May 7, 2024 • 32 mins
Nearly two dozen investors were duped by a salesman’s “wildly optimistic” promises about a Cannabis “theme park” in Alaska, according to federal prosecutors. Those promises cost them more than $600,000. Those promises cost them more than $600,000. Brian Keith Corty’s proposed cannabis theme park resort dubbed “Bud and Breakfast”, caused 22 people to invest thousands of dollars into the venture, prosecutors said. Cannabis Talk 101, “The World’s #1 Source For Everything Cannabis”, made global history by becoming the first cannabis show to partner with iHeartMedia, on 4/20/2020. Thank you for listening & watching Cannabis Talk 101 with Christopher Wright, aka "Blue" the CEO and creator of Cannabis Talk 101 and the Cannabis Talk Network. & Joe Grande, former Co-Host on Big Boy’s Neighborhood on Power 106 FM, On-Air with Ryan Seacrest on 102.7 KIIS FM in Los Angeles and The Dog House in the Bay Area on WILD 94.9 KYLD. Toking with the Stars with Chuckie & Marty, & Financial Fridays with Tony Kassaei, The Inside Investor, on YouTube, IHeartRadio App, Spotify, & Apple Podcasts.
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I got Daniel on the board over there, Daniel.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Say, what's good, yo, yo, yo, how you guys doing.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Daniel came up with some reconnaissance, some stories, some articles
in the cannabis world today. So let's just get right
into it. The first set of news we're gonna cover
is an Alaska man accused of scamming investors for over
six hundred thousand dollars. With the proposed cannabis theme park
(01:34):
now off the rip, that is quite the headline, you know,
I think just from hearing a cannabis theme park, that
could peak a lot of interest, don't you think, Daniel? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Absolutely, I mean I'm not I'm I'm a drinker as
well as a smoker. But at the same time, if
there's more cannabis use at a theme park, man, that
sounds more fun to me than anything. I'd rather smoke
some button than go on some roller coasters rather than
drink and fill all full throughout the day, you know
what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Absolutely, you know, different horses for different courses. You can
go and do your thing. So it was proposed a
few years back, and let me get to the nitty
gritty of it. So, nearly two dozen investors were duped
by a salesman's wildly optimistic promise about a cannabis theme
park in Alaska. According to federal prosecutors, Brian Keith Cordy's
(02:27):
proposed cannabis theme park resort, dubbed a Bud and Breakfast,
caused twenty two people to invest thousands of dollars into
the venture. Prosecutors said investors were misled into believing the
resort would be located at a lodge Cordy had bought
along a highway near Salcha, about a thirty mile drive
southeast from Fairbanks in central Alaska, according to prosecutors. And so,
(02:51):
you know, I was reading a little bit more about
this and from the statement that Brian Cordy released, or
you know, it's just some of the reaction. It seems
as though he was sincere about, you know, actually making
a cannabis resort, which you know, you would want it
(03:16):
to be genuine.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
However, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He was due to a few things in life, such
as COVID disrupted some supply chain arrangements that he had
and among a few other, you know, regulatory issues in
the cannabis game. I think it was hard for him
to get going ultimately, and you know he was eventually
(03:41):
using the investments just.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
To for you know, for personal use. I think.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So that's where you know, the the FEDS had to
come in and you know, and that's.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Where he went wrong, Connor, that's where he went wrong.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And no circumstances should he ever have used those funds
for personal gains, especially if it's like in its beginning
stages investors, you know, stuff like that. But it also
goes to show you that, you know, when these things happen,
not everybody's a scumbag. I'm sure you know Brian had
good intentions, was it Brian Cordy?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You said, yeah, Brian Cordy.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Yeah, so I imagine he had some good intentions. But uh,
just like in any business, you can't expect to win
all the time and you got to know what you're doing.
I think he had a good idea, but maybe his
business wasn't all the way there. Like that's why some
businesses have like a you know, the guy that could
brainstorm and come up with a million dollar plan, but
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if he doesn't know how to execute. It doesn't have
the right team behind him. That's where he goes wrong.
And the next time someone may like face something like that,
they should just call a you know, blue Christopher Wright.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
You know, he'll probably get you going.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
On your feet with stuff like that because that's what
they do over at Master Mentors anyways.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So totally, totally, you know, there's I'm reading more information
on here, and its prosecutor said. Cordy and his wife, Candy.
Cordy persuaded investors to buy shares in their company, ice
Fog Holdings Limited Liability Corporation, which claimed it would transform
the Midway Lodge and a convenience store into a marijuana
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theme park, complete with an on site cannabis grow operation.
To entice investors, Cordy falsely claimed that ice Fog was
already generating revenue through security service agreements and stood to
make millions in profits within the first few years, projecting
returns of more than thirty times the initial investments. According
to the court documents, Cordy pleaded guilty in January to
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a single count of conspiracy to.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Commit wire fraud.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
The Feds are saying that, you know, it was wildly
optimistic and in fact, the licensing and operations were never
pursued in good faith, and Cordy simply lived off investor
funds while continuing to lie to them.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Prosecutors rotents in the sentencing.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Damn so he was a scumbag. Oh damn well.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The defense argued that Cordy had genuinely wanted to start
the business and believe his plans, but faced numerous obstacles,
including supply chain issues and the COVID nineteen pandemic that
caused the venture to collapse. At least twenty two investors
were misled.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
We will can, the.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
US attorney Slaine Tucker said, we will continue to work
with law enforcement partners to pursue prosecutions against individuals who
choose to exploit unknowing victims through fraudulent, fraudulent means. So
obviously this this took place, you know, a couple of
years ago, and I'm sure it's taken a while to
go through the proceedings of this case, but you know,
(06:43):
it proofs in the pudding, I guess. I mean, you're
innocent until proven guilty. So you know, he's got to
he's got to fess up and pay that six hundred
six hundred racks bro.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
He better, and honestly, I just hope, you know, my
heart goes out to the twenty two victims of this case.
You know, sometimes things may seem like it's too good
to be true, and you just got to listen to
your heart, especially when it comes to your money, because
there's a lot of people out here. Not everybody lives
in California has fucking zero in their bank account. A
lot of these people, especially out in the Midwest and
other places where it's not so expensive Connor, they got
(07:17):
life savings that they met might have you know, been
putting away two hundred three hundred bucks every check from
when they were little, and now they got all these
life savings, right, Yeah, and then they just go blow
it on some fucking ding dong things, you know, just
telling people, oh, yeah, you know what we're gonna win
with this business, and it's it all sounds good, but
sounds too good to be true.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, And obviously it's a it's a learning experience for
everyone involved. You know, the people who invested are you know,
at least I hope they have a better understanding of
the cannabis industry and you know, how to be selective
with where you put your investments and everything. Obviously, this
guy garnered some trust within them, and that's ultimately the
(08:00):
hardest pill to swallow, I think, was that you know,
these twenty two investors trusted this guy with all, you know,
over six hundred thousand dollars in faith that he would
you know, make a return on it.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And he gave him a business plan.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
But he must have been a good salesman or just
like maybe had something that like I just wouldn't trust
anybody just like that, but maybe maybe he had something
to well and he made him feel like you know,
they had a like, oh he could if it doesn't
work out, he could back it, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Well yeah, and he had assets for for the whole
thing too, like he had bought the lodge.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He you know, got this convenience.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So it was like there was some physical shit that
they were seeing, you know, to uh, you know, have
have some trust in it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
So, you know, I think that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Ultimately, like I said, it's a it's a learning experience
for these cats, and you know, you gotta do your
due diligence with this industry. As we all know, it's
not quite bread and butter, black and white to where
you know, you you know have there's right answers and
wrong answers, like Nah, there's so many different ways to
(09:12):
go about the cannabis industry, so you know, you got
to figure it out for yourself and you know, critically
think about absolutely where your money's gonna go. Daniel, is
there anything else you want to touch on with this,
Alaska Mayhem?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
No, just uh, you know, hopefully uh no other jokes
or gets any bright ideas thinking that they could come
up on this cannabis industry stuff, because it happens more
often than it doesn't, especially in this industry. A lot
of people that might like the plant or you know,
there's a lot of people who smoke tobacco, but not
everybody's trying to you know, run a tobacco farm or
anything like that.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It's not as easy as it looks, and it's definitely not.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
As lucrative I think, you know what I'm saying, Like,
there's a lot of uh, there's a lot of uh
things that consider when you're opening anything in cannabis business
right as we see today. But other than that, you know, Alaska,
keep on your toes and make sure that anybody investing
with Brian Cordy. You know, you keep your eye open
(10:10):
on that guy because he might he might use your
investment for a new Polaris or a.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
New uh, you know, one of these vehicles.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, one of these.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Vehicles, one of those Hyundays, those new ones.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well, this has been a very grandiose attempt at a
cannabis theme park, and it.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Did not execute poverty.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
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In our last segment, we touched on a entrepreneur that scammer,
(11:41):
I mean, yes, an Alaskan scammer.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
It's good on it's good title or something.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We talked about how you know he absolutely ran up
a check on these poor investors and it did not
end well.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Now we're going to.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Pivots to you know, the actual flower. We're gonna touch
the plant, so to speak. And we saw the headline
out of Texas that Austin PD finds fetanyhl laced cannabis
in recent citywide sting operation.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
The Austin Police Department conducted a sting operation arrested a
man Thursday after he was allegedly found with both crack
cocaine and marijuana that tested positive for fentanyl. Police from
APDs Organized Crime Divisions Gang Suppression Unit honed in on
quote high narcotics trafficking locations end quote, where an undercover
officer went to purchase drugs. Per police documents, the operation
(12:33):
came amid an overdose surge that resulted in more than
seventy overdoses and multiple opioid related deaths in Austin.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
That is bleak, Daniel, Yeah, that's bleak.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I agree, And uh, you know, it just goes to
show you like, first off, you know, we all know
that like a fetanol is like an opioid that's uh
man made and it's uh, it's very it's way stronger
than heroin. I just don't know what they're doing, Like
it makes sense if if people are trying to put
(13:06):
it into other drugs, but it doesn't make sense that.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
They're doing that in the cannabis And no.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I just it's literally evil.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You think this is like maybe an assassination attempt.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You know, I don't even know, Like I think about
it from the dealer's perspective, right, like these fools are
trying to make money. How like when you kill your clientele,
you're not gonna make any more money. And I'm just
thinking about that from you know, a dealer's perspective, Like
there's no morals in that really, but uh, or can they.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
They could just be stupid and think like damn, I'm
gonna get these fools addicted to my weed. And then
they're gonna figure out every time they go smoke the
Homeboys weed and it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Ain't hitting as much as you know as there, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Exactly, And you know you gottah put in reference to
yourself the amount of fentanyl it takes to overdose, like
you're if you're I saw this one picture on social
media a while back and it was like, this is
the amount it takes to overdose. And they showed like
a little, very minuscule pile of fentanyl next to a
(14:13):
penny and it was about a tenth of the size
of a penny. And that's what it takes for you
to completely stop your heart an overdose. You know, it
is absolutely sad, and you know, you could be onto
something where they're trying to get their clients, you know,
either more addicted to their shit and they go and
try some new stuff, or they're trying to you know,
(14:35):
have an edge on the competitor by getting you know,
a different high on the bud. I don't know, but
either way, that shit's evil as fuck.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yeah, they should not be putting stuff like that into
such a plant that has medicinal value. And honestly, like
there's people trying cannabis every day. That's you know, like
our world is becoming more open minded when it comes
to this plant, this research stuff like that. Hopefully with
this new rescheduling business that's happening over in Washington, d C.
(15:02):
It's gonna open the floodgates for research to come in
so we could get some certified factual data for once, right,
But other than that, you know, they need to stop
doing this and find another way to you know, kill
your enemies because you know smoking, but ain't gonna do
it all right, No, yeah, be more creative underworld please.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, no, no, fen and all like.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It's just you know, like I said, evil and it
gives an ill representation to the cannabis game, where you know,
you have people who may be ignorant to cannabis and
are seeing all of this news that it's gonna get rescheduled,
it's gonna be researched more. You know, you see all
these dispensaries coming out in the last ten years and
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then bam, you see that news, that article, and you're
gonna be like, fuck, fuck smoking weed.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I don't want to risk that.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So it's absolutely you know, bringing the cannabis industry down
every time there's an article like this, it's sad. And
you know, I I'm really drawing a blank as to
you know, stopping it because clearly they're just doing it
because they can. And the only thing I can think
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of is just, you know, pleading with them to stop.
I mean, obviously you have the police departments going in
and stopping it themselves. However, you know, it's like cockroaches.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Man, there's more.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
And I saw that they did a city wide sting
now Austin, Texas. I don't know if you've been there before,
but it's not a fucking small place, all right. It's
it's a big especially now, especially after the pandemic. It's
become such a hub for things that you're seeing traffic
there and thank you, it's a metropolis.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Now. When is I've me.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Personally, I've been smoking weed for I don't know fifteen
years and I've lived in the La County area, so
I've never heard once about cannabis laced no no fetanol
lace cannabis in my neighborhood or any anywhere I'd be smoking.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
That's something I don't even think of.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Now, Yeah, how long is it gonna take till it
hits our backyards till it starts hitting our friend groups
and stuff like that. And are they mass producing it
or is this you know, isolated incidents.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, And you know, from just the patterns I see
with news articles, it seems like it's just the the
odd dealer just fucking laces their shit with fentanyl. Like
I don't, you know, I hope it's not like a
nationwide crime syndicate where they're you know, plotting to do
all this. However, I will say I think us personally,
(17:39):
being in California, you know, not that we're completely uh,
you know, unsusceptible to having fentanyl on our cannabis. I
think we have it, you know, a lot better than
other states where you know, we don't have to go
through as much to get our cannabis, you know. And
like we we can generally trust the growers around, we
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can trust the dispensaries because we do have a legal
system and.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You have to do it right.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So if that isn't encouragement for the rest of the
states to fucking get on board, then I don't know
what is. Daniel, Do you have any more thoughts on
this situation?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
No other than we need to prosecute them. To the
highest extent of the law. I am not a big
fan of the justice system and how it works, but
you know I don't I'm not sitting here saying that.
You know, criminals don't belong behind bars, especially like dangerous
ones and ones that are liabilities to the greater good
of the human race, right, but totally something like this,
(18:40):
This is just fucking retarded. This is this is stupid.
Don't stop lacing fetanol with the cannabis, because, honestly, this
is one of the most inclusive plants that there is
when it comes to you know what, if you want
to say drug use or whatever, it's it's one of
those things that you know, you don't Cannabis is a
social thing, and that's probably the only thing other than
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alcohol that's acceptable socially, you know what I'm saying. Totally,
so I think they should just knock it off with that.
Other than that, I got no other words. Just throw
them away.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Austin p D.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I will say, I had a surgery a few years
back and post like postop right there, they fucking gave
me some fentanyl. Oh you were hooked, weren't you, fucking no, bro,
That's why I had the cush helped me wean off
those pharmaceuticals, which I actually did. I like halfway through,
I stopped taking them and I just was smoking and
(19:32):
you know, taking edibles and all that.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
How they come in a patch by chance because I
remember al Yeah, like I had an older, older, uh
what's it called cancer patient that I used to uh,
you know they patch her up?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Nah, yeah, they would. They would come into patch and
then I would help them. I'd help No, you just
like stick it.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
It's like a nicotine patch, but it's like straight fetanol
and it helps because also this patient had it fused
back by the way, so he would just all kinds
of fucked up.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Like hunchback like kind of thing. Yeah, where all the
cartilage is just like rock hard.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Oh yeah, so he he needed that and I would
just uh.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
That's the first time I ever was around it around
fetanohl and that was like back in O nine or something,
so I knew this was like a pharmaceutical grade thing.
Now I'm guessing they're just getting powders from China or something.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well, in the hospital, they injected my shit with it,
like they put it into an IV and then like
instantly felt that shit I was like, damn, Like I
was still like waking up, and I knew what the
fuck like my bot like, I felt different right away,
and that was probably you know, a small fraction of
(20:41):
what it takes for you to overdose of what I
took obviously, I mean I went to I was in
a hospital and having an operation, so they're obviously gonna
give me the proper dosage.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But still not something I'm gonna fucking take on the daily,
that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
So in a research standpoint, do you think that fetanol works?
Like for medical reasons like, did you feel like what
kind of surgery? Explained to the audience at home that
might be listening, what kind of surgery did you go through?
What pain were you feeling? And could you have gone
with something else? Let's just say, could you would have
got can you would have withstanded that pain with maybe
like two narcos and a talcn or what are we
(21:17):
talking about?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I had a nose surgery. I had non cosmetic nose surgery.
I had a deviated two deviated septums, and two large
turbinates in my nose.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
So what exactly is that? So what are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So it just blocks the airway in your nose. Ah,
you couldn't breathe and not breathe. I was playing soccer
and I was like, what the fuck's wrong?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Like, oh, you were breathing out of your mouth and yeah,
sucking air.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Oh yeah, and that's like the worst way to breathe.
And so finally I went to the ears nose throat
doctor and the head doctor yes, and this dude stuck
the little camera up my nose and bam.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He was like, yeah, your shit's grunked. It's all jack.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Was it growth you think like over the years or
where I think I.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Got hit with the soccer ball and it just absolutely
jacked up my nose because I remember waking up one
day in high school and my nose looked like a
Nike swoosh and it did not look like that the
day before.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So I was like all right, like I mean whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And then finally get to the point where it was
like five, six, seven years later and I was like
I really can't breathe, and then we did that and
he was like, yeah, you need surgery. So I got
the surgery and then post off, they wheeled me out
of there and they were like, are.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You in pain?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And I'm like yes, and they're like, all right, uh,
do you want something for the do you want to
take some medication? I was like sure, all right, we
got fentanyl and then lace my shit up with it.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So, uh, that was before or after this?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Right after? Immediately you were.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
You were in pain before the surgery or where.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It was No, not before the surgery, it was just
after because it's like they like fucking peel your shit back,
and you know, you got stints. You have to keep
stints in your nose for two weeks after and you
like can't touch your nose, you can't do anything.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
So it's just like it's it's it is pretty painful.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So then they prescribed the oxycodons after and then that's
when I just stopped using them after like a week
because the pain was more manageable.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Wow, they prescribed you oxyes, huh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I mean it was a the rhinoplasty is a serious surgery,
so they hooked me up with all that shit, and
then you know, I just started having it, having the
dose and then and then fully just getting off of
it after. But my point is is that the fentanyl
is no fucking joke. Don't stay away, just stay away from.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
It, I agree, and then when it comes for me, honestly, uh,
when it comes to like medications like that, I'm not
much of a downer type of guy, but I'd rather
just not fuck with that stuff and develop a tolerance
so that when I do fuck myself up, I could
go to the doctor and you know, and it's gonna
work whatever they're giving it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
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Speaker 2 (23:58):
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be smart about it if you don't have to take
all the insane opioids, if your body doesn't need it.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
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and that shit helped.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
And it made it a lot more colorable. And I
will say I was a pretty damn good patient.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
And you're here today, right, I'm like, uh, I'm here today.
I can breathe much of the rest of them.
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More short article to read for you guys, so let's
get right on into it. Data suggests state legal cannabis
market has significantly curbed demand for Mexican grown budd Feral
law enforcement agents intercept the record low of sixty one
thousand pounds of cannabis at the Southern border in twenty
twenty three. According to data published on the US Customs
(26:06):
and Border Protection website, the total representatives a twenty nine
percent decline from twenty twenty two and a ninety eight
percent decline in seizure activity since twenty thirteen, when the
agency reported more than two point four million pounds of cannabis.
(26:26):
The data suggested that the grown growing state legal marijuana
market in United States, which began in twenty fourteen, has
dramatically undercut demand for imported Mexican cannabis. Consequently, the production
and exportation of Mexican grown cannabis has also declined significantly. Daniel,
can you touch on the cannabis culture in Mexico real quick?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Well, for those that don't know, Mexico created created the
seedless blood, the sensamia, which literally fucking translate to without seeds.
They're super big out there, a lot of them. They
would turn their ranches into you know, cannabis farms. But
obviously since California became like a hub for growing cultivating cannabis,
(27:18):
all those farmers have turned to other alternatives to making money.
Because really, if you have land out there, because you know,
we're talking about a third world country. Right, so we're
talking about third world economy. How do they make money? Tourism, agriculture, this,
this and that. Right, So, California was one of their
main I mean not California. Cannabis was one of their
(27:39):
main crops exported out there. And if you were smoking
bud in the nineties, maybe even early two thousands, you
were getting that brick weed, that bud that started it all,
and it was coming through California. We all know that
it's no secret. But the real question is is what
happened to these cannabis farms the good bud started being
(28:01):
grown over here, once we got it down over here
in California, what it ended up happening?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
So, so what ended up happening? I'll answer that for
you guys.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
They ended up, you know, going to poppy seeds, growing
some growing some heroin. And then they also took over
the avocados. So if you have noticed why avocados are
so fucking expensive is because these guys got a stronghold
on that even in California too. Yep, all the agricultural
if you all the agricultural jobs out here, it's all
(28:32):
around by the same people that are doing the things
down there.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
They're just moving up bigger and better.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Time has passed since the sixties and seventies when they
first started popping up in the news and blowing motherfuckers
up and stuff like that. So that being said, of
course they're seeing a ninety eight percent drop in seizures,
but I don't think that, you know, they just kept
bud completely out of it, because if you're talking about
(28:57):
like their government and stuff like that, the legalizing, but
as we speak in Mexico City, I think it's decriminalized
stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
There is a culture for cannabis, just like there is
over here.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
But if we're talking about movers and shakers and what's
coming in and out, we all know what's.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Good with that. And that's all I got to say
about that totally.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
And like obviously, you know, Narcos and Narcos Mexico were
fictionalized representations of what went down. However, it gave me
a solid perspective on what cannabis was like in Mexico.
And you know the massive farms out in Sinaloa that oh,
of course they're managing, and I'm wondering, like what's gonna happen, Like,
(29:36):
are they just gonna shut down their farms? Are they
gonna pivot to try to export it somewhere else?
Speaker 4 (29:42):
And what did they.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Do because we're talking about if we're talking about that
and Carlos Kinterro and that uh, that man and his
contributions to this cannabis deal, even though you know, we
all know the story. If you don't know the story,
go go ahead and watch that. It's a good story
on Netflix, right, But yes, the what did they do?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Right?
Speaker 5 (30:01):
What did they What did they start farming after that?
That's that's what we really gotta see. And history shows
like that. You know, they started growing the poppy more,
they started going with avocados and other things and just
hiking up the prices worldwide because you know, man, Mexico
can grow a thing or two.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Let me tell you that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh yeah, well, Daniel, we're just about done wrapping up
news you can use. Was there anything else you needed
to get out there on this whole scenario with uh,
the Mexican cannabis game faltering?
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Honestly, I just think, regardless of what I just said
in my opinions in the game, I think Mexico is
in a good spot for blooming cannabis industry.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Mexico's very beautiful.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
They got mountainous terrains in the inside of the country
and on both coasts of that country. They got beautiful,
beautiful beaches and tourist attraction stuff like that place tourist
destinations that it'd be easy to start up a cannabis business.
So if you're listening to me out there, Mexico, just
legalize it and yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Maybe take that full Brian Cordy's idea and open it
up down there.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Who knows, yeah, or you know, make me. I would say,
I'm ready for an all inclusive beach getaway. And I'm
not talking about Ensnado or Cabo or something. Maybe something
you know, like Yucatan some somewhere can Coon to Loom
or something all inclusive, five star hotel with the cush
(31:35):
with cannabis and it's the best cannabis, not none of
that bullshit, but Mexican, Mexican grown cannabis. That's that that
someone that's something that that a brand could stand behind
and maybe, you know, hopefully they're already doing.
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I got Daniel on the board over there, Daniel.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Say, what's good, yo, yo, yo, how you guys doing.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
Daniel came up with some reconnaissance, some stories, some articles
in the cannabis world today. So let's just get right
into it. The first set of news we're gonna cover
is an Alaska man accused of scamming investors for over
six hundred thousand dollars. With the proposed cannabis theme park
(01:34):
now off the rip, that is quite the headline, you know,
I think just from hearing a cannabis theme park, that
could peak a lot of interest, don't you think, Daniel? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Absolutely, I mean I'm not I'm I'm a drinker as
well as a smoker. But at the same time, if
there's more cannabis use at a theme park, man, that
sounds more fun to me than anything. I'd rather smoke
some button than go on some roller coasters rather than
drink and fill all full throughout the day, you know
what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Absolutely, you know, different horses for different courses. You can
go and do your thing. So it was proposed a
few years back, and let me get to the nitty
gritty of it. So, nearly two dozen investors were duped
by a salesman's wildly optimistic promise about a cannabis theme
park in Alaska. According to federal prosecutors, Brian Keith Cordy's
(02:27):
proposed cannabis theme park resort, dubbed a Bud and Breakfast,
caused twenty two people to invest thousands of dollars into
the venture. Prosecutors said investors were misled into believing the
resort would be located at a lodge Cordy had bought
along a highway near Salcha, about a thirty mile drive
southeast from Fairbanks in central Alaska, according to prosecutors. And so,
(02:51):
you know, I was reading a little bit more about
this and from the statement that Brian Cordy released, or
you know, it's just some of the reaction. It seems
as though he was sincere about, you know, actually making
a cannabis resort, which you know, you would want it
(03:16):
to be genuine.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
However, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He was due to a few things in life, such
as COVID disrupted some supply chain arrangements that he had
and among a few other, you know, regulatory issues in
the cannabis game. I think it was hard for him
to get going ultimately, and you know he was eventually
(03:41):
using the investments just.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
To for you know, for personal use. I think.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So that's where you know, the the FEDS had to
come in and you know, and that's.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Where he went wrong, Connor, that's where he went wrong.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And no circumstances should he ever have used those funds
for personal gains, especially if it's like in its beginning
stages investors, you know, stuff like that. But it also
goes to show you that, you know, when these things happen,
not everybody's a scumbag. I'm sure you know Brian had
good intentions, was it Brian Cordy?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You said, yeah, Brian Cordy.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Yeah, so I imagine he had some good intentions. But uh,
just like in any business, you can't expect to win
all the time and you got to know what you're doing.
I think he had a good idea, but maybe his
business wasn't all the way there. Like that's why some
businesses have like a you know, the guy that could
brainstorm and come up with a million dollar plan, but
(04:38):
if he doesn't know how to execute. It doesn't have
the right team behind him. That's where he goes wrong.
And the next time someone may like face something like that,
they should just call a you know, blue Christopher Wright.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
You know, he'll probably get you going.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
On your feet with stuff like that because that's what
they do over at Master Mentors anyways.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So totally, totally, you know, there's I'm reading more information
on here, and its prosecutor said. Cordy and his wife, Candy.
Cordy persuaded investors to buy shares in their company, ice
Fog Holdings Limited Liability Corporation, which claimed it would transform
the Midway Lodge and a convenience store into a marijuana
(05:18):
theme park, complete with an on site cannabis grow operation.
To entice investors, Cordy falsely claimed that ice Fog was
already generating revenue through security service agreements and stood to
make millions in profits within the first few years, projecting
returns of more than thirty times the initial investments. According
to the court documents, Cordy pleaded guilty in January to
(05:40):
a single count of conspiracy to.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Commit wire fraud.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
The Feds are saying that, you know, it was wildly
optimistic and in fact, the licensing and operations were never
pursued in good faith, and Cordy simply lived off investor
funds while continuing to lie to them.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Prosecutors rotents in the sentencing.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Damn so he was a scumbag. Oh damn well.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The defense argued that Cordy had genuinely wanted to start
the business and believe his plans, but faced numerous obstacles,
including supply chain issues and the COVID nineteen pandemic that
caused the venture to collapse. At least twenty two investors
were misled.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
We will can, the.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
US attorney Slaine Tucker said, we will continue to work
with law enforcement partners to pursue prosecutions against individuals who
choose to exploit unknowing victims through fraudulent, fraudulent means. So
obviously this this took place, you know, a couple of
years ago, and I'm sure it's taken a while to
go through the proceedings of this case, but you know,
(06:43):
it proofs in the pudding, I guess. I mean, you're
innocent until proven guilty. So you know, he's got to
he's got to fess up and pay that six hundred
six hundred racks bro.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
He better, and honestly, I just hope, you know, my
heart goes out to the twenty two victims of this case.
You know, sometimes things may seem like it's too good
to be true, and you just got to listen to
your heart, especially when it comes to your money, because
there's a lot of people out here. Not everybody lives
in California has fucking zero in their bank account. A
lot of these people, especially out in the Midwest and
other places where it's not so expensive Connor, they got
(07:17):
life savings that they met might have you know, been
putting away two hundred three hundred bucks every check from
when they were little, and now they got all these
life savings, right, Yeah, and then they just go blow
it on some fucking ding dong things, you know, just
telling people, oh, yeah, you know what we're gonna win
with this business, and it's it all sounds good, but
sounds too good to be true.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, And obviously it's a it's a learning experience for
everyone involved. You know, the people who invested are you know,
at least I hope they have a better understanding of
the cannabis industry and you know, how to be selective
with where you put your investments and everything. Obviously, this
guy garnered some trust within them, and that's ultimately the
(08:00):
hardest pill to swallow, I think, was that you know,
these twenty two investors trusted this guy with all, you know,
over six hundred thousand dollars in faith that he would
you know, make a return on it.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And he gave him a business plan.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
But he must have been a good salesman or just
like maybe had something that like I just wouldn't trust
anybody just like that, but maybe maybe he had something
to well and he made him feel like you know,
they had a like, oh he could if it doesn't
work out, he could back it, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Well yeah, and he had assets for for the whole
thing too, like he had bought the lodge.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He you know, got this convenience.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So it was like there was some physical shit that
they were seeing, you know, to uh, you know, have
have some trust in it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
So, you know, I think that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Ultimately, like I said, it's a it's a learning experience
for these cats, and you know, you gotta do your
due diligence with this industry. As we all know, it's
not quite bread and butter, black and white to where
you know, you you know have there's right answers and
wrong answers, like Nah, there's so many different ways to
(09:12):
go about the cannabis industry, so you know, you got
to figure it out for yourself and you know, critically
think about absolutely where your money's gonna go. Daniel, is
there anything else you want to touch on with this,
Alaska Mayhem?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
No, just uh, you know, hopefully uh no other jokes
or gets any bright ideas thinking that they could come
up on this cannabis industry stuff, because it happens more
often than it doesn't, especially in this industry. A lot
of people that might like the plant or you know,
there's a lot of people who smoke tobacco, but not
everybody's trying to you know, run a tobacco farm or
anything like that.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It's not as easy as it looks, and it's definitely not.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
As lucrative I think, you know what I'm saying, Like,
there's a lot of uh, there's a lot of uh
things that consider when you're opening anything in cannabis business
right as we see today. But other than that, you know, Alaska,
keep on your toes and make sure that anybody investing
with Brian Cordy. You know, you keep your eye open
(10:10):
on that guy because he might he might use your
investment for a new Polaris or a.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
New uh, you know, one of these vehicles.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, one of these.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Vehicles, one of those Hyundays, those new ones.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well, this has been a very grandiose attempt at a
cannabis theme park, and it.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Did not execute poverty.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
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In our last segment, we touched on a entrepreneur that scammer,
(11:41):
I mean, yes, an Alaskan scammer.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
It's good on it's good title or something.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We talked about how you know he absolutely ran up
a check on these poor investors and it did not
end well.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Now we're going to.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Pivots to you know, the actual flower. We're gonna touch
the plant, so to speak. And we saw the headline
out of Texas that Austin PD finds fetanyhl laced cannabis
in recent citywide sting operation.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
The Austin Police Department conducted a sting operation arrested a
man Thursday after he was allegedly found with both crack
cocaine and marijuana that tested positive for fentanyl. Police from
APDs Organized Crime Divisions Gang Suppression Unit honed in on
quote high narcotics trafficking locations end quote, where an undercover
officer went to purchase drugs. Per police documents, the operation
(12:33):
came amid an overdose surge that resulted in more than
seventy overdoses and multiple opioid related deaths in Austin.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
That is bleak, Daniel, Yeah, that's bleak.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I agree, And uh, you know, it just goes to
show you like, first off, you know, we all know
that like a fetanol is like an opioid that's uh
man made and it's uh, it's very it's way stronger
than heroin. I just don't know what they're doing, Like
it makes sense if if people are trying to put
(13:06):
it into other drugs, but it doesn't make sense that.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
They're doing that in the cannabis And no.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I just it's literally evil.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You think this is like maybe an assassination attempt.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You know, I don't even know, Like I think about
it from the dealer's perspective, right, like these fools are
trying to make money. How like when you kill your clientele,
you're not gonna make any more money. And I'm just
thinking about that from you know, a dealer's perspective, Like
there's no morals in that really, but uh, or can they.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
They could just be stupid and think like damn, I'm
gonna get these fools addicted to my weed. And then
they're gonna figure out every time they go smoke the
Homeboys weed and it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Ain't hitting as much as you know as there, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Exactly, And you know you gottah put in reference to
yourself the amount of fentanyl it takes to overdose, like
you're if you're I saw this one picture on social
media a while back and it was like, this is
the amount it takes to overdose. And they showed like
a little, very minuscule pile of fentanyl next to a
(14:13):
penny and it was about a tenth of the size
of a penny. And that's what it takes for you
to completely stop your heart an overdose. You know, it
is absolutely sad, and you know, you could be onto
something where they're trying to get their clients, you know,
either more addicted to their shit and they go and
try some new stuff, or they're trying to you know,
(14:35):
have an edge on the competitor by getting you know,
a different high on the bud. I don't know, but
either way, that shit's evil as fuck.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Yeah, they should not be putting stuff like that into
such a plant that has medicinal value. And honestly, like
there's people trying cannabis every day. That's you know, like
our world is becoming more open minded when it comes
to this plant, this research stuff like that. Hopefully with
this new rescheduling business that's happening over in Washington, d C.
(15:02):
It's gonna open the floodgates for research to come in
so we could get some certified factual data for once, right,
But other than that, you know, they need to stop
doing this and find another way to you know, kill
your enemies because you know smoking, but ain't gonna do
it all right, No, yeah, be more creative underworld please.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, no, no, fen and all like.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It's just you know, like I said, evil and it
gives an ill representation to the cannabis game, where you know,
you have people who may be ignorant to cannabis and
are seeing all of this news that it's gonna get rescheduled,
it's gonna be researched more. You know, you see all
these dispensaries coming out in the last ten years and
(15:49):
then bam, you see that news, that article, and you're
gonna be like, fuck, fuck smoking weed.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I don't want to risk that.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So it's absolutely you know, bringing the cannabis industry down
every time there's an article like this, it's sad. And
you know, I I'm really drawing a blank as to
you know, stopping it because clearly they're just doing it
because they can. And the only thing I can think
(16:15):
of is just, you know, pleading with them to stop.
I mean, obviously you have the police departments going in
and stopping it themselves. However, you know, it's like cockroaches.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Man, there's more.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
And I saw that they did a city wide sting
now Austin, Texas. I don't know if you've been there before,
but it's not a fucking small place, all right. It's
it's a big especially now, especially after the pandemic. It's
become such a hub for things that you're seeing traffic
there and thank you, it's a metropolis.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Now. When is I've me.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Personally, I've been smoking weed for I don't know fifteen
years and I've lived in the La County area, so
I've never heard once about cannabis laced no no fetanol
lace cannabis in my neighborhood or any anywhere I'd be smoking.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
That's something I don't even think of.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Now, Yeah, how long is it gonna take till it
hits our backyards till it starts hitting our friend groups
and stuff like that. And are they mass producing it
or is this you know, isolated incidents.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, And you know, from just the patterns I see
with news articles, it seems like it's just the the
odd dealer just fucking laces their shit with fentanyl. Like
I don't, you know, I hope it's not like a
nationwide crime syndicate where they're you know, plotting to do
all this. However, I will say I think us personally,
(17:39):
being in California, you know, not that we're completely uh,
you know, unsusceptible to having fentanyl on our cannabis. I
think we have it, you know, a lot better than
other states where you know, we don't have to go
through as much to get our cannabis, you know. And
like we we can generally trust the growers around, we
(18:00):
can trust the dispensaries because we do have a legal
system and.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You have to do it right.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So if that isn't encouragement for the rest of the
states to fucking get on board, then I don't know
what is. Daniel, Do you have any more thoughts on
this situation?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
No other than we need to prosecute them. To the
highest extent of the law. I am not a big
fan of the justice system and how it works, but
you know I don't I'm not sitting here saying that.
You know, criminals don't belong behind bars, especially like dangerous
ones and ones that are liabilities to the greater good
of the human race, right, but totally something like this,
(18:40):
This is just fucking retarded. This is this is stupid.
Don't stop lacing fetanol with the cannabis, because, honestly, this
is one of the most inclusive plants that there is
when it comes to you know what, if you want
to say drug use or whatever, it's it's one of
those things that you know, you don't Cannabis is a
social thing, and that's probably the only thing other than
(19:02):
alcohol that's acceptable socially, you know what I'm saying. Totally,
so I think they should just knock it off with that.
Other than that, I got no other words. Just throw
them away.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Austin p D.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I will say, I had a surgery a few years
back and post like postop right there, they fucking gave
me some fentanyl. Oh you were hooked, weren't you, fucking no, bro,
That's why I had the cush helped me wean off
those pharmaceuticals, which I actually did. I like halfway through,
I stopped taking them and I just was smoking and
(19:32):
you know, taking edibles and all that.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
How they come in a patch by chance because I
remember al Yeah, like I had an older, older, uh
what's it called cancer patient that I used to uh,
you know they patch her up?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Nah, yeah, they would. They would come into patch and
then I would help them. I'd help No, you just
like stick it.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
It's like a nicotine patch, but it's like straight fetanol
and it helps because also this patient had it fused
back by the way, so he would just all kinds
of fucked up.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Like hunchback like kind of thing. Yeah, where all the
cartilage is just like rock hard.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Oh yeah, so he he needed that and I would
just uh.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
That's the first time I ever was around it around
fetanohl and that was like back in O nine or something,
so I knew this was like a pharmaceutical grade thing.
Now I'm guessing they're just getting powders from China or something.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well, in the hospital, they injected my shit with it,
like they put it into an IV and then like
instantly felt that shit I was like, damn, Like I
was still like waking up, and I knew what the
fuck like my bot like, I felt different right away,
and that was probably you know, a small fraction of
(20:41):
what it takes for you to overdose of what I
took obviously, I mean I went to I was in
a hospital and having an operation, so they're obviously gonna
give me the proper dosage.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But still not something I'm gonna fucking take on the daily,
that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
So in a research standpoint, do you think that fetanol works?
Like for medical reasons like, did you feel like what
kind of surgery? Explained to the audience at home that
might be listening, what kind of surgery did you go through?
What pain were you feeling? And could you have gone
with something else? Let's just say, could you would have
got can you would have withstanded that pain with maybe
like two narcos and a talcn or what are we
(21:17):
talking about?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I had a nose surgery. I had non cosmetic nose surgery.
I had a deviated two deviated septums, and two large
turbinates in my nose.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
So what exactly is that? So what are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So it just blocks the airway in your nose. Ah,
you couldn't breathe and not breathe. I was playing soccer
and I was like, what the fuck's wrong?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Like, oh, you were breathing out of your mouth and yeah,
sucking air.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Oh yeah, and that's like the worst way to breathe.
And so finally I went to the ears nose throat
doctor and the head doctor yes, and this dude stuck
the little camera up my nose and bam.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
He was like, yeah, your shit's grunked. It's all jack.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Was it growth you think like over the years or
where I think I.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Got hit with the soccer ball and it just absolutely
jacked up my nose because I remember waking up one
day in high school and my nose looked like a
Nike swoosh and it did not look like that the
day before.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So I was like all right, like I mean whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And then finally get to the point where it was
like five, six, seven years later and I was like
I really can't breathe, and then we did that and
he was like, yeah, you need surgery. So I got
the surgery and then post off, they wheeled me out
of there and they were like, are.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You in pain?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And I'm like yes, and they're like, all right, uh,
do you want something for the do you want to
take some medication? I was like sure, all right, we
got fentanyl and then lace my shit up with it.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So, uh, that was before or after this?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Right after? Immediately you were.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
You were in pain before the surgery or where.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It was No, not before the surgery, it was just
after because it's like they like fucking peel your shit back,
and you know, you got stints. You have to keep
stints in your nose for two weeks after and you
like can't touch your nose, you can't do anything.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
So it's just like it's it's it is pretty painful.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So then they prescribed the oxycodons after and then that's
when I just stopped using them after like a week
because the pain was more manageable.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Wow, they prescribed you oxyes, huh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I mean it was a the rhinoplasty is a serious surgery,
so they hooked me up with all that shit, and
then you know, I just started having it, having the
dose and then and then fully just getting off of
it after. But my point is is that the fentanyl
is no fucking joke. Don't stay away, just stay away from.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
It, I agree, and then when it comes for me, honestly, uh,
when it comes to like medications like that, I'm not
much of a downer type of guy, but I'd rather
just not fuck with that stuff and develop a tolerance
so that when I do fuck myself up, I could
go to the doctor and you know, and it's gonna
work whatever they're giving it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It's uh important to listen to your body and you know,
be smart about it if you don't have to take
all the insane opioids, if your body doesn't need it.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You know, that's why we got the CUSH. I used cush,
and that shit helped.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
And it made it a lot more colorable. And I
will say I was a pretty damn good patient.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
And you're here today, right, I'm like, uh, I'm here today.
I can breathe much of the rest of them.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yes, Well, it's been Cannabis Talk one on one. We
just covered a devastating situation in Austin. When we come back,
we have some data about.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
The legal cannabis markets in the.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
United States and Mexico.
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When we come back, it's Cannabis Talk.
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Speaker 2 (25:44):
More short article to read for you guys, so let's
get right on into it. Data suggests state legal cannabis
market has significantly curbed demand for Mexican grown budd Feral
law enforcement agents intercept the record low of sixty one
thousand pounds of cannabis at the Southern border in twenty
twenty three. According to data published on the US Customs
(26:06):
and Border Protection website, the total representatives a twenty nine
percent decline from twenty twenty two and a ninety eight
percent decline in seizure activity since twenty thirteen, when the
agency reported more than two point four million pounds of cannabis.
(26:26):
The data suggested that the grown growing state legal marijuana
market in United States, which began in twenty fourteen, has
dramatically undercut demand for imported Mexican cannabis. Consequently, the production
and exportation of Mexican grown cannabis has also declined significantly. Daniel,
can you touch on the cannabis culture in Mexico real quick?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Well, for those that don't know, Mexico created created the
seedless blood, the sensamia, which literally fucking translate to without seeds.
They're super big out there, a lot of them. They
would turn their ranches into you know, cannabis farms. But
obviously since California became like a hub for growing cultivating cannabis,
(27:18):
all those farmers have turned to other alternatives to making money.
Because really, if you have land out there, because you know,
we're talking about a third world country. Right, so we're
talking about third world economy. How do they make money? Tourism, agriculture, this,
this and that. Right, So, California was one of their
main I mean not California. Cannabis was one of their
(27:39):
main crops exported out there. And if you were smoking
bud in the nineties, maybe even early two thousands, you
were getting that brick weed, that bud that started it all,
and it was coming through California. We all know that
it's no secret. But the real question is is what
happened to these cannabis farms the good bud started being
(28:01):
grown over here, once we got it down over here
in California, what it ended up happening?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
So, so what ended up happening? I'll answer that for
you guys.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
They ended up, you know, going to poppy seeds, growing
some growing some heroin. And then they also took over
the avocados. So if you have noticed why avocados are
so fucking expensive is because these guys got a stronghold
on that even in California too. Yep, all the agricultural
if you all the agricultural jobs out here, it's all
(28:32):
around by the same people that are doing the things
down there.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
They're just moving up bigger and better.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Time has passed since the sixties and seventies when they
first started popping up in the news and blowing motherfuckers
up and stuff like that. So that being said, of
course they're seeing a ninety eight percent drop in seizures,
but I don't think that, you know, they just kept
bud completely out of it, because if you're talking about
(28:57):
like their government and stuff like that, the legalizing, but
as we speak in Mexico City, I think it's decriminalized
stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
There is a culture for cannabis, just like there is
over here.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
But if we're talking about movers and shakers and what's
coming in and out, we all know what's.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Good with that. And that's all I got to say
about that totally.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
And like obviously, you know, Narcos and Narcos Mexico were
fictionalized representations of what went down. However, it gave me
a solid perspective on what cannabis was like in Mexico.
And you know the massive farms out in Sinaloa that oh,
of course they're managing, and I'm wondering, like what's gonna happen, Like,
(29:36):
are they just gonna shut down their farms? Are they
gonna pivot to try to export it somewhere else?
Speaker 4 (29:42):
And what did they.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Do because we're talking about if we're talking about that
and Carlos Kinterro and that uh, that man and his
contributions to this cannabis deal, even though you know, we
all know the story. If you don't know the story,
go go ahead and watch that. It's a good story
on Netflix, right, But yes, the what did they do?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Right?
Speaker 5 (30:01):
What did they What did they start farming after that?
That's that's what we really gotta see. And history shows
like that. You know, they started growing the poppy more,
they started going with avocados and other things and just
hiking up the prices worldwide because you know, man, Mexico
can grow a thing or two.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Let me tell you that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh yeah, well, Daniel, we're just about done wrapping up
news you can use. Was there anything else you needed
to get out there on this whole scenario with uh,
the Mexican cannabis game faltering?
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Honestly, I just think, regardless of what I just said
in my opinions in the game, I think Mexico is
in a good spot for blooming cannabis industry.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Mexico's very beautiful.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
They got mountainous terrains in the inside of the country
and on both coasts of that country. They got beautiful,
beautiful beaches and tourist attraction stuff like that place tourist
destinations that it'd be easy to start up a cannabis business.
So if you're listening to me out there, Mexico, just
legalize it and yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Maybe take that full Brian Cordy's idea and open it
up down there.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Who knows, yeah, or you know, make me. I would say,
I'm ready for an all inclusive beach getaway. And I'm
not talking about Ensnado or Cabo or something. Maybe something
you know, like Yucatan some somewhere can Coon to Loom
or something all inclusive, five star hotel with the cush
(31:35):
with cannabis and it's the best cannabis, not none of
that bullshit, but Mexican, Mexican grown cannabis. That's that that
someone that's something that that a brand could stand behind
and maybe, you know, hopefully they're already doing.
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