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Well, hello and welcome. Thanks for getting your pot on, Thanks
for telling a friend. That's how we spread the word about the pirate ship.
Four twenty is Saturday. So I was amazed at the number of people
who didn't want to really talk about weed. And I looked this morning at
some point and I had emailed one of the first legal dispensaries in Monroe County
that you didn't need a medicinal license for, and that was MJ's. And
I know exactly where it is because I would go to Palmers and I would
see it over there. And then so I didn't think we were going to
have him. And we'll talk to John, the nurse who would email me
about an uptick in marijuana related illnesses that they're seeing in hospitals. And I
talked to the parent in town super and all of a sudden, the door
opens up and there's MJ. What's going on, man, right in the
mic? Hellhow are I'm well? So I have to think, because there's
a lot of things here with the legalization of marijuana and and for twenty and
we'll let you talk about events, because I think you got a big event
that's going on. Thank you Kevin, A big event that's going on at
your store on four to twenty. But you were the first legal dispensary that
I people didn't need a medicinal license for in Rochester. In Rochester, yes,
thank you. And so my question was are they cash only operations?
No? Okay? So you can use what plastic? No? No,
but credit cards or credit debitor credit. Oh I didn't think you could because
I thought it was ken. But the fees are more so than you would
go any other place, okay because the federal lealities. Yeah, because marijuana
is not federally legal, state level legal and then the FDI. See.
So I wasn't sure how that worked, and I thought some I thought most
places were just running cash. Most is there, like it's a cashless ato.
Okay. So you go in there and you pay for something they rounded
to the nearest five or yeah, zero okay, and then you get changed
back out of the register. Okay, Ah, I got you. Okay,
all right? So what was it about this that you wanted to get
into this business? I've been part of this revolution since sixteen old. So
yeah, in what capacity? From using it to expanding to growing it selling
it for two decades yeah, so around here in Rochester. Yeah, and
I would travel. I used to be a professional poker player as well,
so I traveled. Yeah, I used to go to Las Vegas. Yeah.
Did you play in those big tournaments? And you gotta be really good?
Man World Series of Poker. Yeah, go for forty days? Where
do you live? Webster? Okay? Wrong guy, wrong guy, wrong
guy? I gotcha. No, you know the guy I'm talking about.
There's a guy in West Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't want to
nake drop either, and I apologize. Okay, so from sixteen on this
is sort of your your interest. But running a store in New York State,
I'm sure it's been a pleasure. No, it's actually the anniversary of
legalization is like upon us. It's three years. Yeah, so you know
it took me. I just opened in December. Yeah, I applied in
August of twenty two. Okay for the card program. Yeah. Were you
one of the people that was able to get in because you had a prior
conviction? And did you do time? No? No, did I got
possession, which is like nothing. I mean it wasn't well it's almost wasn't
the worst defense. No, but the law to me, the way this
was handled? Was they all? New York State almost gave a boon to
the black market of marijuana in that you were allowed to possess it, but
where could you buy it? Yes, So that's why all these smoke shops
opened up and started selling them out the gift front door. What was gift
with purchase and getting a bag with it? Yep, or a sticker or
whatever the case or whatever they were trying to do, Yeah, and still
doing. So tell me about MJ Dispensary. When I the way I look
at weed today, it almost seems like you need a restrictor plate on some
of this. And they've got weird names like blue iguana and whatever, and
you know it means for the flower strains. Yeah, everybody's crossbreeding everything and
naming their own stuff. Yeah, that's when you get that kind of you
know, weird names. Yeah, going on, But do you grow your
own? Do you have your own? Two young kids? So I just
I gave it up. So that's why I went into the retail side.
So where do you get yours from? It's locally grown or yes, all
our stuff is predominantly from New York. There's other state. You know,
the people who use distributors that we can get like Massachusetts brands of like vape
carts and stuff that we can get into our store. But we get we
have from the little guy to all the way to the big dogs who are
the billionaire companies. In our store, you get a wide, wide variety
of choices. There's we have over a thousand skews, which is one of
the most in New York State. A thousand. Have you tried all of
them? No? No, I just well the SOBNY somebody to be able
to try. I mean, if you've got to talk about it, right,
I mean samples from certain vendors more than others. Sure, and we
distribute them out to our staff accordingly and let them try and they help decide.
You know what, Brenders, maybe we should bring in maybe not so
much, you know that kind of thing. The I'm a big fan of
the edibles. Yes, I like the edibles only because smoking. And no,
that's all right. I have nothing to do with that. Because when
I grew up down by Woodstock, and I had a teacher who used to
say to us, you don't want to smoke a joint because it's so hot,
the heat going into your lungs. It's so hot it could melt the
soldering on a roach clip. He goes, if you're going to smoke,
always smoke through a water boond because it cools it down. Now I don't,
I don't know, but that's stuck in my head for whatever reason.
So, of course water bond. And then the edibles, I've just I
just like them. They just take a minute. I would warn people for
who I haven't done edibles before. Give it longer, Give it longer,
because all of a sudden, I've seen people go, this isn't working a
half hour in and the next thing you know, they're a puddle water like
for sure. Well, now they have what's called they got nano technology in
cannabis where they infuse stuff that will get into your stomach faster. Real you'll
be able to get that edible and it will happen within ten fifteen minutes.
You're kidding, instead of waiting. Wow. And also if you're on a
full stomach, it's not ideal to take your cannabis because it's gonna take a
long time to filter through your stomach and get into your bloodstream. Right.
So, and then like empty stomach, it's gonna pow hit you yeah,
right away, right, and then you're gonna get the plate. Well,
you get munchies and so in there. You know, that's the cookies are
going. That's right, that's right. That is uh, that is the
way it goes. Uh. I want to I'm gonna call this guy John,
the nurse and just because he had written me about an uptick is he
just put it? And I was surprised at this. He said, Hey,
Bill, with the legalization of marijuana at the hospital, we're seeing a
lot more marijuana related emissions. The admissions are mostly uncontrollable nausea and vomiting.
A lot of these people are frequent flyers in every few months for the same
reason. We're gonna play where are you putting that weed? It's like,
I go, what that sounds a little bizarre to me, But let's see.
I know I told John that we would call him about ten minutes ago.
So see where we are. Hey John, how are you good?
Are you doing good? So my question, as you're talking about this,
you're saying you're seeing the same people coming in with these problems. Yeah,
So what we're seeing is it's called cannaboid cannaboid hyper emesis syndrome. Okay,
so basically they're ingesting somehow. I don't know if it's I'm not sure if
it's edible, or if it's smoking it, or it's like the vape kind
of thing. So what they're doing is they're just having so much in their
system that they end up getting nauseous. That's like uncontrollable nausea. Okay,
So we're basically give them everything we can and nothing that we give them that
would normally help somebody with nausea. Yeah, is helping. Now. I
want to say that MJ's in here from MJ Dispensary and I was watching online
there. I think to me, MJ would be pretty much an expert.
Have you ever heard of people like like overdosing to the point of not I
mean, that's what it sounds like. I don't know, not necessarily.
I know people do eat more than they probably should, as we were just
saying, you're like, you don't feel it and then you start eating more
and whatnot. But uh, I think a lot may have to do it
where the people these people are purchasing this type of products and maybe in the
illegal market where they're marking up the milligrams dosages on these edibles. So in
my shop, I only can carry ten milligram tablets and one hundred milligrams in
the pack, gotcha, okay in the pack which each day O cum law,
Yeah, sonel tannel, that'll do you. Man. Well, I've
seen fifty milligrams and like a little square like that. I have heard of
that, I haven't seen it, and I've heard of twenty five and I
go that stuff would ruin me. So I like even the microdosing stuff.
Correct, do you have micro five milligram stuff too? So I'm going to
become a frequent flying stuff that is you, you know, and in your
life for sure. That's why we see all the people coming through. There's
a market for this. I know there's a lot of places where you can
get it right now, but you want to go where people know what they're
doing and know where it came from. Drinkables now, yes, yes,
I've seen I know. I think even some beer stores are doing THC Seltzer's
THC water. But you're you're saying, John, the rookies are than any
of od or Well, I don't want to say O D. But that's
what it sounds like to me, And no, I think it's more people
that use it more on a daily basis, but like all day long thing.
So it's I don't know if it's like I said, I don't know
if they're smoking it, doing edibles or some other kind of you know,
vague type of ingestion. But it's mostly younger, younger people, so it
could be that they're getting stuff that isn't as you know, as pure.
But there's been there's been a couple of studies. I actually sent you that
link from the National Institute of Health. They've been Yeah, I grabbed some
stuff, but what what did you say? Did you read the whole thing?
Because I did not have Yeah, I've read most of it. So
so so basically, you know, people are just ingesting all this PhD and
it gets overwhelmed your system. So your system there, you know, you
know, we'll describe marijuana or PhD for people from the nausea, but there's
like a fine line like where there's too much and it overwhelms their system.
So it's overhalling your like your GI system or your your lethatic system or energy
system. So so you got to find the right balance then I guess,
yeah, So I think I think a lot of these people are just they're
just in taking so much, you know, like they're they're they're doing the
Yeah, they're doing the wake and bake, and then they're just doing it
like, you know, driving to the Wegmans. They're driving wherever they're going,
you know where they're loves when you waken bake though you buy a bunch
of ship. You didn't need a bunch of never go to the store in
your you need never. Well, Danny, your dad was living with cancer,
yes, and they subscribe or prescribed. They couldn't prescribe. They prescribed
maronol and maren al was useless. It didn't help him. He was losing
weight because of the chemo. His appetite sucks. So what is the neighbor
marinol is called maronl He's almost like little pills. Is that supposed to be
marijuana? They're supposed to be this little marijuana is I think it's more of
like a synthetic or like they take the THHC out of it and right,
and my father's like this ain't working well. So we had this neighbor,
and this neighbor used to smoke a lot of weed, and he was paranoid.
I'm not joking. My neighbor was. He was on disability from his
other job, right, so all he would do is sit around and smoke
weed all day. Well, he felt bad for my dad. He goes,
hey, I got something for you. It's going to help you.
This is how he talked. So my fatherly goes, okay, what is
it. Well, let me show you. So all of a sudden,
Dad starts gaining weight. My mother noticed, hey, you're looking good.
That maren alls really working. Yeah, yeh yeah. He would come home
smelling like you know, why do you always smell like Burke tires when you
get home from Johnny's house. But she didn't realize what. I didn't know
this because I was living here in Rochester. I had no idea at this
graduation part. He pulled me aside. I really appreciate you spending a lot
of time with my dad. I heard you guys become really good friends.
He goes, you know, I'm helping keep them alive. I go,
I appreciate that. I go. Your spirit is really infectious. Goes,
No, you don't understand. Yeah, that's true too. He goes,
but a lot of people don't like what we're doing. But he's eating.
He's eating, that's the important thing. And then I put the light bulb
up in my head and go, oh, you guys are smoking weed.
Well, but but it helped him though he would actually and then he goes,
look, Dandy, I don't like admitting this, but I've been smoking
this stuff. I gotta tell you. It really helps me eat, and
it really opens up your mind. Yeah, I think I see. I
mean, jay My ask howld you are forty seven? All right, so
I'm fifty two. In our lifetime, they've done a one eighty on marijuana,
a one fucking eighty, and you go why. And the only thing
I can think of with New York State, because gambling was always sort of
frowned upon, Oh we got it. I love it. I mean I
love even golf. You can get gamble and it's the tax revenue that they're
hoping to get. And but I also think that there's a lot of medicinal
things for people, Like we're going to talk to somebody later in the podcast
who was on a some kind of a patch, I think a fentanyl patch
and said, now she's doing something called dabbing. I'm not familiar with that.
Yeah, that's the strongest form of taking THHC pretty much. Oh it
is, yeah, it is it almost? Okay, is it like almost
like one of the what do they call the the box? Sure, it's
similar to like a bong. Okay, okay, So yeah, you have
a dab break, Yes, you smoke it. Okay. Well Cogan was
on like patches like that too, the fentyl pat for paint. Yeah,
and he talked about it and he thought it was too much. So we
cut him in half. And the doctor goes, dude, those things are
time released. That will kill you. You can't cut them in half.
You just got to put them on it. Just suck it up because they're
time released. You gotta be careful with that stuff too. Yeah, So
put them in their mouth and chew on them. What the fentanyl patch?
Yep. I had another patient cut one open. Yeah, he's the vet
from uh the trailer park boys, all right. And another patient cut went
open and in the hospital he took it off, cut it open and put
camp water in it and sucked it up with a syringe and started injecting it
into his central line. Day. But this is where though for someone who
was prescribed the patch for pain, the marijuana seems to almost be a healthier
option and handles the pain man helps cataract bally well. I mean that is
I just look. I grew up down by woodstock, so it was you
know, I remember parents where people grew it. People did so it was
never but in fourth grade they had a guy come in. He burned it.
He goes, if you ever smell this, you come find an adult.
You know. It's like the worst thing he could do in a sense.
And now here we are where you have a legal dispensary that is probably
making people's lives better. I think the anxiety medication, right, it could
be bad. This can help with that. I believe we are helping people.
I agree. Get into specifics because the way the state is you can
you can't say, but you know, our store is doing very well,
good and there's a there is a market for this. But get the price
except by you guys, or is that something set by the state. Does
the state regulate the price of the kind of sorder with the taxes that they
charge on it, so we can only mark stuff up. You can't like
triple gotcha double or anything like that. That's the most you can do.
And I can't have any sales, but I can do bundles, or I
can bundle different products together. Tell you this drink, I can sell you
this joint, and I can sell you this these gummies for this price,
which is a lower price than if you bought them all separately. Gotcha?
I kind of like that. Yeah, the end, did you do like
the bundle of the week or anything. We've got four twenty bundles. Yeah,
going going right now with the large bundles, four hundred twenty dollars.
Wow. How long will that last? I bet you? Oh, we'll
see a good weekend, mind it. Yeah. The guys who've got the
stomach problem on that day fireworks, John, What hospital are you at now?
Are you still in serious? Yeah? Stilling cracuse. Yeah, So,
and that's where you're seeing these problems. But I would assume that if
it's there, it's pretty much everywhere. It's serious. Yeah, And the
only really, the only only way to fix the problem, they say,
is to just totally stop and that ingesting. And that's the problem. And
they most of these people can't. They'll do it for like a couple of
weeks. But then they're like, oh, I feel better, right,
and then they start smoking again or you know, whatever their ingested method is,
and then they start you know, they start throwing up again and they
can't keep anything down, and you know, leads to electro like problems and
you know, ulcers or whatever, so all sorts of things. Ye.
So so check yourself before you wreck yourself. Yeah, I mean, just
watch all the very nineties almost eighties right there. Well, there you go,
the eighties, that's what it was. Just say no, well,
but that's not fun. Look, I believe since then, since humans have
popped on the planet, they've been trying to find something to put them in
an altered state, right to be inebriated, whether it be alcohol or anything.
And I think that this is probably a better alternative than alcohol. I
know people who are telling me they're drinking less and they feel more relaxed and
are sleeping better because they're drinking THC seltzers or THC water, And uh,
I go, well, that's great. My wife into twice. I can't
say she's slipped. I could tell the story she did it. She's trying
to almost roof for you. I got I should check yourself. Hang on
to Kevin, she was because he was getting himself all twisted. Danny is
as high strung as of you get like a dog. I'd been better at
that though, you from the Flintstones. Yeah, that's that's right. So
what happened was, well, we don't have to go into it now.
We can say it for the story from later. Okay, So what happened
was We're in Nashville, right and I get a text from work and I'm
like, dog gone it. I'm on vacation right now, getting it.
I'm getting all like worked up. So we walk into this restaurant. It's
a Saturday afternoon in Nashville. I'm getting all worked up, like like Bill
says, I do like that dog who like is chasing his tail. And
you know, the waitress comes by and uh, I go, I gotta
use the bathroom. Just give me something to drink Seltzer water because I was
trying to stay off the you know, I just saving my calories or whatever.
And so she orders me a green Seltzer. I drink it. This
is great, but Seltzer waters are very kind of small, so I go,
okay, get another one of those. So I drink another one,
and my wife starts cracking up and I look at it, like, what
kind of seltzer is this? And she goes, Oh, it's THHC infused.
I go, you mean like cbd ol. Yeah, yeah, that's
what it's like oil. So she's like, So, I'm like, I
didn't realize that they could put that and drinks me and I all of a
sudden, man, I'm like, yeah, I went from being like high
struggle to incredibly chill to man, I need a nap. Yeah. That
whole place you want to have fun that week? Well, I always find
you laugh a lot, Like I've had something called the Pineapple Hajas. I
don't know if that's something you slid from California, but they just made you
laugh, and you just you had a great time. You just feel good.
It's like we're alcohol. Sometimes somebody says something and if you're a little
buzz you can take it the wrong way and get pissed off and you see
fights and you do all this stuff, and I go, well, maybe
we've had it wrong for a while. So John, I appreciate the call,
and I hope that there are too many people puking on your shoes because
it's uc. I appreciate it, all right. Well, thanks for listening,
man, I appreciate that. All right. Well see Jill, you
guys, we uh will We'll take a moment if you can hang out.
I've got I had talked to the supervisor of parenton and towns have the option
of opting in or opting out to marijuana dispensaries and lounges parent in the town
Fairports, the village within the town opted out. The village opted in.
But I can understand why. And but I'm so glad you were here.
John. Excuse me, MJ. What Ryan, Ryan? I keep calling
you, MJ. I'm so sorry he had some I didn't. I was
all caught off guard because I I clearly missed the email talking about candy Apple.
But I'm glad that Ryan's here because you can kind to explain where both
he and I get it wrong, and you'll hear it in the conversation.
It's about twelve minutes. But it just as to why some towns opted out.
And I think Greece was one that did opt out of both the lounges
and the dispensary as well. But that doesn't mean you can't opt in later.
And I think one of the reasons some of these towns did was New
York State kind of bumbled this along the way. Yes, every state does.
Yeah so yeah, but they got other states before they could have talked.
Yeah. I'm just saying they tried to do it a different way with
giving it to people. Yeah, this way, and didn't let the big
dogs in first. That's what a lot of states do. They let the
companies come in who who were in medical Yeah, and that's what the deal
was when Cuomo was here, was that that's why they came here to open
their medical facilities, because that when wreck came, Culomo promised them that they
would be the first to open. Well, we know what happened with him,
yeah, she And then everything changes and they bring a different group in
and they decide not to let them in right away and let people such as
myself, Mom and Pops who got arrested before, who've been persecuted throughout their
whole lives because they used into cannabis a chance. And those guys, the
billionaires club is what I like to call them, put all these lawsuits out
there to so that we couldn't get open. That's a way better explanation than
I have heard. Right, So that's why I'm so glad you're here.
I opened a few weeks later the people down the street from me. I'm
not going to name names who were part of that lawsuit open, gotcha.
Yeah, So they are open now, the big Dogs. And two they'll
get to open two more stores by June of this year. And they had
to pay I believe it was fifteen mil holy, so they'll all have three
stores by before the end of this year. Okay, the Billionaire's Club.
All right, Well, well I want you to hear then what we say
here, and maybe you can correct some of the things that I think we
may have wrong. And we will get to that next. But first,
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of them. Yeah, I think about the song because it was the now
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funny. That's very funny. Ryan from MJ Dispensary has joined us. It's
in Henrietta in the what's the name of the positive because the regional market,
Yeah, regional market Tennessee Valley, regional market. So you can go over
there and uh peruse over a thousand Do we say strains? Am I saying
that correctly? Skews of different products? Yeah? Different products? Okay,
No, you said you do have the Selzers in there too, Yes,
sir man. They got stuck there, they got it, they got it
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and uh you'll have events there, all kinds of fun stuff going on.
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There'll be ring toss and clowns, all sorts of fun stuff. Uh.
So I feel like New York State bumbled kind of the the rolling out of
this, and there were towns that opted and opted out. And I think
a lot of people scratch their head when certain towns said, well, we
don't want a dispensary and we don't want to a lounge. And I think
some people thought, well, that's that conservative town and that's why they're doing
that. I wasn't sure at the time if that was exactly accurate. And
so the town that Fairport Village is in is Parenton, and the town supervisor
I talked to earlier today, So I'm going to play back the conversation I
had with him, and I'm so glad that Ryan's here because I say some
things in there that I thought were right, and I thought I read and
I thought I'd talked to people and they sort of agreed or confirmed it.
And then now that Ryan's here, we kind of see the other side.
But so I asked him, you know, when it came down to it,
was it because it was a cash operation? And why exactly did parenton
opt out of it? This is the town supervisor and his name is Sierra
Hannah or Siah Hannah. Well, it was that was kind of an interesting
thing. I I anticipated. We went into it kind of wide open.
We we we said, uh, let's let's take a look and see what
the what the residents want, what the community wants. But with all that
being said, and and by the way, they we had public hearings where
very few people were showed up. We went, we reached out, asked
what people wanted, and we got very very little response. And the response
that we did get it was primarily, uh, vote to vote no,
they didn't want it, which I honestly, I didn't know what we were
going to see. I didn't know what we're going to see because I know
that there were there's there's uh, there are people out there that want it,
they want the tax revenue they wanted, and then there's and there's others
that uh don't want anything to do with it. So I really didn't know
what to expect. But the very there were a few that responded, and
the few that did respond, uh, we're primarily against it. So with
all that being said, the village of Fairport opted in. And so we
have the Village of Fairport right within the Town of parent and so it's you
know, it's a couple of minute drive for anybody who who who is interested
in it. So from that aspect of it, the village of Fairport will
likely see uh, I don't know about a lounge, but certainly a dispensary.
And then the other challenge was the town of Parenting really is it's so
primarily resident residential, you know, homes, et cetera. We don't have
a lot of even a commercial district here. So the zoning, as far
as the zoning is concerned, we our zoning is set up so that uh,
adult use such as smoke shops, adult bookstores, et cetera, et
cetera. Are only allowed, They're limited to where they can be. They're
only allowed in industrial zones. They're only allowed, you know, and they're
not allowed within so many feet of a residential zone or some supervisor exactly would
that be the dump area? So there's only very I was gonna that that
is one of the only residential areas, only industrial areas, that that's one
of it. Who it really smells by this adult store? Why yes,
I mean, it makes sense here. Here's what I don't know that many
of the many people in the public are are aware of. I believe because
marijuana is not legalized at the federal level, and most banks are federally insured,
you can't use credit orbit cards, so it has to be a cash
operation. I may be wrong in that. I don't know. Maybe you
do that is that is my understanding as well. Okay, and speaking with
individuals. I've spoken with individuals who are interested in starting up a dispensary,
and that is one of the challenges. One of the challenges is they have
to have a really secure area because it's so heavily a cash business. Now,
from go ahead, what I was going to say, as a cash
business, you're somewhat more attractive to a thief. Exactly, Yeah, exactly
so, And that's why it's it's not only where you are located, but
within your building. You have to have things set up so that you can
you can operate that way. And obviously they're planning on doing a good business
and they have to be prepared for that. Now, I from what I
understand that there's there's work to try to get something through where through a banking
the banking industry where they can they can do that. They don't have to
be a cash business. It would be the smart thing. But that was
one of our concerns as well. You know, as we were going through
this process, I got to be honest with you, the state really I
don't know that they handled it very well. And they they've kind of well
we agree on that number. They've they have tripped over themselves so many times
in the process that we were looking at it and saying, all right,
at the time, you could and I believe they gave you a window to
opt in, but once you opt in, you couldn't opt out, or
you could opt out, and at any point you can knopt back in exactly.
And I was looking at it honestly, and I saw it, and
I said, you know, the state doesn't know what they're doing here there
there. It's misstep after misstep. If we want to opt in at some
point, maybe we opt in when they've got their all their ducks in a
row here and are able to do it. Makes perfect sense. That makes
perfect sense, because I agree with you. I feel like there's been misstep
after misstep. There's been lawsuits, things have been delayed. I think they
caused a problem for law enforcement by allowing or legalizing possession but not legalizing purchasing.
So now the black market seems to have flourished, you know, and
that makes things a lot harder, and so you kind of created a bit
of a headache here. And then the cash operation side of it does make
it more attractive for thieves, and yes, there are ways to prevent that
in ways around it, but that also, you know, as law enforcement,
that kind of puts a little more pressure on them as well. And
when I look at the other side of this in terms of you know,
having it in your town or not having it in your town, I'm not
sure that the tax revenue is going to be there because as we're saying it's
a cash operation. And I'm not saying people are dishonest, supervisor, but
I don't know that they're going to properly report on a cash operation. So
therefore the tax benefit that everybody's going ooh, looks great isn't necessarily going to
be And I believe New York State has already done some things to change that
because there is, as some people would say, mom and pop style we'll
call them mom and pop style weed shops, and then there's what is becoming
more of a corporate weed shop. And those are going to be way more
attractive because they're going to come in, have more variety, and be able
to pay the tax revenue and not necessarily because they're a corporation, they're going
to have to report everything cash or not. So that's a little more attractive
to New York State. And the bottom line of it is, you know,
it's taxes. I mean, I never thought in my lifetime, I
and maybe yours as well, certainly has been a one to eighty on on
marijuana, like a complete one. Yeah. And and and when you look
at New York State, uh, it is I mean it's money, and
it's it's a bit of a money grab. But the online gambling it exploded
in this state and it's been a great cash revenue. And I will say,
as a participant in that it's fun. It's fun. As long as
it's a heck of a lot of fun. It makes any game a lot
more interesting, even golf. But I but I test sometimes are greed at
times. We you know, it gets in the way. And I don't
know that it's greed, but I would say it seems that way when they
haven't at the state level thought it through. And that puts you know,
that makes makes problems for you guys. It does, and it and it
was I wasn't I wasn't surprised that it was. The rollout wasn't really what
people would have hoped for. I was disappointed and that it wasn't is that
this was the first state to roll it out. There are probably lessons to
have been learned from Colorado and any number of other states that have had it,
but they didn't seem to learn their lesson. So it was it was
disappointing the way it was rolled up. But as you said, I I
agree with you. I think that as things start to shake out, there
may be there may be down the line an attracted, more attractive, let's
put it that way, a more attractive solution that comes down the pike.
And at that point, you know, if the town chooses adopt in,
the town chooses opt in, and we can move from there. But the
other issue, I mean, the village with the village in there, the
town, I believe, and I've got to do the research on this to
be certain. We can ask them for a portion of their of their revenue
since they are within the town. But at this point, I don't even
know that that that's going to happen or not. I will have to see
that. I know that there isn't with with all with a slow rollout.
I know that there's been interest in the village affair, but I just don't
know that there's been a shop that's opened up yet. I think they pay
I know there isn't a shop, No, there's not. I think they
would pay a half a dime bag, So you can't I don't know what.
I don't know what's happening. You know, it just seems like slop,
A bit of a sloppy roll out for sure, Uh, not all
the way thought through. And I think the idea while it looks great on
the surface, it looks good to voters, but when you dig deeper,
the tax revenue I'm not sure is really there yet. Not saying it,
but I don't. I don't think so either. Yeah, I don't think
it is either, and it's gonna be a while anyway. There are and
and as as much as I hate to say it, there the the illegal
sellers. Now illegal sellers are they're not going to go away, and they're
going to be cheaper. Now, is it is the state regulated safer probably
yes, but but but it's also is much more expensive. And there's going
to be a certain segment that are they're just not going to want to pay
the extra money. So I don't know that those others, the illegal ones,
are ever going to go away. So you're going to also, that's
that portion of the of the revenue you're never going to see. Yeah,
I'm waiting for the marshals of a weed shop to open up, you know,
slightly slightly altered. One sleeve is slightly shorter than the other. But
hey, it looks pretty good from a distance, you know. I mean
that that kind of thing as marijuana could be funny, But how long have
you been super vill and I took over at the end of twenty eighteen.
Okay, so all the way through COVID. What a lucky guy you are.
Oh yeah it was. It was an interesting time, no doubt about
it. Yeah. Any aspirations for higher office, No, No, I'm
happy right here, gotcha, as long as I'm as long as I'm welcome
here, I'm happy here. Yeah. Well, I think things are going
well and I hear good things. Uh all right, so what what what
were we saying wrong in that? Because I did think that it had to
be a cash only operation Ryan, and definitely not cash. It's not.
No, it's predominantly more casting, you know. Yeah, but you can
take credit Yeah, I could take credit card and anything. Is it a
higher feed sir? Why do they do that? Because of the FDI,
I say, as soon as they deschedule it or reschedule it. Yeah,
it out it's classified the same as heroin, which is absolutely ridiculous. Holy
shit, I didn't know that. Yeah. So so weed is classified the
same as heroin in terms of schedule one. Okay, all right, wow,
So once that happens, the bank or the Safe Banking Act that they've
been trying to get past. Schumer's been talking about it for years now.
Hopefully it gets passed this year. That will allow banks to, you know,
deal with us like I have to use a bank out in Colorado,
you do, They charging me astronomical rates. You don't even want to know.
I have to have my money picked up an number of trucks, just
like a bank. You know, it's it's crazy. Wow. So opening
this up, did you ever in your life pay as much attention to government
and politics as you did? You started opening its door because I'm going look
at all the hurdles. No, I mean I Senator Cooney is a great
friend of mine, sure ye going through this. I saw the picture on
your website there helping me through it. And you know the talent supervisor,
Henrietta Steve Schultz. I went to him personally, yeah, in twenty twenty
one to talk to him about this and had an open conversation before they were
even voting or talking about anything, and he gave me suggestions on where they
might allow one if indeed they were to vote yes, yep. And that's
where I took my path from there. And then when they were deciding your
store has been there a while because there used to be a bakery right next
door. Yes, and they she she laughed, it was, but they
did diabetic it's a lot of keto stuff, yes, Keto friendly things.
And I had gone there and I and I don't know that you were fully
operational at that point, No, no, but I remember. I know
exactly the store, I know exactly where you are, no sign there and
everything. So you know, we've we've been waiting a long time. It
was and it you know, could have New York have done better with the
opening, for sure. Yeah, you know it wasn't perfect. But there's
a light at the end of the tunnel. There's one hundred stores open.
Now. You know, you got to get involved if you do want to
be on my side. Yeah, in this legal world, you've got to
go talk to the supervisor of Prrington and let him know what you want to
do, and let him know that I'm going to bring four percent yes to
you, you know, of everything that I take. It's dealing with the
mom. Yeah, it's just enough to win my beak. Henrietta's got two
already and they already proved another big dog that's supposed to be coming on Jefferson
Road at the old South Town Plaza. How is that for you? Is
that make life harder? Does a rising tide float all boats? Is this
going to be here? It reminds me of this the beer industry. Craft
beer really exploded in this town. A lot of the craft guys get along
really well. You know, the guy from Jenny who was doing a lot
of their craft stuff is helps out places like three Head and they talk and
all. But when you talk about like the big dogs, they're not as
personal as a as a I'll call you a mom and pop shop, somebody
who lives here and had been arrested for marijuana possession in the past and all
that kind of ship you had to deal with. So now you got the
store. But does that do you think it's gonna kind of float all boats
here? Or does it make more I'm ready. You know we've been here
and we're different than them there. Yes, so you can go into their
store. You're not going to get the TLC tender loving cannabis. I mean
we give it to you. So I would say the shop local, Yes,
we don't know that. Yeah, No, No, what I'm saying
is shop local. But know that MJ's local. Some of these others are
not right. Now, do you need what you do? You need a
medical marijuana license right of that stuff to go and so the places that you
do then like, what's that all about? So they make you do that?
The medical Yeah, the medical as the one down the street for me
is medical and recreational. So they have two different menus. They have a
medical men you so if you go in there and show your medical card,
you have access to stuff like a let's say a secret menu. Won't call
it okay where it's stronger stuff versus a wreck menu. You know. The
recreational menu is going to be only access to certain things where the medical can
have access to that as well. Okay, okay, So they get both
it and it's discounted to how is it opening? Across the states? There
are different areas that are seeing the bigger influx of stores of New York City
have flows crushing it. Buffalo is probably one of the best. The Western
region is what they call it Albany. Is it just local government making it
easier for them there, that's one thing. Yeah. So the fact that
Parrington said no, no, it is a detriment because you want these legal
shops. So whether you like it or not, cannabis is in your town.
Well, as you said, the village, it said yes, which
is within the town, so you don't you know what I mean, it's
not that far and the town parent and then doesn't really have places for stores
and things, So it would be better to be in the village if we're
going to be anywhere in here, and it will be true they can read.
But you've got a good point there, you're saying you should say yes.
Yes. I wonder, you know, just like anything technology, anything,
you're what I would call an early adapter to the store, right to
the one of the first ones. Sure, but you're a pioneering and you've
got all the bumps and things that go along with being one of the first.
You're going to make it easier for other towns because once you opt in,
you can't opt out. But once you opt in, once you said
no, you can opt in later. And I do wonder if you're going
to see pretty much everywhere come in and just go. Now that they've smoothed
it out and the tax revenue and we know what's what. Okay, I
paid three hundred thousand dollars in Jesus first quarter. Wow, Holy cow.
Well, so, I mean it's out there. It's she's got to get
that top golf in there somehow. Man, Henrietta's going to get a golf
course. Us just gonna have a whole new you live out Henry half at
all all things to MJ Dispensary. It's cannabis. It's a revolution. You
know, we're we got to stop the stigma. We got to get out
there and these streets with being legal. You know, it's you'll never see
this again prohission the last time we've seen it. Yes, it is.
This is going to be over four billion dollar industry in the state, state
in the state. It's one of it's going to be the largest consuming industry
probably the country. Really. So where are there local grow grower I don't
know what you call it, farms for sure Glenna You know Glenna CBD.
Oh yes, I do, Yes, she does in the Cobblestone. I
thought, yeah, yeah, yeah, she's a grower. She's a grower.
I sell her products at store. You sell her products. She has
stores like brick and mortar stores' CBD stores. CB has cultivation THHC license,
gotcha, she can yes, exactly. You got it, my man.
It's a great T shirt for weed that Ryan you need that shirt. That's
uh okay, that's very cool. I like the fact that it's locally owned
and somewhat locally Sourceder City that's another brand. Okay, that's not a spencer
for it. Okay. Wow. And how do these people come to you?
Did you have to find them? If they flock to you? Yeah?
Yeah, So they were starving for two years because the stores were opening
like molasses, you know, and they once they know the stores are up
and they're there, they come for you and they give you all these free
samples and they tell you, you know, they watch you in their store.
So what we did is, like I told you, we got a
thousands skoos trying to help as many farmers as we can right now because we
know they're struggling, you know, a small payment, small order, can
you know, let them eat what I mean. So it's it's crazy.
There's over one hundred stores open now though, so we're on our one hundred
stores in the state, in the state over the state. So but here
you said there would be two more open by Saturday. Today today day Monroe
Avenue. Yes, you people can have legal cannabis. Yep. And also
in Brockport there's a store that opened today as well. That's opened, I
believe, four days a week Thursday through Sunday. Do you know the names
of these places? That doesn't matter, but there's one in Brockport. Retail
is the one in Brockport, Brockport. I want, I think I might
be wrong. What are the hours for collective? Free Collective, Green Green
Collective? What's the hours for MJ MJ. We're ten to eight Monday through
Saturday and twelve to six on Sundays, so you're seven days a week and
you're right there in the regional market, in the regional market. Yeah,
it's a nice looking storefront, like it looks good, and you know,
I think people get in their head they almost put it on the like it's
a dirty bookstore in their mind. Would that be fair to say? In
some people's mind at this time, probably they're looking at it it Go in
there and see your type of way. But I'll tell you you come into
our place, then you'll be it is not that. It's not not even
close, not even close. Bring the kids, you could only if they're
twenty one or over. You can't bring kids anything under twenty one. No.
As a matter of fact, before I came today, there was a
young lady who brought in a child and she have I have two rooms,
so you come in the front room and you get id'd by my security,
and then you get let into the dispensary room. Okay, we don't let
the kid kids in, so you know, we had to take her order.
She ordered right online and we brought it in. She stayed with her
in the front four year old up in the front room. Yeah. It's
weird though, because I can go into a liquor store with my kid.
Yeah, it's new. The casinos. You can't bring your kids to finger
legs, leave the windows. Ryan, you're Ryan, You're very patient with
all this stuff. Yes, I I mean, as I said, I
was a poker player. You gotta have patients with that, and I have
two small children. You gonna have patients. And with this cannabis rollout,
you had to have patients. Yeah, it took two years. We were
at our wits end at the end. You know, we didn't know what
was going to happen. You know, I had a pregnant wife and we
weren't open yet and it was very tough. But what were you doing prior
to this, prior to as a job? Uh, poker player? You
were a professional poker player, sir. Yeah, going to going to Vegas
and playing going to the city. Yeah, how many times? Did like
weekly? No? I like the tournaments. I would go weekly to the
smaller casinos around here to play the cash games. But I love playing tournaments.
So go for Vegas for forty days. Just play your brains out.
Yeah, wait, you will go to Vegas for forty days, forty days,
just played poker the time, play poker, tournament, poker the whole
time. Yeah, and did you I won big? I've done all right,
Yeah, you know you can look me up. I got over three
hundred thousand and career winnings that on paper. Don't thank you, thank you,
don't tell the government. The rest is locked up in the start.
That's uh, well, man, I appreciate you coming in. That's uh.
I think this is your Super Bowl. Yes on Saturday, right,
Yes, we got the Canna Cider Fest. It starts at twelve o'clock,
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a lot of fun that's going to be happening this Saturday at the Regional Market.
Yeah, get out there and support and check it out. I mean
it is, as you're saying, if nothing else, it's historic, right,
I mean, it's historic for the state. It is. It is.
It's a great time to be alive for sure. Yeah. Well,
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trouble rolling this out, but he's in here. But I want to just
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my minivan out real quick. I know. See, when are they going
to get to the point where you could have like food trucks are really big
there, at least they're big here. I would assume they're big everywhere,
right, But a food truck that also could be a dispensary kind of.
I mean, boy, you're serving two purposes right there. Or if it's
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it gets a lot of people to watch it. It's literally the first show
that everybody watches when they come to us Weed channel, and what they find
is it's just a bunch of you know, really cool girls. There's no
like TNA or anything, and you know they're just stunter girls having some fun
at the mansion Stone girls hanging ahead on a man. I like, I
kind of like it. What do they do? Well? We do have
a show format actually, so the way that we that we do things is
we you know, wake up and have a nice you know, infused breakfast
and then we go do something quote unquote fabulous. Right, So whether that
fabulous is like picking up trash with the Surf Rider Foundation on the beach,
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in football stuff, we have them dressed up in basketball stuff, and they
do some pretty easy games and they compete. Right to be missed for twenty
honey of that show sounds like a weekend at Greg Connor's. I was going
on a second this this show sounds kind of hot. Actually it's badass,
dude, and it's only going to get better season two. So listen to
all your sponsors out there that want to be part of this. Yeah,
what is what do you have in story? Is this all your brain child?
The entire network is my brain child? Well yes that I know,
But I mean, did somebody come to you and say, hey, we
should do a show for twenty hunts or did you just know dude? That's
all Shannerville. It's all I got to go watch for now. I'm interested
to what this is about on demand. Yeah, well you know you'll see
it. You'll see it. It's pretty darn old and what you'll see is
that we need to make another season though. Okay, all right, so
how do you and you I'm sure that the girls are you just recruit?
What do you haul up auditions? Yes, exactly, it's like David Roth.
Yeah. And then who does is the four twenty news daily that's on
the Weed channel? No, well, it's weekly now, but it's been
kind of off for a while because I was going back to school. I
went back to school to a business accelerator so that we could get some investment
for us we channel. That's sort of where we're at, like now,
golf actually later today, I've been networking with a bunch of Richard dudes here
in Newport Beach. So there you go. All right, I got to
be on hold for one second while I hit this ball. You want me
to leave so you can hear it? Yeah, well, we'll listen to
you. We'll see how far are you? What are you hitting? Hold
on? We'll find out one ally out let's approach is seventeen, Shane Is,
he's a different dude. The four twenties show. You know, you
should actually just try to film your own reality show and put it on YouTube.
Love that one. You guys are not good luck. Okay, I'm
sorry, Shane, we distracted you. Oh my god, this is that
kind of day today. It's not that kind of dude. I'm having the
best time. So the first thing that happens I get here, I meet
Ted and tom My freaking foursome turns into a three. Some of those are
my teammates, Ted and tom How cool is that? Ted? Three letter
names easy to remember? Yeah, yeah, all right, and we're playing
some shotgun and we're actually benefiting. So we're going to benefit today. Everybody
who's listening can check out positive dashmatters dot org. And it's my buddy Matt
Matthew Thomas and he had a traumatic brain injury with he was a teenager,
so he, you know, raises money for brain trauma injury awareness. Okay,
and that's what we're doing here today. Very cool. Thanks. Smoking
a lot of weed and drinking a little bit. I hope you got the
green jacket. It's a different time it's the greatest thing to show up at
the Newport golf Course with a big blazing Weed Channel T shirt on just be
like, what's up, my friends? Well, are we allowed to say
that that we're working on getting ourselves under on weed TV. I think this
is a great time to announce that, yes, we we're gonna get bilified.
The podcast up on the US Weed channel, which is a Roku channel,
So if you have Roku, you'll be able to see it, which
I do. Yes, he knows it's podcast to that podcast, right,
yes, but but but we could change that, we could change it.
Well we I think this will be exciting. And then, uh, we've
been checking out the US Weed channel and I have I've not seen the four
twenty but the four twenty News I saw, and I did see Happy Farmers.
That was another one I did check out right on. So yeah,
so we just restarted four twenty news. And so everybody you know out there,
get in touch with me on you know, Insta or LinkedIn or Facebook
or whatever if you've got some good stories, because literally the entire thing of
USV channel is performed by Shane, which is ridiculous to even say, but
you know, it's I can't keep up on all the news and all the
stuff that's happening you guys. So you know, we built a channel to
be this community, awesome thing, community unity, all that good stuff,
but I can't keep up on all the stories and all the plights and all
the stuff that are going on. So you guys get in touch with me
and you know, let me know. Okay, Yeah, I wonder if
I should go out and do a little coverage of the uh the opening upj
on four the can candle. Yeah, oh, I think you should,
yeah, and do a little news package and send it out to you and
you can put it up on the channel. Did so, this is what's
happening next, you guys. So US Weed Channel, I didn't even get
too crazy on it, but I'll do my little sales pitch. Basically,
we have solved every problem in cannabis. So as the content creators can't monetize,
they can now with US Weed Channel. As the brands can't reach out
to people past the trade show, they can now with US Weed Channel.
We can literally go global to local with your advertising. Right now, my
channel that's built by just Little O Me has one hundred and seventy thousand homes
that watch it on Roku's that's five times bigger than any trade show we have
out there right now, Netic government, Bro, this is what the channel
was made for. So you know, my background was, I was going
through court to be you know, three years of court. Like I said,
covered you know, I'm the first guy in America to get unanimous not
guilties for running a pot store. So I've done my time. But that
whole thing, the reason I started with us we Channel was right in the
middle of all that, I just looked around and I saw all these families
that were just there to lose. They had no hope of winning, of
being better. They just were wondering how hard they were going to lose.
And that's such bullshit. So, you know, and I reached out to
everybody, man, I reached out to normal. I mean, you name
it, ABC seven, everybody, right. Nobody even replied to me,
And I'm like, you guys, I have my license, I have everything
right, and nobody even replied. So what I realized is cannabis doesn't have
a voice, not a voice that cares. So back to what you're saying,
bro, with New York that's what the sudge that we made this thing
for. Like, literally, there's no way for people to know when I
don't care. If one hundred people are putting it out on social and they
all get three hundred views, right, that's that's still only three thousand or
whatever that multiple is. It's ridiculu thirty thousand, right, I don't know.
I'm not I'm a drinking But the point is, yeah, dude,
we can reach that every day, every single day, times ten. And
here's what's happening next. So yes, I want all those reports on what's
happening in New York. We want all those affiliate reporters out there busting ass,
report on your court, all of that stuff. We've got to bring
all that stuff to the channel. It can't just be Shaner anymore. This
is the whole community thing, right. But here's what happens next, guys.
So I just negotiated with a brand new software company. We're gonna be
relaunching. We're going from Roku to everything, So Roku, Apple, TV,
Android, GV, all the app stores, sixteen different BASS channels,
and our website. Wow, and here's the kicker. It freaking monetizes,
So every one of those platforms now monetizes. That's the next thing I'm doing.
So every brand out there, it can monetize with us. We channel
with the Philly Link, every influencer can now have a space to stay with
us we channel and make way and make a living. I'm telling you guys,
every content creator now can make a living. This is what I've been
striving for. So this is this is big news. Shanner, I like
it. I do, And I like the name Shanner over Dugan by the
way, you know what you Shanner. That's what my mommy using. I
like it. I have a ball appair somewhere. That's a great answer.
It's almost and me. He's like, no, here's all right, Well,
we won't distract you anymore. I appreciate you, uh letting us be
on your channel and uh talking to you, and maybe we'll have you on
again when uh when when you're off the golf course. How's that? Yes?
I cannot wait. And you guys, everybody you know, yes,
Billified is coming to USUE channel, and so should your content everybody out there,
because it's what we did, right ye, we made it for everybody,
all right, very good and check it out. Right now in Roku,
but soon to be everywhere. Yes, and uh and you know what,
guys, there's also a place that you can support. You can go
to b I T dot l Y Forward Slash, go dash USWC. That
is our little donation page. It helps us get to where we're going with
our next level software. We're literally just a couple of hundred bucks away.
Awesome, all right, awesome, all right, Shane, And then you
know what, I will come Excuse me, I don't know if I'm allowed
to say that. I okay, I will come to New York. I
shouldn't. You should have told me that right off the bat. Dude,
I've been dropping F bombs all the time. So I will come to New
York, dude, and I will bring my brand of get Shipped Done This.
Yeah and yeah, okay, I got look at I'm getting the I'm
getting the word. Why don't you guys hit the ball. Well, we'll
let you go, but we can't wait too for your get shipped done this?
All right, you guys see by Shane there he goes, Wow,
I know he's little. I told you the CEO. Well it's the founder.
But I'm just saying this could be you could have a chat, you
could have put your content up. Sure, I think it would be kind
of a good place for it. Yeah, you know, I think a
reality show other than that would be a great idea. We would be talking
about that at the store. I'm sure I should wear go pros and yeah,
and what's going on a whole little weed office. Yeah, it's a
great idea. It's a great idea. Do you what is social do you
have socials? Oh yeah, MJ dispensary five five okay, and that's on
Instagram, Facebook? Okay, good, So MJ Dispensary five eight five is
where you can you can find all that. I think that's a great idea.
Well, I this is an exciting time in New York State. Danny
and Danny who would say he's never partaken, has partaken involuntarily but liked it.
Well, I've actually like, yeah, I don't I don't smoke.
That's not just not my thing. It's not my thing. But there was
a time where a boss of mine, I kept I have migraine issues and
they're pain literally, and my boss tells me, because you know, you
probably don't want to hear this, but I know people who smoke marijuana.
They never get headaches because maybe you ought to try that. I go,
okay, Bill, whatever, this is my boss day because no Easter's laughing.
Now, I'm serious, Because I'm serious. I think that if you
got like you know, you did ferent minicial purposes only. Yeah, he
goes, I think that you might, you might cure your head. It'sa's
look, the medication is not working, and I was doing acupuncture that seems
to have, like, you know, alleviated it a bit. So I
said, okay. So one day I pull up and I see a dispensery.
I'm like, you know, I'm gonna go in and get some First,
they tell me I need a license. Yeah, so I go back.
I can pay the one hundred and fifty bucks or whatever get the license.
I tell my wife, Oh, by the way, I got my
medical marijuana card today. She goes, wait what she raced back? You
like of all the random things i'd hear out of your you know, from
a text message from you. I said, yeah, I go, Bill
thinks it will help with my migraine since you know, and the medication that
I'm taking ain't working, So go in and get this stuff. They go
Okay, just take two point five liter or whatever the prescription was. I
take it and he doesn't really do anything. So I'm like, well,
maybe I need to try a little bit more. Do it again. A
week latering another migraine. Nothing right, So I'm like, maybe I need
to double a triple or quadruple my dosage. So I take the entire vial,
right, the entire like little not vile, but the entire dropper.
Right, man, nothing's going on, man, nothing's happened. Well,
I'm supposed to be here. It's a Tuesday, right, It's a Tuesday
on this show. All of a sudden, three hours later, bam,
man, I am tripping. Like, I'm like, I don't know,
Like I'm like, oh my gosh, like my face is red. I'm
on the phone with my boss. He goes, you, okay, I
go, you know that advice you gave me, because did you do it?
I go, it just kicked in from this morning. He goes.
He starts laughing. He goes, you okay. I go, I don't
know. I don't think I should be on the behind the wheel of a
car or not. Yeah. I was like, And at that point I'm
like, yeah, I'm never doing this again. I threw it out.
I'm like, no, it's not because it wasn't working in the low dosage.
And again, I'm just using this to cure migrants. I'm not trying
to like, you know, get But you enjoyed the seltzer. Yeah,
that that made me relaxed. This stuff like made me like, you know,
like on edge. Almost. No, that's why I'm yeah, and
my boss, My boss tells me, he goes, no, you need
to get the other stuff. Because there's two kinds. There's the ones that
like, you know, like that you need to relax, and the other
one that's like that helps you actually do more. It's sativa and indica.
That's what. Yeah, Okay, I didn't know the technical term. My
wife did. Like a head high that you usually use during the daytime to
give you energy to help you clean up the house or whatever you need to
do. And then there's an indica that's something that's gonna give you a body
high, the more relaxing type high that you will usually use at night.
And then there's hybrid, which is a little of both. Okay, in
the middle, so this was like a perscrip, like the pharmacist actually came
out and gave me a dropper and all this stuff for it, you know.
But I'm like, so, I don't think I'll ever do it again.
Yeah, no offense to anybody who does that. I just it's just
it's just not me. I couldn't handle it, all right. Maybe it's
just my personality. I like the the hybrid thing sounds interesting. Yep.
You get a little bit of both, you feel, you know, either
the head high first or the body high first. They all switched to the
other one. Okay, what is it? The head high? How do
you describe that? Just it makes you more energetic and focused? Yep,
real exactly makes you more focused those two words focus, energy, euphoric,
that kind of thing. Yeah, whereas an Indica is more lead back.
They say Indica in the couch. Yeah. They try to say that's a
good way to remember it. That that's the monic device, Indica in the
couch. All right. I like the I didn't realize there was one that
kind of helps you focus and stuff. Oh for sure. Yeah, it's
a TV set the world on fire. Yeah, look at that. No,
I kind of like that. That's uh, it works, Yeah,
I mean it does. I might have to come out there dispensary. Yeah,
living proof getting ship done, all right, we will. Uh.
You got all those bakeries over there too, Yeah, then you got Yeah,
you stop at the you stop at MJ's, right, then you go
to the bakery, then you go to Palmer's. Man, you may like
you know, come out with a four hundred dollars worth of food. Careful.
Uh, we'll take a moment. We're gonna talk to Queenie who has
been dabbing and does dabbing seminars. Uh, teaches people how to do it.
She's been a weed user for a long time. She dabbing. We'll
still explain it a little bit more, but I think I think Ryan said
it was kind of a concentrated hit, right, Yes, yeah, like
a pretty concentrated hit. But it helps her with endometriosis. But any kind
of pain that will be pretty good. Yeah. We will get to that
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on in the eye. I didn't come here and I leave him so soon
around in front, just roll up there you go, Danny. This is
one future band here and you gotta learn this song. Toby Keith. It
might have been the weed, could be might have been the waed Tell them
there's a body, come on back. You know this is just rowed me
up in So we're not row me up and Smokey were not Snoop? Okay,
yeah, and he stooped the country for Beyonce, You know what.
I so, I didn't come here every night and leave it so little sea
around and right, just row me up and smokey not that, but he
sticks. He sounds like one of the Neville brothers. Look at this face.
I know that he has a shoutin. Call it Queenie. It's also
stoop playing harmonica. Hey hi, Queenie, how are you? We were
playing Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die by Willie Nelson and Snoop.
I love it. Do you know that song? Singing to more jokes?
Not right now, not right now, I can't think of it.
Yeah, did you? Did you happen to dab just a little while ago,
or no, you are absolutely right when you say that thought. Yeah,
Ryan is in the studio with us. Ryan is the owner of the
first legal dispensary in Monroe County where we are in New York state, and
he is He just said, Yabba Dabba do yabba da a little dabble?
Do you a little dabble? Do you so explain what dabbing is? Because
Ryan did? And and but I want to kind of hear you talk about
how you discovered it to be helpful for you with the Can I just say
you have endometriosis? I already did say it, so it doesn't I have
saved four Endometriosmetrios could be found in stages between one and four. Four is
the most severe. It's when you know the tissue has grown onto organs outside
of the the area. But they've had, you know, they've fawn women
with endometriosis, you know, in the thoracic area and the lungs, you
know, and the liver. It can grow anywhere outside of the pelvic areas.
So it's extremely painful. One in ten women have it. There is
no cure, there's management he has over seventy six million women suffer with endometriosis.
You don't believe to be born with it? No? Do you?
Men? Say better state? Now? Damn may have it. He's a
guy. I asked my doctor, Queen. I asked my doctor a couple
of years ago. I was trying to lose weight if I had pekos And
he goes, do you have ovaries? You definitely don't have picos. I
appreciate that, doctor Queeney, thank you medicine woman. I appreciate it.
And anybody's wondering out there. PECOS stands for polycystic ovarian syndrome. Yeah,
I found that out. Yeah, yeah, I thought it was one of
those like transitions. I didn't know it. I didn't realize one out of
ten women have this issue. Do they realize? Do they realize it?
Does it go undiagnosed? That seems like a lot undiagnosed because unfortunately there's not
enough research and awareness for quick testing and quick diagnosis. You must be you
must go you know, under and go invasive. So you need to have
a surgical procedure where they're going laparoscopically into the pelvic area and they actually biopsy
the endometriomas and then give you a proper diagnosis. Unfortunately, that could take
anywhere from five to twelve years for the average woman to get a proper diagnosis.
So I suffered with it. I suffered, you know, I had
it in the bladder, and I had a male urologist who never dealt with
a female with endometriosis, and so it took us three years to figure it
out. And when he did, he was so apologetic because it just he
knew what I had suffered. Once he finally got to see it, he
was like, holy like, how did you live like this? And I
said, just you know, dabbing, you know I did. Prior to
dabbing, I was on you know, sixteen different pain pills. I had
a load those sentinal pain patch They couldn't figure out why I was having such
painful urinations, and it was because I hadn't add an endometrioma infiltrate the bladder
wall, so it literally was blocking urine from coming out. And so the
pain pills didn't help the pain, and it had me nonfunctional. It was
affecting other organs, it was affecting my I think that would be the closest
to this for a guy would be a kitty, right, I mean absolutely,
yes, you're running the right there. They can't go in and and
scrape this tissue. I know that sounds gross, but I mean they can't.
There's no times you can. If you have a stage one, some
of those endometrioma surgically can be scraped off. Unfortunately, the higher the stage
goes, the more infiltration the endometriomas have put into the organs. And now
you'll see women maybe having an ostomy bag or a wet bag because it penetrated
the bladder, penetrated the colon, and so many women end up with wet
bags because unfortunately, it spreads like wildfire, you know, through the intestines
and the bladder, you know, in the appendix. So those are common
organs where they find endometriosis, you know, in women. And to be
honest, there's scientific research that have showed you know, fetuses who've been autopsy
because they're females that were born you know, still still born, and they
have found endometriosis and fetuses. So this is something we're born with. You
know, there is a genetic component, and even with all of this information,
we still don't have a treatment plan. We still don't have enough research,
and so cannabis for me saved me. Because endometriosis has a high suicide
rate. Because women have this pain that can't be managed or controlled, they
lose their jobs, you know, some of us lose you know, you
lose your partner because you can't be intimate. Now you're not functional, and
so a lot of these women end up committing suicide. And so cannabis has
been a lifesaver for myself personally and for a lot of my ENDO sisters that
that I know personally, you know, cannabis saved us. Dabbing saved us.
You know, yeah, again on a personal you know, having the
doctor kind of not know what he was looking at for three years, that
as you say, it spreads like wildfire. So that probably that misdiagnosis was
problematic to this. It's very very typical though, I think, you know,
I because I have PCOS, I do have insulin resistance and I'm overweight,
and so when you go into the doctor, the first thing they want
to do is blame your weight. Then they kind of make you feel crazy,
you know. Then they tell you soiling your head. They tell you
to work out and it's because you know, the thought, the thought really
should be get this patient in an MRI or a cat scan with some contrasts
so we can see if something lights up because there's some type of you know,
mass or some type of endometrioma. But to get to that point,
you're going through years of testing and specialists, the specialists, and yeah,
so it really is a mental really really messes you up mentally. There's a
big depression component to endometriosis that people don't talk about, and so this is
what plays a role in it. You know, I worked twenty five years
in medicine as a registered medical assistant. I did you know, urging care.
I did pulmonary neurosurgery. I have the most faith in doctors because I
worked alongside them for twenty five years and they really I was really let down
jury. I six months left to get my master's, three months to get
my own department at the hospital, and incometriosis took all of that. That's
how Queenie was born. I had to build. I had to build something
for myself because I spent twenty five years in medicine and now this illness rips
it away. Because I don't know from day to day how I'm going to
feel. So I was forced to become an entrepreneur, and in that I
found advocacy for cannabis and dobbing. And I've taken my twenty five years plus
my own personal journey, and I've turned it into a brand. You know,
I do the only dab education series in New York State. No one
teaches, No one teaches how to do it. No one teaches you know
what they are, what the differences are. You got rosin resin disc to
it. You know, no one teaches how to use it. You know
the turfing profiles, proper temperature, proper cleaning, you know what kind of
glass we should be using. No one does that. And that's because the
East Coast doesn't really have the dabbing culture, because we just started wreck you
know, a couple of years ago, so this is new. I went
off to the West Coast to learn how to dab. Do you go on
the road with this? I plan on it, Yeah, I plan on
it. I'm hitting Texas. You know, Texas isn't legal yet, but
there's still have a culture and it's gonna it's gonna land there soon, you
know. So I'm gonna hit Texas. I've been out to Calian done some
work, you know, I've been to Miami. I went to Turtbaso in
Miami, and you know, I did a dab ball with some dab education.
You know. I normally partner with legacy growers or New York legacy growers
who are finding their way now in the market, and and we work together.
I do a lot of collaborate collaborations with a lot of growers and processors
and extractors, and I do education for marijuana Farms of New York, which
is one of the best, the top you know brands here in New York
for concentrates. Is that? Have you heard of these rhymes? What I
didn't hear? What was the brand? Queen? Msn Y. Msn Y
stands for Marijuana Farms of New York. It's a farm up in New Windsor
in the Hudson Valley. Motherfucker New York. And that's what we call it,
motherfucking New York. That's exactly how I do my introduction. Actually I
did, uh. I have a I have a series. I have a
series called The Dabbers Born, and I have a I partnered up with a
partner for this series, and we just shut down fobs in New York City.
We had about four hundred community members, most of them butttenders pull up.
We showed them how to dave. We had a glass blower give up,
you know, a panel, panel speech, and we just do a
whole education so that we can bridge the gap between concentrates and our community and
our butttenders. Yeah. I so, do you have a dad bar that
you own and run. I run a dab bar in my own house of
Queenie. I go to different events, you know. I set it up
as a small middle bar, like a little camp bar, so that it's
like for me to carry. And I have like dab rigs that are sponsored
by some of the best you know glass blowers. I have my hand torch
also an electronic you know, electronic heating elements, because I want to show
people there's just a different variety, you know. I also work with puff
Co. Like I don't work for I work with puff cod. They sponsor
my events, They sponsor my electronic rigs. So I show women who are
intimidated, you know, with all the glass in the torch, how they
can use an electronic rig and dab straight out of the dispensary, you know,
without needing all the fancy equipment. And so it really is an educational,
you know purpose, because that's how we break the stigma, and that's
how we inform you know, people I've met personally people who have given up
opiates and methodic by dabbing, because the dabbing kind of feeds that addiction need
of using glass. But they're medicating on a plant as opposed to medicating on
myth or heroin or fentanyl, and they're gonna, you know, they're they're
they're causing all this harm to their body and so high a THHC level with
dabbing. So think of it as like the frozen apple juice in the freezer
in the market. If you try to drink that that frozen concentrate, it's
bitter because it's all that's where all of the profile is. Similar to dabbing,
That concentrates have all the turt profiles. Now after you add those four
cups of water to that apple juice, well, now you have the flour
and so by the time if you're using this for pain, the flower is
not going to be as potent as the concentrate and So that's why for that
that nerve pain, that deep type of neuropathic pain, dabs can get under
that. And you can even dab CBD. So there's ways to even get
the benefits of the plant and maybe not even get the euphoric high of it,
but you're getting all of that plant benefit, that anti inflammatory benefit,
you know, without necessarily feeling high. So it really is about education and
breaking the stigma because a lot of times dabbers are they're compared to crackheads,
you know, you know, and if you're a New Yorker and I'm a
seventies baby, so I grew up in the eighties what crack became a thing,
and so a part of the education is breaking the stigma. No,
this is not the same. It's not like that, like we're literally saving
I always say dab saved lives because there are people that try it and they're
like, holy crap, this takes care of what I need. You know,
how let me go get a card. How long does it put the
painted bay if you dab. It depends on the turf. It depends on
the turf and the cultu of aar you know. I would say that a
higher Indiica is going to keep you pain free longer than if you maybe medicaid
on a hybrid. You want to look for those turf profiles. You want
to focus on turfs that have anti insflammatory calming benefits, you know, the
type that kind of bring down the central nervous system so your pain signals could
kind of stop. The longest I've been, I have a mfn y Mikes
one and there's another brand called trichoone Tortoise. Those two brands can really keep
me pain free for a good you know, maybe even up to eleven twelve
hours. So that's more efficacy than a pill, you know. And by
the way, in between that I may smoke a joint, or I may
hit a bowl, or I may take some CBD in between, or if
I got a dabble day, I can dab every few hours and just dab
smaller doses so that it's similar to microdosing throughout the day. So it really
is setting your own schedule. Now at my dad bar, you know,
I give you a recreational experience. I educate you, but I medicate you
so that you can feel good, you know what I mean. So I'm
gonna give you a bigger dosage. I'm gonna we're gonna educate. I'm gonna
ask you if you dad before and if you don't, if you've never do,
I'm gonna teach you how to breathe, how to make sure you're not
you know, you don't start coughing, you know, but you're it's an
experience, you know, you start to sweat a little bit because you're cannot
the nooise systems. Listen. If I've ever made you sweat at my dad
Bar, You're welcome. That's all I have to say. You're welcome.
You how to I've seen you twice if I made you do it once,
and I think, I call my my dad Bar my clean corner. You
know, it's a place where we you know, you come for acceptance and
love and education. And if you're maybe having anxiety in the room, come
sit with me. You know what I mean, I'll make sure you're good.
And I also that's the big focus with the women you know, in
the in the cannabis space, it's a very male dominated industry and gabbing is
very male dominated. So when I pull up to a sash, I pull
up with a suitcase with a rig towards like I'm bringing out really nice glass
and really nice hash rosin, you know, to show the boys that the
girls could play too, you know. So that's been a part of my
brand. Do they sell hash in these stories? They sell hash? They
have hash FROs so we can have live rosin and resin and you can it's
some good hash rosin. I mean, I've I've medicated hash in different ways.
I've used to hash hash Bell before Joe. It's out in Long Island
and makes a beautiful glass hash Bell and he's able to make hash balls and
you can medicate on it the proper way, you like, you use a
straw and you take the vapors from the hash and he has Moroccan hash And
you know these are experiences. Is you know that we're and I call them
healing experiences because a lot of times people think they are medicating for wreck,
not realizing they're treating something, whether it's their anxiety or their nerves or pain.
Have a lot of older couples that will come in with arthritis and my
costeoporosis and they'll find concentrates or gummies that are infused with rosin. You know
what I mean? Like some eighty year olds are like here, I'm not
gonna I'm not gonna go blow clouds in my yard. But I want you,
I want, I want, I want what that is? And so
Ema sent, why offer the rods in the gummy? Listen? I have
old people like ask me to blow clouds in their faith. They want to
them is that what they're doing? Yes? And you want to know.
I think it's because they see us being so open about it. All.
My hoodies are some type of cannabis team. Always. I think I'm you
know, I'm a mom. I have three teenage boys. Two of my
boys are on the spectrum. I'm autistic. I'm on the spectrum. So
I'm relatable. So when I go into a room, you know, and
twenty five years in healthcare showed me how to speak to the janitor with the
same respect as the CEO. And so when I can sit and talk with
someone about Dabby and tell them my story, even the most stubborn person is
like, hmm, you know, you got the house, you got the
life, you're educated. You don't look like a stoner queen. But you're
not on the spectrum. You might, I am, you might get stoned
and that puts you I'm aily diagnosed. Yes, come on, you're fine.
You're doing too well. Don't you know what's spechual hero divergence? People?
If we sat, if we sat in the room and you saw my
facial expressions, yeah, you could see me processing things. You look at
me and be like, crey, I see it now. Yeah. Well,
I have a son who was diagnosed more. I don't even think it's
on the d S M five anymore, but the Aspergers, but just spectrum.
My son, my oldest son has vers yet. Yeah, and so
and it's it does present its challenges and things, for sure. But I
think you do well. I think you need to come up here and do
a dabbing seminar. I would love to. I would love to go a
fan joy zagging seminar. I I am in my element. I think all
the years working with patients, I was just I was born to do this.
I say that confidently because when I worked with patients, I would have
did it for free. And I do what I do for free to be
honest. I mean MSM Y I'm a contractor with them, but when I
go out into my community, I was at an event last night and I
dab people up for three hours. I didn't get paid for that. I
do it because it's education and it's and it's fun to watch them act autistic
when they're on It's fun and it's fun. That's true. I would love
to, Oh my god, and I could blow something clouds man like we
blow clouds and you know we A part of dabbing is not only listen.
I was telling earlier, I was doing a podcast that was on a podcast
and they were asking me why temperature was so important, And it's because even
though this is a great experience, I still come from, you know,
medical background in pulmonary and so definitely conscious consumption, being safe when you medicate,
whether it's you're when you're lighting a bowl, rolling dabbing, you know,
there are still safety things you want to practice. You want to make
sure you're still consuming the cleanest product because in reality, in reality, dibbing
is the cleanest form a consuming the plant. I'm not burning paper, I'm
not burning anything. I'm applying heat to a quartz nail and then I'm medicating
with that temperature gets down to a safe level. But I'm not burning paper,
I'm not inhaling any butth tane because I'm you know, you inhale more
buttin when you put a joint to your mouth, light and then inhale to
light your joint, and I would be exposed to diving. So technically it
for me, diving has been cleaner than when I used to hit bongs.
Bomb water smells like like crap my rig. Water smells great and it could
sit there for a week. It'll never mold up or anything. It really
is the cleanest form, especially when you are you know, when you know
what you're medicating on. And I ask growers, what's that? What's that
strength? Where'd you grow it? Did you grow it natural? Was it
living soil? What'd you put in it? You know? Did you put
you know, like I gave you the rundown I can be because remember I
tell you, let me tell you a good hash, a good a good
rosin. You're looking anywhere between sixty and one hundred dollars a grand. If
I'm gonna give you one hundred dollars a grand, you're gonna send me to
the moon with that. Dad. Yeah, you're going to take care of
my team because remember that dad's more expensive than eight and so you have to
be educated, so you know who you're giving your money to, what you're
buying, what you're consuming. It's the same thing. We don't buy bodega.
We we're not up into bodega. You know. We want to support
our New York farmers. We want to make sure we know what we're putting
in our bodies. So it's the same thing with dabbing. It's very expensive,
but the more we educate, the more hash gets made, the prices
come down. Now more accessible for our community, and that's what we want.
We want twenty five and thirty dollars live rosin grams that are amazing,
that are exceptional and accessible because a mom of three boys doesn't have money,
doesn't have that one hundred dollars every few days to re up on a gram.
So it's important for me that we make this accessible, especially we have
so many people suffering with mental and chronic illness and can't afford, you know,
and those that do take medicine aren't happy. Still, your side effect
to your anti depression should not be depression Like that just doesn't make sense to
me. You know what I mean? Yes, I know exactly what you
mean. Kwedi. You are You're you're I think you've got to get out
there and get your own TV show on USV channel. I would love my
own I think. I think there's got to be I think something like that
could happen. You've got it. You've got a big personality and you know
your stuff inside and out. I think this is we might know a guy,
and we might know a guy. You might know a guy. Although
if you know a guy, I know a guy who can give us a
judge. So I can bring it to a guy, you know, and
I could dab you all up and then we'll have a contract by the end
of that because everybody will be nice and happy. So, like I said,
you know when you're dabbing, depression is not a side effect. You
know, happiness is, you know, pain, relief is you know,
feelings of calm, feelings of want to heal, And that's what we want
to be medicating. We don't want to be medicating, and some of us
need those pills. I'm not doubting that. Yeah, has your endometriosis gotten
any better. It's much more manageable. But I mean I have days,
Yeah, there are days where it's really bad, and those are the days
I'm going to medicate heavier. Yeah, but normally, I mean I prior
to dabbing, I had very negative thoughts and I was non functional. And
you know, my husband used to have to help me bathe and now I'm
building a brand and I want to retire him one day because he's done nothing
but my cheerleader throughout all of this. So if that, if that,
if that says anything, it says that there's the power in the plant is
powering what I'm doing, and there's benefits, and I'm an example of that.
That's why I'm not an influencer. I'm an educator. I've seen it
with your own eyes. How do we find you on social media? Again?
So on Instagram, I'm queen Ee q U E E N E E
the critic, D A K R, I T I C. And my
backup is the same thing underscore two point zero. OK, you got to
have a backup on Instagram and they don't like us owners at all. I
get it. I get it, Queenie. It's been a pleasure talking to
you, and I hope the I think a dabbing seminar in in our area
would be very helpful for people. We'll see if we can figure that out.
Get you on the US Weed channel and uh and I hope the endometriosis
stays at Bay think you guys, thank you so much for this interview.
This has been a privilege. I appreciate it. Definitely hit me off when
we get off, hit me in the DM and we'll work something out.
I love to pull up for my community. Okay, thank you, queeny
Hi, thank you so much. Thank you. Ran there, she goes,
Is that all I didn't know that they had like hash stuff? Oh
yeah, we got all kinds of fun stuff. Wow. And they even
do it in the gummy she said, and gummies. Yeah sure. Look
at locally too, made locally. See. I like this. Shop local,
get high local, keep your high local, to keep your high local.
I appreciate it. Ryan. Once again, It's Saturday at noon,
Right, Saturday at noon. Saturday at noon kicks off the four twenty.
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I don't think you've ever tried anything yet, have I? All?
He liked. That's right, you have had the you did, uh the
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