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Speaker 2: Well, hello and welcome. We are not in the Macavall
Trade Studios. We are at the MJ Dispensary Studios right
in the lobby. The man who runs it all Ryan,
I don't know how you keep it all together. Man,
It's today is the big Smoke Sash.
Speaker 3: Sir.
Speaker 2: We're taping this and you're gonna be listening to it after.
But I would encourage you to check out Mjdispensary dot
com because all the events are always there. You can
see what's happening, and they do do a lot. But
how is it putting something like this together? It's not easy.
Speaker 3: It takes an Army for sure. Yeah, just me doing it.
It's my team here. I can do nothing without them.
They all work hard for me and I couldn't appreciate
everything that they do here.
Speaker 2: So I got to tell you, like I came in here,
you and I met last week. I came in and
I was looking at the off hours. It's brand that's
I think it's local from Chila, and they do all
this stuff. The people I had somebody come out and
expect like they know everything, They're friendly, open, you walk
in there. It is organized, beautifully displayed, Like dude, this
is an impressive operation. And I always wonder like, what
was it going to be like right when we first
heard the legalization? What was this going to be like?
Is it everything you pictured and more and more and more.
Speaker 3: You're helping people and you know, every body who comes
in here, if they got a frown and they leave
with a smile.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well I think a lot of times too. You know,
we talk about anxiety and different things that people have,
and this can help with that. But you also don't
have the side effects necessarily that some of the drugs
that we that are handed out on the liver and things.
So there's such a great medicinal purpose to all this,
and I think it just helps people chill a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yes, for sure, helps people relax, helps people focus. I
mean there's so many.
Speaker 2: Different I didn't know any of that, like the energy
and the focus thing.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I was like blown away by that because I and
it's just it's all basically science, right, fixing the cannabinoids.
I don't know anything about this.
Speaker 3: Sure, cannabinoids, terrapenes, they're gonna help you specifically depending on
what your issues are.
Speaker 2: Did you do well in chemistry and high school?
Speaker 3: Really well?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I felt the regions twice, so I wouldn't know.
Speaker 3: No, I was good in math and science.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure. But so this operation for you, how
has it been with New York State? And you know
you're the first, you were the first in Monroe County
to open up correct?
Speaker 3: Correct? To get here was not easy. Now that we're here, yeah,
we're not going anywhere. We're working real hard to be
the best here. We're still getting neglected in this area.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? Neglected in this area?
Speaker 3: So all these regions were created when this was all started,
and this region here in the Finger Lakes has been
neglected since day one, we had the longest wait to
have a dispensary, and to this day, we are the
lowest number of open shops in this region compared to
the other fifteen regions. Okay, like just right across the
way in Buffalo, it's like leading, Why is that you
think Crystal people Stokes, she's pro cannabis.
Speaker 2: Okay, she's taking care of him out there, and she's
taking care of him out there, and she represents out there. Yeah.
And do we not have probaby we do?
Speaker 4: Do?
Speaker 3: We got Senator Jeremy Cooney, Sure, yeah, and he's you know,
campaigning right now, Go Cooney, let's go. You know. So, Uh,
it's it's this region. It's always getting neglected, whether it's
you know, money that we get to fund schools. You know,
we got some of the worst schools in the country here.
You know, they just close like eleven city schools this year.
It doesn't matter. It seems like, you know, most of
the downstate money stays dowllastate.
Speaker 2: You have a passion for the city school district A
little bit.
Speaker 3: I do, Yes, I have a former city school kid
here at thirty three school, thirty seven school.
Speaker 2: But you're doing things to help those schools.
Speaker 3: That's correct. Where we started a round up campaign on
twelve twelve when we opened. We've been running it ever since.
Speaker 2: Explain that. So you're checking out, right, Yeah, you're.
Speaker 3: Checking out and say your total is thirty four eighty.
You want to round up that twenty cents to help
inner city youth. You say, yes, there's twenty cents that
goes towards that, and we're going to raise that all
year and then we're gonna give it to one of
the inner city schools. We're gonna do this every year
and pick a different inner city.
Speaker 2: School, a different inner city school, and they get to
do they get to decide what's with the money, or
do you give them a suggestion.
Speaker 3: We're trying to decide we want to be able to
give them like refurbished tablets or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, because that's that's the way education's going now.
And so there's there's not a lot of that talking
to me about trying to find a place to open up.
Was there a lot of resistance to hey, here's what
we're gonna do from from people who own buildings that
may be renting from or.
Speaker 3: I know that kind of stuff is going on yeah,
I do too. A lot of you know, predatory stuff
going on to or people are charging you double what
they would just charge, like I say, a coffee shop
or a restaurant. Right, But this process started for me,
and it took me a year just to find a
location because I wanted the perfect location. But I reached
out to the town supervisor, Senator Schultz, God bless them.
He set me in the directions that I needed to
be sent and here I am today.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then we got Brendan Tidings, who runs this regional market.
Fabulous guy. He's helping me out with everything that we
need here. He's supportive, you know, most of anything I
asked him. He's like, yes, you know, we got great
security security out at the tent, so you know.
Speaker 2: Army because you know, you go into and I guess
you have it somewhat at a bar or something. But
if I were going into a liquor store, I don't
have security. Do you understand? Do you see what I'm saying?
And I don't want what is? Why do they make that?
Only because I would say, most people coming in here
are fucking cool.
Speaker 3: Now, you don't need to have security. That's a choice
that we take for protection for our people that work here,
you know, And I look for the perfect security company
when I was hiring here. These guys do the bills
camp you know. Engineer Phil Engineer is the sheriff out here.
Great guy. Uh and his guys stand up for us,
you know. We A lot of it has to do
with that. Cannabis is a cash business. Ah, that's what happens.
Like when you go to the liquor store, you can
use your credit card, no problem, you can tap in,
pay and be out here. You can't do that because
of the federal regulations against the canabis.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of hoops still to go through. Sure, well,
how many hours a week are you putting in? Would
you say?
Speaker 3: As many as I can. Like I have to say
this July though, I took most of this July off
so I got to watch my team pops, dare you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had to get a break, Mayna. We were coming
for seven months. I was here like every day, so
I needed some time with my family and we got
to go to Virginia Beach. It was wonderful and I
have a great team here, Like I said, Yeah, you
do do that kind of thing, right, and I can
look at watch the camera anytime I want.
Speaker 5: Do you guys help the other as the New States?
Like I think Wild just went live with cannabis. Do
you help dealers and and stores in those areas as
seeing what worked for you and what didn't work for you?
Speaker 3: Versus so with Ohio?
Speaker 2: I know, such a shit show here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with Ohio and which is doing what a lot
of states did as they're letting the medical companies in first. Yeah,
so those guys know what they're doing. They got one
hundred and fifty stores across the United States.
Speaker 2: Right, one of them was right down the street. Yeah,
I know. But so to Kevin's point though, when you
were even opening up and stuff, was there anybody from
let's say a Colorado that was an independent shop that
you picked their brain or or somebody who was a
vendor said, hey man, you may want to talk to
these guys because they've they've.
Speaker 5: The beer guys always talking about they've gone.
Speaker 2: Down Yeah, they've gone down the road a little bit.
Speaker 3: So my career before this was a professional poker player,
and I traveled a lot. So I've been to Colorado,
I've been to Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: What percentage of people have you ever heard say I
was a professional poker player. That is so fucking cool.
Speaker 3: Not many, that's for sure. Many of us are around. Yeah,
and I've been to California, San Diego, San Francisco. I've
been part of this revolution because I go to these
dispensaries out there. Yeah, a lot of people come in
here who are from the West Coast say this is
like a West Coast store. Because I've taken a lot
of ideas that I've saw throughout my times and being
part of this revolution for cannabis. I waited in line
in Massachusetts for three and a half hours just to
buy an eighth of cannabis on legalization Day.
Speaker 2: Message on legalization Day, Okay, three guys.
Speaker 3: Of me were from New York and the three guys
behind me were from New York.
Speaker 2: How funny is that? So New York had to see
that they were losing money, right, Yeah, But it still
took forever to get it to this point, and it
sounds like it's still a long way to go, right.
Speaker 3: Because everybody's still resigning up in the Oiseum and Cannabis
Control Board. There's a lot of confliction going on there.
They are, you know, it's a new agency. It's New York.
It's a multi billion dollar in.
Speaker 2: How does a guy like you who knows so much
runs a shop? Could you get on a board like that?
Speaker 3: I don't even know if I want to be on
a board.
Speaker 2: I understand, but I'm just saying, like, your knowledge, I
feel like would be so beneficial and maybe smooth things
out and move things along. I'm sure they have people,
but it doesn't part of.
Speaker 3: A coalition, part of candy as well. Yeah, So those
are the two big voices that are heard in this
cannabis world right now with the OCM. So we try
whether or not they listen. It's it's all about money
really in this industry. And you know, we've seen that
from the from the beginning because of the lawsuits and
people were held up for forever trying to get open
because there was lawsuits from these people, lawsuits backed by billionaires,
you know, the.
Speaker 5: Illegal shops that caused a lot of the heartache. At
this point.
Speaker 3: The illegal shops were humming for a while too. I mean,
they've been starting to crack down on a lot of
them in the inner city of New York City. I'm saying,
got Rochester in the city, but you know, we we
knew that they had some raids around here in Rochester
to at least two within the last couple of months
where some stores were hit around here that are selling
it illegally. I get it. I used to sell it illegally.
I mean, not gonna lie, you know, and you know
you have to make that decision whether you want to
go this way or that way.
Speaker 5: You know, what's been your biggest challenge since opening the
stores besides obviously.
Speaker 2: New York State?
Speaker 3: Yeah, biggest challenge besides I mean, opening was just such
a big challenge. You can't just look over it. I
mean we were in the news all to try and
try to get our story out there and talking to senators.
I never text the senator in my life, you know
what I mean, writing to him if I know he's
loyalty now, yeah, if I know he's gonna be there,
I'm gonna go and talk to him. And same with
Mayor Evans. He was a very big help for me too,
you know, reach out to him and say, hey, can
you please help me out, you know, because you know
that's what you gotta do if you have a dream
and you want to be see that dream come true.
There's certain steps that you're gonna have to take and
sacrifices that you're gonna have to make to be able
to do what you want to do.
Speaker 2: All right, So as the dream this here we are
in MJ Dispensary five big five. I would assume expansion
would be a thing throughout New York State. Is that
something that you're you're eyeing? Is that easy to It
doesn't sound like it's easy. That's that's the problem.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, we are looking to expand we're currently
working on a Buffalo location.
Speaker 2: Okay, so.
Speaker 3: Yes, I guess, and yes, as far as who knows
what's gonna happen, right, I know whether or not I'll
get that store open this year, next year, of the
year after that or whatever. Yeah, you don't really know.
I mean you can hope and pray and do the
work and put in the legwork and do everything, cross
your eyes, you know, diities, and get a good lawyer.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm thinking on retainer as almost seeing
his dollar signs the You support a lot of the
New York State cannabis growers and creators. There's the one
in Chilight. I think it's they are off hours they're
no way, no way, thank you. I'm sorry. That's one
of their brands, right, and I took their create I
bought their creative one when I was in here the
other day. But even even these guys, the Great Lakes Stonery,
which are making their own bowls and things like that,
and you support all these guys, How does someone pitch
you for their product? Do you have to sit through
a lot of pitches or.
Speaker 3: A yeah, not so much anymore. I'd passed that to
my GM Nick thing. Okay, Nick and Sydney. Both of
those two usually deal with the vendors that come in.
I will deal with some. If I seek somebody out,
you know, I'm gonna get into my store seeking you out.
But yeah, they do most of that. We're dropping our
first micro license today. We have it for sales six
point cannabis. It's the first micro business that MJ Dispensary
is carried.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: So they have three flavors here, three flower flavors for
people to try, and they are local. So you know, yes,
I love supporting local.
Speaker 2: I know with you, but yes, I know that's the
thing is like, And I was really that kind of
jumped out to me, and that would what made me
want to talk to the guys from chi Li and
they got an impressive operation.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you can go get to a tour there.
I took my team there last month and we did
a tour of their facility.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: It was fabulous. It's like mind blowing. They have their
own water there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said that he has his own you know,
filtration system and stuff, and he's one of the real
very impressive. Yeah. I mean everything that's happening here and
I like seeing the success with it, and I don't
know if there's still somewhat of a stigma, and you
know there was. I always say, I've never seen anything
have a one eighty like this in my lifetime. I mean,
we can talk about all the technology we've seen and
all the yes, that's amazing too, but what has happened
with marijuana to me is just fucking wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's the same as like alcohol and sure, I
guess yeah, kind of very similar to that. Right now
here we are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is Nancy Reagan saying don't drink booze.
Speaker 2: Right, say no to drugs.
Speaker 6: On drugs.
Speaker 2: But look, one of your employees came over and said
some of the Buffalo Bills players have been in here,
you know, because they don't know. Am I not supposed
to say that maybe they were New York Jets Bill
New York John. I'm just saying with that. My point
for saying that was just that the pain.
Speaker 3: Yes, John Wallace was here last night. I got a
picture with him, remember John will Yeah.
Speaker 2: I do basketball, Yeah, yes, yeah, New York Nick and
state champion with the and I think got to the
finals at Syracuse in the NCAA and lost to Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, he's people come. I mean the word
is out, yes, And as I said, it's been kind
of neglected around here, so there's not too many of us.
Speaker 2: I think there's Well, you've got the you've got the
greatest marketing word of mouth, because I have friends who
say they've tried other places and the best is here.
And I'm not just saying that just to tell you
that that is exactly what they've said to me. So
I thought that is very uh. I mean, you can't
get better than that, right.
Speaker 3: No, we pride ourselves on having the biggest selection. Yeah,
hopefully in the state of New York. I think I
know we were up there and the but tenders. Yeah,
the key to knowing what you're talking about when you're because,
as you said a little bit while ago, it's all new.
Speaker 2: It's all new, it's all new. And I used to
joke like you need a restrict or plate with some
of this weed nowadays, but not. You know, you come
in and talk to the employees, they're going to steer
you for exactly what your needs are exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know that's why we have such a
you know, stringent hiring policy here. If you don't know
what cannabinoid and you don't know what a terrapene is,
then you're not getting a job here unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you ever do education? We internships.
Speaker 3: We have bud tender trainings every week here. But we
are going to start classes here MJ dispensary for customers.
You know, there'll be a small fee that you have
to pay. It'll be on a Sunday for an hour
or two depending uh, and you'll be able to come
in and listen to some of my top bud tenders
and listen to what they have to say, depending on
what the subject is.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, well that's great. I don't want to hold
you up. I know that Today's a big deal just.
Speaker 5: For somebody like me who's new to the game. All
THHD here is you have non THD stuff as well.
Speaker 3: We have CBD here. Yeah, Glenna, if you've heard of
glo let of CBD. We also toward her beautiful facility
out in Rush.
Speaker 5: Because I need something for the knees.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we have, you know, stuff that you can
rub on your knees and then there's pain, you know,
as far as stuff with CBD, gummies or even tinctures
that you put on your tongue that would help you.
All right. Have you talk to Phil inside?
Speaker 2: Did you wrestle?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 2: I can tell yeah, man, you look like you could.
Just I would love to see him whip.
Speaker 3: Dug's ass not anymore? Almost fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it, but I I believe me. I know,
but I go look at this.
Speaker 5: Are we gonna have an over fifty or fifty over
league for wrestling?
Speaker 2: I think fifty. I think they do. I think there
is like an old time or thing where people go
I'd pull a hammy.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, you can mess Dug up real quick.
Speaker 2: Ryan. It's a thank you, thank you for supporting the podcast,
for letting us out here. At MJ Dispensary. We're gonna
be talking to some of the other vendors as the
day sort of unfolds here and uh man, it is exciting.
Speaker 3: Wonderful Bill, thank you so much for coming. We appreciate
you guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we will get to all that right after this.
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that's right. Uh, Blue toad Sdary, Blue toad Siary. Are
they in where you based?
Speaker 6: Right here?
Speaker 2: Right here? Were you before? In Spencerport?
Speaker 7: We've had locations in Victor, okay and Shoots.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, okay, yeah, yep. I thought that was the thing.
So this has it's kind of it's an amazing thing
that's happening. Like in New York State with all the
different breweries series and things like that. But this area
right here, the I was going to call it the
public market and that's not that's not right, but the
what the regional regional market? Yes it is, you've got
it's such a nice fun space back here.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 7: There's a whole lot of things you don't know are
back here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: How's it been for you?
Speaker 3: Good? Good?
Speaker 7: We had a small tasting room attached to the actual
sightery over.
Speaker 3: On Mushroom Boulevard.
Speaker 7: When COVID hit, we had to come over and uh
have a bigger space, and it's been great.
Speaker 3: The neighbors here are great.
Speaker 2: How did you survive COVID?
Speaker 3: We did a.
Speaker 7: Lot of drive through drive through takeouts. The greatest thing
drive through takeout. It was actually great. We had a
we have a big following and loyal customers, and every
I think it was Tuesdays and Thursdays we would set
up a drive through.
Speaker 2: And it would just come by the by the case.
Speaker 5: But those whole places would drive through with all the
different beers. You drive your carrier and open the trunk
for you.
Speaker 2: We don't have any of the drive through liquor stores
in New York State. They have them in like the
South I.
Speaker 7: Think South Town they have driven.
Speaker 3: Drive through, but.
Speaker 2: There was like a drive through window in these places.
Speaker 7: Yeah now York.
Speaker 2: Not in New York.
Speaker 7: Right, this like during COVID you could, yes, even restaurants
when you got takeout, you could take it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So is that loss still? I think they just past.
Speaker 5: That's like you can not sure sure?
Speaker 2: How is it with New York State? Just talk to
me on the on the on the beverage side of things. Right,
We've talked to Ryan about just all the hoops you
had to jump through for this is New York State.
A little Is it a little easier.
Speaker 7: The liquor as already can be tough. Yeah, we haven't
had any problems. If you, you know, fill out your paperwork,
pay your pay your permit fees.
Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty easy.
Speaker 2: I don't know the story of Blue Toed Hardsider. Okay,
how does it so? Like you know, I know, guys.
Speaker 7: Started started in twenty fifteen with I think it was
four partners at the time. All grew up together Scottsville.
Ok So, all pretty much buddies and family owned. They
were playing in the garage making siders.
Speaker 2: This is the thing, that's what I wanted to get to.
And they with kits because I know the beer like
they sell these beer kits. You can do what.
Speaker 3: They started with.
Speaker 7: Okay, but I know it started in a garage. Blue
Toad is named after one of the owners. His nickname
is Toad, and he runs the sidery and pasting room
in Virginia in the Bluers Mountains of Virgina. Okay, but
here local we make the cider right across the street.
One owner here in New York, and he's the cider maker,
the fixer, the he does.
Speaker 2: Everything so where's all the hats.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a small business, small business that And
when are you open?
Speaker 7: We are open Wednesday through Saturday. Wednesday we are open
five to nine. Thursday, we are open five to ten Friday,
four to ten. Saturday, we are open twelve to nine.
Speaker 2: Okay. And is there a tasting room here now?
Speaker 3: Right here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right right right next right in the.
Speaker 7: Building at the end. We've got fifteen taps. Thirteen of
them are cider. You can't get all of the things
that we have in the tasting room retail, but you
can go to Wegman's tops, AJ's Beer Warehouse, South Sound Beverage.
You can go to Beers in the World and find us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you on tap in any of the like
local a lot of local bars, Yes, yeah. Ciders a
thing like I have a friend who was a big
cider drinker, but from Europe, and I don't remember. Ciders
seemed to have risen now. But I'm if I'm ignorant
to it.
Speaker 6: I don't know e cider is locally.
Speaker 7: I think with the whole gluten free Celiac thing kind
of pushed cider a little a little bit, you know,
the green orchards of the world kind of got us
going again, right, But yeah, a lot.
Speaker 5: Of great my neighbors. A big sider. She loves her sighters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, many people do.
Speaker 5: Like I mean, there's many cocky parents that are big
in the Blue Toe.
Speaker 2: They they right, They've done sponsorship.
Speaker 5: You've done sponsorships for some of our golf terms and
stuff like that. It's you guys have always been good
to us.
Speaker 7: The Blue toad Is also also owns the Checker Tavern
on Morgan's Crossing the golf course in Chili, Okay, So
you can get Blue Toad there. They have a full kitchen,
go out, play some golf, get some lunch, dinner.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that that little connection. But so now
that the dispensaries here, have you seen sort of a
I always thought with like the beer makers, that we
knew guys soon in the craft beer and they would
always help each other out right, And it's sort of
this rising tide me.
Speaker 7: It's definitely a little family here. We kind of you know,
we have black parties that we all got together. We
support each other. When MJ's wants to do this kind
of thing, we support them. They set up outside of us.
You know, we can come in, try the cider, use
the bathroom. But yeah, we all we all work together,
and the market itself does a lot of promotions for us.
But pretty much it's it's us saying, hey, you want
to get together and and do this. We've done collaborations
like with Union Coffee Roasters, We've made a cider with
their coffee. You have, so yeah, all kinds of fun stuff.
Speaker 2: What is the That was exactly my next question.
Speaker 7: I think you have to have a different license for that.
You we got to look into that.
Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, because that's becoming a more and more popular thing,
I guess, but but I don't know. Sometimes it doesn't
sound like I was in a restaurant.
Speaker 7: Locally you can get THHC cock can cocktails, so it's
it's definitely already in the market.
Speaker 2: Okay, look at this, so Sitar, you could have turned
yourself into a I love it. I like that and
this the whole regional market has got such a nice,
cool vibe about it. Obviously today with the smoke sass.
You go out there, but get a cider, have a gummy,
have an afternoon.
Speaker 7: A cupcake, a cup of coffee.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, it's all right here.
Speaker 5: I've already been told I got to go to the
gluten free bakery.
Speaker 7: It's delicious. I have Celiac.
Speaker 3: It's delicious.
Speaker 4: You don't even.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the gluten free stuff is. It's amazing the way
they do it. It's amazing the way they do it.
So you get out, Yeah, and this is what happens
someone doing a Michael Jackson impression. Well, it was nice
to meet you. I don't want to hold you up.
I'm sure things are. I got you, and we're gonna
have to come over and have a cider. We will,
we will try a couple of deciders. Nice to meet you,
Thank you. We were at the MJ Dispensary right and
we're calling it their studio. And the great thing is
the growing. You know in New York State now you
can grow your own plants. And they're they're running classes
on how to do it. Yeah, you know from seedling,
how to harvest it, what to look for, how to
be a proper bud tender.
Speaker 5: It's a lot different than putting it between the corn rolls.
Speaker 8: Huh.
Speaker 2: Well I didn't do that, but I I but there
were my buddy, right, They used to put it behind
your garage. Yeah, I know, it was always what I
forget whose house I was at that. I remember they
took me out and the thing was gigantic. And I
don't know anything about one.
Speaker 5: Of the hockey days. We were golfing one day at
a golf course in Greece and he just shanked his
ball into the woods. Yeah, and he decided I'm gonna
go looking for it, right really, and he comes walking
back out.
Speaker 2: He's got wet. There's a plant the size of me. Yeah,
they grow. I mean I'm like, yeah, that's not gonna
get a shot, right that. You stole somebody's feet add
same thing. You know. What's so interesting to me about
this whole uh, marijuana acceptance we'll call it, is my father,
who is seventy eight years old. I don't think ever
did any alcohol. Did I figure out the zip block yet?
I always the alcohol. Yes, figured out the ziplock. So
Uh calls me and tells me he had I bought something.
I bought something I intend to never use, is what
he said. So these were gummies he was going to buy.
So then I uh, And I hope he doesn't get
upset with me talking about it, because it's perfectly fine.
So we're he starts reading me one day the package
now and we should get We'll get somebody on another
vendor to talk about this a little more intelligently than
I'm about to. But I think it's pronounced Stativa is
the one that supposedly makes you laugh and happy Indica.
People say it's indicall you out, mail you out, let's
sit there, probably sleep. So my father said he is Stativa,
and I go, oh, that's great, it'll make you laugh.
So he took a half and said, I just want
to let you know. I took a half of a gummy.
Your show's finally funny, William. It's like when he came
to a comedy show. Once he goes, I need love
guests to leave with this shit. It's always great, you know,
always Uh, it's his love language. So then I wind up.
I set a timer and I called him back in
an hour and a friend had stopped by and I
did he answer, yeah, I said, don't. I don't want
you to make it anyways, but just listen. I'm gonna
put him on speaker. So he's talking and he goes, ah,
it's not I feel nothing. I feel absolutely nothing. So
we're talking. He goes, I'm doing laundry and stuff, and
then he goes, I'm listening to you, but I'm here
washing the washing machine. I go, oh, you're high. Hi.
So then I set a timer and I call him
back in another hour and he says to me, h, nothing,
I got, not even a laugh. Even the Mona Lisa
has a bigger smile than me. And I'm going, all right,
you got it. I think you're high. I think you are.
So then he's just going to make him laugh. I
just made him anger. Oh, I don't know. He was
like he was like he was messing seven kids on
my lawn. I need to get off.
Speaker 5: Of it right now.
Speaker 2: So now he's kind of into it. I can't tell
if he stopped drinking completely in his life. He does
not touch alcohol, and certainly there were some wild stories
right with him. Very I always thought they were funny.
Some people probably didn't find them so funny that that
lived them.
Speaker 5: March didn't find them funny, probably.
Speaker 2: But god damn did I and so did my brother.
And so I call him back another day, just randomly,
and he's like, I took the other half of the
gummy and uh, so we're talking, and now he goes.
I think it's kicking in. He's starting to slur his
words a little bit. He's starting to show like okay.
And then yesterday it was pouring where we are, and
he's down in New Jersey, and I thought, let me
give him a call because he said something. My son's
going to be coming to live with me. My dad
had said something. I wanted to let him. He was
all confused as to when he sent it. Why wasn't
a hero already? So I thought, I'll give him a
call and let him know. So it's about four o'clock
Friday afternoon. I'm in the studio. I give him a
call and he goes. I took another gummy today because
it's forty mile an hour wins here. He really can't
go outside. I thought i'd get a smile. You know
what happened. I slept, I do nothing. I'm sleep So
I can't tell if he likes the stuff or he doesn't.
But now, at least three times at least he didn't do.
Speaker 5: The thing the first time where he took the half
popped the other half.
Speaker 2: I've seen that way too often.
Speaker 5: My neighbor crushedreet did it. Yeah, he waited forty five minutes,
got nothing, popped another half nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've watched friends saying it's not kicking right to
the couch where it wasn't working, and then it was
so they take another one and then all of a sudden,
he kicks it. I watched there was a girl at
a bar who worked there. Somebody gave her a gummy,
she said it wasn't working, and takes another one, and
then I watched her just absolutely melt into her chair,
and I was a little uncomfortable, and everybody's like leaving there,
closing down the bar. It was early on a weekend,
like a Sunday or something, wrapping up around seven, and
I said to her, let me give you a ride home,
and she's like, all parently, I go, I'm not looking
to like try to anything. I go, clearly, everybody's abandoned you,
and you know you can call uber if you want.
But I go, you're you know, I don't even know
if you can dial an uber or anything. So I
took her on I just to say, just because I'm
a nice guy.
Speaker 5: I don't know why the one time I took the gummies.
I don't know if if it didn't seem like it
did anything to me. I don't know if it's because
I was also drinking alongside of it, and if that counteracts,
so to speak.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I also.
Speaker 5: Somebody, I think it was Ryan, told us that the
first point that you don't take him on a you
take him on an empty stomach or one of the
other fuller empty stomach.
Speaker 2: Will asks one acts, Ask what am I saying? Well,
ask one of the got the weed smell? I think
you're a Walmart parking lot. Wait, actually a question real quick.
I I think that I will ask one of the
experts on that sort of thing. But here's the here's
the thing with the legalization of marijuana. Now, I didn't
really do it in college because you were so exposed
to it in high school.
Speaker 3: Questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, I just it wasn't my thing.
I always liked drinking. And here's why I knew where
I was at until I didn't. But then you know,
you know what I'm saying, at that point, until I didn't,
and then I would always but I always knew kind
of where I was. You could ride the throttle back off.
I'm at a mellow I'm happy, right, But sometimes I
can get really mad. I fixate on something that's not
going what you get mad?
Speaker 5: No, I've never seen you mad drinking?
Speaker 2: Really, when did I do that?
Speaker 5: Was back in my radio days.
Speaker 2: You would be at asters and you'd be screaming at me.
Jesus good on an asshole? Drobably got stories too. Yeah,
your mom told you to come in. Well, why don't
you sit down? Is this the coffee roasters union place?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And then I heard that you teamed up with the
blue toed sidery and made a like a caffeinated cider.
You gotta get right in there and lean right on that.
And you can't put the headphones on or not. It's
up to you, completely up to you.
Speaker 6: What's your name, Nicholas, Nicholas deep as.
Speaker 2: Nicholas, get right on that microphone. What would what was
the name of the lady from Bluete? I could Robin?
I couldn't remember. I should have thought blue Robin, Robin's egg.
It would have made the connection for me. That's how
I do things. What that's how I do things? Sometimes
it's association. No, you don't do work association? Yeah, exactly,
that's exactly. I think that that's how I do it
so over at Union Place Coffee Roasters. Will we ever
see a THHC coffee?
Speaker 6: You think that is not an answer that I can give.
That is up to the Boston's discretion.
Speaker 2: I got you.
Speaker 6: Well, it's not out of the realm of possibility.
Speaker 2: Now do you are you? Is your family owner of this? Yes,
your mom started the business years eleven years ago. So
have you been brought up in the coffee world essentially?
Speaker 6: Yes, I started drinking coffee around maybe ten eleven years old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, girl, but are you like a wrestler or something like.
Speaker 6: It used to be a gymnast?
Speaker 2: A gymnast? Really? Wait, like what kind of doing?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: I was part of what was called the hang on
because I watched the Olympics, motherfucker and I saw the rings.
That's an American? Yeah, men, what am I looking at?
It's just this is a man over here. He's got
a much so I'm yes, I'm picking on you. But
the rings were no Americans were in competed in the rings.
And I went that looks like you have to be
one of the strongest people in the world.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it's I mean, you're ad a feat to
get to like it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: They're not stable, You're they're doing handstands. And now it
looks like they cheat a little bit because I thought
back in the eighties they didn't have things on their hands.
Speaker 6: Oh no, that is actually something that has I don't
know when grips they're called grips. Yeah, when that first
came around to be a thing within gymnastics. But when
I first started and became a competitive gymnast, that's the
first thing you get as a set of grips for
those rings and for the high bars as well.
Speaker 5: When I coached gymnastics, all the girls had they had what.
Speaker 4: What whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 2: Whoa What we're learning? You coached gymnastics. I worked at
the y What were you the trampoline? I was one
of the spotters. Really, no ship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is back when I was Yeah. They summers,
yeah yeah, yeah, and they said you hay, you want
more hours. It's the church gymnastics, It is okay. And
I would teach the real little tiny like the war
and five year olds, Yeah, teaching them somersaults and yeah yeah,
cart wheels and jumping.
Speaker 2: In Yeah, but how to kind of keep your body symmetric.
Speaker 5: When I worked with the team too, and as a
spotter because I'm a big dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Catch, So where did you do gymnastics?
Speaker 6: So where I did gymnastics is currently no longer a
gym unfortunately it closed down back in twenty sixteen. Okay,
but we were upstate men's gymnastics. It was out of
the rec center for Henrietta.
Speaker 2: Okay, the no, there's no school teams, are there?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: There used to be a girls team through Rush Henriette.
Speaker 2: I believe who do they compete against? Because I'm thinking
I schoo high.
Speaker 5: Schools that Hilton had a team for a while.
Speaker 2: Greece had a team for a while they did. Yeah,
most of it's individual maybe two whynas ever have one?
I think they did.
Speaker 5: But again it was mostly just like a girl who
did gymnastics.
Speaker 2: And yeah, gotcha. So so when you competed, where did
you compete?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: All over we were.
Speaker 6: There were a lot of different gyms around the Monroe
County area that we would go to for our more
local meets. Stumps Gym, Bright Raven Gymnastics.
Speaker 2: Do you still do it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, when our team had to move in and merge
with another gym when our home gym shut down. Yeah,
the distance in the price where you came quite a
bit too much. Yeah, and I was going into my
last year of high school at the time, so it
was a good time to be able to part and
start something new for me.
Speaker 2: What was your best event?
Speaker 6: I would say floor and parallel bars. The rings was
always a phenomenally fun event.
Speaker 2: But like you said, it looks impossible, dude.
Speaker 6: A lot of those movements and just getting to hold
them for a few seconds. You really are focusing on
every muscle in your body.
Speaker 2: How about the parallel bars and what did you do?
Because there's flipping and it's like it almost likes like
your shoulder, your rotator cuff is you're doing three sixties
like almost your arms stationary. You look at one of
those little toys that I would get that we push
the button and the thing would swing around. That's what
it looks like.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, And I mean your flexibility does need to
be it needs to be there. Most most of our practices,
the first quarter to third of that practice was just
flexibility on your upper and lower body, depending on what
we were working that day.
Speaker 2: Really, yep, what do you do to stay in shape.
Speaker 6: Now, now I just lift weights and go hiking.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you miss it all the time? Would you
coach if I could?
Speaker 6: Yes, I would have. I feel it might be too
far gone that since I've stopped doing gymnastics and practicing
to be able to adequately teach a younger person the
proper ways to do it and how not to injure
themselves and different tips and tricks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a bike. You think you'd pick it
right back up?
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 6: But there is quite a large fear factor. I mean
a number of these moves. It's not so much the
difficulty in which your body has to do to do them,
but the fear of if I don't make it. There
is a large margin of risk in there.
Speaker 2: How much like injury? Did you do pommel horse and
things I did?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So, like you're launching your body in the air
and up bang your calves up?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really where most of the impact comes on
the land when you land. Uh, that's that's amazing to
me watching all that stuff. And do you ever have
the desire to compete at that level, to be able.
Speaker 6: To compete in the Olympics. If I had in a
Goalielock scenario, never stop gymnastics and continue to excel and
have the opportunities to be able to join one of
those teams. Most certainly it would be quite a dream
to accomplish.
Speaker 2: But what are you doing now? What you know?
Speaker 6: I know you work at the coffee shop, But is
the coffee shop is my main vention?
Speaker 3: That's it?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Really, I went to.
Speaker 6: I went to Oswego for college and got my degree
in psychology. Unfortunately, at the time COVID was in its
midst created a couple of complications which didn't lead to
me going in for further schooling at that time. But
I think it was a blessed in disguise because so
did you finish family?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, so you got your degree? Yes, I do well,
I mean you could coffee and conversations psychology. I think
we got it right there. I think you got to
have an offshoot of union place you got, you know,
coffee and conversation help you help people get over.
Speaker 6: Their whatever certainly does with conversation skills and being able to,
you know, just pick out little things like if someone's
not having quite a nice day, maybe do something a
little extra for them. Yeah, that little random act of kindness.
It can go along way.
Speaker 2: Are you here? This is your full time job? Yes
it is. Yeah, what was your name again, Pat Nicholas? Nicholas,
So Nicholas full time job? Coffee conversations, Mom's thing. How
has the presence of MJ Dispensary increased traffic for you guys?
Speaker 6: It's been lovely it. I mean, we see people coming
in with the little green bags from here all day long. Yeah,
and everyone's happy to be able to have all their
favorite things in one area. Yeah, you got your marijuana,
you got your coffee in the Baker's got to be
killing it right now. Oh, yeah's got to be killing
Donna Maries, cupcakes and cinnamon rolls are really something else.
Speaker 4: I bet.
Speaker 2: Well that's pretty cool, dude. Gymnastics. I don't think I've
ever known anybody who did gymnastics. I had a friend
who was a figure skater and went to live with
his coach and won the East Coast Nationals on their
way to nationals next would be Olympics to you know,
try out for the Olympics. And the story I heard
and I was only a teenager at the time, and
that was a guy Nancy ripped all the muscles in
his leg, tore all the muscles and couldn't compete at
the national level. And that was kind of it. You know,
some of these injuries they can be can't come back from,
which is so sad. And he became a coach and
I think he lived in Utica, but he was coaching figures.
Speaker 5: Get seen.
Speaker 2: It's huge, and Uni is just what I always thought of, Like,
I don't understand. I would love to connect with that guy.
Jason Dilworth was his name. And you're like two hours
from Lake Placid. Yeah, I know, and you would think
that that would be the place, but uh, I have
no idea. Well, Nicholas, it's uh it's a pleasure. I
think that what I like is we often talk. I
hope it's more than just words that people say. But
small business support small business, shop local. Union place is local, right.
We know of of the big chain coffee stores, but
let's shop local, right. And we've got MJ Dispensary here,
and you've got blue toed sidery and it's great. It's
all here in the regional market and it's a it's
a really cool it is and.
Speaker 6: It means it's right central and Henrietta. We're right off
of Jefferson Riette.
Speaker 2: Well, the great thing is you're not deeper in Henriette.
That Jefferson Road can become really tough. So you you
get right in here, right, you get right in here easy,
sneaking the back right off, Yeah, sneaking it back. It's
such a it's such a great way to do it.
And there's even a Fryhoffer right across the street right
where you can buy all the cookies and bakeries and
all that stuff.
Speaker 3: So we got all the all the desires.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nice to meet you as you as well. A
pleasure and well we'll come down and maybe have a
coffee before we leave.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, sir, I'd love to put together some drinks.
Speaker 2: Vill you guys all right, we're at MJ Dispensary. It
is their smoke sessh today and we'll be back right
after this.
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would get so mad at me. That's overrated. But I
heard it all the time. You know, the band still
live there.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 2: I like Dylan stuff. I'm sitting with. Can I call
you the dude because you.
Speaker 4: Look like the dude?
Speaker 2: Man, you look like the dude?
Speaker 3: Sure that, But what is your name?
Speaker 4: My name is Chris.
Speaker 2: Chris is from Great Lake Stonery. And I was blown
away because I went by their their table at the
smoke sash inside the tent and as a kid, we
used to make pipes out of apples like you did too.
And I'm looking at this, I go, you have bowls
made out of stones that you that I would assume
we're taken out of creeks rivers, the finger Lakes.
Speaker 4: Primarily right along the shores of Lake Ontario.
Speaker 2: Right along the shores of Lake Ontario. Whose idea was
it to do this? Are you the owner?
Speaker 4: There's no real ownership to this.
Speaker 2: There's no real ownership.
Speaker 4: No, I mean we're not. We're you know how guys
get together in the garage and come with a dumb
ass idea.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean this is how most breweries started.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well hey you have you have breweries, you have wineries,
why not have a stonery? Yeah? And what I mean?
I don't grow but pipes and I sat on the
lake way too many times drinking Jenny, you know, oh
this makes a nice one. Yeah. So after five years
of collecting a lot of stones, we have board one
night and started to drilling.
Speaker 2: Really just started drilling the stone. What kind of bit
can you use for a stone? You gotta get like
a you can get those diamond right, stuff that don't
go through anything. So when you say a stone or ree, yeah,
is it just pipes currently, it's just pipes, just pipes. Yeah,
and that's all. And is it is there a brick
and mortar store or is this online?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: We do have get right in there.
Speaker 4: I gotta oh, sorry. We do have online website, great
Lakestonery dot com. Okay, you go to that and bring
it to our online store.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We don't really have a brick and mortar. No, you
don't need one. Yeah, and we've I mean we've literally
shipped stuff, I think to Australia. We're over in Europe,
a couple of places on really really not much in
the state of New York for some strange reason, but
West coast, East coast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do they And they're just finding you through
what Google searches or something must be. Yeah, what we
need to get the word out.
Speaker 4: That's a really horrible social media.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it seems like it really bothers you too.
Speaker 4: Kind of work the shadows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I got you.
Speaker 4: And is this all you do now the stonery, No,
I got I have a full time gig. Yeah, but
this allows me the freedom to do this stuff. Yeah,
it's kind of cool. I think it's a I loved
the concept. I saw this and I go, this is awesome.
Speaker 2: It was everything we did as a kid that you
wanted and it's just out of a like, man, you
gotta I'm thinking of like, you know, no screens or
anything needed.
Speaker 4: Right, we put screens in them, you do. I'm not
a big fan of having a hot ash at the
back of my throat.
Speaker 2: A yeah, right, right, right. So what I was thinking
because I go, there's no screens in it. And now
it's been a long time, I've become a fan of
gummies as the legalization has come along. And I had
a teacher in high school growing up down in the
area I did, who said, uh, you don't you want
to be really careful with smoking a joint because it's
so hot that he goes into your lungs. You're better
off through a water bomb or something that's gonna cool
it a little bit. And then and then he said
the best way was to eat it, and so we
would even eat. Ah, look at this, okay, is there?
And do you put a screen in that? There is
one in there, because we used to even take them
out of the faucet when well people's houses, right saucet.
Speaker 4: I used to do a stint for a major appliance
place at Orange Box. Yeah, and you worked in the plumbing.
There's no screens in displays anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh, these people stone them. Really, they were stealing the screens.
That is freaking wild. So when you buy this, it
comes with the screen and everything.
Speaker 4: Yep, everything.
Speaker 2: It's a stone, nos, reason it is, it's literally a stone.
Do you polish them? Do you have like a kid's
you know, remember the kids tumbler? You could get that
you would polish stones. You don't remember that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we thought we thought about it.
Speaker 2: But because they're all they look like you've polished them
up and sanded them down a little bit and nothing.
All natural, all natural. So how many how many days
a week are you out looking for new stones?
Speaker 4: I really don't do that anymore. We have like best,
I have enough inventory to last for.
Speaker 2: Long, for a long time. Yeah, so man, this is
this is like the ultimate stoner's job. You went out,
you were just picking up rocks and you're like, man,
this maga and then all of a sudden, you just
fucking did it. That's awesome, That is really awesome. It's great.
Lakes Stonery go to great like stonery dot com. You
can shop in an online store and uh and and
get any I mean I even love the who did
the cards for you? They look great?
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter something like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, you're that this is
the greatest businessman. This is the dude. Ladies and gentlemen.
I wish we had our cameras today because you got
to see the dude. It's the greatest vibe ever. Like, yeah, man,
you just look like everything's really cool. Like you get up,
you meditated, you hit a bomb, and away we go. Yes,
I can. It is fun and it's uh. I love
the fact that now with New York State in my
lifetime and yours as well, I would assume it's done
a one eighty, right, I mean we've done a one
eighty with marijuana. I had a fourth grade the drug
counselor come to my fourth grade class and burn it
and say, if you ever smell this, come get an adult. Yeah,
trust an adult, Get somebody and tell them. And now
we're saying all the properties that help you, right, you know,
and then the different things you can do with cannabinoids
and things that I know nothing about. But I filled
the chemistry regions twice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the the use of it that way, But I
grew up in the school would get a bag, yeah,
and get announce and when it's done, it's you get
two fingers worth of seeds and stems. And the rest
is like you can smoke it. The variety I mean, now,
oh yeah, it's like you.
Speaker 2: Need a restrictor plate on some of this shit.
Speaker 4: Man, I'd be kind of cannabis snub. Oh really, no,
I like this. No, I like this. So you think
about it. Yeah, beer snubs, but now you have cannabis snubs. Now, oh,
let's try this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The variety is just staggering. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you prefer now? I hope I'm not well. Now
you can't say it, you can do it. Do you
prefer the stuff you grow? I would assume you grow. No,
you don't leave the work to someone else. You do,
like polishing the stones to someone else. Because like when
I was a kid, I grew up in a really
rural part of New York State, somebody got busted for
growing marijuana in between the cornstocks because it actually got
bigger at one point in like July than the cornstocks.
So they saw it and there were he got all
kinds of trouble. And now I always go, I'm thinking,
there's all these different varieties of things that'll get you
whatever you want. As you're saying you can become a
marijuana snob, I never thought about it. Cannabis. Cannabis is
kind of sewer, yeah, kind of swore exactly. Now you're
a bud tender? Yeah, what's your name? My name is Lisa.
Works at five at the MJ Dispensary five A five.
Speaker 9: Yeah, lead bud tender here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the lead bud tender here?
Speaker 4: How do you be of them?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But how do you become a bud tender?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: I know nothing about it?
Speaker 10: I just honestly, I my cousin knew about the job
because he works for weed Maps and he just was like, hey,
you should apply for this because I just honestly smoked
a lot of weed and I kind of knew a
bit about it already.
Speaker 9: And like, working here, you.
Speaker 2: Just silly start to know one other job? Could you
get where they go? Because you know there used to
be drug testing? Yeah right yeah? Did they drug test
at any jobs you had or throughlier?
Speaker 4: Many?
Speaker 2: See and now this is great. So when you become
did you know anything about cannabinoids and the different Yeah?
Speaker 10: I knew like a little bit, but I definitely have
like gotten to know a lot more sure, because like
so many different products, they use different cannabinoids for different things,
and like cannabinoids.
Speaker 2: I'm saying it wrong.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 9: I don't know if I'm saying it right or no.
Speaker 10: No, I think you are cannabinoids. I don't say it
differently though, like people in the industry have noticed, so
I don't know. Same with like, uh, distillate versus distill it.
Speaker 9: So I don't know it's for different or different ways
to say it.
Speaker 10: But yeah, uh, the we get like the vendors come
in and they tell us about their products and like
which uh what use it would be for and everything
like what customer could benefit from each one and how,
and it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah it is. Uh so when you what do
you do? Then? Here are you growing? No?
Speaker 9: We uh, we just sell like what the vendors give us.
Speaker 10: So there's like all the different companies like everybody outside
they have all their own grow.
Speaker 9: Everything they have, and we just sell the product. Okay,
we don't grow anything.
Speaker 2: No, we will eventually, so I would assume too, Well,
this one over here is just for fun, but you
would have to try these products.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, it's samples.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to know what you're talking about.
Speaker 10: No, yeah, for sure, not even just because I want
to get high, because like seriously. I want to try
it and let people know like, oh, this one will
make you feel this way or you know, you want
to see because there's like different cannabinoids for different things,
different terpenes.
Speaker 9: It's not just about like THHC level, right, I want
to be able to tell people like.
Speaker 2: Do you remember growing up the dude the dude, but
now there's ones that will help you focus. Yes, there's
ones that will give you energy.
Speaker 9: Yeah, THCV is a great thing.
Speaker 2: I didn't know any of this, Like that's what I'm saying.
All this was new creativity. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, Like
I remember, like people I knew comedy guy. I think
George Carlin used to say he would take a hit
or two before we would start writing, right, because it
would help with the creative process. So I've always thought
that would from whatever weed you were getting. But now
there's yeah, because.
Speaker 10: There's different minor cannabinoids. And then also like terpenes is
like terpenes are more than just like cannabis. Though terpens
are in fruit, they're in plants like pining is in
like pine trees, but it's also in certain strains of
weed that one's really good for, like uplifting, it's happy, it's.
Speaker 9: Giggly or like.
Speaker 10: There's ones more for like maer scenes a little more
calming but still like kind of euphoric. There's ones like
Linnolul help with anxiety, Okay, And that's kind of what makes.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the anxiety stuff for a second, because
that's a big thing that a lot of people are
living with now or maybe more aware. I think. I
think for a byproduct of being a human, you have anxiety, right,
you get up in your heads, you get off for
the dude doesn't look like he has much anxiety.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got I kind of got rid of it
a while bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but right, and part of that is sort of
just being able to let things go. But there's the
prescription medicine, but they have have side effects on your
and even hard on the organs and things. Yeah, and
that's where like I always wonder why or why have
we taken so long to get to this even I knew,
I knew people who was having who had a child
that had really bad caesars, really really bad, and had
to fight so hard against New York State pushed so
hard to try to get the legalization at least on
the medicinal level, which happened, and then here we are now.
But you boy, we've ignored all this for so long.
Why And the only thing I can think is someone
wasn't making money.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of in that park with you. Don't you
think that they had to come up with some way
that well, let's say that legislation needs to get their
cut because you're someone said, how you at tax apples
on a tree? Right, Marijuana is a Cannabis is the
same way. It's just a seed coming out of the ground.
Speaker 2: But it was so vilified, like it was such a
it was I mean, at least on the public level.
And I remember, geez, I mean growing up where I
grew up, I got high with my friend's mom. Like graduation,
people were smoking joints, So it wasn't that outrageous to
me that that people were using it. But uh, even
in that town you were told, I told you, like,
it's one of the.
Speaker 10: Worst things you can do specific areas, for sure, they
have like a certain view on like cannabis in general,
Like I don't know, definitely, like certain crowds, I feel
like they kind of like frown upon it and everything
they think it's like a drug, because I mean you
are taught in school like it's a drug, like, but
it's not.
Speaker 9: It's not crack, it's not like you know, it's nothing crazy.
It's just a plant. It's like drinking alcohol, I would
say even less than.
Speaker 2: What do you say what you made a face? Dude,
like drinking alcohol?
Speaker 4: Well, well, I'm I still enjoy my alcohol, yes, but
alcohol technically is is a poison you put in your body?
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Cannabis is I mean you put in your body you
go to sleep?
Speaker 10: No, no, no, yeah, I I'm saying on the same
level like poison. I'm saying, like, you know, obviously you
can't you shouldn't drink and drive. You probably shouldn't get
crazy stone and drive. I get that, But you're not
gonna be like it's not like coming to work drunk.
Like it's a completely different thing.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 10: And then now with like the lower dosage things like
two point five grams of something, it's not gonna get
you messed up. It's just gonna, you know, help you
throughout the day whatever you need, especially like with CBD,
CBG all that stuff, like it's like little especially like
the microdosing it can help you throughout the day.
Speaker 9: It's not like having a wine before word.
Speaker 2: Talk to me a little bit about microdosing, because that's
a sort of a newer term that we're hearing with things,
and I think there were even companies that sold microdos
and gummies and things like that. I assume here, yeah.
Speaker 10: We have like nineteen oh six does lower doses of
stuff and everything matter and stuff.
Speaker 9: So anything, I would say probably like five.
Speaker 10: Milligrams are lower of THHC, and then they'll put maybe
like a higher dose of.
Speaker 9: Like a minor cannabinoid.
Speaker 10: Yeah, because cannabinoids aren't the one that gets you well.
Other cannabinoids aside from THHC don't necessarily get you high,
like CBD, cbn, CBG, THHCV, they don't get you high.
They just kind of like guide you're not your high,
but like they guide your feeling for like, and they
combined with the THHC and they kind of like like
CBD by itself, I think it got a bad name
because people say didn't do much, But when you combine
it with the THHC, it's very relaxing for someone who
has anxiety, Like you take two point five milligrams of
THHC and you know, ten milligrams of CBD, you'll just feel.
Speaker 9: Relaxed throughout the day. It'll it'll help you kind of
like deal with that.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing that I always liked with drinking, and
I maybe you'll be able to relate to this. The dude,
you're like one of the coolest humans I've ever met.
Just your vibe. You're just fucking cool. Dude, you just
are fucking cool. I don't know, I don't know you
from anything.
Speaker 8: I just picked that up, right, you as well, you
got a very cool try. So, but it's got to be,
like she said, she tries. I don't think you try.
I think you just get up an R. Yeah, you
seem like you get up an R as well.
Speaker 2: I try, all right, you try, But the uh drinking,
I always knew where the throttle was, do you know
what I'm saying? Like I come from a big drinking,
Irish drinking family, like to the point where we have yeah,
we've had people in riha. I love drinking. I can't have.
I just love to fucking drink so and I know
it to the point where it can become problematic at times.
And I and I can tell even by my mood,
I better not go out because it will be a
bad night for me.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: But I know when i'm drinking, like if I have
three or four, I'm at a pretty happy place. I
can ride that throttle to stay there. I don't know
the same with weed. And that's that's what I'm trying
to figure out, do you having I'm over the years,
I don't know. Is there something like, hey, man, if
I take two hits of this, I know where I'm
going to be smoking? Yes, Yes, that's the big mystery.
And I don't want to smoke, although I have.
Speaker 4: But I just you know, because it's with edibles, you go.
I've had friends go, well, I've been primarily home bake edibles.
Yeah yeah, oh listen, then cookie and I said, well,
just eat part of it, and all of a sudden,
the whole thing's gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going, okay, yeah, And then like an hour
and a half later, you're a puddle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're going, when is this going to stop?
And you're going there's no break.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 2: That's what I make. That's sort of what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's what's good about like the legal market, though,
it's like you can dose it out now and you have.
They nano will multify some of like the molecules, like
the THHC molecules, so it'll kick in faster, and it'll
leave your system faster, so you won't be high for
six hours straight. It'll kick in in thirty minutes, it'll
be gone in two hours. And it's kind of more
of like a guaranteed thing. Yeah, especially with like you know,
they're like they'll say, you got.
Speaker 2: To come and talk, would you. I want to say
your name was Elsa, and I know that's not right.
It's okay, I'm so sorry. No, Butsa, you got to
come talk to Issa because Lisa will help. No, what
I'm saying is will help direct you as to what
you're looking for, Yeah, and where things are at because
you know, like I'm just drinking. I just knew. But
again that took experimentation over yours.
Speaker 9: Sure, exactly.
Speaker 4: But on the edible side, Yeah, I do agree. I
have a good colleague that same way. They said, you know,
I want to try it because I don't want to
drink at work anymore. I'm going I don't want to
drink it work, you know, try this instead. And they're there,
they come in, they get the coming pills or yeah,
chill pills, yep. And they said it's like a nice
ride all day long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. And and in a way it's probably
better because for them alcohol I can smell on your breath, right,
I can see it. There's usually some kind of telltale
sign somewhere. You spill it, I go, yeah, you know
what I mean. And this not not that we're trying
to hide it, but it gets you. It just it
just helps you, helps you the human experience whatever you need.
Speaker 9: Like there's there's ones for bliss, there's ones for chill.
There's like these little genius pills.
Speaker 10: Those ones are good for like cognitive function, like super
low dose just supposed to kind of like help your
brain function throughout the day.
Speaker 9: For like when you get into that mode real like
all right, I'm tired, I need like a cup of coffee.
Speaker 10: You just take one of like the genius pills, or
you could take a gummy with like some CDG in it,
and I'll kind of just activate your brain again a
little bit without making like anxious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, genius pill, I like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's real.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a lot have you done that.
Speaker 2: Like I like the gummies, but again it was fine
in the throw. I have had a gummy and alcohol
and I don't know if I was because I love
the drinking, right, I eat a gummy. I was told
it was a five milligram. I don't think it was.
I wound up passed out at some stranger's house on
Cuca Lake, puking in their bathroom and then passed out
in their bed. But you know what, and that's like
I go and I can't blame the gummy. Yeah I
can blame me. But I think the combination of things.
I don't know what I'm doing, is my point.
Speaker 10: I think for some people, like five milligrams is a
lot more than you think. It is illegal market kind
of like everyone thinks that like a thousand milligrams is
how much they take, because like in the illegal market,
they'll just label something as one hundred milligrams.
Speaker 9: It it probably wasn't one hundred milligrams.
Speaker 10: So like when people I tell people like, oh, we
have ten milligram gummies, like oh, that's nothing, I'm like,
you have to try it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's gonna do a lot more than you think.
Speaker 4: I recommend start slow, yeah, and go from there and
then say okay.
Speaker 10: And everyone has a different tolerance, Like gummies hit crazy.
For me, I could smoke a decent amount, but like
one gummy, I'll be out. So it really just depends
on I believe it's like a certain enzyme that some
people have and some people don't. Some people process gummies faster,
they hit them harder, some people they don't hit them
hard enough. So then you'd go for maybe like the
nanotech gummies or like you know, live resin, live ras.
And there's so many different kinds. There's not just one thing,
like we can find the right thing for you.
Speaker 2: The resins. One of the best things I ever smoked
was hash.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, that's ash.
Speaker 2: Yeah that sound of the greatest.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Hash is great stuff.
Speaker 10: It's because it's like it's one of the concentrates that
they don't use solvents to create, so like they don't
use any ethanol or anything.
Speaker 9: They just use heat and pressure. Yeah, So it's like
just straight.
Speaker 2: Well it's usually, isn't it just the resin from the
Oh I don't know. I thought it was the resin
that you took out of the ball. I mean probably before,
but I don't know. I thought it was because you
would buy bricks, you would buy it by the brick
when I okay a little square.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm not sure if they change like the method
of making it from like the legal market to now,
but I know now they just use like heat and
pressure from like a bunch.
Speaker 2: Of you know, like making a diamond and get it down.
Speaker 9: Yeah, squeeze it down and you.
Speaker 10: Just have to put a little sprinkle on top of
your bowl and then a joint and it'll it'll definitely
elevate your high for sure.
Speaker 4: It's a little you're thinking about the old like blonde
and black ass. Ye the time I've hashed now kind
of looks like Keith from the bottom of your grinder. Yeah, okay, yeah, No,
it's not like what you're scraping out, no wonder.
Speaker 10: Your Yeah, that's what people call resin, buts now is
like it's a concentrate as well. Resin is flash frozen,
so they like preserve all the turpenes so you get
like that full spectrum weed experience rather than just the THC,
because it's a lot more to it than just THHC.
Speaker 2: So, East, what do you want to do as you
go on as a as a bud tender because you are.
I mean, you've thrown out words here I'm going, I
don't know.
Speaker 9: It's just so much to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 10: I definitely want to just keep keep going from here,
like I want to I guess like educate more people
for sure, because like THHC percentage really is not everything,
and there's like we definitely still or cannabis definitely still
has like a bad rep to some people. But like
it's so much more than just getting high. But also
it's fine if you just want to get high, but
there's a lot more to it. Like I have people
come in and say, like they haven't slept in years,
and our dummies helped them sleep, so it's pretty dope.
Or you know, help them throughout the day, help them
get schoolwork done.
Speaker 2: Whatever it isis.
Speaker 9: Yeah, arthritis, pain, anxiety and impressions.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you touch that because that's where like you know,
how many time and all pills are you taking or
you're switching ado, I don't want to liver kidney that
kind of thing.
Speaker 4: That was my primary reason getting my medical card was
I destroyed my show is over the years and you know,
you take so many you know this stuff, that stuff,
and you know you do that and you enjoy drinking
you know a high concentrate of aspirin or any of
those in your stomach.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, I forget even the lining of your stomach.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I can do that very well on my own. That's
when I you know, I got my card and someone
who's now friendly, as you said, you know, do this,
use this, and really you can focus in on your
pain points and it's smooths out. It doesn't doesn't make
it go away. There's no magical pill, but it evens.
Speaker 2: It out, and that makes it tolerable.
Speaker 4: That's what you want, like makes it tolerable, right for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 10: When people come in and tell me they don't have
to take their ambient for sleep anymore, I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. People go crazy almost not even on ambient. These
horrible stories when people are waking.
Speaker 10: Up, they wake up and make food and really say
we're a sleep the whole time, get injured.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 10: It's like really it's nice to hear that, Like, you know,
certain things kind of like veered them off from prescription,
like pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 2: Have you worked here since the opening?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, I was in here earlier this week. The steady traffic, yeah,
is amazing. It's like it's it's like overdue right from
New York State. I mean, it's so yeah, and this
and you guys seem to really do it well and
do it right. When I walk in there, everything's beautifully displayed.
You know, you get people like you who are going
to be able to explain things to you and understand.
Because I I was a fan of the company in Chila,
you know, and I kind of like that. I think
they have the off hours. Yeah, no way, no way. Yeah,
So I took I bought their creative gummy and I
took half because they even put it perforated so you
can take half. And I was like, this is cool.
And then this one was a sleep one and it's
so funny. I woke up at like two o'clock this morning.
I could not fall back to sleep till five. So
I'm like, you know, one of these things will help out.
And it just seems like better life, right, better living
through natural.
Speaker 4: That's no one in a white lab coat's going. Let's
make this. It's coming on the ground farmer. You can
be your overalls and everything else. Yeah, that's what I
like about it. Yeah, yeah, it's gonna it's it's the
market is gonna explode, especially with you gonna people can
grow at home like Ranny and her roses, all the
hybrids that are becoming out of that into the market.
Speaker 2: It's the future.
Speaker 4: Future looks green.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 10: The future looks discovering like more and more every day
about it because you know, there's there's a lot more
to cannabis than me definitely originally thought, which is pretty dope.
Speaker 2: We are told as human beings to not judge right,
and yet if we're of the animal we all judge right.
We kind of know what's what to be honest. You've
seen people come in here and go I would have
never picked you to come into a dispensary, just saw
you out of the street, right, because it's become so
accepted now that that like I'm going My seventy eight
year old dad has been trying gummies and he was
straight laced doctor in philosophy. Didn't never you know, drink
drink a ton love drinking. Yeah, but that yeah different.
Speaker 9: I would say most of our demographic apings.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm the workforce, I know many people, well
many people that would need a drink, just steady your
hands and everything going in nowadays, I think they're projecting
a thirty percent drop.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh wow, this is interesting that you're going to
bring that up in alcohol sales. I'm it for the
first time ever, I think in years. The company, I
don't remember the name. It begins with the D I
love Guinness. They own Guinness, they own a bunch of
other I think they own Cosamigos, tequila and all this.
They are down one point four percent, which you go, well,
that doesn't sound like a lot. That's billions of dollars. Yeah,
I mean you're talking billions of that now. They made
twenty billion, But that's that's not hitting their projections, right.
You build your business on projections and things. And I
am wondering because I always thought that liquor was recession proof, right,
I mean, you know when.
Speaker 4: You what wasn't there during the recession?
Speaker 2: Weed? You know? This is what I'm saying, And so
I wonder now and it is healthier And look, I
have guys sons that are in the early twenties, and
I don't know that they go out as much as
I did to bars and things.
Speaker 6: M h.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of friends who own places. I
live over in Fairport. Fairport has become kind of like
an entertainment little area.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: These guys are saying that they'll close at midnight. They
were able to stay open till too. But nobody's out
like that, and that maybe after COVID, but yeah, I
think people are. I talked to some young people. They said, hey, man,
we'll go out for a beer two and then we
go home and hit a joint or hit Yeah.
Speaker 10: A lot of people come in and they say, like,
what's something I can like, you know, like a vapor,
a gummy I can I can bring when I'm going
out to like replace trinking so much alcohol when I
go out, because I still want to be social. I
still want to be like coherent. I just want to,
you know, be able to hang with my friends, which
is pretty dope. Yeah, yeah, definitely a lot more.
Speaker 4: That's a d W I stop. Yeah, yeah, I mean
that to be to be realistic. That's another thing is
it's cutting into the federal revenue that way their their
d do A girl, I stops half of you going
down to friend of mine joke.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't even think of that.
Speaker 4: Friend of mine joked, I said, well, you know, one o'clock,
I said, I gotta get going. He goes, Dude, the
cops stopped looking for people at eleven, all the bars
around here, clothes at ten. Now, yeah, there's there's a
shift coming on. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I kind of like it too. You know what it is.
It's like, uh, it almost feels like and I don't
know that this is the case, but when you even
look at like the gig economy now i'll call it
the gig economy with uber and these things, it's like
we're taking the power back in a way, like it's
coming back. It's shifting a little bit. You can do
whatever you want to do and own it. You don't
have to. You know, you can grow your own weed.
If you don't want to, you can do you do
your thing. And I kind of I kind of dig
that the great lake Stonery. I just got to tell you, dude.
I as soon as I saw you, I'm like, that's
the guy. And when I just went up to the table,
I said, I want you guys to come on, and
he kept going, well, one of these guys will go.
I'll sit here and watch and I'm like, God, I
think you would be the interesting one. And then that's judging.
That's completely judgmental on my part.
Speaker 4: We're all interesting, he gotta be.
Speaker 2: I'm sure. I'm sure they're all like chill.
Speaker 9: Or doesn't he take a gummy today?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I didn't really, I just smoke weed. Just come on,
you gotta endorse the Is there any weed the.
Speaker 2: Weed you smoked? Do you buy? You said you you
let other people? Is there a certain like what do
you like just as a you know, like, let's say
I like Guinness beer. Is there a brand name or something?
I almost feel like something is like a brand strain, Yeah,
brand strain.
Speaker 4: There you go. Ghost train Hayes when I see it, Yeah,
that's a good one. Yeah, chill, like any of the hazes. Really,
I'm like a city man.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, it makes you laugh a little lighter, a
little easier. The others like the Indicica iway was here
was in the couch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, ghostrain hazes when I see that, or
any like super Lemon.
Speaker 9: Okay, super Lemon's really good.
Speaker 2: What is ghost Hayes? He said, what is it?
Speaker 9: I honestly, I thought it was more of like an
indica leaning hybrid.
Speaker 10: But different people grow things differently, Like you can have
a strain that's usually sativa and they can grow it
as an indica. I don't know the ins and outs
of growing, but I know they can do that because
I've definitely had like like an O. G. Cush Is
in my eyes, usually an indica, but I've definitely had.
Speaker 9: People sell it as like a hybrid or a sativa before.
Speaker 2: So okay, I think it just how does the hybrid work?
Because sometimes the indica seems to you know, you're take
over to your sleep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but no, it's it's the growers. I mean, that's
their magic. That's really is how how they how they
do it and just be to sustain it.
Speaker 10: There's also there's definitely like hybrids that lean towards sativa,
lean towards Indica, Like Blue Dream is actually a sativa
leaning hybrid, but I think of it as like pretty sativa.
But like, also, you don't get like that anxiety feeling,
so like I guess that's where like the hybrid.
Speaker 9: Part comes in.
Speaker 2: But like what is that where you Yeah, I remember
as a kid, you would get paranoid sometimes.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Setila is supposed to make you not necessarily it's
it might be a specific terpene that's making you paranoid
or something like that because I've smoked in because that
it maybe this is we grew.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's it, which is yeah, that's what's pretty.
Speaker 10: Dope is now that we know strain, I could say
like if you know, if you start keeping track of
like the top three terpenes in this strain and in
each one that you're smoking, then you can kind of
start to see like, Okay, every time I smoke one
that has I don't know, like limitine and it I
have anxiety. So then you can kind of like start
to figure out or like strains that are maybe a
little bit higher in CBD or CBG, which usually it's
like a point zero something percent, but it's still could
be making a difference.
Speaker 2: Are there ones that people used to work out to
work out?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: I honestly, silver Haze.
Speaker 2: I only asked that just because I'm thinking, like, of
all that would be the thing.
Speaker 10: Would someone come in and ask No, silver Haze, I've
been telling people is really good as like a pre work.
Speaker 9: I don't know. It was like a nice energy boost,
but like without like like being at the gym.
Speaker 10: And like staring at everybody, you know, Like sometimes it
feels like I don't know, but like it was nice,
Like I was there and I was like minding my business.
I'm like, nobody needs to know that I just smoked that.
Like I don't know, but it was a really it's
like an energy boost. I would say, maybe like a
I don't know what terpine that would be, though, that's
like a nice energy boost for that, maybe like a
lemonine or pining or something.
Speaker 2: Do you prefer smoking, I mean he said Christi Chris right, yeah,
Chris SETI prefer smoking.
Speaker 9: I definitely prefer smoking over like a vapor gummy.
Speaker 2: Okay, what about the vape apes?
Speaker 9: I would say is definitely a convenience thing. I mean
they're dope, Like they get you high for sure.
Speaker 2: Is it a higher concentrate?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's it's just it's like, well, do you
want regular unleaded or do you want the No Knocks premium?
You can fill your tank up with that all day?
Oh yeah, yeah, Well after a while you're going, okay,
I gotta go back to regular.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I would say, it's just not the same kind of high.
It's definitely different. I would say it goes more to
your head, like.
Speaker 4: It was more of like a like a body.
Speaker 10: Oh really for me, I mean see, everyone's different, but
for me, the high amount of THHC just goes right
to my head and it's sometimes they kind of I
don't know, they kind of mess with my sinuses a little,
so I smoking. But there's also ways around that, like
live rosin live rosin is it's like it's kind of
like a hash, but it's like an extract fur.
Speaker 9: You could do it for vapes too.
Speaker 10: They just do solventless extract to like get the THHC
and cannabinoids and everything, so you're not hitting a vape
that was like they used ethanol to extract it, so
it's a little bit cleaner. I tell people it's kind
of like organic if you want to think about it
that way, even though that's not what they would say,
but like if you want to think about it that way,
it's kind of more like that's a little.
Speaker 9: Better for you. It's better on your lungs, and it
seems to like mess with my like.
Speaker 10: Sinuses a little less. Normal vape it's definitely more expensive,
but yeah, like there's definitely like ways around things. So
Rosin's pretty dope.
Speaker 2: You got to come in and talk to the experts.
I mean, seriously, if you want to know what's happening
in the world, is your first and to do that,
assume at Christmas time it's all weed stuff. You're giving
out stocking stuffers to.
Speaker 9: Family men, certain people.
Speaker 3: People.
Speaker 9: I definitely sell some gummies in their bags. Well tried.
Speaker 2: It's been a pleasure talking to both of you. Chris,
it was great. It's pretty great lake Stonery. Go and
check this stuff out because it's all local rocks. I
just I loved it as soon as I saw it, like,
this is cool, this is very very cool. What a
great idea. And then EASA will walk you through what
to put in the ball that you buy a great
lake stonery together and you'll work together on that. And
you know it's all education, right, Yeah, for sure. The
more you know, isn't that the NBC thing? The more
you know, we'll come talk to the people you know
a little bit more for in depth if.
Speaker 9: You really want to. And there's so much to it.
There's probably crap ton of stuff. I don't know either, So.
Speaker 4: Do you together?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you learned, and do you get educated from the
people that that are coming in to pitch their products.
Speaker 10: Yeah, for sure, they'll come in like we haven't. Yeah,
the vendors will come in and they'll be like, so
this is what in this one, and this is what
it'll do. This is the people you might want to
market it towards or give it to, because they might
like that whatever it is like.
Speaker 4: You know, well, for example, I've just recently heard about
cb G.
Speaker 9: A CBG A. I think that when it ends in
it A it's I think it just turns into CBG when.
Speaker 3: You light it.
Speaker 9: But I could be wrong on that. I believe that's
what or like t c A just turns and teach
when you light it, right, it's it's like before. Yeah,
it's it's the exact I'm not gonna lie. That's not
I don't know CBG A. I believe that's what it is, though,
is that or what did you?
Speaker 4: Well? CBGA is from what I had and what I've
I've tried. Is it kind of like expands your the
highness but doesn't.
Speaker 9: Increase it just Yeah, so CBG for sure. Yeah, I
just didn't know about CBG A.
Speaker 4: I've seen I've seen the little lower it might be
t c A.
Speaker 2: So it's almost like a chemical.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, CBG is dope though. Yeah, that'll definitely like boost
your mow more without getting be more high.
Speaker 9: I think you don't need to get more high.
Speaker 2: No exactly, sometimes you don't. But if you're on anxiety
meds or if you're on you know, meds for pain
and stuff, you may want to look at this as
a healthy alternative for sure. Right, and talk to Lisa
and get your great lake Stonery support local. I think
that is so cool and we will. We're gonna wrap
it up from MJ Dispensary. Go to fun it's the
smoke sesshon. Yeah, come and talk to Lisa and please
the rocks. Dude, I loved it.
Speaker 4: Thank you, dude.
Speaker 2: Hey with all kids, yes, yes, exactly. I used to
skip them, Now I know not to.
Speaker 4: That's a good look.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: For Kevin Muir helped set all this up for Ryan
from MJ Dispensary. I've seen some celebrities come through the door.
I don't know if I'm allowed to say who they
are or not, but I'll keep my mouth shut and
just keep that to ourselves. But I would say, if
you are in the market but thinking about it. Come
out to MJ Dispensary right here at nine hundred Jeferson Roads,
Week nine o two. Oh yeah yeah, we'll see it
all there. I'm the Moran. We'll see tomorrow. A god Worth.
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