MEMORIAL DAY SHOCK: The Federal War on Cannabis Just Started (DEA Raids, $8.3M Tax Clawbacks)

This week, as the summer starts, the federal government escalated its actions against the cannabis industry on multiple fronts, signaling a new era of enforcement and compliance pressure. We break down the "Federal War" that is separating the legal operators from the illicit market, and what the rapid pace of change—from rescheduling to tax clawbacks—means for every business and consumer in the cannabis space.1

Here's what we cover in this educational episode on cannabis law, policy, and business:
The 280E Tax Clawback: The DOJ files the first-ever lawsuit to claw back an $8.3 million 280E refund from MSO TerrAscend, sending a clear warning shot to all operators who have filed for refunds.1
DEA's "Operation Weed Out": Federal task forces are turning hard toward the unlicensed market, with DEA-led raids shutting down illegal dispensaries in New York. The throughline: the line between who gets a buildout and who gets a raid is a state license.1
The DEA's Rescheduling Showdown: The comment window for the expedited Schedule III hearing closes this week, and we discuss the urgency for industry participation and what a full plant reschedule means for 280E and research.1
Virginia's Legalization Stalls: Governor Spanberger vetoes the adult-use market bill again, five years after possession was legalized, leaving the illicit market to thrive and eat up potential state revenue.1
The TSA Policy Change: The Transportation Security Administration quietly updates its 'What Can I Bring?' page regarding medical marijuana, reflecting the DEA's Schedule III reclassification and the ripple effect on everyday life.1
Cannabis Safety for Seniors: Stanford Medicine experts lay out 5 crucial risks older adults must consider, especially as a federal judge clears the path for Medicare's hemp/CBD coverage pilot.1
The Rogue Crime Lab: In Illinois, a flawed THC testing method at a crime lab led to a marijuana DUI case being dropped, tainting over 2,000 cases nationally and challenging the reliability of per se THC DUI limits.1
Final Thought: The contrast between the federal "gas pedal" and the state "brake" is the whole show. Rescheduling is prospective and uneven, rewarding the operators who built on compliance instead of loopholes. The winners in 2026 are the ones reading the fine print.1

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Transcript

Welcome Back Live

SPEAKER_02 0:00

What up, everybody? Welcome to Cannabis Legalization News. We're live again for the first time in weeks and have lots of cannabis news to share with all of you who are tuning in. We have 10 stories. And if you want to get those 10 stories emailed to you every week, there's a QR code on your screen so that you can get them and also notice when we go live or publish one of these videos. Our main story this week, and there's just so many. We have a veto out of Virginia again. And then we have um Sam getting dismissed news. We have some news about uh the close of if you're going to participate for the June 29th hearing, uh some stuff out of various states. And uh Maggie and I will give you an update about where our uh dispensary journey is. If you want to stay on top of it, please do scan that QR code. This is cannabis legalization news. Let's get going. Oh what's up, man? How was your week?

SPEAKER_03 1:12

Man, I uh uh I like that cannabis legalization journey, man. I like the uh the way you put it. Um, you know it to me, it's surreal, dude. Like every day I still think about how close we are to from when we started.

SPEAKER_02 1:24

Plus, oh and then we're and then the cops the cops haven't even stopped us yet. But the cops are coming like that was that was one of our stories has to do with the DEA starting to bust on licensed operators. Oh, yeah, that might be the new normal.

SPEAKER_03 1:38

Well, this is again that we we talked about the farm bill not saving and not creating any rule regulation, rule rules, protections, all that shit, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

Well, it's it's Memorial Day weekend, which means that uh summer started, Congress ain't coming back. No, yeah, they won't be back until like after the election. Then they still won't come back, they won't be back until January because they have the job that you work a year and a half, get nothing done, and then take six months off to run for the same job again.

SPEAKER_03 2:07

I love that, but

Virginia Veto Fallout

SPEAKER_03 2:09

uh hey man, what's up with Virginia? I think they're they be smoking some shit. Whoops, get that back up there.

SPEAKER_02 2:14

I think they're smoking some shit. Uh and and so back in the day we used to make fun of them like you got yunkined, and now you've been spam burgered, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

Well, this is funny, dude. So, like, you know, she rejects the the adult use uh bill, right? Like that was the thing, right? But like in the same breath, you know, she she like reduced oh so I had the wrong tab sharing.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

So in the tab I was sharing veto though, that was the thing, yeah. She's like, Yeah, you're gonna get all the the um the benefits of it being legalized, and so you're not gonna have the the criminal background, but you're still not gonna be able to buy it. So this some people think it's the the hemp lobby's power. Uh, I don't really know why that she would have vetoed it like that, um, ex other than like really the hemp lobby's power.

SPEAKER_03 3:07

Well, I just think it's mixed messages too, and I think this I hate to say it, man. This is why the Democrats are losing like this battle, right? Like, you want to have this party of like you can believe in that's gonna stand by, like, there's fundamental virtues, like legalization is not that fucking hard, right? But yet, you know, like because in the same like type of fucking breath, she signed a bill. What I was sharing was like she released uh uh uh for for marijuana resentencing for people who've been arrested. So one, we we recognize that this is not a crime, but two, we're not gonna give you a market, right? Go to your gas station and buy some hemp. I just I don't get it, man. Like, where is the I mean, is is it the hemp lobbyist you think that would probably you only got to November?

SPEAKER_02 3:53

This is not gonna be.

SPEAKER_03 3:58

But dude, I just I guess it is short-sightness, right? They don't care, they're just giving the dollar or whatever it is. Yeah, even even the politicians are just making their bag, yeah. They don't care. That's unfortunate, dude. I just and again, I I I think it's why, like, for politics, like that. What what a weird mixed signal to give off, like to to not create a market, but yet to to give people a chance to like wipe their records clean. I I just don't, you know, but the uh what it was I loved you, I saw you on Twitter with this one. I thought it was pretty funny,

280E Refund Fight

SPEAKER_03 4:35

dude. The uh uh with the IRS, the 280E. Uh uh because you for a send or was that the uh the the grow who terasend?

SPEAKER_02 4:43

Yeah, it was one of those 280's, and so it might have been Terra Send, yeah, Terra Send. But they were claiming the they were claiming the refund all the way back to like 2020. And so they were they're making this argument, I think. I haven't read the lawsuit. I've been kind of busy getting the dispensary open. Um yeah, yeah, we actually have an opening date. We'll talk about that later. Uh we'll do that after 420 somewhere. So stick around, we'll give you a dispensary update. Uh on this with the the DEA, they're claiming like the refunds they asked for back in 2020 were improper. And and I really hope the IRS loses this case. This is going to be great. I hope they lawyer up. I hope they definitely argue what the definition of is is. As the section 280E says it doesn't say like schedule one or schedule two drugs, it says within the meaning of schedule one or schedule two. And so the uh 2023 uh report from HHS with all the science that found Camus, Camus can do do, but Sartre is Smartra, and no, not Camus with an S, the French existentialist, but currently accepted medical use, Camus with a U, currently accepted medical use. And that has been found and it is binding on the DEA, and it will be binding on the DEA in the Janual the June 29th uh uh hearing that we have we'll have a news about that as well, we'll talk about so that that that fact, I mean, like once they put that into it, like it is not within the meaning of anymore. And their argument is it's never been within the meaning. And so once they found this uh this science that science always applied to the plant, it doesn't apply to the plant from the time that it was found. Like you didn't do the science before. If you would have done the science, it would have said this. And then ironically enough, the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 had part F, which turned into the Shaper Commission that Nixon never read and just threw in the trash, and then also said it shouldn't have been scheduled. So I like the argument. Uh, the DEA, I'm sorry, the uh IRS is like, give us back our money. Yeah, let's see what the judge has to say about that.

SPEAKER_03 6:57

I mean, I mean, this really I mean, it is it like what what do you call it when you're when you're trying to get like a back retrograde law or whatever? You know, you just retroactive, uh, but then it's the substance.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

I mean, like it it's always was that, but then it it we'll see how they do, we'll see how they do, and and I'm just glad that they're gonna make these legal arguments because right now, like we open it next month, and our sales are legal, they're regulated, they could be medical if the state passes the hybrid bill, they might pass a hybrid bill before the end of the year. But like, you know, it's still the same regulation, it's still going to be a schedule three substance. So, why are those transactions now after they know what the science is? And then they could have said in IRC 280e, they could have said as scheduled, they didn't. They said within the meaning of schedule one or schedule two.

SPEAKER_03 7:57

I mean, is it this not within the schedule? Sure, but like like it's kind of hard to like ask for like almost like reparations, you know.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

Oh, you're not gonna get reparations. What do you think you are? Iran.

SPEAKER_03 8:10

Oh man, yeah, hot collar right there. They uh mean dude. This is that's crazy that's going on with that shit. But, anyways, uh but you know what I'm saying, though, like this is a bad policy from the beginning, you know. You know, the but the the research was never done. The the law was based off of fear and racism, kind of like how this present uh administration runs, but like, you know what I mean? It's like it made no sense in the beginning. We're not gonna go back in time, and and everybody's gonna get their time back. People who've lost law, you know, presently Frank Rogers still 13 years 20 years, uh you just wrong right now.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

You're still by that I mean like I don't know, man. Are you coming through all right? Or is it me? Like, I mean, there's there is a lot of breaking up orange sunshine in this, but um uh yeah, yeah, maybe

Dispensary Roundup Fund

SPEAKER_02 9:06

I'm not sure if other people were seeing that, but like I'm also stuffed. You're right, and so like the the free Frank Rogers, free them all, and uh we do have our roundup policy. Uh, because like we don't want to deal with change at the store, like you know, single bills only, uh, no change. And so there's a roundup that we have that's going to benefit Freedom Grow. We'll do some reports on how much we were able to give to Freedom Grow, and that gets hopefully over to Frank Rogers uh commissary as they try to free them all. I mean, it's it's it's just ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

But the you know, the the the the outrageousness of this law that this or this I won't even say the law because it's not like one rule that says you're a bad person for smoking weed, right? There's a series of regulations or and rules that were put in place that made it so smells a crime, they made it so that you can lock someone away for that's one of the funny things in decade time.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

Well, yeah, go ahead.

Illinois Law Confusion

SPEAKER_02 10:05

I ran into uh uh a judge from the uh Illinois Supreme Court this week because like I am a lawyer and so I go to like events and stuff, and I'm an alright lawyer. It's I'll I'll do better in the future. But anyway, so Judge Overstreet from the Supreme Court's there, and there's a it's a bar fellows uh event, and so like um uh I eventually get to ask him, like, you know, arbitrary and capricious is thrown around so much. But did you know that your court has said that the smell of raw marijuana is probable cause, burnt marijuana is not probable cause, and yet hemp is just unabashedly legal, uh as as nobody's like held otherwise in in the state. And goes, Yes, well, you know, it's trying, you know, right. Um, you could have just gone, sounds about right. Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's how you set a law that can make you a career, but novel is esoteric, silly laws, that can also make a career.

SPEAKER_03 11:07

And then that all comes down to uh um the two-minute warning. Two minute warning, the the just the correcting this, how to correct this rule, right? Like, thankfully, like this is the only good thing about this whole, in my opinion, this administration. I mean, thanks Spider for getting the ball rolling, but with uh Trump's fear-mongering and everybody, yeah. Well, not just the fear-mongering, and all these people won't just want to pander this guy and give him some sort of win because he keeps fucking up on other shit, right? Like, you know, this would be a huge win for the jobs and everything. It's kind of like you definitely want this to go through because it's a win-win. There's no, you know, uh show me in the legal states where the apocalypse happened, right? Like, that's that's where I'm trying to get it.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

Apocalypse has not yet happened, but um, you know what has happened? It is Memorial Day, and so that means that Congress is done for the year because it's an election year. If your laws haven't gotten passed, sorry. See you in lame duck session. That's one of the things that we have. Like Illinois, they've they put out their omnibus bill, which would make us a hybrid. So we'd be able to sell the met we could sell the medical, but like we can't give them the tax benefits, so be able to do that. We'd be able to not have to have a security guard. Uh, there's a lot of stuff. We might have actually gotten that loan from social life. Oh, we did sue them. So I did get that in on Friday. I I filed that complaint. Not thrilled, not thrilled to sue the state of Illinois again, uh, especially for our company. You know, that really sucks.

SPEAKER_03 12:37

Yeah, yeah. No, that did and again, it's not easy. This is not a smooth process. It would have nice if the you know, they just said, hey, you're the thing that you're supposed to be. That's how you get a license.

SPEAKER_02 12:48

That's how we did. So it's uh it's not supposed to

Break And Setup

SPEAKER_02 12:51

make sense. It's 20 past the hour. We're gonna have a small commercial break. We'll be right back. It's 420 somewhere. It's really hard to stretch that last two minutes. That right there, that might have just gotten us 18 plus what I don't get it. I don't get it, but if we do this, I think well, because like it's educational content. So if we do something like maybe like maybe like this. I just use that to do like another uh rip. Not not a rip. Uh a holiday, a holiday spirit miracle. Hey, speaking about holiday spirit miracles, why don't I go over? Oh I don't have my my screen. Which one? What do you want to share? Yeah, I'm just gonna share my own screen. That's what I'll do. Hit the plus button and then I'll hit the share the screen. Or we're not mine. This is how new this computer is. It's like, do you want to share your screen on here? Yes, yes, it's

Store Opening June 1

SPEAKER_02 14:05

and so uh we're configuring the the store loyalty program. And one of the things was it was like, hey, we have these discounts, and the discounts didn't say that it was uh for um uh members only. And I'm like, hey, we're not giving veterans 10% off just because they're veterans, they have to join our membership. And so, like, have you ever gone to the grocery store and they have like the members' price and like the non-members price? We need to do that, yeah. Driving into the membership so that we can text them and send them emails.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

Well, yeah, all of it you can always change later, man. I'm I'm all about just like so. What's the date? What's the date? We'll be open on June 1st. God damn.

SPEAKER_02 14:48

We've already been kicked off of Google Maps, and so we'll we'll eventually get on Google Maps. Google Maps is a tricky wicket when you're a dispensary, especially not opened.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

Well, yeah, I mean, I mean, we'll get it figured out, but uh, that was you had the regulators done, uh, some signs need to be done. Uh cameras, is that what we wait for camera guy done? Yep.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

So now is done. Okay, just uh put in some orders for inventory. We have two months to pay our 60, 55,000 um licensing fee. Good damn. We're gonna ask for social equity discount, they'll say no, but I hear that they they will take it quarterly, so then you amortize it over uh from operation, so it's 2500 bucks a month in the state of Illinois to have a cannabis uh retail license.

SPEAKER_03 15:34

And and then that's how you sell legal weed in Illinois. Like that's that's really just what it comes down to, dude. You know, like during you know, my youth, you know, the youths when I was young, youth uh trying to sell weed, the vision of selling enough, the vision of selling enough weed to like pay rent, keep the lights on, uh uh pay the rent for the building and myself, right? And and an hourly wage. Uh you need like a structure, and and you you're never gonna get that in uh uh an illicit market in the sense that people carry guns, like that. I mean they carry guns in a regular thing, but like there was more chances of like harm. You know, if you haven't gotten fucked in in an illicit market at least once or twice, like I remember getting ripped off of weed all the time as a kid, dude. You know, like you it's trust, right? Like shake of a hand. Uh uh, you you hope that the other person inside is like on the same page as you are. Like, you just want to, you know, have a little weed and good time, and and you're like, I get it, you gotta make a profit. You know, so much stranger ginger, you're like like hundreds, and even people I've known where like, hey man, I can get you a good deal on a on a pound. You know, I'm like, oh fuck, visions of like dollars of like, oh, I can break this up and then you know reinvest it into more pounds, but it's tragedy opposed to like opening a fucking restaurant or or or or a liquor store or or a Chaxi store, right? It's brick and mortar regulated markets is what we have here. Uh and it's expensive to get to that point,

Terroir And Interstate Limits

SPEAKER_03 17:07

right? But like re-scheduling it, that's a good chance of like now we're gonna we're getting that federal playing field, right? I would love to bring Washington weed to to our store, you know.

SPEAKER_02 17:19

Well, we can't do that yet. With we're not allowed to do interstate commerce, but we can do Washington weed to our store if it's like made in Illinois. And so there's a store in Havana that has Washington connections.

SPEAKER_03 17:33

I get it, but you know what I'm saying, in sense of like that's a terroir. I get the same guy who probably grows.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

I want the soil from out here, the sunlight, growers, experience, same indoor, and so like the the the IP from Seattle is coming, like that, those plants should be getting harvested about when we get open in June. And so, like, we'll talk to the guys from Seattle that I you know they're clients of mine, and then we'll see if we can get some some of their genetics in.

SPEAKER_03 18:00

I just I think there's a still a certain nuance for local, like you say it's from Seattle, but it's not really from Seattle, dude. You know what I mean? Like I want to be able to push pounds locally, like buy it. And I mean it's not gonna happen this week.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

Not able to do that. There's no operators. The closest, there's no operator in Peoria, there's no operator in Pekin, there's no operator, the closest operator is probably Havana, Illinois, and then maybe Delavan, and and then and also um what is that that other Lincoln, Illinois? So Lincoln, Delavan, and Havana. Lincoln and Delavan are closer, but those are like the former medical operators. There's no craft operators that might actually bring in genetics.

SPEAKER_03 18:44

Let me put this right because you're a wine guy. So like, would you consider like it's like uh a vineyard from here? Like if they were to like, hey, we're gonna uh put our name on uh uh the sops of a of a vineyard out there, would you still call that a Seattle wine, or would you call that an Illinois wine? You know what I'm saying? Where was it grown? It's you're growing it out there, but with the SOPs from out here, you know what I mean? Because that's what you're saying when we when you're saying you're bringing Seattle weed up. I still don't think it's Seattle Washington State. You know what I mean? Is it grown indoors? I mean, you can you can create if if indoors on both sides, yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_02 19:22

If you try to be the McDonald's of weed, because like I if you're not gonna be sun grown, you're not sun-grown. It's different. If you're not gonna be sun grown and soil grown, it's different. And the soil medium, you could have like a living soil medium indoors, and you could have the same newts and all that other stuff. You can you could source the same supply from Seattle to Havana, Illinois, it's still very similar, but then if you grow it outdoors, it's different.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

Well, here I'll throw this out there for all the people growing and and who knew like who you know, you're that level of nerd if you're hanging out with us, but like it's not just the soil, right? I mean how about like the the microbes in the in the air, and you know what I mean? There's so much more, it's like how you would say ocean-grown cannabis, it's only in you know, so close to the ocean, you're not you're not gonna have ocean-growed weed in Indiana, but like but indoor, like it's so like the indoor cultivation is really the standardization, that's the McDonald's aspect,

Rescheduling Hearing Deadline

SPEAKER_03 20:18

yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%. And then you think this is a step towards it? This recent uh uh coming out uh schedules of controlled substance rescheduling marijuana, uh in the local uh not local, you know, say federal no that's uh down there.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

You see, between us C and it says interested persons desiring to participate in this hearing must provide written notice of desired participation as set out below on or before May 28th, 2026. So that's where you hire uh the federal lawyers. Your your company hires the federal lawyers. Um I've not had the opportunity to like really lobby and market ourselves to do that, but we could. And um maybe, maybe after this store is open. But you'd file this appearance so that you could participate in it at the hearing on June 29th and say, we support this. And so Sam is filling this out, uh, and probably a lot of the MSOs are filling that out as well to support. And then just like they had that hearing last time, and they had a uh for for some reason they did an interlocutory appeal in the middle of the uh evidentiary hearing. This time, I hope that they just know that Matt Zorn is like now on the inside and shut up, just like conduct the hearing. Sure, thank you very much. Okay, I will consider that. Thank you. Thank you. I will consider this too, and then get the the the ALJ's report done and then move through as fast as possible to get the the rescheduling knocked out for the rest of the uh licenses.

SPEAKER_03 21:47

Okay, so and and and would this be the next step to all

FDA Lane And CAMU

SPEAKER_03 21:50

that then here? Let me add this uh the FDA one. One second. The uh FDA uh just department places FDA approved marijuana products and and products. Marijuana subject to qualifying state issue license rescheduling three. So this is like there is no FDA approved products, though, right now. Right. You know what I mean? So they have to create new rules for that as well. Like this is all the fundamental building blocks, would you say?

SPEAKER_02 22:16

Um uh no. No, and so like the way that FDA approves drugs is the way the FDA approves drugs under the law. And and the cannabis is not an FDA approved drug, it just can't be. It's like saying like this apple needs to go through the FDA approval process. You know, it it doesn't make sense really when you look at it because it's it's a organic plant compound that far uh that's far more similar, at least in the terms of what you say it is, is a dietary supplement as opposed to like an actual drug under the laws. So that's that's what I mean. And so like they could they could amend the uh food, drug, and cosmetics act to make a lane for marijuana, that'd be great. But I don't see I don't hear anybody mentioning this.

SPEAKER_03 23:03

Well, is it because they don't think about it like to say a plant, fruit, vegetable is actually like medicine or holistic, but it is a holistic option, right? Where people don't think for one, you're into a cabillary system, and two, like scurvy, you know, we learned that vitamin C vitamin C in oranges, right? An orange is a supplement to your body, it helps nourish it.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

The same thing with this fucking plant, even though your body, I think, can manufacture vitamin C or at least recycle it, you still need like an external source if you're burning through it. Well, you're like your body can make cannabinoids, yes, and and recycle them, but you still might need an external source if something gone wrong.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

A little extra, you know, because you could be uh you're EDS deficient, sure.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

But you know, you can also have too much. There you go. It could be it could be like anything

SAM Lawsuit Dismissed

SPEAKER_02 23:54

else, but um, you know what they didn't have enough of in uh this federal case. Sam got dismissed, so they can get to save on legal fees unless they appeal, that'd be really stupid. But uh the federal judge dismisses the anti-marijuana group's lawsuit, uh, challenging the hemp in Medicare for lack of standing. They could not show that they were aggrieved by this new uh law that came out, so they don't have the right to attack it. And and that's that was a dismissal for lack of standing. Uh they they try to manufacture standing, showing that they've they've been harmed by this new law, but they couldn't do it, which is kind of nice. Uh, you know, that they aren't gonna be able to shut it down too much. One of the reasons why they will be filing that uh appearance by May 28th, so they could speak to the evidentiary hearing, but then they still might not have standing in judicial review later after that becomes the law to attack it because, like, well, how are you really harmed? It's like, um people are gonna do this stuff, but how are you harmed? Well, other people will be doing it.

SPEAKER_03 24:57

No, then you know what they're gonna do, they're gonna get all the pretend parents who uh want to blame weed, like kids who had just probably mental instability or whatever the heck it is, but it's not that one joint that made him step, right? Like, because I've seen it, you've seen it. Like, you watch these. Did you know if Sam has a YouTube channel?

SPEAKER_02 25:17

Sam has a YouTube channel. But how many subscribers did do we have more subscribers than Sam? At least 100% less less bot subscribers, you know, because like we get more views, a lot of bot subscribers.

SPEAKER_03 25:32

We get more views in high times, I hate to say, but uh oh uh, and I don't even get to make videos.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

I haven't like had to make any videos, like no time at all. Like uh, we we could do uh a cadence like some of the other channels that I think that's what they do for a living is channels.

SPEAKER_03 25:49

Well, and again, and also rage bait. I mean, we we rage a little bit, but you know rage bait, clickbait. Like did you tune in?

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SPEAKER_01 26:03

But also, um man, cookouts, you going to cookouts this Memorial Day weekend?

SPEAKER_02 26:09

Don't go to cookouts, says Eddie Murphy.

SPEAKER_01 26:11

I don't understand him. Why is that?

SPEAKER_03 26:14

Because you should go to cookouts, they're a good time. I look okay. I'm I wanted to uh smoke a brisket this weekend. Hey,

TSA Weed Travel Reality

SPEAKER_03 26:21

do you hear about that? Much to do uh nothing news about the TAC, like refixing their website. Like, this is it right here. This is their whole statement on medical marijuana and transportation. They aren't looking for it, right?

SPEAKER_02 26:33

But they said it was okay, and now they're like, Hey, hey, hey, quit trying. You can't get on a plane and say, like, I'm gonna join the mile, mile hog club, man. It's where I smoke weed on a plane and I get really, really high. Um, don't do that, don't do that. You're just gonna piss off the people next to you in the seat.

SPEAKER_03 26:53

Well, previously this thing had uh uh like you know paragraphs, right? Explaining their like situation, like you may if you are a legal state, blah blah blah blah blah, but now you have federal guidance that this is uh medicine, right?

SPEAKER_02 27:05

Uh schedule three, and but they're also they're not looking for it, and then they will refer you to local law enforcement authorities, and so that's kind of what it always is. It's like hey, they aren't looking for it, if they find it, they're gonna have to refer you to local law enforcement authorities. Yeah, you can say, like, hey, Mr. Local Law Enforcement Authorities, I got a medical card, and they'd be like, Oh, thank you, sir. Don't smoke that on the plane, by the way. That would be very inappropriate of you.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

If you're if you're traveling with like a I would say uh a quarter and maybe some edibles and the vapes, I wouldn't worry about it. But if you're traveling with 20 pounds, oh no, they like they are gonna refer you to the local authorities.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

I don't know, like I can't just be like, hey, my card says I can get this 20 pounds. No, it doesn't say that, you know.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

Um just saying that's that's the rule. I mean, like, common sense is kind of the uh uh uh the rule of thumb here, and it's always been with weed, I think, in my opinion, right? Like, as a lawyer, you kind of always have to lean on the side of like, well, you know, they'll fuck you over, right? Like, you know, it's against the law still, you know. We are breaking the laws.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

They are just trying to prove these elements. I will get you on the phone with a different lawyer who's not me. I'm like, you gotta talk to him because they're gonna charge you with these crimes.

SPEAKER_03 28:24

Cannabis still isn't legal in even medical states, uh, and and that's the thing, uh, or even adult use states until it's like written into a state constitution or some shit. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 28:33

Even when it is, like there's limits, yeah. And so, like, just like you can make your own brick beer, uh, very often, and and now I hear that uh distillation is making a comeback for like you know, you can make your own liquor, but if you turn that into a business, the regulator's gonna get involved, right? And so that that's the thing, you know. We and I'm

Regulators Step In

SPEAKER_02 28:57

fine with that. The regulators got involved. We turned it into a business, regulators got involved. We spent more money than I have. Uh, we need to sell weed, we have created software to maximize.

SPEAKER_03 29:10

I mean, that's it. We need to sell we didn't push a fucking pound. But that's the thing, though. It's like there are reasons why you have regulatory bodies, and and part of it, you know, into the checks and balance. It's like the pink sauce lady. Like, like, like, thank god, like people got like like you don't like put mayonnaise in a thing without like food handling uh uh processes, like legit fucking right.

SPEAKER_02 29:35

We don't let you just touch food without rules, and so that's one of the reasons why we don't want to do food uh in the adjacent side of the supply, the supply side, which is just empty. It'll be interesting to see what that turns

Schedule III Hearing Talk

SPEAKER_02 29:49

into. Also, great. Sam uh Sam got dismissed. Sam, guess where they're going? They're going to that June 29th hearing, and then they will do another appeal after like how quick after that June 29th hearing will they publish that final rule? I mean, like if I was the administrative law judge, what administrative law judge have they even sat? And if they told them this is what you will be filing, I think it's pretty much this is what you're gonna be saying, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:14

Like, I mean, that's I think these people in this administration like that, like it's daddy. Tell me what to do so I don't get it wrong. You know, I mean, like, I don't give a fuck what it is, I just will sell my soul, and uh it's unfortunate, but like this prohibition has been so long, even into we're not done for the rules to to to be to be right or fair, you know. We talk about regulatory bodies and following the rules, but like that's also once there's rules for a business to be in place, this is protection for the consumer. This is a protection for the truck driver to fucking smoke weed and and and and carry pounds, or or you to carry pounds, maybe you're going to a holiday fucking visit. You know, people people bring like salmon from Washington State and shit, like that's a a go-to, right? Like, so I'm sure if we're gonna be able to transport that, and also we'll get there, we'll get there.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

But that's the thing uh smoking salmon, be like, hi, your smoke salmon for some reason smells a lot like weed. Well, they bought it down at the uh supply shop, yeah.

Stigma And Wellness

SPEAKER_02 31:20

But there will be the standardization of like like just federal, because in the end, this this plant it's just a product, it's not uh it's not heroin, it's schedule one, but it's it's it it it's somewhere between cigarettes and alcohol in like terms of acceptedness, right? It's a little bit maybe depending on where you're sit, but like generally throughout the nation, even like in Illinois in Washington State, you know, we have adult legalization, full medical legalization, and still there's stigma, there's stigma, and as a result, I think it sits somewhere between like acceptance of beer versus acceptance of of smoking indoors, and and you know, you we we we kind of have to deal with that as a as a as a group.

SPEAKER_03 32:04

Well, as a society, but like here in Washington State, dude, even in the whole West Coast, this is a and I think it has to do with like the culture been existing since the 60s, right? Where uh uh people are introduced plant. It's uh just like with alcohol, everything, every substance out there you have a relationship with, right? And with this plant, it's a wellness thing, it's not everybody's wellness thing, right? Like, that's the thing, too, is like everybody wants this like 100% cure all and and and then life's just not like that, but it's easier

DUI Science And Cops

SPEAKER_03 32:38

to like villainize, like with this recent marijuana deal cases dropped over erroneous evidence from UIC drug testing lab, like these people are coming up with fake numbers and and and saying you know, cause and effect here washing state. So next week I'll be doing that, uh, or this week rather, I'm gonna be doing that uh um smoking with the cops. And so, like, this is all for science. But this is the kind of I think I think we need, right?

SPEAKER_02 33:05

We're like this is the exact this is why we have

Store Plans And Disclaimers

SPEAKER_02 33:07

the YouTube channel. I mean, so like next next week, I think we'll uh uh I I will be in Florida. We may not do a show next week. I will be getting married and getting married in Florida, and so then the the weekend after that, the store will be open, and so like there we might do the show. Well, I mean, we should probably do the show from the store. Uh we might get 18 plus.

SPEAKER_03 33:29

We're gonna get 18 plus no matter what. I don't know why you say it all the time. We're weed, like we talk about policy and and hang on a second, hang on a second.

SPEAKER_02 33:37

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SPEAKER_03 33:58

I

Progress Takes Decades

SPEAKER_03 33:59

just it's frustrating, dude. Ever since we've been doing this, like first off, I'm amazed at the level like we have a store, man. Like, I've known you for fucking 10 years, uh, plus, uh, and it's all about both you and I believing in the qualities of this plant and the bad law, right? Like, that's just yeah, the whole premise of our relationship, and you know, agreeing that as other Americans, you know, this is our country. We like we want a good place to be, you know, fairness and all that other bullshit.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

So I don't know, just we're on it, and so that's that's the it just takes time, and then the other thing is we might not make any headway. So, like, I mean, think about how long progress takes. We've been on this for decades. Cheech and Chong have been on it for more than five decades. Uh, some people published a Schaefer report more than five decades ago, a LaGuardia report. Fuck, that's 80 years old, and like you know, people have been trying to get this thing done for a minute, and this is as far as we've ever come. But um, you know, we shoot ourselves in the foot quite often by like pretending like it's already legal.

SPEAKER_03 35:12

Well, that's what I'm saying. That's why I say there's there's so much more to go, and and and here's my uh you know, like, yes, Chichin Chong help like entertain and keep a conversation, but and and all these other fuckers, Snoop Dogg, um, Cypress Hill, uh, you know, people who've like aren't afraid to like be stigmatized or whatever the fuck it is you want to call it, or they create and embrace their own persona, right? Like, I that's the one thing about like with me and rap and and weed is like there's nothing gangster about weed, right? Weed's just a fucking business. If if if you want to sell weed or it's a plant, you know what I'm saying? It's just it's not a it's not the reason why you have gangster is because the fucking law, you know, you know, that doesn't allow it.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

It was the crack rock that they were really slinging. Come on, but um hot shot wants to know when the dispensary doors open June 1st. First, maybe yeah, uh oh, better be careful. So wow, that's why we have the supply side. Well, you know, from the side that is not regulated over there is the thing that is it and again, this plant is such a a weird thing to like it's almost common sense, right? The frustration of like you know, for the past, if we would have called this hemp legalization news, you know how much fucking be rich, so rich, and then uh in a douchey kind of way.

Industry Heroes And Villains

SPEAKER_03 36:45

Well, and that's the thing, it's like with with fucking weed, you know, we want this parody given, and then funny too about like how we got into where we're at with activism, all this other shit. Uh, I recently found out that Mark Emery is a horrible person. You didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 37:01

I mean, I knew he was a sexual predator and shit like that, but I didn't know he was like a racist and shit, too. Like he's a shit, but like he's been a shit forever, and so like there were shits in the industry, and he was Canadian, and it was like 20 years ago, and I'm like, all right, I don't understand what this plot is that he keeps talking about, but uh he seems a little weird, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:22

No, well, I mean, fucking uh here's the thing, man. Like, like, I hate this perception of like what a hero is, right? Like, I used to think the motherfucker was kind of sort of for for pot because he was extradited for fucking seeds. Like, what the dumbest, I mean, he's pretty much like the poster boy for dumb fucking laws and and ability to put someone in jail for some dumb shit, but like, and then now with the new hemp rules, you can definitely go to jail for seeds because back then people argued that you couldn't go to jail, but because he was intentionally selling seeds for people to grow, you know, that's that's what happened. But uh, like like you're saying, this industry is full of fucking horrible people. Uh speaking of horrible people, dude. Uh uh that Colbert show that the the new one, did you see the the one live in Monroe? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so like like did you like see Paramount fucking flagged it? Like they're fucking pulling it down off the the YouTube's because it's funny, yeah. But like it was funny because he made a bunch of pop jokes, and I just find

Market Prices And Supply

SPEAKER_03 38:21

it so well, like it's Michigan.

SPEAKER_02 38:23

The pot jokes write themselves. Michigan has the cheapest and and and highest volume of weed sales in the country, you know. Uh, and so like it has the the least price and the most sales, and so they'll do a quarter. Uh no, they will do like a quarter trillion. I mean, it's I don't think it's a quarter trillion, but they they have a huge market. I think it's like 2.5 billion. Not uh, yeah. So I guess it is a quarter, it's not a quarter trillion, but at 2.5 billion is still like a lot of sales, and um they don't do that in Illinois. Our market's like a billion dollars smaller than theirs, and they have two million people less. Yeah, but you don't think but like a lot of our market is going out the door to hemp, and so we'll see what happens when that door shuts. However, like our prices are still higher than theirs, but then our prices are similar to the prices that you pay in Seattle, and our prices are similar to the prices that are going on in in Missouri. But um, yeah, I mean, like the the amount of supply that they have in Michigan is not top nuts.

SPEAKER_03 39:29

Yeah, well, I just have like a lot of it, they just have a lot of the like Oregon, yeah, and right, you know, and I think a lot of the reason why a lot of these places have products still or have excess sometimes is because a lot of these places based their business model during the uh you know the the golden days, the tax-free days because they were going through back doors, opposed to like now I gotta find margins, know when to like you know, uh uh you know, because you you want to create your network first before you fucking grow like 100 pounds, right? Or whatever. Uh, I'd imagine. I don't know. But I just thought it was funny on that Colbert too, dude, is like how like passe pot jokes can be now. Like they're just no, you don't see heroin jokes.

SPEAKER_02 40:12

Well, heroin's nothing to joke about. Thank god, you know what I'm saying? Heroin don't play, you know. Um weed you can joke about, but uh it's it's also one of its downsides, I suppose. However, we did have yeah, the the DUI laws might get be getting thrown out in Illinois, and so that could affect thousands of DUI cases, like not having a particular type of test that's reliable to show impairment.

SPEAKER_03 40:40

There's no real science being conducted, you know. In this study I go through next week, or this week rather, um, all they're checking is like, you know, probably like can you walk a straight line? Are you gonna, you know, probably read me a couple senses that I try to remember after I smoke or whatever? I you know, whatever the case is.

SPEAKER_02 41:00

I just think it'd be hilarious that they they they train the test on like the the only known like characteristic of of being high. It's just like all right, well, they're gonna be forgetful. Let's just see if they're forgetful. And it's just like a really obnoxious, you know, type of memory test.

SPEAKER_03 41:19

Well, or what if they put like a glizzy on a fucking fissure rod and put it in front of me?

SPEAKER_02 41:23

No, a glizzy.

SPEAKER_03 41:25

What is that?

SPEAKER_02 41:30

It's a hot dog. Diggity dog. It's something that I'm learning. A glizzy is a thing called a hot dog.

SPEAKER_03 41:42

Hot diggity dog.

DEA Crackdown On Hemp

SPEAKER_03 41:44

DEA joint force operation in upstate New York.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

That's right. Hey, get your paperwork in order. The police are gonna want to see them. Uh the law enforcement is going to be getting involved if you really think about it. What are they doing right now? They are requiring the medical dispensaries to register. What do you think they're gonna be doing by the end of the year? They're gonna be requiring the licenses to register. And if you ain't registered, well, it makes it pretty easy to figure out if you're legal.

SPEAKER_03 42:13

I mean, I hate to say the hemp is is dead. Okay, anybody, I just don't here here's the thing, too.

SPEAKER_02 42:21

Obviously that will still take your money. There's lawyers that'll still be like, I think we have a good shot, and and there are elected officials that will also take your money.

SPEAKER_03 42:30

Now, when I say hemp is dead, I mean that's obviously the TAC side, right? The drinks and all the bullshit like that. But what do you think? Like this this is the whole still the camoet process, right? Like, is there gonna be isolates for like CBG and CBN?

SPEAKER_02 42:44

I'm assuming that's gonna be really all that's left. And the market for those are that's the the the well, the stuff that Dr. Oz is doing. Um oh for the CMS shit in theory, it could be billions billions, but it's impossible to get it there without turning it into marijuana because of the exclusion sections that they have. So there's still gonna be some oversight and some obvious turning of the blind eye while that that product is being made. Uh, and so there will be excess THC in theory that's out there. Uh however, it looks like it's gonna be a highly or a much greater regulated uh escape. But I still don't know how much DEA even has, like for capacity. I think they're gonna be going over the raids as opposed to hemp license, you have this contract, we know that we can't we have to reject the product if it's not compliant with that, you know, remediate your THC, something like that.

SPEAKER_03 43:39

Well, they can always

Agency Power And Limits

SPEAKER_03 43:40

too. I don't think anybody's thought about this, or maybe it's out there, but can like once this June 29th, once once uh the the hearing's done and it gets locked in because you know it's gonna be. I mean, can't the CMS just rewrite and then now you have a federal uh schedule three program that supports states?

SPEAKER_02 44:00

No, there's limits to what the administration and the agencies are allowed to uh enact. And so typically, and by typically I mean always the Congress, the legislative body creates a law and then they uh say, you know, just like how we have to deal with our regulators and say, hey, okay, here's social equity. The regulators are gonna screen for that and give you licenses and do the lotteries and make sure that you know your security cameras are right. And so that's what they they do. But then the statute gives them the power to promulgate those rules. Rules have the same effect as legal statutes have, and so you have the same thing. But then there's a time where you're like, hey, well, I don't like these rules and laws, I want to change them. Well, how much right has the administrative uh agency that's doing the execution of this law got to like change this stuff? That's that's the interplay that comes up in cannabis law all the time and many other principles. But um you can't have those agencies saying, like, well, we're gonna completely redo, we're not gonna have 500 licenses, we're gonna have 25,000 licenses, you know, we're not gonna say social equity is this, we're gonna say social equity is anybody whoever is eating, you know, and and and so that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_03 45:18

Yeah, well, what is it? So, like, what gives the CMS authority, anyways, though, right?

SPEAKER_02 45:22

Like, couldn't they just say later on, like it's a novel thing, they really don't have a lot. Yeah, so there's like statutes that are out there for for these novel products and and processes, and then you have an administration, uh, an executive that's willing to push the boundaries of them to the fullest extent that they can.

SPEAKER_03 45:42

I like this one altogether, man. It's pot, man. And again, we know this, you know this. Uh really um no shit deschedule, you know, and that's a frustration with this uh prohibition, right? Like, like I mean, shit, man. You we've been fighting for this thing forever, you know, yeah. And like you said, there's so many weirds in this thing, so it's kind of hard. Like, who gets the authority? How close we came, like with uh uh during uh um Carter, right?

SPEAKER_02 46:21

You know Keith had to like drop a dime, just a little bit of drugs, it's not the right thing to do.

New Dispensary Competition

SPEAKER_02 46:30

But uh even Washington, Illinois now is getting a dispensary, that's one of ours. Yes, this one. This is one of the ones that this is the other one in our area that got awarded in our lottery, Zeppelin Enterprise LLC, uh Missouri Company, and so like a Missouri chain, yeah. A Missouri chain of dispensaries is gonna be opening in Washington, Illinois, and they're doing a fresh build. Like, I'm gonna do another video about how much this monstrosity cost, yeah. Totally, so for like how much it costs to start one of these, but double it, just double it for for a fresh build, maybe like 2.5 and so like uh even like not double, double and a little bit more doing a fresh build. And then how long is it gonna take? These guys aren't gonna be open until like 2028. I mean, so they got deep pockets for a while to to do they have it's Mrs. It's a Missouri chain, it's like it's called Good Times. No, what is what's the name of theirs? It might be good times. I don't see the uh the name of the key key cannabis dispensary. And so I we'd have to see how many key dispensaries there are in uh uh Missouri, and we can kind of like approximate how much it would be.

SPEAKER_03 47:49

And that's uh um the following the next county, right? To to us, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:53

I think it might be Woodford County, but it might still be our county. And so one of the nice things about our county is whenever anybody who buys it at these other shops get busted for weed, they gotta go to the courthouse and then they'll see our and again, I think we should do a discount for with for the ticket, but we'll talk about that later. But like only for our members, you have to join the membership there you go, and then you can get discounts.

SPEAKER_03 48:16

I think also we need to talk new era. This is where the gang war start, y'all.

SPEAKER_02 48:20

This is this how new era new era is gonna be just fine because no, no, but we're a few miles away and they're gonna have another one that opens up across the street.

SPEAKER_03 48:29

No, I'll say we get them to join our side, we have to go fight the new guys in the next county over. I'm saying drug wars. This is gang fights now. We we gotta do this, we gotta push bounds, baby.

SPEAKER_02 48:39

Okay, we're looking at block. We're gonna make sure that we will do a corporate resolution to uh create fiduciary duties that say we can't do any of that.

Cheapest Weed Rankings

SPEAKER_03 48:52

Hey, you know who's got cheap weed?

SPEAKER_02 48:55

Michigan.

SPEAKER_03 48:57

That's too probably. Ten uh states with the cheapest weed coming out of the marijuana herald. I bet number one's Michigan. Damn right, three dollars a gram.

SPEAKER_02 49:08

That is cheap.

SPEAKER_03 49:10

317. How do you fucking get these numbers? 318, 39.

SPEAKER_02 49:16

It's because they have so much supply. Everybody who wants to grow that stuff goes to those two states, Oregon or Michigan, or also Oklahoma. Was Oklahoma up there? Oh, yeah, they're the wait, wait, I don't know. Uh oh, this makes no sense. Oklahoma should be cheaper. Oh, that's weird. Maybe it's adult use. Maybe this is adult use.

SPEAKER_03 49:41

Yeah, that definitely has to. Well, Massachusetts still, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:45

Yeah, yeah, those are all adult use states. Oklahoma still isn't.

SPEAKER_03 49:48

Oh, I see. Yeah, it does have right there. It tells you when they legalized it. Uh, but my my my my thing is though, like, how are they getting like these weird numbers, like these weird off um, because in our state, do we pre-tax if things round up here? Everything's fucking like 2530, it's done, it's out the door, tax included.

SPEAKER_02 50:08

No, yeah, no, no, they they advertise without tax in Illinois, and so we're not gonna advertise with tax because it'll seem like we're the most expensive like most expensive dispensary in the area.

SPEAKER_03 50:20

But again, the pennies going away, so I mean, numbers need to be thought differently.

SPEAKER_02 50:25

We're all in solid dollars, and so then we round up to the next dollar to donate to charity. Remember, Freedom Grow, and and as a result, like uh it's all in fixed dollar volumes, and then um, you know, it's it's all tracked and traced. You don't really have like the ability to push down the price that much. Well, you you do, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:48

Hey, uh is Canada safe after 65?

SPEAKER_02 50:53

Um, ask Tommy Chong and Cheech Meren, and who uh I guess you can ask Keith Stropp too. He's just gotta be like in his 80s. I can ask numerous people in their 80s about this one.

SPEAKER_03 51:04

Yeah, no, I think articles like this are silly too. Like, like there's so many living fossils out there, you know, myself included.

SPEAKER_00 51:13

Living fossil.

Popcorn Bong And Monetizing

SPEAKER_03 51:16

Did you see the new scary movie? Uh pop bucket.

SPEAKER_02 51:20

I I saw the popcorn. Popcorn is being sold in a bong.

SPEAKER_03 51:25

Yes, I I'm gonna go, I am gonna go get this thing. I am gonna go, and it's got the little like dab thing, so it looks like it, but it's for butter. That's brilliant.

SPEAKER_02 51:35

I'm glad to see that. I'm going, baby. Not me. I'm gonna ignore it. Oh, you got a store to open in I gotta I'm getting married and I'm opening a store, and then we're building software um for for that, and then I eventually will be able to do videos for you and you at home.

SPEAKER_03 51:54

Um give us likes and subscribes, please.

SPEAKER_02 51:57

Yeah, yeah, you know, just like fairy dust. YouTubers live on likes and subscribes. I do. Nah, I mean, um the YouTube channel is like the least lucrative of all the ventures, and and that might just be because I don't know how to monetize it. Uh, hopefully, after it's schedule three, we'll we'll figure that out. We'll we'll have some large S coming in, and we can hire somebody be like, the guy is thing, you know, is here.

SPEAKER_03 52:27

Don't fucking lose it. They're gonna be like, uh, take the word canvas out of the fucking title and uh stop talking about weed.

SPEAKER_02 52:36

And uh did you consider how many licks that it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? I'm just saying why don't you do a video where you just lick a Tootsie Pop four hours? And that that helps people dude. That probably would get a lot of views, though. I'm just saying, but depending on who's and then it can be like hot ones, except um instead of eating chicken wings, it's just uh new up and coming OnlyFans models licking uh uh Tootsie Pops, and and then kicking over to their like saying follow me over at the here's my links, and you're just like, Man, for some reason that got a million subscribers in like five minutes. I don't understand this. I don't know marketing, right?

SPEAKER_03 53:27

You know, uh on one more note before

Schoolboy Q And Stigma

SPEAKER_03 53:29

before we go, there's a story that was in high times, and this is the kind of shit that kind of like cannabis stigma, cannabis. Um schoolboy Q quits weed after smoking 20 times a day, and here's why.

SPEAKER_02 53:42

And my man talks about like wants to be a fucking role model to his children, like like I quit growing weed, so my kids ask fewer questions.

SPEAKER_03 53:53

Well, you're just being cautious or whatever, but you also have a YouTube channel, your law firm, and all that shit.

SPEAKER_02 53:58

So it's just like to have just those kind of changes of life, and then be like, okay, so then you have to explain to the kids that are like you know, five and six, and they're coming from like three doors down and all that, and with the the the judgy people, and and then also you're just like, Hey man, you can't have kids over and like have the place smelling like weed and that you're growing in the basement. I'm like, all right, fine. When your kids go to college, well, and again, you're still here or more.

SPEAKER_03 54:28

There's still a lot of stigma around it, which is unfortunate. Like in your area, like pretty much here. I where I'm at, dude. I I walk down the street smoking a joint in the city, you know. It's uh we don't agree that one not today.

SPEAKER_02 54:41

Sorry, we will uh in June, we will have limitless supply of name that strain comes

Name That Strain Mojito

SPEAKER_02 54:48

in. Like, what is this? There we go. Maybe you actually buy uh high quality stuff, those are not smalls right there. Those are not smalls, and so that's not a hundred dollar ounce. You know, if you're gonna get ounces with nugs like that, that's not a hundred bucks.

SPEAKER_03 55:05

Smells good, it's mojito, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 55:07

Mojito could have given us the parents. We could have played an impromptu. Okay, everybody, stop tuning in. Stop tuning in. Forget what I said, forget what Mickey just said. Read the read the jar, and and we'll be back. Okay, let's play some name next week.

SPEAKER_03 55:28

Let's see what we got here.

SPEAKER_02 55:29

We got no wonder what we got.

SPEAKER_03 55:32

22 THC, uh-huh.06 C B D. Uh-huh. Total 25.1%.

SPEAKER_02 55:39

And who's its parents? Do they know that?

SPEAKER_03 55:42

Uh not listed, but there is a well wait wait wait wait wait. No. Oh, there's a QR code.

SPEAKER_02 55:48

We got a QR code. Oh, name it. Okay, um, very good. And so da-da-da. Yeah, that's it. Yay! Good job, everybody who read the name of the strain on the screen. If you're just joining us while on your commute to work, no, you're not. This is like 56 minutes in, so like your commute ended like a half hour ago. But um, yeah, yeah, right. And so that was mojito, also known as mojito one. It is a sativa dominant hybrid strain crossed with orange blossom trail and limergan. Nice, that is clearly mispronounced. Lime uranium.

unknown 56:28

Lime.

SPEAKER_02 56:28

You got a new member. Oh, wait, remember. Thank you for becoming a member, by the way. Old citrus notes, floral undertones. Uh, and then they have what they believe it will do. But they they say that's an energizing one. Do you find that to be a good daytime strain?

SPEAKER_03 56:44

Uh, I think all weed's good weed to me so far. Um, it's the ones that uh uh I haven't had one sneak up on me in a while. We're like, oh well, I shouldn't have done that one before uh before work. I mean that's happened. Remind me.

SPEAKER_02 57:01

Am I wearing pants? Jesus Christ. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm gonna rate that one a 4.5. Still still forgot I was wearing pants. My time machine pros. I gotta wait a minute here. Uh oh.

SPEAKER_03 57:18

It's been a while, I'm just saying, man.

SPEAKER_02 57:21

Well, um, yeah, but that's that'll be interesting to see. We'll have we'll have some some decent products that we can do, um, name that

June Go Time Wrap Up

SPEAKER_02 57:29

strain with. And then I have to we have we have a lot of vendors that will find out about the podcast, which is nice. Evidently, we can't do it at the the location, which is why we built the supply side. We will be in the non-regulated area of a well regulated market, it's right over there. I can see it.

SPEAKER_03 57:46

Well, I hope to come out more often and actually make content out there with you with the store. So that that'll add to it, I think. You know, but like next week I'll be smoking with cops. Or this week.

SPEAKER_02 57:55

Hey, hey, take some videos of of Mickey smoking with cops. We might not do a show next week, probably won't. Uh but then then we'll be back in June and it's uh it's go time. Let's go, baby. See ya. Thanks, guys.