Yo, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to a new episode of My
Canniccass. I'm candid Dave, I'm good. Today's episode we gotta we're gonna
be doing a Cushmasters White Mo Live hash rosin review. We're gonna be discussing
Michigan at Cannabis Sales had a new record in July, and there's a pretty
cool projection of what the market's gonna be like. Yeah, really some neat
stuff, man. And then we got stuff that's happening out of state h
as in kind of more information on the farmer's market we talked about on the
weaken bake in the past this past Saturday. Uh, there's the we'll be
watching a video from it. It seems like it's more licensees, not like
homegrowers. Yeah, we want to wall we're gonna watch. We don't like,
we don't do it too much, but we're gonna talk over this one
a little bit. Yeah, well probably yeah, and then that's a Michigan
stuff and all over. So yeah, it's been interesting today and we get
a review today because who's back in the studio? Candidate was back if you
were in the last podcast, candidate but had some shingles and had to take
it easy and he's still it was still hard to get him to take it
easy because he does not take things easy. He's usually like, hey,
how can I say I'm taking it easy and still work exactly? Because that's
me. I love working. I don't know, but yeah, let's uh,
let's jump into this. I think we want to jump right into the
review groovy because I'm excited about it because we haven't done a review in a
minute actually, so this would be be fun. Yeah, it should be
cool. But this company is called it's it is cush Masters, so it's
newan we haven't tried I haven't tried this brand yet, right, I haven't
tried it at all, so I mean I am very curious to see how
it all is. Yeah, okay, let me get this pulled up very
quick. We got the white Moo White Mo Rosin by cush Masters. It
is Rosin and Cushmasters is the brand. So we just wanted to cut it
up because me and Day we're talking about it before. He's like, cush
Masters, that's all do strain. I'm like, no, no, it's
the Strain cool box. What if he shocked if it was a strain cool
box. They got a good design stuff. Yeah, I don't know.
Opened it up. Let's get into it or packet. Let's start with h
it's really piny package. That's what I'm getting is a lot of pine there
you go. Oh you gotta take a damn yeah, no, no,
yeah, why you got it? What do you what do you think I'm
package? And then smell what would you give on smelling package? I'm probably
gonna give it pretty much like a six and a half seven, you know
what, I'll give it a seven seven, Yeah, because like it,
Like I like the packaging, Like I like that they put that little gold
box. But there is a lot of info, so you know, TC
CBD, camn noois. I do like that it is on the back this
though, because it's on the box as well as it's on the container.
So maybe seven and a half, But like at this point, I really
there's not a lot of information. So that's kind of what I'm held back
by Moon Labs. Not familiar with them. I'm trying to just like give
a little bit, but maybe seven two five, you know what I mean?
Right, Like the graphic on the box too, Yeah, that's kind
of cool. I'll do. I'll go with you. I like the smell
really piny, which is interesting to me because like maybe you get a little
bit of spice there from that GMO, but I'm getting a lot of pine.
So I was told that the crosses were the white and GMO, so
definitely smells good. I'll probably give about a eight. It's a nice smell.
Yeah, I am right there with you. It's not like overly pungent,
like as soon as you open it, but when you get in there
you can smell it like. It's pretty clear. Consistency looks nice as well
too. Okay, is this he's nice? Yeah, I'm pretty sure you
can make a don't have you want to try to see if you could mallet
move it around a bit? Yeah, take your damn out, dope,
I'm about to take my damn m grab a little bit. It's just completely
sappy and it just sticks to his hands. It counts your damn Yeah,
this is pretty much I'm watching a little bit stuck, but not really now
I'm picking it up. Yeah, No, this is nice. Yeah,
yeah, I'd probably give it probably about like eight point seven five nine.
I mean, it's pretty it's pretty good stuff here in consistency you groovy.
Yeah, man, I'm with you on that one for sure. I can't
really complain on it. There is, all right. So yeah, we're
gonna jump now in a flavor and effects and high. I'm excited to try
this. You said it's GMO in the white, which I don't know what
the white is though. I feel like I've seen the white like the strain
around, but I I don't know if I've ever tried it. I can
look up with the gen next on the white. Yeah, yeah, take
it. I'm actually curious. I don't know. That's not my head says
the white aka white weeds strain, white fire. I feel like should be
in it. Who knows? Man? All right, well, cheers.
Dude taking your dab says this mysterious strain was originally called Triangle, and supposedly
he's from Florida. They're saying there's og cush in it, but they're saying
they're not. It doesn't seem like they're exactly sure. Okay, but OG
kind of give that piney. That kind of makes sense because it's like a
like a spicier pine, so that kind of kind of makes sense. Og
is definitely piney little cheers if you're listening to take a dab with us.
Piney is a GM oh I order if I'm gonna get some garlic to it,
you know, a little little gas gas with this and some pine.
That's what I'm That's my prethought, four dad, some gas and pine,
like mixed gassy pine gary. See what you think gassy pine. I think
it's unique, taste pretty good. I don't I don't know what I'm getting
off of it. Off for a ship little piney sweetness too. It's weird
because what I was I actually got was I called it like a pine smoothie
because for some reason, you almost get like the sweeter hit. But when
you smell it, it's got like that pine funk to it, you know,
But there is like almost like this like piney banana taste to it.
Is what I des rive. It is, but I don't know. I
get more pine than anything. It's still the most prevalently when you taste it,
definitely pine. So again, GMO did not stand out in this one
at all really to me. Maybe a little bit in the smell, but
not on the taste. Yeah, and by smoothie, I don't mean it's
super sweet, like a smoothie. It just means you get like this almost
like how bananas are sweet, like creamy sweet. It's almost like a creamy
pine. If I could describe it the best, That's what I That's how
I've been having it in my head. I was just curious what you thought.
Yeah, okay. As soon as I taste it, I was like,
I got pine. But then there's like this weird under It's as yeah,
smoothie is a good way to put it. I was thinking sweets,
like it's maybe a sweet smoothie. Uh I get a twelve twelve and a
half on it on the flavor. Yeah, I'm right, I'm with you
on twelve and a half. I was, if anything, I'm closer to
thirteen only because of the uniqueness. I don't know if it's something that I
necessarily would buy every single day, but it is like one of those things
like I got a good deal on this, so it's like one of those
ones where between the other ones I didn't like the strains. I was like,
this was this is pretty good because I like wine like gas Fall and
click pine. Is that like the cousint you know what I mean? It's
like if you have something that's super piney. You almost get that that sourrow
g sour funk like you know to it. So it's like, I don't
mind it. That makes sense that I like it. So maybe twelve and
a half thirteen almost, I give you twelve points unique in the middle.
Oh what about effects and high? Are you feeling my dude chilling? I
think it's a little bit more on the body buzz side. Yeah, I
would say it's definitely relaxing. I do feel a little in the head,
so it's not fully like a full body Yeah, I'm just saying a little
bit more heavier on that. That's a little bit more sedative relaxing. This
would be good for like a mid afternoon nighttime smoke for myself. Damn uh.
Probably around twelve honestly. Affects and high, yeah, I'm a twelve
and a half. It hit me, you know, it is afternoon for
us. Yeah, it's decent. It's decently. I like the effects and
I gotta give it. I won't say it's like super strong, but it's
not super weak either, So it's like right in the middle of twelve.
Yeah, I'm right there with you on that. Eleven twelve, but like
I think it is better, Like I'm I'm more satisfied than disappointed. So
it definitely is strong enough for how tirpy it is. Yeah, yeah,
that makes sense because I don't need it, like I don't need to jump
right into another dab per se like like I got pretty good. I'm feeling
pretty good off of that one hit, like you said, definitely really good
body Bucks though, for sure, you know that's why I said I might
raise the effects in highlomics. I'm enjoying the body budget. No I value.
You picked it up, so I don't know anything on the value.
Yeah, so it was it was on sale originally forty bucks, but it
was just on sale for thirty five dollars three four hundred, so I got
it for thirty five bucks. That's not bad even at like off the shelf
prices. Forty bucks ain't bad, you know what I mean. Now,
consistency, It hits on consistency. Yeah, roma was pretty good. Flavor
wasn't. It's just unique, like more unique, that's what I mean.
It wasn't necessarily like but it wasn't when I'm like, oh, I'm gonna
grab a bunch of this, But every once in a while I pick man,
but I could just do that straight now the other strains. Now there
you go. And that's why I got it, especially for a three for
one hundred deal on some Rosin. I mean, granted, I was like,
oh, it's only two dollars, six dollars of savings and just buying
a Graham, but if you like their ship six bucks, it is six
bucks, right, Like, so now I know stuff, So yeah,
I enjoy it. I actually think for the value on the Rosin, it's
when I get stuff that's like the thirty to forty range, like I feel
like it's almost almost want to say, it's undervaluing, but I like that
range because that makes it affordable for your customer to buy Rosin regularly. So
like, I love it, man, I can't really complain it. But
if you when you get that twenty dollars stuff, you're like, why is
it twenty bucks? You know we've seen some ship that's like twenty six that's
pretty solid. Yeah, right, so like it's getting there, but like
a lot of that has too, its like vertically integrated or just discounts.
A lot of times it's forty to fifty for solid stuff. So the fact
that this is under pretty cool. Three for a hundred though, was pretty
good deal because if if you're buying it at forty dollars a piece, that's
one twenty and you save twenty. Yeah, so I'm saying it depends how
you look at the savings, right, I'd probably give it at eight on
value, pretty reasonable for some decent I'm actually going to go at least eight
and a half because it's like it's a little above the average, because sure
they have it for forty, but because like they do those discounts, and
I've seen it a couple of times, and this wasn't like old, you
know, like, yeah, it was like newer, newer, And look
at the date. Actually, I just remember it was like I couldn't recall
the date, but I remember it wasn't that old, so I can.
I know you're leaning towards recommending. And the end of June, I mean,
oh, it's real fresh. That's what I remember seeing all with it.
But see, sometimes I see the sale and I people are like,
oh, you can't just get sale because it's cheap, right, Sometimes it
is. Sometimes you get it. It's like, oh that's thirteen months old,
right, and it sucks. This is just a deal. So that's
why I was like, if they're cutting deals like that, they must they
got a good price too. So for me, it's like, I feel
like pretty soft recommending her sister. Oh yeah, yeah, especially this flavor,
I think. So it wasn't one that I'm like you said, it's
I want to it's amazing that I like, Oh, it's changed my game,
but it's definitely one that's unique enough where I'm like, pretty tight.
Yeah, I give it thirteen. I'd definitely go recommend and repurchase, even
if the to me, the flavor was very unique. That my favorite.
But the consistency, the aroma, the taste still of the product, and
the and the effect right now is good. I like it. Good job,
this did pass for sure. Yeah. I like the pins to it,
but it choice different, but you've got something different for us to try.
Yeah, cush cush Masters, cush Masters, White mo Live, hash
Rosing good shout out, good job past our review designing there. It's got
like a wax machine him books. Oh when the presses, it looks like
it's pressed. It's just like sopped. Nice nice. I like it.
That was cool. Well, let's you want to start outside at first,
and then work our way. You know, I don't know, it doesn't
matter, you know, alright, what do you want to do, Bun,
I don't know. So we're just going to start with Illinois. We'll
start off and we'll work our way, all right. So Illinois, it
is so so Illinois, man. A lot of the couple of the articles
sit there just about sales and how great states are doing right it literally because
we got a couple of mixed up when he was like talking to me about
him, like, what do you mean the other one with just broke records,
It's like yeah, but multiple upgrades. That's why it's like, what,
how is this market going down? Because it seems like it's going up.
Yeah, I know, it's it's pretty wild. So in Illinois.
Uh, they sold one hundred and forty million dollars worth of weed in July
and that is the highest monthly total for them. So is that a few
ounces? IM? Sorry? The tags at crazy no, but here that
makes sense though, because dude, like they are very new still and you
got people coming from all real all nooise, Like I sometimes the only thing
I'm like when you say Illinois, I'm like, oh, you mean Chicago,
Like there's more to Chicago than Chicago, you know what I mean.
Like, but here's here's an interesting interesting Stu. Sorry, no, I
was just saying, like, when we were in the suburbs, bro,
that place was smacking slapping, dude, it was so packed and we were
like forty five minutes away from Chicago. That's all I just want to say.
It is like they were there. I mean, I imagine had not
as much change. Like, dude, the weed out there was expensive and
trash. At least it's expensive and like okay, now yeah, and I'm
sure the street values dropped a bit too, so they had they had one
hundred and four million dollars came from in state residence and thirty five point six
million came from out of state tourism. Baby hell exactly. Yeah. I
think that was interesting because like Michigan has a decent probably amount from the borders
and whatnot. And then when you you travel the up or you travel the
Traverse City and you come into the state, Now, yeah, Michigan's like
a hot spot for summer destinations, right, and even the winter too for
like snowboarding and stuff. So like we probably have a decent number. I'm
actually curious on that. So it's just it's cool to see this Illinois open
up the same time as around us. So they'll probably they'll probably hit over
a billion dollars in sales again this year. Yeah. Yeah, and you've
just see in the market. That's why I truly don't believe. I mean,
it's not that I don't believe these businesses are making as much money as
they are, because that makes sense because what happened is there's more businesses,
so the pie is getting split even more, right, So that's what happens.
So maybe companies aren't making a ship ton of money, but like the
overall revenue for the state has just been seems like it's just going up.
H Yeah, but they're still in that window of that makes sense. So
yeah, it's a and I think you're gonna continue to see that trying to
happen at states go legal. But it's it's good to see that the sale
is still going up when they've been in business or the state's been legal for
a couple of years, right, Like, yeah, the same thing in
Michigan. Like people say that the economy will get into it later, but
they say the economy and not the economy the Michigan. Yeah, the economy
for cannabis is down, but sales numbers are still going up because like because
more and more consumers are like, oh damn, let me try this.
More and more people are talking about it, yea, And when that happens,
you build a community. More and more people are trying different things.
So yeah, man, So shout out to Illinois for doing that. I
wanted to jump into a study real quick. It's by American Medical Association Journal
saying that smoking marijuana increasingly seen as safe than cigarettes. I think we talked
about this like a couple other times ago. I feel like if you smoked
cigarettes for years and smoked weed for years, you know this, you know
what I mean? Like I feel like the like like, don't get me
wrong, like there are times where we might make you like a little mentally
just like af fuck it because a cigarette doesn't give you that mental high,
right, just gives you that physical puzz but like cigarettes, yeers definitely.
I mean for me, I mean I smoke. I don't know if I
talked about this much on the podcast too much before actually, but I've been
I smoked for five six years cigarettes and that was Newport short box. Like
I same cigarette and I always smoke menthal no matter what it was. I
was just screwing my lungs with the glass like because that's what's in new boards
and ship. And I honestly like after switching to weed, it's just like
my buddy said this to me a long time ago. He's like, I
still smoke. He's just the herb got finer. Yeah, okay, okay,
the trash man. But I just made that up and that that's that's
really funny actually, But no, for real, for real though about the
text and that oh many trash man you coming by, But no, I
think I said, I feel like I could tell you that because I've smoked.
But that makes sense because all the additives that go in and tobacco for
preservatives and this and that and chemicals that they spray it with and and this
is why we're all for organ at cannabis. This is why we love like,
you know, locally growing up cannabis, because that's how you keep it
fresher. Because eventually, if this ship comes shipped in, that's what we're
gonna end up having ship there with preservatives and all this shit and then but
it's gonna be three dollars a Graham and someone's gonna be like, well fuck,
it probably like a dollar a gram. I'm just making up a number
here. I don't know, like, no, no, no, I
was just shooting out. I was just yeah, good, that's how that's
how they'll compete you. It'll be like, yeah, fresh from Thailand sixteen
months ago, and you're like, yeah, it's seen cargo in there.
For some people's budgets are different. All what I'm saying is like a dollar.
If you see a dollar a graham, could you imagine seeing a thirty
dollars ounce of like it looks like okay stuff just because it doesn't taste good.
I'm telling you, man, Looks are different than taste. Oh dude,
That's like one thing. Yeah, that's huge within Canadadles is looks and
tastes completely different. I've had some buddy actually didn't look the bus that tastes
really good, and vice versa. You've had some shit that looks great that's
smoked like boo boo, yep, yep. And the reason I want to
bring this up is because you are you hit on it as well too.
It's like we're starting to see this as a trend. We we're starting to
see but cannabis is safer than cigarettes, alcohol, pharmaceuticals. We talked about
recent episodes that they believe there was polls recently done in June that Americans considered
marijuana be less dangerous than cigarettes, alcohol, and opioids and less addictive than
each one of those substances. So as more and more states continue to go
legal as medical, all this more research hints in the airways and you're able
to research it and see it, and how canvas is just booming. We're
getting the truth out there. And you're not smoking as much too, you
know, That's the big thing I want to point out. No matter how
much weed you smoke, you smoke so many more cigarettes, like you crave
them. It's like it's like like it's more of like a cocaine high.
It's just quicker, it's faster. It doesn't last as long, so you
want water quicker. You know, weed Sometimes you can be high for a
while and like you could just feel high, like even if you're like I'm
probably not high, but like i feel like I'm good, Like you know
what I mean, an hour or two later or a cigarette. A cigarette,
I mean you may not smoke one every half an hour hour, but
you definitely crave it within that half an hour. Yeah, so you might.
You know how many smokers, like they're definitely at least take what half
a pack of day, So that's ten of those. Like, you're not
smoking ten joints a day. I mean maybe maybe you are, maybe,
but most people aren't out there just blazing ten joints a day. And again
most like someone's gonna be hitting us, like I fucking dude, don't be
talking to me. Yeah right, Like definitely, like I, you know,
I dad more than your normal pst. I mean, if it's a
Saturday and I eat moving from the couch and I'm just watching movies. Yeah,
maybe, Like challenge accepted ten grams and about a Graham to one point
five each because Dave doesn't do one Graham joints anymore. Let's let's be honest,
Like you don't do one gram joint way and I just grab a couple
of noise crabs. But I was like, Dave was that way. He's
like I don't know, he's like probably like a gram or so it's like
one point nine about a half a joint. I have a joint that's right.
Groove is catching on too, funny, too funny. Let's yeah,
let's jump into you want to pull that v on? Jump into that video.
Oh yeah, So this this lit is just a little background this video.
This one's up out the farmer's market, so in the background. Yeah.
Yeah. We talked about We talked about it on a couple of podcasts
recently and and then we also discussed this on The Waking Bak. So if
you're not on the Waking Back that's every Saturday nine am, tune into our
YouTube, my caniccast or Facebook but YouTube is a bought better or Instagram too,
anywhere. Just search my caniccasts were live. Yeah I know, I'm
sorry, but don't don't miss out. We were talking about this when I
watched this video previously. I didn't I thought it was mainly like homegrowers and
everyone's can do it. It seems like this is for like people that have
a license of some sort in the state that they just have tons of overages
and then they're sounding and then it's tax on top of it. It looks
like so that's just getting into the article or the video. But I'll let
you pull that video up. Yeah, yeah, let's see what they got
to say. That was me, that was Mike. I was gonna say,
I don't think that was easy because I was like, I didn't hit
play yet, but that was allowing cannabis product retail sales. This week especial
pop up events to try to help address a surplus many now want to growers
or dealing with CBS. Who's Tony Iella went to New Paul's and Ulster County
to check out the adults only farmers. What do you got to say,
Tony? It had all the trappings of a traditional farmers marketing with tents and
tables, curious consumers. I hate. I'm happy to have somewhere where I
can meet the people who grow my products. And one second, how many
times do you hear like one of those corny like if they're doing something about
umbrellas, they're like, it's gonna just be above you, Like they just
use any corny thing they can say, how did he How is the first
one trap on this news? That's hilarious to be all right? Anyways,
I had to pause this for a second because that just killed me. When
he's like trap, like, what is it? Trappings? What trappings?
This had all the Yeah, but no I know, but news people will
always like put words in there for puns. They'll always throw a bunch of
puns. I gathered you. Some clever writer was like, hey, trap
and knowledgeable farmers, have you got killer Queen Mimosa? But security checking IDAs
set this adults only mark get up farm. Thursday's event was New York's first
ever pop up sale of pot products. Despite the rain, customers lined up
as four Hudson Valley farms prepared to make history. They're excited excited as well.
This turn out their product moving. J. Peterson is with Legacy Dispensary
of Albany, founded by people who suffered under previous prohibitions of cannabis. The
state requires a licensed dispensary at pop ups to handle all sales stuff to smoke,
to eat, to drink. This really represented a boy have times changed
kind of moment. The Cannabis Growers showcase took place right outside the old village
of New Paul's Court, where many people over the years were sentenced for simple
pot possession. The pop ups are intended to help New York farmers who grew
massive amounts of marijuana and now are sitting on a surplus. With their best
intentions has been very flow and issuing licensed dispensaries. So you have two hundred
ninety growers, you have twenty one dispensaries. When farmers planted last year,
the state indicated there would be up to seventy dispensaries open by Now that's twofold,
right. I think the state also realized how much money they were missing
out on, and on this slow route roll out in sales. With a
thirteen percent tax rate, the state is counting on legal pot to bring in
more than up a billion dollars before twenty twenty eight. This money, indeed,
so where the money goes, you must follow. These marijuana markets expected
to pop up all across New York in the months ahead. In New Paul's
Ulster County, Tony, I yellow CBS two News. But yeah, that
was pretty sweet, man, Not gonna lie. I enjoy that, because
I mean Michigan. I could totally see Michigan adopting something like that. You
know what I'm saying. I can see it too. But I just hope
they open it up to where home grow like your own per cultivation you could
do it. Man, there's like a small license. It's almost been like
a micro license, but not even a micro license, right, Like what
if you just grow your own cornshit? Like do they have licenses? Eastern
Market, That's what That's what I pitched. There's market and if you're not
familiar with what I'm saying, like you go to this in Detroit. There's
this Eastern Market where you can go and pick fresh produce from local Michigan growers
or farmers I should say, not growers, farmers and they have anything from
strawberries to lettuce to probably there's some meat. Yeah, they mentioned get everything
like yeah they have their own there's own meat places there too, where they
their own cattle and stuff. Yeah, So that's what I was trying.
I was trying to say with licensing, I don't know. I feel like
maybe if you're a legal farm, maybe you have to go through some type
of like I don't want to say like security thing, but kind of like
how like you know, OSHA will go check up on restaurants. I feel
like there's got to be some regulation for farming where they just go buy and
just make sure. Right, But again, like at what level? Probably
when you're selling to like markets like grocery store and stuff you may not for
like Eastern market. I don't know how that works. I feel like you
could just be in your mom and pop could just be growing some tomatoes.
It could be like you know, like in your backyard you have a couple
of acres and you just grow. Yeah, like that That's where my head
like to squash should just be like our business, right Like, that's what
I envisioned as open market when when we talk to farmers markets. So I
was a little bit off on that. So I do want to clarify it
is mainly companies that have a license already in New York that hasn't sold,
And that's what they were saying. They're just sitting on extra weight because it's
been a slow rollout. New York government has going slow with not everyone can
just get there. You know. This isn't like in Michigan or in the
suburbs of Detroit, like a lot of times people have cars. You live
in the cityman, some people go their whole lives without cars. You don't
need them with that good at transit when everything's right there on your block.
You know what I'm saying, So my idea is, like you take that
to the customers. They could take this farmer's market to every single neighborhood in
New York. You know, it's Yonkers, or it's or bron so,
you know, and then they go to you know wherever, right Manhattan.
You know, I'm sure those areas of the city will be like, Okay,
we don't got to own a disbo, but we can make a little
bit of that tax money real quick. Right, yeah, I'll think a
little bit of tax money. So I like it. I like the idea,
and like sure, I mean, I love the idea of just a
farmer's market with a bunch of caregivers and ship but like, let's be real,
those are already gray area. There's are they're already going on. You
just gotta figure out where they're at. You know, I'm sure they're going
on in New York, you know what I mean. For a legal farmer's
market like this, I think it's fascinating. But I also think like it's
actually really convenient for the customers because not everyone can just get everywhere, you
know. True, I think there's that big bonu. Well, because then
it's New York too, It's expensive to get places. It's expensive to do
a lot of things. So they bring that shit to you and say it's
like they had a rotating calendar, kind of like with those like food trucks.
Right, I mean, that's that's awesome. For the cities, man,
that's huge, like in it's not big as as big because you know,
usually most households have a car, but there's many households in big cities
that don't have cars. When I was in Chicago, I didn't have a
car for all three years. I didn't need one. I mean, it
would have been nice, I guess, but it would have been way more
expensive. But no, I didn't say that. Uber Money called that candidate
this candycap. We got high. It was a candy cap allegedly. Yes,
yes, yes, so so that that was cool that we be able
to find that and get more clarification on what the farmers mean. That's sweet
here too, though. Imagine if they did that in Romeo. There's no
dispos up there, No, there is no. I just picked somethe really
far on that backfired, uh past anywhere in the middle of nowhere. Right,
you can take these and you can start doing these little pop ups.
Oh, you know them, you get you introduced the customers to your products.
I mean in general, if you just did something to Troy and you
just said every brand was able to particip need to go boom, right.
I just look at it as likeds like you want, like in a mass
area brands in Detroit, right, just for our example, because we're from
Michigan, they could go do a pop up near Wayne State and get all
that Wayne State money. Because you can't have a dispone in that area.
But if you do a pop up in that area and a parking lot,
maybe you get all those Wayne State people to be like, oh shit,
I like this right. So that was my idea is like now in New
York, they take this farmer's market to somewhere where their clientele will be.
I don't know New York as well. Right, they just go to that
area and now you get some more customers. You gain those customers, now
they're gonna got your product, you know. So it's I see it on
both ends. Why it's beneficial and why I don't really see the negative.
You know, maybe just security robberies that type of shit. Just get some
more scaredy get some arm security, and there probably is it's cannabis. There
always is with that. It is that stigma on it. Well you just
I mean with anything valuable, you need arm scaredy. Hopefully you'll never have
to use them. But the whole point is like, is there there you
want to pull up in the commercials? Get pull up a commercial. We
jump into we have one more article you I could do that. Nice,
nice, I appreciate you. We got one more article. It's gonna be
talking about federal appeals and a gun and guns. This is crazy because this
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one, what you would you want to jump into? Federal peels of court
rules that done band for mayor one of consumers is unconstitutional? Oh yeah,
it always has been anyways, No, right, but that's good. This
is good because the more and more of this stuff happens, you're didn't be
able to happen. Yeah, I don't think this actually overturns it. But
this is now the second or second or third federal judge to do this,
so like I hope to try. The last one they reversed the conviction of
the man who was sentenced in nearly four years. No, I understand,
but the last time this one got reversed the last time this happened, so
I'm not holding my breath. But at the same time, as I don't
think it's ever been on constitutional and I don't think there's enough really for people
to charge on that because like if you were really to go through every single
person, it's just not possible. Like this is the Second Amendment's been around
for so long that a lot of people own and and like smoking. But
I'm sure they smoke weeds sometimes Like it's it's it's not it's a silly law.
You know, it doesn't make sense. So I mean, because you
gotta remember that it's not even to me, it's does even makes sense that
canvas is even on the scheduled drug less list to begin with. So agreed,
dude, agreed, So we'll see Helpfay help way goes through. Yeah,
I'm hoping uh more and more like this happens, because this is just
good news for cannabis towards just like why isn't it decriminalized, Like it just
doesn't make sense, you know, why is it still scheduled one drug?
Like that doesn't make sense. It's just one of the other things that I
always say that it just steps on your other rights. It's just one of
the rights that does it doesn't it shouldn't, you know, And there's a
lot of gray area with a lot of states. And that's just way because
at the end DA it doesn't make sense. No, you know, it
does not. It does not. And that's like the whole industry as a
whole though, like you can't write stuff off, you can't bank. But
it's true, like you like, there's just so much stuff as a whole
industry like fails on. But you're right, I mean, well, we'll
see what happens. Like this is a This is another case that in it's
appeals court for I don't know what state or no, it is just the
appeals court for the US. So I mean that is big. That is
big. They are quoted in saying throughout American history, and laws have regulated
the combination of guns and intoxicating substances, but at no point in the eighteenth
or nineteenth century did the government disarmed individuals who use drugs or alcohol at one
time for possessing guns at another. That's what the Compiler Court said, Yeah,
because like if you smoke, you don't just lose your You don't get
to lose your free speech all of a sudden, right exactly. I mean,
and that's huge because like that's honestly the guy the truth, Like,
you're not supposed to have your gun and drink on You're not. You shouldn't
be smoking. We didn't have a gun. It doesn't make sense, Yeah,
because I'm pretty sure most people hunt and drink. Are you hunting with
feathers, sand sparkles, throw throw sand pillows? You might build next them.
I don't think you could. Animals are pretip Anyways. My whole point
is doesn't make sense. Never made sense. It's like being able to ruse
like, oh you smoke, you you smoke cannabis, so now we can,
like any the other amendments, you just get lost. It never made
sense. That's the same thing with smell being a probable cause, and you
lose your right to seizure like search and Caesar. It's why I get annoyed,
because you shouldn't lose your rights because of one other, because of spot
what you do in your own privacy your home is one thing. If you
get caught trafficking weed, I get it that. And then all of a
sudden, now they have four guns and like eighteen pounds and a brick of
cocaine. Okay, I get it right, they're doing some bad things.
But you shouldn't just disarmed grandma because she's got glaucoma. I love that.
That's good. True, do not disarmed Grandma? I like that, that's
good. Yeah, none wants disarmed ground. But yeah, so what was
that? Are we back in Michigan? Now? Yeah, they were jumping.
Now we're jumping into Michigan. I do have a funny article actually before
we jump into Michigan. It's not really funny. It's actually sad. If
he's just like just the headline's funny, I haven't really read it. So
the headline the headline and reads funny. So it goes miss Minnesota governor invites
Iowa adults to come by marijuana and watch baseball in the state. Fine legalization.
What he wants to basically just comes celebrate by hang on and watch playing
baseball, because I was it's illegal. So he's saying, come come to
Minnesota, smoke some buyweed, which is revenue for the state of Minnesota,
and watch a football game or a baseball game. Wow. Oh he's running
an add in Iowa. Oh yeah. He was just quoted as saying that.
Oh. I literally thought they had like a billboard in Iowa saying come
to Minnesota, your state can't weed. Like wow, they should do that.
First off, someone approved it. Second off, Like that's why I
got so CONFU that's awesome. I like that day's gonna do it to Ohio
just because he's like why they actually might be legal. The opportunity this Indiana.
We'll do it to Indiana the last one. Once we get them,
it's like it'll be completely legal around us. I just find it. I
find it funny that you got a governor going, hey, come on out
to our state and buy weed. Like there he was like against it,
like what six eight months ago, it's illegal, and then like it's just
the views of people. And then like the politicians once it's legal in their
state. And then they're like, oh, remember Minnesota when we talked about
two weeks ago, they were that I had a line outside the tribal hearts
called right a kick back. I don't care what it is. I just
find to hilarious that he's like called on the Iowa pretty much. I bet
you everyone was happier and money was being made, and all of a sudden,
he like he didn't have to do this, and he was probably like,
let let him smoke, because that's what I'm trying to tell you.
Like, there are so many like issues with stress and money and taxes,
and like I have like a few things that I could change the tax around,
but like just legalizing cannabis. And I don't want to pay tax on
cannabis, Like I don't want to pay outrage and let me explain me.
At first, I don't want to pay outrageous taxes on cannabis like this twenty
percent, you know, but when you're talking like five to ten percent,
like I get that, fine, I'll pay that just to not be bothered,
just to be able to do it, just to push through the charge
that it'll be legal. And some people don't want that some people just want
to be able to buy in the street and save the money because they're thinking
about their pocketbooks first. And I get that because at the end of the
day of this world's tough, like get putting your pocket books first. But
when it comes to weed, man, like I just wanted people to get
out of the jails and all this other stuff because to me, there's just
like so much wrongdoing. And if it's just five ten percent, then it's
not that's not a big deal to me. It's when you get to these
fifteen twenty percent, its like, even though it's wearing sixteen, I think
it's a little lie. It's yeah, and I and that's that's what But
that's the balance, right, But that's what I think taxis should be paying
for. Is that right? The things that make us have to help us
have the rights to do so, right, like pay the this the system
to whatever, the testing, all that stuff, like pay for something that
needs to be done. Don't just be putting money in people's pockets. You
know. That's why it made the joke, because the kickbacks because a lot
of people who are making the things happen are these companies who are just paying
politicians, and it's like, I'm never mad when it's a good thing for
weed, but I'm a mad when it's a bad thing for weed. Right,
but either way shady. So I just feel like that guy just saw
the tax money or got some money from it. It was like or smoked
the joint. Maybe it was like, oh shit, this is is gas.
He said that. Oh shit, fam, this is lit. Let
me let me get that, let me get the runs. The run.
Damn it, David. It almost went to an episode without mentioning runs.
Almost it's always runs. But let's let's bring let's bring it home'or wrapping
it up, let's bring it back to our home state of me Ischi again,
we're gonna be yes the glove the glove. So like we talked about
previously in the beginning of the episode, Yeah, pretty much right on point.
Uh, Michigan set a record for sales, just like pretty much Iowa
or Illinois a not Iowa were in July, we sold over two hundred and
seventy dollars two hundred and seventy million dollars worth of cannabis products. I don't
know say so, I just try a dude. It's just well, no,
because I still because I've heard like, oh, the Michigan market's just
not where it was. The Michigan market's just not where it was. No,
I think your company just wasn't as good as you thought it was,
right, I'm just kidding, that's fucked up. But it's like I feel
like right now is like at the end of the day of what's happening right
now is you're finally starting to see that divide. It's becoming more of a
business than making money because you're seeing more piece of the pie being given out.
That's it, Like I just said that earlier. But their car their
carving their place in the industry, right, Like, if you have good
morals, you have quality product, and you know what you're doing, you've
been doing it for a while. Because most people who are successful right now
are probably a good chance, in my opinion, came from the legacy and
understood that they had some prior experience within cannabis, right, right, and
how they have quality product. Maybe it's it's growing. The business is different
now compared to what it was previously, right because now you're doing it on
scale, it's a lot bigger. There's probably a little bit more loops and
holes with the CIRA and everything, but they're gonna be able to start continuing
to bring that quality pro like the more and more people are going to go
by it in the hundred percent. I think you're right, That's what I
was trying to say. You're seeing that divide between the pieces of pie getting
bigger and the other pieces going away or disappearing. And then sure there are
companies being added to that pie, right, And so that's why I said,
I think you're seeing some of the lower end companies have issues and struggle,
but it's also like the companies that are on the top end, you're
seeing them like starting to like take off, and you're starting to because people
are starting to get It's like that brand recognition is finally being built. Yeah,
I thinking about this. You see old school, you see my laugh?
Are you see Emerald? Like you have a brand, right, you
know what I mean? Some of these new casts don't have one yet and
they're trying to find their place in the industry. But here's the thing though,
too, I think some of that's continue to push these numbers, and
I'm curious there's a theory or thought is collapse, right, Like concentrates don't.
Concentrates aren't like one of the biggest sale I don't try if you look
at it based on the article and this is from New Cannabis Adventures dot com,
flowers like the number one with one hundred and twenty six million sales and
then it goes the vapes fifty one million, and then concentrates and inhaleable concentrates
or fifteen million and twenty four million. But I think a lot of collaborations
within brands, like think about the d n K fifth age Clad like that
that's been really good, or pressure pack in North Coast or element with like
Progo or Element with when they do those live resin stuff with the flour and
they match the oil like a lot of those tons of claps. I means,
I think that's how you build relationships, you build trust in the industry,
that that you start putting brands more at like not levels per se,
but you they work with brands that work are at their level, right,
Like so you start so the customer, you start connecting brands, yeah,
and then that are in your right and then you see then you're gonna be
more inclined to try that product on another category, right, like you like
on my lav hoarse Flour, you might go try it their extract then by
Cannaby because it's it's like, oh, okay, that's good, right,
because that's what I'm saying, like all the all the clabs. And that's
the thing about fifth Age. I think that's when we were talking to Josh
on that episode. Check it out if you haven't. But the Josh episode
was great because that's like a big thing of his just clapping, like it
doesn't even seem like you know, yeah, it's just just all he wants
to do. You know, he likes to make the best. He to
me, he's making makes some of the best hash ros in the state.
It's just fire ass rosin. Uh yeah. But that's just it just shows
that the state of Michigan continues to love cannabis. Doesn't look like it's slowing
down. I think when we started off the year, I think me and
you both agreed. I think the numbers were going to continue to go up.
I mean as more and more areas open up Detroit went legal, the
more zones we get, the more money that will come. It's just like
a probability thing. All the events, all the festivals that cannabis is at.
Now all those sales count towards the dollars summer and Smokeout is now over.
But that was over the weekend in Republic up ye yep, elevated and
stuff and shout out to know. He was actually our guest last week's check
it out. Check that out. They actually like groove, he said.
They have a cannabis music festival up in the up and uh, hopefully they
do it next year for the thirty year because I would like to make our
way out there. And now it all. Yeah, it was just literally
Samley's birthday, you know, and had things going on and then yeah,
so it just last minute. Yeah it didn't work out, but sounding amazing
and I it's like right on my alley. I'm missing Father of Funk's US
debut, So it is a bummer, that's for sure. Yeah, can
come. Nothing's wrong with music and cannabis. They just a dad wide play.
Well, well let's get into our last article here. Groovy. It's
just on Michigan. And I like this article because it's just the title of
it. It's from Cannabis Business Time Pace. Uh yeah, Michigan's now on
pace to become a three billion dollars cannabis market in twenty twenty three. Remember
when we hit a billion, like and people are like, oh, no,
the industry is not going to go higher than a billion, and we
hit two billions to hit three billions. I think the reason why we heard
that so much is because we talked to industry professionals and they're seeing the struggles
because the big picture doesn't come from each you come from consumer aspect. Though
it's a little mix because we were industry related, but at the same time,
we started as consumers and I know everyone did in the market too,
but I think eventually, you know, you work in the market and we
you know, I'm sure bud tenders are still connected to that level, but
like once you get higher up, you know, like you're looking at it
is like this is a product you're making money off of, right, So
it's a business first. And there's a lot of overhead too with running a
cannabis and it's always different. It varies so much. You have one bad
crop. Your fuck, how many different size grows have we seen in how
many different well? And my big thing is sometimes they're the same size grow,
but they're done differently, you know, and that's where it's like what
and from how they're built to what space summer stacks. I have big rooms
and our warehouses lights most or many rooms, how they water, how they
trend, like every one is completely different. You think they'd be less variety,
but you know what, you really would, because like there's a certain
process but everyone's got their own unique twist on it which made them get to
where they're at. Like it's not we're going to do it, so we
do. I mean I got my own stuff, so like it's just how
it works over the years. It doesn't want to it works for most people.
But that's true. It took me a minute to prona make so anyways
and sneak attack. But no, this is just great to see Michigan becoming
a three billion dollar market. I'm curious where we top out at. I
don't see it happening next year. I cause, honestly, with Detroit now
recreational and we're gonna be opening up more retail shops and plus you're opening up
more consumption lounges throughout the state. Like all that's like some money towards the
state. I just I just I see the numbers continuing to grow. Michigan.
CANDUs is gonna be the number one crop in Michigan. Like, if
it's not already, it's already outpaces alcohol. It's it's a booming market for
sales. You just gotta if you're in, if you have a good brand,
you're able to stick around. There's a lot of brands, a lot
of growers, a lot of process Yeah, because you got to find your
way to first, it's all about branding Aaron. First, it's all just
being there, just having the weed on the market, because you're making money
just based off people being there and wanting weed legally, right. And then
you start making money because brand recognition from marketing or whatever. People go,
oh, these are the brands I see, So these are the brands I
should try. A lot of them get duped because it's just marketing. And
eventually what it becomes is like what is the brand? And if it's not
the brand recognition, by that point it's a mix of quality stuff with market
quality. So because it eventually it's just the quality. Yeah, the cycle
you go through as for any products you know, or if you don't care
for quality, you just gonna end up getting what you want no, but
I mean any product, right, like even if it's like a new I
don't know what was new for a little bit, like hammocks a bad example,
the tent hammock thing, right, Like they've been seeing the hammocks,
right, but they're like flap bad tents, so they're really but right now
they're really expensive. Right, but now you're seeing now you're seeing the cheaper
ones come out, so you're seeing that super competitive. But because the quality
doesn't matter, So it's like now I just feel like it kind of balances
out right, Like there's always like the cycle to it, like it's just
the first one to do it. You make a lot of the money because
you made it. Usually it's quality because you were the first one. Then
there's all the copycats, right, and then there's quality drops, and then
it balances back out because people start separating, Oh I want the cheap shit
or the expensive shit, and all those middle ones just kind of just speer.
I think that's kind of just the cycle of consumerism sometimes makes sense.
I mean it's good. I mean like a like a macro perspective on it
all because it tends beat check it out, unique product, unique product,
sick. You know, unique product gets copied, people don't like the product
as much because sometimes there's cheap versions. Right then it kind of balanced the
middle because you gotta get the right ones, like yeah cycle anyways, Yeah,
so that was good man, Yeah, I know that was. This
has been a fun episode. It's a lot of pretty good news within the
industry all across the United States. Uh shout out to cush Masters again on
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