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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
Not in state of Ohio, Well most don't anyway, some
do care, maybe because you'd be smoking it outside their
business and that might be bad for their business. Welcome
back to the fifty five PERCA morning morning show. Owner
of Temptations locations and has been in the hemp selling
business as opposed to the marijuana business. What couple of decades, Beach,
(00:35):
owner of Temptation's good to have it back on the program,
My friend.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's true. We'll be celebrating twenty nine years in the
hemp business almost.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Year, twenty nine years, you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Twenty nine years inabis in the cannabis world.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Now, let me ask you a question because I recall
having a conversation, let's say, about fifteen years ago with
one of my older friends. So I always like to
describe as a former hippie, like he was an original
nineteen early nineteen seventies hippie. He was old enough to
have experienced the hippie world, and he smoked weed. Back
then he had stories about his escapades, and I just
(01:11):
asked him, I said, do you think marijuana will ever
be legal? This is early on in the push for
legalization for medical purposes. That was the tip of the spear,
which obviously led to, you know, wholesale legalization like we
have here in Ohio. But and he he shook his
heads at now, it don't ever happen, And I just
know I think it will. I think within the next
I probably guess maybe ten years, it'll be legal. And
(01:33):
lo and behold. I was a lot closer to reality
than him. What was your take back in twenty nine
years ago or almost thirty years ago when you opened
the hemp stores, obviously selling a legal product. I'm sure
people look down their nose at you for even being
involved in the business, But did you ever think you
would be living in the state of Ohio where marijuana
has now full recreational legal.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You know, I don't know. I have taken cannabis legalization
one day at a time for the last twenty nine years,
because yeah, when we started, I had no foreseeable whether
it was industrial hemp, whether it was personal use, whether
it was the medical and it all really started with
the medical and I will have to say we saw
that because in nineteen ninety five, that was actually the
(02:19):
year that California passed their medical that was Proposition two fifteen.
So it all kind of, it all kind of started
right around nineteen ninety five because that's that's when that's
when Proposition two fifteen and California passed, and that was
the first medical marijuana law legalization in the country.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I cannot believe it's that long.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, And so you know, with that, and we were
always told that well medical was they just wanted for
personal use, and we're like, well, okay, fine, that's fine.
You know, that's no kidding. But that's that's how it
all started, right with the medical and then and then Colorado,
(03:02):
which has been I mean, I can't even believe it.
Colorado has been ten years now or something. I mean,
it has been quite amazing. It was it was very slow,
and then the medical really gained and and now we're
just full blown. And now we're talking you know, they're
talking federally rescheduling, which wouldn't be a great move, honestly,
(03:26):
the move is to take it off the control subtice list.
But you know, rescheduling, which I think they're going to
do probably within the next year. You know. The the
Biden dropping out kind of messed us up for rescheduling
because I think he was going to try to get
it rescheduled before the elections to get get those votes. Yeah,
(03:49):
and I and I don't know if Harris is excited
about it. I mean she does. She's for legalizations, so
that's a good thing, but I don't know if she's
going to be his push to try to get it
done before the elections try to get those vines.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, the importance of rescheduling, I suppose, is because currently
it's treated the same way as heroin, and so all
these businesses engaged in legal marijuana really aren't engaged in
legal marijuana because it's still illegal on a federal level.
But the federal government has of course ignored the law,
has not engaged in prosecuting people for it, which has
allowed marijuana to flourish in terms of legitimate business in
(04:27):
the various states that allow for it. Would rescheduling it
to a lower level than free up of the concerns
people have about banking with these businesses, because that's one
of the biggest problems right now, they're all walking around
with piles and piles of cash. Banks won't do business
with them because of the scheduling issue.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
That is one percent correct, and that is why the
bank or the federal governer wants to do something. They
have their special programs where you can still give them
money under your illegal marijuana business now, so they get
their taxes, but they want it to be more legit
so they can it. They're they're cut of it, and
they want to control it, which is what they'll do.
(05:05):
They'll you know, my my guess is is they'll out
of they'll out of c to the at F, which
will stand for cannabis and uh and then uh, ironically
I said, the at F and then call themselves fact.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But but you know, that's that's kind of how I
see it. I think a lot of people are going
to be It might be interesting because a lot of
people don't understand that if it's rescheduled, then it may
go under say, under the control of the actual pharmacies.
And you know, and so I think a lot of
(05:50):
people aren't looking into the Wow, you know, they said, yeah, great,
it gets taken off. It now has medical acceptance we
can study it, we can collect tax on it, YadA, YadA, YadA.
But that actually might put it in more control of
the government.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And I imagine the big pharmaceutical companies are probably pumping
in tons of money and to donate to campaigns for
politicians who would go in that direction.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
For sure, if all of a sudden it has to
become a pharmaceutical, well, guess what, but it still has
to be approved by the FDA. It's still controlled by
a pharmaceutical company. You will actually have to go to
a pharmacy to get the medicine. Right now, we just
get a recommendation from a doctor and you go to
a dispensary. If it's rescheduled, it's very possible that you
(06:39):
will actually have to get a prescription from your doctor
and then go to a pharmacy. Yes, get your medicine.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And because it involved interstate commerce, the federal law of
course would trump any state law, saying that you can
legally operate a business controlled by the state government as
much as it might be, but that then becomes a
washed away under the guise of federal government putting them
in the hands of the pharmacy companies and then enforcing
the schedule law and going out and prosecuting people who
(07:09):
otherwise we're operating a legal business, right.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's my biggest concern. Everybody's allside about it,
but in the long run, I don't know if it's
gonna make it any better. It might once again, yes,
it'll be legal, just like in Ohio. We have a
medical problem in Ohio or a medical program in Ohio
and it's legal, but it's not the greatest. It's it's
it's you know, we have it, but it's not the
(07:35):
best medical in the country.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
We're in a state of flux right now. Because of
the ballot initiative. It's now legal now, subject to any
laws that Columbus might pass to regulate it or micromanagement
or whatever. They have the flexibility to do that. But
have they issued, you know, licenses for for for businesses
to actually sell legal weed without a medical mariorald on
(08:00):
a license without a medical marijuana prescription.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
My understanding is that they finally did issue the first
dual license. Everybody out of the gate is going to
be a dual license. So all the licenses right now
are going to go to current dispensaries.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So I could walk in I don't have a medical
marijuana card.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I would never get one because it might interfere with
the Second Amendment rights, and plus I don't need one.
But I could walk in to a dual license shop
without a medical marijuana card and go in and buy
it like I'm buying a pack of gum, because it's
a legal product to buy now.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That is correct. If they if you are twenty one
years old older, you show them your ID and then
you go and you look and you pay personal use prices.
I think they're going to probably have a different price
scale for the medical and the personal use to keep
the medical, to try to keep them up and running.
(08:54):
That's why they're given all the licenses to the medical
to start out with, right because the minute the minute
the personal use goes, no one in Ohio is going
to want to use the medical because it's too expensive.
It's I mean, it's well limited, it's you know.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But but it does come with the ded benefit.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And my daughter was in the in the legal market
there for a while, working for one of the larger
cannabis growers for a year or two after she got
out of college. She's no longer in that business, but
very very very controlled growing conditions. In other words, like
for example, if if a pot fell over and it
hit the ground, you have to throw the whole thing out.
(09:33):
That is no longer going to be qualified as medical
grade marijuana. They have to analyze the buds and the weeds,
look for bacteria and and and and pollutants and things
of that nature. If it doesn't pass muster on an
independent review, then it doesn't qualify as medical grade weed.
So you're getting a benefit for medical grade weed. Would
that same weed?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Is that what's going to apply to the legal weed
that sold to people without a license? Or is this
going to be two qualities or two calibers of weed?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, I think it'll be the exact same stuff. I
think it'll just be you know, there'll there'll be two
doors going out of the warehouse, now, you know, one
that goes to the medical, one that goes to the
personal use. You know, I think again what we will
see is a reduction in medical and a increase in personal.
(10:22):
But then that'll that will matter is to how much
they do, in fact, if they do in fact fluctuate
those prices. If there's going to be a different price
for the medical as opposed to the personal use and so.
But no, it's going to be for the most part,
the same growers. I think this is why the state
(10:44):
issued more licenses before, more growing licenses before the thing
even passed, A to keep up with the medical in Ohio.
But B because they'refore seeing that we were going to
go legal and we're not going to run into this
same problems that we did originally, which was but we
didn't have any growing. There isn't an nuts growing, right,
(11:06):
you know. They want to be able to be supplied.
I understand when the doors do open.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Right, all right, Well, let's pause. I'm bring Beach back.
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It's Temptations dot com saving the planet since nineteen ninety five.
My friend Beach, owner of Temptations and also I forgot
to mention, host of the High Noon Hemp Show. Love
the name suggestive as it is. You can find them
on Facebook and watch live anytime you choose High Noon
Hemp Show with Beach. Hey Beach, is it listen? I
(13:28):
don't understand people's concerns. I understand you know you're selling
marijuana you got a dispensary. Some of the downtown business
owners are like, wait a second, you're gonna put a
dispensary here downtown across from my business. They're worrying about
unsavory characters, you know, people loitering around. And I'm thinking
to myself, Listen, I go to a business, I go in,
I buy a shirt, or I buy a pack of gum,
or I fill my tank.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I don't hang around.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
If I'm going in and I want to buy weed,
I go in, I buy my weed, and I leave
and go someplace, and I guess smoke it or whatever.
But are these concerns, I mean grounded in legitimacy? Do
you see any problem with the I mean, would you
want one of these in your neighborhood, for example, beat.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I sure as heck, would I mean there was any business,
I mean, of course I would. But you know, they
act like people don't wear fancy clothes that smoke cannabis.
They act like, you know, people don't eat at restaurants
that smoke cannabis. I don't even understand why they're worried
about it, you know, I mean, you know this is
(14:25):
going to bring more people to downtown this is going
to bring more people with money. What do they think
that cannabis is cheap? I don't think they even understand
that it's not even cheap. It's you have to have money.
It's you know, we have a we don't have a
homeless problem, but we have a homeless situation in downtown.
To say, like most cit these do. You know, they're
(14:47):
not going to be any worse than that. They're not
going to come get their cannabis and then stand out
front begging for money or or you know, sleeping on
a park bench or whatever. I think it's I think
I think the most interesting part about it is it's
really continuing the stereotype that cannabis users are inferior human beings.
(15:11):
It's like they like, we're still criminals, We're not everyday people.
These these you know, the reason seventy five percent of
our country is medical and almost fifty percent is personal
use now is because every day people want this to
be a choice they can make. And by acting like this,
(15:31):
the people downtown acting like this, they're acting like us,
the people that consume cannabis are inferior to them and
to me. I just you know, I cannot wait until
all of the stereotypes and all of the looking down
on people that you know, if I'm sure if if
(15:54):
a liquor store was going to open up, they might say,
but you know what, responsible people drink liquors as much
as irresponsible people.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, ov I's read about them all the time, beach well.
And finally, then let's touch upon very briefly, because they're
almost at a time the whole idea that under the
current scheduling, they're at cash operation and they're sitting on
piles and piles of cash because they can't do business
with banks. That may attract a criminal element who might
want to liberate the store owner of the piles of cash.
(16:25):
Until that scheduling problem is fixed, that's going to remain
a potential issue, though, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Somewhat Now? I do believe that they have there are
some some banking obstacles that I think have been overlooked,
and so I do think that there there are acceptable
ways to control that cash flow, so to speak, in
(16:53):
the legitimate business world, banking world, for protections to those consumers,
even though federally, yes, it's an issue. Yeah, but you know, again,
you know, any business is susceptible to Shnanigan's going on. Obviously,
(17:13):
if it's an all cash business, then people realize that.
But you know that really hasn't been an issue most recently.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
No, again, I haven't heard of a medical marijuana. It's
true a dispensary being robbed. They may have been that,
I've never heard of it. I just had to ask
that question out loud, and of course maybe the federal
government will address that, but be wary and be concerned.
That's the first time I ever heard it suggested that
the pharmaceutical industry might take over if they reschedule it.
Red Flag Beach. God bless you, sir. Thanks for spending
(17:44):
time with my listeners and me talking about this topic.
We're just sort of watching the whole reality unfold before us.
Uncharted waters it is, but I think we'll all manage
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Speaker 2 (17:58):
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Another, check it out.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Always interesting to beach until we talk again. Take care brother.
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
No when kids, if you smoke a joint or that.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Not in state of Ohio, Well most don't anyway, some
do care, maybe because you'd be smoking it outside their
business and that might be bad for their business. Welcome
back to the fifty five PERCA morning morning show. Owner
of Temptations locations and has been in the hemp selling
business as opposed to the marijuana business. What couple of decades, Beach,
(00:35):
owner of Temptation's good to have it back on the program,
My friend.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's true. We'll be celebrating twenty nine years in the
hemp business almost.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Year, twenty nine years, you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Twenty nine years inabis in the cannabis world.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Now, let me ask you a question because I recall
having a conversation, let's say, about fifteen years ago with
one of my older friends. So I always like to
describe as a former hippie, like he was an original
nineteen early nineteen seventies hippie. He was old enough to
have experienced the hippie world, and he smoked weed. Back
then he had stories about his escapades, and I just
(01:11):
asked him, I said, do you think marijuana will ever
be legal? This is early on in the push for
legalization for medical purposes. That was the tip of the spear,
which obviously led to, you know, wholesale legalization like we
have here in Ohio. But and he he shook his
heads at now, it don't ever happen, And I just
know I think it will. I think within the next
I probably guess maybe ten years, it'll be legal. And
(01:33):
lo and behold. I was a lot closer to reality
than him. What was your take back in twenty nine
years ago or almost thirty years ago when you opened
the hemp stores, obviously selling a legal product. I'm sure
people look down their nose at you for even being
involved in the business, But did you ever think you
would be living in the state of Ohio where marijuana
has now full recreational legal.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You know, I don't know. I have taken cannabis legalization
one day at a time for the last twenty nine years,
because yeah, when we started, I had no foreseeable whether
it was industrial hemp, whether it was personal use, whether
it was the medical and it all really started with
the medical and I will have to say we saw
that because in nineteen ninety five, that was actually the
(02:19):
year that California passed their medical that was Proposition two fifteen.
So it all kind of, it all kind of started
right around nineteen ninety five because that's that's when that's
when Proposition two fifteen and California passed, and that was
the first medical marijuana law legalization in the country.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I cannot believe it's that long.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, And so you know, with that, and we were
always told that well medical was they just wanted for
personal use, and we're like, well, okay, fine, that's fine.
You know, that's no kidding. But that's that's how it
all started, right with the medical and then and then Colorado,
(03:02):
which has been I mean, I can't even believe it.
Colorado has been ten years now or something. I mean,
it has been quite amazing. It was it was very slow,
and then the medical really gained and and now we're
just full blown. And now we're talking you know, they're
talking federally rescheduling, which wouldn't be a great move, honestly,
(03:26):
the move is to take it off the control subtice list.
But you know, rescheduling, which I think they're going to
do probably within the next year. You know. The the
Biden dropping out kind of messed us up for rescheduling
because I think he was going to try to get
it rescheduled before the elections to get get those votes. Yeah,
(03:49):
and I and I don't know if Harris is excited
about it. I mean she does. She's for legalizations, so
that's a good thing, but I don't know if she's
going to be his push to try to get it
done before the elections try to get those vines.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, the importance of rescheduling, I suppose, is because currently
it's treated the same way as heroin, and so all
these businesses engaged in legal marijuana really aren't engaged in
legal marijuana because it's still illegal on a federal level.
But the federal government has of course ignored the law,
has not engaged in prosecuting people for it, which has
allowed marijuana to flourish in terms of legitimate business in
(04:27):
the various states that allow for it. Would rescheduling it
to a lower level than free up of the concerns
people have about banking with these businesses, because that's one
of the biggest problems right now, they're all walking around
with piles and piles of cash. Banks won't do business
with them because of the scheduling issue.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
That is one percent correct, and that is why the
bank or the federal governer wants to do something. They
have their special programs where you can still give them
money under your illegal marijuana business now, so they get
their taxes, but they want it to be more legit
so they can it. They're they're cut of it, and
they want to control it, which is what they'll do.
(05:05):
They'll you know, my my guess is is they'll out
of they'll out of c to the at F, which
will stand for cannabis and uh and then uh, ironically
I said, the at F and then call themselves fact.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right, I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
But but you know, that's that's kind of how I
see it. I think a lot of people are going
to be It might be interesting because a lot of
people don't understand that if it's rescheduled, then it may
go under say, under the control of the actual pharmacies.
And you know, and so I think a lot of
(05:50):
people aren't looking into the Wow, you know, they said, yeah, great,
it gets taken off. It now has medical acceptance we
can study it, we can collect tax on it, YadA, YadA, YadA.
But that actually might put it in more control of
the government.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And I imagine the big pharmaceutical companies are probably pumping
in tons of money and to donate to campaigns for
politicians who would go in that direction.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
For sure, if all of a sudden it has to
become a pharmaceutical, well, guess what, but it still has
to be approved by the FDA. It's still controlled by
a pharmaceutical company. You will actually have to go to
a pharmacy to get the medicine. Right now, we just
get a recommendation from a doctor and you go to
a dispensary. If it's rescheduled, it's very possible that you
(06:39):
will actually have to get a prescription from your doctor
and then go to a pharmacy. Yes, get your medicine.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And because it involved interstate commerce, the federal law of
course would trump any state law, saying that you can
legally operate a business controlled by the state government as
much as it might be, but that then becomes a
washed away under the guise of federal government putting them
in the hands of the pharmacy companies and then enforcing
the schedule law and going out and prosecuting people who
(07:09):
otherwise we're operating a legal business, right.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's my biggest concern. Everybody's allside about it,
but in the long run, I don't know if it's
gonna make it any better. It might once again, yes,
it'll be legal, just like in Ohio. We have a
medical problem in Ohio or a medical program in Ohio
and it's legal, but it's not the greatest. It's it's
it's you know, we have it, but it's not the
(07:35):
best medical in the country.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
We're in a state of flux right now. Because of
the ballot initiative. It's now legal now, subject to any
laws that Columbus might pass to regulate it or micromanagement
or whatever. They have the flexibility to do that. But
have they issued, you know, licenses for for for businesses
to actually sell legal weed without a medical mariorald on
(08:00):
a license without a medical marijuana prescription.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
My understanding is that they finally did issue the first
dual license. Everybody out of the gate is going to
be a dual license. So all the licenses right now
are going to go to current dispensaries.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So I could walk in I don't have a medical
marijuana card.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I would never get one because it might interfere with
the Second Amendment rights, and plus I don't need one.
But I could walk in to a dual license shop
without a medical marijuana card and go in and buy
it like I'm buying a pack of gum, because it's
a legal product to buy now.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That is correct. If they if you are twenty one
years old older, you show them your ID and then
you go and you look and you pay personal use prices.
I think they're going to probably have a different price
scale for the medical and the personal use to keep
the medical, to try to keep them up and running.
(08:54):
That's why they're given all the licenses to the medical
to start out with, right because the minute the minute
the personal use goes, no one in Ohio is going
to want to use the medical because it's too expensive.
It's I mean, it's well limited, it's you know.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But but it does come with the ded benefit.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And my daughter was in the in the legal market
there for a while, working for one of the larger
cannabis growers for a year or two after she got
out of college. She's no longer in that business, but
very very very controlled growing conditions. In other words, like
for example, if if a pot fell over and it
hit the ground, you have to throw the whole thing out.
(09:33):
That is no longer going to be qualified as medical
grade marijuana. They have to analyze the buds and the weeds,
look for bacteria and and and and pollutants and things
of that nature. If it doesn't pass muster on an
independent review, then it doesn't qualify as medical grade weed.
So you're getting a benefit for medical grade weed. Would
that same weed?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Is that what's going to apply to the legal weed
that sold to people without a license? Or is this
going to be two qualities or two calibers of weed?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
No, I think it'll be the exact same stuff. I
think it'll just be you know, there'll there'll be two
doors going out of the warehouse, now, you know, one
that goes to the medical, one that goes to the
personal use. You know, I think again what we will
see is a reduction in medical and a increase in personal.
(10:22):
But then that'll that will matter is to how much
they do, in fact, if they do in fact fluctuate
those prices. If there's going to be a different price
for the medical as opposed to the personal use and so.
But no, it's going to be for the most part,
the same growers. I think this is why the state
(10:44):
issued more licenses before, more growing licenses before the thing
even passed, A to keep up with the medical in Ohio.
But B because they'refore seeing that we were going to
go legal and we're not going to run into this
same problems that we did originally, which was but we
didn't have any growing. There isn't an nuts growing, right,
(11:06):
you know. They want to be able to be supplied.
I understand when the doors do open.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Right, all right, Well, let's pause. I'm bring Beach back.
I got a couple more questions, like what's the practical
reality of having a dispensary next to your business if
one is coming and they sound like they're coming in
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You can find them online.
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It's Temptations dot com saving the planet since nineteen ninety five.
My friend Beach, owner of Temptations and also I forgot
to mention, host of the High Noon Hemp Show. Love
the name suggestive as it is. You can find them
on Facebook and watch live anytime you choose High Noon
Hemp Show with Beach. Hey Beach, is it listen? I
(13:28):
don't understand people's concerns. I understand you know you're selling
marijuana you got a dispensary. Some of the downtown business
owners are like, wait a second, you're gonna put a
dispensary here downtown across from my business. They're worrying about
unsavory characters, you know, people loitering around. And I'm thinking
to myself, Listen, I go to a business, I go in,
I buy a shirt, or I buy a pack of gum,
or I fill my tank.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I don't hang around.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
If I'm going in and I want to buy weed,
I go in, I buy my weed, and I leave
and go someplace, and I guess smoke it or whatever.
But are these concerns, I mean grounded in legitimacy? Do
you see any problem with the I mean, would you
want one of these in your neighborhood, for example, beat.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I sure as heck, would I mean there was any business,
I mean, of course I would. But you know, they
act like people don't wear fancy clothes that smoke cannabis.
They act like, you know, people don't eat at restaurants
that smoke cannabis. I don't even understand why they're worried
about it, you know, I mean, you know this is
(14:25):
going to bring more people to downtown this is going
to bring more people with money. What do they think
that cannabis is cheap? I don't think they even understand
that it's not even cheap. It's you have to have money.
It's you know, we have a we don't have a
homeless problem, but we have a homeless situation in downtown.
To say, like most cit these do. You know, they're
(14:47):
not going to be any worse than that. They're not
going to come get their cannabis and then stand out
front begging for money or or you know, sleeping on
a park bench or whatever. I think it's I think
I think the most interesting part about it is it's
really continuing the stereotype that cannabis users are inferior human beings.
(15:11):
It's like they like, we're still criminals, We're not everyday people.
These these you know, the reason seventy five percent of
our country is medical and almost fifty percent is personal
use now is because every day people want this to
be a choice they can make. And by acting like this,
(15:31):
the people downtown acting like this, they're acting like us,
the people that consume cannabis are inferior to them and
to me. I just you know, I cannot wait until
all of the stereotypes and all of the looking down
on people that you know, if I'm sure if if
(15:54):
a liquor store was going to open up, they might say,
but you know what, responsible people drink liquors as much
as irresponsible people.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, ov I's read about them all the time, beach well.
And finally, then let's touch upon very briefly, because they're
almost at a time the whole idea that under the
current scheduling, they're at cash operation and they're sitting on
piles and piles of cash because they can't do business
with banks. That may attract a criminal element who might
want to liberate the store owner of the piles of cash.
(16:25):
Until that scheduling problem is fixed, that's going to remain
a potential issue, though, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Somewhat Now? I do believe that they have there are
some some banking obstacles that I think have been overlooked,
and so I do think that there there are acceptable
ways to control that cash flow, so to speak, in
(16:53):
the legitimate business world, banking world, for protections to those consumers,
even though federally, yes, it's an issue. Yeah, but you know, again,
you know, any business is susceptible to Shnanigan's going on. Obviously,
(17:13):
if it's an all cash business, then people realize that.
But you know that really hasn't been an issue most recently.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
No, again, I haven't heard of a medical marijuana. It's
true a dispensary being robbed. They may have been that,
I've never heard of it. I just had to ask
that question out loud, and of course maybe the federal
government will address that, but be wary and be concerned.
That's the first time I ever heard it suggested that
the pharmaceutical industry might take over if they reschedule it.
Red Flag Beach. God bless you, sir. Thanks for spending
(17:44):
time with my listeners and me talking about this topic.
We're just sort of watching the whole reality unfold before us.
Uncharted waters it is, but I think we'll all manage
quite nicely. Temptations dot Com is Refine Beach high Noon
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Speaker 2 (17:58):
Beach now or Wednesday today actually at noon, and you
can go to YouTube the Jedi channel on YouTube and
watch any of the high nuone hepstets. But we're just
on Wednesday at noon, so we'll be on today, check.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Another, check it out.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Always interesting to beach until we talk again. Take care brother.
Always fun talking with the A twenty seven looks like
Judge of Polatano up next, looking forward to having him
back on the show after his vacation. And I always recommend,
and I really want to encourage you to tell your
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