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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, cooner. Contrary, Okay, my friends, there is now
a tremendous amount of pressure building on President Trump to
reclassify or reschedule marijuana i e. Cannabis as a much
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lesser drug. In other words, currently now at the federal level,
I understand there are many states that have legalized medicinal marijuana,
and there are other states as well that have, like
here in Massachusetts as an example, where they have legalized
even recreational marijuana. Believe me, I know because I drive
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down Route one. As I pointed out a couple shows ago,
every second freaking billboard I'm not kidding is an advertisement
for a pot shop. It's and by the way, now
apparently you can get it home delivered. So not only
do you have drive through like fast food style marijuana,
marijuana edibles, whatever, bonds however you want to smoke this thing,
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but you can also have it delivered to your home.
So it's a thriving, multi billion dollar business and corporate America,
and they're a big business, big corporate interest now that
see even more money with pot, with cannabis, with marijuana
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than they do with tobacco. And if the trends continue,
Listen now, to this big pot is going to be
bigger than big tobacco or even big pharma. That's how
much they believe there is potential growth in the market
for getting people addicted to weed. And so there is
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growing pressure on President Trump to reclassify marijuana from what's
called a Schedule one drug at the federal level to
a Schedule three drug. A Schedule one drug because you
may ask jeeh half jeh half jeah half, what the
hell is a Schedule one drug? And why is a
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Schedule three drug categorizes a much lesser drug or a
much lesser dangerous drug. So a Schedule one drug is
a drug like LSD that's considered Schedule one or heroin
also Schedule one that, according to federal researchers in Federal
Health medical guidelines, has no medical value whatsoever. In other words,
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you don't give it, you don't give it to anybody
for any reason, and you do everything you can to
prevent it from being given to anybody or imported into
the country or distributed on the street because it's considered
a very dangerous and the other point is a highly
addictive drug. Well, marijuana is still at the federal level
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considered a Schedule one drug. Trump now is under great
pressure to reclassify it as a Schedule three drug, meaning
a much less dangerous drug that has some medical or
medicinal value and also is considered nowhere near as addictive
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as say heroin or LSD. Now ketamine is an example
of a Schedule three drug. Testosterone is considered a Schedule
three drug. You have others as steroids are considered a
Schedule three drug. So they want to reclassify marijuana and
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basically now make it, I don't want to say acceptable,
but much more widely available and considered much less dangerous
and much less addictive than other more quote unquote hard
drugs like say meth or heroine or LSD or take
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your pick. Listen now to President Trump saying he will
be making a decision very soon in consultation obviously with
Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Junior, And he says,
I understand the arguments of both sides. It's a complicated issue,
but he is now leaning towards reclassifying marijuana as a
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much less dangerous and addictive drug. Roll Cut twenty three
a mic.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
There's reporting that the illustration is going to reclassify marijuana.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
With that send mixed messages that marijuana is okay. Drugs
some drugs are okay, but we're trying to clean up crime.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
How do they go ahead?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And we're only looking at that. That's early, but you know,
somebody reported it, which is fine. We're looking at it.
Some people like it, some people have 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.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Will be the right.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
One very complicated subject is, you know, the subject of marijuana.
I've heard great things having to 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. E've heart some pretty good things, but for
other things, I've heard some pretty bad things.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So basically Trump is still on the fence. Has it
made a decision. He is being lobbied ferociously. I mean,
it is an all out lobbying campaign by as I said,
by big pot, by corporate America, very strong corporate interests.
But even then by even members of his own political coalition,
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libertarians who love the eye idea of legalized pot. It's
not enough that it's here in Massachusetts and in other states.
They want it in all fifty states. And they believe
by reclassifying it sort of like I don't know, like
ketamine or like something, you know, whatever, something much more mild,
that they can have this become considered more mainstream, more acceptable,
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which will make it easier for their campaign when they
go to state after state, primarily in red state America,
and have it completely legalized recreationally, not just medicinally, but recreationally. Now,
just for the record, people need to know this. The
man that really spearheaded and funded the initial drive to
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have pot, weed, marijuana, cannabis, however you want to call it,
legalized across the United States is George Soros. This is
an undeniable fact. This is the same man that pushed
open borders. This is the same man that said he
wants to replace Americans with third worlders. This is the
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same man that put in soft on crime district attorneys
to allow violent predators and criminals to roam our streets.
And a major reason why he is pushing for the
legalization of marijuana is because he ultimately wants to dumb
down the intelligence dumbed down, if you want to put it,
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the national IQ of the United States. He wants a
nation of stoners, a nation of stoners, and this is
what many socialists want. That's why up in Canada they've
completely legalized marijuana thanks to Justin Trudeau, the former Prime Minister.
Many countries in Europe now weed is completely legal, so
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called progressive left wing countries, and I could go on
and on, because they want a populace that is stoned,
that is addicted to drugs, that is lazy, that has
suffered a little bit of brain damage from regular, frequent,
heavy use, because that makes them controllable and pliable. What
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you don't hear from the media, which is bought and
paid for essentially by the big pot lobby, is they
try to present marijuana as your parents's pot when they
were growing up, I don't know, listening to the Beetles
or listening to the Rolling Stones, say in the nineteen
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sixties or the nineteen seventies, and you know, they got
some marijuana that they grew from a plant or whatever
that you know, which had by the way about two
to three percent THCHC content low THCHC. That marijuana was
a much more milder, less addictive drug. The drug now,
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marijuana today is a completely different drug than your parents
is marijuana. What they're selling in these cannabis, these so
called pot shops, what you're buying at these dispensaries, the
average THCHC content. Please listen to this, it's not two
to three percent. It's fifteen to twenty five percent in
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some cases, I kids you not. You can get THHC
content that's practically one hundred percent pure. I mean ninety
nine point nine percent at that level of THC. Forget
ninety nine percent at the fifteen to twenty five percent
THHC content that you are seeing being sold now, whether
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it's these brownies, edibles, bongs, whether you eat it, smoke it,
I don't care. Now they put it into food, there's
like pot pizzas, pot cheeseburgers, pot tacos, pot chicken chicken nuggets,
you'll name it. That content is five six, seven times
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more potent than what your parents's pot was. And what
that means in plain English, it is much more addictive.
In fact, it is highly addictive. And I'm gonna give
you the numbers. The numbers are gonna stun you now
at how many young people in this country and around
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the world are becoming seriously addicted to weed, this new
powerful weed. But on top of that, it literally destroys
IQ points over long term frequent use. It destroys your brain.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
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is the number. Okay, just very very quickly, a couple
more minutes, and then I want to go to the
phone lines. President Trump now is going to make a
very big decision when it comes to marijuana in terms
of its reclassification. He's under tremendous pressure, as I said
in my opening monologue, to reclassify marijuana as a much
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less potent, addictive, and frankly, a much less dangerous drug.
And the reason why he's being pressured to do this
is because there is now a massive lobby backed by
I'm talking real money. We're talking billionaires, corporate magnets, corporate
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interests that now look at pot and have openly said
we see now more money in legal weed than we
have ever seen with cigarettes, with tobacco. Frankly, even big
Pharma is now saying big pot can overtake big pharma,
and I'm talking tens and tens of billions of dollars.
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They see almost an unlimited market now for legalized weed,
so they want to use this reclassification to then push
legalization full recreational legalization in all fifty states, about twenty
five states, including obviously Massachusetts, recreational marijuana is one hundred
percent legal. Forget just growing it in your own home.
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They've got dispensaries, potshops. Frankly, I think that's all we have.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Some of the great listeners of this audience sent me statistics.
Apparently we have almost four hundred pot shops, and some
of them are huge, you know, drive through the whole
bit across just the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Four hundred. I
think it's like three ninety three ninety five, so almost
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four hundred. This is big business. Now, what we were
not told during the debate over whether weed should be legalized,
and what those who are pushing for legal pot refuse
to say, and this is the dark underbelly, is that
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now in study after study after study, whether it's the
University of Michigan, whether it's multiple universities in great Britain,
whether it's our own CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
I want you now to listen to this. According now
to the latest numbers young adults, and they categorize young
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adults as eighteen years old to thirty years old thirty percent.
Now of young adults, almost a third say that they regularly,
and by regularly they mean almost daily, twenty days out
of thirty days month now smoke or eat or whatever
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they take marijuana. They are hardcore into marijuana use. Basically
it's almost every day, and that trend is going up.
It went from seventeen percent to twenty one percent, to
twenty six percent to now thirty percent. Now. Researchers say,
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if this trajectory continues, a majority of the country will
be using marijuana in about a decade to fifteen years.
So we are becoming a nation of stoners, there's no question. Furthermore,
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one of the big selling points of marijuana legalized weed
was the revenue you tax it and then the state
coffers would be full of all this extra tax revenue.
Well in this states, say like Colorado, which was the
first state to legalize weed, recreational marijuana. In fact, it's
been a big money loss. Why because for every dollar
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that they get in tax revenue, they have to spend
ten dollars to deal with the devastating side effects that heavy, regular,
daily marijuana use leads to. And this is the other thing.
They don't tell you. DUI's marijuana only DUIs. I'm not
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saying mixed with alcohol. They're just you know, yeah, men,
we're gonna hit the road. Man, Hey, how's my driving?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Man?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You're parked, man, But it's still good man, Okay, I'm talking.
You're just stoned duy. Car crashes have exploded, literally have
exploded in states where marijuana has become legalized. Further More,
it is leading now to a massive crisis in depression
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suicide thoughts, many people committing suicide. It is leading to anxiety.
In fact, doctors now are reporting record cases of what
is called I've never heard of this term before. But
they're not just crashing cars, they're not just committing suicide,
but apparently they're also being rushed to emergency rooms with
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their cannabis induced what's called scramting, which is uncontrollable screaming
and vomiting at the same time. And apparently it's getting
worse and worse and worse now out of England, just
so that you know, they did a controlled study. In
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other words, they took a group of people, same education level,
they don't drink alcohol, very similar in age, very similar
in background, and they studied them as they went through
the process of going from eighteen years old to thirty
eight years old, when they were eighteen, when they were
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twenty one, when they were twenty six, when they were
twenty eight, when they were thirty eight, and they kept
checking them regularly. One group never used marijuana. The other
group smoked marijuana frequently, consistently regularly. Over the course of
twenty years, the group that smoked marijuana regularly lost eight
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IQ points eight.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Eight.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
In other words, it did literally it did brain damage
and IQ points. Once you've lost them, it's permanent. You
can never get them back, and so as the researchers say,
it literally dumps you down. Now, I'm not saying you
smoke a joint or you eat an edible suddenly you know,
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you start voting like Bill and Sudbury. Okay, I'm not
saying that, or you become an automatic woundbat. But the
statistics are clearly in okay, lines are loaded. I want
to go right to the phone lines. Just very quick
exclamation point because I think this number is going to
shock all of you. And again I want to return
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to my original monologue. The THCHC content in today's marijuana,
which you get at a dispensary shop again or at
a pot shop or whatever, is five six, literally seven
times more potent and powerful than anything you know your parents,
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My parents never did drugs. They were not hippies, they
weren't part of that whole thing. But you know, if
your parents were into drugs in the sixties and seventies,
it was much less addictive, and it was much milder
than the kind of what's happened now with marijuana. Because
there is such big money behind it, they want recurring customers.
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They realize this is unlimited billions of dollars. So they're
making it as addictive, as powerful as possible. They're making
it as powerful as possible, and now we're seeing some
devastating side effects. According to the CDC. I'm just going
now by you know, Robert F. Kennedy Junior and HHS
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and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three out
of ten Americans, three out of ten, that's a staggering
number are addicted to marijuana. That's how much is being consumed.
That's how much people smoke it or eat it or
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whatever they do now with it. And again they've done
study after study when they look at the brains, they
do a brain scan of people who are regular, frequent
users of marijuana. The circuitry of the brain is that
of an addict. That it is clearly now highly highly addictive,
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now very quickly. Because this is from a good friend
of mine, and he knows about this. I mean, he's
just he knows this like the back of his hand.
And he said, Jeff, you are one thousand percent correct.
The reclassification of marijuana is all about and only about
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the money. The current federal classification fouls up the banks
in their greed to handle the money and take a
big cut for themselves. In other words, you can't pay
for marijuana or the derivative products with a credit card.
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Oh I didn't know this cash only Well, the banks
now want to get in on the action. They want
credit card and credit card means they can get a
cut out of all the credit card use or the
debit cards that are used, So that's why the banks
are moving in as well. And he goes on to say, Jeff,
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the reason why George Soros and the left have been
pushing marijuana is that it's all part of their progressive plan.
They want us quote unquote duped through the media with
lie to us doped i e. Marijuana and dead the
mRNA shots. And this person goes on to say, and
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again this he's completely right. Jeff. Please remind your listeners
that this new marijuana, the cancer causing compounds in marijuana
smoke are hundreds of times more concentrated than in tobacco smoke. Furthermore,
the risks of heart attack and cardiovascular problems are more
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than double in regular marijuana users than in non users. Now,
that's the other thing the CDC and all these other
studies show is that lung cancer, throat cancer have now
skyrocketed through people who use marijuana. Only they're not smoking tobacco,
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they're not vaping, they're not using nicotine products. They're just
using marijuana. So we're being lied to about the health effects,
not just the mental health effects, not just the obviously
the damage to long term IQ, not just the fact
that it leads people to have suicide thoughts, but literally
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it is now. It's for your heart, it's bad for
your lungs. It can lead to cancer. Now, we were
never told that. When they pushed for legalized weed. They
made it seem like it's your parents's pot. You stay
at home, you have a little joint. Who's gonna be
hurt by that? Big money is now deeply involved. They
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want you hooked. They want it as addictive, powerful and
potent as possible, and they don't care how many people
it kills or how many lives they destroy. To me,
no way should this now be reclassified. Absolutely not. But
that's me I want to hear from you. Six one
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seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Gary in
Lynn you're gonna kick us off. Gary, thanks for holding
and welcome.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Hi. Gary. Just bone out for you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I can tell you everything you want to know about it, Jeff,
I'll get a quick rundown of my life first, and
you're can't ask me anything you want. I start a
smoking a plot when I was thirteen. I was a
little bit of an outcast. I also started taking Judah about
that time. I got horrible grades in school. I was
a C student by the time I got out of
high school, I was valedictorian. I was an electrical engineer.
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I was designing medical equipment. I went to a Northeastern University.
I got my electrical engineering degree. I graduated valedictorian there.
From there, I designed the first digital ultrasam machine. I
designed two webins spectrum machines for All Coal Corporation. I
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then I went on to design the first US beach hip.
And then I had my fourth child and I had
to become a stay home dad. So I had to
become a stay home dad. And then I was still
smoking this whole time, and doing some of those drugs,
drinking too much, of course, and maybe playing the stand
home dad. And then I did that for a while.
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And when I was to stay home dad, I started
a second job. I became the first MP three digital DJ.
I DJed weddings. I DJed weddings Jeff where I was
a digital photographer and an MP three DJ, and I
did the whole weddings by myself.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
I had the.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Computer played the music with the first MP three DJ
software ever invented, and I would go around and take
all the pitches. I did that for about fifteen years
and then my kids grew up. They went to school,
and I didn't have much to do, so I stood
around for a while and I got into an accident,
a higher accident, got a dad head injury, and I
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was out of it. I almost died. I got med
flighted three times, and I was on seven drugs for
five years. I couldn't talk, I couldn't speak. I was
a mumbling idiot. My wife had the come with me
to the doctor's appointments and speak to me for my
doctor's appointments because I could not talk. Because the medications
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the doctors put me on were too much, and they
were treating me for a fib and for my.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Seizures.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I was having seizures twice a week and that went
off for about two years and I was going downhill.
They told me I had about ten years to live.
And then started taking CBD because I spoke to marijuana
all my life and I heard about CBD. So I
started taking CBD and I started taking it heavily. There's
a prescription drug called EPIDALECS. It's a prescription drug made
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of of CBD just for epileptics, and it's it's proved
helpful for about fifty percent of epileptics. For about ten
percent of epileptics, it's the only treatment that will stop
them from having seizures, and that's where the problem starts.
So I started taking that and I got rid of
my seizures. So now I am off. Now I am
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down from seven medications to two medications. I am doing
three hundred active zones a week on my fifth bit.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I know that, Gary, Long, long story short. I think
what you're trying to say is that for you, a
marijuana has not impeded your ability to be a highly functioning, creative,
intelligent person A and B. And I'm very sorry to
hear about what happened to you, I really am, But
it actually has helped you deal with your seizures and
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the accident that you had. So what you're saying is
for medicinal purposes, you also highly recommend it, because you're
saying on you and for you it's worked. Correct. Six
one seven two six x sixty eight sixty eight is
the number. Okay, let's go back to Gary. In Lynn,
Gary says he's been smoking pot or weed, cannabis, whatever
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you want to call it, since the age of thirteen,
that he's a highly creative, highly functional person. He's made
a lot of inventions, he's been had a very successful career.
He then had a very serious accident, which really has
very bothersome to hear that. But anyway, he thanked the Lord.
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He bounced back, he got seizures, had battled almost something
with epileptic style epilepsy or epileptic style seizures. But then
he started to take CBD and that this has really
helped him with the seizures. It's helped him with the pain.
He was on seven drugs. He's now down to two,
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so for medicinal purposes, even for recreational purposes. Gary says
that this marijuana weed has not heard him. On the contrary,
it's enabled him to lead a very successful, highly functional life. Gary,
Have I summed up your argument or your point correctly?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Close, Jeff, I was going to get to the point
where I was going to say, it's I got through
it my whole life. I use it my whole life.
It didn't affect me too much. It did start to
affect me when I got into my thirties. I started
feeling a little bit stupider, I think, But I also
started getting into some other drugs as well. But what
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I'm what I'm when I'm trying to say is that
they need to separate the THC and the CBD. The
CBD is the medical version of it. It has no
THC in it. It can be made with zero THC.
So they're trying to make that legal in every state.
You can buy that in Massachusetts, not just like you
can pot. The problem is that that isn't covered by
your insurance and that costs one thousand dollars for the prescription,
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so no one that can use it can afford to
buy it.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
So what I had to do is I.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Had to grow my own marijuana to smoke it, and
I have to buy my own CBD and make it myself.
I buy I buy it raw, and I make it myself.
So I can't I can't. I can't go to the
store and buy a one ounce bottle of CBD because
sixty dollars, because I can't afford that, because I need
six ten bottles a month. So I make my own.
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And my doctor knows that I make my own. My
doctor's approved of me make my own. My doctors are
all happy that I'm all getting better, and they're all
gonna be very shot when I see my next update.
But the problem is the THAC side. They're letting the
THAC side get out of control. You can go to
the you can go to the dispensary now and you
can buy a vape jeff with ninety percent THAC in it. Now,
when you go marijuana and you're back yard, you can.
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You can go marijuana at about ten to twenty to
twenty five percent strength, and you don't need anything more
than fifteen to twenty percent strength to smoke a few hits.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
And get high.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
The problem is everybody's going too strong. They have to
overdo everything. So now you can buy marijuana that's thirty
percent THC and you can smoke it. And you can
buy a marijuana vape coperage that you can inhale it,
and you can inhale ninety percent THAC. Nobody should ever,
No one should ever inhale ninety percent THAC.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I tried it.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Gary. Sorry, I don't mean to cut you off, but
I got it because Mike is I got to tell you,
Mike boy, you seem very familiar with this topic. There, Mike, Now,
all your friends, okay, Mike, Mike, says some friends. Mike says,
he's got some friends. It's not you, Mike, it's your friends. Ah,
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you've dabbled a little bit, I figured, Mike. Anyway, Mike
is reinforcing everything that you're saying.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Gary.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
In fact, during the break, he said, no, no, Jeff,
the THHC part is what gets you really high. And
he said that's the part that's really bad. And he said,
you know, you're right. They're really loading up all these
products with insane levels of THCHC. He goes, what Gary
is talking about is the CBD. He said, that's the
part that really calms you, relaxes you, has some real
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medical value, medicinal purpose. He said, that's what Gary, That's
what Gary is saying is working. And then as you
were talking about that ninety percent THC content, he was
in my ear. Mike was saying, Jeff, that'll bless you
to the moon, like just a couple of puffs, and
you are, I mean you are high as a kite. Gary,
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with the way they've loaded up the THCHC. This is
the question I have for you. What many are saying
is that it's big money. It's huge money. It's potentially
almost unlimited money. The banks are now wanting to get
in on the action. You've got very powerful corporate interest.
Now they can smell. I mean, this is a fortune
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bigger than cigarettes ever were potentially gary is the reason
why these dispensaries, or as you put in some of
these cartridges, these marijuana cartridges are with such high levels
of THCHC is because like tobacco, they want you addicted.
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Like tobacco, they want you hooked. So a you get
a much higher buzz. You know, you're really high, and
you just keep coming back. You're a repeat customer, and
they don't care what the side effects are. They look
at you now as a walking dollar bill. Is that
why they're pushing all this THC is? In other words,
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is it is it the money?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
It's the money, But it's that's that's That's not why
they're pushing the high THAC level. They're pushing the high
THHD level just as the gimmick to get you to
buy it. You can get high on any any level
of THC. Really, and it's it's the money that they're after.
It costs thirty dollars to buy three grams in the storage. Jeff,
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I'm growing three pounds in my yard right now, three
hundred dollars. So it's the money. And and what they
want to do is is it's the it's the it's
the it's the it's the the selling point. They went,
it sounds neat to have to say it's ninety percent thc.
It sounds cool to say it's sixty percent or seventy percent.
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Is a selling point, and it just gets the kids
to try it. And if you take it at that level,
you may get a little bit addictive. You don't get
physically addicted, you get mentally addicted, because those are the
things physically getting addicted to marijuana. Really, you can stop
smoking anytime you want. You just mentally want it.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
And you're right. If you smoke it too much, and
you smoke it all the time.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You're gonna get dumb. And I did get a little
bit dumb after a while. It took a long long time,
but I did not feeling a little bit dumb in
my thirties. But then, I tell you right now, I
feel lots about it, and I did three years ago
when I couldn't walk.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Oh, I hear you know, Gary, I hear you look.
I'm just happy you're back on your feet, and you're
getting back to your old self. Gary one, because you
know so much about this, Just humor me. What's the
difference say, between you know, whatever, a marijuana, say whatever,
a marijuana sick or at or a joint or whatever
(35:02):
with ninety percent THC and say twenty five percent THHC? Like,
what's what's the you know, if I'm smoking it, I'm
using you know, one is ninety percent, one is twenty
five percent. What's the difference.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Just get you higher with less, quicker, and maybe get
you more nervous. I think I'm not really sure because
I don't really get high that much anymore because I
have live up problems and I lack the gene that
actually processes of the THAC, So I really don't even
get stoned, Jeff, I can smoke it all day long.
I don't even get stoned. The problem is the difference
between eating it and smoking it. When you eat it,
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you you eat it and you don't know how much
you're eating, and there's a different conversion factor in your body.
When you eat it. It transfers into your metabolism a
completely different way. When you eat it can.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Be that Gary, Gary, that that's what a lot of
doctors are saying, is just to back up what you're saying.
They're saying because people are eating it as opposed to
smoking it, they're eating too much, like in other words,
it's their body can't process it, and that's leading to
what they're called what is it discrammmeting, you know, where
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they come in emergency rooms and they're like, it's the God,
it's crazy. It's they're both vomiting and screaming at the
same time, like you know, they're super like super anxious,
you know, like super nervous, like oh, you know, and
they're just like they're going nuts, and it's like just
vomiting and vomiting and vomiting. And they're like, it's not
(36:30):
a candy bar, dude. You know, you don't just eat
the whole thing. You're supposed to only take a little bit.
You nibble on it. Gary Dynamite call super informative and
please Gary, keep taking care of yourself. And God bless
you my friend Anastasia in Lynn, Thanks for holding Anastasia
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and welcome.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Why Jeff, God bless you and your family.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Gary was really he was spot on on a lot.
I consider myself an old hippie because I am, and
I have to tell you a couple of things I
want to say is that when when our warriors came
back from Vietnam, that's when a lot of the marijuana
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came in in the Hashish and you know the group,
the in crowd that I was in, you know, we
get the best of the best. And nowadays I have
tried gummies and I have a package in front of
me and it's four hundred and fifty milligrams for a gummy.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
And do you know what, Anastasia, do you know what
the THHC content is? By any chance?
Speaker 5 (37:53):
I'm looking at the package, and you know how you look.
You go to the grocery store and you look at
a label and it lists everything. They don't lift it
unless it's unless it's the four hundred and fifty milligrams
of THHC. It does stay on the front of the
package that it does have THHC. And it's right. Once
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this gets into your system, it takes thirty days for
it to clean out of your system. Because I've had
blood tests done and I am not a regular user.
I mean this is like, uh, you know, maybe four
times a year if that, and you know, it's incredibly strong.
(38:41):
It's like mind blowing strong. It's like what the Christ
the government finally got something right. They know how to
make they know how to make a drug as strong
as possible, and it really I'm just utterly blown away
by it.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
The thing, if you.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Don't mind me, if I'm getting too personal, please tell me.
You know, as a former hippie who you know, someone
like you, who you know maybe you know probably did
marijuana in the late sixties early seventies, what I've been
reading and what people are saying, and you tell me
if this is accurate or not that you know you're
as we would say your parents, is pot your generation
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that the THC content when you were, say, smoking up,
you know whatever, doing a joint, say in whatever, nineteen
seventy that that was two to three percent very low THC.
I mean, yeah, eventually you get high, but it's not
that high of a high to begin with, and you
know you got to smoke the damn thing to get
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the high. In other words, it was much more mild.
But they're saying that now it's fifteen to twenty five
percent in some cases even eighty ninety percent and they're saying,
it is so powerful, It is so potent. When you
compare it to what people used to smoke forty fifty
years ago, it's like a different drug. It may be
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called the same thing, but it's like a different drug, anastasia,
when you compare it to the marijuana that you were
smoking or whatever, inhaling, whatever, the marijuana that you took, say,
fifty years ago. How does the marijuana that you took
fifty years ago compared to the stuff you have now,
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the gummies right in front of.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
You, the gummies.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
You know, Jeff, I got it.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I just gotta bring this up, is that I never
liked smoking pot because, you.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
Know, I because I felt that it made me stupid.
It was like, no, I don't feel like getting stupid
right now, okay. And that was way back then, fifty
years ago. And I just said to my husband, do
you remember a license plate?
Speaker 5 (40:55):
People used to buy this license plate out of the
pot shops and it used to say arrived stoned and
then put it on their front bump upside down. And
it was like, okay, but that's exactly how it affected me.
I always felt that it made me stupid. And what
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the government puts out now is just unbelievable. It's terrifying, actually,
to be honest with you, it's terrifying. It's so strong,
it's so potent. And the gummies I got sick when
they first came out. I got sick because I popped
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the whole one.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
And you know, wow, this is cool.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
I don't smoke pot anymore. And like I say, I
will do a gummy, a quarter of one on a celebration,
somebody's birthday, that kind of thing. But they it is
so strong that I won't even take a whole one.
I won't take a home one. And it does. It
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stays in your system for thirty days, and it does
last up to.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
A couple of hours.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
And the other thing I wanted to just bring up
quickly is, I don't know if you noticed, but on
our voting when we voted for President Trump on the
on the instructions, you know, you go to city hall
or they sent out instructions on voting and what you
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were voting for. One of the things that they had
was whether we wanted to approve the use of hallucinogenics.
Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (42:42):
Now where are we going with that? You know? I mean, really,
where is our society going With a question like that.
It's like, Hi, my god, what planet am I on?
And I have to say, bright, it's a blessing to you,
your family and all the listeners helped you because I've
(43:05):
learned so much. You're a friend of mine. You keep
me informed so I can help be a patriot, a
better patriot.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Because I love my country.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
I love President Trump, I love us all because we
want to do the right thing. We want values and
traditions and a happy America again.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
And Anastasia, ye, I love you in a non sexual way.
And I want to thank you for your honesty and
for your call. And please, Anastasia, don't be a stranger. Okay,
I want you to call again. Six one seven two six,
six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. So there
you have it, you know, from a former hippie. Yeah,
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the pot that we did fifty years ago. Yeah, you
got a buzz, you got a little bit of a high.
It's not today's marijuana. I mean today marijuana, as she
put it, is a lot more potent and a lot
more powerful. And I think that's I hope people get
that message to President Trump because you know. The only
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thing I would slightly disagree, and I know it's regulated
by the state and the government. That's why Anastasia said,
the government is doing a good job with this. It's
it's this is not I mean, it may be government
regulated and the government is taxing it. She's right, but no, no,
this is private industry. This is private sector all the way. Baby.
(44:33):
This is this is now corporate. This is big business.
This is big pot this is big money. And they
know what they're doing. They want you to get a
massive high, and they want to make it as addictive
as possible, and the consequences be damned. Six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Steve in Kentucky,
(44:58):
thanks for holding state and welcome.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
Well, good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Hi Steven.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
I with all my heart, but you're wrong in law,
primarily because it ste stupid, makes you stupid Number one, Steve.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
I'm sorry. I can barely hear you. We don't have
a very good connection. Are you in a bad zone
by any chance?
Speaker 4 (45:28):
I probably not?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Okay, can you just start so love me? I think
I heard that, but I'm wrong on this, which is fine.
We can agree to disagree. But then I lost you,
so please, Steve, just just tell me. So, why am
I wrong? I take it? Do you do you use marijuana?
Speaker 4 (45:47):
Steve?
Speaker 1 (45:47):
If you don't mind me asking, i'd lately.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
I had to quit in twenty twenty. Now, the edibles
and the oils I know nothing about. I can't speak
for that. But as far as the plant goes, okay,
I've been doing six nineteen seventy nine, and there is
no difference in the in the the amount of tac
that's in there. I mean, you can cross breed, you
(46:14):
can make different taste, different looks, but as far as
making it more potent, you can't do that. Saying you
can make.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Steve sorry again, you're breaking up on us. But you
said you you grow pot, So I take it you
grow your own pot, correct, Steve, No, you don't grow
your own.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Potbit No, I would kill a plastic plant. I'm not
a gardener.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
So where do you Where do you buy your pot?
Do you buy it at a dispensary?
Speaker 2 (46:45):
No?
Speaker 4 (46:45):
I can't. I can't smoke anymore. I quit smoking in
twenty twenty, but I had a question for you.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
I'm sorry, Steve. Sorry again, If you don't want me asking,
why can't you smoke.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
Pot because I was one of the dumb ones that
decided that I wanted to do sugar.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
And it broke up on me. Did I hear you
correctly that you want to smoke pot? So are you
smoke pot and cigarettes? Is that it?
Speaker 4 (47:13):
I did? Yes? Oh?
Speaker 1 (47:15):
And in your lungs. It probably damaged your lungs. Correct.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Yeah, Well, I don't know. I can't speak as far
as the weeks.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
I no, no, But you're saying the cigarette, the heavy
cigarette used, the tobacco use, the tobacco use damaged your lungs. Correct.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
Oh, absolutely, imphasema.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
Well that that's my fault. That's why I did it.
Nobody else did it. But I've always wanted to ask
you a question, Jared, do you know why cannabis is illegal?
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Do I know why cannabis is illegal?
Speaker 4 (47:48):
Yes? I would know why cannabis.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Because it's a drug.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
No, No, this was maybe illegal. This is the biggest
propaganda that our government did up to recently. It was
motivated by Andrew Mellon, which is the owner of golf Oil,
which I believe he's the one that had.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Steve. I'm sorry, Steve, Please don't think we're censoring you.
It's not that at all. I'd love to hear what
you have to say, but we just we're missing every
second word. But look, i'll look into it. You've already
given me enough information. It was Andrew Mellon, who I
know very well. He's an historical figure, a big tycoon,
and he had some kind of an involvement regarding oil.
(48:35):
So I'll follow that. And I want to get ectly.
I just assumed it's, you know, a narcotic. It's a
drug that gets you high. It's an ellucigen, and you
know that people thought it was bad for your brain,
bad for your body, bad for your health, and so
like other drugs, that's why it's considered a banned substance.
But I will definitely get to the bottom of the
(48:58):
origins of why cannabis was made illegal. Uh, Steven, and
I'm very sorry about your health. Please take care of yourself.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, let me ask all of you.
Should marijuana be reclassified as a much less addictive and
(49:19):
dangerous drug. Trump is now seriously considering doing that.
Good morning, cooner. Contrary, Okay, my friends, there is now
a tremendous amount of pressure building on President Trump to
reclassify or reschedule marijuana i e. Cannabis as a much
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lesser drug. In other words, currently now at the federal level,
I understand there are many states that have legalized medicinal marijuana,
and there are other states as well that have, like
here in Massachusetts as an example, where they have legalized
even recreational marijuana. Believe me, I know because I drive
(00:43):
down Route one. As I pointed out a couple shows ago,
every second freaking billboard I'm not kidding is an advertisement
for a pot shop. It's and by the way, now
apparently you can get it home delivered. So not only
do you have drive through like fast food style marijuana,
marijuana edibles, whatever, bonds however you want to smoke this thing,
(01:07):
but you can also have it delivered to your home.
So it's a thriving, multi billion dollar business and corporate America,
and they're a big business, big corporate interest now that
see even more money with pot, with cannabis, with marijuana
(01:28):
than they do with tobacco. And if the trends continue,
Listen now, to this big pot is going to be
bigger than big tobacco or even big pharma. That's how
much they believe there is potential growth in the market
for getting people addicted to weed. And so there is
(01:50):
growing pressure on President Trump to reclassify marijuana from what's
called a Schedule one drug at the federal level to
a Schedule three drug. A Schedule one drug because you
may ask jeeh half jeh half jeah half, what the
hell is a Schedule one drug? And why is a
(02:11):
Schedule three drug categorizes a much lesser drug or a
much lesser dangerous drug. So a Schedule one drug is
a drug like LSD that's considered Schedule one or heroin
also Schedule one that, according to federal researchers in Federal
Health medical guidelines, has no medical value whatsoever. In other words,
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you don't give it, you don't give it to anybody
for any reason, and you do everything you can to
prevent it from being given to anybody or imported into
the country or distributed on the street because it's considered
a very dangerous and the other point is a highly
addictive drug. Well, marijuana is still at the federal level
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considered a Schedule one drug. Trump now is under great
pressure to reclassify it as a Schedule three drug, meaning
a much less dangerous drug that has some medical or
medicinal value and also is considered nowhere near as addictive
(03:23):
as say heroin or LSD. Now ketamine is an example
of a Schedule three drug. Testosterone is considered a Schedule
three drug. You have others as steroids are considered a
Schedule three drug. So they want to reclassify marijuana and
(03:43):
basically now make it, I don't want to say acceptable,
but much more widely available and considered much less dangerous
and much less addictive than other more quote unquote hard
drugs like say meth or heroine or LSD or take
(04:09):
your pick. Listen now to President Trump saying he will
be making a decision very soon in consultation obviously with
Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Junior, And he says,
I understand the arguments of both sides. It's a complicated issue,
but he is now leaning towards reclassifying marijuana as a
(04:34):
much less dangerous and addictive drug. Roll Cut twenty three
a mic.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
There's reporting that the illustration is going to reclassify marijuana.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
With that send mixed messages that marijuana is okay. Drugs
some drugs are okay, but we're trying to clean up crime.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
How do they go ahead?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And we're only looking at that. That's early, but you know,
somebody reported it, which is fine. We're looking at it.
Some people like it, some people have 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.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Will be the right.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
One very complicated subject is, you know, the subject of marijuana.
I've heard great things having to 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. E've heart some pretty good things, but for
other things, I've heard some pretty bad things.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So basically Trump is still on the fence. Has it
made a decision. He is being lobbied ferociously. I mean,
it is an all out lobbying campaign by as I said,
by big pot, by corporate America, very strong corporate interests.
But even then by even members of his own political coalition,
(05:57):
libertarians who love the eye idea of legalized pot. It's
not enough that it's here in Massachusetts and in other states.
They want it in all fifty states. And they believe
by reclassifying it sort of like I don't know, like
ketamine or like something, you know, whatever, something much more mild,
that they can have this become considered more mainstream, more acceptable,
(06:23):
which will make it easier for their campaign when they
go to state after state, primarily in red state America,
and have it completely legalized recreationally, not just medicinally, but recreationally. Now,
just for the record, people need to know this. The
man that really spearheaded and funded the initial drive to
(06:47):
have pot, weed, marijuana, cannabis, however you want to call it,
legalized across the United States is George Soros. This is
an undeniable fact. This is the same man that pushed
open borders. This is the same man that said he
wants to replace Americans with third worlders. This is the
(07:09):
same man that put in soft on crime district attorneys
to allow violent predators and criminals to roam our streets.
And a major reason why he is pushing for the
legalization of marijuana is because he ultimately wants to dumb
down the intelligence dumbed down, if you want to put it,
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the national IQ of the United States. He wants a
nation of stoners, a nation of stoners, and this is
what many socialists want. That's why up in Canada they've
completely legalized marijuana thanks to Justin Trudeau, the former Prime Minister.
Many countries in Europe now weed is completely legal, so
(07:53):
called progressive left wing countries, and I could go on
and on, because they want a populace that is stoned,
that is addicted to drugs, that is lazy, that has
suffered a little bit of brain damage from regular, frequent,
heavy use, because that makes them controllable and pliable. What
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you don't hear from the media, which is bought and
paid for essentially by the big pot lobby, is they
try to present marijuana as your parents's pot when they
were growing up, I don't know, listening to the Beetles
or listening to the Rolling Stones, say in the nineteen
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sixties or the nineteen seventies, and you know, they got
some marijuana that they grew from a plant or whatever
that you know, which had by the way about two
to three percent THCHC content low THCHC. That marijuana was
a much more milder, less addictive drug. The drug now,
(09:06):
marijuana today is a completely different drug than your parents
is marijuana. What they're selling in these cannabis, these so
called pot shops, what you're buying at these dispensaries, the
average THCHC content. Please listen to this, it's not two
to three percent. It's fifteen to twenty five percent in
(09:33):
some cases, I kids you not. You can get THHC
content that's practically one hundred percent pure. I mean ninety
nine point nine percent at that level of THC. Forget
ninety nine percent at the fifteen to twenty five percent
THHC content that you are seeing being sold now, whether
(09:55):
it's these brownies, edibles, bongs, whether you eat it, smoke it,
I don't care. Now they put it into food, there's
like pot pizzas, pot cheeseburgers, pot tacos, pot chicken chicken nuggets,
you'll name it. That content is five six, seven times
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more potent than what your parents's pot was. And what
that means in plain English, it is much more addictive.
In fact, it is highly addictive. And I'm gonna give
you the numbers. The numbers are gonna stun you now
at how many young people in this country and around
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the world are becoming seriously addicted to weed, this new
powerful weed. But on top of that, it literally destroys
IQ points over long term frequent use. It destroys your brain.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
(10:57):
is the number. Okay, just very very quickly, a couple
more minutes, and then I want to go to the
phone lines. President Trump now is going to make a
very big decision when it comes to marijuana in terms
of its reclassification. He's under tremendous pressure, as I said
in my opening monologue, to reclassify marijuana as a much
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less potent, addictive, and frankly, a much less dangerous drug.
And the reason why he's being pressured to do this
is because there is now a massive lobby backed by
I'm talking real money. We're talking billionaires, corporate magnets, corporate
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interests that now look at pot and have openly said
we see now more money in legal weed than we
have ever seen with cigarettes, with tobacco. Frankly, even big
Pharma is now saying big pot can overtake big pharma,
and I'm talking tens and tens of billions of dollars.
(12:05):
They see almost an unlimited market now for legalized weed,
so they want to use this reclassification to then push
legalization full recreational legalization in all fifty states, about twenty
five states, including obviously Massachusetts, recreational marijuana is one hundred
percent legal. Forget just growing it in your own home.
(12:28):
They've got dispensaries, potshops. Frankly, I think that's all we have.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Some of the great listeners of this audience sent me statistics.
Apparently we have almost four hundred pot shops, and some
of them are huge, you know, drive through the whole
bit across just the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Four hundred. I
think it's like three ninety three ninety five, so almost
(12:57):
four hundred. This is big business. Now, what we were
not told during the debate over whether weed should be legalized,
and what those who are pushing for legal pot refuse
to say, and this is the dark underbelly, is that
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now in study after study after study, whether it's the
University of Michigan, whether it's multiple universities in great Britain,
whether it's our own CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
I want you now to listen to this. According now
to the latest numbers young adults, and they categorize young
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adults as eighteen years old to thirty years old thirty percent.
Now of young adults, almost a third say that they regularly,
and by regularly they mean almost daily, twenty days out
of thirty days month now smoke or eat or whatever
(14:05):
they take marijuana. They are hardcore into marijuana use. Basically
it's almost every day, and that trend is going up.
It went from seventeen percent to twenty one percent, to
twenty six percent to now thirty percent. Now. Researchers say,
(14:27):
if this trajectory continues, a majority of the country will
be using marijuana in about a decade to fifteen years.
So we are becoming a nation of stoners, there's no question. Furthermore,
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one of the big selling points of marijuana legalized weed
was the revenue you tax it and then the state
coffers would be full of all this extra tax revenue.
Well in this states, say like Colorado, which was the
first state to legalize weed, recreational marijuana. In fact, it's
been a big money loss. Why because for every dollar
(15:11):
that they get in tax revenue, they have to spend
ten dollars to deal with the devastating side effects that heavy, regular,
daily marijuana use leads to. And this is the other thing.
They don't tell you. DUI's marijuana only DUIs. I'm not
(15:33):
saying mixed with alcohol. They're just you know, yeah, men,
we're gonna hit the road. Man, Hey, how's my driving?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Man?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You're parked, man, But it's still good man, Okay, I'm talking.
You're just stoned duy. Car crashes have exploded, literally have
exploded in states where marijuana has become legalized. Further More,
it is leading now to a massive crisis in depression
(16:08):
suicide thoughts, many people committing suicide. It is leading to anxiety.
In fact, doctors now are reporting record cases of what
is called I've never heard of this term before. But
they're not just crashing cars, they're not just committing suicide,
but apparently they're also being rushed to emergency rooms with
(16:31):
their cannabis induced what's called scramting, which is uncontrollable screaming
and vomiting at the same time. And apparently it's getting
worse and worse and worse now out of England, just
so that you know, they did a controlled study. In
(16:55):
other words, they took a group of people, same education level,
they don't drink alcohol, very similar in age, very similar
in background, and they studied them as they went through
the process of going from eighteen years old to thirty
eight years old, when they were eighteen, when they were
(17:16):
twenty one, when they were twenty six, when they were
twenty eight, when they were thirty eight, and they kept
checking them regularly. One group never used marijuana. The other
group smoked marijuana frequently, consistently regularly. Over the course of
twenty years, the group that smoked marijuana regularly lost eight
(17:42):
IQ points eight.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Eight.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
In other words, it did literally it did brain damage
and IQ points. Once you've lost them, it's permanent. You
can never get them back, and so as the researchers say,
it literally dumps you down. Now, I'm not saying you
smoke a joint or you eat an edible suddenly you know,
(18:11):
you start voting like Bill and Sudbury. Okay, I'm not
saying that, or you become an automatic woundbat. But the
statistics are clearly in okay, lines are loaded. I want
to go right to the phone lines. Just very quick
exclamation point because I think this number is going to
shock all of you. And again I want to return
(18:32):
to my original monologue. The THCHC content in today's marijuana,
which you get at a dispensary shop again or at
a pot shop or whatever, is five six, literally seven
times more potent and powerful than anything you know your parents,
(18:53):
My parents never did drugs. They were not hippies, they
weren't part of that whole thing. But you know, if
your parents were into drugs in the sixties and seventies,
it was much less addictive, and it was much milder
than the kind of what's happened now with marijuana. Because
there is such big money behind it, they want recurring customers.
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They realize this is unlimited billions of dollars. So they're
making it as addictive, as powerful as possible. They're making
it as powerful as possible, and now we're seeing some
devastating side effects. According to the CDC. I'm just going
now by you know, Robert F. Kennedy Junior and HHS
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and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three out
of ten Americans, three out of ten, that's a staggering
number are addicted to marijuana. That's how much is being consumed.
That's how much people smoke it or eat it or
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whatever they do now with it. And again they've done
study after study when they look at the brains, they
do a brain scan of people who are regular, frequent
users of marijuana. The circuitry of the brain is that
of an addict. That it is clearly now highly highly addictive,
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now very quickly. Because this is from a good friend
of mine, and he knows about this. I mean, he's
just he knows this like the back of his hand.
And he said, Jeff, you are one thousand percent correct.
The reclassification of marijuana is all about and only about
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the money. The current federal classification fouls up the banks
in their greed to handle the money and take a
big cut for themselves. In other words, you can't pay
for marijuana or the derivative products with a credit card.
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Oh I didn't know this cash only Well, the banks
now want to get in on the action. They want
credit card and credit card means they can get a
cut out of all the credit card use or the
debit cards that are used, So that's why the banks
are moving in as well. And he goes on to say, Jeff,
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the reason why George Soros and the left have been
pushing marijuana is that it's all part of their progressive plan.
They want us quote unquote duped through the media with
lie to us doped i e. Marijuana and dead the
mRNA shots. And this person goes on to say, and
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again this he's completely right. Jeff. Please remind your listeners
that this new marijuana, the cancer causing compounds in marijuana
smoke are hundreds of times more concentrated than in tobacco smoke. Furthermore,
the risks of heart attack and cardiovascular problems are more
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than double in regular marijuana users than in non users. Now,
that's the other thing the CDC and all these other
studies show is that lung cancer, throat cancer have now
skyrocketed through people who use marijuana. Only they're not smoking tobacco,
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they're not vaping, they're not using nicotine products. They're just
using marijuana. So we're being lied to about the health effects,
not just the mental health effects, not just the obviously
the damage to long term IQ, not just the fact
that it leads people to have suicide thoughts, but literally
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it is now. It's for your heart, it's bad for
your lungs. It can lead to cancer. Now, we were
never told that. When they pushed for legalized weed. They
made it seem like it's your parents's pot. You stay
at home, you have a little joint. Who's gonna be
hurt by that? Big money is now deeply involved. They
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want you hooked. They want it as addictive, powerful and
potent as possible, and they don't care how many people
it kills or how many lives they destroy. To me,
no way should this now be reclassified. Absolutely not. But
that's me I want to hear from you. Six one
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seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Gary in
Lynn you're gonna kick us off. Gary, thanks for holding
and welcome.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Hi. Gary. Just bone out for you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I can tell you everything you want to know about it, Jeff,
I'll get a quick rundown of my life first, and
you're can't ask me anything you want. I start a
smoking a plot when I was thirteen. I was a
little bit of an outcast. I also started taking Judah about
that time. I got horrible grades in school. I was
a C student by the time I got out of
high school, I was valedictorian. I was an electrical engineer.
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I was designing medical equipment. I went to a Northeastern University.
I got my electrical engineering degree. I graduated valedictorian there.
From there, I designed the first digital ultrasam machine. I
designed two webins spectrum machines for All Coal Corporation. I
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then I went on to design the first US beach hip.
And then I had my fourth child and I had
to become a stay home dad. So I had to
become a stay home dad. And then I was still
smoking this whole time, and doing some of those drugs,
drinking too much, of course, and maybe playing the stand
home dad. And then I did that for a while.
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And when I was to stay home dad, I started
a second job. I became the first MP three digital DJ.
I DJed weddings. I DJed weddings Jeff where I was
a digital photographer and an MP three DJ, and I
did the whole weddings by myself.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
I had the.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Computer played the music with the first MP three DJ
software ever invented, and I would go around and take
all the pitches. I did that for about fifteen years
and then my kids grew up. They went to school,
and I didn't have much to do, so I stood
around for a while and I got into an accident,
a higher accident, got a dad head injury, and I
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was out of it. I almost died. I got med
flighted three times, and I was on seven drugs for
five years. I couldn't talk, I couldn't speak. I was
a mumbling idiot. My wife had the come with me
to the doctor's appointments and speak to me for my
doctor's appointments because I could not talk. Because the medications
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the doctors put me on were too much, and they
were treating me for a fib and for my.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Seizures.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I was having seizures twice a week and that went
off for about two years and I was going downhill.
They told me I had about ten years to live.
And then started taking CBD because I spoke to marijuana
all my life and I heard about CBD. So I
started taking CBD and I started taking it heavily. There's
a prescription drug called EPIDALECS. It's a prescription drug made
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of of CBD just for epileptics, and it's it's proved
helpful for about fifty percent of epileptics. For about ten
percent of epileptics, it's the only treatment that will stop
them from having seizures, and that's where the problem starts.
So I started taking that and I got rid of
my seizures. So now I am off. Now I am
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down from seven medications to two medications. I am doing
three hundred active zones a week on my fifth bit.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I know that, Gary, Long, long story short. I think
what you're trying to say is that for you, a
marijuana has not impeded your ability to be a highly functioning, creative,
intelligent person A and B. And I'm very sorry to
hear about what happened to you, I really am, But
it actually has helped you deal with your seizures and
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the accident that you had. So what you're saying is
for medicinal purposes, you also highly recommend it, because you're
saying on you and for you it's worked. Correct. Six
one seven two six x sixty eight sixty eight is
the number. Okay, let's go back to Gary. In Lynn,
Gary says he's been smoking pot or weed, cannabis, whatever
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you want to call it, since the age of thirteen,
that he's a highly creative, highly functional person. He's made
a lot of inventions, he's been had a very successful career.
He then had a very serious accident, which really has
very bothersome to hear that. But anyway, he thanked the Lord.
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He bounced back, he got seizures, had battled almost something
with epileptic style epilepsy or epileptic style seizures. But then
he started to take CBD and that this has really
helped him with the seizures. It's helped him with the pain.
He was on seven drugs. He's now down to two,
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so for medicinal purposes, even for recreational purposes. Gary says
that this marijuana weed has not heard him. On the contrary,
it's enabled him to lead a very successful, highly functional life. Gary,
Have I summed up your argument or your point correctly?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Close, Jeff, I was going to get to the point
where I was going to say, it's I got through
it my whole life. I use it my whole life.
It didn't affect me too much. It did start to
affect me when I got into my thirties. I started
feeling a little bit stupider, I think, But I also
started getting into some other drugs as well. But what
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I'm what I'm when I'm trying to say is that
they need to separate the THC and the CBD. The
CBD is the medical version of it. It has no
THC in it. It can be made with zero THC.
So they're trying to make that legal in every state.
You can buy that in Massachusetts, not just like you
can pot. The problem is that that isn't covered by
your insurance and that costs one thousand dollars for the prescription,
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so no one that can use it can afford to
buy it.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
So what I had to do is I.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Had to grow my own marijuana to smoke it, and
I have to buy my own CBD and make it myself.
I buy I buy it raw, and I make it myself.
So I can't I can't. I can't go to the
store and buy a one ounce bottle of CBD because
sixty dollars, because I can't afford that, because I need
six ten bottles a month. So I make my own.
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And my doctor knows that I make my own. My
doctor's approved of me make my own. My doctors are
all happy that I'm all getting better, and they're all
gonna be very shot when I see my next update.
But the problem is the THAC side. They're letting the
THAC side get out of control. You can go to
the you can go to the dispensary now and you
can buy a vape jeff with ninety percent THAC in it. Now,
when you go marijuana and you're back yard, you can.
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You can go marijuana at about ten to twenty to
twenty five percent strength, and you don't need anything more
than fifteen to twenty percent strength to smoke a few hits.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
And get high.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
The problem is everybody's going too strong. They have to
overdo everything. So now you can buy marijuana that's thirty
percent THC and you can smoke it. And you can
buy a marijuana vape coperage that you can inhale it,
and you can inhale ninety percent THAC. Nobody should ever,
No one should ever inhale ninety percent THAC.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I tried it.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Gary. Sorry, I don't mean to cut you off, but
I got it because Mike is I got to tell you,
Mike boy, you seem very familiar with this topic. There, Mike, Now,
all your friends, okay, Mike, Mike, says some friends. Mike says,
he's got some friends. It's not you, Mike, it's your friends. Ah,
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you've dabbled a little bit, I figured, Mike. Anyway, Mike
is reinforcing everything that you're saying.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Gary.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
In fact, during the break, he said, no, no, Jeff,
the THHC part is what gets you really high. And
he said that's the part that's really bad. And he said,
you know, you're right. They're really loading up all these
products with insane levels of THCHC. He goes, what Gary
is talking about is the CBD. He said, that's the
part that really calms you, relaxes you, has some real
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medical value, medicinal purpose. He said, that's what Gary, That's
what Gary is saying is working. And then as you
were talking about that ninety percent THC content, he was
in my ear. Mike was saying, Jeff, that'll bless you
to the moon, like just a couple of puffs, and
you are, I mean you are high as a kite. Gary,
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with the way they've loaded up the THCHC. This is
the question I have for you. What many are saying
is that it's big money. It's huge money. It's potentially
almost unlimited money. The banks are now wanting to get
in on the action. You've got very powerful corporate interest.
Now they can smell. I mean, this is a fortune
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bigger than cigarettes ever were potentially gary is the reason
why these dispensaries, or as you put in some of
these cartridges, these marijuana cartridges are with such high levels
of THCHC is because like tobacco, they want you addicted.
(33:01):
Like tobacco, they want you hooked. So a you get
a much higher buzz. You know, you're really high, and
you just keep coming back. You're a repeat customer, and
they don't care what the side effects are. They look
at you now as a walking dollar bill. Is that
why they're pushing all this THC is? In other words,
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is it is it the money?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
It's the money, But it's that's that's That's not why
they're pushing the high THAC level. They're pushing the high
THHD level just as the gimmick to get you to
buy it. You can get high on any any level
of THC. Really, and it's it's the money that they're after.
It costs thirty dollars to buy three grams in the storage. Jeff,
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I'm growing three pounds in my yard right now, three
hundred dollars. So it's the money. And and what they
want to do is is it's the it's the it's
the it's the it's the the selling point. They went,
it sounds neat to have to say it's ninety percent thc.
It sounds cool to say it's sixty percent or seventy percent.
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Is a selling point, and it just gets the kids
to try it. And if you take it at that level,
you may get a little bit addictive. You don't get
physically addicted, you get mentally addicted, because those are the
things physically getting addicted to marijuana. Really, you can stop
smoking anytime you want. You just mentally want it.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
And you're right. If you smoke it too much, and
you smoke it all the time.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You're gonna get dumb. And I did get a little
bit dumb after a while. It took a long long time,
but I did not feeling a little bit dumb in
my thirties. But then, I tell you right now, I
feel lots about it, and I did three years ago
when I couldn't walk.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Oh, I hear you know, Gary, I hear you look.
I'm just happy you're back on your feet, and you're
getting back to your old self. Gary one, because you
know so much about this, Just humor me. What's the
difference say, between you know, whatever, a marijuana, say whatever,
a marijuana sick or at or a joint or whatever
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with ninety percent THC and say twenty five percent THHC? Like,
what's what's the you know, if I'm smoking it, I'm
using you know, one is ninety percent, one is twenty
five percent. What's the difference.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Just get you higher with less, quicker, and maybe get
you more nervous. I think I'm not really sure because
I don't really get high that much anymore because I
have live up problems and I lack the gene that
actually processes of the THAC, So I really don't even
get stoned, Jeff, I can smoke it all day long.
I don't even get stoned. The problem is the difference
between eating it and smoking it. When you eat it,
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you you eat it and you don't know how much
you're eating, and there's a different conversion factor in your body.
When you eat it. It transfers into your metabolism a
completely different way. When you eat it can.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Be that Gary, Gary, that that's what a lot of
doctors are saying, is just to back up what you're saying.
They're saying because people are eating it as opposed to
smoking it, they're eating too much, like in other words,
it's their body can't process it, and that's leading to
what they're called what is it discrammmeting, you know, where
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they come in emergency rooms and they're like, it's the God,
it's crazy. It's they're both vomiting and screaming at the
same time, like you know, they're super like super anxious,
you know, like super nervous, like oh, you know, and
they're just like they're going nuts, and it's like just
vomiting and vomiting and vomiting. And they're like, it's not
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a candy bar, dude. You know, you don't just eat
the whole thing. You're supposed to only take a little bit.
You nibble on it. Gary Dynamite call super informative and
please Gary, keep taking care of yourself. And God bless
you my friend Anastasia in Lynn, Thanks for holding Anastasia
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and welcome.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Why Jeff, God bless you and your family.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Gary was really he was spot on on a lot.
I consider myself an old hippie because I am, and
I have to tell you a couple of things I
want to say is that when when our warriors came
back from Vietnam, that's when a lot of the marijuana
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came in in the Hashish and you know the group,
the in crowd that I was in, you know, we
get the best of the best. And nowadays I have
tried gummies and I have a package in front of
me and it's four hundred and fifty milligrams for a gummy.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
And do you know what, Anastasia, do you know what
the THHC content is? By any chance?
Speaker 5 (37:53):
I'm looking at the package, and you know how you look.
You go to the grocery store and you look at
a label and it lists everything. They don't lift it
unless it's unless it's the four hundred and fifty milligrams
of THHC. It does stay on the front of the
package that it does have THHC. And it's right. Once
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this gets into your system, it takes thirty days for
it to clean out of your system. Because I've had
blood tests done and I am not a regular user.
I mean this is like, uh, you know, maybe four
times a year if that, and you know, it's incredibly strong.
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It's like mind blowing strong. It's like what the Christ
the government finally got something right. They know how to
make they know how to make a drug as strong
as possible, and it really I'm just utterly blown away
by it.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
The thing, if you.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Don't mind me, if I'm getting too personal, please tell me.
You know, as a former hippie who you know, someone
like you, who you know maybe you know probably did
marijuana in the late sixties early seventies, what I've been
reading and what people are saying, and you tell me
if this is accurate or not that you know you're
as we would say your parents, is pot your generation
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that the THC content when you were, say, smoking up,
you know whatever, doing a joint, say in whatever, nineteen
seventy that that was two to three percent very low THC.
I mean, yeah, eventually you get high, but it's not
that high of a high to begin with, and you
know you got to smoke the damn thing to get
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the high. In other words, it was much more mild.
But they're saying that now it's fifteen to twenty five
percent in some cases even eighty ninety percent and they're saying,
it is so powerful, It is so potent. When you
compare it to what people used to smoke forty fifty
years ago, it's like a different drug. It may be
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called the same thing, but it's like a different drug, anastasia,
when you compare it to the marijuana that you were
smoking or whatever, inhaling, whatever, the marijuana that you took, say,
fifty years ago. How does the marijuana that you took
fifty years ago compared to the stuff you have now,
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the gummies right in front of.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
You, the gummies.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
You know, Jeff, I got it.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I just gotta bring this up, is that I never
liked smoking pot because, you.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
Know, I because I felt that it made me stupid.
It was like, no, I don't feel like getting stupid
right now, okay. And that was way back then, fifty
years ago. And I just said to my husband, do
you remember a license plate?
Speaker 5 (40:55):
People used to buy this license plate out of the
pot shops and it used to say arrived stoned and
then put it on their front bump upside down. And
it was like, okay, but that's exactly how it affected me.
I always felt that it made me stupid. And what
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the government puts out now is just unbelievable. It's terrifying, actually,
to be honest with you, it's terrifying. It's so strong,
it's so potent. And the gummies I got sick when
they first came out. I got sick because I popped
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the whole one.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
And you know, wow, this is cool.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
I don't smoke pot anymore. And like I say, I
will do a gummy, a quarter of one on a celebration,
somebody's birthday, that kind of thing. But they it is
so strong that I won't even take a whole one.
I won't take a home one. And it does. It
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stays in your system for thirty days, and it does
last up to.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
A couple of hours.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
And the other thing I wanted to just bring up
quickly is, I don't know if you noticed, but on
our voting when we voted for President Trump on the
on the instructions, you know, you go to city hall
or they sent out instructions on voting and what you
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were voting for. One of the things that they had
was whether we wanted to approve the use of hallucinogenics.
Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (42:42):
Now where are we going with that? You know? I mean, really,
where is our society going With a question like that.
It's like, Hi, my god, what planet am I on?
And I have to say, bright, it's a blessing to you,
your family and all the listeners helped you because I've
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learned so much. You're a friend of mine. You keep
me informed so I can help be a patriot, a
better patriot.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Because I love my country.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
I love President Trump, I love us all because we
want to do the right thing. We want values and
traditions and a happy America again.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
And Anastasia, ye, I love you in a non sexual way.
And I want to thank you for your honesty and
for your call. And please, Anastasia, don't be a stranger. Okay,
I want you to call again. Six one seven two six,
six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. So there
you have it, you know, from a former hippie. Yeah,
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the pot that we did fifty years ago. Yeah, you
got a buzz, you got a little bit of a high.
It's not today's marijuana. I mean today marijuana, as she
put it, is a lot more potent and a lot
more powerful. And I think that's I hope people get
that message to President Trump because you know. The only
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thing I would slightly disagree, and I know it's regulated
by the state and the government. That's why Anastasia said,
the government is doing a good job with this. It's
it's this is not I mean, it may be government
regulated and the government is taxing it. She's right, but no, no,
this is private industry. This is private sector all the way. Baby.
(44:33):
This is this is now corporate. This is big business.
This is big pot this is big money. And they
know what they're doing. They want you to get a
massive high, and they want to make it as addictive
as possible, and the consequences be damned. Six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Steve in Kentucky,
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thanks for holding state and welcome.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
Well, good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Hi Steven.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
I with all my heart, but you're wrong in law,
primarily because it ste stupid, makes you stupid Number one, Steve.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
I'm sorry. I can barely hear you. We don't have
a very good connection. Are you in a bad zone
by any chance?
Speaker 4 (45:28):
I probably not?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Okay, can you just start so love me? I think
I heard that, but I'm wrong on this, which is fine.
We can agree to disagree. But then I lost you,
so please, Steve, just just tell me. So, why am
I wrong? I take it? Do you do you use marijuana?
Speaker 4 (45:47):
Steve?
Speaker 1 (45:47):
If you don't mind me asking, i'd lately.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
I had to quit in twenty twenty. Now, the edibles
and the oils I know nothing about. I can't speak
for that. But as far as the plant goes, okay,
I've been doing six nineteen seventy nine, and there is
no difference in the in the the amount of tac
that's in there. I mean, you can cross breed, you
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can make different taste, different looks, but as far as
making it more potent, you can't do that. Saying you
can make.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Steve sorry again, you're breaking up on us. But you
said you you grow pot, So I take it you
grow your own pot, correct, Steve, No, you don't grow
your own.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Potbit No, I would kill a plastic plant. I'm not
a gardener.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
So where do you Where do you buy your pot?
Do you buy it at a dispensary?
Speaker 2 (46:45):
No?
Speaker 4 (46:45):
I can't. I can't smoke anymore. I quit smoking in
twenty twenty, but I had a question for you.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
I'm sorry, Steve. Sorry again, If you don't want me asking,
why can't you smoke.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
Pot because I was one of the dumb ones that
decided that I wanted to do sugar.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
And it broke up on me. Did I hear you
correctly that you want to smoke pot? So are you
smoke pot and cigarettes? Is that it?
Speaker 4 (47:13):
I did? Yes? Oh?
Speaker 1 (47:15):
And in your lungs. It probably damaged your lungs. Correct.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Yeah, Well, I don't know. I can't speak as far
as the weeks.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
I no, no, But you're saying the cigarette, the heavy
cigarette used, the tobacco use, the tobacco use damaged your lungs. Correct.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
Oh, absolutely, imphasema.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
Well that that's my fault. That's why I did it.
Nobody else did it. But I've always wanted to ask
you a question, Jared, do you know why cannabis is illegal?
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Do I know why cannabis is illegal?
Speaker 4 (47:48):
Yes? I would know why cannabis.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Because it's a drug.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
No, No, this was maybe illegal. This is the biggest
propaganda that our government did up to recently. It was
motivated by Andrew Mellon, which is the owner of golf Oil,
which I believe he's the one that had.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Steve. I'm sorry, Steve, Please don't think we're censoring you.
It's not that at all. I'd love to hear what
you have to say, but we just we're missing every
second word. But look, i'll look into it. You've already
given me enough information. It was Andrew Mellon, who I
know very well. He's an historical figure, a big tycoon,
and he had some kind of an involvement regarding oil.
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So I'll follow that. And I want to get ectly.
I just assumed it's, you know, a narcotic. It's a
drug that gets you high. It's an ellucigen, and you
know that people thought it was bad for your brain,
bad for your body, bad for your health, and so
like other drugs, that's why it's considered a banned substance.
But I will definitely get to the bottom of the
(48:58):
origins of why cannabis was made illegal. Uh, Steven, and
I'm very sorry about your health. Please take care of yourself.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, let me ask all of you.
Should marijuana be reclassified as a much less addictive and
(49:19):
dangerous drug. Trump is now seriously considering doing that.
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