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a few folks over here for gentlemen, and you guys
from a dispensary that has been an operation since two
thousand and six, providing the greater Los Angeles area with
a wide variety of high quality cannabis products. Besides us
today is a Justice Taylor Andrew and of course we
have Chase and Drew over here all over here hanging

(01:20):
out with us today.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
I don't know. I think we're going to start a
dance contest too, but we're going to figure that out
a little bit later.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Because Smartweed, how do you come up with such a
great name like that? A cannabis dispensary that offers a
diverse assortments of THC and CBD products including flower concentrates, edibles,
bape cartridges, are pins, and of course other health and
wellness products such as oils, tinksters, creams, healing bombs and
pills and capsules. All the above, you guys, open for

(01:46):
both recreational and medical clientele. Smartweed is a member of
the Los Angeles Esteemed United Cannabis Business Association otherwise known
as UCBA, and promotes the advancements of the cannabis industr
as a whole make sure you guys. Check out their
website smartweed dot co or follow them on Instagram smart

(02:07):
wxxd and tap in and shop at one of LA's
original providers if you're in the area. It's one zero
four zero Northwestern Avenue in Hollywood, California, nine double two nine.
Without further ado, Please give it up for Justice. T
Bone in the building, Jason, and the co founder himself,
Drew was in the house.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
And before I even get into asking all these great questions, Drew,
there's nothing better than somebody bringing us a gift, and
especially for me because everybody brings cannabis all the time,
And for you to go out of your way and
understand that I was a connoisseur of cigars.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
And bring me such a nice one.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
You see where I put it, I hit it just
let nobody would take it and grab it.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I just want to say thank you, Drew. You're a
great man for that.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Thank you. We appreciate you as well. We did bring cannabis.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
For everybody else.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Well about this for everybody got everybody has it on
their desk. I literally walked around and I go, dude,
who's is that? And this is why I know you
have good weed.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
You ready for this. You're gonna appreciate this.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Chris Frankeno, our VP guy who you know everybody brings
in weed.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
He doesn't grab it and.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Roll it up hardly ever, So for you guys to
get him something, and he grabbed it and rolled it up,
I go, Oh, that's got to be some good weed there,
U And I go, where'd you guys get that from?
They go, smart weed? And everybody else had it on
their desk too, and ruby was that. But for you
to know that it was good weed, I knew it
was good weed because Chris Frankeno was rolling it up
right now.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Well, we're happy to be of service and much appreciate
it to be here.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, no, it's good to have you guys here, so
off the batman. Congratulations for starting such a great name
of a company, I mean, and being around since six
It seems so easy and simple and smart. But how
do you come up through a smart weed?

Speaker 5 (03:52):
Well, like you said, we do have to be smart
about it, and we're we're smart. We to Hollywood. We're
one of the first one hundred and fifty licensed cannabis
businesses in Los Angeles. We're a vertically integrated company. We
have all four California cannabis licenses, retail, cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution.
Like you said, the store is located in the heart
of Hollywood, right on Western Avenue in Santa Monica Boulevard.

(04:15):
You could see the Hollywood sign from our front door. Nice,
and we specialize in cultivation. There's a cultivation facility on site.
We've been growing for many, many years and we are
good at what we do. Sure, so all that takes
a little bit of intelligence?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Are you from LA?

Speaker 5 (04:32):
I was born and raised in Los Angeles, Los Angeles. Actually,
the funny story is I was born about three blocks
away from our current store location, No Way Hollywood Presbyterian
on Vermont and Sunset, Nice.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
And it was it six that you came up with
the concept of smartweed or how did those even two
terms come up? I know you co founded it with
your buddy, but yeah, I mean, I'm just so curious
on how you guys sat there smoked a joint, went
you know smart weed?

Speaker 5 (04:58):
Well, yeah, we co founded it with my partner, Leon Ganlin,
who couldn't be here today he had some family matters
to attend to. But we were always involved in the
cannabis industry since the beginning, since about nineteen ninety five,
one way or another, and then once legalization began to happen,
it was more of one of those if you can't
beat them than joining kind of shiture scenarios. So we

(05:20):
came up with the plan to become smart Weed and
take our place in the Lee legal cannabis market.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
And so, were you growing before, because I know the answer,
but we've grown before cannabis.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
We've been growing for about twenty five years, yes, since
the late late nineties.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
So what encouraged you to start that?

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Well, to be quite frank with you, it was beginning
to get hard to source cannabis locally. That was around
the time nine to eleven happened. Some things happened, like
the borders got shut down, some supplies from here and
there kind of.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Wet do each other. For sure, we may have.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Been in similar circle. You know, things were a lot
different back then, so it was hard to get your
hands on good, consistent supply of cannabis. So once again
we thought, you know, we should we should research how
to do this because we're pretty meticulous with our standards
and our procedures, and we felt like it was something
we could do, so we started the process of learning
how to do it, and it was a it was

(06:19):
a learning curve for sure. It took years because back
then there wasn't the lights the wealth of information available either.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Online or nutrient looks.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah. Man, it was like a trial and trial and
error kind of situation, and there was a lot of
trials and errors that went into our our mass cultivation knowledge.
You know.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's funny, is like, I feel like the first time
you know that I ever grew, it was like, came
out really nice, and I was like, oh, I got this.
You know, it didn't get as much as I thought
I would, but I still got a nice grow off
the very first one. But then after that it just
went downhill, downhill really oh quick, man, it was like
the next grow, you know, it was horrible. The next

(06:59):
one got worse, and it just kept getting, you know,
quickly worse, and then you know, you don't know, but
you don't know, but you know it was cleanliness, It
was you know, you just want to hurry to get
to the next one.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
You know, did you ever experience anything like that?

Speaker 5 (07:11):
Of course, one of our first grows got completely shut
down because of spider mites. Back then, there wasn't much
of a solution for them. It was almost a death sentence.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, forbid so.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
And that goes back to your point about cleanliness. It's
very important cultivation and that's something we learned along the way. Sure,
And to your point too, it's very hard to duplicate
the process. People could have a one off and pop
a good round here and there, but the true professionals
are able to duplicate and replicate that process every time
and time again.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yes, and that's that is a technique. And that's like
you said, the true professionals. Tell me a little bit
about your team and your staff here, give us kind
of a rundown on who everybody is with here today.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Okay, So to my left, to my left here a Chase.
He's a partner now and a shareholder. He came on
in twenty twenty two at a time in the company
when we really needed some help in terms of professionalism
and a true business acumen. And he comes from a
business background specializing finance, and so he's a partner now

(08:17):
and helping to run the store. And since he came
on and took over and helped us out, we've been
definitely experiencing a lot of growth and moving in the
right direction.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
And were you chased also a model? Is that what
I heard too? Somebody told me.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
Definitely not.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Because the way you're modeling that jumpsuit. I mean, I
just think you came in here so little. I think
you had a gold chain underneath that shirt of yours.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Well, I can tell you this is definitely not the
way I normally a dress. But my colleagues told me
that I had to upgrade my wardrobe if I was
going to be respected in this industry.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
And they gave you, and they got you to tied.
I mean, dog, you're the president. Dog, you should be
in a suited.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
But don't listen to these youngsters.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Although you do look super fly.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
I do like.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
I rocked that. I mean I rocked that in a heartbeat.
I'm like, you have got any more those?

Speaker 6 (09:11):
I think I know somebody who might be able to
arrange that.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
Please let them know I'm looking for one, all right,
it looks very sharp on you.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Who else do we have here?

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Drew Taylor to his left is Taylor. That's our current
operations manager. He also came on at a time when
the company need a little bit more professionalism. He has
years and years of experience in cannabis, both in California
and the first state to legalize in the Union, which
is Washington State. So he helps run our entire program
and and does a great job at it and being.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
The buyer over there, right is that is that the role?
So you're kind of like they're looking for you. Everybody
wants you do.

Speaker 8 (09:50):
I definitely get a lot of calls and inquiries and
stuff like that, but basically me and and just as
he also helps with the with the vendor relations and stuff.
We make sure that the right products are coming in
the store at the right price. So we're very meticulous
on what we bring in the store because everyone can
come in and buy any product from any brand, but

(10:13):
like you want the best products at every single best
price point. So that'ee exactly what we're doing at Smartweed.
And like the deals we have there is insane.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
So I love that and I want to go there.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
I want to take you on a side tangent real
quick tea because you and your role and justice, I
want you to chime in. I want you guys to
give advice to that rep out there that's working for
you know cannabis talk one on one in our brand
and what do I need to say to you do
to you to get our product on the shelf? What
works the best? Is it my low cut T shirt?

(10:47):
Complimenting your pretty eyes? Is it you have nice lips?
Is it you know justice there looks good. I like
that fade.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
I think we will both have a pretty different opinions.
I would want to say the the samples sometimes being
a wraper, I understand you know you're carrying tons of
samples and things like that.

Speaker 9 (11:05):
You do want to have an abundance with you at
all times.

Speaker 7 (11:08):
Just making sure that that's your most reputable and freshest
thing to present, basically because a lot of the times
you will get a product from a really good company
that is good, it's just older age.

Speaker 9 (11:18):
Or you can tell that's been sitting in a trunk.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
They've been working three months the same. Understand that's a
really good tip.

Speaker 7 (11:26):
So sample freshness, because that's that's more or less what
the deciding factor of your product getting placed in the.

Speaker 8 (11:32):
Store is YEA that sample, yeah, exactly, So sample freshness
for sure, and then also being able to be flexible
on the current prices that we're offering in the store
right now. So what we do at as smart weedis
so depending on the product that they bring in the store,
we like to compare what we're already offering and say
that the unit price seems to be at this price,

(11:52):
at the competitive price or better, because the stuff that
we're curating at the store is, if not the lowest
unit price that's offord, damn near close to it. So
I mean the stuff that we offer right now, I
mean we're offering some of our indoor a's at thirty
dollars out the door and you can't which is what
you've got.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
By the way, Yeah nice, Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
And so that's great quality still coming out the door
at like thirty dollars. So it's giving back to the community.
Oh you're saying, that's the weed that was giving you
the staff out the.

Speaker 6 (12:24):
Door shut So I wanted to jump street.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah right right, Yeah, thirty books.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
An eighth is white called Larry, Yeah, called Daniel, Like, oh.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
No, Taylor knows this very well. So this is this
is definitely not the cannabis industry speak, but I always
say him, it's the QPR, it's the quice price. Quality
ratio of every product that's coming in. So that's the
advice is it's not going to be the crop top
or the lips or anything else. It's going to be
us actually knowing how to buy and this gentleman specifically

(12:59):
having knowledge and the expertise to know what the price
needs to be without looking at the label and without
looking at the rep.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Well, now we're talking data. Yeah, yeah, this that is
very well said.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
I mean, you know a lot of people, you know,
don't know what they don't know, and I think it
comes in and they go they're trusting you know, the old.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
School method, right, the things that we grew up on, which.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's like yo, it smells good, it looks good, and
that that price could be boom, and it's it's a
freestyle right, there's you know this game is past that now. Yeah,
and it's tough because I think a lot of people
are falling out because they don't have that team in place.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
That's absolutely right.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah, this is even set those up because they elaborate. Folks.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
If you're listening, you're a rep out there listening to
the show, think about what he just said. If you
can go in there lockloaded with here's the price, here's
the lowest whatever it is, and then here's my quality sample.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Let's cut the bullshit, let's get to know each other
and you know, break bread. But come on.

Speaker 6 (13:51):
One of the things that we actually do Taylor Taylor
alluded to this, but as a matter of practice, I
like to make sure any rep is actually walking our
retail floor so they see who the competition is, and
that's how we start the conversations.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Wow, that's great.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
So you have that rep from their company walk our
floor so they can see the pricing, and.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
That way they're not just going in there going well,
this is the you're just trying to you know, these
guys screw him. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
So we actually operate with probably some of the slimmest
margins of any retail. But what and why we do
that is so that we can always offer the best
QPR to our customers. The translation that I always say,
or Taylor always says back to the reps, is that
we need it. We need to hit this out the
door price. It's not us trying to give a grind

(14:43):
to the rep just so that we can pat our margins.
It's actually very much the opposite.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yep, nice, And that's what That's what element Chase brings
to the team is that he has that professional business
experience and able to analyze things in terms of business.
For us as growers, we're kind of like old school
cannabis people. We just want you to be happy, satisfied
with the product and know this smart weed is taking
care of the community.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
True.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
You know, I got a question for you, Like, you know,
I'm listening to your team right now, and you know
you have to not give yourself credit too, because you
were able to develop this team, right, I mean because.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
You have somebody else hired them. Don't give you.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
Did you hire we did hire everybody? Yes, yeah, Okay.
Chase and I actually know each other from from prior, he.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Said, don't give them that much credit.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
Chase and I have prior experience together in the watch industry.
Chase happens to be actually we both happen to be
watch officionados, and Chase is well entrenched in the watch
community in Los Angeles.

Speaker 10 (15:43):
Oh really, what would I kind of watch what I
got on? You have an victim? Well, that's wearable.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
It's one of those I watched. So there is.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Actually something funny Apple. Apple calls it a watch so
that they can say they have the best selling watch
because it's not the best selling wearable.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
So they they chose their classification so that they could
be at the top of a different classification.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Well, I want to know what your favorite watch is?
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one zero two. We're sitting here with the co founder
of Smartweed and of course all his soldiers over there,
the president, the buyer's ambassadors from Chase to Tie and Justice.
Great stories, but damn when you mentioned watches, dog, Wow,
you can see how we perk up because Drew Yet
you got a nice one on there too. I mean,

(17:58):
it's just so funny that for us guys, that's all
we really have, right, We have that a cool ring,
we can rock a brace slit, but we don't have
a lot of big things that we can do.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Watches are one of those things.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
I have so many watches and now I have my
dumb eye watch because in the reason why I love
it wor so much. Yeah yeah, well, and for me
it's so silly, but it has my kids on it,
and I get to look at them all day and
it switches.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
So this is honestly, well, there's two reasons.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
There's that, and it counts my steps and my daughter's here,
so I can get good bonus points from making it
look like I get to, you know, look at it
every day.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
But it really is the truth of why I like
it so much. But well, this one has that same feature. Yeah,
what rock or what watch are you working with, Chase today?

Speaker 6 (18:41):
I'm wearing a vintage Omega today.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
See that.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Shout out to my boy Chris Capri Capri Jewelers on
six and Hill. I always get all my watches from
that guy. I don't know randomly, I've always been going
to him.

Speaker 6 (18:54):
So so listen, I actually were the Omega because that's
how we met. Specifically, Oh Way was the boutique manager
of one of the Omega boutiques mentioned to me, and
I'm guessing said the same thing to Drew. One of
my other clients is in the same industry as you.
Would you mind if I introduced the two of you,
And this was many, many years ago, I think it

(19:17):
was twenty sixteen, it might have been seventeen.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
I think it was fifteen personally, but we could go
with either.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Okay, either one. It was a little while ago, and
so we've always been, let's say, in each other's circles
since then.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
How random is it? And how long have you been
with the company?

Speaker 6 (19:34):
Just over a year now?

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Oh fantastic.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
So if and if I'm not mistaken, I mean, you
see things in a different retail fashion than maybe you
know the growers or the company seene prior.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
So they brought you on for a strategic partner. Yes, So.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Drew approached me and asked if I'd be interested in
becoming part of the company, and we had some discussion
in terms of what that would look like. I jokingly
said to him, I've never been good at working for
anyone else.

Speaker 10 (20:05):
So that's that's how we started. Yeah, and uh, and
here's where we ended. Nice dude, that's awesome. And so
are the sales up?

Speaker 6 (20:13):
They're very much up. Really, they're actually the sales have grown,
uh in a way that usually only startups would see.
And if in other industries, you'd almost call it a unicorn.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
So's if they're to say chase because of what I'm
hearing smart weed and you guys's margins and this and
that you can sell more for less and make more
money than selling something for a little more and.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Not pushing it out as quickly.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Absolutely, if you want to talk price elasticity of demand,
we can definitely go there. But I don't want to
lose anyone.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Because you know what, when you said what you said, though,
that's what resonated to me. Like I was listening you going, oh,
this fucking guy chasing lots smarter than you looks well,
I like it. Yeah, I mean he's got a sweatshuit.
On how many smart guys are walking around in sweatsuits?

Speaker 5 (20:59):
I know one?

Speaker 3 (20:59):
But you know what I mean, he's the president. I
mean he's rocking up a loore. I thought he was
going to sing, you know, l kul Jadimire or something.

Speaker 8 (21:05):
You know.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
So it came time in the company's history where it
was time to take this thing to the next level.
And one thing the cannabis industry in general is lacking
is actual business professionals. A lot of us know a
lot about all the time, a lot about.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
A lot of us know a lot.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
About cultivation or how to get things moving from back
in the day, but we need more people like Chase
to help push the industry to the next level. And
I'm fortunate to have known him in the circles that
he was talking about, and I thought he would be
the perfect fit to help us reach the heights that
smart we you just trying to achieve.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Sure, you know, I find it interesting because I you know,
I've had also to go through that learning curve here,
you know, I mean even just with the show. You know,
like I had a show on one on one point
five FM, KOCI on the radio show prior to annoying Joe,
and we were doing just fine. But you know, Joe
comes from the radio background.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
You know, we meet and he just.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Adds these little tips and these tricks and these you know,
the things that he's learned, and it adds that value.
Then I'm in here trying to run the whole company
just me Joe and and you know, a couple of
guys and realizing that no, I need a graphics designer, I.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
Need this and that, and you know, I'm all I
could edit videos real well yeah, horrible yeah, And then
I'd be like, but there was a point where we
were doing we argue about it because it's like Joe,
that looks like shit.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'm like, oh, you don't like my ship. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, but there's that point of like, you know, the
team's growing, you know, and watching developments, and this is
the difference between you know, now cannabis talk one on one,
you know, where the world's number one source for everything,
and we have an amazing team and we keep getting better.
We're finding the humbleness to say, like, listen, I'm not
a great, you know, analyst, I don't understand that. So

(22:46):
I have a data guy that does that, you know.
So you guys are experiencing that, especially you and your team,
and like I said, that that makes you brilliant, like
that makes you grow. A lot of people are It's
impressive right now in this I'm impressed right now with
I guess.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Mightst to have people with specialization in the right departments
where they can succeed so the company can fire on
all cylinders.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, one of the things I noticed we spoke last week,
and I could just hear your knowledging growing, Like it
was hands down, you just started breaking things down the
way the plant works and all you know, the CBDs,
the cbns, the stuff that you know about this plant,
like probably the rest of the company doesn't necessarily have
to because you run your department, you know.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
Well, yeah, so my partner and I do run the
cultivation department, and like specifically, he knows as much as
I do, in fact a little bit more. Right now,
he's working on genetical engineering with the very reputable geneticist
in the industry. So Smartweed is looking to be creating
its own strains coming up in the next year or
two based on the knowledge that he amasses. He'll pass

(23:52):
it on to me and then that's probably the last
thing that we're lacking in our cultivation portfolio, is the
ability to produce new genetics and interesting strains.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Sure, now, what are you guys producing though? What is
the number one sellers from your brand?

Speaker 8 (24:07):
So it's a Blueberry Runs right now. So actually we
have a sample for our Blueberry Runs and our l
CG right there for you guys right here.

Speaker 11 (24:15):
At least those tests come on the news. I've got
the I can't read that my eyes socks. Sorry, this
one is the LCG. Oh, I got the blueberry.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
That one's blueberry.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Those are both going in house that smart Weed over
steamed by the smell and professional cultivation stuff.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
This looks amazing.

Speaker 8 (24:38):
Actually, yeah, put that in your pipe and smoke.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
This blueberry one is like mm hmm, it's just it's yeah,
it is so and it looks so crystallizing, just amazing.
This is the what one again?

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Well, now you gots switched them.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
This is the Yeah, the blueberry is just so much blueberry.
I feel like it's a you know, I just bought
some Trader Joe's.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
CG is the Lemon Cherry Gelato. That's a very popular
exotics strain out right now. We have a lot of
strains in our in our gene bank. We've been doing
exotics for the last several years to go along with
the trend, but now the trend is moving back to
OG some of the more original strains, which, by the way,
we have one of the original OG cuts from back
in the nineties, whatever you want to call it, the

(25:23):
s FVOG or Skywalker OG. That was always that was
always part of our portfolio, one of our you know,
crown jewels in our cultivation library.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
If you will, do you guys save your genetics and
how do you store those genetics?

Speaker 5 (25:38):
So we do save our genetics. We probably have about
twenty five the strains in rotation right now. It's basically
just keeping a mom for a long time, and you
just clone, keep it going. Even if the strain falls
out of favor with the cannabis community for a while,
you still keep the strain alive, keep reproducing it for
when it comes back into fashion.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, you know, it's funny you say that, because again,
you know, I think everybody was betting on exotics.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
The names came out. I feel like almost it was
just a trend, you know.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
And then but prior to that, it was always og,
especially here in southern California. You know, it was og
all the time. It's like, what are you gonna smoke
some og? Like they didn't know, g I don't want it.
And if it did, it just devalued it, you know.
And then there was a point where these exotics came
and I almost feel like, you know, for somebody that's
been in the game, like I felt like it was
kind of like fast food.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
You know, they brought it in, they hyped it up.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
It smells really good, looks good, but it doesn't really
hit you over the head like an og mite. But
I think teach his tone, right, I think in the industry,
you know, this plant has so many different versions of
her that you know you you could find it your
your favorite in a Jack Herrera or this or that
or whatever it may be, because everybody has a different tablet.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
But plus, people's tastes can be influenced, they're off. The
market is often cyclical with you know, multiple markets. This
isn't you unique to cannabis, the fact that people's tastes
are changing, especially I was joking with Drew. I said, no,
it's like when the vintage resurgence happened in watches, are
now more in clothes. People long for the things that

(27:12):
they want that they have fond memories of and realize
that maybe that is what's best suited for them.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Sure, Now, what kind of what size facility do you
guys have as far as at the smart Weed plan, so.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
As far as the store, we have about five thousand
square feet total, which definitely puts us in a position
with cultivation and manufacturing where we're not producing at the
capability that we would like. But the location was found
with the intention of a good retail location. Sure, and
we are smack dab in the middle of Hollywood, which

(27:45):
makes it great for retail, right by the one on
one Freeway on Western and Santa Monica, But we are
sacrificing our output and cultivation and manufacturing. We should be
in like a twenty thousand square foot cultivation facility, but
right now we're probably doing about twenty five square feet
of cultivation. We got about eighty four lights with the
complete vege, which does something for us, but we should

(28:07):
we should be in charge of a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Are you guys go ahead with say do you guys?
Are you guys running short dogs or like full sized plants?

Speaker 5 (28:15):
You know?

Speaker 3 (28:15):
So right now?

Speaker 5 (28:16):
Actually it's been it's been an evolution for us. But
right now we're double stacking with LEDs. Nice because we
don't have a lot of height. We got about nine
and a half foot ceilings and we need to pump
out as much as we could for our shelves for
our distro, and that's that's the best way to maximize
the space that we have right now.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Have you guys actually been through a full cycle with
the LEDs?

Speaker 5 (28:38):
Oh yeah, we've been doing it for over two years. Now.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
What kind of lights you guys running?

Speaker 5 (28:43):
The fluent spiders?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
You like them?

Speaker 5 (28:47):
They're they're good enough. They get the job done for us.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Okay, and that that keeps the cost down with the
LED lights. Absolutely, And then and how's the quality difference?

Speaker 5 (28:56):
So quality difference is not that big of a difference.
We're pretty dialed in with the way our flower turns out.
What's a little bit challenging is matching the yields that
we used to get with the high pressure sodium life,
you know, especially Gavitas, those used to pump out nice yields.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, they kind of lost their their their their their their,
I guess their reputation feel I don't know. I don't
know if it was maybe that the quality went down.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
And I'm not saying it has, I'm just saying I'm
hearing that, you know, the same Gavitos that they used
to have just don't produce the same amount as they
did back in the day.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
And I'm wondering why that is.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
You know, I heard there were some changes in the company.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Actually, Oh really, so I try to do some cutting
costs and how they make it and don't.

Speaker 6 (29:39):
I don't know the details, but i'd heard that there
was there were issues internally, and so I'm not surprised
if there are issues, then enough the product with the
product's coming out, Yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
We're sitting here with the guys who are smart weed.
And when we come back, I want to ask you
guys that question.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Recreational and medical? You guys do both? And why? Right
when we come back, it's NIPS Talk one oh one.
We'll be right back after this break. Don't you want
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copy and read the story about him. We're sitting here
with the gentleman from Smartweed and you Tyler, Justice and Chase.
Before I went to break, I noticed that you guys
are still are bottom line doing well still because you
open up in two thousand and six as a medical
and now you're recreational, but you keep the medical. A
lot of places will get rid of that, I've noticed,

(31:45):
but you guys at smart Weed choose to have both.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Yeah. So, like you said, we have been around since
two thousand and six. The model in the early early
days of cannabis was that it was a.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Non benefit doing business as a mutual benefit organization exactly.

Speaker 5 (31:59):
Nonprofit collective servicing the community from a holistic standpoint, and
as the industry itself grew, our philosophy was to stay
true to the original like ethos of the cannabis industry,
which is, we are providing support to the medical community.
Of course, it's it's a retail now and for profit also,

(32:20):
but we still hold true to the original cannabis values
and definitely want to still keep the medical aspect of
it alive.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
You know.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
And I mentioned that and brought it up once again
to give you guys more kudos because you know, I
personally and I know Blue does as well, we look
at this as a plant as medicine, you know, and
for you to be open for the patients, that's what
it's about, right, So for you really to do that
and give them that extra little discount that they get
and whatever little perks that they get for that, I

(32:49):
think that's dope that you guys do that personally, and
I think it's the extra mile and I just appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
Thank you. And that's one of the primary reasons we
offer our indoor flour for thirty dollars an eighth out
the door, half ounces for seventy We even have twenty
dollars half ounces for people because we're all about servicing
the community.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Hold on, you said, twenty dollars half ounce, that is
that is correct?

Speaker 5 (33:10):
We do have the lowest priced half ounces in Los Angeles.
Twenty dollars half ounces out.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
The door, off the door. Does that have seeds in it?
Is that for Mexican?

Speaker 9 (33:22):
It's all bud baby, Yeah, but whole flower, no shake,
no trim or anything like that.

Speaker 7 (33:26):
That's really where the a lot of the times the
medical card comes into play because we have such a
great value. We have people that will hit their limits.
Say and not even ever heard of the twenty eight
gram limit. I can only buy twenty eight grams a day, sure,
not knowing they can buy more than an ounce it
smart weed for less than one hundred dollars. So with
that being said, you could go from a twenty eight
gram cap to a two hundred and twenty eight gram

(33:46):
cap just for having that medical card. So that, on
top of saving a tad bit on the taxes, of course,
is a huge, huge importance of the medical card. But yeah,
twenty dollars half pounce out the door. It's not trim,
not shake, no bs like that house flower that power
right there actually is going to be thirty dollars out
the door with tax included. We also offer our smalls
for seventy dollars a half ounce, so that same flower

(34:08):
you'd get just the smaller buds, which still is you know,
a one premium smoke from almost you know, a fraction
of the price seventy dollars. Also have our halfhounds, as
he said, that start at twenty, but they up from
you know, different tiers thirty dollars, forty dollars for a
half pounce, sixty five even all the way up to
you know, the seventy or ninety nine dollars half ounce
would be the big buds.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
And that's flour. I'm looking at the store right here.
First off, it's beautiful, very nice through store clean inside.
I love that you have the shells right there, the
glasses over it, but I like these old like the
water you can grab it.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
I almost want to touch all the products, you know,
one of our best.

Speaker 9 (34:44):
I'd say we'd like to leave it generally open for
the consumer.

Speaker 7 (34:46):
Especially during COVID there was a lot of times where
you couldn't pick up a jar, let alone smell it.

Speaker 9 (34:51):
But we're a smart weed.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
We you know, of course, give you an introduction, show
you where everything is at, and let the consumer feel
comfortable enough to check out the THC percentages that we
have labeled.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Check out the description grat O. I love that you
guys do this. This is this is right here is
what I think a lot of dispentries are missing out on.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
You have to be an experience. It's an experience. It's
a it's a different experience when you touch it. Like
even me, I just open it up and grab it
and and and break it into it because I'm from
that day where we have to touch it.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
I gotta I gotta rip through it. And sometimes people like,
don't touch it you in the crystal. I'm like, man, man,
I gotta see how sticky. I gotta open up sticks
to my thumb is If it's a stick to my thumb.
When I can do that, that's a little something right there. Extra.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
I gotta ask you, guys, so many different products that
I've seen on the shelves here and the would work.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Everything is dope.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
I really like the way this flooring everything looks, and
your guys building, the lighting and some of the pictures
with the older ladies and the bongs and that's just
a cool vibe.

Speaker 5 (35:46):
And that's that's Betty White.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
I thought it was Betty.

Speaker 5 (35:49):
Yeah, that's Betty White. We have a picture of Snoop
and Martha up there. That's Jeane Wilder. Oh there's that,
okay there, Willy Wonka. Interesting note about the art the artists.
The artist actually knows these the these celebrities himself and
was commissioned by them or allowed by them to make
these prints for us. So it's all original art by

(36:11):
an artist, and he was kind enough to donate it
to our to our store to showcase his talents and
also dress up our place a little bit.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Yeah, it's just the hallway to go to the back there.

Speaker 5 (36:22):
That's the hallway to Western Avenue. Yet.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
Oh wow, dude, I think your spot is so cool.
For those who want to look at the website smartweed
dot co. Yeah you got to go. I mean, geez,
it'd be nice. We could have lunch for us over there.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
You guys are always welcome.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Stuff can come by and we have a cigar together. Please.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
That would be my place.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
What are the store hours, guys? I want to do that.

Speaker 8 (36:45):
So the store hours are seven to ten every day.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Seven am, seven days a week. That's good. Is there
is there a time in LA you have to shut down?
Is it ten pm?

Speaker 6 (36:56):
Yep?

Speaker 12 (36:56):
Ten?

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Okay? Nice? And then on the weekend, same thing and
Wednesday seven seven. Yeah, you're like, we're taking advantage of
the whole time, as you should because you're in an
area too where That's what I'm curious.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Do you guys get more local or is it more
visitors because you guys are you know, you still get
all of it, I.

Speaker 8 (37:13):
Mean, believe it or not. We get people that come
in from easily an hour away just to shop for
some of our deals.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Wow, well I could say that.

Speaker 5 (37:21):
Also we have a high.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
The show really shot.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
We have a lot of tourists that come in too
because we're right in Hollywood, so people are there visiting
LA checking out the sites. I think about twenty five
to thirty percent of our businesses tourism at some point. Right,
And I wanted to give you a side note that
it's Hollywood, so it's very hard to park. We do
have a private parking lot behind the building through the alley.
Just look for the big Kobe Bryant mural on the building.

(37:53):
Oh wow, Yeah, we do have a tribute to Kobe.
It's like it's been featured on one of those like
LA's Kobe Mural.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Who did it?

Speaker 5 (38:03):
One of our former employees is actually pretty good artists,
and we commissioned him to do to do the whole
wall in the back, so you could basically just look
for the Kobe Kobe mural through the alley behind Western Avenue,
the private parking and back entrance to Smart Weed.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Is that where Dash Radio used to be? Right down there?
Are you guys? Little in the little No, no, no,
we're on the street. That's on sunset. We're on the street. Okay, yeah,
we're the new Dash had the old day, it was
an old Dash.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
Remember that built the old You went down that's when
you went to Okay, okay or I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
So we're just out of Santa Monica Boulevard, the number
two on the one on one right there off the
one on one on Western Avenue. Okay, cross streets or
Western Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
You know, guys, yeah, you know, like I said, Curdius
to you guys, what's the plans?

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Well, first of all, before we change gears, it was
edibles I want to talk about your edibles, So tell
us some of edible.

Speaker 8 (39:00):
Guess absolutely, yeah, So we we have them right here.
It called our everyday treats. They are ice water, live bras,
and gummies nice that we offer for an amazing deal.
I don't know if we can just can we discuss
prices on the show. So it's eighteen out the door.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Eighteen dollars.

Speaker 8 (39:16):
Eighteen dollars out the door.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
How many miligrams is that?

Speaker 8 (39:19):
Well, so it's a hundred milligraunds for package ten gummies.
And we brought a sample for each of you guys
to wow, three different flavors.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Eighteen bucks ye out the door. Huh, that's a smashing.

Speaker 8 (39:29):
You guys are making these yourselves in so we're sourcing
them manufacturers some of the highest uh sourcing ingredients it so.

Speaker 6 (39:39):
These are being made to our specifications. We we wanted
very much in line with everything else we're doing. We
want to offer a top quality product, but at again
incredible price. As you know, eighteen dollars that's great is
usually let's say a bargain or you know, entry level edible.
These are the these are made to specifications of it

(40:02):
can't get any better. Yeah, the ingredients here are they're
vegan and we're applicable their organic as well.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Wow that's nice. Now do you guys have you know,
have a kitchen there at your location? Dude? Not yet,
not yet. What's the best selling product though in the dispensary,
like some of the top fives.

Speaker 8 (40:24):
Well, I would say obviously our twenty dollars half ounce
is a huge seller. Our blueberry runs eighths is a
huge seller. We also offer dollar joints as well. Every
ten dollars you spend you get a dollar joint and
or a ten milligram gummy of our everyday treats.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Those are great deals, you guys. You guys are like
killing the game.

Speaker 5 (40:43):
Honestly waits for the people.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Yeah, it really is, It really is, for sure. I'm
so impressed some dispensaries here. I've never heard these prices,
never unless it was Johnny on the block, you know.
I mean, yeah, somebody can give us these prices. You
can hit them as smart. We didn't flip.

Speaker 12 (41:01):
Still make money, guys. You your guys, we're flipping out.
My god, dude, you really could. I can buy that
break to go.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
Celebrate at least twenty five want to come up and
be like, Okay, I'm good, I'm giving you a deal.

Speaker 8 (41:17):
Well, to be honest, I'm sure Justice is going to
attest to this, But we do have certain customers that
come in every single day and buy an ounce.

Speaker 7 (41:24):
It's a little little mysterious, little a whole ouse to
day or you breaking this down, man, we're really going,
Oh no.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Someone buying and a half for the same price. I
got a half a free. Hey, that's how we all learned.

Speaker 8 (41:38):
I mean, that's the way the games talk exactly. So
half ounces go, those go, half ounces go. The gummies
do really well, our flower does really well. As far
as the last two, I mean that's kind of up
in the air. We do have amazing brands. I mean,
obviously we carry the major brands like Stizzy, Plug and Play,

(41:59):
uh CBX, Alien Labs, and Connected, but we also carry
some up and coming brands as well, like Oak for
a Landa is a pretty good brand, Green Label RX.
We work really well with Fruit, We work really well
with and Yeah, we just try to offer the just
the best prices man, as simple as that.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Like Taylor is being modest, so he's in charge of
procuring all of our products. And curating our menu from
a real professional standpoint. He does his own quality control.
The industry has quality control, but smart Weed has their
own quality control, which is a little bit higher standard.
So Taylor is in charge of all that. We do
appreciate the work that he does, and he does a
great job doing it. His eye for cannabis is incredible.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (42:43):
You.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
I love the team you have, man. I just really
like it. It feels real cool. It feels like it's right.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
Yeah, I see it, I feel it. And it's not
too often a lot of times you just get the
owner here and he talks and this and that. It's
really cool to meet this you know, the team, and
hear what you guys are doing behind it and how
you guys are doing it, especially you, dude. It's like
getting somebody really and and uh in sales, so to speak,
and somebody who really understands it like just it or

(43:07):
assuming like Chase. I think that's the key to like
a lot of this this culture here sometimes because a
lot of people are good at something, but they don't
have that business smart Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
It's nice to bring a team of experts together and
let them work in their specific areas of expertise.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
Yeah, you actually important.

Speaker 6 (43:26):
You hit on something really important also not unique to
the cannabis industry most of the time. That's that's an
inflection point for most businesses is where you have the
subject matter expert who'll usually be the founder that can
get something going, but actually being able to run a business.
There's the what I say is there's a business of
running a business no matter what it is, and and

(43:49):
the subject matter expert that can get an idea off
the ground. There's a point which they're they're not able
to usually carry the ball and you can see that
that's where we're companies hit their ceiling.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Yeah, well, you guys are doing good man.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
We'd like to do the high five with everybody that
comes in here, and we got these four gentlemen. We'll
go in the same order that we've been talking to
you guys in so we'll ask question number one and
Julie'll answer it, Chase Taylor Justice. It'll be the same question. Folks,
you heard about the company, You heard who they are.
Go check them out online hear me now, believe me later.
Smartweed dot Co is the website, or follow them on

(44:27):
the gram at smart WXXD tap in to see what
they're doing. Are jumping the building at ten forty Northwestern
Avenue in Hollywood, California. Nine double low two six, question
number one, gentlemen, Hold you the first time you smoked cannabis?

Speaker 3 (44:42):
And where did you get it from? And I'm out?

Speaker 5 (44:45):
So I'm about to reveal my age here then, because
when you.

Speaker 6 (44:49):
Look old, but I look older than me, and but
I feel so young.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Yeah, that's important.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
Though it was nineteen ninety four, it was happens to
be at a Beastie Boys concert. That was when the
Ill Communication album came out with.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Run DMC if that same country, right, you always had
that concert too.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
It was a good one. It was a good one
and I I hadn't smoked before.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Well, no, this was in the Bay Area. I went
to that contract area, like this was.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
In in Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Okay, yeah, the same tour. Yeah, so I was there
with a.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
Group of friends. I hadn't smoked before. They had some weed,
they rolled it up, I hit it, went into the pit.
That did my thing. Classic story. Like most first time smokers.
I didn't get high. I didn't feel it.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
That's awesome, but that concert was great. Thanks for taking me.

Speaker 6 (45:37):
Yeah, how about you, So my first time is going
to be a little bit different. Uh, I have to
also take you back. Contrary is what you might see here. Uh,
this is not how I normally dress. I'm usually very
as people would say, preppy, polo shirt, you know, potentially
some topsiders. That's the suspenders. No, no, those suspenders. None.

(46:04):
Watch but definitely in high school this was on like
on steroids. I I was joking, I said, I was
basically Carlton nice. Yeah, so you danced, I was, That's
exactly how I danced. That was to the tee. But

(46:26):
and I was very square, so I was. I was
not into it at all. The way I got high
the first time was completely by accident. So one of
the other things that you will now know about me
is that I'm lactose intolerant. And my friends thought it
would be hilarious to make some brownies for me. And
what they told me was that the reason they taste

(46:47):
funny is because they used olive oil and not butter a.
So they were in the kitchen they I went and
I ate a couple. I came back and they said,
you know, jokingly, did you try the bread? I said, yeah,
I had a couple. They said, what you did? You had?
You had two?

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Yeah? Why not?

Speaker 6 (47:05):
I was also a very fat kid. You just flew
through two of them. Oh yeah, no problem, just two brownies.
And they're like, oh no, like those were actually weed brownies.
So my first time I was very high.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
And did they use milk in it?

Speaker 5 (47:26):
No?

Speaker 6 (47:27):
Thankfully.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
It was also like you were high and taking this. Yeah, that.

Speaker 6 (47:34):
Would have been a really bad combination.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Oh man, I was just experiencing that in my head, like,
oh no, this is gonna be a night.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
That's one of those classic mystery edible stories where were
you're high for like a day and a half.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Yeah, we wake up the next day. You're like, those
are tough, how about you?

Speaker 8 (47:50):
So high school, I believe ninth grade, me and a
group of my childhood friends with Jackson Weed from his dad,
who we used to have like a little homegrow, and
we just walked outside and got an old soda can
and just smoked a couple of balls off of that
and walked to the convenience store and had the best

(48:11):
or not panic tech the best laughing Oh y.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
Yeah, I ever had them giggles. Maybe the giggle the
giggles like the gearing full effect.

Speaker 8 (48:19):
It was the best.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
That's awesome. I think all of us had that same
one where we pinched. You know, we didn't call it steal.
We called it pinched. We pinched. Your dad's a little
sash pinch.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Like you take my weed. I just pinched a little
bit off. I didn't take nothing. I pinched it, how
about you, boss man?

Speaker 9 (48:38):
So with my god brother Man shout out to my
brother Rob.

Speaker 7 (48:41):
We were like twelve thirteen at the time, so nothing
too crazy, but it was super early.

Speaker 8 (48:47):
Man.

Speaker 9 (48:47):
He always wanted me to smoke.

Speaker 7 (48:48):
I was never much of a smoker, you know, I
was playing sports, video games, all that other kid stuff,
you know. So uh, finally I broke down. He bought
the weed already, he wrote it up. I just remember
smoking in his garage. This was like ten in the morning.
As soon as we get done smoking, two fat dubies
going inside and call it the Chinese food spot, like
they don't open it for like twenty minutes, like hey,

(49:08):
can you guys deliver? Just super high, trying to order
some food, you know, having a great time. And thankfully
the dude was cool about it. He knew we were
absolutely baked, took the order, and of course we still
had to wait like forty five minutes for the food,
but just a really great time, you know, a lot
of laughs, great food, and uh, we'll never forget that moment.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Man.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
So you can tell how young he is by him
saying he ordered food his first time. I was like,
you could order food back though we couldn't order no food.
We had Domino's.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
I guess yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Question number two of the high five what is your
favorite way to use or smoke cannabis?

Speaker 5 (49:40):
So traditionally it would be water pipe the bong.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
Nice just nice hits.

Speaker 5 (49:45):
From the bong like Cypress Hill used to say, it's fun,
there you go. But nowadays I'm more of an edible guy.
I like to I like to eat my cannabis. I've
been training for like longer runs lately, so preserving my
lung capacity is good. And I still like the effects
from eating cannabis.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
So now that when you just said that, dude, I
just flashed into seeing you at I like the Rainbow
Room back in the day.

Speaker 5 (50:09):
Did you ever go down there, Iceman? I was on
sunset a lot at shows.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Rosy Dude.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
When you said that, look at when you just said
that right now. I was like, fuck, dude, I remember
around PC. I just watched you walk by me at
the or smoke next to me on one of these venues.
You know, I've seen that flash right now, when you
said that, I was like, damn, dude, I totally Reme'm.

Speaker 5 (50:32):
A la guy. Man. I grew up as no.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
I always thought you looked familiar when I see it, Like,
what's up, dude? And I even said that for someone,
it's good to see you again. You're like, well, I'm
not sure if we met. We might have met at
a convention. And then I thought, right now, when you
said that, dude, I just got the chills.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
I was like, man, I remember.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Seeing you in Hollywood when we were younger, Like, straight up,
you were popping around up and down sunset.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
I might have been at an Imperial Star show.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
You probably were. You probably were. You know, that's a
good chance right there. He broke that down. So how
about you?

Speaker 6 (51:03):
So my favorite definitely edibles.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
If you went to the cotton Mouth Kings show. I've
actually never seen them, no, no way, no, how about
what's his name?

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Was?

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Sorry to cut you off, but what's his name?

Speaker 5 (51:16):
I went to a lot of shows back in the day.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
I want to make they go to make these parties.
He had some good parties, dude. That dude was crazy
A go ahead, got it?

Speaker 6 (51:24):
Oh, edibles? I prefer more drawn out, let's say, controlled experience.
Probably not too surprising either.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
What was the answer?

Speaker 2 (51:38):
I missed the edible part completely up Like now, okay,
how about you bob uh.

Speaker 8 (51:43):
To be honest man? Socially, probably a good handroll joint, yeah,
but by myself, just hit a really good libraries and
disposal or pin.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Oh wow, yeah, just chilling.

Speaker 8 (51:52):
It's chilling man.

Speaker 9 (51:53):
Yeah, how about you easily, man, just roll up a
good fat joint.

Speaker 7 (51:57):
Man at papers passin that's yes, elements the thinnest most
natural papers man.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I love it man.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Question number three of the high five, what is the
craziest place you've ever used or smoked cannabis?

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Room? Okay, So my co founding partner Leon and I
we used to travel a lot when we were younger,
and we took a nice europe swing at one point,
I think it was ninety nine, and our mo was arrive,
drive straight to Amsterdam, stock up on as much cannabis

(52:30):
and mushrooms as we could and then we hit the road.
We hit like nine or ten cities in a month
and a half and smoked at some really nice places
like the Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace, Berlin Wall.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
We just went down the list nice and did some mushrooms.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
And a little bit of a psilocybin on top of it.
I've been interested in that as of late too, microdosing
psilocybin instead of smoking. So yeah, I'm supportive of all
the natural elements.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Me too. Man. How about you?

Speaker 6 (53:00):
And we have to be a sauna in the Alps?

Speaker 8 (53:03):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (53:03):
Wow, I was just it was great. It was it
was actually fantastic.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
Wow with no pants? Are you guys together?

Speaker 8 (53:13):
You know?

Speaker 3 (53:16):
Gotcha?

Speaker 6 (53:17):
It was a glass wall looking out into the mountains.
Was it was incredible?

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Are you with the chick?

Speaker 9 (53:22):
I was?

Speaker 6 (53:23):
There was everyone and it was like twenty people in there.

Speaker 10 (53:26):
Naked in there just smoking. That's how you have to
do it, no way, Yeah, that's awesome. Clothes are actually
not allowed. That's why the songs are clean there lace
but at the right time, really wild.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
We see that. We see that after these I almost
see him with nothing else on, but that just out.

Speaker 6 (53:47):
That's why the tables, this height.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Yeah, he has no pants on. For those you guys
at home, that's the usual.

Speaker 8 (53:55):
How about you, Bob ship Man the space needle, the
space needle in Seattle. Oh nice, getting the ripped man
there and then have an amazing steak dinner.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
It was the best.

Speaker 8 (54:05):
But I also, me and a couple of friends used
to like to get high off of the on the
boats at bast Pro shop, you know at night. Yeah,
we used to sneak on roll some joints.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Yeah, that's dope. It was that in the water, just
in the back of the boat.

Speaker 8 (54:17):
Back of the boat.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Man.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Nice. Just jumped the fence and just get back there
and just be in a little safe place.

Speaker 8 (54:22):
Just hit them all, go to the boat.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
That's dope. Yeah, how about you, man?

Speaker 9 (54:27):
Funny you said.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Man.

Speaker 7 (54:28):
Actually, I was like sixteen or seventeen. One of the
first jobs I actually ever worked McDonald's. I had this
short manager shout out to Mss Maria and she smoked
weed a lot, but she happened to be the manager
at the time. Yeah, and the main general manager lady
she had left and everything like that. But at this
moment we were doing renovations on the inside on the
dining room. So it's closed down completely, So drive through

(54:48):
only right McDonald's with a bunch of stoners. Yeah, we're
not going outside to go take a smoke break. So
we had a genius plan. My homie had the weed.
My manager at the time had the weed. It was like, hey,
go to the bathroom. That's getting you know, worked, want
to roll this up. It's night shift as well, and
let's smoke it real quick. Okay, last hour of the
show's coming, all right, cool, I swear to god, bro
I start rolling it, break it all up. Ten minutes later,

(55:09):
the actual owner of the shop shows of the McDonald's
shows up. She just came to grab something she had forgotten.
First thing that came to my mind was like, we
have to burn cookies immediately, Yes, but burnt cookie smell,
you're that's the first thing that you're gonna smell. We
didn't only roll the joint up in the bathroom, we
smoked the entire joint in the shout out to that
entire McDonald's crew. Man, you know who you guys are.
Miss Maria, I love you as well. But yeah, it

(55:31):
was absolutely absurd. Thankfully, you know, she didn't catch on
to the smell too much, or she may have and
just wanted to get the hell out of there, but
definitely at that time it was the craziest spot then
I had smoked on the clock just with my manager, like, oh,
this is cool as hell in Texast.

Speaker 9 (55:43):
Ma'm mind you.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Make out with her too?

Speaker 7 (55:45):
Absolutely not, she was you know, she had her wife
at home and stuff. So unfortunately, you know, I was.
I was out of luck on that, but still a
great time man in a great smoking experience.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Nice man. Question of for the high five? What is
your go to edible after you get high?

Speaker 5 (56:04):
Okay? So I'm a I'm a healthy eater in general,
and I really like Japanese comfort food when i'm high,
something like ramen, or ise kaya, even sushi. And one
of the things I really like, which some people find
quite off putting, is not to not to not to.

(56:24):
It's fermented soybeans, and it's definitely challenging for the average eater.
But my partner and I happen to love it. Chase,
we bonded over this, like kim chi. Look, it's it's fermented,
so in that sense, yes, but in the turn that
flavor in terms of challenging, it's a little bit past

(56:45):
kim chid.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
You get past it, it's.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
It's one of the five healthiest foods in the world,
if that helps anybody. And it's it's something we use
that smartweed as like a rite of initiation, Like once
you become part of the team, you got a Nato
hand roll when we go out to dinner.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
And and and and what it's a whole. It's a whole.

Speaker 8 (57:05):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (57:06):
It's either a cut roll or a hand roll. And
what's kind of like weird or different about it is
because it's fermented. It's it's soybeans, so the beans become
kind of gooey and webby, so it almost has like
a cotton candy effect where it'll stretch and and really, yeah,

(57:26):
it's webby, and it's.

Speaker 6 (57:27):
Kind of that does not taste like cotton candy, is
what I call it.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Nal everybody ate one initiation.

Speaker 8 (57:38):
It's hard, man, It's really hard to eat.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
You have to eat the whole role or just one.

Speaker 8 (57:42):
You gotta at least take a big bite, at least just.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Smash the whole thing.

Speaker 5 (57:45):
If you haven't tried Nato, it's hard to find. Next
time you go out to your local Japanese or sushi spot,
order some Nato.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
I dare you now?

Speaker 6 (57:55):
Drew is one of the very few people that I
have met that also knows what not to win. It's
definitely obscure.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Really, I was. I have never even heard is that?
What's your favorite?

Speaker 6 (58:04):
What is your love Nato? But I would not say
it's my favorite Munchie. That would probably be Celery or
maybe Hikama. I love the crunch and all that. You know,
it alleviates the dry mouth. It's it's great.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
How about you, dude?

Speaker 8 (58:20):
Money funions?

Speaker 5 (58:22):
Bro?

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Are you an oh my god, cheese or something? You decriminated?

Speaker 8 (58:27):
You straight up straight up funions with like a mucho
mango arizona.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
He said, Uh, how about you man?

Speaker 7 (58:36):
Something boring? Man like to stay on the healthy set,
so like a protein bar. Maybe there's some Nicks ice
cream for anybody that's looking zero sugar. Of course they
use artificial sweetener, but still Knicks ice cream. It's like
three hundred and seventy calories for the entire pint. Check
it out. Really, it's called mixed mix in icy mix. Yeah,
the guys aren't paying me. I promise that fire ice nice. Really,

(58:58):
so those would be my go to I really like
a lot of dietary restrictions. I don't do a lot
of sugar and stuff, so pretty boring. Smart Yeah, yep,
get high, have a protein bar or something.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
Well, guys, question number five of the high five if
you could smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who
would it be and why?

Speaker 5 (59:15):
So I was trying to think outside the box on
this one and not go with one of the standard answers,
and I came up with Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile Nice,
the last ruler of the Egyptian dynasty. I figured she
has a reputation for being really seductive in the alluring,
which is great for me. And I figured that we'd

(59:37):
probably be smoking at one of her palaces, so that's cool.
There's probably a lot of servants waiting on us with
good food and entertainment. And I figured I would bring
something that we grew in house at smart weeds, so
she would be really high and impressed. And then after
she was high, I would be like, it could lead
to a good night.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
This could be a good night for you and me.
What's up chasing?

Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
All right? So it would be Stephen hawking for me?
Oh wow, I would I would love to understand the universe,
especially be curious to uh, to hear what he has
to say or read what he has to say in
that state of mind.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Yeah, just going at it. Huh how about you?

Speaker 8 (01:00:18):
But I'm gonna go with the Man on the moon himself.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
Get cutty cutty man.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
So listen, bro, Like we we spoke to your team
and uh, you know they we talked about it and
said that you're a big fan of kick cutting.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
So ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for ki.

Speaker 8 (01:00:42):
Ki Cutti is the guy.

Speaker 7 (01:00:43):
Man when we get him in here, we have you
come through, please do how about you? But man, probably something.
I think it's something interesting, like Einstein or something. He
just seems like a really interesting character. Obviously has a
lot to teach. And yeah, I think it'd be hysterical man.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
And the smart the smart who came up with the
logo for smart Weed the bulby.

Speaker 5 (01:01:04):
My partner and I put together our heads and came
up with some creative designs back in the day for that.
It's been our logo for a few years.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
Yeah, it works. It works.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
We've been trying to get some merchandising going and we've
haven't been getting positive feedback from the community about the logo,
the styles. You can see some of the stuff we
got on right now. He's got the track suit with
the little logos, we got the smart preams. No, they
like it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
They do positive negative, positive.

Speaker 5 (01:01:32):
Feedback from the community.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Far shirt over there. That one was really dope. Yeah,
these are really great you guys. Yeah, that's just cool, man.
So listen, is there anything that we forgot that you
guys want to mention before we let you guys get
on out of here around it's been an awesome I mean,
we're just.

Speaker 5 (01:01:46):
Happy to be here. We appreciate what you and Joe
do for the cannabis industry. You guys are at the
forefront of education and infotainment and we're happy to be
guests on your show and fellow members of the cannabis community.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Thank you, Thank you very much. Anything else again about it? Well,
there it is, guys, man. Make sure you check out smartweed.
What's the website smartweed dot co. There is guys, Cannabis
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