What's going on everybody? It was funny free times like this, and I'm
a candidate con say a new episode of my Canic cast today. We got
a couple of great articles and we're gonna be doing a new review. Yeah.
We picked this up at our base city trip and we are reviewing Cheech
and Chong's brandom flower that was grown here in Michigan. So we'll get into
this. There's also some articles coming out of California with possible realization of psychedelics.
I've into that World Anti Doping Agency pretty much as if you use cannabis,
you're not a role model. Massachusetts is hit is hitting record numbers more
than that. Uh yeah, it's it's very interesting because we'll get into that.
I got some good takes on that, and then there's a couple of
other articles, some in Michigan as well too. So but before we get
started, I think we're gonna dive into this. Let's do it, let's
do it. We actually haven't done a flower review here in a minute.
We've been doing a lot of rising. So yeah, I'm I'm gonna I
think be excited for let's do this. Let'm excite it. So like I
like I stated, we're doing with the Cheech and chunk. Do you remember
we got the set again? Oh? Man, you had the receipt in
that bag right there. It was right there. It was a certain dispensary.
We were out in Bay City. So last week, if you didn't
check it out, we had an episode we talked about Base City. So
when we were on Bay Brothers, yep, Day Brothers. So we talked
about it. And so they're the exclusive growers of this supposedly right, because
that's what they said holders. I don't know if they're maybe I don't know
if they're the cultivators, but I couldn't they are the ones who sell it.
I didn't really understand everything. So, like I said, if you
didn't follow a last week's episode real quick, it was a cool dispenser,
really really nice people, really nice people. Actually they gave us some shirts
too, So I don't know if that was Jay Brothers. I think that
might have been the can you give me handing the receipt real quick? I
feel like that was like the LLC. I don't know Nature's Yep, Nature's
medicines, that's it. So it's Nature's Medicines in Base City. Uh,
different approach, smaller dispensary. Uh, they only had a few different well
they had they had a lot plenty of stuff, like different stuff, but
they had they had like not as many companies, if that makes sense.
They had a very limited it's like almost like a micro grow. It was
like a micro business. But then they only had brands that they like partnered
with, so it was a different approach. Really nice people like you said.
The only people that had cheech and chongs, they were definitely in Base
City, the only people that had this flower. So we're curious, we
try something. Yeah, I got some grease monkey, So we'll get into
this packaging. We're just given on packaging. Well, I noticed on the
bottom it does tell you HC and yep, th HC is twenty five point
four nine. HC is twenty eight point six eight. It looks like CBD
zero cbd A is point zero point zero five. Excuse me, so very
fresh too, Yeah, harvest day was to less than two months ago,
like seven weeks ago, six seven weeks ago, so we'll see, so
it should wait, it should be as fresh as it should be right first,
But it looks like but to talk about the packaging, real quick.
They give you a decent amount of info what happened with the barcode when you
oh yeah yeah, So I scanned the bark out on the box and it
took you to the Cheech and Chong like their website for their cannabis brands.
And what was cool about it to me was if Groovy showcases. If you
look on the lid groovy of that, it says low rider, lowrider,
right, so the cancamp so on their website chief on hunks cannabis dot com,
there's probably Chongs. I'm just probably looking at yet Cheech and Chong's cannabis
dot com. It breaks down their products, right. So they have these
different categories like love Machine, Stadenko, drueler off Airy, and then you
keep going down and you get to lowrider and they have a description of what
their lowrider is just about to pull out on camera and he moves in bad.
This guy he's just like that slow rider and they have descriptions slow down
your day, turn up the music and ride easy with this one man with
that classic rich man. I could not say man, he man, No,
he's man with with that classic rich West Coast hope that Cheech and Chong
helped immortalize the lowrider. It's for the authentic and the original, and then
it tells you the products flowering pre rolls, the turpeene profile, which they're
going for pining and humoring, and the traditional profile. They have indocodominant.
So for me, they say it's grease monkey. Is this strain? So
I would assume grease monkey fits into this low rider category for them. So
it's a unique way on how they're articulating because it almost because I said,
we talked pre talk. It's almost like they're going backwards a little bit.
Instead of going from like strain to turpine to how you feel, it's more
like going from how you feel to turpines, right, because like you fit
in this category, this is what you're considered your loan. It's the same
thing. There's no difference because you're like out of this world. And I
get that. But because they probably said that, it's smart because when you
talk about, you know, how these things make you feel. We always
talk about it. It's in the head or it's sedative or somewhere in between,
and they just figure out the way to go backwards. And I liked
it. So I'm packaging. Yeah that was. Yeah, that you are
nine box because you don't get the turps directly the percentages, which is different.
But when you go to low Rider you find out which turps it is,
so it should be this should be. I have to give it almost
an I'll give it a nine for creative, nine for creative. I like
it. I'm right there with you. So what do you think a smell
it's not bad? Does smell like? I would say I think maybe when
those fresh packs might have been nice or something, because I feel like it
might be like the way they stored it, it was a little dry.
But I like the smell. Yeah, in there, it's not like it's
not there's something different to it. What was what were the terps you said
again the main ones, because I thought there was almost Humilian in that the
way. Oh so wow, that's hilarious. So yeah, that that's exactly.
So it does smell piny humilian. I would say more on the Humilian
side for this. So I don't know if I like the smell as much
because I think I like when that piny gas hits. This is more like
it almost smells like smelling like an ipa with a little bit of gas funk
to it, but you can do definitely get the pet you definitely get the
smell right off rip. You know, it's not like there's no smell.
It's like seven and a half. Eight yeah is it a fifteen or time?
Sorry? Yeah, you don't even go into the smiles. Just curious
your smell on it. We don't have a caregory. We're going to taste
the next taste the nash. I thought we had a roma. I have
a roma? Oh there is it gone? That must have deleted and maybe
we always have a roma. I was like, what do you mean you
don't have a romo on? A Roma is always a thing, all right,
isn't it. Now you're making a question? Yeah, yeah, okay,
so yeah eight yeah, all right, I'm excited to try this.
Uh, grease monkey. Curious curious how a smoke like you said, it's
fresh, so it's should've had some grease monkey that with some straight gas.
So this is gonna be a little different. I'm not mistaken. Well they
have us. I don't know if it's his cut like his specifically, but
right sure there's other grease monkey. It's something. Yeah, and that's the
big thing, like the last my favorite grease monkey was really really ghassy,
and this is this gig four across with cookies and cream I think by exact
jacks. Yeah, yeah, you're right. It's bi exactic. So it's
interesting because the one I had was really ghassy before, so it should be
pretty different. All right, spark Sparker up excited, gotta take my liquid
death can anima my cozy and use it for my water. You've been loving
those liquid deaths bro fan and just ordered the case. Did they actually you
were there? We ordered a case because it was on the business card.
Yeah. It means like a half. So he doesn't even like sparkling.
I'm gonna get him. It just still wall half. That's the still water.
You gonna throw it out? Wow? Great friend? You know kid,
I would do especially he's trying to quip the cut back sugar got ya
you want smoothies for lunch and I'm like, yeah, we could have got
it with least sugar, right, we didn't know how she made me feel
dumb. It was like no turbano. She's like, what, like,
no sugar, should give me, no sugar, extra sugar, just throw
it all in there. Just just give me my stuff. I'm so stupid
by leave my promise. Anyways, how the taste, oh company, like
Chong is? What the hell? It's a weird review? Was that anything?
By the weekends? It's a good shit man. I still always think
of Leo. I think Tommy Chong. I love the Tommy Chong movies.
But I love that scene where Chong rolls like Chong pulls out that massive joint
after Cheech has like that flat little joint. It's my favorite scene at all
any of the movies. I mean, they're tripping in it's hilarious. But
what'd you say it smell again? Seven and a half eight, somewhere in
between maybe seven seven and five like it was? It was there, just
wasn't my favorite. Yeah, it's got that human lane taste to it,
more than I thought I would, you know that almost like hoppy. We
didn't do Look and feel. Look look on it. It's pretty frosty.
It's got some light, it's got light purple hues in it. How do
we not do a Roman? We gotta do Roman. I'm so confused.
No, we did. I grabbed the wrong one. I grabbed something that
was completely I grabbed free rolls because you can't smell a pre Roman. If
you can, that's pretty good. Most of the time, it's like you
kind of can, and you can't look and feel in a pre role either,
So that's like, okay, that's like I thought they were all ten
on flower. I thought that was the original scale system changed. Yeah,
I didn't make this up. It look and feel, it's got nice purple
hues to it. When Groovy was showcasing it, it's very frosty. I
just I probably give it an eight on the look and feel. I would
like it to be a little bit more dryer, just a little bit more
taste, pretty drying. Really, it didn't break up dry, No,
it's a little bit more. Wow, that's interesting. It's still a little
it's still a little wet. It's interesting because it's probably because it's so fresh.
But it's interesting because that's good though, because you want it like that,
because it's gonna for for for market. It's and eventually start get a
little bit more of that pine when you open up the smell. But I
swear, I just feel like almost like it's very hotty. I mean,
it's actually got a clean ash. It's not a bad dude. We didn't
care much for it. We'll get to price. Yeah, I mean it's
right here. It's not like anything. It's right here. Oh wow,
how much was it? I'm not gonna tell you, but we'll get there
with them. No, but it tastes. It tastes decent taste. So
far, I've probably give an eight. You know, I'm probably like a
seven, seven and a half, seven and a half maybe not quite a
not because of quality, because it's smoking fine. I taste it. I
just don't really like smoking hoppy weed as much. Every once in a while,
hoppy like dab is okay to me, but like hoppy weed is almost
like am I smoking an ipa? But that's not bad, just like because
it's actually smooth and burning. It's product. I'm just going off just the
flavor. That's like extremely like just going off the flavor. It does burn
pretty good, like you said the ash are we on ash? Now we
just did. Yeah, that's the reason where I do the burning of the
joint. It actually is burning really well like you just said, and the
ashes so e and a half eight and a half doesn't. Yeah, if
you look at it in like you can see it just a little yeah,
yeah, I mean, oh yeah, like that, okay, fair enough
a little bit all right? Yeah, eight and a half. It's not
ripping, it's not so I said, I'll give it. We also got
a phantom up here that might be well, that's what I'm trying to say,
showing it love because it's burning. Well, even if it's not like
my favorite flavor, it's still burning. It's still a decent weed. Yeah.
The fans aren't affecting the role. That's why I like our categories,
man, because it keeps me even a little less bias or going. Okay,
even if I don't like the flavor, it's still burn. It's good.
Yeah, you might like it, Yeah, if you like, if
you like hoppy, but this would be up your alley completely because I'm not
a huge fan of it. We're smoking it gets to the middle of No,
I don't like dislike it. I just said, like, as far
as grease Monkey goes, I've had some phenos that were a little bit more
on, like the gassy and I really liked that, like skunky type of
side where it's almost like it was so piny, it was like skunky.
What's the middle though? Every where in the middle of now and the joint
actually fine eight yeah, I mean, if I'm not gonna lie to you,
like the ash is actually really clean, like it's it's really looking at
the price, it is probably a bad idea because now I know the price.
M damn. Like it's solid. But especially for the price, because
we almost like because it was there wasn't a lot of selection. I almost
wish you would have bought more of the other eight. They had two different
strains about the other one for the price you know about them. Well,
we could jump int a price and we can't wrap up on the end at
the end, okay, because we're not quite done. Yeah yeah, and
then we still got R and R Yeah. Price, dude, it was
twenty dollars adult use sign eighteen dollars because we got a met that it was
a night card discount. Twenty dollars for an eighth eighteen to twenty dollars.
That's not bad. There's twenty dollars after tax with med and it's twenty five
after like with adult easy pretty so it's not that bad. That's after tax,
that's out the door. I mean, I'm pretty impressed to be honest,
because I'll be honest sometimes when I see cheaper, but these days I'm
like, yeah, why I agree, Why why are you so cheap?
Twenty bucks makes me. No, it's not that it's what's wrong with it.
It's just that it's like, is it is it old? Is it
this? But I remember, I think that's what made us buy it.
As we saw the harvest. He's like, I will the other one's a
little bit older, but this one we just got. That's why I think
we got this one. Yeah, I'd give it an eight. I mean,
I like the price on it. That's pretty fair for a market on
it, even eight and a half. Probably Crewby's rolling the size something like
what I just my eyes lit up because I think, if anything, I
think for this the burning good bud. If I like the strain flavor,
right, I'm trying to imagine if I smoke something that like I liked right
now, it's got a oil line. That's what I'm trying to say,
is like, actually, it's really good bud for the price, I'd pay
like thirty five bucks for this, Like, I mean, I'm afraid I've
paid thirty five forty bucks for bud that's not this gun to me. I'm
actually a little more just on that shock side. So I really thought you
were gonna give it higher than eight, so I'm gonna probably give it closer
to it nine. So I almost want to say nine and a half because
if you get down to the fifteen ten dollars at that point, it's just
like there's not much marketing room for uh, It's just like you're it's just
yeah, right, that's I mean, there's no problem. Like honestly,
twenty bucks is fair like one bill like twenty bucks like for an eighth of
solid. But I wouldn't say this is like, you know, amazing a
plus plus bud like you know, but it is solid, good bud,
smooth man. So yeah, I haven't even I'm not dying when I'm smoking.
It's smooth. It's hard for me to process it because I'm not a
big fan of the Humillion stuff, but I'm trying to, Like, if
I put that aside, everything else is good, so I can't complain.
Really, it's like you said that oil line is shocking me too. Yeah,
yeah, I gave I gave price eight point seven five. Yeah,
I'm within nine, man, I gotta give it nine for I'm pretty impressed
you said that shot at oil line a little bit smoother, like I feel
like low riders a good way to describe it. I feel chill. Yeah,
honestly it does me. I was gonna ask you, how does their
interpretation? And I like the word low rider. I mean, I know
they do it because of like you know stuff. Yeah yeah, but like
I feel like I'm riding in the car. I like it because I'm chilling,
but I could do something. I'm like a low rider. I'm not
couch stuck, but I'm chilling. I feel that I also like couch stuck.
Bud. So some some other people who are more head high people smoke
this, you might be hitting the couch. I just specifically, this is
the type of shit where I'm like, no, I like him with the
whole more headbut stuff. But I don't think this is gonna put me out
though this is a nice words, it's a nice bot. I like the
buzz. That's That's what I'm trying to say is even though I don't like
humiling taste, humiling and limon a little do give me a calming effect that
I like. I just prefer the taste of linen a little too humiling.
But I think it does give you this calming What was the you're feeling perfects?
Yeah, the high what was your number eight half? Yeah, I'm
right there with you on the because it's definitely above average and I think it
could but it could have some room to grow because I like a little bit
more punch in the flavor. Like that's the thing about it. It's not
like it's so overpowering with turpines. It's just there. But at least it's
there because sometimes when you get weed, it's not turpian alls sucks. Yeah,
so I think it's overall very good, but yeah, very good for
the price to Yeah, yeah, definitely recommendary person. There's not the other
string, Now, how that was compared to this, because even if it's
older, is the is the cultivators are that good too, because if it's
old and it's still hitting, it just sucks, Like, I don't know
we'd even get this around here and we're not even near Bay City. Sorry.
As I said, I wish we would have bought the other stuff,
Like, no, you're actually right, You're absolutely right. Grivy like we
did try, but we did try the pre rolls up their home brand,
so we tried their som SM or whatever behind us. It's like that's their
home brand, so we gave them a shot. We didn't want to just
buy the you know, the bigger name they had, so I'm glad we
did it. I just kind of was like, damn for twenty bucks,
but I think at that time we were just trying to like, well we
our first ever planned to hit more. Yeah, I gave it eight and
a half recommended person. I would definitely try. I'm on the nine dude.
If I saw it for twenty bucks, hey, and I was in
a pinch and I'm three. Now, I know for the twenty bucks you're
not losing, like you're not getting that cheap effect. You're just getting for
some reason, I'm decent, but I a lot of this hit me off
shock. I was expecting not as quality, but for twenty bucks, you
know, absolutely, right man. And then I did the joints like still
hitting like the middle man. I just hit it. It's still tasting pretty
good the end. They don't even care it passed, like yeah, I
mean you want to You want to give the score though for that, because
gets it where it's at in the higher bees. There's a lower B,
right, I mean, it's got to be an eight. It will be
because like there's no way this at five. It's what I'm saying. It's
got to be a eight for the low. Oh yeah, that's what I'm
saying. Because to me, it's like it does lose a little bit of
taste getting it's getting a little harsher, and it was a little dry throughout
the joint, but like because it had some flavor, I didn't mind it
and I wasn't reaching for water. I think I might have taken us sip.
So that's impressive for me. Yeah, I gave it. I hate
when I'm taking a sip every sing, you know, hit. I gave
in eight and our scores but round ups like an eighty three eighty four respectively.
There. Yeah, that's about right, because honestly, I think that's
what made it. Would it make it that like a weed, is that
it was a little bit like not as harsh and like just these little tiny
things, but it was like something I really love the flavor. And then
that would for the price for twenty dollars for adult use, like I yeah
out to whoever calls the Medicine and the Chiefs and chron collab over there in
the cultivators because guys did a hell of the job. I saw it.
Yeah, for that, it was all right. Explains anyways. Yeah,
let's get into the news. News news. I think we're starting out on
the West coast first with California disgusted all right, Jess, Sorry, I
got some news samples, so I was kind of messing around with them.
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I'm pretty pumped X now I can say I'm but the whole point was
tuned into our Wake and Bake Saturday. You'll get first clips of everything,
so you need and you're with the community. Okay. So now California jumping
in the back into the news. California Assembly approves psychedelics legalization bill with amendments,
sending it back to the Senate for final pass. Marijuana movement so they've
been going back and forth creating the psychedelic bill and if it gets passed now
in the Senate it goes to the Governor's desk for legalization of psychedelics. So
what what would that include? What does that mean? Right? The allowable
mount in this section of the bill has amended allow us for the following psychedelic
possession limits mescaline four grams dmt one graham, psilocybin one gram one graham,
or up to an ounce of a plant or fun guy containing psilocybin, and
then pilisin one graham or up to one ounce of a plant or fun guy
containing silosin. What doesn't include in this is LSD or m DMA. They
must have had that in the other revised bill and they took it out in
this one. So no LSD or MDMA, I know, right, come
on at that point, might get it leo at all. But it's it's
cool to see this because they I think this is We've been talking about it
like a lot this year, groovy and it just seems like psychedelics that wave
is coming like fast. Like there's states now that are Michigan in the next
four years will legalize it. I don't know if it's going to be the
upcoming election in twenty four because I think I think it might be on the
baut in twenty four. If it's on the Ballad in twenty four, I
think we legalize it, and if that happens, that's another huge check mark
for that industry growing. Right, California does it before us. I think
that. I think it'd be big. It would be a big move because
then you got or gone. Dude, I know, I'm like, we're
still hitting it. That's how I know it's a good review too. Usually
by now right, Okay, yeah, but oh no, No, if
anything, I think the less because it's getting a little bit more like resonated.
I'm getting rid of that humilian taste and I'm actually liking it, like
a little bit more like gas stinky piney like Hashi. Yeah, but this
is I'm no, You're on to something, dude, one hundred percent.
Man like it. It's and I think I think there's like work like you
said, for following suits sort of. Yeah, I see that. This
would I see the high school happen. Uh, it would pretty much make
it no longer. So uh, it would be illegal for twenty one and
up, and it would be starting legalized legalized January first to twenty five.
If the Senator proves it, and then it goes to the Governor's desk.
No one knows what the governor is going to do yet, but if it's
got this overwhelming support, I mean, what was it on the Senate?
What was the vote count again? I saw that wasn't even eleven? Yeah
it was. It was big dominated. Yeah in the House. Now now
the Senate will vote on it and hopefully they pass it. So the bill
would pretty much legalized possession and cultivation of small amounts of certain ethogenic plants and
fun. Guy, which is sweet. It's in the right direction. Man,
I think that. I think that's pretty cool to see. Oh yeah,
but CALLI does it? Like I said, I truly think Michigan will
be next on one of the next states. Right, maybe the next,
but it'll be one of for sure, one of the next handful. Let's
let's jump into the World Anti Doping Agency. It was pumped to talk about
this. Yeah, experts, the agency. Experts say marijuana use violates the
spirits spirit of the sport and makes athletes unfit role models. Okay, first
off, bullshit. Well, because like dud, when you're talking about the
World Anti Dopeing Agency, they're pretty much I think, like input into the
Olympics and stuff. If I'm not mistaken, right, and even if they're
not World Anti Doping Agency, you're talking about cannabis, right, what what
what? What? What? What makes this so? What makes cannabis such
a bad role model or violates the spirit of the sport? First off,
one of the most Olympic gold medals in history, Michael Phelps smokes cannabis.
Used cannabis. The fastest man on Earth. Use cannabis, want gold medals?
You guys kicked out Sean Water. You got you? Yeah, right,
water and land? Thank you Phelps? Was water and then uh and
water. I meant say, excuse me, and uh, you've seen what
was land? And then you kicked out shark Kari rod Richardson a couple of
years ago because she tested for cannabis. So I feel like that's just like
second and third place being salty. It's just annoying, Like, yeah,
it doesn't violate anything. You have countries now that are legal here. You
have states in the United States that are legal. You have countries in South
America, you have countries in Europe, you have Canada. Pretty soon there's
gonna be be more legal countries than non legalized. Right for cannabis as the
plant, and what are you gonna do? You still say it's it's bad
like you have here in America. Well there's like sports players. See that's
where I'm singing cannabis right, what I was gonna say. So, the
thing is you say, though it's legal here, it's legal here, it's
but it's legal here. The problem is is that it's not you criminalized everywhere.
That's the problem, especially when you consider this World Doping Agency is like
you're talking Olympics, right, You're not talking like NBA because those are all
these are all their individual per like per nation sports. This has got a
blanket coverage because a lot of countries still look at it as dope. I
mean they're literally called the Anti Doping Agency and they're looking at weed, like
dude, you should be looking at steroids or all these other formats enhancing drugs
like actually help increase your speed or your fucking This was like a food eating
contest. If this is a food eating I get it. We can be
considered like whoa if no half to people don't smoke weed, that's not fair
that I'd be like oh shit, okay, yeah, like the one guy's
like, yeah, man, ready eat all these hot dogs like that.
I get, dude, it is it's it's, it's it's ridiculous. They
The Advocate strongly urged World Anti Dope and Agency to enact reform after the whole
thing with Shark Richardson. They say in the article, dude, to repositive
tests into twenty twenty one. Even I'm not even scheduled here in America.
America, the USA has such an influence that if all of North America is
legal in canvas, which really just takes America, if you just descriminate to
criminalize it, Kelly, Kelly, Canada's ready legal. So I'm saying we
have all North, I have no all North of America. That's a pretty
big influence. And then you just gotta nailed nail down these little countries in
Europe which are pretty much like giant states, you know. So you just,
dude, and you're already starting to get some trend over there was it
who we just I know, Thailand just went is representing the East. Yeah,
and then I swear we just saw someone in the Europe, Germany's Ireland,
Germany's Yes, German way their way to it. I don't know if
they've officially done it either way. There's a lot, there's people, there's
pete, there's there's there's trailblazers in each like section of the world right now.
And Canada was ours. Everyone wants to give California like the fucking credit,
but because we were the first, they were the first legal state.
But it's like, why is no one looking at Canada and being like they
just like legalize it and there's a lot of things to look at what they're
doing, because yeah, that's why, same thing with Kelly, the same
thing cannabis. It's just in stores shells where dude, that's I mean,
that's because that shows you the government show. I'm just saying that the idea
of it being freed, Yeah, I see that. But also you're in
America where America's a lot different than the parliament out that's Canada. Yeah,
like here we got like people that are like, oh paid saying we got
to give some credit to the homiest because they they are the truly the ones
that are. It's cool, it's just weird. Now do they do they
control it with the government? Yeah, do they control at their Yeah,
they don't do it the best, but they did go they did go legal,
but who knows. Man, I honestly think they need to start revaluing
policies Biden I said, I quote they quote him in the article that he
said they must change. But also Biden hasn't done much here in the United
States, so I take that with a grain of salt. Also, what
are the spokespersons for WADA, which is World Anti Dopean Agency said to date,
neither the United States authorities nor the US Anti Dopean Agency has requested the
removal of cannabis from the prohibitive list. So, like Groovy just stated,
you know, if US does go legal, maybe that does change what happens
here, which then does like spark something which then in turn it takes all
it gets taken down. But how long is that going to be? Is
that ten years from now, fifteen years from now? And then for them
just to call them non role models is just the biggest slap in the face
because just because you smoke cannabis, you're not a role model. The greatest
Olympians on this planet smoke cannabis, okay, and there's some and they're great
role and honestly, probably most people Dave looked up to when he's a kid,
where athletes, which we're smoking. So it's like, as I find
out a lot of athletes, come on, you don't think Kobe Blaze,
let's go, come on, man, come on. I don't know.
I don't speak ill of the past, but like you know, I'm just
saying there's some people. There's a lot. You had all the Kobe jersey,
so that's the only reason why he used him as an example Kobe.
Alright, but yeah, yeah, no again, you're right, because then
they do what does weed have to do with them not being a role bottle?
I mean, even the people taking steroids. I think that's the only
reason why they don't look at them as role bottles is because they're cheating.
It's like weed is not cheating. Weed is what I do in my personal
time. That's like saying alcohol plus why there's nothing with alcohol. There's nothing
with alcohol? Alcohol actually helps with pain? Yeah, no, Plus it's
in your system for thirty days. So even if you smoke ten days before
your fucking race, like get out here, or if you smoke after or
bright before even though okay, right before, maybe I shame, but like
it's just it's just stupid. They need to get rid of it. It's
more of a medicinal product. You're not going to not be able to do
stuff because you take a probably a farm a pill that the doctor prescribes that
is lego xanax or something. I don't think those are performance and answers and
those are Schedule four. So there's still below. Still yeah, three below
or cannabis is crazy crazy. I do want to before we get go into
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back into some of these articles. We're gonna jump to the East coast.
Groove is actually just out there. We're talking about Massachusetts. So Massachusetts just
hit five billion marijuana sales milestone. What that means. Massuns retailers now have
sold more than five billion dollars in adult use marijuana since the state's recreational market
launched five years ago. I know, you don't know how more there we
go. You got so but anither way, I was saying five billion,
and like that's a good milestone, man, that shows that they're improving and
they're going upward. I did feel like it was a bit little corporated out
there. But it does seem like that anywhere looking in. I think when
you go out, because you only recognize the big brands, you don't necessarily
know all the little brands, you know. I didn't know all the little
brands, otherwise I would have bought them. I just I bought lit farms
because like we always the genetics. Yeah, I want to see how the
fire was. Where are we at? And I think we beat them a
little bit in this, but we when we looked it up I looked it
up earlier, It's like they have six point nine million and we have like
ten millions. So we have like on the average, like you know,
fifty percent compared to them, like how much more because we went we went
on market same time as them twenty eighteens. When we went legals. I
don't know if we actually we might have went legal a little bit after him.
I don't know when sales around around the same time. Now we're about
to be a three billion dollar market potentially this year, right, I think
it was. We just reported on two point two billion, two and a
half billion. I think it was because we're like doing crazy numbers here in
the State of Michigan. Wait, so, well they are beating us.
You said, no, we're beating You said two. We're about to do
two and a half of this billion this year alone. Oh, I like
two billion last year, and I think we did a billion the year before.
Yeah, so maybe a little bit before. But either way, my
whole thing is that they're growing, they're at similar times, so it's really
awesome. Shoudow Massachusetts keep doing your thing. I really would love to go
back and find more, like you know, street brands, because honestly,
when I was there, there wasn't as many Massachusetts brands you thought some,
but there was a lot of Maine, a lot of Delaware. There was
Pennsylvania, there's New Jersey. There was people from like New England. Seems
they seemed to all kind of travel to those like uh I was. I
still like to call my caregiver events legacy events. It's more of what I
was at with my with my weed cup. Yeah, I do those include
I don't think those going to those sales they'll do they No, no,
they don't. But I'm just what I'm trying to say is like I think
what i'd like to see, well, because you got to realize a lot
of that is probably Boston tourism, a decent amount I would, I would
imagine, but they've also don't know. In this article though, they state
that they've had back to back to back record breaking months, so cannabis could
be starting to pick up there. In general, they said June July and
August June beat doesn't have to do anything with like location. I'm speaking like
geographically, like yeah, but on the whole state, almost on a Massachusetts
right, I don't know. I honestly, like, you know, I
don't know. I've seen the rest of Massachusetts. It's chill. I drove
through it. Yeah, no, no, I mean it's no. What
I was trying to say is I still feel like and there was a lot
of dispos You'd be surprised there was like just dispos the whole way. Every
little town had a dispo. Like there was a lot of weed in Massachusetts.
So I think, if anything, maybe their legislation is slower. I
think there's a lot of people out there that smoke weed. I think there's
just last people like I think they're like right on the same path that we
are, Like they like weed out there. That's what I'm saying New England
smokes weed. Yeah, no comparison Michigan, though, good old Michigan.
We sold two hundred and seventy seven million dollars of cannabis and just at another
Michigan is just continually to crush it. But yeah, that it's good.
It's good to see these numbers because that's a ship ton of money that's getting
sold, because that's a ship ton of tax money that's going to the state
in the cities. You know, that's going somewhere. And then we're going
to this next article which talks about Maryland and selling the record number of ninety
two million dollars worth of product, and it's second months. It doesn't make
sense that we're going to be reporting a lot of record breaking stuff though,
because like as cannabis is be new in every state, of course everything's gonna
be record breaking. Because no way, I mean very I don't feel like
we have hit that far in the wheat industry to where we're gonna start seeing
a decline. I think it's way too new. I don't think they're ever
going to see a dec I mean until after like five years in each state.
I don't think you're gonna see a decline. I really think for the
first three to five years, you're just like ramping up for still learning there.
Still you're still expanding. I'm talking about overall, but green zones are
still expanding and stuff like. I still feel like, but after five years,
I think that's when you start to see how your market's going to be.
That's why I think we're strong here. I think we're just saturated right
now. I think it'd be really hard to like start a company right now
unless you had very good product. I think it's just a it's a very
competitive saturated market right now. Like it's a lot of people doing a lot
different things. Prices as low as it's ever been so coming in this injury,
it would be tough. Yeah, especially we're trying to sell a quality
that's actually you gotta have. You gotta have a quality product at a quality
price. But quality always overselves. I'm just saying in general. Right now,
it's just I feel like right now, until things maybe balance out a
little bit, maybe like green zones expand and then prices go up just a
little bit, Like you know what I mean, I think prices are going
to continuously drop. I think right now we're just at a low point.
I think we're just kind of as low as it's gonna be. Yeah,
and we're getting twenty twenty five dollars rosin twenty five dollars rosin. Dude,
Yeah it was. It was. I was seventy five eighty dollars for a
grammar Rozin over there in Massachusetts. Still, and they legal at the same
time, So think about that. They have held their price as cannabis.
We love cannabis. There's a lot of brands that have a lot of brands
cutthroat price. I don't know how Massachusetts is becoming a legal brand. They
might be a little bit harder to get in. You might have more money,
more capital, and that's why they have their price so high. Still,
granted, I definitely love it here in Michigan. It's definitely for the
user. I'm just saying as a grower, it's gonna be hard to start
a brand round. Yeah, But I also see in time though, the
brands that do suck, they will go away obviously because people aren't going to
want the product and the quality of product. If you do have a quality
product, you could still make it into the market. I believe you can
still thrive, but you're just not going to hit those capital numbers that you
would have hit three years ago, right when the market was still smaller.
In my opinion, that's just my opinion, because I mentionally I would love
to get my flower in market. Maybe one day that'd be cool, would
that be? Coo coo coo? Yeah? And when I look at them
these charts on the Maryland stuff, they show that the flower is still very
very predominant, but concentrates is like a you know, twenty four million or
whatever, twenty four billion, twenty four million, fifty five million, so
it's still holding pretty strong. And edibles are actually really really low. Interesting,
yeah, only like five million. Interesting. Interesting. Yeah. I
mean we'll keep an eye. I definitely think they're gonna keep growing. So
still, I mean, well, you might see a shift now, but
I still feel like because you see that like grow consecutive. That word consecutive
makes me think think they're gonna keep growing. Yeah. I hope to see
you, missus, continue to grow because it's it's just good for the whole
general market of cannabis and the community. I think we're done with everything outside,
so we're coming back to the home. Stage. It's just crazy actually
though, because I remember we heard about this on like the news. I
think I was at your house, I think literally, and I was like,
dude, what the hell, and we were talking about that or that
was maybe when I saw it. You might have already heard about it.
But yeah, yeah, four detroiters are facing multiple criminal charges in connection with
breaking and entering of a marijuana store the Southfield, Yeah, which led in
a police pursue a warrant labs. I don't care about no, I'm sorry.
I can make a joke right there because it sucked for them. Say
they weren't going for them quality. They were going I don't know what we
talked about, probably just going for mine. They probably just thought there's like
a lot of two forty in the morning, and they thought they could flip
the product because at the end of the day, if you get it for
free, it's still all profit. Like there, I make I make jokes
about like the Jenny Cush being sappy, but I haven't been there in no
years. Yeah, it was better, That's why I'm I'm just giving.
We just had such a bad experience, dude. It's I never never went
back, you know what. I mean, so it's very hard to go
back. But I still feel very horrible for them because that sucks. You
have the deal to break in, but like, like, what are you
gonna get like ten grain? I think when I when I worked at it,
When I worked at the shop, everything's be locked at all up.
Okay, obviously you're gonna go in and trying to break in and break the
locks, right, but like usually the money he's taken out the day of
because it's cash business. You're not gonna leave going to cash there, right.
Also, there's also been recent break ins and they they suspect they may
be responsible for a couple of other marijuana store break in. It's like a
chain. I do remember hearing that was the news was I don't know.
I don't know if there some of them were at other places. There was
a store and center they have. They're gonna look they get gonna look into
it, you know, But I just breaking into marijuana shops to meet I
don't know. They usually have security on sight. They're full of cameras everywhere.
Yeah, if they're hitting them with so many charges, just like charge
with breaking entering in a building, possession of Burgley choose receiving concealing stone property
less than twenty grand, tamponing with everence, receiving and concealing a stone vehicle,
fourth degree fleeing and looting, assault with the dangerous webbing, assault,
restreet, assault, resisting obstricting a police officer, and driving was suspended.
Like, my man's just one of them. He's getting hit with nine charges.
These are paragraphs. These aren't then. I hated with charge is like
at least they like I mean, like that shit's crazy, no conspiracy.
This is exactly how they hit you too. You're beautiful photos, right,
Yeah, I hate care rep and kind of jail was bonds at fifty grand,
man, I mean dude, like, like listen, I get times
are tough, man, but if you're gonna like rob people like I hate
this, you're gonna get fucking yeah. It's just a lazy way out,
man. I've been robbed of him like Carprate, It's yeah, oh,
it's just a lazy way out man, Like it's you're just and I get
it, like times can be tough, and you know, you know,
mental health is hard, and like drug abuse is real, so I understand
these these people don't look like drug abusers though. I mean, they might
look like they get sucked up sometimes, but they don't look like like they're
met out or you know what I'm saying. So it's like, I don't
think abuse is the issue here. I think it was just they wanted the
money and they wanted to sell some shit. And they probably think, you
know, big, big, big brand, a lot of money. And
don't be wrong, I get the idea, it's corporate, you know,
fuck it, but like you know, people still work for corporate. You're
still sucking with people, yeah, you know, and as much as like
some of these companies you might, like if you're robbing like Walmart, like
they got insurance, you're right, you probably get away with exactly. And
that's what I was about to say, is like these guys are robbing them
because they think there's a lot of cash and weed on site, but it's
gonna be secure as shit. Like I don't can't believe like they got all
less than twenty grand worth of ship, Like what'd you what'd you stay for?
What it was that for? Because you think about this, you just
made a good point. Man. You can put all that work down to
sell it, even if it's not Loom, they broken the other ones.
That's hard money for these companies to get back. Like you saw what you
saw what a well, because they can't write things. I'll test the brands
here in the market. It it took brands months to get back on track
like that stuff. That stuff affects him as your rig I guess we're going
on. But yeah, man, but it sucks a huge on a huge
level though, because you're you're not even sticking into the man, which because
to me, the man. If you want to stick it to someone,
you stick it to the government, the insurance companies. I get the people
who are making stupid amounts of passive money, I get it. But a
lot of people who are successful worked their ass off to get there, and
in cannabis you had to do that from the hustle or from a loan or
I mean, excuse me, like a loan shark, because you didn't get
loans from a bank, you know. So it's it's just so fucked because
it's like you know, and again, you know, my my experience was
Loom was rough, but not everyone's, but it was still that they hit
so it could. The whole point was that it doesn't matter who it is.
I still feel bad for them because now you're talking, you know,
you gotta deal with all this shit. Hopefully there wasn't much damage. I
don't know, you know. And that's the other thing is what did they
have to break to get there? Did they shatter all these windows? Did
this delay two three days of business? Did that that mean people didn't get
their hourly wage for two days? Tenders and managers and stuff, because now
it's a it's a crime scene for a day, you know, because I
think it happened like three in the morning, correct, but it was like
I forget what day it was. It was like Tuesday, so it was
like a middle of the week, you know. People. And that's what
I'm saying. It's like there's a domino effect of who you affect, even
if you think you're just attacking the person at the top. If you want
to attack the person the top, go watch person at the top. You
know, Yeah, something like that. It's unfortunate. Desperate you know,
you've known people steal all the time, and desperate times, I guess,
you know. I mean it is it is hard times out there, It
really is. Yeah, it doesn't make it okay, It's just more so
it doesn't. I'm trying to make an empathy from it, some empathy,
but then they it's still not cool. I hate the teeble who take that
easy way out. I get it, Yeah, got you. We're just
getting robbed. It just sucks in general. So yeah, for you,
you're getting like that like PTSD type of vibe where you're like, not quite
but you know what I'm saying, you're getting that like re memory of it.
Yeah, they gang guy, you know what, Car? I was
like, damn, and that's what used to I used to leave watching like
Car, you know me. I used to used to leave your fucking wallet
in the fucking like the door. And you don't do that anymore, thank
god. But I used to think, bro, what are you doing?
He's like, that's what I do. I'm like, why, Yeah,
I just didn't think anyone actually break in and you know, do stuff.
But you know, likes happened. But I think that's literally I think we
went through everything groove. I think we hit the review. The last thing
I want to talk about, but we kind of talked about it in the
Massachusetts article. It's just is just Michigan being a top market. There was
an article that we're looking at becoming on the on the top markets in the
nation, which is great. I think that's phenomenal for Michigan. Maybe we'll
become we're becoming probably more of a tourism spot. I mean, Traverse City
is going lad there is legal. So now next year when you're coming going
out there for all the summer stuff, there's gonna be more disposed and stuff
like you're able to pick up your cannabis and travel like the ups cluttered with
us dispensaries, Like Michigan is a great state for cannabis. And I just
love seeing it. That's right groovy. I love seeing it like this.
It's been, it's been. I feel like a slower slower turn. But
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