June 2, 2024 • 30 mins
Heat & Covid in SoCal:· California’s first heat wave of the year is coming. These areas could see extreme temperatures · COVID is rising in California. Here’s how to protect yourself from FLiRT subvariants. Also in SoCal · New CA bill introduces ban on school policies ‘forcibly outing’ LGBTQ+ students · California Assembly passes bill to make kindergarten mandatory · Nearly 50% drop in Black student enrollment in California, new report finds. GUEST INTERVIEW: Kelly Pond, CEO of Special Olympics Southern California · Special Olympics Summer Games at Cal State Long Beach California State University Long Beach June 8-9, 2024. Marijuana’s Growth in SoCal: · Calif. cops just reversed their opinion on legal weed. · California Assembly passes bill allowing Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes.
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Los Angeles, Orange County, IE in the Valley. This is Tawala
Sharp and you're listening to KFI AMsix forty Soul Cal Saturday on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. Saturday KFI AMsix forty live everywhere on the Ihearted Radio
app and Forrest Falls, Trona,Malibu and Irvine. This is Soul Cal
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Saturday. I'm your host, TwalaSharp. Welcoming you to another funfilled Saturday
here in southern California. And ifyou are one of the many people who
have been complaining about the cold weather, complaining about this rain spurts that we
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were getting, just know this,this heat that's coming our way, you
asked for it. Yes, weare about to get one of the most
intense heat waves coming our way inyears even all right, the first heat
wave of the year will be kickingoff this week. We are going to
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see some extreme temperatures. I mean, you know, the one hundred to
one hundred and eight temperatures that's what'scoming our way. Hot, hot,
hot, And me personally, Ibelieve that this is what we've been asking
for. We've been asking for this, and I don't think enough of us.
Remember how God awful. The heatwave was last summer. I mean,
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geez, it was frying egg onthe sidewalk on and now it is
coming back. It is coming backand with the heat waves again. As
always, make sure you are checkingon the elders, make sure that you
are keeping if you take your petsfor a walk, make sure you're keeping
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some water with you at all timesso you can make sure you're keeping your
pets hydrated, because I see thatsometimes I see people walking dogs and they're
just look like they're about to passout. And make sure you stay hydrated.
We do not want you passing out. But beyond the heat, okay,
heat is one thing, one thingthat we know that thrives in heat.
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COVID, Yes, COVID thrives inheat. And this is what I
was just talking about with the Forkreporter. This new filthy flirty COVID variant
is on the rise here in southernCalifornia. Now, it's a little too
early to know if flirt will makea major change in where we are right
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now with COVID. You know ifit's going to have a major impact or
not. But there are so manyFLIRT subvariants already running rampant here in southern
California. All Right, the flirtsubvariants officially known as KP dot two,
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KP dot three, KP dot onepoint one. I don't know what they
know those stand for, but theyhave overtaken the dominant variant of COVID,
which was j N point one.All right, and that's I mean,
that's the thing. You know thatthey don't know what these codes are supposed
to mean. But all I cantell you is flirt is strong enough where
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it looked at j N one andwe're like, move out of the way.
I'm gonna get in those lungs.It is my turn to get deep
into Southern Californian's lungs. And Iknow, oh my god, Tola's talking
about COVID. He's fear mongering.We are over COVID, well, especially
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officially, we are not actually overCOVID. So if anyone's around you and
they're all of a sudden coming downwith something like some cough or you know,
something like that, just know theymay be flirting with you. Okay,
Now, we are not really seeinga jump in severely ill people with
flirt. You know, the hospitalizationsare necessarily up and there's no one dying
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from flirting. No one is dyingyet. Flirting is not taking that toll.
But you can still protect yourselves byall of the normal means against flirting.
And I know flirting it may soundfun. You may want to get
dressed up, head to Marongo orhead to which casino? Are you all
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going to? O? KAYLAO,you're going to Marongo? Yeah, okay,
you may want to get dressed upand go to Marongo and flirt.
But if you all win, sorry, yeah that's when. Yeah, we're
going there too. But don't beflirting at win either. Don't be flirting
at when wherever you're going, Justdon't flirt. Okay. Vaccines are still
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still the best way to fight againstflirting. Avoid sick people. I mean,
like duh, you know what I'msaying, Like, like, I
know that's on this list, that'sreally on the top of the no dull
list. But if anyone is flirtingaround you with A or A any of
that, to say no, Ican't flirt with you, I cannot flirt
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with you, you can always gettested. Now Here's the thing about flirt.
Flirt is a little more elusive,it seems than the normal COVID variant.
You know. Just that's how flirtsare flirts usually teas they don't want
to just show you what's going onright away. This one flirt kind of
like leads you on a little bit. But no, you still can test
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me personally. I say avoid thesick people, although that may be tough.
That may be tough. Sometimes youmay just you know, have to
go to the store, you mayhave to go to get together. Well
you don't have to do anything.People also fake like they're not sick,
like they'll cough meca. Oh sorry, it's allergies, Like that's true.
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Well they can't because of allergies.If they create like uh mute kiss and
all that running down the back ofyour throat, that can make you.
Oh you said that to me onetime, that that your alergier is making
you cough, and I doubted you. But I see that there's facts.
So I'm looking at you so sorryto all those can I please just add
if you feel sick, don't goplaces. What are you doing that?
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There's that part, Yeah, there'sthat part. I mean it's those people
that are going around giving it toeverybody. Those are the people who just
want to flirt. They just wantto flirt. They just want to spread
this filth, they want to getit back out there. But again,
I mean, look, I knowhere in southern California and you know,
we're we're open, everything's back inbusiness, and no one is trying to
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really go back to masking up.No one's trying to go back to where
we were. And if that isthe case, and if that's where we're
really at and we don't want togo back, then I would just say,
don't flirt with me. Don't flirtwith me. I will not flirt
with you. Okay. We willkeep this subvariant in all of its sub
cousins to themselves. We will notlet flirt overtake California. We are beyond
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that. Okay, we are beyondthat. I am cool being single,
Okay, I don't need you flirtingwith me. This is KFI AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeart Radioapp. You're listening to Soul cal Saturday
with Tawala Sharp on demand from KFIAM six forty. Gotta be KFI AM
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six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. In Laverne, Monrovia,
Rancho is sent to Margarita and Tustin. This is Soul cal Saturday. I'm
your host Twala Sharp taking a lookat some other things happening around southern California.
I have been following this for awhile only because I don't like what
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the bill against it was trying todo, and that is possibly forcing LGBTQ
plus students out. Like to me, I thought like that, that's a
ridiculous concept to even have to putinto a bill. I thought to myself,
like, yo, like why wouldwhy would politicians think that it's necessary
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to step in and write a billeither agreeing with outing children or allowing children
to remain in the closet or whatever. But state lawmakers have introduced this new
bill that would prohibit California school districtsfrom enacting policies requiring educators to inform parents
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about students transgender identities. And Idefinitely hated that one. When they are
like, you know, if ifa child chooses to identify differently than what's
on there enrolled paperwork, whatever,then the teachers are calling parents like,
hey, guess what your child iscoming to school? And I know he
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was born Tom, but he's comingto school and he's her name is Tammy.
I'm just calling to tell you thatwhat that's what it sounds like to
me. That's how the bill soundsto me. But this new measure is
going to be added to Assembly Billnineteen fifty five, which was introduced by
Assembly Member Chris Chris Ward from SanDiego earlier this year through a maneuver called
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a gut and amend which replaces anexisting bill with an entirely new one.
And under this revised version of thebill called the Support Academic Futures and Educators
for Today's Youth or Safety Act.That's a long way, but Safety Act,
which is a school district it barsthem from enacting that teachers would need
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to do that go through that wholeprocess. And so look, I am
all about at least the rights ofall people, you know, you know,
be it lgbt Q plus rights,be it the rights and the advancements
of people of color, uh,the right the advances of women in the
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workplace, and reproductive rights just periodicLike, there are certain things that I
believe all people are are are entitledto, you know, and this is
one of those ones that I'm like, yes, there this should, this
should be in place, because Iget it. There are a lot of
people who feel like it's their businessto be in our business what's happening in
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our households. And I don't believethat any of the bills that were out
there designed to out children were right. One thing that is right dealing with
the schools is something else that's recentlybeen passed here in California is there is
a new Assembly bill that was passedthat makes kindergarten mandatory. Right and for
me, this is something that Ipersonally feel that my children are as brilliant
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as they are. You know,they started you know, reading, writing
everything early because of their experience inkindergarten before going to grade school and things
like that. I think that.But also by making this bill, by
making kindergarten mandatory, it opens uplocal state politics and local maneuvers or measures
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that make kindergarten more affordable and thereare more ways for parents to be able
to get kids into it. Butyes, AB two two two six has
been approved and signed into law,and it will It would require California kids
to complete one year of kindergarten beforeenrolling in first grade in the public school,
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beginning with the twenty twenty twenty sevenschool year, and something a statistic
that's not necessarily as surprising as Ibelieve they thought it was when they wrote
this article. But there's been anearly fifty percent drop in black student enrollment
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in California, and a coalition ledby the American Civil Liberties Union released this
report on Wednesday showing this drop inblack student enrollment the state of Black Educators
of an Education of California come seventyyears after the groundbreaking Brown Versus Board of
Education decision that ruled segregation in schoolsis unconstitutional, and despite progress, segregation
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and overall enrollment is still a majorissue for black students in California. The
report examined some twenty four areas ofinequity impacting black students in the state,
and the report shows that there wasa forty seven percent drop in black student
enrollment in California from twenty twenty Fromtwenty and three to twenty twenty three,
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in California is the third most segregatedstate for black students in the country.
The question for me, then,is what do we do about that?
Well, this is what they're workingon, and this is what's something that
is being pushed forward on Governor Newsom'sdesk to try to deal with this and
also locally as well, because youknow, I just something's got to be
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done. Something's got to be done. This can't just be another statistical number
here in southern California. And that'sthat there coming up on the other side
of this here break, we havegot the CEO of the California Special Olympics,
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Miss Kelly Pond, is going tojoin us to let us know the
latest happenings with the Special Olympics SummerGames at cal State Long Beach, happening
June eighth and through the ninth ofthis coming week. Suck Kelly Pond and
the California speciallymicses. Next here onKFI AM six forty Life everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. You're listening to SoulCal Saturday with Tauala Sharp on demand from
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KFI AM six forty KFI AM sixforty life everywhere on the iHeartRadio app in
north Ridge, Artezia, Bloomington,and Sugarloa. This is Soul Cal Saturday.
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I'm your host Tuwala Sharp and ifyou did not know during the day
when I'm not here at KFI,I am an administrator at a school for
children with special needs with the primarydiagnosis of autism, and I have to
say it is quite possibly one ofthe most fulfilling things I do working with
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this population. And so when Itell you the and I am overjoyed at
the return of the Special Olympic SouthernCalifornia Games, you know it is coming
from the heart. That's right.On May twenty eighth, more than three
hundred law enforcement agencies and Special Olympicathletes embarked on an eleven hundred mile run
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through San Diego, Los Angeles,Orange Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis,
Obispo, Santa Barbara, and VenturaCounties in the thirty eighth annual Law
Enforcement Torch Run to benefit Special OlympicsSouthern California and now on June eighth,
the Law Enforcement Torch Run will concludewith the lighting of the cauldron kicking off
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the twenty twenty four Southern Olympics SouthernCalifornia Summer Games at nine am at California
State University, Long Beach, locatedat one two five zero Bellflower Boulevard in
Long Beach. Officially kicking off theSpecial Olympic Summer Games at cal State Long
Beach. We're in from June eighthto the ninth. Special Olympic athletes from
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across Southern California will compete in flagfootball, swimming, track and field,
basketball, and more. Admission toattend this event, of course, is
free, and if you want moreinformation on the event, you can always
visit SOOSC dot org fords last SummerGames. But to take us inside the
twenty twenty four Special Olympics Southern CaliforniaGames, we have Miss Kelly Pond,
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the CEO of Special Olympics Southern California, joining us today. Miss Pond,
how are you doing? Oh mygoodness, well, I am doing even
better after hearing and feeling your incredibleenergy and the way that you talked about
what's happening with Special Olympics right now. So thank you so much for the
opportunity to talk and share and geteverybody excited about what's ahead. Briefly,
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let's go back to the beginning.If we can take us inside the origins
of these Special Olympics Games in SouthernCalifornia and how we got to where we
are now. Well, we're celebratingour fifty five year anniversary this year of
Summer Games. We were founded byRafer Johnson in California and by Eunice Kennedy
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Shreiver worldwide. And I love howyou started with the law Enforcement Torch Run
and the activity that's happening right nowacross southern California where law enforcement officers and
Special Olympics athletes and community members arecoming together running across communities with the flame
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of hope and all in the culminationof coming to our Summer Games Championships at
Tel State Long Beach this coming weekend. Special Olympics has incredible partnership with law
enforcement where they raise awareness and fundsto make Sci Olympics possible. Our year
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round programs are one hundred percent freeto the athletes and their families, and
fundraising like the law Enforcement Torch Runand awareness is what makes our programs possible
for the athletes and their families anda lot of people. We're talking about
Summer Games and it's a great wayto come out. It's open to the
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public to see the courage, determinationand joy that our athletes show out on
the playing field. You talked aboutthe different sports that will be on display
and being competed against the athletes atSummer Games. But something that a lot
of people don't realize is that SpecialOlympics is changes life through the power of
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sports and were so much more so. We have Summer Games as a championship
competition. The art athletes are trainingand competing in wealth sports year round in
four different sports seasons. We haveunified sports where people with and without intellectual
disabilities compete together. We have ourHealthy Athletes program and actually if you come
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out to Summer Games, you'll beable to see we have a whole Healthy
Athletes Village where our volunteer medical professionalsdo free health screenings for our athletes or
potential athletes. And Special Olympics isactually considered the largest access to healthcare for
people with intellectual disabilities. So there'sso much more than the power of sports
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that is happening through Special Olympics.How do athletes get involved in Special Olympics.
How do the families find the SpecialOlympics Games? Well, I love
how you at the front end gaveour website soo sc dot RG and we
have information on how you become anathlete. It really depends on what the
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interest of the individual is what sportsyou might be interested in participating in.
And we love to welcome new athletesand families to our Special Olympics family.
It's a really great place where familiescan come together with one another as well
and connect about different things that theyexperience based on, you know, having
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a child or an individual in theirfamily with intellectual disabilities. So bringing a
lot of the families in addition tocoming out to cheer their children or adults
adult children on in their competitions,a lot of our families are also our
coaches or assistant coaches or volunteers tohelp make the program possible. Our program
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runs one hundred percent on volunteer support. We could not do it without volunteers.
All of our coaches are volunteers.They put in hundreds and hundreds of
hours so that our athletes can trainand compete all year long. And you
know when I was talking with oneof our parents last weekend, and he
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was telling me that about his daughterwho had been participating in Special Olympics for
over thirty years. And not onlydid his daughter have improved health and confidence
in sense of belongings because of SpecialOlympics, but because of all that she
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gained from Special Olympics. She gainedconfidence in starting to run five k's and
she started signing up for different fivek's in the community and that led to
her finding a job. And hewas telling me he never thought that his
daughter would be able to get ajob, but because of the confidence and
the skills that she was able togain through Special Olympics, it just opened
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all of these doors that he neverthought would be possible. And that's just
one story of thousands that we havein terms of the impact of Special Olympics
on our athletes and our families inthe greater community. Wow, I believe
that that right there is the reasonyou and your family need to show up
and show out and cheer on theseathletes at the Special Olympics Southern California Games
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June eighth through the ninth, featuringSpecial Olympic athletes from across Southern California competing
in flag football, swimming, trackand field, basketball, and more,
taking place at cal State University,Long Beach one two five zero North Bellflower
Boulevard. You can find out moreinformation at SOOSC dot org. Fords Last
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Summer Games for a full line ofevents and miss Pond, if there is
one thing that we can leave ourlisteners with that you feel as the most
salient point to make about the SpecialOlympics Southern California Games. What is that?
I would say, if you goout there and cheer on the athletes,
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you'll be inspired by what they're ableto accomplish. So many times,
we at Special Olympics love to celebrateand focus on people's abilities, what they
can do, learn from one another, and that's exactly what you will experience
if you come out and be apart of the courage, determined, determination
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and joy that you'll see. MissPond, thank you so much for joining
us today and taking us inside theSpecial Olympics Southern California Games. Thank you,
thank you so much for the opportunityto share and for sharing your personal
connection to Special Olympics as well.Yes, ma'am, this is KFI and
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six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Soul cal
Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demand fromKFI AM six forty kf I AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeart Radioapp in Avalon Citrus, Big Bear City,
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and Patton, California. This issoul cal Saturday. I'm your host,
Twalla sharp, and it's time toget high. No, not really,
because I don't. I don't whatwhat what what did the former president's
I take he said he he puffed, but didn't pass in hall or something
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stupid like that, some ridiculous likethat? Was that Clinton? The Clinton?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Idid not inhale? Yeah, I
did not. Idiot should have takenthat toke. I mean, if you're
gonna do it, if you're gonnago all that way. But no,
I don't condone, No, Idon't. But it seems that there is
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a group of police officers who havenow reversed their stance on the aspect of
legal Marriagejuana Yeah, California platformers,they now have an unlikely friend in the
police. Believe it or not.After years of fighting cannabis legalization, one
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of the most powerful law enforcement groupsin the state is now in support of
cannabis legalization, Reflecting a transformational momentin cannabis politics. The Peace Officers Research
Association of California and association with somenine hundred and fifty police unions representing over
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eighty thousand officers, announced that itnow supports marijauana legalization and legal pot business.
Wow. The group's announcement coincided withits support for State's two point zero
Act, a congressional bill that wouldforce the federal government to recognize state legal
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cannabis programs as valid under federal law. The bill would also provide for a
massive financial boost to legal pot companies. Now poorak again, that is the
Peace Officer's Research Association of California PresidentBrian Marvel told a paper or recent In
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a recent interview, he said thatthe bill would allow federal authorities to coordinate
directly with local law enforcement to fightillicit cannabis companies and support legal potfarms.
Now, if this bill has approved, it could provide a massive cash windfall
for the legal marriajajuana industry by reducingits federal tax rate and creating a pathway
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for California pop businesses to legally exporttheir products across state lines, which is
of course, that is the dreamof the married jawuana industry. But this
is big. This is a big, big statement from law enforcement writ large
in their recognition of marria jauana beingone of the fastest growing industries out there,
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especially here. In southern California,and why not gone in and ride
with it instead of fighting against it. Now to mention, I'm sure there's
an officer to who likes to takeso you know, So there's that.
And this actually is right on timebecause in California we have also just passed
an Assembly bill which will allow Amsterdamstyle cannabis cafes. Now, you know,
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I talked about this while ago,maybe a month or two ago,
that they were looking to get theseAmsterdam style cannabis cafes up and running.
Well, now thanks to AB seventeenseventy five, it can happen. And
what this says to me is andwe discussed this on later with Mo Kelly.
Oh oh, Starbucks is in troublebecause just imagine you got a cafe
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it's up and running. You cango in there and you can toke a
little, you get a little coffee, you can get some snacks, and
if there's Wi Fi Internet, peoplemay be in there all day. That's
what they go to Starbucks for,except there's no marriajuana. Now you have
the marria juana at a Amsterdam stylecafe. Man. Look, this is
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the beginning of a brand new industryhere in southern California. I mean,
if you think those little plus signedshops and stores on every corner of thing,
just wait till you have you know, what is it a toke and
brew or what would it be?Zip? Token Zip TONI there we go.
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That's our new business, Kayla,write that down. We said it
first here Tokenzip. That will beour business. Coffee and Marriagejuana Edible Brownie.
I also want to pitch a bluntand brew Heather in the building.
And this is why we have missedyou, Heather, because blunt and brew
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perfect, Yes, reunited and itis so good. Yeah. Man,
look at that smile over there.Yes, indeed we have missed you.
And this is why. Because bluntand brew it is officially a thing.
Somebody make T shirts is going down. This is KFI Am sixty. We
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are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And on the other side, we
are going to get into our smallbusiness Saturday Spotlight with Miss Tanya Tea and
wave hold on, let me getright writing waves, not wave writers,
writing waves. That that is upnext right here on KFI AM six forty
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Los Angeles, Orange County, IE in the Valley. This is Tawala
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the iHeartRadio app. Saturday KFI AMsix forty live everywhere on the Ihearted Radio
app and Forrest Falls, Trona,Malibu and Irvine. This is Soul Cal
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Saturday. I'm your host, TwalaSharp. Welcoming you to another funfilled Saturday
here in southern California. And ifyou are one of the many people who
have been complaining about the cold weather, complaining about this rain spurts that we
(00:43):
were getting, just know this,this heat that's coming our way, you
asked for it. Yes, weare about to get one of the most
intense heat waves coming our way inyears even all right, the first heat
wave of the year will be kickingoff this week. We are going to
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see some extreme temperatures. I mean, you know, the one hundred to
one hundred and eight temperatures that's what'scoming our way. Hot, hot,
hot, And me personally, Ibelieve that this is what we've been asking
for. We've been asking for this, and I don't think enough of us.
Remember how God awful. The heatwave was last summer. I mean,
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geez, it was frying egg onthe sidewalk on and now it is
coming back. It is coming backand with the heat waves again. As
always, make sure you are checkingon the elders, make sure that you
are keeping if you take your petsfor a walk, make sure you're keeping
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some water with you at all timesso you can make sure you're keeping your
pets hydrated, because I see thatsometimes I see people walking dogs and they're
just look like they're about to passout. And make sure you stay hydrated.
We do not want you passing out. But beyond the heat, okay,
heat is one thing, one thingthat we know that thrives in heat.
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COVID, Yes, COVID thrives inheat. And this is what I
was just talking about with the Forkreporter. This new filthy flirty COVID variant
is on the rise here in southernCalifornia. Now, it's a little too
early to know if flirt will makea major change in where we are right
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now with COVID. You know ifit's going to have a major impact or
not. But there are so manyFLIRT subvariants already running rampant here in southern
California. All Right, the flirtsubvariants officially known as KP dot two,
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KP dot three, KP dot onepoint one. I don't know what they
know those stand for, but theyhave overtaken the dominant variant of COVID,
which was j N point one.All right, and that's I mean,
that's the thing. You know thatthey don't know what these codes are supposed
to mean. But all I cantell you is flirt is strong enough where
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it looked at j N one andwe're like, move out of the way.
I'm gonna get in those lungs.It is my turn to get deep
into Southern Californian's lungs. And Iknow, oh my god, Tola's talking
about COVID. He's fear mongering.We are over COVID, well, especially
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officially, we are not actually overCOVID. So if anyone's around you and
they're all of a sudden coming downwith something like some cough or you know,
something like that, just know theymay be flirting with you. Okay,
Now, we are not really seeinga jump in severely ill people with
flirt. You know, the hospitalizationsare necessarily up and there's no one dying
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from flirting. No one is dyingyet. Flirting is not taking that toll.
But you can still protect yourselves byall of the normal means against flirting.
And I know flirting it may soundfun. You may want to get
dressed up, head to Marongo orhead to which casino? Are you all
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going to? O? KAYLAO,you're going to Marongo? Yeah, okay,
you may want to get dressed upand go to Marongo and flirt.
But if you all win, sorry, yeah that's when. Yeah, we're
going there too. But don't beflirting at win either. Don't be flirting
at when wherever you're going, Justdon't flirt. Okay. Vaccines are still
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still the best way to fight againstflirting. Avoid sick people. I mean,
like duh, you know what I'msaying, Like, like, I
know that's on this list, that'sreally on the top of the no dull
list. But if anyone is flirtingaround you with A or A any of
that, to say no, Ican't flirt with you, I cannot flirt
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with you, you can always gettested. Now Here's the thing about flirt.
Flirt is a little more elusive,it seems than the normal COVID variant.
You know. Just that's how flirtsare flirts usually teas they don't want
to just show you what's going onright away. This one flirt kind of
like leads you on a little bit. But no, you still can test
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me personally. I say avoid thesick people, although that may be tough.
That may be tough. Sometimes youmay just you know, have to
go to the store, you mayhave to go to get together. Well
you don't have to do anything.People also fake like they're not sick,
like they'll cough meca. Oh sorry, it's allergies, Like that's true.
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Well they can't because of allergies.If they create like uh mute kiss and
all that running down the back ofyour throat, that can make you.
Oh you said that to me onetime, that that your alergier is making
you cough, and I doubted you. But I see that there's facts.
So I'm looking at you so sorryto all those can I please just add
if you feel sick, don't goplaces. What are you doing that?
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There's that part, Yeah, there'sthat part. I mean it's those people
that are going around giving it toeverybody. Those are the people who just
want to flirt. They just wantto flirt. They just want to spread
this filth, they want to getit back out there. But again,
I mean, look, I knowhere in southern California and you know,
we're we're open, everything's back inbusiness, and no one is trying to
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really go back to masking up.No one's trying to go back to where
we were. And if that isthe case, and if that's where we're
really at and we don't want togo back, then I would just say,
don't flirt with me. Don't flirtwith me. I will not flirt
with you. Okay. We willkeep this subvariant in all of its sub
cousins to themselves. We will notlet flirt overtake California. We are beyond
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that. Okay, we are beyondthat. I am cool being single,
Okay, I don't need you flirtingwith me. This is KFI AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeart Radioapp. You're listening to Soul cal Saturday
with Tawala Sharp on demand from KFIAM six forty. Gotta be KFI AM
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six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. In Laverne, Monrovia,
Rancho is sent to Margarita and Tustin. This is Soul cal Saturday. I'm
your host Twala Sharp taking a lookat some other things happening around southern California.
I have been following this for awhile only because I don't like what
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the bill against it was trying todo, and that is possibly forcing LGBTQ
plus students out. Like to me, I thought like that, that's a
ridiculous concept to even have to putinto a bill. I thought to myself,
like, yo, like why wouldwhy would politicians think that it's necessary
(08:31):
to step in and write a billeither agreeing with outing children or allowing children
to remain in the closet or whatever. But state lawmakers have introduced this new
bill that would prohibit California school districtsfrom enacting policies requiring educators to inform parents
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about students transgender identities. And Idefinitely hated that one. When they are
like, you know, if ifa child chooses to identify differently than what's
on there enrolled paperwork, whatever,then the teachers are calling parents like,
hey, guess what your child iscoming to school? And I know he
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was born Tom, but he's comingto school and he's her name is Tammy.
I'm just calling to tell you thatwhat that's what it sounds like to
me. That's how the bill soundsto me. But this new measure is
going to be added to Assembly Billnineteen fifty five, which was introduced by
Assembly Member Chris Chris Ward from SanDiego earlier this year through a maneuver called
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a gut and amend which replaces anexisting bill with an entirely new one.
And under this revised version of thebill called the Support Academic Futures and Educators
for Today's Youth or Safety Act.That's a long way, but Safety Act,
which is a school district it barsthem from enacting that teachers would need
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to do that go through that wholeprocess. And so look, I am
all about at least the rights ofall people, you know, you know,
be it lgbt Q plus rights,be it the rights and the advancements
of people of color, uh,the right the advances of women in the
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workplace, and reproductive rights just periodicLike, there are certain things that I
believe all people are are are entitledto, you know, and this is
one of those ones that I'm like, yes, there this should, this
should be in place, because Iget it. There are a lot of
people who feel like it's their businessto be in our business what's happening in
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our households. And I don't believethat any of the bills that were out
there designed to out children were right. One thing that is right dealing with
the schools is something else that's recentlybeen passed here in California is there is
a new Assembly bill that was passedthat makes kindergarten mandatory. Right and for
me, this is something that Ipersonally feel that my children are as brilliant
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as they are. You know,they started you know, reading, writing
everything early because of their experience inkindergarten before going to grade school and things
like that. I think that.But also by making this bill, by
making kindergarten mandatory, it opens uplocal state politics and local maneuvers or measures
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that make kindergarten more affordable and thereare more ways for parents to be able
to get kids into it. Butyes, AB two two two six has
been approved and signed into law,and it will It would require California kids
to complete one year of kindergarten beforeenrolling in first grade in the public school,
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beginning with the twenty twenty twenty sevenschool year, and something a statistic
that's not necessarily as surprising as Ibelieve they thought it was when they wrote
this article. But there's been anearly fifty percent drop in black student enrollment
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in California, and a coalition ledby the American Civil Liberties Union released this
report on Wednesday showing this drop inblack student enrollment the state of Black Educators
of an Education of California come seventyyears after the groundbreaking Brown Versus Board of
Education decision that ruled segregation in schoolsis unconstitutional, and despite progress, segregation
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and overall enrollment is still a majorissue for black students in California. The
report examined some twenty four areas ofinequity impacting black students in the state,
and the report shows that there wasa forty seven percent drop in black student
enrollment in California from twenty twenty Fromtwenty and three to twenty twenty three,
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in California is the third most segregatedstate for black students in the country.
The question for me, then,is what do we do about that?
Well, this is what they're workingon, and this is what's something that
is being pushed forward on Governor Newsom'sdesk to try to deal with this and
also locally as well, because youknow, I just something's got to be
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done. Something's got to be done. This can't just be another statistical number
here in southern California. And that'sthat there coming up on the other side
of this here break, we havegot the CEO of the California Special Olympics,
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Miss Kelly Pond, is going tojoin us to let us know the
latest happenings with the Special Olympics SummerGames at cal State Long Beach, happening
June eighth and through the ninth ofthis coming week. Suck Kelly Pond and
the California speciallymicses. Next here onKFI AM six forty Life everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. You're listening to SoulCal Saturday with Tauala Sharp on demand from
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KFI AM six forty KFI AM sixforty life everywhere on the iHeartRadio app in
north Ridge, Artezia, Bloomington,and Sugarloa. This is Soul Cal Saturday.
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I'm your host Tuwala Sharp and ifyou did not know during the day
when I'm not here at KFI,I am an administrator at a school for
children with special needs with the primarydiagnosis of autism, and I have to
say it is quite possibly one ofthe most fulfilling things I do working with
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this population. And so when Itell you the and I am overjoyed at
the return of the Special Olympic SouthernCalifornia Games, you know it is coming
from the heart. That's right.On May twenty eighth, more than three
hundred law enforcement agencies and Special Olympicathletes embarked on an eleven hundred mile run
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through San Diego, Los Angeles,Orange Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis,
Obispo, Santa Barbara, and VenturaCounties in the thirty eighth annual Law
Enforcement Torch Run to benefit Special OlympicsSouthern California and now on June eighth,
the Law Enforcement Torch Run will concludewith the lighting of the cauldron kicking off
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the twenty twenty four Southern Olympics SouthernCalifornia Summer Games at nine am at California
State University, Long Beach, locatedat one two five zero Bellflower Boulevard in
Long Beach. Officially kicking off theSpecial Olympic Summer Games at cal State Long
Beach. We're in from June eighthto the ninth. Special Olympic athletes from
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across Southern California will compete in flagfootball, swimming, track and field,
basketball, and more. Admission toattend this event, of course, is
free, and if you want moreinformation on the event, you can always
visit SOOSC dot org fords last SummerGames. But to take us inside the
twenty twenty four Special Olympics Southern CaliforniaGames, we have Miss Kelly Pond,
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the CEO of Special Olympics Southern California, joining us today. Miss Pond,
how are you doing? Oh mygoodness, well, I am doing even
better after hearing and feeling your incredibleenergy and the way that you talked about
what's happening with Special Olympics right now. So thank you so much for the
opportunity to talk and share and geteverybody excited about what's ahead. Briefly,
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let's go back to the beginning.If we can take us inside the origins
of these Special Olympics Games in SouthernCalifornia and how we got to where we
are now. Well, we're celebratingour fifty five year anniversary this year of
Summer Games. We were founded byRafer Johnson in California and by Eunice Kennedy
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Shreiver worldwide. And I love howyou started with the law Enforcement Torch Run
and the activity that's happening right nowacross southern California where law enforcement officers and
Special Olympics athletes and community members arecoming together running across communities with the flame
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of hope and all in the culminationof coming to our Summer Games Championships at
Tel State Long Beach this coming weekend. Special Olympics has incredible partnership with law
enforcement where they raise awareness and fundsto make Sci Olympics possible. Our year
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round programs are one hundred percent freeto the athletes and their families, and
fundraising like the law Enforcement Torch Runand awareness is what makes our programs possible
for the athletes and their families anda lot of people. We're talking about
Summer Games and it's a great wayto come out. It's open to the
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public to see the courage, determinationand joy that our athletes show out on
the playing field. You talked aboutthe different sports that will be on display
and being competed against the athletes atSummer Games. But something that a lot
of people don't realize is that SpecialOlympics is changes life through the power of
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sports and were so much more so. We have Summer Games as a championship
competition. The art athletes are trainingand competing in wealth sports year round in
four different sports seasons. We haveunified sports where people with and without intellectual
disabilities compete together. We have ourHealthy Athletes program and actually if you come
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out to Summer Games, you'll beable to see we have a whole Healthy
Athletes Village where our volunteer medical professionalsdo free health screenings for our athletes or
potential athletes. And Special Olympics isactually considered the largest access to healthcare for
people with intellectual disabilities. So there'sso much more than the power of sports
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that is happening through Special Olympics.How do athletes get involved in Special Olympics.
How do the families find the SpecialOlympics Games? Well, I love
how you at the front end gaveour website soo sc dot RG and we
have information on how you become anathlete. It really depends on what the
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interest of the individual is what sportsyou might be interested in participating in.
And we love to welcome new athletesand families to our Special Olympics family.
It's a really great place where familiescan come together with one another as well
and connect about different things that theyexperience based on, you know, having
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a child or an individual in theirfamily with intellectual disabilities. So bringing a
lot of the families in addition tocoming out to cheer their children or adults
adult children on in their competitions,a lot of our families are also our
coaches or assistant coaches or volunteers tohelp make the program possible. Our program
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runs one hundred percent on volunteer support. We could not do it without volunteers.
All of our coaches are volunteers.They put in hundreds and hundreds of
hours so that our athletes can trainand compete all year long. And you
know when I was talking with oneof our parents last weekend, and he
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was telling me that about his daughterwho had been participating in Special Olympics for
over thirty years. And not onlydid his daughter have improved health and confidence
in sense of belongings because of SpecialOlympics, but because of all that she
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gained from Special Olympics. She gainedconfidence in starting to run five k's and
she started signing up for different fivek's in the community and that led to
her finding a job. And hewas telling me he never thought that his
daughter would be able to get ajob, but because of the confidence and
the skills that she was able togain through Special Olympics, it just opened
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all of these doors that he neverthought would be possible. And that's just
one story of thousands that we havein terms of the impact of Special Olympics
on our athletes and our families inthe greater community. Wow, I believe
that that right there is the reasonyou and your family need to show up
and show out and cheer on theseathletes at the Special Olympics Southern California Games
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June eighth through the ninth, featuringSpecial Olympic athletes from across Southern California competing
in flag football, swimming, trackand field, basketball, and more,
taking place at cal State University,Long Beach one two five zero North Bellflower
Boulevard. You can find out moreinformation at SOOSC dot org. Fords Last
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Summer Games for a full line ofevents and miss Pond, if there is
one thing that we can leave ourlisteners with that you feel as the most
salient point to make about the SpecialOlympics Southern California Games. What is that?
I would say, if you goout there and cheer on the athletes,
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you'll be inspired by what they're ableto accomplish. So many times,
we at Special Olympics love to celebrateand focus on people's abilities, what they
can do, learn from one another, and that's exactly what you will experience
if you come out and be apart of the courage, determined, determination
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and joy that you'll see. MissPond, thank you so much for joining
us today and taking us inside theSpecial Olympics Southern California Games. Thank you,
thank you so much for the opportunityto share and for sharing your personal
connection to Special Olympics as well.Yes, ma'am, this is KFI and
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six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Soul cal
Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demand fromKFI AM six forty kf I AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeart Radioapp in Avalon Citrus, Big Bear City,
(24:26):
and Patton, California. This issoul cal Saturday. I'm your host,
Twalla sharp, and it's time toget high. No, not really,
because I don't. I don't whatwhat what what did the former president's
I take he said he he puffed, but didn't pass in hall or something
(24:48):
stupid like that, some ridiculous likethat? Was that Clinton? The Clinton?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Idid not inhale? Yeah, I
did not. Idiot should have takenthat toke. I mean, if you're
gonna do it, if you're gonnago all that way. But no,
I don't condone, No, Idon't. But it seems that there is
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a group of police officers who havenow reversed their stance on the aspect of
legal Marriagejuana Yeah, California platformers,they now have an unlikely friend in the
police. Believe it or not.After years of fighting cannabis legalization, one
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of the most powerful law enforcement groupsin the state is now in support of
cannabis legalization, Reflecting a transformational momentin cannabis politics. The Peace Officers Research
Association of California and association with somenine hundred and fifty police unions representing over
(26:00):
eighty thousand officers, announced that itnow supports marijauana legalization and legal pot business.
Wow. The group's announcement coincided withits support for State's two point zero
Act, a congressional bill that wouldforce the federal government to recognize state legal
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cannabis programs as valid under federal law. The bill would also provide for a
massive financial boost to legal pot companies. Now poorak again, that is the
Peace Officer's Research Association of California PresidentBrian Marvel told a paper or recent In
(26:41):
a recent interview, he said thatthe bill would allow federal authorities to coordinate
directly with local law enforcement to fightillicit cannabis companies and support legal potfarms.
Now, if this bill has approved, it could provide a massive cash windfall
for the legal marriajajuana industry by reducingits federal tax rate and creating a pathway
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for California pop businesses to legally exporttheir products across state lines, which is
of course, that is the dreamof the married jawuana industry. But this
is big. This is a big, big statement from law enforcement writ large
in their recognition of marria jauana beingone of the fastest growing industries out there,
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especially here. In southern California,and why not gone in and ride
with it instead of fighting against it. Now to mention, I'm sure there's
an officer to who likes to takeso you know, So there's that.
And this actually is right on timebecause in California we have also just passed
an Assembly bill which will allow Amsterdamstyle cannabis cafes. Now, you know,
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I talked about this while ago,maybe a month or two ago,
that they were looking to get theseAmsterdam style cannabis cafes up and running.
Well, now thanks to AB seventeenseventy five, it can happen. And
what this says to me is andwe discussed this on later with Mo Kelly.
Oh oh, Starbucks is in troublebecause just imagine you got a cafe
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it's up and running. You cango in there and you can toke a
little, you get a little coffee, you can get some snacks, and
if there's Wi Fi Internet, peoplemay be in there all day. That's
what they go to Starbucks for,except there's no marriajuana. Now you have
the marria juana at a Amsterdam stylecafe. Man. Look, this is
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the beginning of a brand new industryhere in southern California. I mean,
if you think those little plus signedshops and stores on every corner of thing,
just wait till you have you know, what is it a toke and
brew or what would it be?Zip? Token Zip TONI there we go.
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That's our new business, Kayla,write that down. We said it
first here Tokenzip. That will beour business. Coffee and Marriagejuana Edible Brownie.
I also want to pitch a bluntand brew Heather in the building.
And this is why we have missedyou, Heather, because blunt and brew
(29:22):
perfect, Yes, reunited and itis so good. Yeah. Man,
look at that smile over there.Yes, indeed we have missed you.
And this is why. Because bluntand brew it is officially a thing.
Somebody make T shirts is going down. This is KFI Am sixty. We
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are going to get into our smallbusiness Saturday Spotlight with Miss Tanya Tea and
wave hold on, let me getright writing waves, not wave writers,
writing waves. That that is upnext right here on KFI AM six forty
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