Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray w Bzoston's Radio.
Speaker 2: A couple of notes here, if I could very quickly
Speaker 2: points of personal privilege, if I'd be so kind, if
Speaker 2: you'd be so kind. We got some of our shows
Speaker 2: on Monday night, some of our hours on Monday night
Speaker 2: got posted, and then they for some reason were taken
Speaker 2: down for a few hours. So I just want to
Speaker 2: call to your attention that on Monday night, from eight
Speaker 2: until nine and then from nine until ten, we did
Speaker 2: two hours with the admissions directors, Bill Fitzimmons of Harvard University,
Speaker 2: Harvard College and Grant Goslin, the admissions direct admission director
Speaker 2: at Dean of Admission at Boston College. If you have
Speaker 2: had had any trouble, had any trouble finding those two hours,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of information in both of those hours,
Speaker 2: between the phone calls, the question that I have asked,
Speaker 2: but also the answers that were given by Bill Fitzsimmons
Speaker 2: and Grant Gosling. They're invaluable if you have children, grandchildren, nieces,
Speaker 2: nephews who are in the eighth, ninth, tenth, even as
Speaker 2: late as the eleventh grade, as they begin to prepare
Speaker 2: thinking about what colleges they might like to apply to,
Speaker 2: or if they want to apply to college, if they're
Speaker 2: going to take a year off and maybe wait a year,
Speaker 2: and there's all sorts of options. But the point is
Speaker 2: that those two hours Monday nights eight and Monday nights
Speaker 2: nine o'clock hour, they're now both posted. They're up there,
Speaker 2: so please take advantage of those. In addition, the last
Speaker 2: event scheduled event that we have this year is what
Speaker 2: we call the Night Side Charity Combine, and which we
Speaker 2: give all sorts of charities an opportunity to appear in
Speaker 2: the show free of charge and they can talk about
Speaker 2: what their charity tries to accomplish now I know it
Speaker 2: in the eight o'clock hour. Over the year, there are
Speaker 2: many of various charities that we have talked about, we
Speaker 2: have given you information on. But if you're in one
Speaker 2: of those and you'd like to have a second bite
Speaker 2: of the apple on Friday night, twentieth of December, just
Speaker 2: you got to get in contact with us. Tonight's the
Speaker 2: last night. We're going to start to pull the schedule
Speaker 2: together tomorrow, So after tomorrow morning, by nine o'clock ten o'clock,
Speaker 2: we're going to shut down the application. So if you
Speaker 2: were involved in a charity, particularly if you're somebody who's
Speaker 2: running a charity, you have to if you would like
Speaker 2: to be on the show. You do it all from
Speaker 2: the comfort of your home telephone. You don't have to
Speaker 2: drive to a studio. I broadcast remotely. We'll interview you
Speaker 2: via telephone. There's no inconvenience whatsoever. It gives you an
Speaker 2: opportunity to highlight your charity's efforts for our audience. You
Speaker 2: do not have to be a charity from the greater
Speaker 2: Boston area. We have charities. We've had charities from as
Speaker 2: far away as Wisconsin in prior years. Most of them
Speaker 2: ninety five percent of them are from New England and
Speaker 2: probably ninety percent of them are from within eastern Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: But we try to be as flexible as possible. Here's
Speaker 2: what you have to do. You need to send me
Speaker 2: an email, and please don't send me an email that
Speaker 2: says I've heard about a great charity in Springfield. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure what the name is. But no, we do
Speaker 2: not make calls out. If you're involved in a charity
Speaker 2: and you want to be on the show, or you
Speaker 2: want a representative of your group to be in the show.
Speaker 2: You have to either say hey, I'm willing to go.
Speaker 2: You call you send us an email and I'll give
Speaker 2: you that in a moment, or you find the president
Speaker 2: of the group who's going to go on or whatever.
Speaker 2: We don't want to get involved in any of the
Speaker 2: internescing and warfare within the charity, So I don't want
Speaker 2: to be told by some person, well that person wasn't authorized. No,
Speaker 2: keep it simple. All you have to do is either
Speaker 2: call me or call Marita Marita aka Lightning, our producer
Speaker 2: during the day. Rob, you have my number and you
Speaker 2: have Marita's number directly direct there. Okay. If anybody calls
Speaker 2: in uh, and if you could also give them the
Speaker 2: email address. My email is Dan Ray at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 2: Marita's is a little longer. Rob has her email as well,
Speaker 2: so believe me, if you called after nine o'clock tomorrow,
Speaker 2: we're gonna stay. Sorry, We've announced it several times. You
Speaker 2: missed it. Uh, it comes Mustard the Dog to say
Speaker 2: good night. I Mustard, how are you. Yes, I am
Speaker 2: on the I'm on the phone. Yeah, I will call you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm on the radio right now. Okay, yeah, okay, Bye, Mustard. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, that's what live radio was all about. When
Speaker 2: you're broadcasting remotely and your daughter San Francisco walks in
Speaker 2: with her beautiful corky. I don't know how that sounded, Rob,
Speaker 2: but that was That was radio Verite doesn't get any
Speaker 2: more real than that. So if anyone is interested to call,
Speaker 2: Rob will give give you my direct line or Marita's
Speaker 2: direct line. But you gotta call in by tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: I'll put the deadline tomorrow morning and tomorrow noontime. Simple
Speaker 2: as that. If you call it twelve oh one, it's
Speaker 2: going to be too late. So I hate to do
Speaker 2: this to you, but we have to. We have to
Speaker 2: put this together. We will notify you, tell you exactly
Speaker 2: what time you'll be on, and we will put you
Speaker 2: on the radio with us, and you can talk about
Speaker 2: what your charity does, what your charity might need most.
Speaker 2: Most charities are always looking for more volunteers. Some need
Speaker 2: more funding. You can make your pitch, you can give
Speaker 2: your website and spread the word, simple as that. Okay,
Speaker 2: Now I want to talk this hour. We have three
Speaker 2: subjects that I'd like to talk about tonight. First hour,
Speaker 2: I'd like to talk about the arrival of cannabis cafes
Speaker 2: pot cafes here in Massachusetts. Look, marijuana is now legal.
Speaker 2: It's a little different than alcohol from the point of
Speaker 2: view that everybody knows. You can go to a restaurant
Speaker 2: and order a drink, unless it's not a dry town.
Speaker 2: There are still a few towns in Massachusetts where you
Speaker 2: have to bring your own or whatever. But most restaurants,
Speaker 2: most communities order drink before dinner, with dinner, after dinner,
Speaker 2: whatever you want. There are bars you can go to.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. Okay, you can drink it home. You
Speaker 2: can't drink on the street. You're not supposed to be
Speaker 2: walking down the street with an open container. I think
Speaker 2: you know that. You're certainly not supposed to drive. Pot
Speaker 2: now is legal in Massachusetts. It's been legal, I guess
Speaker 2: for eight years now. First it started off as medicinal,
Speaker 2: and now it's whatever you want, go to a pot
Speaker 2: shop by the pot, enjoyed in the privacy of your
Speaker 2: own home or your backyard, I guess. But now the
Speaker 2: next step is this cafe. So are you looking forward
Speaker 2: to that? I assume there's going to be a lot
Speaker 2: of people going to say, hey, no, I'd like to
Speaker 2: be able to go out and as opposed to having
Speaker 2: a drink with friends, go out and smoke some cannabis.
Speaker 2: I'd love to know what you think about this and
Speaker 2: how it's and there are still regulations that have to
Speaker 2: be developed. We'll talk about that. That's the topic this hour.
Speaker 2: Next hour, we're going to talk about whether or not
Speaker 2: jaywalking should be well not legalized. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's basically decriminalized in Massachusetts. Okay, we'll talk about that,
Speaker 2: and then later on tonight, I'd like to explain to
Speaker 2: you that Congress has yet to act, has yet to
Speaker 2: act on a piece of legislation which would make sure
Speaker 2: that AM radio remains in automobiles produced in this country.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that later. So let's talk on the
Speaker 2: other side of the break here about cannabis. Uh, you
Speaker 2: don't have to be a pot smoker to think it's
Speaker 2: a good idea. You might think, hey, you know, if
Speaker 2: I have a right to go and have my course
Speaker 2: lights at a bar or at a restaurant, why shouldn't
Speaker 2: other people be able to go and smoke whatever they
Speaker 2: want to smoke. I mean, it's interesting that cigarettes have
Speaker 2: long been Now what at least twenty years there was
Speaker 2: this you can't have you can't smoke at a restaurant.
Speaker 2: Remember that, leave the Lucky strikes and the Campmeel's at home, whatever,
Speaker 2: the Winston's, whatever, you smoke. I'm not a smoker. So
Speaker 2: my father was a big smoker, but he went cold
Speaker 2: turkey when the Surgeon General's report came out, and thank
Speaker 2: god he did. So we'll talk about that. I'm going
Speaker 2: to open up the phone lines. I want to get
Speaker 2: a sense of my audience. Are you concerned about this
Speaker 2: or do you welcome it? Six seven, two, five, four
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: And you know it may be that someone's gonna call
Speaker 2: me up and say, hey, look, I'm a pot smoker.
Speaker 2: I'm not. But someone might call up and say, I'm
Speaker 2: a pot smoker. I'm a regular pot smoker, but I'm
Speaker 2: not comfortable with the idea of going to a bar.
Speaker 2: So I'll bet you we're going to get people, I hope,
Speaker 2: on both sides of this issue who have a different
Speaker 2: relationship with marijuana. I don't think it's going to break
Speaker 2: down the anti marijuana line or the pro marijuana line
Speaker 2: in my opinion, but It's up to you to prove
Speaker 2: me right or prove me wrong. Six months, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty, six months, seven nine thirty back on night
Speaker 2: Side right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the window World
Speaker 1: light Side Studios on WBZ, the news radio.
Speaker 2: My daughter has a beautiful cooky dog. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: just an amazing dog. I literally am broadcasting and she
Speaker 2: opened the door. She thought it was on a phone call.
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, you know, I do a radio show. Anyway.
Speaker 2: It was a never had that happen before, but it was.
Speaker 2: It was fun, it was it was radio and it's
Speaker 2: most real. Okay, so you know the question. The question
Speaker 2: is cannabis cafes in Massachusetts. They will be once they
Speaker 2: are opened, and they're available widely. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: not gonna be one in downtown Boston and in Springfield.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're gonna pop up in many locations, and
Speaker 2: there are rules and regulations to be written. And we're
Speaker 2: not talking about being able to go somewhere this weekend.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you a year from now, I'll bet
Speaker 2: you'll be able to go to any of the number
Speaker 2: of places, and some of them will be in coordination
Speaker 2: with yoga studios. I mean, there's a whole world here
Speaker 2: that's going to be unveiled. But I want to hear
Speaker 2: what you think. Let's go first to Bobby in West Virginia. Bobby,
Speaker 2: I know you're not in Massachusetts, but you called in
Speaker 2: early and be well, then happy to get your point
Speaker 2: of view on this. Go ahead, Bob.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. You know, the Constitution only has
Speaker 3: eighteen things that the federal government has purview over, and
Speaker 3: I don't see how they got their hands and everything.
Speaker 3: And I think it's perfectly legitimate. People want to, you know,
Speaker 3: smoke weed or whatever. That's up to them. As long
Speaker 3: as they don't cause any accidents or cause any trouble
Speaker 3: with it, that's pervaltly fine with me. I think the
Speaker 3: federal government's gone way, way overboard, and I think it's interesting.
Speaker 2: It's interesting, Bob, because even though marijuana is legal in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: it's not legal under federal standards.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: The Feds are not alcohol, tobacco, firearms or whatever they're not,
Speaker 2: or the DEA agents are not going to break into
Speaker 2: pot shops. But there's a lot of people who when
Speaker 2: they opened up cannabis businesses here. They had trouble getting
Speaker 2: loans from banks because banks, I think, are still hesitant
Speaker 2: to give law owns to marijuana establishments because there is
Speaker 2: it's still outlawed as a on the books federally. So
Speaker 2: so let me ask you. Are you somebody who who
Speaker 2: in vibes or are you just somebody who's open minded
Speaker 2: and saying, hey, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I'm I'm basically a libertarian. I don't believe in
Speaker 3: access to authority by the federal government.
Speaker 2: The group.
Speaker 3: What do we do with our private lives. It's perfectly okay.
Speaker 3: I don't care what my neighbor does as long as
Speaker 3: they don't do anything to harm me or you know,
Speaker 3: whatever they're doing is fine with me.
Speaker 2: So let me run this one by you. Here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: right now, you can go to a uh A dispensary
Speaker 2: and buy whatever amount of we be you're permitted to buy.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's an an ounce or whatever.
Speaker 2: You can't smoke it on the street, you can't smoke
Speaker 2: it at a public venue, but you can go to
Speaker 2: your backyard and smoke it with friends. You can sit
Speaker 2: in your house in the wintertime smokeing with or whatever.
Speaker 2: So it's treated a little differently than beer. I mean,
Speaker 2: I can go and have a couple of COIs beers
Speaker 2: at a bar on a restaurant, but someone else can't
Speaker 2: go and smoke weed at a bar a restaurant. So
Speaker 2: it's not But when this happens and there are cannabis shops,
Speaker 2: it's going to be very equal. Well, you mentioned concerns
Speaker 2: about Look, there are plenty of people who drive drunk
Speaker 2: and come out of a bar at night, and.
Speaker 3: They've got to figure out how to They got to
Speaker 3: figure out how to judge if somebody's inebriated on marijuana,
Speaker 3: so they make sure they're not going to be a
Speaker 3: menace to the public safe.
Speaker 2: Well, that's part of the problem you just identified. It
Speaker 2: is there are all sorts of ways to do breathalyze,
Speaker 2: the tests by alcohol content tests to whether or not
Speaker 2: people are under the influence of alcohol. My understanding is
Speaker 2: that there's no such test that is available for people
Speaker 2: under the influence of weed.
Speaker 3: That is correct. I've heard that, sir. Uh, So that's
Speaker 3: that's a that's a quandary we've got to overcome pretty much. Uh,
Speaker 3: make sure that people aren't abusing that privilege of being
Speaker 3: able to uh imbibe whatever it is in marijuana at
Speaker 3: your local you know, marijuana bar or whatever, and not
Speaker 3: cause any accidents and a public safetyation alive.
Speaker 2: I guess. I guess police can can save someone's speech
Speaker 2: is slurred or or their gate was unsteady or just
Speaker 2: all of that. But if you take a blood alcohol
Speaker 2: you know, if you take a breathalyzer and you pop up,
Speaker 2: you know one point three. You know, That's why most
Speaker 2: lawyers tell people you're going down. Yeah, precisely.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to put you down as a yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 3: You can rest assured that I am a yes, but
Speaker 3: to with a little bit of limitation there. You've got
Speaker 3: to figure out how to make sure that public safety
Speaker 3: is is handled and that people are safe and that
Speaker 3: sort of thing. And it was a pleasure. I enjoyed talk.
Speaker 3: I was surfing the radio wave, uh, and I picked
Speaker 3: your folks up, uh sort of between stations, and I said, hey,
Speaker 3: this sounded like a pretty cool show. You they'll call
Speaker 3: them up. I've been to Massachusetts a long time agoit
Speaker 3: and I like them. I didn't live there. I went
Speaker 3: through there, and you know, I had fried clams. I
Speaker 3: thought that was cool.
Speaker 5: Stuff.
Speaker 2: We have plenty, We have plenty of listeners in West Virginia. Obviously,
Speaker 2: you guys get the mountains down there. Is it is
Speaker 2: your first time listening to us tonight.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: I picked you up briefly about a month and a
Speaker 3: half ago, and uh I wrote your uh, your your
Speaker 3: telephone number down and uh uh tonight, I was listening
Speaker 3: to uh talk radio here locally, and I was surfing
Speaker 3: because talk radio is sort of kind of quit. So
Speaker 3: I picked you up and go, hey, these guys. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't like that guy Dan Ray. His daughter had
Speaker 3: as a Wells Corny's. Oh yeah, those little, short, little
Speaker 3: happy dogs.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. His name is Mustard.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's a she. She she adopted him from a shelter.
Speaker 2: Uh so he's about three years old. We've had she's
Speaker 2: had him now for about a year and a half.
Speaker 2: He is the best. I mean, I love dogs. Okay,
Speaker 2: if you listen to the end of my show. In
Speaker 2: my show, all every Night, all dogs, all cats, all
Speaker 2: patscot to have and I truly do believe that. But
Speaker 2: but she opened the door and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Mustard comes flying in. I've spent more time with Mustard
Speaker 2: the last six hours than I have in the last
Speaker 2: six months. It's like I just you know, he was
Speaker 2: with us during the summer, but she and her husband
Speaker 2: work in San Francisco, so we haven't seen them in
Speaker 2: a while. So it's kind of the beginning of Christmas
Speaker 2: for us, if you will. And uh and for me,
Speaker 2: the best Christmas present was once Mustard walked in the
Speaker 2: door this afternoon.
Speaker 3: I can imagine. We have hunting dogs. We have a
Speaker 3: I go down to Georgia and I hunt wild hogs
Speaker 3: and uh, there's.
Speaker 2: No limit on I understand the correct no limit.
Speaker 3: On those there. And they want to be rid of them.
Speaker 3: There are so many of them, you you. Uh, the
Speaker 3: game warden will actually say make sure that you if
Speaker 3: you're dressing out the animal, uh, you make sure that
Speaker 3: uh poured it all out of there.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Usually they'll allow you to dig a dick big ditch,
Speaker 3: but I'm not going to say that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And you know, but they are tasty. What we put
Speaker 3: them in the ground to cook them. We we dig
Speaker 3: a big pit. We put rocks and uh and messk
Speaker 3: he and cook it up for about you know, until
Speaker 3: it gets super hot. We wrap the pig up and
Speaker 3: burl app and and chicken wire and put them in
Speaker 3: the ground. Bury it for twelve hours, come back unbury
Speaker 3: the big and uh and it's in. The meat just
Speaker 3: falls right off the bottom.
Speaker 2: It's just unbeing you're a serious hunter. That you're a
Speaker 2: serious hunter and you enjoyed the the product. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: you bet you'll with you, Bob, do me a favorite.
Speaker 2: Lock us in and your your dial. You can always
Speaker 2: get us in the iHeart app. By the way, if
Speaker 2: the signal any night waivers, but we have a lot
Speaker 2: of listeners. We boom into West Virginia. So I hope
Speaker 2: to have you back because your first time calling, I
Speaker 2: assume right.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, it surely is, and I enjoy listening to
Speaker 3: your chef. I love Dodge. You know, Dodger Dodge are
Speaker 3: truly they will never betray you. There they are man's
Speaker 3: best friend.
Speaker 2: Really now question you.
Speaker 5: Get it right?
Speaker 2: And also the first time as a first time caller,
Speaker 2: our digital studio audience stood up. Thanks man, we'll talk again. Okay,
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas if you celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 3: God love you and merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: To do me all right back at you, thanks, Bob,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Well, there's a first time caller. Uh, we
Speaker 2: love first time callers. We love second, third, and twenty
Speaker 2: fifth time callers as well. Back on side only. Line
Speaker 2: open is six.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, back to the call as we go, Let's
Speaker 2: see what people have to say. We're gonna go to
Speaker 2: Glenn Glenn is local in Brighton, Glenn next one night
Speaker 2: Side go on hits Her.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I told your producer Rob that I think I'm
Speaker 5: gonna call you working for I voted to legalized pot.
Speaker 5: I smoke it sometimes, but I've got some problems with this.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: First of all, before pot was legal, it had a
Speaker 5: sweet cinnamon smell. Now it smells a cold dead skunk,
Speaker 5: like roadkill. It's gross. Uh, It's really bad. But I
Speaker 5: think uh and our friend Tim would agree with me
Speaker 5: on this. Waltam is the marijuana mecca of Massachusetts. People
Speaker 5: smoking on the street. I mean, you can't go anywhere
Speaker 5: in Waltam. It smells like roadkill. It makes your eyes water,
Speaker 5: your nose gets.
Speaker 2: Telling me you're a pot smoker, occasional pot smoker. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you're not in favor of cannabis cafes. It sounds
Speaker 2: like the point I didn't want to miss that. I
Speaker 2: understand you correctly.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, yes, you understood me correctly, because I heard
Speaker 5: you say it at night. It's at the top of
Speaker 5: the show. I'm like, this is a this is I
Speaker 5: got a call on this because.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, glad you did.
Speaker 5: Well. Here's the thing, Like the cigarette they don't have
Speaker 5: some tobacco bars anymore. I mean employees that can't get
Speaker 5: that are looking for work. They don't want that to
Speaker 5: be They don't want a job with their asthma, their
Speaker 5: autoimmune system. They don't want that smell. Let's say someone
Speaker 5: needs a job and there's a good job at a
Speaker 5: cannabis bar. But now they're going to smell. They're going
Speaker 5: to smell like a you know, pippel pew at the
Speaker 5: end of the there, it's going to be in their hair,
Speaker 5: it's going to be on their clothes. Well.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, if you go to work
Speaker 2: at a pot shop, just as it like if you
Speaker 2: went to work at a cigar bar. Remember, there was
Speaker 2: a Boston medical director I think she's now the medical
Speaker 2: director in Los Angeles who was concerned about the smell
Speaker 2: of cigar smoke inside cigar bars.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2: I get it. Well, I guess so. I mean it
Speaker 2: might be you know, you might be offended by the
Speaker 2: smell of beer inside the Boston Garden and her self
Speaker 2: is game. But the idea is that people who are
Speaker 2: going there and know what it's all about. Same way
Speaker 2: with pot shops. I guess if you go, you're going
Speaker 2: to deal with whatever the smell is. But I got
Speaker 2: you down as a big uh.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess the webinarian too, right.
Speaker 2: You talked, you talked about you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going on this. Yeah, I heard it. I mean,
Speaker 5: if it happens, I don't think I'll lose a lot
Speaker 5: of sleep over it. But it's just the inconsistency. They
Speaker 5: have hookah bars, but they don't have you know, marl
Speaker 5: barrel bars. It's just I find that, you know.
Speaker 2: Let mean, are the hookah bars in operation in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sound really dumbed when I asked that question.
Speaker 5: But don't know, I've never been to one. I've always
Speaker 5: wanted until we're twenty years ago they were now, I
Speaker 5: don't know if they if they still are.
Speaker 2: Smoke well, let me skuse, what do you smoke at
Speaker 2: a hoopah bar. Call me naive, but I mean.
Speaker 5: You smoke a hookah pipe. I've never smote the hookah pipe.
Speaker 5: I'm stilling.
Speaker 2: What is in the hookah pipe?
Speaker 5: I don't know. It's some kind of Eastern or Middle
Speaker 5: Eastern tobacco. Somebody from the Middle East can explain it.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 5: Okay, a lot of Islamic people smoke it. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe someone, But it's not like some sort of religious
Speaker 2: experience when you go to a Catholic church and they
Speaker 2: had incense, and some people like the smell of incense.
Speaker 2: Some people don't like the smell of incense. But that's
Speaker 2: part of I love you, you know, ceremony. So I
Speaker 2: got you down. You're you're my first U. A person
Speaker 2: who acknowledges they smoke pot bud uh wants to continue
Speaker 2: in time to see people's home.
Speaker 5: You Willian let me go. I am a small Republican,
Speaker 5: small ill libertarian. I'm sort of half and half David
Speaker 5: Brunn I used to call himself a small tea conservative
Speaker 5: swaw il libertarian.
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with half and half, and I haven't make
Speaker 2: coffee every morning.
Speaker 5: You're funny.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks, talk soon. Thanks. All right, let's keep rolling.
Speaker 2: He you're gonna go to Jay up in Maine. Boy,
Speaker 2: you got West Virginia, Massachusetts, and in Maine, folks, there
Speaker 2: are lines here for Massachusetts College. Go right ahead, Hey, Jay,
Speaker 2: how are you tonight?
Speaker 4: Sure to Midland? How you doing, brother?
Speaker 2: We're doing just great. What's your take on this? Jay?
Speaker 4: So I hear you going back and forth and.
Speaker 7: You say, the guy, you vote yes, you vote no, Tell.
Speaker 4: Me the question.
Speaker 7: I'll give you the answer and then a little commentary
Speaker 7: on the subject.
Speaker 4: What's the question?
Speaker 2: Well, here in Massachusetts we basically legalized marijuana about eight
Speaker 2: years ago, medicinal marijuana. Now we have marijuana dispensary. You
Speaker 2: probably have them in Maine, and we are now beginning
Speaker 2: to formulate regulations which would allow cannabis cafes or pot shop,
Speaker 2: park bars, whatever you want to call them, where it's
Speaker 2: just like I can go down to the corner bar
Speaker 2: with the corner restaurant and have a couple of you know,
Speaker 2: course lights or a glass of red wine. Now you'd
Speaker 2: be able to extend the same opportunities to people who
Speaker 2: would prefer to smoke a joint. So the question is
Speaker 2: is that a good idea, or do we keep it
Speaker 2: where it is right now, which is you buy the
Speaker 2: stuff at the dispensary and you go home and you
Speaker 2: share it with your friends, or you smoke it yourself.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well I don't fit in either of those categories because.
Speaker 4: I don't I have it, said someone all I retired
Speaker 4: and getting near the end of the road here. I haven't.
Speaker 7: In high school, I was with some folks and young
Speaker 7: and I smoked a few left handed cigarettes. I understand
Speaker 7: what it is to have to self medicate and to
Speaker 7: have a few laughs and relax and stuff. But that's,
Speaker 7: you know, when I was twenty, and that's a long
Speaker 7: time ago.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you. Let me ask you the
Speaker 2: threshold question as someone now again, you're in Maine. I
Speaker 2: assume marijuana is legally made, correct, do you have to
Speaker 2: special subjects? Okay?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: When when that was on the ballot or whatever? Are
Speaker 2: you okay with that? I mean, are there are people
Speaker 2: who are who are who are abstainers from alcohol? They're
Speaker 2: okay with package stores? So what's your position on the
Speaker 2: legalization of marijuana in Maine? Up or down?
Speaker 7: So I'm not a great socialite with conversation, but I
Speaker 7: have some courage of my convictions. For lack of a
Speaker 7: better commentary, I have read where it says, let's say
Speaker 7: cover you opened up to can of worms with other stuff.
Speaker 7: I will address that smoke thing with you. Solomon wrote
Speaker 7: the Proverbs chapter twenty verse one.
Speaker 4: Wine is a mocker.
Speaker 7: Strong drink is raging, and anybody deceived by that is
Speaker 7: not why so.
Speaker 4: I definitely concur with the wisdom.
Speaker 7: I was a teenager and had self medicated with alcohol
Speaker 7: is a problem.
Speaker 4: So Solomon is smarter than.
Speaker 2: Most of you. Know. Again, I don't want to get
Speaker 2: into debate with you, but I don't self MEDICAI. But
Speaker 2: I enjoy glass of wine with dinner, and I sometimes
Speaker 2: I'll have a course like before. But let's get back
Speaker 2: to the topic at hand. We could debate that some
Speaker 2: other night marijuana did you when when it became legally made?
Speaker 2: Did you welcome it? You didn't have to use it,
Speaker 2: did you welcome it?
Speaker 7: I spoke to thousands of people on the subject, and
Speaker 7: I didn't rest of the matter.
Speaker 4: Because I was a child.
Speaker 7: I acted as a child, I thought as a child,
Speaker 7: and when I became a man, I put.
Speaker 4: Away childish things.
Speaker 7: So there is a text and a new testament that
Speaker 7: says be sober and be vigilant because your adversary to
Speaker 7: devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking who it
Speaker 7: can devour. So we have enough trouble thinking straight in
Speaker 7: America and on the street, corner with the neighbors and
Speaker 7: everywhere you go with the store.
Speaker 4: It's important to be as clear minded as you can.
Speaker 7: So I wasn't passing judgment on anybody because they're drinking
Speaker 7: or there smoking.
Speaker 4: It's a personal choice.
Speaker 7: And as for me, I would say, you know a
Speaker 7: lot of brain cells have been wounded in the young age.
Speaker 7: They recover if you stay away from that stuff. But
Speaker 7: I have friends that are still you know, like teenage
Speaker 7: child you know, high school kids still smoking, still partying,
Speaker 7: and there's a limit. At some point you just kind
Speaker 7: of grow up and put a way to childish stuff.
Speaker 7: I don't endorse it. I don't embrace it. That's my
Speaker 7: personal choice. But I don't condemn people for us. And
Speaker 7: it does think the guys right. I was in Boston
Speaker 7: last week to see my medical specialist, and the skunk
Speaker 7: smell is you know, while you're going down the road,
Speaker 7: you don't even have to be walking on the street corner.
Speaker 4: You can smell it and it has an effect. It does.
Speaker 7: It does affect people that get exposed to secondhand smoke.
Speaker 7: It does affect people. So it's I don't think it's
Speaker 7: a healthy thing. I think Uncle Sam is just like,
Speaker 7: give me your money and you can do what.
Speaker 4: You want to do.
Speaker 7: That doesn't make it right from a moral From a
Speaker 7: moral perspective, to my opinion, just try to be as
Speaker 7: clear minded as you can and dealing with issues, because
Speaker 7: once you get over the edge with chemicals or whatever
Speaker 7: you're putting in your body, there you're thinking, and so
Speaker 7: the judgment becomes imbalanced.
Speaker 2: So I think, I think, I think I got your point,
Speaker 2: but I'm up on a break, so I gotta let
Speaker 2: you run. Appreciate your call. Always happy to hear a
Speaker 2: couple of Bible quotes. Thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We'll take a break, coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Forget a full lines here, let's keep rolling. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: try to move people a little bit more quickly. Jim
Speaker 2: in Kansas City, Jim Next on Nightsiger.
Speaker 3: Right ahead, Dan Hi, longtime, no talk.
Speaker 8: How are you doing great?
Speaker 2: What you're taking this?
Speaker 3: Jim Well, to quote a very wise woman, just say no,
Speaker 3: say no.
Speaker 2: Okay. So, so I assume your opposed to the legalization
Speaker 2: and therefore certainly you don't want cannabis cafes.
Speaker 3: Well, just for me personally, I'm a completely averse to it.
Speaker 3: I don't want it around me. I don't want to
Speaker 3: be around it. I don't want to be around people
Speaker 3: who are on it. I don't want it in the schools.
Speaker 3: I don't want it in society. I don't want to
Speaker 3: have to pay increased insurance rates as a result of
Speaker 3: the use of it.
Speaker 2: But totally other.
Speaker 3: People want it. If other people want to do it,
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure that they're paying the price,
Speaker 3: not me insurance. I mean, I want to encourage employers
Speaker 3: to drug test people at work so that we I mean,
Speaker 3: you're at words you're hearing all the time about safety,
Speaker 3: safety safety. I mean to me, people who are on
Speaker 3: they think because they haven't smoked it for twenty four hours,
Speaker 3: they're off of it. No, it stays in your blood
Speaker 3: for on a seven eight days, and if they're a safety,
Speaker 3: they're hazard.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: I want to you know, I mean drug testing. I
Speaker 3: want to see more drug testing. And I'd be interested
Speaker 3: in knowing how insurance corporations if a marijuana cafe that's
Speaker 3: what we're talking about, Yeah, don't they have to have
Speaker 3: insurance in order to open up? Or where do they
Speaker 3: get insurance for it? And how does the insurance corporation?
Speaker 3: I mean, what pool do they put them in? Is
Speaker 3: it just a must be like a state pool or
Speaker 3: because if it's if it's if it's illegal nationally, I
Speaker 3: would think that it would be illegal for them to
Speaker 3: take the proceed from a policy of an organization that US.
Speaker 3: I don't know how that works out. I don't even
Speaker 3: think it's legal for them to put the money in
Speaker 3: a bank or for a bank to knowingly accept it.
Speaker 2: So there are some applications there. Yep, you've raised You've
Speaker 2: raised about fifteen issues. I wish I had enough time
Speaker 2: to address them all.
Speaker 3: But you talk about library library cards. Man, that's important stuff,
Speaker 3: all right. Like I say, I wanted drug testing, drug testing,
Speaker 3: drug testing, drug testing because it stays in your blood
Speaker 3: for a long time. It's not like alcohol. I don't
Speaker 3: like when people compare to alcohol because it's not like alcohol.
Speaker 3: That stuff gets you high and keeps you high for
Speaker 3: a long time. Even though people, the people who use
Speaker 3: it and they're on it, I don't appreciate their opinion
Speaker 3: on whether or not they're high. I think they're still high,
Speaker 3: like a day or two, a long time after they
Speaker 3: use it.
Speaker 2: But all right, but I gotta let you run. I
Speaker 2: get packed. Calls behind you too, Thanks you soon, Thank
Speaker 2: you much. Let me go to Betty in the boat.
Speaker 2: Betty got a little late here. Want to sneak you in,
Speaker 2: but I've got to be got to be quick tonight.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Betty.
Speaker 8: I'm against the cafes. And in the boating said, did
Speaker 8: you say.
Speaker 2: You're against them? Betty, you said you're against them?
Speaker 8: Yeah, against them primarily because of the impact of second
Speaker 8: hand smoke to the non consumer, but in the voting industry.
Speaker 8: If I get boarded by the US Coast Guard and
Speaker 8: I who they find drugs on my boat, I lose
Speaker 8: my vessel. It's a ten thousand dollars finding, five years
Speaker 8: in jail. I'm on federal waters.
Speaker 2: I gotcha, and I got you. I've forgotten about that,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you.
Speaker 8: Okay, And New Hampshire does not permit marijuana as a
Speaker 8: land as a property owner up there, you're a mandated
Speaker 8: self reporter. If your renter is using and you know
Speaker 8: it and you don't report it, you lose your property
Speaker 8: ten thousand dollars fying five years in jail.
Speaker 2: That's that's in the live free or die state.
Speaker 8: Bingo. Yeah, okay, And I you know, I just I've
Speaker 8: seen a change traffic patterns and people's driving behaviors, and
Speaker 8: there's more aggression on the highways today than I've ever
Speaker 8: seen in my sixty two years of driving.
Speaker 2: I can on that point too, Betty.
Speaker 8: You hit them all, then go ahead, you know if
Speaker 8: I So, if I go someplace and I and I
Speaker 8: have a lung condition and there's smoke, I want to leave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But on the on the cannabis shops, on the
Speaker 2: on the cannabis cafes, you would know what you're walking into.
Speaker 2: I mean, one of the things about restaurants now is
Speaker 2: that you can't smoke cigarettes. So therefore, if you're in
Speaker 2: a restaurant and someone lights up, they're gonna be told to,
Speaker 2: you know, to put it on get out. But cigar
Speaker 2: or p yeah, you're not going to be affected by that.
Speaker 2: Second hand smoke in the cannabis cafe because you're probably
Speaker 2: not going to enter the premises right thing.
Speaker 8: Though, I'm not going afire. I value my lunch too much.
Speaker 2: All right, Betty, I got you in here. We'll talk soon, Okay.
Speaker 2: Should be is whether we'll clear up by the next
Speaker 2: day or so.
Speaker 8: Okay, it's gonna be fine until Friday, and then it's
Speaker 8: gonna turn around again with high winds and then we'll
Speaker 8: be fine the first to next week. And I hope
Speaker 8: you and your family are a both well. All well,
Speaker 8: take care.
Speaker 2: Of the dog absolutely absolutely. I'll bring Mustard bye some
Speaker 2: day and say hello, thanks, Betty.
Speaker 8: Talk to you absolutely, take here by, right.
Speaker 2: Next up is Steve in Franklin, Massachusetts. Steve, you're next
Speaker 2: on Nightside. We got we're getting tight.
Speaker 9: Go ahead, Hi Dan, Happy New Year in happy holidays.
Speaker 9: And I'm a long time listener, but having called in
Speaker 9: a while. But you know, you're talking about the cafes
Speaker 9: and where they can smoke it. I mean, I'm against
Speaker 9: smoking in marijuana and it's a federal crime. And uh,
Speaker 9: I was just saying that they're gonna smoke it, and
Speaker 9: shouldn't they allow like water pipes for people that don't
Speaker 9: have come passionate use, because I understand the water pipe
Speaker 9: cools the tobacco, cools the marijuana. I mean, people with
Speaker 9: a esophageo cancer. Shouldn't they have shouldn't they allow water
Speaker 9: pipes for compassionate use.
Speaker 2: I have no clue to be really official to do
Speaker 2: that one. I wish I could offered opinion. I think
Speaker 2: they have these hookah pipes, but I'm not I'm not
Speaker 2: a hooka pipe guy, so I can't help you there either.
Speaker 2: We're not talking about compassionate use here. We're talking about
Speaker 2: basically taking marijuana.
Speaker 9: But I mean, if they're gonna smoke it, I thought
Speaker 9: a water pipe cools the tobacco, and it cools the marijuana,
Speaker 9: and you want to burn your esophagus, and that might do.
Speaker 2: But that's a little off topic here because they.
Speaker 9: Have one up town, and I guess I went in
Speaker 9: there to buy something for tobacco or something for my brother,
Speaker 9: and I didn't see any water pipes, and I remember
Speaker 9: water pipes cooled it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's all You've You've got a lot of
Speaker 2: good information about water pipes, and I want to get
Speaker 2: one more caller in see what he has to say
Speaker 2: as well, Steve, callmore often. We'll talk soon. Thank you much.
Speaker 2: Another Steven Gamebri Steve, you're at the end of the line.
Speaker 2: Normally they're going.
Speaker 6: To have marijuana cafes. I would like to be able
Speaker 6: to go to a bar and have a cigarette with
Speaker 6: my martini if I drank. I don't drink anymore. But
Speaker 6: it seems inconsistent to allow marijuana cafes but now allowed
Speaker 6: tobacco cafes.
Speaker 2: Well, it's amazing when you think about it, because there
Speaker 2: was a push you can't go to a And by
Speaker 2: the way, I'm not a smoker. I don't smoke cigarettes,
Speaker 2: never smoke cigarettes. And I was always bothered by cigarette smoke.
Speaker 6: By your father's cigarette smoke. You what by your father's
Speaker 6: cigarette smoke.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was horribly bothered by that.
Speaker 5: I really yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean how many decades did he smoke?
Speaker 2: Do you think smoke most of his life? He went
Speaker 2: cold Turkey in nineteen sixty four when the Surgeon General
Speaker 2: report came down. But he's a World War Two veteran.
Speaker 2: I suspect he probably spoke for thirty years. They all
Speaker 2: smoked when they're in World War two. Yes, two and
Speaker 2: a half years in what was called the CBI China
Speaker 2: Burmer in India. But for him, Wow Smith rather, smoking
Speaker 2: really bothered me and I just never I never took
Speaker 2: to it at all.
Speaker 6: But Dan, don't you think if they allow marijuana bars,
Speaker 6: they should allow a bar where someone could go in
Speaker 6: and have a beer and a cigarette and shine on
Speaker 6: the front.
Speaker 2: Well, no, no, I'm with I'm going to agree with
Speaker 2: you on this. I'm enough of a libertarian say there
Speaker 2: should be restaurants in which smoking is allowed. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to patronize that restaurant. But that allows you to
Speaker 2: go and have your martini and smoke a cigarette enjoy
Speaker 2: a meal. But if I want to put aside my
Speaker 2: concerns about cigarettes and enjoy a meal with you and
Speaker 2: try to sit away from the cigarette smoke, that's my decision.
Speaker 6: Or if I decide not to smoke and go to
Speaker 6: a non smoking restaurant with you, that would be my
Speaker 6: decision too.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, So, I was in favor of two types
Speaker 2: of restaurants. Open up the restaurant and the owner can
Speaker 2: either can either be smoking or non smoking people. Not
Speaker 2: one of these where over the corner the smokers consis.
Speaker 2: But again that's that was too rational for Massachusetts. And
Speaker 2: again I say that as a viril anti smoker.
Speaker 6: Huh, yes, Dan, you know if they you know, be
Speaker 6: interesting because I bet you if you have a marijuana bar,
Speaker 6: you won't be allowed to smoke tobacco in it.
Speaker 2: I'm almost certain of that, and we will discuss that
Speaker 2: subject another night.
Speaker 6: But for this one, generally speaking, people smoke Middle Eastern
Speaker 6: people smoke tobacco in hookahs. But you could smoke marijuana
Speaker 6: in a hookah anything, but generally it's tobacco.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, thank you very much for that information. I
Speaker 2: know nothing about that, and you've you've provided me with
Speaker 2: some information. I'm more edified as a consequence of the
Speaker 2: phone call.
Speaker 6: As always, you're too kind, as I always say, take
Speaker 6: care Dan.
Speaker 2: Thanks Bell. When we get back, going to change topics,
Speaker 2: going to change topics here a little bit, and we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about something else. Should jaywalking in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: which is still against the law, should that be decriminalized?
Speaker 2: I have very mixed mind on this one. We'll talk
Speaker 2: to you in a minute, in a few minutes, right
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