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Speaker 2: No when kids, if you smoke a joint or that.
Speaker 3: Not in state of Ohio, Well most don't anyway, some
Speaker 3: do care, maybe because you'd be smoking it outside their
Speaker 3: business and that might be bad for their business. Welcome
Speaker 3: back to the fifty five PERCA morning morning show. Owner
Speaker 3: of Temptations locations and has been in the hemp selling
Speaker 3: business as opposed to the marijuana business. What couple of decades, Beach,
Speaker 3: owner of Temptation's good to have it back on the program,
Speaker 3: My friend.
Speaker 2: That's true. We'll be celebrating twenty nine years in the
Speaker 2: hemp business almost.
Speaker 1: Year, twenty nine years, you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Twenty nine years inabis in the cannabis world.
Speaker 3: Now, let me ask you a question because I recall
Speaker 3: having a conversation, let's say, about fifteen years ago with
Speaker 3: one of my older friends. So I always like to
Speaker 3: describe as a former hippie, like he was an original
Speaker 3: nineteen early nineteen seventies hippie. He was old enough to
Speaker 3: have experienced the hippie world, and he smoked weed. Back
Speaker 3: then he had stories about his escapades, and I just
Speaker 3: asked him, I said, do you think marijuana will ever
Speaker 3: be legal? This is early on in the push for
Speaker 3: legalization for medical purposes. That was the tip of the spear,
Speaker 3: which obviously led to, you know, wholesale legalization like we
Speaker 3: have here in Ohio. But and he he shook his
Speaker 3: heads at now, it don't ever happen, And I just
Speaker 3: know I think it will. I think within the next
Speaker 3: I probably guess maybe ten years, it'll be legal. And
Speaker 3: lo and behold. I was a lot closer to reality
Speaker 3: than him. What was your take back in twenty nine
Speaker 3: years ago or almost thirty years ago when you opened
Speaker 3: the hemp stores, obviously selling a legal product. I'm sure
Speaker 3: people look down their nose at you for even being
Speaker 3: involved in the business, But did you ever think you
Speaker 3: would be living in the state of Ohio where marijuana
Speaker 3: has now full recreational legal.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. I have taken cannabis legalization
Speaker 2: one day at a time for the last twenty nine years,
Speaker 2: because yeah, when we started, I had no foreseeable whether
Speaker 2: it was industrial hemp, whether it was personal use, whether
Speaker 2: it was the medical and it all really started with
Speaker 2: the medical and I will have to say we saw
Speaker 2: that because in nineteen ninety five, that was actually the
Speaker 2: year that California passed their medical that was Proposition two fifteen.
Speaker 2: So it all kind of, it all kind of started
Speaker 2: right around nineteen ninety five because that's that's when that's
Speaker 2: when Proposition two fifteen and California passed, and that was
Speaker 2: the first medical marijuana law legalization in the country.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe it's that long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so you know, with that, and we were
Speaker 2: always told that well medical was they just wanted for
Speaker 2: personal use, and we're like, well, okay, fine, that's fine.
Speaker 2: You know, that's no kidding. But that's that's how it
Speaker 2: all started, right with the medical and then and then Colorado,
Speaker 2: which has been I mean, I can't even believe it.
Speaker 2: Colorado has been ten years now or something. I mean,
Speaker 2: it has been quite amazing. It was it was very slow,
Speaker 2: and then the medical really gained and and now we're
Speaker 2: just full blown. And now we're talking you know, they're
Speaker 2: talking federally rescheduling, which wouldn't be a great move, honestly,
Speaker 2: the move is to take it off the control subtice list.
Speaker 2: But you know, rescheduling, which I think they're going to
Speaker 2: do probably within the next year. You know. The the
Speaker 2: Biden dropping out kind of messed us up for rescheduling
Speaker 2: because I think he was going to try to get
Speaker 2: it rescheduled before the elections to get get those votes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I and I don't know if Harris is excited
Speaker 2: about it. I mean she does. She's for legalizations, so
Speaker 2: that's a good thing, but I don't know if she's
Speaker 2: going to be his push to try to get it
Speaker 2: done before the elections try to get those vines.
Speaker 3: Well, the importance of rescheduling, I suppose, is because currently
Speaker 3: it's treated the same way as heroin, and so all
Speaker 3: these businesses engaged in legal marijuana really aren't engaged in
Speaker 3: legal marijuana because it's still illegal on a federal level.
Speaker 3: But the federal government has of course ignored the law,
Speaker 3: has not engaged in prosecuting people for it, which has
Speaker 3: allowed marijuana to flourish in terms of legitimate business in
Speaker 3: the various states that allow for it. Would rescheduling it
Speaker 3: to a lower level than free up of the concerns
Speaker 3: people have about banking with these businesses, because that's one
Speaker 3: of the biggest problems right now, they're all walking around
Speaker 3: with piles and piles of cash. Banks won't do business
Speaker 3: with them because of the scheduling issue.
Speaker 2: That is one percent correct, and that is why the
Speaker 2: bank or the federal governer wants to do something. They
Speaker 2: have their special programs where you can still give them
Speaker 2: money under your illegal marijuana business now, so they get
Speaker 2: their taxes, but they want it to be more legit
Speaker 2: so they can it. They're they're cut of it, and
Speaker 2: they want to control it, which is what they'll do.
Speaker 2: They'll you know, my my guess is is they'll out
Speaker 2: of they'll out of c to the at F, which
Speaker 2: will stand for cannabis and uh and then uh, ironically
Speaker 2: I said, the at F and then call themselves fact.
Speaker 1: Right, I get it.
Speaker 2: But but you know, that's that's kind of how I
Speaker 2: see it. I think a lot of people are going
Speaker 2: to be It might be interesting because a lot of
Speaker 2: people don't understand that if it's rescheduled, then it may
Speaker 2: go under say, under the control of the actual pharmacies.
Speaker 2: And you know, and so I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people aren't looking into the Wow, you know, they said, yeah, great,
Speaker 2: it gets taken off. It now has medical acceptance we
Speaker 2: can study it, we can collect tax on it, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 2: But that actually might put it in more control of
Speaker 2: the government.
Speaker 3: And I imagine the big pharmaceutical companies are probably pumping
Speaker 3: in tons of money and to donate to campaigns for
Speaker 3: politicians who would go in that direction.
Speaker 2: For sure, if all of a sudden it has to
Speaker 2: become a pharmaceutical, well, guess what, but it still has
Speaker 2: to be approved by the FDA. It's still controlled by
Speaker 2: a pharmaceutical company. You will actually have to go to
Speaker 2: a pharmacy to get the medicine. Right now, we just
Speaker 2: get a recommendation from a doctor and you go to
Speaker 2: a dispensary. If it's rescheduled, it's very possible that you
Speaker 2: will actually have to get a prescription from your doctor
Speaker 2: and then go to a pharmacy. Yes, get your medicine.
Speaker 3: And because it involved interstate commerce, the federal law of
Speaker 3: course would trump any state law, saying that you can
Speaker 3: legally operate a business controlled by the state government as
Speaker 3: much as it might be, but that then becomes a
Speaker 3: washed away under the guise of federal government putting them
Speaker 3: in the hands of the pharmacy companies and then enforcing
Speaker 3: the schedule law and going out and prosecuting people who
Speaker 3: otherwise we're operating a legal business, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's my biggest concern. Everybody's allside about it,
Speaker 2: but in the long run, I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: gonna make it any better. It might once again, yes,
Speaker 2: it'll be legal, just like in Ohio. We have a
Speaker 2: medical problem in Ohio or a medical program in Ohio
Speaker 2: and it's legal, but it's not the greatest. It's it's
Speaker 2: it's you know, we have it, but it's not the
Speaker 2: best medical in the country.
Speaker 3: We're in a state of flux right now. Because of
Speaker 3: the ballot initiative. It's now legal now, subject to any
Speaker 3: laws that Columbus might pass to regulate it or micromanagement
Speaker 3: or whatever. They have the flexibility to do that. But
Speaker 3: have they issued, you know, licenses for for for businesses
Speaker 3: to actually sell legal weed without a medical mariorald on
Speaker 3: a license without a medical marijuana prescription.
Speaker 2: My understanding is that they finally did issue the first
Speaker 2: dual license. Everybody out of the gate is going to
Speaker 2: be a dual license. So all the licenses right now
Speaker 2: are going to go to current dispensaries.
Speaker 1: So I could walk in I don't have a medical
Speaker 1: marijuana card.
Speaker 3: I would never get one because it might interfere with
Speaker 3: the Second Amendment rights, and plus I don't need one.
Speaker 3: But I could walk in to a dual license shop
Speaker 3: without a medical marijuana card and go in and buy
Speaker 3: it like I'm buying a pack of gum, because it's
Speaker 3: a legal product to buy now.
Speaker 2: That is correct. If they if you are twenty one
Speaker 2: years old older, you show them your ID and then
Speaker 2: you go and you look and you pay personal use prices.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to probably have a different price
Speaker 2: scale for the medical and the personal use to keep
Speaker 2: the medical, to try to keep them up and running.
Speaker 2: That's why they're given all the licenses to the medical
Speaker 2: to start out with, right because the minute the minute
Speaker 2: the personal use goes, no one in Ohio is going
Speaker 2: to want to use the medical because it's too expensive.
Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's well limited, it's you know.
Speaker 1: But but it does come with the ded benefit.
Speaker 3: And my daughter was in the in the legal market
Speaker 3: there for a while, working for one of the larger
Speaker 3: cannabis growers for a year or two after she got
Speaker 3: out of college. She's no longer in that business, but
Speaker 3: very very very controlled growing conditions. In other words, like
Speaker 3: for example, if if a pot fell over and it
Speaker 3: hit the ground, you have to throw the whole thing out.
Speaker 3: That is no longer going to be qualified as medical
Speaker 3: grade marijuana. They have to analyze the buds and the weeds,
Speaker 3: look for bacteria and and and and pollutants and things
Speaker 3: of that nature. If it doesn't pass muster on an
Speaker 3: independent review, then it doesn't qualify as medical grade weed.
Speaker 3: So you're getting a benefit for medical grade weed. Would
Speaker 3: that same weed?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 3: Is that what's going to apply to the legal weed
Speaker 3: that sold to people without a license? Or is this
Speaker 3: going to be two qualities or two calibers of weed?
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 2: No, I think it'll be the exact same stuff. I
Speaker 2: think it'll just be you know, there'll there'll be two
Speaker 2: doors going out of the warehouse, now, you know, one
Speaker 2: that goes to the medical, one that goes to the
Speaker 2: personal use. You know, I think again what we will
Speaker 2: see is a reduction in medical and a increase in personal.
Speaker 2: But then that'll that will matter is to how much
Speaker 2: they do, in fact, if they do in fact fluctuate
Speaker 2: those prices. If there's going to be a different price
Speaker 2: for the medical as opposed to the personal use and so.
Speaker 2: But no, it's going to be for the most part,
Speaker 2: the same growers. I think this is why the state
Speaker 2: issued more licenses before, more growing licenses before the thing
Speaker 2: even passed, A to keep up with the medical in Ohio.
Speaker 2: But B because they'refore seeing that we were going to
Speaker 2: go legal and we're not going to run into this
Speaker 2: same problems that we did originally, which was but we
Speaker 2: didn't have any growing. There isn't an nuts growing, right,
Speaker 2: you know. They want to be able to be supplied.
Speaker 2: I understand when the doors do open.
Speaker 3: Right, all right, Well, let's pause. I'm bring Beach back.
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Speaker 3: It's Temptations dot com saving the planet since nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 3: My friend Beach, owner of Temptations and also I forgot
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Speaker 3: Hemp Show with Beach. Hey Beach, is it listen? I
Speaker 3: don't understand people's concerns. I understand you know you're selling
Speaker 3: marijuana you got a dispensary. Some of the downtown business
Speaker 3: owners are like, wait a second, you're gonna put a
Speaker 3: dispensary here downtown across from my business. They're worrying about
Speaker 3: unsavory characters, you know, people loitering around. And I'm thinking
Speaker 3: to myself, Listen, I go to a business, I go in,
Speaker 3: I buy a shirt, or I buy a pack of gum,
Speaker 3: or I fill my tank.
Speaker 1: I don't hang around.
Speaker 3: If I'm going in and I want to buy weed,
Speaker 3: I go in, I buy my weed, and I leave
Speaker 3: and go someplace, and I guess smoke it or whatever.
Speaker 3: But are these concerns, I mean grounded in legitimacy? Do
Speaker 3: you see any problem with the I mean, would you
Speaker 3: want one of these in your neighborhood, for example, beat.
Speaker 2: I sure as heck, would I mean there was any business,
Speaker 2: I mean, of course I would. But you know, they
Speaker 2: act like people don't wear fancy clothes that smoke cannabis.
Speaker 2: They act like, you know, people don't eat at restaurants
Speaker 2: that smoke cannabis. I don't even understand why they're worried
Speaker 2: about it, you know, I mean, you know this is
Speaker 2: going to bring more people to downtown this is going
Speaker 2: to bring more people with money. What do they think
Speaker 2: that cannabis is cheap? I don't think they even understand
Speaker 2: that it's not even cheap. It's you have to have money.
Speaker 2: It's you know, we have a we don't have a
Speaker 2: homeless problem, but we have a homeless situation in downtown.
Speaker 2: To say, like most cit these do. You know, they're
Speaker 2: not going to be any worse than that. They're not
Speaker 2: going to come get their cannabis and then stand out
Speaker 2: front begging for money or or you know, sleeping on
Speaker 2: a park bench or whatever. I think it's I think
Speaker 2: I think the most interesting part about it is it's
Speaker 2: really continuing the stereotype that cannabis users are inferior human beings.
Speaker 2: It's like they like, we're still criminals, We're not everyday people.
Speaker 2: These these you know, the reason seventy five percent of
Speaker 2: our country is medical and almost fifty percent is personal
Speaker 2: use now is because every day people want this to
Speaker 2: be a choice they can make. And by acting like this,
Speaker 2: the people downtown acting like this, they're acting like us,
Speaker 2: the people that consume cannabis are inferior to them and
Speaker 2: to me. I just you know, I cannot wait until
Speaker 2: all of the stereotypes and all of the looking down
Speaker 2: on people that you know, if I'm sure if if
Speaker 2: a liquor store was going to open up, they might say,
Speaker 2: but you know what, responsible people drink liquors as much
Speaker 2: as irresponsible people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ov I's read about them all the time, beach well.
Speaker 3: And finally, then let's touch upon very briefly, because they're
Speaker 3: almost at a time the whole idea that under the
Speaker 3: current scheduling, they're at cash operation and they're sitting on
Speaker 3: piles and piles of cash because they can't do business
Speaker 3: with banks. That may attract a criminal element who might
Speaker 3: want to liberate the store owner of the piles of cash.
Speaker 3: Until that scheduling problem is fixed, that's going to remain
Speaker 3: a potential issue, though, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Somewhat Now? I do believe that they have there are
Speaker 2: some some banking obstacles that I think have been overlooked,
Speaker 2: and so I do think that there there are acceptable
Speaker 2: ways to control that cash flow, so to speak, in
Speaker 2: the legitimate business world, banking world, for protections to those consumers,
Speaker 2: even though federally, yes, it's an issue. Yeah, but you know, again,
Speaker 2: you know, any business is susceptible to Shnanigan's going on. Obviously,
Speaker 2: if it's an all cash business, then people realize that.
Speaker 2: But you know that really hasn't been an issue most recently.
Speaker 3: No, again, I haven't heard of a medical marijuana. It's
Speaker 3: true a dispensary being robbed. They may have been that,
Speaker 3: I've never heard of it. I just had to ask
Speaker 3: that question out loud, and of course maybe the federal
Speaker 3: government will address that, but be wary and be concerned.
Speaker 3: That's the first time I ever heard it suggested that
Speaker 3: the pharmaceutical industry might take over if they reschedule it.
Speaker 3: Red Flag Beach. God bless you, sir. Thanks for spending
Speaker 3: time with my listeners and me talking about this topic.
Speaker 3: We're just sort of watching the whole reality unfold before us.
Speaker 3: Uncharted waters it is, but I think we'll all manage
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Speaker 3: Always interesting to beach until we talk again. Take care brother.
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