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Welcome to Canvas Legalization News. It is Labor Day Weekend slow Newsweek, but we still have a show for you. It was either that or a fish sandwich. And for everybody who voted for fish sandwich, thank you so much. Don’t forget to get your newsletter. It’s firing off right about now. All the stories we’re gonna go over every week.

Emailed to you and more ’cause we have a new video for you as well. What’s in the news this week? Well, we have canons Reform. It’s heating up. Trump is planning to reschedule marijuana. Maybe next week. I’m thinking it’s before September 12th. We’ll see. And the more act is back. What we assume we will go into, why we assume that there’s a Delaware Governor’s freeze on the market zoning, and then a Texas DA lit up on TikTok to upset the THC ban.

Pennsylvania. We have some news out of, I believe it was the US Open. And some other news that MGI has found as well. So thank you so much for tuning in. It is Cannabis Legalization News. Don’t forget to hit them likes and them subscribes, and let’s get to our main story and get into everything that happened in the past week.

Hey, happy Sunday.

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that’s the best one. A hundred percent of our listeners of viewers have a endocannabinoid system.

A hundred percent of our listeners and viewers have an endocannabinoid system, and that’s why they get shadow banned so often by social media because you could literally smoke them if they were dead.

So, what’s up? Happy Sunday?

Oh my gosh. The more act is backed. Like, remember. Five years ago when we were reporting on the More Act and we were so hopeful and thought it would pass, and then it did like it passed several times in sequential Congresses, by the way.

Yeah.

It did not pass in the most recent Congress that was elected in 2024. Go figure. The one that was elected in 2022 either because the Republicans came to town and they just wouldn’t bring it up to vote no more. Go figure.

Well, that’s why I don’t think this one’s gonna go anywhere. I just do you, I just see this being another ground.

It’s not going anywhere.

No, it’s not going anywhere. Anywhere. And they just don’t have the votes. And so, like, it’s one of those where if cannabis was. Or bipartisan issue it would get passed again out of the house. And so it previously, and we’ve reported on this years ago when it would sail through the house and end up in the Senate where it would promptly die.

Yeah, because they have the filibuster and you need like, 60 votes to break it. And so 10 Republicans, because it was about a 50 50 Senate and still is about a 50 50 Senate now, they didn’t want to vote on it. And so now we have, and it’s got all the fricking sponsors in the world, even though they haven’t put out the materials on it.

So the bill’s not out. We can’t like. Take this new more act and compare it to the old more acts that previously passed in. I think we’re on the what? What Congress does that say? We’re on the hundred 18th. Scroll down a little bit. Sure. To see what Congress we’re on. Hundred 19th Congress. Yeah. And so like in the hundred and 16th and the hundred and 17th Congress, the more act passed in the hundred and 18th Congress, the more act did not pass.

And I don’t think it’s gonna pass this time either, but it’s got like 40 sponsors,

and again, to make a rule happen, to make a thing happen, it’s gotta go through both Congress or the House and the Senate. Right. And then it meets at the end. Reconciliation. Yeah.

Reconciliation. There’s the word. Most people don’t realize this, right? We’re rescheduling, I hate to say this, no shit, we all want descheduling, but the amount of people who are just like ranting and raving about like, and this has always been like the conversation, right?

As part of the conversation. Do you say cannabis or marijuana, right? Like this is a convoluted fucking thing That rescheduling, I believe, will help create that path. It’s so much more. Nothing’s gonna happen right away, right? Like we rescheduling,

nothing’s gonna happen. But one thing will happen is that, the next video that I’m gonna do, and again, so like I’ve done videos about how most people that watch our show and that, that are subscribers, and if you’re a subscriber, awesome. Thank you. And if you’re a member of the channel, like hit us up in the chat and throw us a super chat. We’ll talk with you as well and answer your questions, but they are not the pothead you are.

And so like most people are just normal people trying to enjoy their lives and not get in any trouble.

Yeah. And

feel modestly important. And so they don’t care about weed, but then the people that are in the industry or that are trying to get it legalized care way more about weed, it’s like, way more.

And so it’s one of those things where they’re warped their opinions are warped, and so that it should be descheduled. You’re like, yes, you’re right. It should be descheduled. And that’s why we have to reschedule it so we can deschedule it. It’s very similar to Glass Knock and Paris Strike that brought down the USSR 40 years ago, and people were like, and then because they don’t understand history. And so like, essentially what happened was there was some liberalization in the USSR and then several years later the whole thing fell over. And now Putin’s doing its best to put it back together, but. Same thing. And so there’ll be some liberalization in the federal policy and in a few years the whole thing will fall over.

And they don’t understand that they have to go through that period. They just think they can skip to the end ’cause. Probably ’cause they’re like high and they’re just, big potheads and they don’t understand how policy works and they’re like, which should be deschedule, it should be tomatoes.

’cause tomatoes get you high, right? Sure.

I don’t, like everybody, you get a lot of hate for. Everybody’s like, oh, Tom always talks about like the high part. But like, I do you have a great point when you say like, they are not the pothead, you are. Right? Like, I can smoke a lot of weed. Like I’ve devoted and I’ve done it.

I haven’t devoted my life, I have devoted my life to being safe, right? Where legalization is that it’s safe access. It’s for you to go to a safe place. Not some dude’s place in the back alley or randomly. How I used to do in the city when I used to travel, I’d go to a bar and hopefully find somebody, right?

Like, yeah, but

you don’t know that product’s not tested. And so dispensaries are great. And our systems are great in the sense that they have licenses. And here’s what you’re allowed to do, here’s what you’re not allowed to do, and you have to test your product before you can sell it. That’s fantastic.

And then you have safe access,

no, it’s inevitable though. That’s a, I’m trying to get to is like, here, I’m lucky enough to be in, in a state where we were one of the first states to legalize it, right. We, you

guys were like the first, I think between you and Colorado, like same going adult use, you’re just basically flip a coin.

And I thought you beat Colorado, but Colorado may have beaten you. No, we did same time by a couple. Yeah. It was so quick.

Yeah. Matter of fact, the Super Bowl, we both teams won at the same time. Right. It’s a big joke. Right. That was like, and it was

before like we, we hung out and only knew each other on Facebook.

And so like I, I was actually at I was visiting a buddy of mine who worked at Amazon at the time. In Seattle the week and before that Super Bowl where they had, it was Denver versus Seattle.

Yeah, no. Which is like, we’ve had this, I’ve seen this transition where we had medical, we, and during medical time we had this fucking farmer’s markets.

We had everything you think would exist during medical Right, or during recreational. Right. None of that shit exists now because of the rules. Unfortunately we have to have rules to have an infrastructure. Right, right. When legalization struck here, dude, I was kinda like, this is fucked up. How we took away our markets.

I can’t dab in a spot no more people are being cautious because no one wants to lose that license that pay to play. I hate to say it, it’s a the, it’s a privilege, not a right. But again, it’s still not really legal here in Washington state. ’cause I can’t take across state lines.

Right. It’s not federal legal. But one of the things that happened though we have workers’ rights, part of the l and i system. There are protections now as a individual. They didn’t exist before and that’s what rescheduling, I think will help build to not, descheduling. Yes.

We all agree. Like you said, they’re not the part you are.

Right, they are. We can go over what was in the previous more acts and probably in the more act that we can’t see right now because they just filed it on their way out to, to take the holiday. They come back on Tuesday. And so like, that’s our prognostication.

So stick around for our final thought. We’ll talk about what think September might be the biggest month in cannabis legalization news history. It may not. But we’ll find out later. So like descheduling, that’s the more act removing cannabis from the controlled stu controlled Substances Act.

Record clearance, expungements and re-sentencing pathways for federal cannabis offenses equity and data BLS demographic reporting. And so at a reinvestment trust fund, they have some social equity in there, and so the Republicans will hate it immediately. Businesses and civil protections access to SBA programs.

That’s great. Hey maybe I told you that we can’t get that loan in Illinois because we got our license like too late.

Yeah. Well that sucks. But these are just the, it’s shitty, but these are the rules that we encounter, right? Like there’s always gonna be rules in a fucking thing. It doesn’t matter.

Some of it’s in our favor sometimes. Other times it’s like,

Yeah, well, we’ll see. And so like, it, but it is one of those things where all the licenses that have not gotten operational and are like completely outta compliance with the Illinois law, because they should have been operational two and a half years ago.

They can get loans. But us who’s coming up on a compliance window on October 31st, we can’t. And so like that’s, it’s just why do you even have those dates in there if you know that the people can’t hit them and you don’t do anything to enforce ’em? And so like. Selective enforcement aspect of it. And so there’s selective enforcement at the state level, and then there’s selective enforcement at the federal level.

Hopefully we get some federal policy change so that

yeah,

you can actually enforce a law as opposed to,

well, again, hemp is not legal organization. The Farm Bill Act, whatever you’re getting. It opened a conversation about THC, right? Like the fear monger behind THC about percentages is just insane. About.

Like I said, you’re not there, not the pothead you are. Dude. The only reason why people know who I am is because I smoke a lot of weed and don’t wanna go to jail. That is the only reason why I’ve been advocating for some change for something fundamental. Show me where people are protected for the jobs.

It can still be used against you today.

Yeah, for your employment,

That’s, yeah the hopefully Schedule three allows for those types of protections to start. Hey, let’s go back into the way back machine. The MORE Act has passed twice outta the house before on December 4th, 2020, almost five years ago.

And then more than three years ago, on April 1st, 2022 that was in the hundred 16th and hundred 17th Congress respectively. And then in the hundred 18th Congress, it was introduced by Rep Nadler, who was the one who introduced it again, this time however, it did not advance beyond the introduction and referrals.

That’s what I think’s gonna happen again. I think it’s not gonna get. Past and it’s not gonna get past the introductions and referrals. And so we’ve gone backwards. And you guys, you have to understand that like this thing doesn’t just go from A to B. And so that’s one of the reasons, another reason why we think I, I think we need rescheduling is because it doesn’t just go from A to B.

Five years ago it passed. Three years ago, it passed. Two years ago, I couldn’t get outta committee.

Well, where’s the safe banking app right now?

Hasn’t even been introduced.

I’m just saying it’s a groundhog day. There’s nothing, this is why Tom was so disheartened to talk this week about like policy, because there’s nothing really happening federally, like rescheduling will be the cannonball that happens that will, or the snowball freaking thing that happens for the people.

Right. Like we’re talking hopefully we’ll have Elliot on. We, the people guy. I haven’t I’ll have

Elliot on from Catalyst. Yeah. He, yeah. And so, publicists email me all the time to come on the program. Yeah. Yeah. And then it’s and we have somebody that we’re gonna bring and then like the dispensary will be open in four months and then we actually have a marketing line item then, as opposed to what the AI can do. Hey, that thumbnail. That was nano banana. Shout out to nano banana and Google that shit. That’s pretty though. It was pretty cool. Yeah.

And was that Google used nano banana? Maybe I, yeah, nano bananas on Google AI Studio.

Oh, I might have done something. I thought there was an app. Nevermind. We’ll talk about that later. I’ll figure it out.

Yeah. Yeah. We have another big story about a Bloomberg news article,

that time it’s

20 past the hour, so we’ll do the Bloomberg News article after a short smoke break.

Yeah, I’m at home. Got the, we have several young girls upstairs, nosy, all of them. Very conservative neighborhood I sit in and this, and I’m in a legal state and I still can’t smoke in my own house anyway. Bloomberg Law Analysis warns that moving marijuana to Schedule III could trigger new DEA regulations aimed at treaty compliance.

And I hope it does including registration and medical use quotas because that’s, if you read, and I’ve done videos on these, and so I need to put together a playlist about. All the schedule three videos that I’d done, so I can just be like, I’m on a little thing right there, and then you can click and then never get off the YouTube platform.

It’s amazing. And so, yeah. Right, and anyway if you read the 1963 single convention on drugs, heroin and marijuana are scheduled the exact same way. Under that might actually be where the CSA got it from. And so, you have the ability for it to be medical and then it would be exempt.

But those medicals have to be like state either controlled or like completely regulated so they know where all the weed is. And so that’s one of the reasons why like all this metric and seed to sale and inventory control tracking that’s already at play in regulated dispensaries like ours or other states, they are pretty much made for being in compliance, provided that the DEA does that rulemaking.

It’ll be interesting. Yeah.

Well, and this is how the butter’s made. Like, no one, most consumers don’t care. Right? This is why hemp is still a big, viable freaking thing.

Oh. And I read it. There was an article I shared about cornbread hemp, where they say like, these beverages are legal. And I go, yeah, if you ignore the Food, drug and Cosmetic Act.

But not just that, they say they’re legal and they’re clearly not legal.

It’s hilarious but the Fear Monger, we rescheduling because. I saw you comment on a Instagram post where somebody’s like, well, nothing will happen, right? No taxes, no, there’s nothing immediately that’s gonna happen. The DEA, like you said, needs to redefine because of the pharmaceutical stuff, right?

Right?

So it’s the same with the hemp. Yeah. It’s gonna happen though for this agency to, for this commodity. ’cause in the end, this is just a fucking commodity, right? Like, I just want to go to the store, buy my weed, go home, smoke it, and be left the fuck alone. Like never. Not do a YouTube channel, not worry about arrest, not, do you know what I mean?

Like it’s right. This whole, I guess the cannabis industry is structured around a precarious non-law. Right. And if this law existed then it’d be like breweries or, people don’t like that parody calling like alcohol and shit. But this is the closest we can do. Oh

yeah. I get pissed off at Stripe.

I get pissed off at Stripe the Irish payment processor, because they have a podcast. It’s like any company has a podcast. That’s just how it works. It’s 2025. All companies have podcasts and so Stripe has one where they interview other tech CEOs over a pint.

Ah, but

if you try to do anything related to cannabis on Stripe, they kick you off the platform.

Yeah. Yeah. Hell Boo is on the Today Show in the morning, right? The Hoda, yeah.

Getting a Day Drunk with Hoda. It’s hour three of the Today Show, right?

God forbid I sparked this lighter. He put to a plan a

little bit more on the on the DEA. Rescheduling, and so we have a quote from James Mann of Bloomberg Law, the DEA must issue additional regulations, which would impose re reg registration and manufacturing quotas in the cannabis industry.

Like I said, you have to control the whole supply, which I think that’s wise because then when you’re controlling that whole supply, you know what you can do. Finger thing means the taxes. That’s what that means. That means the taxes, right? Then the DEA would be required to prosecute non-medical production, distribution and use of cannabis.

In the event of rescheduling of Schedule three. Illinois being a trigger law state would probably then automatically make all their dispensaries, hybrids. So adult use and medical. And so that’s what Missouri’s done. So they’re already ready for schedule three. Illinois would have, but green thumb industries needed to beat on earnings.

And so, Ben cover hired a whole bunch of lobbyists to suppress that. And then all the hemp industries hired a whole bunch of lobbyists and he is like, I’m gonna make my own margarita style of beverage. And he did. And so, it’s one of the largest, publicly traded, publicly traded cannabis stocks, green thumb industries, keeping us from being able to sell medical weed.

And so that’s the Bloomberg News article. Rescheduling peril. Could Trump’s weed plan backfire on legalization?

I don’t. I just, dude, people all have their opinion. Everybody has their fucking opinion about how or what legalization should be, right? Miles just bust out a crystal ball and

dude, they got quarterly profits.

And so like, here’s a crystal ball. In three months we have to report earnings.

But people’s shocked though, about money, protecting money, right? Like there’s a whole like metric to me is bullshit. But I get the whole part C to sale. The argument about diversion to me is dumb. But until we get this federal, that’s gonna happen for that federal thing.

But the reason why I say it’s dumb dude is because you ever had bag seeded, like, it’s not, like, not for many years,

but bag seed’s cool. Like, actually there was a bag seed that I grew about three years ago, and it turned out to be this strange Oreos looking cultivar, and it was the frosties coolest.

Strain that just out of nowhere, I grew from some bag seeded and just got really lucky. Yeah. And that’s also the story of Chem Dog 91. And so Chem Dog 91 was evidently some bag seed from a Grateful Dead show in 91 that turned out to be Chem dog. Okay. Yeah.

I’m just saying like, I don’t see us, we don to control plan.

Right. Like the metric thing. It’s in a business self-interest Right. To control your own. Freaking way, we’ve we’ll probably talk about it with Catholics about the diversion with Glass House. Oh yeah, I think, and all the other stuff, right? Like there’s this thing California, now California is a different

world.

And so that’s the other thing, like when we’re, we do a lot of federal policy on the program and then like, what are you trying to accomplish with this law? Really boring shit. And so, those types of things are completely different than when you look at the California market and you hear about all the bull crap that’s going on in it, and you’re like, whoa.

The market isn’t a market, it’s fraction markets. And so you have to really just, well, here’s what’s going on in Oklahoma. Here’s what’s going on in Texas. Here’s what’s going on in Ohio. It’s not just a market, which is different, we’ll see. I really hope the Schedule three helps on that.

Let’s head on over to where our next news story. It’s outta Delaware. Hey, what you got? Oh, look at me. I’m in Delaware. Is it the veto Delaware’s legal market Frozen by governor’s Veto. Will tax sharing melt the gridlock? That’s the veto.

What? What’s your take on that?

He vetoed that P 75, which would’ve curtailed restrictive local zoning while pitching a compending plan to spend 4.5% of cannabis sales tax to localities to offset zoning and enforcement.

And that’s a good thing. Like, one of the aspects after we get open is and it’s ongoing today. ‘Cause we are active with all the other licenses in Illinois and we lobby together. We need to match Michigan’s taxes. Oh yeah. California’s taxes are terrible and California’s got a thriving illicit market.

So, it’s one of those where if you really are just trying to let you know the guy down the block or in the smoke shop win, keep on taxing the industry. And then keep on creating all these weird local zoning rules and restrictions like calling a Chuck e Cheese pizza, a school. So that you can’t open up within 500 feet of the property line there, and you effectively zone all dispensaries out of your municipality and then you, and then Illinois has got ridiculous pension obligations.

So, we need that cash, but then we don’t do what we can get to get the cash in. We create these things to put the price up so high that people drive three hours to Michigan each way. And then put down a hundred bucks and they can buy twice the product they can buy from us.

It’s sad that the consumers don’t advocate more for a better market for the people behind.

Well, that’s what we’ll do.

We’ll make sure that. Because we’ll have a, an email list, and then I’ll create some petitions, and then I’ll talk to the other dispensary owners and we’ll get all of our customers to sign up those petitions and say, lower the F in taxes, because the vape tax in Illinois is 35% the vape tax in Michigan’s 10.

And so Michigan is gonna eat our lunch all day, every day while hemp people are selling the craziest vapes in the world. And then people are driving to Michigan for the real shit. ’cause your shit’s so expensive because of the taxes. It’s not the 3% we give to the municipality. Yeah. It’s the 35% that makes your vape go from $50 to $85.

What? Reducing tax and like. Opening it more for players. Make the market better for the consumer, right? Because you would have more money going through. More variety, more competition.

That’s the whole Republican, Ronald Reagan style of political line of reasoning for lower taxes raises revenue because everybody’s going to pay it.

Then we’ll see. But then, like, it’s true, Michigan sells a lot more weed and if Illinois lowered their taxes, the people in Illinois would just go to the dispensary. And then yeah same if Illinois. Michigan, they don’t play that. And so like, I’ll have some clients ask like, why are they selling THCA hemp in Michigan?

I’m like, oh, they’re probably just violating the law. They’re just doing it illegally. And it’s true because if you read how they define marijuana in Michigan, it’s total THC. And that’s what marijuana should be. It should be total THC. This whole THCA thing is bullshit.

Well, the THC period’s bullshit, right?

Like that. Like I Hemp is fucking weed, right? Like there should be just one fucking fundamental market. What people call the scheduling. Yeah. But you need to

have, you need to have, you have THC rules. You shouldn’t have like, but this THC is different than that. THC. That’s the bullshit

I think, too.

Oh, people should think about intent of grove, right? Like, this is not a plant that you grow and then post harvest and say because you’re gonna test hot. For the most part, can’t, if you can’t do it to you, can’t. They

wrote the rule so stupidly that again, they were really only contemplating type three cultivars 21, C-B-D-T-H-C ratios.

So if you grew it to maturity, it might be 20% C, b, D, and 1% THC under like best case scenario. And so they were worried about the point. So the 0.3% is the real bullshit. It should be like no type three cultivars or cultivars that are for seed and stalks and fibers. Specifically, if you’re gonna grow it for cannabinoid profile, you can grow a type three cultivar, and they could have defined it that way with the ratios opposed to using some line in the sand that was arbitrarily picked by a guy in Canada in 1976.

That’s what I’m saying though, man. It’s the basis of the THC is just like to separate that, to call it legal versus illegal. Right. You sure you try to make it topical, but you made some really good Friday night weed. I don’t, I, it’s hard to explain, but it’s three plants.

I just had, two being boys. One’s a girl, right? This agriculture product, sometimes you don’t get a hundred percent. Fire, right? Like there’s gotta be something more protection for the farmer. As long as we do this TAC, you’re potentially are growing a crime. You know what I mean? In the end,

like, and it shouldn’t be, right?

That’s why they do the testing a month before harvest. And so it’s supposed to be typed three cultivars that are low THC to begin with, and then all the cannabinoids come in the last four weeks of harvest. So you test it for THC compliance. When it’s immature, it, it would be like testing your alcohol content before you brew the beer.

That’s what I’m saying before you immature it, the consumer is fucking losing with this type of regulation. Yeah. It’s ter

It’s nonsense as well where it’s just, it abs absurdity of rules. It’s like, yeah, we’ve got a rule, but it’s, no offense. Your rule’s bullshit. Yeah. But we have one.

Yeah.

Do you have a rule? Yeah.

Again, they’re not the pothead that you are. Right. Like, that’s right where we’re losing out in the regulation here with all the fear mongering about rescheduling, it’s just like you said, it’s gonna be like this bump of things to get to descheduling, to that plateau, stop the bubble. Oh. What’s

our next story, man? Well, I’m sorry you’re taking a drink of water. I’ll story. You’re good. Texas DA pulls a bond hit on TikTok claims its hemp. I’m not sure if she did that. Actually,

we did that last week. Really? Yeah, but we got the more Texas news because Texas alright, do more Texas news.

Here we go. Texas build a ban. Consumo hemp products with THC stall out during special session, and that’s not the only one. There’s also stuff coming up. Medical marijuana expansion in Texas starts September 1st. Reall, so well

September 1st is the date where the vapes become illegal too. So, oh, hemp vapes are illegal tomorrow.

The application period for medical or teacup is closed in two weeks on September 15th. So like, that’s gonna be, that’s gonna be a lawsuit and hopefully I’m my clients win. Because we’ll see, but when you have the state score your application wrong and they will, we can help you out [email protected].

But and so that’s, and then hopefully by that time, they’ll, this is how long I can install it out. The Illinois Ker Fluffle that had about the same, well, it depends on how many people sue. It was 113 plaintiffs in Illinois, and that’s down to about 80 now after three and a half years. And so that’s what’s gonna happen.

There’s going to be a lawsuit in Texas for those teacup licenses that will last fucking years because they’re doing a merit based application. It’s stupid. But, the hemp bill stalling out. They say that, however, it’s also a federal holiday and the the house typically delays relative to the Senate that gets that stuff through quicker.

’cause there’s just more people in the house. And that house still has two weeks before the special session they have currently. Is done. The president of Texas, the governor could veto it again if it doesn’t suit his style and call another special session. But he’s the governor.

Governor Abbott has a really good idea for the whole hemp aspect is three milligrams per serving. And so like three milligram beverages allows for the beverages to do their thing. And no synthetics. So there’s not that much THC that’s gonna be floating around anymore. Like 80% of those beverages are made from the lab.

They are semi synthetics, just like heroin. But Delta nine, THC, made from CBD isolate. Anyway.

No, you’re good. Texas has a piss poor medical program already. It’s hemp, you know what the 0.3%, and so it’s gonna be

a little bit better, but then they’ve made changes to it, but the hemp.

Program currently is adult use marijuana and the medical program is shit. And so the medical program’s looking at a lawsuit for the next like three years because no state has ever been able to successfully grade a merit-based application. And Texas is an unbounded page limit. So you could put in a.

Thousand F-ing pages. Oh my God. And argue that you got all the points in court. And then that guy who’s Governor Abbott’s like brother-in-law, shouldn’t have gotten those points because he just spit on his application and said, do you know who my brother is? And for some reason that’s perfect. And so that’s literally what happens in every state that’s done this before.

Yeah. And then that’s how you can tell your state hates weed. When they adopt a system like that,

I don’t know if it’s so much hate weed no more. I think it’s just more control. Right? Because wouldn’t this one law, if prohibition were to end, it would be this up and coming for individuals who could know how to grow, right?

Like or just fundamental. Just you can’t fuck with people who are smoking at a bus stop, right? Like now, like the hemp, you know who gets harassed more? Is what I’m trying to get to, it’s control. I think. Oh, let’s go.

Who gets harassed more? Our next story tennis. We go to New York, oh, Jesus.

For our next story, high stakes at the US Open players distracted by cannabis smell. And so the quote was from a, was it Casper Rudd? Or maybe this is the worst thing about New York. I think it’s annoying to be on the court while someone smokes a joint.

That’s that’s pretty funny. Oh, one second.

I got this for you too. So, damn shame. People talk about like the smell, like in Paris, dude, when I was in Paris, there was cigarette smoking everywhere. Like, you wanna smell nasty, in open cafes everywhere. My wife was in heaven, but like, just the fact that every fucking corner, every fucking restaurant.

And imagine much of Europe’s the same, right? Just openly outdoor smoking cigarettes. Yeah. Well, like fucking these people, these sports people butt hurt. Did you see this one with the Deion Sanders?

No, I didn’t see the Deion Sanders one. I saw like the tennis player complaining about the smell of weed in New York.

No. Yeah. Check this one out too.

You can’t hear anything, so you’re gonna have to like, oh, shit. So Deion Sanders saying, and then so then the lady is saying, and so that’s the problem with that one. She was asking him have the ability to share the audio on that. So I Why don’t you I did, I had to do the, that part. Is there anything about Folsom, about this stadium that, that surprised you that you didn’t expect?

Yeah. Yeah. The smell of weed in the second quarter. It surprised the heck, smelled weed in the second quarter.

Like, like, people openly smoking. So it’s just funny. Like I get somebody defended a tennis star was like, these guys are athletes. They fucking train their lungs, be pure and shit like that.

But like, this is a plant. It’s smoking weed. Cannabis is one of the weirder things. How many other things do you smoke potentially besides tobacco? Right? Like we actively inhale. I’m someone with a lung issue. I can breathe this thing in. Actively. So Schwarzenegger smoked before working out.

This is a, I think, a lack of understanding of what this plan is to us, right. With our endocannabinoid system. You don’t, we’re not fighting for a meth system.

I’m fighting for your meth system. There isn’t a mess system. Oh, okay. Then I am fighting for your protein storage system. Your body doesn’t have a protein storage system.

Oh. We’re gonna go back to fighting for stuff that matters, like keeping those ladies outta men’s bathrooms. Oh,

Jesus.

I’m just saying. I know exactly right. Yeah.

The, there’s real crimes being done to normal people because of this bad law. Right. Are they actively going over like the real, release the Epstein files?

Are we really, are we trying to find the real harms to us as society or. Whatever, because adding this fucking plant prohibition, be the one I think, you know.

Hey, what’s our next story?

I got, so I got this stuff about the hemp economics. I don’t know if you dug into like the, I don’t know how they find the study flawed.

Does Whitney economic identifies flaws in USDA methodology and calculating hemp cultivation sectors value to US subculture? Right? Like we both know, it’s huge. Like, it’s so fucking huge. That’s why I’m saying it’s fucking weed. And we need rescheduling now so we can get to the point where we can have protections.

Right. Employment protections. There’s everybody’s fucking smoking. It’s not an American issue. It’s not a, it’s more of a civil society. But did you, what’s the discrepancy? Did you get into what was here?

I didn’t read that one. Yeah.

The show is

Whitney is. Well, he’s an i, he does data analytics for the industry.

I didn’t see like what they said. So what did they say about USDA, that cantos output? It’s just three 86 million. Oh, yeah. Okay. That they must be talking about like hemp. Like hemp. Hemp, not like marijuana. And so like once the hemp is that’s maybe correct. But then you process it and you turn the CB, D isolate into THC and then it’s worth substantially more.

Or you just grow THCA. And so like the THCA market has to be worth more than the 386 million. But then of course you could always just. Fudge the numbers because it would seem like you’re selling marijuana. So the farmer would sell it to the wholesaler for a small fraction because that’s the only thing that USDA tracks and then you mark up the price and you move it on your website.

Well, I find these numbers at the end very interesting, where it’s talking about 330 a pound and $202 per concentrate or whatever. But like, I actually remember pounds of 4,000, right? Like. Well, this is

CBD flour. It’s supposed to be

but still all fucking weed though, man. Like there’s a cost to dirt, nutrients, ventilation to fucking growing, right?

Like back in the day it’s more like, Hey I bought a fucking pound for a thousand. I’ll break up. You do math, right? You break in quarters, how much ounces are gonna go forth and so forth. There’s eventually what people say was the race at the bottom. Like, I always wondered how much it really cost to grow a good ounce or a good pound.

I still outside the, inside the big outside, inside union state, non-union state, like free power, not free power. How’s slave labor? And so like, are you in Columbia? Like as in Columbia? You can grow that stuff for, very low cost. And so outdoor pounds, you can grow four very low cost indoor pounds in a state like New Jersey where they mandate, I don’t know if they mandate indoor cultivation, but if you’re cultivating indoor and you have to be union and you’re buying your own water and electricity, it’s probably gonna be very expensive.

Again, it’s a commodity. This is a thing where I go to a store I bought, I have three different flavors, three different grows, just. Normal every day. Again, they are not the smoker that you are. Right? Yeah. But like, it’s, I don’t know. It’s a lifestyle I guess. But like, but that’s also, it’s not your personality.

Fucking do something, go outside. But it’s just to me, eventually this is gonna be a thing where to buy good canvas at my price point here at Wash State, now I say it’s 64 quarter for just fire shit that are like, oh, that, that was amazing. But like, there’s $10 ounces. I’m not gonna smoke 10 ounces, but like, you can, there’s a price point for all this shit that we’re trying to get to,

yeah.

Because you don’t give fuck though.

Yeah. Well, some do. Any let’s get onto the next one. I is the next one? The Roger Stone article. Oh, I got that

up here.

Let’s see. Okay. Let’s do the Roger Stone article next. ’cause this is one of the reasons why I think we’re getting close to Trump’s announcement, because now he has one of his, mouthpieces talking about how rescheduling is good and that Trump should do it on the way to fully descheduling.

And this is an op-ed that was originally appeared in Rolling Stone. And then of course it appeared in marijuana Moment, got reprinted on there. So yeah, if Trump makes the move to reschedule cannabis, he will be bringing Washington in line with the American people. Says Roger Stone, which is not wrong.

And it’s one of those things where he’s looking for those 80 20 things. This is in 80 20 more. Most Americans, oh yeah, want medical marijuana legal. Maybe they don’t want marijuana legal, but they definitely want medical marijuana legal.

Rescheduling and it protects it as a medicine, right?

It identifies it as beneficial. That’s like the whole thing we’ve been talking about when it comes to like this, really good book. I damn my had it since the rise and fall. It’s grassroots, the rise and fall of marijuana. It really talks about the how many times we come close to legalizing it.

Right. What’s the face? Carter, they almost did until, and we’ve had Keith’s drop on the show where. I really wanted to ask him about the cocaine thing, but I avoided that. But he was trying to defend the power clock that was being sprayed in Mexico at the time. That’s crazy that we would poison the plants of a crop for American consumers.

But like the thinking of like, you were a consumer, you were a user, you were a lesser than while I protect you, just silliness. So, and while Roger Stone does that, dude, we still have to deal with this shit, dude. Nine lawmakers urge to reject cannabis rescheduling. Yeah. So, but that’s

again that, that is an achievement right there.

And so there are 535 members of Congress, a hundred senators, 4 35 house members. Nine of them said, don’t do it. Do you know what the percentage of that is? Like, it’s like 2%.

Isn’t that in America though? You screamed the loudest, you make the bigger difference. Actually, it’s 1.7%.

Okay,

so

yeah, and let’s subtract that from one and we get 98.3% of Congress does not call on Trump to reschedule and so to block reschedule.

So when 98.3% of something is okay with it. Bro set up if you’re in that other 1.7%. Seriously. Yes.

Well, and I give this to everybody out there listening. If you really wanna make a difference, you wanna know what side the, to like stand on. Like, is your scheduling good or bad? I don’t know.

Anything that Kevin Saba’s against? I think Sam’s advocating against Sam saved. You gotta champion that motherfucker. Instead, we’re all divisive. We’re arguing like, no Deschedule court. No shit. Sherlock, Jesus Christ.

Well, you can’t deschedule until you have rules. They won’t do it without rules.

The reason why you got the farm bill was because they didn’t think you were gonna turn it into weed. They didn’t. That’s why they didn’t give you any rules about like turning it into wheat, but still that’s what it is. And I’m not sure where we are in the show notes. It’s about 10 to the hour. Maybe we should get to a little bit of name that strain and some we’ll rattle the tip jar and do some merch as well in a minute.

But first, let’s hit this.

There she is.

That is

a classic right there. That one is a complete classic. And then I’m gonna give this, I’ll just share my screen. That’ll be the easiest way to do it. Mi you do you have that one up so you can give ’em its parents and all that other stuff? It’s on the show notes under the name of that strain.

Yeah. ’cause this one, someone’s gonna guess this one in five and a half minutes. I can tell you.

This was an inika made with a crossing of purple tie and tie. With tie. I didn’t know those two things. A true a-list strain legendary status sword to new heights after coining the High Times Cup in 2000 for best indica.

Oh, I didn’t realize. DJ Short’s a grower. I. Yeah, there we go. That was it. And

then by, by saying DJ Short created this. Yeah. Somebody already got it. Somebody. And people are putting in so fast that somebody got it before I was able to even do it. And so yeah, it’s blueberry and that’s what it’s, it is, it’s blueberry, obviously.

It’s blueberry. And now we’re gonna go ahead and bring this sucker up and then move us around to like that. Get rid of the overlay. Thank you for blueberry, dj. Short, wrong one. Add that one to stage, add that one to remove you, and then add that one. Okay. Oh, there you go. You just, I see. Yeah, but we we actually do have a merch thing, and so I had not updated or looked at the merch.

But if you guys watch our videos, you’ll see that we had like t-shirts and shit. And so we created some new ones. There’s the rights, not raids, collections, and then there’s motion to Blaze granted. And so that collection, and then there’s reps, it’s toker and then there’s some more designs, right?

There’s. It’s like the thing that speaks for itself. And then there’s habeas cannabis as well. Release the plant. And so that you can find all at our and then these will start populating as because we have another video that will be coming out. I’ll probably make that one live tomorrow.

It’s already up where I show you the dispensary. And now we have to wait about four months for construction. So there’ll be a lot more dispensary aspects coming up. And then right there is the new store. I just shared it with our people that are tuning in all 400 of. That you can get some merch and everything’s on sale today and tomorrow, and so it’s 25% off.

And so you can go ahead and check out our merch stores. Let us know if you have any cool ideas for things that you can put on a t-shirt. We can put ’em up.

Square day job. I got nothing.

No. You can’t. Like, like we would’ve to sell thousands and thousands of shirts. Thousands. And like, and not only that, like you, you really have to get over the whole concept of quitting your day job.

I’m, it’s one of those things where okay, great. You quit your day job. AI took it, let’s say now whatcha gonna do?

Oh, no I’m not, it’s the, when I say that, dude more of because I love what I do. Like I i’m at the point where I don’t, I rather I could. Leave this like we started something I think is fucking fun and great and informative, but like, I also love, like I legit used to be a whore and do horrible things, not right technical wise because the working world sucks.

Like when I got outta the military dude, I thought everybody had their shit together and everything was gonna be in line and compliance and doing the right thing. And I see more yucky shit to make money. On the outside, in the technical side things, but now I finally am part of a thing that’s like, it’s up there and it’s content, but also I think working with you and doing this new, because the, when I watched the the callus guy talk about the cannabis industry, I’ve always said there’s no such thing.

You know what I mean? Like, it’s just like, to me, most people just wanna smoke their fucking shit and be left alone and watch cartoons or whatever the hell else you want. No one cares about the law. No one cares about like regulation. They don’t care if you had to get rejected three times because you were too close to a chuck of cheese or a church.

They just want to go to a place and buy the weed and that’s America. That’s fucking a human, right? I’d rather go to a drive through and then instead of cook the dinner, right. But, we all have to adult and do a thing, and this is unfortunately the long haul to getting there.

That’s so far, from what we had. Or didn’t have, rather.

Yeah. Well those are all the stories that I got. So, like, wrapping it up my real final thought in this week, this month, this summer is the Labor Day is the end of summer September. I think this could really be the month where everything shifts or nothing, which is the trade.

Because like maybe, we’ve been doing this for so long, we’ve seen the War Act passed twice and nothing yet. No. Yeah, the cock bill, whatever. So, but we got some real stuff coming to a head. We got congress coming back and we have the two beefing senators from Kentucky this close about what hemp is gonna be for the next five to 10 years.

We have Trump, who said on August 11th he’s got schedule three, the reason that they’re looking at, and there’s gonna be news about it coming in a few weeks. And so a few weeks come Monday, which is tomorrow by the way, would be three. Now again, nothing’s gonna happen tomorrow, I’d say federal holiday, but maybe by Friday maybe by next Friday, September 12th, we may have.

An agreement on hemp, an agreement on schedule three. Maybe it’s not September 12th. Maybe it’s the weekend after that, the 19th. But if you get past that, then you get into Rosh Hashanah and like half of Congress leaves because yeah, God. Yeah.

But also, here’s the sucks about policy and legalization.

’cause rescheduling I think would be the ball that would help so much moving forward. But these guys gotta care enough like. That you care, like you need to like activate and do things, and also help us get to a hundred K.

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Way too much. Last week, I did like 80 pages of stuff, and I’m going to ruin somebody’s weekend. And I didn’t do it before the holiday, mostly because I didn’t have it all done. And then I have to get everything verified and all that other stuff. But by next weekend, somebody’s gonna have just a crappy weekend.

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