Have You Ever Tried Pot?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mike is telling me that he's tried it a few
times when he was in college. He said the first
time it was a real relaxant that in fact, it
was a good experience. According to Mike, it just zones
you out, almost put him to sleep, very relaxed. And
you know, he just he liked it. It was a

(00:20):
very nice experience. He said, he hasn't tried it, or
hasn't done it in many years because the last time
he did it in college, he had basically a bad experience.
It made him very anxious, made him very antsy, made
him very nervous, made him almost semi paranoid. I said, like,

(00:40):
what do you mean, Mike, Like you thought they were
like you know, UFOs or like aliens you know in space,
saucers over the house. He goes, not quite that bad,
But I just I just got very jumpy. I said, Oh,
you thought like the Russians were invading or something. Goes, No,
it's not a didn't They didn't lace it with a
hallucingenic Jeff, you know, he's starting to make fun of
me now, but basically saying no, I just you're right.

(01:03):
For some people, it makes them very anxious, very nervous.
I really didn't like it. And basically he says he's
high on life, doesn't need drugs. He's now high on life.
On weekends he'll have the occasional beer, but that he
he tried marijuana and it's just not his thing. Six
one seven to six sex Mike Di, I sum up

(01:26):
your position accurately, he would say, I would say so.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.
Andy in Milford, Thanks for holding Andy, and welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Ah, good morning, Jeff Andy. Jeff, I, when you started
talking about this topic this morning and just laid out
the facts of where this big marijuana business is going,

(02:00):
my first thought was, oh my god, this is big
tobacco all over again. And the thing is with big
tobacco that was well beyond the frontier days when the
farmer would come in and offer a day in the

(02:22):
field and enjoy his pipe at the fireplace and all
that sort of thing. And we know the whole thing
of how big tobacco did all kinds of manipulation of
the tobacco products to make them more addictive so people
would use more of it and they would make more money.

(02:42):
And sure enough, the same thing as playing out with
big marijuana and just a few things, Jeff. Number one,
these liberal trial lawyers and many of them have been
behind this push to legalize marijuana, these same trial wars

(03:05):
that sued the big tobacco companies and made all kinds
of money. I'm just wondering, it's ten twenty years from now,
this same crowd is going to be right back suing
big marijuana for all the health effects that are eventually
gonna result from all of this. That is point number one.

(03:32):
Point number two, The American capitalists really need to be
taken to the woodshed, Jeff. It just this push for
the almighty buck and pursuing that at the expense of

(03:53):
no consideration of morality, no consideration of the well being
of country. Let me take them for a little walk
down memory lane. Deep uh, way back in Vladimir Lenin's time,
he actually spoke of the capitalist. Vladimir Lenin said quote,

(04:16):
the capitalist would provide us with the rope by which
we would use to hang them.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
And and sorry, by the way, you're absolutely brilliant. Call okay, uh,
it's I want to be slightly the quote is slightly off,
but I wanted just to reinforce your point, He didn't
say provide us with the rope. He said they will
sell us the rope. In other words, to your point

(04:44):
that the capital and he talked about the American capitalist.
He said that the American capitalist, just to make a buck,
will sell us the rope that we will then use
to hang them. Like in other words, they don't even
have selfish interest. They just money, money, money, even if
it means killing themselves in the end, and the police

(05:07):
keep going because you're on a roll.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Jay. So we've like our open borders. I mean, the
biggest headache President Trump has had with that is the
American business interest because they're addicted to cheap labor. In
our foreign policy, same thing, biggest obstacle doing what we

(05:32):
really need to do to put the CCP in this
place because they want that cheap labor over in China.
And now here we go again, money money, money to
push to make marijuana fully legal. And let us not
forget we are we just are coming out of the
opioid crisis and it you know, I mean a lot

(05:59):
of people got addicted to like prescription opioids. And and also, Jeff,
I do believe Carl Marx in his time said something
about getting a generation enslaved in drugs and immorality in

(06:24):
order to bring down society.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
They can go, you're completely and that's sorrows. Sorrows got
that from Karl Marx and literally that's why sorrows. He's
the god He is the godfather of the movement to
legalize weed. In marijuana, not medicinal. I'm talking recreational marijuana.
I'm talking you know, you can buy it at any dispensary.
And he, by the way, he's a billionaire as well.

(06:48):
And you're dead on Andy. It is capitalism without a conscience,
capitalists without a conscience. That's now what we're seeing in
America on whether it be on open borders, whether it
be on dealing with China, and now especially on this
legalizing weed. And they're lying about the devastating side effects.

(07:09):
They're lying about the cost to our society. And look,
they've got a very powerful lobby. They have bought up
a lot of politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, to be honest,
and they've got tremendous power now in the media. Okay,
I want to ask all of you Kooner Country. It
is the Kooner Country pole question of the Day sponsored

(07:34):
by Marios Marios Quality Roofing, siding and windows. Do you
use or have you ever tried marijuana? I'm just I
just want to get a sense in the audience. How
many of you when you were younger, maybe to this

(07:54):
day you know? But do you use marijuana or have
you ever tried, tried or used marijuana? A? Yes, B no,
you can And I'm you know, I have to confess
I'm a no on this to show you how boring
I am. I don't drink alcohol. I've never used drugs.

(08:17):
I've never even tried marijuana. I don't even drink coffee.
I tried smoking a cigarette once, couldn't stand it, like,
you know, two puffs and I was like, so, I
don't smoke. I don't do drugs ever, I don't drink
I don't even drink coffee. I've got one vice, baby,

(08:39):
and I'm holding it right now. Hold on, ah, that's
a Coke zero. I swear to God, one of the
greatest inventions ever. Whoever invented coke zero, You're a genius.
And even this now with my diabetes, they got me
down to one small bottle of day. That's it. I

(09:02):
just I sip this slow the whole day slow. Otherwise
all I do is drink water. I'm telling you I'm
a really boring I'm telling you I'm a really boring guy.
So anyway, so just so that you know I I've
never done anything, you know, so you know believe me.

(09:23):
You know I'm not mister excitement. I'll tell you this,
but I want to hear from you. You can vote
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(09:44):
active on X my handle there all one word at
the cooner report. K u h n is in national
er k u h n e R. Have you ever
used or do you you use marijuana? Have you ever
tried it? Ayes B No. If I had, you know,

(10:07):
if I could vote, I would vote to know. Mike
would be as I want to hear from you, and
let me ask all of you if you did use
it in the past and you still have you know,
tried it again now? Where you still use it? Now?
Are you in agreement with what seems to be now
a what the science is saying what the research is saying,

(10:29):
and anecdotally now what many people are calling in or
saying that the pot that maybe people use, say forty
to fifty years ago, is very different now from what
they're selling at these pot shops and these dispensaries. That
there is so much more THC, which is by the way,
different from the CBD. CBD is actually helps people medicinally,

(10:53):
especially those with PTSD or seizure issues. A lot of troops,
a lot of veterans who suffer from PTSD say that
the CBD, the CBD, the cannabis oil has helped them tremendously.
But the stuff that really gets you high and has
some real addictive qualities or traits to them is the THCHC.

(11:16):
And they are now spiking the THHC content. Again, not
to beat a dead horse. Forty fifty years ago, maybe
two three percent THHC say in a joint, okay, and whatever.
Somebody's smoking weed. Now it's minimum fifteen to twenty five
percent much higher, but in many cases it's sixty seventy

(11:37):
even ninety five, ninety even ninety five percent. It is strong,
powerful and very addictive. Agree, disagree six one, seven, two
six six sixty eight sixty eight is the pot of
forty fifty years ago, radically different from the pot that

(11:59):
they're selling today. Antoinette on the k. Nice for holding Antoinette,
and welcome.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Oh good mornings. That's nice to talk to you again.
It's been a while and all of a sudden I'm nervous,
So nice to talk to you about this. So I
want to emphasize the what you so number of calls
are saying the difference if the people are resident Trevor listening,
it's like to really hone the emphasis on the medicinal

(12:26):
versus the non medicinal. You know, the CBD has medicinal
qualities that are very beneficial people with Parkinson's and all
kinds of neurological issues and motor skills, and that should
be only available by prescription because there is a benefit
to that. But honing in on that class one the THC,

(12:47):
the psychogenic part that cannot be moved out of a
class one category. And one of the things I want
to emphasize is that you know what the crossover drug is,
toro and.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Is it marijuana? It is really so you're saying on twinity,
it really is a gateway drug.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Rug. And because I'm an eye doctor, I'm an optometrist.
So that pathway of marijuana, the THHC is the same
pathway with the parasympathetic nervous system. So when we see
patients on marijuana, their pupils constrict. So it's that same

(13:31):
pathway that is shared with the marijuana with the THHC.
So that's why it is a gateway drug. It is
a crossover drug. So we should remain in that class
one category so that if we can hammer that home,
that's the distinction between the two and two. So I'm

(13:54):
a big no on reclassifying the non medicinal you know, marijuana.
And plus the fact, you know, I see kids that
can't read, Adults that come in they wonder why they
can't read what's going on, And it's because their pupils
are constricted. They can't focus, they lose, they can't focus.
Your pupils need to open and close properly when you're

(14:16):
reading and looking away and things of that nature. So
you're seeing difficulties in reading skills and school school performances
on kids, never mind just all the damage that it
does to the brain cells.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
So that's I don't mean to cut you off, but
I got to ask you. And when you ask them,
you're saying it's directly because of the heavy pot use.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Correct, absolutely, because I've I've had very cheapest adult patients
come in and I've questioned them and then they admit
that they smoke pot pretty heavily every evening and they
can't read the evening newspaper or they can't go on
the computer, and they're wondering if it's the glasses or
they're something's wrong with their visions, and it's and it's

(14:57):
the marijuana.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Interesting, And if I'm getting too personal, please tell me.
I promise I won't be offended. Have you ever used marijuana?
Have you ever tried marijuana?

Speaker 3 (15:07):
And I am a very exciting, vivacious woman that you
want to have at a party, sociable, So I think
that's I have never never I don't drink, I don't smoke,
never touched it. My friends like me, I've never had
an inclination. I want to feel what I feel and
deal with my feelings. And I think that's how we

(15:27):
need to raise our children, you know, strong and not
turning towards the substance that's going to turn away from
how you're dealing with whatever issue issues you have, or
the feelings that you have. Let's feel the feelings and
that strengthens us as we move forward. So that's another message.
I want to say, you're not boring. You are not
a boring man because you don't do any drugs or

(15:51):
drink or what have you. I think we have to
change that vernacular too and say I am you know,
I'm exciting, I'm vivacious, I'm a great trend. I'm a
person you want to be around. And I don't do
any drugs and I don't drink and be proud of it.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Antoinette, thank you very much for that call. Excellent call.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, let me ask all of you.
I want you to listen now to President Trump. He
is now under tremendous growing pressure to reclassify cannabis, pot weed, marijuana,

(16:30):
whatever you want to call it, from a Class one
drug alongside in other words, which is currently what it is.
It's currently classified as a Class one or Section one
drug along with LSD heroin, meaning if it's Class one
or Section one meaning that it has no quote medical

(16:52):
or medicinal purpose whatsoever, as well as being highly highly
addictive to a Class three or Section three drug. In
other words, reclassify it as a much less dangerous drug
Section three or Class three. It's ketamine, testosterone steroids. These

(17:17):
are considered Class three drugs. In other words, they have
medical purposes to them, and they're much much less addictive.
In fact, some of them aren't even addictive at all.
So in other words, and the reason why he's being
pressured to do this is because now there is the
rise of big marijuana or big pot there. It's a

(17:39):
multi billion dollar industry, but powerful corporate interests now say
this will be even bigger than tobacco, maybe even bigger
than big pharma. They believe there is now almost an
unlimited market in the United States for the legalization of weed.
Pot is legalized in about twenty five states. Almost twenty

(18:02):
states now have legalized marijuana for medicinal or medical purposes.
They want it legal in all fifty states. And this
has been one of the brainchilds of George Sorows. This
has been one of his huge causes going back twenty
twenty five thirty years. He has poured hundreds and hundreds

(18:26):
of millions of dollars. He and his allies behind political initiatives,
marketing campaigns to mainstream pot and to mainstream in particular
the notion of legalizing recreational marijuana. So there's a lot
of opposition now growing to this. Trump is under pressure
from both sides. Listened to him saying I will make

(18:49):
a decision along with HHS Secretary RFK Junior. Both of
us are going to work together on it, and you
will know very soon whether I will reclassify marijuana as
a less dangerous drug at the federal level. Roll top
twenty three, Mike.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
There's reporting that the illustration is going to reclassify marijuana.
With that send mixed messages that marijuana is okay drugs,
some drugs are.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay, but we're trying to clean up crime. How do
they go ahead?

Speaker 5 (19:19):
And we're only looking at that. That's early, but you know,
somebody reported it, which is fine.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
We're looking at it.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
Some people like it, some people hate it. Some people
hate the whole concept of marijuana because if it does
bad for the children, it does bad for people that
are older than children. But we're looking at reclassification and
we'll make a determination over the next I would say,
over the next few weeks, and that determination, hopefully will
be the right. One very complicated subject is, you know,
the subject of marijuana. I've heard great things having to

(19:46):
do with medical, and I've had bad things having to
do with just about everything else but medical. And you know,
for pain and various things, I've had some pretty good things,
but for other things, I've heard some pretty bad things.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
I want to make two quick points, and then I
want to go back to the phone lines. And by
the way, the calls that they have been superb. This
is from seven oh three. You can text the cooner
man seven zero four seven zero seven zero four seven
zero Jeff. Remember how the quote unquote legalization of marijuana
was marketed by George Soros and his gang. In the beginning,

(20:25):
it was never marketed for this kind of widespread use,
but that was the ultimate intent, make no mistake about it.
The camels nose in the tent marketed quote unquote legalization
only for a very narrow group, those with chronic and

(20:46):
intractable pain and terminally ill patients, people whose chemotherapy left
them nauseated and unable to eat, and of course veterans
with PTSD. In other words, the campaign targeted our sympathy
for the suffering. That is very true, that there's no

(21:07):
denying that fact wherever you stand on the issue, and
reasonable people can disagree, obviously, but wherever you stand on
the issue, there's no question that Sorrows deliberately promoted and
pushed this campaign on. I remember the late nineteen nineties,
the early two thousands when this movement really got going.

(21:30):
It was for a narrow class of people, for veterans
with PTSD, and many of them do say it does
help them. People with chemotherapy, people who suffer from chronic pain,
you know, people who are at the end of their life.
You know, God forbid that this would help them. They
always initially they said, no, we'll never legalize it for

(21:54):
general population. Will never legalize recreational marijuana. Absolutely not. But
of course that was their intent all along. It really
was the camel under the no, the camel's nose under
the tent. It was a trojan horse. And now they
believe they can get recreational marijuana legalized in all fifty

(22:15):
states within a decade six one, seven, two, six, six,
sixty eight, sixty eight, now very quickly, because some people
that I really respect have made some excellent points. One
of them is Manny Rabiro marine, I mean a veteran,
but you know, once a marine, always a marine, said Jeff,
please tread lightly on this issue. There is a big

(22:37):
difference between THC and cannabis oil CBD. He's right, just
because people use marijuana, especially veterans who suffer from PTSD,
doesn't make them a quote unquote pothead or a lazy
person or whatever. That is also true. And I thought
he made also another excellent argument, which is some people

(23:01):
just have an addictive personality. They just have an addictive personality.
So you know, they won't smoke five cigarettes a day,
they'll smoke two to three packs a day. They won't
just have one glass of wine at dinner. They're alcoholics.
They can't stop the same for people who use marijuana.

(23:22):
Some people will use it only for medical purposes or
maybe recreationally, but I don't know, once a week on
the weekend, or you know, once every two weeks or whatever.
And then you have others, again, the addictive personality. They
can't stop every day all day. They just they can't stop.
And those are the so called potheads and furthermore, many, man,

(23:47):
He's right, there's no question that you know people do
have it. Look, I'll like, I'll be brutally honest with you,
like I'm in the confessional, if you know, if you're
gonna probe me and say, Jeff, come on, really, why
why don't you touch a drop of alcohol? Why don't
you smoke? Why have you never even tried any drugs whatsoever?

(24:10):
Because I have an addictive personality, I just do. I
know my body, I know how I am, and i'll
you know, for example, I love chocolates, M and M's
my favorite. I just can't have a small bag. I'll
go buy the big free. Not now with my diabetes,
I don't do that. But in the old, the glory days,

(24:31):
the pre diabetes days, you know, I get one of
those big baggers and say I'm working at the office
or whatever I'm doing, and I would just you know,
one after another, one after another, one after another, and
eventually I go through the whole damn bag, Like I
just I don't stop. Now, I would after a while,

(24:51):
like maybe go through half the bag and then give
it to Grace. Let's say, please hide it from me,
because I'm gonna finish the whole damn thing. So part
of me says to myself, look, I you know, Grace
is a you know, she's a social drinker. She can
have a glass of wine here or there. She's fine.
My fear is I start drinking, I won't stop. I

(25:15):
start doing drugs, I won't stop. Uh you know, I
mean I could, I could give you exactly whatever. I
start smoking, I won't stop. So I have an addictive personality,
and now I'm into buying books. I mean I do
a lot of reading. I do read a lot, but
I buy a hell of a lot more than what
I read. I buy secondhand books. It's almost like a compulsion.

(25:39):
I buy about two, three four books a week. I
mean I read about a book a week. So I
am reading, but I just, you know, I'm like, oh
I need this, Ooh I wanted this, Oh I plan
to read this. Now they're secondhand books, so I pay
four or five bucks a book. It's not the end
of the world. But I'm just I just I have
that kind of you know, compul personality. That's just the

(26:01):
way I am. So you know, that's why I say,
don't know, don't start with this, don't start with this,
don't even go there because I know how, I know how.
I'm hardwired. So there's also that I think there's no question.
And then a final point, and I think Manny is
one thousand percent dead on. Some people, for whatever reason,

(26:27):
react to drugs, substances, whatever you want to call them,
differently than others. They just do. And I'll just give
you an example. My both my grandfathers on my mother's
side and my father's side, smoked two packs a day.

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They drank like fish. I'm like, you know they're from
you know, Eastern Europe. I mean they vodkay in the morning,
vodka in the afternoon, Vodkay in the evening. They drank
wine like it was water. They all lived until their eighties. Now.
They were farmers, they were peasants. They worked extremely hard.
They ate organic food. They were out in the sunshine.

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I mean they exercised by virtue of their hard work.
But here I'll give you another example. And if Grace
is listening, she's gonna be smiling ear to ear Neil Cameron.
You're gonna say, Jeff, who the hell is Neil Cameron.
He was one of my former professors. He passed away
about seven eight years ago, also a well known journalist
in Montreal of Scottish descent. And I would kill to

(27:35):
have Scottish jeans because I can't tell you how many
people I know of Scottish descent where I've seen the
exact same story. This guy was three hundred and fifty
to four hundred pounds. He ate junk food all the time.
He was a big man. He never ate a vegetable

(27:57):
his entire life. I mean this thing, and he goes,
you know, I've never eating a vegetable. I'm like, what, Like, what,
how the hell did you? If I don't eat vegetables
in three days, my body starts to break down, like Siriah.
If I don't have a salad within two or three days,
like I'm going through some kind of like a nutrient withdrawal.

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Like oh, like Jeff, You're like, my body's like you're
gonna break down. Jeff, come on, get the lettuce, get
the cucumbers, get the tomatoes. Let's go get you know,
get some good stuff in you. He smoked two packs
a day every day for fifty sixty years. The guy

(28:39):
would belt back twelve to fifteen glasses of Scotch a day.
You say, Jeff, he's probably an alcoholic. Well, he was
a brilliant man, and frankly he was. I guess he
was a functional alcoholic. Because the guy was a brilliant professor,
a brilliant journalist. You couldn't tell when you spoke to
him that the guy was drunk. I lived eighty two

(29:01):
years old. I remember. I'll never forget this. This was
twenty five years ago. We're at one of his favorite
bar hangouts. Grace and I were other journalists. Neil was there, obviously,
and he had gone through now at least ten ten scotches. Okay,
he's smoking the way he always did, lights wan, then another,
then another, then another. And I looked at him and

(29:22):
I said, Neil, I gotta tell you, man, I would
kill to have your constitution. And everybody started laughing, like
you know, like they're nodding their head up and down,
like yeah, I go, no, no, I go, Neil. Honestly,
the way you eat, the way you smoke, the way
you drink. If I lived the way you lived, there's

(29:44):
no way I'm making it till forty years old, forty five.
Maybe by forty years old, I'm dead. Either my liver
gives out, I've got lung throat cancer. I mean, what
I hit your pick, I'm dead. Do you understand that
I'm dead? Or a massive heart attack like just boom.

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This guy he just kept on rolling until eighty two.
And at his funeral, you know what everybody said, if
he just took better care of himself, he could have
lived to one hundred easy with his jeans. Easy, like
I'll tell you, like the British Royal family, like Queen Elizabeth,
like the Royal the Queen Mother, all of them. If

(30:28):
it's not one hundred, it's damn close. So some people
they're just blessed with I'm sorry, I don't want to
sound like Sidney Sweeney here, okay, but some people are
just blessed with good jeans. And I don't just mean
the kind of you know, appearance wise. Some people have

(30:49):
the health gene and they do stuff to their body.
Look at the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards again.
You know they're from England, Scotland, that whole area, Wales, Ireland,
those that whole area. I don't know what it is

(31:11):
about that corner of the world, but you know, they
can do stuff to their body and they just keep
on taking Ossie Osbourne another one. The stuff that this
guy did to his body. So, I mean, I don't
know if you heard about Keith Richards, he's like way
in his seventies. Now, I forget if it's the boozing,

(31:32):
the drugs or the smoking. He's another one two three
packs a day, always drunk, always stoned. He quit one
of the three mic like his doctor said, like now,
just you can't do this anymore. So I forget if
it's the drinking the smoking. He's still doing two out
of three, but one of the three he had the cut.

(31:54):
But I would kill to have the genes. I remember
watching him on tea at a concert. This was in
the early nineteen eighties. I looked at him. I said,
this is death walking. I go, I don't give this
guy more than four five years, four or five years.
That was in nineteen eighty one. This guy's gonna outlive

(32:16):
me six one seven, two, six, six, sixty eight sixty eight.
And by the way, if I bit off the heads
of bats the way Ozzy Osborne did again and again
at every single one of his concerts, I would have
died of some bacteria or infection. A long time ago, No,

(32:39):
this guy urinated blood and just keept thought digging. I'm
telling you some people are blessed with good jeans. That's it.
Jack in New Hampshire, Thanks for holding Jack.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
And welcome Jeffrey.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
How are you, Sarah love the show?

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Thank you Jack.

Speaker 6 (32:57):
I'm going to have to roll over in my future
brain because for the first time I agree with George
Sorrows and I think Antoinette's side of it was Antoinette's
side was just nuts. I am a highly functional sixty
year old medical sales guy. Not daily pot user, but
quite frequent. I read one to two books a week.

(33:19):
I function fairfoot in my job. I don't drink, you know,
I'll have a little bit of a puff at night.
And I actually have a condition called Matthew little degeneration
in my eyes. And my doctor at Mass General said,
we'll stop smoking it. Get it in in a in
an edible form. It's actually very good for your eyes.
So where Intoinette was coming from, I don't know. And

(33:40):
you know, I get angry just like I would at
a liberal. Who's who's telling me I'm wrong on my positions?
You know it's an opinion? Am I better off doing
a you know, a couple of pots or or a brownie,
rather than you know, sitting there and drinking five gallons
of tequila every week. I mean when I heard her,
I'm like, first time I've ever called you, and I'm like,

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you know what. The woman may be smiled, but she's
dumb on this subject.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Jack. I take it you're still using it to this day.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
Correct, absolutely, sixty six years old.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Jack. Have you noticed any difference in the THHC content
that apparently they say it's gotten much more powerful and potent?
Have you noticed that? I'm just curious.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
You used to have to, you know, get it from
a local friend who who grew it or you know
who imported it. Whatever. You're gonna be really careful at
the stores now, and I do worry about the young
kids because you know, once they're eighteen and they can
buy it, some of the stuff is really really strong,
and you've just got to be really careful to know
what you're doing in terms of you know, THHC quantity

(34:45):
when you buy it. But you know, to say that
it's a gateway to heroin or that I can't I've
never touched anything other than that, And to say that
you can't read because you smoke, like I said, like you,
I love to read. I'm reading one or two books.
I got one or two books going at all times.

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So you know, some of the stuff she said is.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Just bunk, Jack, If you don't mind me asking, do
you drink alcohol?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
No?

Speaker 6 (35:14):
I know I did a little bit when I was young,
Or I should say no. If we go out for
Mexican food, my wife and I, I'll have one margarita.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, you have a tequila or margarita. No, I hear
you're like my wife. No, I hear you, Jack, What
do you consider worse? If you don't mind me asking,
pot slash marijuana, however you want to call it? Or alcohol?

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Alcohol.

Speaker 6 (35:36):
I've seen so many of my friends, including my own
dad back in the day, will go to that. You know,
I've seen alcohol almost destroyed his life. Am I addicted
to it?

Speaker 4 (35:47):
No?

Speaker 6 (35:47):
Because if I travel for a couple of weeks in
my job where I'm going abroad for a vacation, I
don't bring it with me enough stupid enough to bring
it on a plane. Am I going through withdraw all symptoms? No,
it doesn't bother me at all. I can make it
up the store for any time I want.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
You know, Jacket's really funny you should say that because
my dad, now he never did, you know, Potter Wheat.
He was a boozer. My dad liked to drink, and
again you know, coming from the old country central eastern Europe,
like his father, my grandfather. He'd have a shot in
the morning, you know, like the hard stuff. He would
have a couple of glasses of wine every night. And

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he would say to me, exactly what you just said.
Because he used to travel for his company, and so
he'd often go to the Middle East, right, but even abroad,
it doesn't matter no matter where he went, he never drank.
Just when he was on business flying to another country,
he never drank. But he often had to go to
the Middle East, where alcohol is banned. And he said,
exactly what you just said. I said, because I'd say,

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you know, Dad, I tease him, I go, aren't you
worried like you're gonna get you know, like you're becoming
an alcoholic, you know with all the all the wine
and all the boozer are drinking. And he said, no,
I travel for my company. When I travel, I don't drink.
I just I never drink I'll go weeks sometimes because
he was away for long periods of time. He goes
sometimes I'm away for two, three, even four weeks, six

(37:11):
weeks even I don't touch a drink. I never have
a symptom of withdrawal. I do my job perfectly. Then
I come back and I resume drinking. So you remind
me of my dad. Jack. Anyway, Jack, final word to you.
Do you think it should be legalized in every state

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in the Union. I'm just curious.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
Yes, yes, and again I'm going to have to go
to confession after this, but once I agree with George Soros.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Jack, thank you very much for that call. I really
appreciate it. Six what seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight. Okay, let's put it on the table. I've
asked you already and please keep calling. Do you use marijuana?
Have you ever tried marijuana? You know? What do you think? What?
What's your experience been like? And the big question should

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marijuana not just for medicinal purposes, for recreational use? Should
marijuana be legalized in every state in the Union? Six
one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight is
the number. Don't touch that dial.