
964
00:50:52,048 --> 00:50:55,051
being that crossed with an OG
965
00:50:55,051 --> 00:50:58,389
is something that I would enjoy.
966
00:50:58,389 --> 00:51:02,267
Very limey and fuely and gassy
967
00:51:02,267 --> 00:51:05,229
and full-bodied and you know,
968
00:51:05,229 --> 00:51:08,482
some people like their herb grown under the sun.
969
00:51:08,482 --> 00:51:13,111
It's natural, it's definitely more eco-friendly.
970
00:51:15,406 --> 00:51:18,116
OG means ocean grown, originally.
971
00:51:19,618 --> 00:51:24,248
Definitely my favorite strain is OG Kush.
972
00:51:24,248 --> 00:51:28,544
One that has a very lemony punch to it.
973
00:51:31,255 --> 00:51:34,884
The 19 year old at the store who sells me my pot
974
00:51:34,884 --> 00:51:37,261
seems like more of a scientist than the doctor.
975
00:51:38,387 --> 00:51:40,056
You know, he's the one who's like:
976
00:51:40,056 --> 00:51:43,559
"Yes it's like a four-to-one terpene ratio to CBD to THC,
977
00:51:43,559 --> 00:51:45,269
here, if you look with a magnifying glass."
978
00:51:45,269 --> 00:51:47,312
"Ahh!"
979
00:51:47,312 --> 00:51:48,981
This is our weed pantry.
980
00:51:48,981 --> 00:51:51,859
What we've got is like lots of flowers,
981
00:51:51,859 --> 00:51:53,778
different types of concentrates,
982
00:51:53,778 --> 00:51:55,654
a bunch of ingredients
983
00:51:55,654 --> 00:51:58,114
that are already infused with cannabis.
984
00:51:58,114 --> 00:52:01,117
A lot of people ask me: "Do you just walk into that pantry
985
00:52:01,117 --> 00:52:03,079
and like stick your nose in a jar
986
00:52:03,079 --> 00:52:04,747
and pick a nug every morning?"
987
00:52:04,747 --> 00:52:07,041
Yes! That's exactly what I do.
988
00:52:09,334 --> 00:52:13,089
This rosin press is a solvent-free way
989
00:52:13,089 --> 00:52:16,132
to extract the resins from cannabis.
990
00:52:17,259 --> 00:52:19,303
Inside the piece of parchment paper
991
00:52:19,303 --> 00:52:20,972
there is some cannabis flowers.
992
00:52:20,972 --> 00:52:23,933
What's gonna happen is that this machine
993
00:52:23,933 --> 00:52:26,060
is going to press it down,
994
00:52:26,060 --> 00:52:28,437
and it's gonna go to about 200 degrees.
995
00:52:29,772 --> 00:52:32,524
Just for a few seconds, it's gonna compress it
996
00:52:32,524 --> 00:52:34,652
at that temperature, and what that's gonna do
997
00:52:34,652 --> 00:52:37,863
it's gonna cause the resins inside the cannabis,
998
00:52:37,863 --> 00:52:40,240
the oil to just sorta shoot out the sides.
999
00:52:40,240 --> 00:52:42,952
This is an increasingly popular way to
1000
00:52:42,952 --> 00:52:44,912
make cannabis concentrates.
1001
00:52:46,246 --> 00:52:47,832
So we're gonna open it up,
1002
00:52:47,832 --> 00:52:51,251
and you're gonna see there's a bunch of wax there.
1003
00:52:51,251 --> 00:52:55,213
Wow, that shit is gooey as fuck!
1004
00:52:55,213 --> 00:52:59,426
Each one is like a chalk outline of the nug that you know --
1005
00:52:59,426 --> 00:53:01,053
-That you destroyed. -Yeah.
1006
00:53:01,053 --> 00:53:02,888
That once came from it, you know?
1007
00:53:02,888 --> 00:53:05,975
Like, in memory of this guy.
1008
00:53:07,559 --> 00:53:09,561
All right, let's go do some dabs.
1009
00:53:26,745 --> 00:53:28,164
I was in Michigan?
1010
00:53:28,164 --> 00:53:29,414
I don't know if you guys have ever flown
1011
00:53:29,414 --> 00:53:31,000
into Michigan with weed.
1012
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:32,835
Yeah, not the smartest thing.
1013
00:53:32,835 --> 00:53:35,171
I saw a cop with a dog, then the dog jumps up
1014
00:53:35,171 --> 00:53:37,255
onto the carousel, he's smelling everybody's luggage.
1015
00:53:37,255 --> 00:53:39,215
My heart's beating, right?
1016
00:53:39,215 --> 00:53:41,635
He smelled my luggage, quickly moved onto the next bag.
1017
00:53:41,635 --> 00:53:42,887
That's when I started to panic,
1018
00:53:42,887 --> 00:53:44,555
I'm like, "Fuck, did I even bring it?"
1019
00:54:28,140 --> 00:54:30,308
Come down to if you can get
1020
00:54:30,308 --> 00:54:32,228
a ten hour drive down in one day
1021
00:54:32,228 --> 00:54:33,729
without getting pulled over.
1022
00:54:36,732 --> 00:54:39,610
I came to Los Angeles for weed.
1023
00:54:39,610 --> 00:54:41,486
If you get arrested for weed in the South,
1024
00:54:41,486 --> 00:54:43,405
I mean, you're just treated like any other criminal.
1025
00:54:43,405 --> 00:54:45,365
♪ It's all about weed ♪
1026
00:54:45,365 --> 00:54:47,743
The way I look right now is what thugs look like in the South.
1027
00:54:47,743 --> 00:54:49,411
I get pulled over every day.
1028
00:54:52,081 --> 00:54:54,625
♪ I woke up this morning ♪
1029
00:54:54,625 --> 00:54:59,130
♪ And we got high and I wrote this song ♪
1030
00:55:00,338 --> 00:55:02,507
♪ Song about weed ♪
1031
00:55:02,507 --> 00:55:04,468
Hey I think that's a cop behind you.
1032
00:55:04,468 --> 00:55:07,096
♪ Song about weed ♪
1033
00:55:08,555 --> 00:55:10,057
Hey he's pulling you over.
1034
00:55:12,350 --> 00:55:14,019
Let me take a rip of this thing.
1035
00:55:17,439 --> 00:55:19,275
I've been pulled over with a joint
1036
00:55:19,275 --> 00:55:21,986
in my lips here in Los Angeles, California.
1037
00:55:21,986 --> 00:55:25,030
And the cop asked me, "What do you think you're doing?"
1038
00:55:25,030 --> 00:55:26,740
I'm medicating.
1039
00:55:26,740 --> 00:55:29,701
♪ Herb ♪
1040
00:55:29,701 --> 00:55:33,956
♪ She's a green reality ♪
1041
00:55:34,790 --> 00:55:37,209
♪ And pot ♪
1042
00:55:38,627 --> 00:55:40,462
♪ Is good for me ♪
1043
00:55:40,462 --> 00:55:43,007
Looked at my license and everything and let me go.
1044
00:55:43,007 --> 00:55:44,925
That would've never happened in the South.
1045
00:55:44,925 --> 00:55:47,970
I'd have gone to jail.
1046
00:55:47,970 --> 00:55:49,972
They don't even care here. That's the reason I'm here.
1047
00:55:49,972 --> 00:55:51,890
'Cause there were too many close calls and run-ins
1048
00:55:51,890 --> 00:55:54,268
with the police in my home state.
1049
00:55:55,769 --> 00:55:58,063
The whole mentality is
1050
00:55:58,063 --> 00:56:00,649
completely opposite of the people
1051
00:56:00,649 --> 00:56:02,818
and the culture around it,
1052
00:56:02,818 --> 00:56:04,611
and I think it's because,
1053
00:56:04,611 --> 00:56:07,823
honestly, here, a lot of rich people smoke weed.
1054
00:56:07,823 --> 00:56:09,158
And they were like,
1055
00:56:09,158 --> 00:56:10,575
"I don't wanna go to jail for smoking weed."
1056
00:56:10,575 --> 00:56:12,161
So rich people paid to have the laws changed.
1057
00:56:12,161 --> 00:56:14,538
If you don't love cannabis
1058
00:56:14,538 --> 00:56:16,874
and you're not passionate about cannabis,
1059
00:56:16,874 --> 00:56:19,668
it's gonna be hard to grow really great cannabis.
1060
00:56:19,668 --> 00:56:22,087
Any idiot can grow pot, it's a fucking plant,
1061
00:56:22,087 --> 00:56:23,214
you water it, it'll grow.
1062
00:56:23,214 --> 00:56:24,506
But there's those of us
1063
00:56:24,506 --> 00:56:26,217
that spend the time doing the research.
1064
00:56:26,217 --> 00:56:27,968
We go and we find the masters and we learn from them.
1065
00:56:27,968 --> 00:56:31,055
Cannabis cultivation is part science,
1066
00:56:31,055 --> 00:56:32,848
and part art.
1067
00:56:32,848 --> 00:56:37,019
And certainly I think part luck.
1068
00:56:37,019 --> 00:56:38,729
Welcome to Dank by Pank Gardens.
1069
00:56:38,729 --> 00:56:41,190
This is our awesome propagation room.
1070
00:56:41,190 --> 00:56:42,607
I'm gonna tell you, this is one of the most
1071
00:56:42,607 --> 00:56:45,027
important rooms in our entire garden.
1072
00:56:45,027 --> 00:56:47,696
When you come down here, you'll see all of our teen plants
1073
00:56:47,696 --> 00:56:49,281
that just came out of the cloner.
1074
00:56:49,281 --> 00:56:51,242
These have been growing for about two weeks,
1075
00:56:51,242 --> 00:56:52,784
so they're really starting to rip.
1076
00:56:56,372 --> 00:56:59,457
This is an aeroponic cloner and I wanna show you underneath,
1077
00:56:59,457 --> 00:57:01,210
if you want to take a quick look.
1078
00:57:01,210 --> 00:57:04,213
You can see all the roots inside of it which are really fun.
1079
00:57:04,213 --> 00:57:05,839
We've turned this off.
1080
00:57:05,839 --> 00:57:08,300
Normally, we have water spraying out of every red head
1081
00:57:08,300 --> 00:57:10,468
and that basically creates the perfect environment
1082
00:57:10,468 --> 00:57:13,305
for hormones to build on the cambium layer of these cuts,
1083
00:57:13,305 --> 00:57:16,141
and really shoot out the huge root systems that we want.
1084
00:57:19,019 --> 00:57:22,356
This is to me, is the original OG Kush
1085
00:57:22,356 --> 00:57:24,024
that's called Ghost OG.
1086
00:57:24,024 --> 00:57:26,818
We grow in a medium right here of coco.
1087
00:57:26,818 --> 00:57:29,863
This is organic coco from inland in Sri Lanka.
1088
00:57:29,863 --> 00:57:32,157
So we have it shipped in containers,
1089
00:57:32,157 --> 00:57:33,867
and it comes in bricks.
1090
00:57:33,867 --> 00:57:36,203
And we basically put those bricks in water
1091
00:57:36,203 --> 00:57:37,871
and let them sit overnight.
1092
00:57:37,871 --> 00:57:39,873
And then we break the bricks up and it comes into a nice,
1093
00:57:39,873 --> 00:57:41,250
fine medium.
1094
00:57:41,250 --> 00:57:42,667
You wanna see?
1095
00:57:42,667 --> 00:57:43,835
It's like, really nice.
1096
00:57:43,835 --> 00:57:45,629
And the reason everyone is really into
1097
00:57:45,629 --> 00:57:47,214
this coco craze right now,
1098
00:57:47,214 --> 00:57:50,884
is coco holds about six times its weight in water
1099
00:57:50,884 --> 00:57:53,345
and it also is very high, like fibers.
1100
00:57:53,345 --> 00:57:54,763
So when you feed coco,
1101
00:57:54,763 --> 00:57:56,473
it's really easy for the nutrients
1102
00:57:56,473 --> 00:57:58,100
to adhere to the coco fibers.
1103
00:57:58,100 --> 00:58:00,060
We've actually won the Cannabis Cup
1104
00:58:00,060 --> 00:58:02,354
with the plants all back through here a bunch of times.
1105
00:58:02,354 --> 00:58:04,273
This is a strain called Don Shula,
1106
00:58:04,273 --> 00:58:06,900
which is just, it's a winning strain.
1107
00:58:06,900 --> 00:58:09,945
It's ironic that we called it the Don Shula because I mean,
1108
00:58:09,945 --> 00:58:11,363
he's the only, you know,
1109
00:58:11,363 --> 00:58:13,449
coach that ever won a full season of football
1110
00:58:13,449 --> 00:58:15,284
and the Super Bowl.
1111
00:58:15,284 --> 00:58:17,453
I bought marijuana seeds when I moved here.
1112
00:58:17,453 --> 00:58:18,662
Why wouldn't you?
1113
00:58:18,662 --> 00:58:20,705
You can legally buy pot seeds now.
1114
00:58:20,705 --> 00:58:22,124
Right? I don't even grow 'em.
1115
00:58:22,124 --> 00:58:23,375
I'd just like to walk around my neighborhood
1116
00:58:23,375 --> 00:58:25,169
sprinkle them into peoples yards.
1117
00:58:25,169 --> 00:58:27,796
Hey fuck you, called the cops on me.
1118
00:58:27,796 --> 00:58:30,132
Looks like someone's growing within 100 feet of a school.
1119
00:58:31,508 --> 00:58:33,260
And you're at church, you should know better.
1120
00:58:37,181 --> 00:58:39,141
The DEA, US Marshal Service,
1121
00:58:39,141 --> 00:58:42,019
and IRS are raiding Oaksterdam University
1122
00:58:42,019 --> 00:58:44,396
as a school shooting is taking place
1123
00:58:44,396 --> 00:58:46,148
in nearby East Oakland.
1124
00:58:47,358 --> 00:58:48,817
It was surreal.
1125
00:58:48,817 --> 00:58:51,236
What I remember most about the day of the raid
1126
00:58:51,236 --> 00:58:54,448
is a line of local law enforcement,
1127
00:58:54,448 --> 00:58:56,325
our Oakland Police Department,
1128
00:58:56,325 --> 00:58:59,828
trying to stand between a crowd of hundreds
1129
00:58:59,828 --> 00:59:01,955
shouting shame at the DEA
1130
00:59:01,955 --> 00:59:04,500
and a hundred or so agents
1131
00:59:04,500 --> 00:59:08,212
raiding five different properties.
1132
00:59:08,212 --> 00:59:09,838
We know you don't wanna be out here
1133
00:59:09,838 --> 00:59:11,089
on this assignment.
1134
00:59:11,089 --> 00:59:12,549
We know that in your heart you think
1135
00:59:12,549 --> 00:59:14,259
that this assignment is bullshit.
1136
00:59:14,259 --> 00:59:17,095
We found out that a tragedy was going
1137
00:59:17,095 --> 00:59:20,307
on a mile away, there was a school shooting.
1138
00:59:20,307 --> 00:59:23,018
It's unknown if the gunman is still inside
1139
00:59:23,018 --> 00:59:26,938
or if the gunman fled before police arrival.
1140
00:59:26,938 --> 00:59:29,358
Our law enforcement couldn't walk away
1141
00:59:29,358 --> 00:59:31,609
because they were busy protecting the DEA
1142
00:59:31,609 --> 00:59:36,198
while they raided a plant that's never killed anyone.
1143
00:59:36,198 --> 00:59:39,201
The idea of that school shooting happening
1144
00:59:39,201 --> 00:59:42,329
and our police not being able to reply
1145
00:59:42,329 --> 00:59:43,914
to it in a timely manner,
1146
00:59:43,914 --> 00:59:46,083
and the looks on the faces of the cops
1147
00:59:46,083 --> 00:59:48,419
that were pissed off at having to be there in the first place,
1148
00:59:48,419 --> 00:59:50,587
because our local law enforcement actually supports
1149
00:59:50,587 --> 00:59:52,548
our local cannabis industry.
1150
00:59:52,548 --> 00:59:54,550
and nobody told them that there was going
1151
00:59:54,550 --> 00:59:55,800
to be a raid that morning.
1152
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:57,594
It's not easy, it's not easy at all.
1153
00:59:57,594 --> 01:00:00,931
The city changes its regulations or the county,
1154
01:00:00,931 --> 01:00:04,017
or the state, or the government, or the President changes,
1155
01:00:04,017 --> 01:00:07,521
or whatever it is that is going to affect this business.
1156
01:00:07,521 --> 01:00:09,273
It's a very competitive market.
1157
01:00:09,273 --> 01:00:12,150
And we reject 90% of the cannabis
1158
01:00:12,150 --> 01:00:13,777
that comes through our doors.
1159
01:00:13,777 --> 01:00:15,862
Picture a family with an 18 year old child
1160
01:00:15,862 --> 01:00:18,990
who comes to them and says, "I wanna grow pot."
1161
01:00:18,990 --> 01:00:22,994
That isn't probably a very easy thing
1162
01:00:22,994 --> 01:00:24,455
for a parent to deal with.
1163
01:00:24,455 --> 01:00:26,790
So it came to a lot of pushing and pulling,
1164
01:00:26,790 --> 01:00:28,375
a lot of fighting.
1165
01:00:28,375 --> 01:00:30,752
And after the first crop, when they saw,
1166
01:00:30,752 --> 01:00:32,837
Oh shit, you know, this kid knows what he's doing
1167
01:00:32,837 --> 01:00:34,548
and can actually make money on this.
1168
01:00:34,548 --> 01:00:38,676
That kinda started easing into more of an acceptance.
1169
01:00:47,394 --> 01:00:48,686
When we're growing indoors,
1170
01:00:48,686 --> 01:00:50,147
we're literally trying to play God.
1171
01:00:50,147 --> 01:00:51,982
We're bringing the sun from outside
1172
01:00:51,982 --> 01:00:53,317
and we're putting it indoors.
1173
01:00:53,317 --> 01:00:57,028
I tried doing outdoors and the bugs came,
1174
01:00:57,028 --> 01:00:59,615
so I said, "Fuck it, I'll build a grow room
1175
01:00:59,615 --> 01:01:00,949
and I'm gonna try and play God."
1176
01:01:24,306 --> 01:01:28,059
Inside of the grow room there is a center box
1177
01:01:28,059 --> 01:01:30,145
and when it goes below a certain point,
1178
01:01:30,145 --> 01:01:32,356
there's a pump in here that'll kick on,
1179
01:01:32,356 --> 01:01:35,275
and it literally just pumps the water, you know,
1180
01:01:35,275 --> 01:01:37,361
underneath my grow room up through the floor
1181
01:01:37,361 --> 01:01:39,321
and into that center box.
1182
01:01:44,493 --> 01:01:46,537
Cannabis, to me, has kinda been a world of
1183
01:01:46,537 --> 01:01:49,164
opening new friendships and
1184
01:01:49,164 --> 01:01:53,043
it's not a drug to me.
1185
01:01:53,043 --> 01:01:56,963
It's not either like a morning coffee or a sipping wine.
1186
01:01:56,963 --> 01:01:58,507
It's a whole culture.
1187
01:01:58,507 --> 01:02:02,302
It's a whole thing that's embraced me as who I am.
1188
01:02:04,304 --> 01:02:06,223
I dunno know, it's special.
1189
01:02:06,223 --> 01:02:10,227
And I get all the free pot I want, and my friends of course.
1190
01:02:16,441 --> 01:02:18,068
You wanna piss a farmer off?
1191
01:02:18,068 --> 01:02:19,986
Tell him how much weed sells for.
1192
01:02:21,488 --> 01:02:23,114
Like, how much per bushel?
1193
01:02:23,114 --> 01:02:26,660
Holy shit, my buddy makes more in his closet.
1194
01:02:26,660 --> 01:02:28,620
One light and two plants.
1195
01:02:28,620 --> 01:02:29,954
Good luck with your acreage.
1196
01:02:31,456 --> 01:02:33,791
Everybody's wondering whether industrial hemp's
1197
01:02:33,791 --> 01:02:35,085
going to make a come back.
1198
01:02:35,085 --> 01:02:36,670
I remember finding out that my grandparents
1199
01:02:36,670 --> 01:02:40,131
actually grew hemp back before it was made illegal.
1200
01:02:40,131 --> 01:02:42,509
It was used, of course, for rope, and cloth,
1201
01:02:42,509 --> 01:02:43,843
and a myriad of things.
1202
01:02:43,843 --> 01:02:45,554
My wife and I, we drink hemp milk,
1203
01:02:45,554 --> 01:02:49,349
we use hemp soaps, we have hemp clothing.
1204
01:02:49,349 --> 01:02:51,142
It's not marijuana, it's hemp.
1205
01:02:51,142 --> 01:02:54,062
It's used as fiber. It's used for paper,
1206
01:02:54,062 --> 01:02:56,481
It's used even in some plastics.
1207
01:02:56,481 --> 01:02:58,816
This is, this is actually a resource
1208
01:02:58,816 --> 01:03:01,778
that it doesn't take intensive quantities of water
1209
01:03:01,778 --> 01:03:03,697
in a dry, semi-arid state.
1210
01:03:03,697 --> 01:03:06,658
Something like hemp could be the new cash crop
1211
01:03:06,658 --> 01:03:09,994
to really answer some of the economic woes
1212
01:03:09,994 --> 01:03:12,414
that we have in our rural parts of our state.
1213
01:03:12,414 --> 01:03:14,207
I think industrial hemp is gonna play
1214
01:03:14,207 --> 01:03:16,960
a very important role in saving the planet Earth.
1215
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,879
You'll notice we have a hemp museum downstairs
1216
01:03:19,879 --> 01:03:22,674
and you can see everything that we can produce just from hemp.
1217
01:03:22,674 --> 01:03:24,718
So a lot of countries are moving forward with it.
1218
01:03:24,718 --> 01:03:27,095
There's a reason why cannabis is a Schedule 1 substance.
1219
01:03:27,095 --> 01:03:30,014
The moment it changes, there's a lot of big businesses,
1220
01:03:30,014 --> 01:03:32,392
I'm talking about billion dollar international corporations,
1221
01:03:32,392 --> 01:03:34,978
and they're gonna lose tens of billions of dollars.
1222
01:03:34,978 --> 01:03:36,772
So they will do everything they can
1223
01:03:36,772 --> 01:03:38,273
to stop that from happening.
1224
01:03:38,273 --> 01:03:40,776
We were in Skagway, Alaska.
1225
01:03:40,776 --> 01:03:42,860
I was doing a movie with Woody Harrelson,
1226
01:03:42,860 --> 01:03:44,279
of course you hang out with Woody,
1227
01:03:44,279 --> 01:03:45,572
you smoke with Woody.
1228
01:03:45,572 --> 01:03:47,282
He had just recently gotten arrested.
1229
01:03:47,282 --> 01:03:48,492
He had gone to Kentucky,
1230
01:03:48,492 --> 01:03:50,243
'cause he's all about hemp activism
1231
01:03:50,243 --> 01:03:51,869
and the multiple usages of hemp.
1232
01:03:51,869 --> 01:03:53,705
And he's telling me the story.
1233
01:03:53,705 --> 01:03:58,335
So, having a guitar nearby, I made up this song on the spot,
1234
01:03:58,335 --> 01:04:00,920
The Ballad of Woody and His Seed.
1235
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:06,092
It is written on the back of a set of sides.
1236
01:04:06,092 --> 01:04:09,220
The lines, a scene that we had filmed that day.
1237
01:04:10,930 --> 01:04:13,099
♪ From Hollywood he came ♪
1238
01:04:13,099 --> 01:04:15,352
♪ Feelin' lucky ♪
1239
01:04:16,311 --> 01:04:18,062
♪ He came to plant ♪
1240
01:04:18,062 --> 01:04:21,733
♪ His sweet seed in Kentucky ♪
1241
01:04:21,733 --> 01:04:26,780
♪ To draw attention to farm policy abatement ♪
1242
01:04:26,780 --> 01:04:32,076
♪ He flew to the Bluegrass to make a policy statement ♪
1243
01:04:32,076 --> 01:04:35,580
♪ This is The Ballad of Woody and His Seed ♪
1244
01:04:35,580 --> 01:04:40,084
♪ Hemp, you see, can fulfill every need ♪
1245
01:04:42,295 --> 01:04:47,718
♪ Natural fibers, no need to fake it ♪
1246
01:04:47,718 --> 01:04:51,680
♪ Whatever you need, hemp can make it ♪
1247
01:04:54,558 --> 01:04:56,393
Somethin' like that.
1248
01:04:56,393 --> 01:04:58,854
You can make those connections happen,
1249
01:04:58,854 --> 01:05:00,856
where maybe you do have some business people
1250
01:05:00,856 --> 01:05:03,191
that have those skills that can partner
1251
01:05:03,191 --> 01:05:05,276
with the growers that have those skills
1252
01:05:05,276 --> 01:05:08,405
and build successful small to medium business models.
1253
01:05:11,074 --> 01:05:12,534
We were kind of looking for something
1254
01:05:12,534 --> 01:05:14,786
in downtown L.A. that was a warehouse
1255
01:05:14,786 --> 01:05:16,954
that had a little bit of edge to it. There was a vibe.
1256
01:05:16,954 --> 01:05:20,250
The dinner didn't start when you sat down ate your first bite.
1257
01:05:20,250 --> 01:05:21,959
The dinner started when you got out of your car.
1258
01:05:21,959 --> 01:05:26,673
You walked to this parking lot, into a building,
1259
01:05:26,673 --> 01:05:28,759
and then you were transformed the whole thing.
1260
01:05:28,759 --> 01:05:31,928
Playing visuals on the wall, we wanted a whole experience.
1261
01:05:31,928 --> 01:05:34,013
'Cause to me it's like, that's what dining is,
1262
01:05:34,013 --> 01:05:35,557
it's all encompassing.
1263
01:05:35,557 --> 01:05:38,727
It's not just the food, it's not just the service.
1264
01:05:38,727 --> 01:05:42,355
It's a good feeling because my thought was with doing this
1265
01:05:42,355 --> 01:05:46,317
I've kind of destigmatized the idea of edible cannabis.
1266
01:05:50,321 --> 01:05:52,657
As I started working with some of the farmers
1267
01:05:52,657 --> 01:05:55,076
and whatever it might be that they brought to the table,
1268
01:05:55,076 --> 01:05:56,661
we treated it as an ingredient.
1269
01:05:56,661 --> 01:05:59,748
First and foremost in the style of cooking that I do,
1270
01:05:59,748 --> 01:06:02,500
it's using ingredients that are fresh and seasonal.
1271
01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:05,420
To take that with the different strains of cannabis
1272
01:06:05,420 --> 01:06:07,380
that paired best with those.
1273
01:06:08,882 --> 01:06:12,009
As cannabis comes further into legalization,
1274
01:06:12,009 --> 01:06:15,722
I 100% think that this is the future of cuisine in general.
1275
01:06:15,722 --> 01:06:19,309
I want people to eat and enjoy and not be wrecked.
1276
01:06:21,853 --> 01:06:24,314
Something like this where you're doing fine dining
1277
01:06:24,314 --> 01:06:26,524
and elevated food, I think now as we can
1278
01:06:26,524 --> 01:06:29,152
kind of dip our toe into bringing it to the masses.
1279
01:06:37,452 --> 01:06:39,120
The more and more people play with this,
1280
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,539
the more you can find the right magic,
1281
01:06:41,539 --> 01:06:45,460
small dose per item so that you can enjoy the food,
1282
01:06:45,460 --> 01:06:49,923
but then you can also get that elated experience as well
1283
01:06:49,923 --> 01:06:51,549
and the satisfaction from it
1284
01:06:51,549 --> 01:06:56,012
without being curled up in a fetal position.
1285
01:06:56,972 --> 01:06:58,932
Hi, my name is Chef Niko.
1286
01:06:58,932 --> 01:07:00,976
And I'm gonna show you how my cannabis recipes
1287
01:07:00,976 --> 01:07:02,853
will spice up more than your palate.
1288
01:07:02,853 --> 01:07:04,729
My food will not only taste better,
1289
01:07:04,729 --> 01:07:06,272
but will make you feel better,
1290
01:07:06,272 --> 01:07:09,150
and you will never look at food the same way again.
1291
01:07:11,528 --> 01:07:14,447
I have four kids, so when I'm ready to go to an event,
1292
01:07:14,447 --> 01:07:16,115
they always tell me like,
1293
01:07:16,115 --> 01:07:19,202
"Oh, are you gonna go and cook for people that need it,
1294
01:07:19,202 --> 01:07:20,912
or are they really sick?
1295
01:07:20,912 --> 01:07:23,331
And I always tell them, you know like,
1296
01:07:23,331 --> 01:07:25,249
"Some of them are sick, some of them are not."
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01:07:28,419 --> 01:07:30,881
Here we have some nice Kobe beef,
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01:07:30,881 --> 01:07:33,174
and we're gonna make three patties.
1299
01:07:33,174 --> 01:07:35,092
And you can just press 'em with your hand,
1300
01:07:35,092 --> 01:07:36,636
like if you're caressing a woman.
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01:07:36,636 --> 01:07:39,180
Nice, thick, juicy.
1302
01:07:39,180 --> 01:07:41,850
Next, we're gonna add some herb butter
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01:07:41,850 --> 01:07:43,852
to the pan in the back.
1304
01:07:43,852 --> 01:07:45,979
We can put down our burgers.
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01:07:46,563 --> 01:07:48,398
You take the extract,
1306
01:07:58,074 --> 01:07:59,993
I would take about that much.
1307
01:07:59,993 --> 01:08:02,370
I mean, it's literally that much
1308
01:08:02,370 --> 01:08:06,290
that would medicate three people.
1309
01:08:06,290 --> 01:08:10,169
Once all of it has melted into it, two quail eggs.
1310
01:08:10,169 --> 01:08:12,630
Next, we're gonna fry our buns.
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01:08:12,630 --> 01:08:16,175
Once you've got them to soak up all the oil,
1312
01:08:16,175 --> 01:08:18,553
they should look nice and toasted, like that.
1313
01:08:30,648 --> 01:08:34,485
This is my take on the most expensive cannabis burger,
1314
01:08:34,485 --> 01:08:36,487
and I hope you guys enjoy it.
1315
01:09:03,056 --> 01:09:06,142
Everyone here that checks into my place
1316
01:09:06,142 --> 01:09:09,228
is cannabis friendly, is passionate about cannabis,
1317
01:09:09,228 --> 01:09:10,981
and loves cannabis.
1318
01:09:10,981 --> 01:09:13,984
What they have never experienced is the ability to smoke freely.
1319
01:09:17,528 --> 01:09:19,614
When we created this place I said to Joel,
1320
01:09:19,614 --> 01:09:23,576
"If we're doing this, we're doing over the top hospitality."
1321
01:09:23,576 --> 01:09:25,662
A secure, warm,
1322
01:09:25,662 --> 01:09:28,832
comfortable place for people to smoke.
1323
01:09:35,005 --> 01:09:37,132
Cooking and entertaining has always been
1324
01:09:37,132 --> 01:09:38,633
my love and my passion.
1325
01:09:41,177 --> 01:09:43,054
We want every guest to feel
1326
01:09:43,054 --> 01:09:44,639
like they're the only guest here,
1327
01:09:44,639 --> 01:09:46,766
but the beauty of the place is that they're not,
1328
01:09:46,766 --> 01:09:51,021
and people love to smoke cannabis with other people.
1329
01:09:51,021 --> 01:09:55,066
And our guests come in and within 10 to 15 minutes
1330
01:09:55,066 --> 01:09:57,652
they've known each other forever.
1331
01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:05,493
On any given night there'll be 12 people
1332
01:10:05,493 --> 01:10:09,413
playing board games and passing joints all night long.
1333
01:10:25,346 --> 01:10:27,015
The guests that we have here
1334
01:10:27,015 --> 01:10:30,060
varies from 21 year olds to 81 year olds.
1335
01:10:31,644 --> 01:10:34,522
We get people from all over the world.
1336
01:10:34,522 --> 01:10:37,775
Doctors, lawyers, veterans,
1337
01:10:37,775 --> 01:10:39,694
ex-military, principals,
1338
01:10:39,694 --> 01:10:42,906
teachers, you name it, across the board.
1339
01:10:45,116 --> 01:10:47,451
Our guests walk down in the morning,
1340
01:10:47,451 --> 01:10:50,663
and the first thing they hear is, "Oh, how'd you sleep?
1341
01:10:50,663 --> 01:10:51,956
Would you like a mimosa?"
1342
01:10:51,956 --> 01:10:54,042
They cannot believe that they can sit
1343
01:10:54,042 --> 01:10:56,419
in a beautiful living room, a beautiful dining room,
1344
01:10:56,419 --> 01:10:58,629
a beautiful patio and smoke.
1345
01:10:58,629 --> 01:11:02,341
So their appetite is wonderful for our great breakfast.
1346
01:11:05,845 --> 01:11:08,014
We have a full paraphernalia bar.
1347
01:11:08,014 --> 01:11:10,433
So they don't need to purchase anything
1348
01:11:10,433 --> 01:11:12,018
to smoke their cannabis with.
1349
01:11:12,018 --> 01:11:15,396
Some people just like to stay here all day and relax,
1350
01:11:15,396 --> 01:11:18,357
other people, we have the Botanic Gardens right here,
1351
01:11:18,357 --> 01:11:21,778
we have the Denver Zoo, the museum, downtown Denver,
1352
01:11:21,778 --> 01:11:23,696
and then they all come back
1353
01:11:23,696 --> 01:11:26,157
and gather together for 420 Happy Hour.
1354
01:11:42,632 --> 01:11:44,717
420 is a happy time.
1355
01:11:44,717 --> 01:11:46,761
It's the best happy hour there is.
1356
01:12:01,067 --> 01:12:03,527
I'm the president of Strava Craft Coffee.
1357
01:12:03,527 --> 01:12:05,321
We're a local specialty coffee roaster.
1358
01:12:05,321 --> 01:12:07,282
We've been in business for a year and a half.
1359
01:12:07,282 --> 01:12:10,243
We chose to celebrate the infusion of cannabis
1360
01:12:10,243 --> 01:12:12,620
into some really fantastic coffee.
1361
01:12:13,746 --> 01:12:15,456
The really great thing about Denver
1362
01:12:15,456 --> 01:12:18,501
is that it's a community of innovators, of makers,
1363
01:12:18,501 --> 01:12:20,003
of specialty foods,
1364
01:12:20,003 --> 01:12:21,378
of specialty experiences,
1365
01:12:21,378 --> 01:12:23,881
and as we've moved into the cannabis community
1366
01:12:23,881 --> 01:12:25,382
with our hemp-infused coffee,
1367
01:12:25,382 --> 01:12:27,635
we've connected with members of this community
1368
01:12:27,635 --> 01:12:29,304
that are extremely supportive.
1369
01:12:29,304 --> 01:12:30,763
They believe in our vision
1370
01:12:30,763 --> 01:12:32,515
and they help connect us with resources.
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01:12:32,515 --> 01:12:36,853
We're using a hemp-derived CBD oil to infuse into the beans,
1372
01:12:36,853 --> 01:12:40,231
and it produces some really fantastic results for consumers.
1373
01:12:40,231 --> 01:12:42,150
You can enjoy a couple cups of coffee
1374
01:12:42,150 --> 01:12:44,110
and not worry about coffee jitters,
1375
01:12:44,110 --> 01:12:46,863
and it's fantastic for alleviating anxiety as well.
1376
01:12:48,698 --> 01:12:51,492
We roast all of our coffees here in Denver, Colorado.
1377
01:12:51,492 --> 01:12:53,577
We do the infusions here as well,
1378
01:12:53,577 --> 01:12:56,372
and then package up in 12 ounce bags of whole bean coffee,
1379
01:12:56,372 --> 01:12:59,000
and we sell those at a couple of cafes locally in town,
1380
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,627
and we do sell those online and they can order right there
1381
01:13:01,627 --> 01:13:03,129
and we'll ship directly to their house.
1382
01:13:03,129 --> 01:13:06,216
You can prepare it via French press or aeropress,
1383
01:13:06,216 --> 01:13:08,259
however you like to prepare your coffee at home.
1384
01:13:16,893 --> 01:13:19,229
High End Transportation is a luxury vehicle company
1385
01:13:19,229 --> 01:13:21,647
that caters to the 420 community.
1386
01:13:22,940 --> 01:13:26,236
We are veteran owned, women owned,
1387
01:13:26,236 --> 01:13:29,155
and just 100% diversified in our company.
1388
01:13:32,116 --> 01:13:34,202
We create experiences for people
1389
01:13:34,202 --> 01:13:36,371
who like to indulge in a journey.
1390
01:13:37,914 --> 01:13:39,749
We'll pick you up from the airport
1391
01:13:39,749 --> 01:13:41,584
in one of our luxury vehicles.
1392
01:13:43,127 --> 01:13:45,462
We'll take you to a dispensary where you can load up
1393
01:13:45,462 --> 01:13:47,298
and get your first joint on.
1394
01:13:50,551 --> 01:13:52,678
You get all your drivers fingerprinted, you know,
1395
01:13:52,678 --> 01:13:55,265
background checks, physicals, make sure they're safe
1396
01:13:55,265 --> 01:13:56,766
to drive on the road.
1397
01:13:58,351 --> 01:14:01,520
Once they're all limo'd up and our cars are licensed
1398
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,439
and they have all their numbers on there,
1399
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:05,149
you can go in there and hotbox with your friends,
1400
01:14:05,149 --> 01:14:06,776
and do whatever you want, you know.
1401
01:14:06,776 --> 01:14:08,152
Fifteen passengers or more,
1402
01:14:08,152 --> 01:14:10,321
have a good time and it won't affect our driver.
1403
01:14:10,321 --> 01:14:12,698
But definitely, our service is meant
1404
01:14:12,698 --> 01:14:14,617
to give you a safe place to consume
1405
01:14:14,617 --> 01:14:17,453
while you enjoy the sights of Denver, Colorado.
1406
01:14:19,663 --> 01:14:21,207
I love weed.
1407
01:14:21,207 --> 01:14:22,250
I love it.
1408
01:14:22,250 --> 01:14:23,542
I love it!
1409
01:14:24,668 --> 01:14:26,296
I don't like it, I love it.
1410
01:14:27,338 --> 01:14:28,756
You know why I love it.
1411
01:14:28,756 --> 01:14:30,549
Well maybe you don't, but I'll tell you
1412
01:14:30,549 --> 01:14:33,136
'cause I'm not ashamed, I'm not ashamed.
1413
01:14:33,136 --> 01:14:34,511
Don't you forget.
1414
01:14:34,511 --> 01:14:38,015
Don't you forget who...
1415
01:14:38,015 --> 01:14:39,683
made marijuana.
1416
01:14:39,683 --> 01:14:41,727
That's right. It wasn't me,
1417
01:14:41,727 --> 01:14:43,687
it was none of you either.
1418
01:14:48,525 --> 01:14:49,944
That's right.
1419
01:14:50,569 --> 01:14:52,780
Our Father.
1420
01:14:52,780 --> 01:14:54,449
He made it for us.
1421
01:14:54,449 --> 01:14:59,703
He made it for us because he wants us to smoke that shit.
1422
01:15:00,913 --> 01:15:02,206
And eat muffins and shit.
1423
01:15:03,791 --> 01:15:07,003
My name's Julie Berliner, I own Sweet Grass Kitchen.
1424
01:15:07,003 --> 01:15:09,172
We make cannabutter base edibles.
1425
01:15:14,844 --> 01:15:18,389
So this is Sweet Grass's cultivation.
1426
01:15:18,389 --> 01:15:20,099
We grow everything in-house
1427
01:15:20,099 --> 01:15:23,269
because we wanna make sure that every time you have an edible,
1428
01:15:23,269 --> 01:15:25,021
whether it's a brownie, or a cookie,
1429
01:15:25,021 --> 01:15:27,190
or you're eating it today or six months from now,
1430
01:15:27,190 --> 01:15:29,525
that you're getting the same experience.
1431
01:15:31,902 --> 01:15:35,531
It's not required by regulation to grow our own product.
1432
01:15:35,531 --> 01:15:39,410
We really want to be sure that we're seeing everything
1433
01:15:39,410 --> 01:15:40,786
from a five inch tall plant
1434
01:15:40,786 --> 01:15:43,622
to the cookie that comes out at the end.
1435
01:15:45,541 --> 01:15:48,169
Every room in the facility has its purpose.
1436
01:15:48,169 --> 01:15:51,047
So this is where we do all of our scaling and mixing.
1437
01:15:51,047 --> 01:15:55,009
Everything from the harvest comes into here, we process it.
1438
01:15:57,178 --> 01:16:00,723
You can actually see Brittney here scooping some
1439
01:16:00,723 --> 01:16:03,559
of our cannabutter into the mixer there.
1440
01:16:03,559 --> 01:16:05,561
So the tub that she has in her hand
1441
01:16:05,561 --> 01:16:07,855
can make about 20,000 cookies.
1442
01:16:07,855 --> 01:16:12,193
That's 200,000 milligrams of THC in one bucket,
1443
01:16:12,193 --> 01:16:15,696
so you'd get pretty high if you ate the whole thing.
1444
01:16:20,951 --> 01:16:23,162
It's a sativa dominant hybrid.
1445
01:16:23,162 --> 01:16:25,956
The experience and the effects that you'll get from that
1446
01:16:25,956 --> 01:16:28,667
is more of a energetic effect.
1447
01:16:46,185 --> 01:16:49,021
All edibles companies now have to stamp their product
1448
01:16:49,021 --> 01:16:51,566
in some way in order to make sure
1449
01:16:51,566 --> 01:16:55,111
that consumers know exactly what's in the product.
1450
01:16:55,111 --> 01:16:58,531
This machine laser-engraves every single product
1451
01:16:58,531 --> 01:17:03,202
that we have, so it's a pretty clean way of staying
1452
01:17:03,202 --> 01:17:05,288
in compliance with these regulatory changes
1453
01:17:05,288 --> 01:17:08,249
while making sure that consumers are safe in their consumption.
1454
01:17:17,425 --> 01:17:20,052
I'm happy knowing that Sweet Grass
1455
01:17:20,052 --> 01:17:22,513
and everyone involved with it is participating
1456
01:17:22,513 --> 01:17:24,307
in this incredible piece of history.
1457
01:17:24,307 --> 01:17:27,143
That my best hope for the future, my dream is
1458
01:17:27,143 --> 01:17:31,105
to make it into a national and international company.
1459
01:17:35,401 --> 01:17:38,779
Originally, I came out to California working
1460
01:17:38,779 --> 01:17:40,948
in the music industry.
1461
01:17:40,948 --> 01:17:44,076
Being in shops and seeing where trends were going,
1462
01:17:44,076 --> 01:17:48,414
I actually saw the first vape pen.
1463
01:17:48,414 --> 01:17:51,041
At that time, it was such a new technology,
1464
01:17:51,041 --> 01:17:53,377
I just remember that moment being in the shop,
1465
01:17:53,377 --> 01:17:55,630
hitting it, and being like, "This is the future."
1466
01:17:57,340 --> 01:18:00,884
You just unscrew the top, just load the concentrate
1467
01:18:00,884 --> 01:18:04,514
in the top here, press the button five times.
1468
01:18:08,476 --> 01:18:09,893
That's it.
1469
01:18:11,770 --> 01:18:15,149
This is currently our top selling product,
1470
01:18:15,149 --> 01:18:17,818
with this being exclusively for herb.
1471
01:18:17,818 --> 01:18:19,778
It heats up in under 30 seconds.
1472
01:18:20,655 --> 01:18:22,532
We don't touch the plant.
1473
01:18:24,283 --> 01:18:26,243
What's amazing about it as a product
1474
01:18:26,243 --> 01:18:29,497
is all you have to do is screw it on and hit a button.
1475
01:18:29,497 --> 01:18:31,624
The difference of having to actually take weed,
1476
01:18:31,624 --> 01:18:33,459
put your hands on it, break it up.
1477
01:18:33,459 --> 01:18:35,419
It eliminates so much of that,
1478
01:18:35,419 --> 01:18:37,796
and I think that's the attraction.
1479
01:18:51,352 --> 01:18:53,103
While I was a veterinarian,
1480
01:18:53,103 --> 01:18:55,439
we prescribed a lot of different medications.
1481
01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:58,484
And a lot of times they were for very common causes.
1482
01:18:58,484 --> 01:19:01,487
For example, a lot of pets will get arthritis.
1483
01:19:02,738 --> 01:19:05,824
The medications that we use for arthritis
1484
01:19:05,824 --> 01:19:08,035
can have negative effects on the kidney
1485
01:19:08,035 --> 01:19:09,620
or the liver, for example.
1486
01:19:09,620 --> 01:19:11,997
And so looking at cannabis,
1487
01:19:11,997 --> 01:19:14,625
we found that CBD and other cannabinoids can be
1488
01:19:14,625 --> 01:19:16,419
very effective for arthritis,
1489
01:19:16,419 --> 01:19:18,337
pain, nausea, vomiting,
1490
01:19:18,337 --> 01:19:21,173
separation anxiety or noise anxiety.
1491
01:19:21,173 --> 01:19:23,467
We wanted to make sure that we had something
1492
01:19:23,467 --> 01:19:25,595
that was not only safe for them to consume,
1493
01:19:25,595 --> 01:19:27,804
but that was tailor-made for them.
1494
01:19:33,894 --> 01:19:35,854
Good boy! What do you think?
1495
01:19:35,854 --> 01:19:38,107
There you go, good boy.
1496
01:19:46,823 --> 01:19:48,784
A lot of people are concerned about cannabis
1497
01:19:48,784 --> 01:19:50,745
and the high effect.
1498
01:19:52,204 --> 01:19:55,249
The product that we've created, there is no high.
1499
01:19:58,127 --> 01:20:01,756
It's a ratio of about twenty-to-one CBD to THC.
1500
01:20:01,756 --> 01:20:03,674
There's a small amount of THC in there,
1501
01:20:03,674 --> 01:20:05,968
but that THC is medicinally effective.
1502
01:20:05,968 --> 01:20:08,929
It doesn't cause a high because we have a lot more CBD
1503
01:20:08,929 --> 01:20:12,558
to counteract that, so owners don't have to worry.
1504
01:20:16,228 --> 01:20:18,897
The most rewarding thing is hearing the feedback.
1505
01:20:18,897 --> 01:20:21,734
All pet owners should be able to have access
1506
01:20:21,734 --> 01:20:24,987
to medicine like this, you know, especially for their pets.
1507
01:20:32,161 --> 01:20:33,621
Where I'm from, it's really hard
1508
01:20:33,621 --> 01:20:35,914
to find good product, and when you do find it,
1509
01:20:35,914 --> 01:20:37,249
it's gonna be expensive.
1510
01:20:45,174 --> 01:20:48,803
In Los Angeles, the marijuana scene is a lot more vibrant.
1511
01:21:00,981 --> 01:21:03,192
There's growers, there's people in competitions
1512
01:21:03,192 --> 01:21:04,610
with each other to create product
1513
01:21:04,610 --> 01:21:06,236
and have a place on the shelf
1514
01:21:06,236 --> 01:21:08,947
in hundreds and hundreds of stores across the state.
1515
01:21:18,374 --> 01:21:20,334
When I first came here, I just wanted to be able to, like,
1516
01:21:20,334 --> 01:21:23,295
have a boring ass job and smoke a bowl and not go to jail.
1517
01:21:23,295 --> 01:21:25,214
Then I realized the potential,
1518
01:21:25,214 --> 01:21:27,924
and now I'm here to make money and succeed.
1519
01:21:30,553 --> 01:21:33,639
Let us dream about a Federal government
1520
01:21:33,639 --> 01:21:35,558
that has legalized it,
1521
01:21:35,558 --> 01:21:38,519
regulated, and it's this great industry.
1522
01:21:41,397 --> 01:21:42,898
Ignition.
1523
01:21:42,898 --> 01:21:44,400
Liftoff.
1524
01:21:46,026 --> 01:21:49,279
Legends are stories that help us
1525
01:21:49,279 --> 01:21:50,947
to understand the future.
1526
01:21:50,947 --> 01:21:53,659
I hope the Legend of 420
1527
01:21:53,659 --> 01:21:56,328
is about bringing cannabis
1528
01:21:56,328 --> 01:21:58,205
out of the dark ages.
1529
01:22:53,427 --> 01:22:55,178
When this is legalized,
1530
01:22:56,555 --> 01:22:58,599
we are going to see...
1531
01:22:58,599 --> 01:23:01,602
a renaissance of incredible beauty.
1532
01:23:33,968 --> 01:23:37,847
What is your philosophy on smoking weed?
1533
01:23:37,847 --> 01:23:40,056
I don't really got no philosophy on smoking weed
1534
01:23:40,056 --> 01:23:42,017
I just be getting fucked up.
1535
01:23:47,147 --> 01:23:48,732
♪ Yeah ♪
1536
01:23:51,694 --> 01:23:56,907
♪ Yeah, yeah, pass the weed, pass the weed, pass the weed ♪
1537
01:23:56,907 --> 01:24:00,995
♪ Yeah, pass the weed, pass the weed, pass the weed ♪
1538
01:24:02,162 --> 01:24:03,706
♪ So pass the marijuana ♪
1539
01:24:03,706 --> 01:24:05,666
♪ I hope it comes back round like karma ♪
1540
01:24:05,666 --> 01:24:07,793
♪ Find me in the background my packs louder then the drama ♪
1541
01:24:07,793 --> 01:24:09,336
♪ So I can't hear the bullshit ♪
1542
01:24:09,336 --> 01:24:11,046
♪ So someone shoots a full clip ♪
1543
01:24:11,046 --> 01:24:12,965
♪ Party done, even then I'm going on to bun ♪
1544
01:24:12,965 --> 01:24:15,300
♪ I'm a ganja son, got it from my father and my uncs ♪
1545
01:24:15,300 --> 01:24:17,928
♪ Used to pinch a spliff till I was eighteen with brooks ♪
1546
01:24:17,928 --> 01:24:19,638
♪ And vip'll nick for it ♪ ♪ Plenty of time was
1547
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always nesting in line ♪
1548
01:24:21,348 --> 01:24:22,558
♪ But that's just petty crime ♪
1549
01:24:22,558 --> 01:24:24,100
♪ They slapped my wrist a bit ♪
1550
01:24:24,100 --> 01:24:25,435
♪ Legalize the team the FEDs trying ♪
1551
01:24:25,435 --> 01:24:27,270
♪ To take the piss with it ♪
1552
01:24:27,270 --> 01:24:28,814
♪ Criminalizing the youth from only speaking the truth ♪
1553
01:24:28,814 --> 01:24:30,399
♪ It's just a plant, we bun zoots ♪
1554
01:24:30,399 --> 01:24:32,234
♪ To get in touch with our roots ♪
1555
01:24:32,234 --> 01:24:33,652
♪ Or would you rather us roaming the streets ♪
1556
01:24:33,652 --> 01:24:35,612
♪ With nothing to do ♪
1557
01:24:39,408 --> 01:24:42,452
♪ So pass the weed, pass the weed, pass the weed ♪
1558
01:24:42,452 --> 01:24:47,165
♪ Yeah, pass the weed, pass the weed, pass the weed ♪
1559
01:24:47,165 --> 01:24:52,004
♪ Yeah, that's all I need, all I need, all I need ♪
1560
01:24:52,004 --> 01:24:54,423
♪ Yeah, To open up my senses ♪
1561
01:24:54,423 --> 01:24:56,508
♪ My sentences will leave you far from senseless ♪
1562
01:24:56,508 --> 01:24:58,802
♪ So fuck the censors, what I'm saying cannot be censored ♪
1563
01:24:58,802 --> 01:25:01,430
♪ Why don't you ask about the marijuana laws is senseless ♪
1564
01:25:01,430 --> 01:25:03,849
♪ Talk so much shit like I'm doing the test for Mensa ♪
1565
01:25:03,849 --> 01:25:06,393
♪ Smoking the sensimilla from I was in placent ♪
1566
01:25:06,393 --> 01:25:09,312
♪ What an adventure, I was born eyes so I never cried ♪
1567
01:25:09,312 --> 01:25:11,481
♪ I'm playing, but I smoke from AM to AM ♪
1568
01:25:11,481 --> 01:25:13,108
♪ You know what I'm saying ♪
1569
01:25:13,108 --> 01:25:15,151
♪ I'm probably getting high when you praying ♪
1570
01:25:15,151 --> 01:25:17,029
♪ I'm going to class, I smoke in the bath, driving my car ♪
1571
01:25:17,029 --> 01:25:18,781
♪ Writing bars before my exams, was lighting up hard ♪
1572
01:25:18,781 --> 01:25:20,407
♪ Should've been in Howell High ♪
1573
01:25:20,407 --> 01:25:22,117
♪ With grade A meth getting charged ♪
1574
01:25:22,117 --> 01:25:23,326
♪You know my essence is large ♪
1575
01:25:23,326 --> 01:25:24,494
♪ I know the weapon is ours ♪
1576
01:25:24,494 --> 01:25:26,121
♪ And Imma use it ♪
1577
01:25:26,121 --> 01:25:27,330
♪ Cause people getting high off all my music ♪
1578
01:25:27,330 --> 01:25:28,999
♪ Don't abuse it ♪
1579
01:25:28,999 --> 01:25:31,043
♪ 'Cause naturally the body soon refuse it ♪
1580
01:25:31,043 --> 01:25:32,753
♪ You confuse it, I've always got a point and Imma prove it ♪
1581
01:25:32,753 --> 01:25:34,588
♪ I just elevate my mind don't ever lose it ♪
1582
01:25:34,588 --> 01:25:36,298
♪ Yeah ♪
1583
01:25:36,298 --> 01:25:39,468
♪ So pass the weed, pass the weed, pass the weed ♪
1584
01:25:39,468 --> 01:25:43,639
♪ Yeah, pass the weed, pass the weed, pass the weed ♪
1585
01:25:43,639 --> 01:25:49,061
♪ Yeah, pass the weed, pass the weed, pass the weed ♪
1586
01:25:49,061 --> 01:25:53,148
♪ Yeah, that's all I need, all I need, all I need ♪