Sean Timmerman, founder and CEO of Gruene Botanicals, discussed the expansion of his six CBD/Hemp locations in Texas, including franchises in Universal City and Austin, and his commitment to medical-grade cannabis. He highlighted the potential impact of SB3, which could outlaw THC products, leading to job losses and store closures. Timmerman emphasized the importance of proper dosing and certification for employees, noting that his stores employ over 30 people. He also mentioned the company's involvement in community events and the need for state regulation to ensure quality and safety.

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Today we have two gentlemen on from Green Botanicals.

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We have Mr. Sean Timmerman, the founder and CEO of Green
Botanicals and his GM, his righthand man El Ching, Gone the
Green, the Green Botanicals, James Fields.
Thank you guys for coming on theshow, man.
I really appreciate it. Appreciate you having us on,
yeah. Of course.
So you guys, Sean, you founded Green Botanicals in July of

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2019. How many locations are there
now? Currently there's six, There's
two franchises, Universal City in Austin, and then the ones
that I operate, which are New Braunfels, Seguin, San Antonio.
Now Bernie just opened. Yeah.
So you're, you're not just in San Antonio.

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You're you're all over San Antonio.
My intent was to kind of stay inthe Hill Country, so as I drove
to different stores putting in this work, I would at least have
a nice drive. There you go.
But I I enjoy the Hill Country, San Antonio community and I'm
glad to be a part of. It Yeah, in Bernie, you're right

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off of Main Street. I mean, you're right in the
middle of the action. Pretty much if you go through
Bernie, you're going to pass my store again, one of those little
towns that I've, if I was wantedto go somewhere and help a
community, that's one of the communities I wanted to be in,
Yeah. Yeah, you got another location

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in Seguin, which is another another small another small
town. Yep, the one in San Antonio is
off Hildebrand. Kind of close to I-10 ish.
Maybe it's between San Pedro andand I-10.
Yeah. San San Pedro and Blanco is
probably. That's a good description as
well I guess. Yeah, yeah.
And then you said the other location, the 4th location.

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New Braunfels. New Braunfels.
That's right. That's the original location.
OK, open the doors in, you know,2019 that that's what kind of
feeds all the other ones too. Yeah, the the OG store.
Yep, that's it. Awesome.
So how did you, what inspired you to start Green Mechanical?
What, what was the what was the kind of catalyst to getting

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that, getting that off the ground?
I've been using cannabis for now, 30 something years and I've
had medical cards in Colorado, Oklahoma and could have been
involved in the industry there, but it meant something to me to
bring that industry back to my community.
Yeah. Are you from originally from

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SAN? Antonio, I'm from New Braunfels.
New Braunfels, OK, from New Braunfels.
I do enjoy San Antonio. I've been in and out of it, you
know, lived in different areas of great community.
Yeah, James, what about you? Are you Are you from San
Antonio? No, not originally.
But you got here as fast as you could, right?
I moved here from Washington state, actually.
OK. I was a part of the medical

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Pacific Northwest and then the retail and, you know, whole
legalization there and then my wife got stationed here.
OK, nice. You know.
Happy wife, happy life. That's right.
We traveled. Yeah, I just got lucky and found
this guy, to be honest with you.Yeah.
And so how long have you guys been working together?
A year and a half now. Really.

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OK, I man, from the dynamic thatyou guys have, I would have
figured it would have been a lotlonger.
You guys seem to get along pretty well.
I think he understands the process and that's the The thing
is that, like he said, he went through the legalization in
Washington state. So he's he's one of the few
people I can have next to me that have the vision of what's

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to come and what we need to stayahead of regulations and so on
so forth. That makes sense.
That makes sense. So kind of speaking to that, you
know, we're sitting here today is June 11th.
I just read today that Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, has
decided, or hasn't decided rather, whether or not he's

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going to veto SB3, which is essentially banning or outlaw
outlawing. It'll make all THC illegal.
It'll actually make hemp derivedproducts of greater charge than
regular marijuana. Oh wow, anything THC hemp

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derived, it's a nonsense. Sure, that makes no sense.
And it's a it's a politics. Yeah.
What do you think is driving that?
Money. Yeah, money.
I, I think that politicians, jobs, a lot of time are to
create panic and chaos. And you take this away from

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everybody, you're definitely creating panic and chaos.
So, you know, there's something that I don't understand.
Hopefully you can help educate me and maybe some of maybe even
some of our, our listeners, but all of a sudden it feels like
the, you know, CBD stores, the THC stores just came out of
nowhere. They did.
How, how did that, how did that happen?

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Like what was the the sort of evolution to that?
It just became openly available to everybody through
distribution centers and and that's how it evolved and ended
up everywhere, which is where some of their the state does
need to regulate and step in andcontrol some of this to where

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not everybody has access to it. You should be educated.
All of my employees are certified so that they can
properly dose consumers. OK.
But what happened was it just became available.
There was just a. It took over and.

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They're popping up everywhere. You guys got a lot of
competition even even, I mean, you throw a rock and you can
hit, you know, a couple. Like a barbershop pretty much.
You know, I've never looked at other people as competition.
Try to stay medical based #1 again, all my people are
certified to where we can properly dose and make proper

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recommendations. And that's the difference
between US and the guy down the street is I tell people it's
easy to get people high, but to medicate them and properly dose
them is something different. So our consumers come into our
locations and they see that withour staff and that's one of the

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things that separates us. Yeah, I mean, I've been to your
shop before it it's a the one onon Hildebrand.
That location is awesome. You guys have it's super clean.
You you guys got a good vibe going there?
That that place is the old Cracker Box Palace or Truckers.
If you didn't know that that location, it meant something to

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me. Again, I'd like to get involved
in the communities I operate in.So that place has been quote UN
quote a head shop since literally the 60s.
Oh wow. I didn't realize that it was
first Trucker Truckers and then Cracker Box Palace and now Green
Botanicals. Yeah.
Yeah, that place is cool. Man third generation third.

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Generation. I love it.
That's awesome. Decades.
Yeah, decades. 50 something years plus there.
Yeah, you guys have a celebration, I think, or an
event anyway. Is it always around 4:20?
I guess like April 20th is when?I do try to do a 420 event and
we have an area to host events there and do stuff.

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And then I'm a, I'm a car guy, so I always get involved in car
shows and low rider Lolo, as a lot of the locals will know
those shows. Yeah, yeah.
I remember when I was there lastweek, the week before you guys
had a, I think it's a new edition or a newer edition.
Anyway, you got you guys got to have AVW bus that you got decked

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out with Green botanical on it. The all electric buddy bus.
Yeah, yeah, that's actually James's idea.
I blame that on him or give him credit however you want.
To call it, I'll take both, yeah.
That thing is awesome, man. I love how you guys have it
decked out. It's green, which is
appropriate, obviously. Yeah.
But yeah, that that bus was really cool.

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How did that, how did that idea come up?
What are you guys doing with it?Like what's your?
What's? The it's mainly more for
marketing a rolling billboard and we use it to deliver orders
to the stores and stuff like that.
But again, being a car guy, I mean, it's just for marketing.
I enjoy cool stuff, you know, That thing's pretty cool.

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So you know, kind of going back to SP3, what what is it, what is
the impact one way or another that this law will ultimately
have on your business or what doyou see the impact it having on
your business if the the law passes?
Pretty much those stores go bankrupt if it passes.

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There will be, I don't know, we probably have 30 something
employees, 20 of them will lose their job right away and a third
of them will stay and help me shut the doors.
And that's pretty much the effect of that law passing.
Are are you a part of any organization that is helping to

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push back on that, to push back on that law to to lobby against
it? I mean it.
Is this HIP coalition OK? They're one of the people that,
from what I understand, haven't seen, you know, video or
whatever, but they handed Greg Abbott a check for $1.2 million

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and said you can cash this to help regulate the industry or
we'll avoid it and use it to sueyou.
Oh wow. So that's a big deal.
Yeah, for sure. And that's all they need to do.
The state needs to hold DPS, whois now supposed to be regulating
us, accountable for going and checking licenses.
That's step one. Make sure everybody has a

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license. Get them their money that way.
So so nobody can just open up a store right now.
You have to have a license in order to.
Be to do it right. And that's the problem is I
would say at least 20 if not 30%of shops, as you say, are
everywhere, are not operating properly.
And then if you add in gas stations, well, I've never

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walked into a gas station that'sselling hemp and seeing their
hemp license hanging on the walllike you do in our shops.
Yeah. And and that's as easy as it is,
they just go start checking licenses.
Interesting. So DPS is is the oversight body
that that should be implementingthose checks that.
From my understanding, yes. Would you agree, James?

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Yes, Sir. Yeah.
So what type of regulation is itthat that you know kind of from
your perspective, right, what kind of regulation is it that
that you think needs to be implemented besides the license
check? They need to check licenses,
they need to if they move towards what other states have
done. The other thing that Bill does

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is wipe out all the farming because you can't grow CBD hemp
with 0 THC. They follow lead of other
states. All of the products should come
within the state and that's where the state is able to
capture total tax and revenue onthe industry.
It more integrates the state alltogether where it's from seed to

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feed almost where you are able to grow it here and sell it
here. So, so in other states like
where, where it's already totally legal, like Colorado,
Nevada, Washington, yeah, all, all those states.
So, so most of the products thatare sold in the dispensaries are
grown in the in the the states where they're sold.
Washington State is only allowedto sell products that are grown

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in Washington state. Wow, I had no idea.
I mean, I don't understand why Texas is is so probusiness and
this seems like a business decision.
This is this doesn't even seem like a politics decision.
So I I don't help helping make it make sense.
Like how, how, why is it that they're so against?
Because there's no regulation orcontrol, like you said, you see

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them popping up everywhere, right?
So with that being said, that means we're not getting the
money for our license for that business.
You're not paying tax revenue onthat business.
That means anybody in Texas can pop up and open up a Ware, go to
a warehouse and open up a shop in the next 30 days if they do
it right. But but.
Wouldn't it make sense to? Wouldn't it make more sense to
implement that regulation ratherthan try to ban it entirely?

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You can't set regulations in chaos.
So what that means is we're going to ban it, we're going to
shut it down to as minimal as possible, turn around and open
it up, charge everybody for their licenses, and then that
way we're able to control what shop sells what, where and how
much. I think Texas was talking about
going back to their teacup program, which is supposed to be

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their medical program. And within that they're talking
about 15 shops within the state of Texas.
Wow. Only 15 shops.
You talk about a money play, that's a money play.
So my understanding, what I readis there are so many licenses,
so many for past applicants, current and future applicants.
Those licenses will pretty much have a major city and then

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control the market around that major city from again seed to
sell because that's how it should be.
The medical program is making all that stuff within the state.
You know, it's not like they're buying product from California,
Oklahoma and selling it. That's what they there is

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opportunity though. There's opportunity if they take
the time to structure somebody to regulate it because they can
start regulating you give a warning, a fine and whatever and
you start building the industry.And then along with that, one of
the things Texas is missing is the tax.

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Consumers need to be prepared topay about three times the tax.
We're currently paying, in my opinion, 8.25 regular sales tax.
But if you look at any other state with the cannabis program,
medical, recreational marijuana program, it's 24% sometimes into

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the 30s. Wow.
Which is really easy for them todo.
If they were to structure somebody to regulate, it would
be just like tobacco, alcohol, gas.
I mean, all that stuff is taxed.Yeah, I mean, and that's the
that's the thing. You mean you bring up a good
point. I mean, Texas already has

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infrastructure to do that in, inthat they're regulating the, you
know, beer and, and wine and alcohol sales and all that kind
of all that kind of thing. Because they're regulating not
just retail stores that sell those things, They're also
regulating how people are selling, how people are selling
them in bars and stuff like that.
So why wouldn't that easily translate to what you guys are

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doing in the? Kind of goes back to touch on
what you were saying earlier andit truly being about the money
because cannabis takes from alcohol consumption
prescriptions and other markets.So I don't my opinion again, I
don't think TEBC wants to step in and help regulate it.

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They don't want it available because it takes from from their
money. Same thing with the
pharmaceutical companies, you know, or tobacco, but they're
going to have to create their own people.
And this is where it's a process, and James mentioned
this to me, is that once they have those people, they then

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have to train them how to regulate it, right?
So there's not there's not goingto be a light switch in this
situation. Yeah.
And everything work one way or the other.
But the. Again, what I don't understand
is, you know, there's other states that are doing this with
some success, if not pretty successful programs, right?

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So why can't we learn from what they're doing, take the best
parts of it, improve on it? What am I missing, guys?
I mean. So Washington state medically
legalized cannabis in 1998, justfor everybody to know, it didn't
go recreational until 2014. Even with that being said, the

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medical market started 2010. We're talking about 20 plus
years before there was even a market for what was going on.
It was just more or less, how doI put this?
It was more or less a medicationor they were used for scientific
needs. Once the medical market started
in Washington state, it was one of those that kind of blew up

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like it did here in Texas. And before Washington state went
recreational, they did the same thing where they forced majority
of the medical out and then theyopened up recreationally.
The huge gap for that though wasis once again regulation.
They gave it to their liquor andControl Board in Washington
state, which was an entity set up to be able to cover the state

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for its liquor side, but there was nobody there to settle to
cover for its cannabis side. So there was another two year
process to even get people in trained, aware of what they
should be looking for. I was in that industry for 10
plus years and I can tell you I ran at least four different
shops and I could see a new cannabis Control Board guy every
three months. Wow.

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A lot of turnover. It's not even a lot of turnover,
it's just as they expand, you'retaking the old guy from one spot
and putting them out somewhere new and bringing in a new person
and slowly training and going onand so forth.
Got. You because it was growing
rapidly. But it's something that has to
be built upon. Like you said, it's not going to
be a magic wand or a light or something that's just going to
flash and everything's going to be set up.

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I would suggest, at least in my opinion, take some, like you
said, some of the best of what other states have that are
working and then more or less try to figure out a way to
implement them for Texas. With regulation does come
revenue and it's more than just taxes or being able to, you
know, tax licenses or anything like that.
But the jobs that it brings as far as those people who have to

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monitor said regulations, I mean, that is, that is a state
job right there. That's that's another revenue
for Texas that should be looked at.
Yep, interesting. So you know, moving
forward-looking forward, let's let's assume that Governor

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Abbott vetoes the the bill, right operations or business as
usual is there is there going tobe change?
What what do you see? What do you think?
I, I will still try to do the best I can to stay on the front
end of what regulations I think should be in place and that I
think will come, but it will make a huge difference.

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And a lot of people you know, not just financially but in
quality of life. Whether he does or not, but I
think that the potential I don'tknow that it's going to be for
me business back to normal for some people that will be they're
in the industry for a different reason.

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For me, my next thing will be how, you know, how do I now
represent the industry the best I can.
So as we continue to move forward, because they're going
to have another legislature session in two years, you know,
and. We're back to square 1.
We could be back to square one again.
This is something we've been fighting every time.

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It's not, it's not new. We went through it with the
Delta 8 ban that they tried to do and because of COVID did
behind closed doors and, you know, didn't become law.
So the the best thing is for everybody to kind of play nice
in a sense and the industry do its part and representing itself

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properly. The state do its job in allowing
us to do it properly. And I don't think that anybody
in the industry for the right reason has a problem paying any
kind of taxes or fees or anything that's associated with
operating. And that's what they need to

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implement. They've got to to create the
revenue for themselves to implement the structure they
need to regulate this stuff. And it starts by, you know,
checking licenses and the scale we used.
For instance, we deal with Texasagriculture and the same as if
we were selling corn, wheat or whatever meat like a meat

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market, you know, we have a state approved calibrated scale.
There's all kinds of ways that if people were doing it
properly, the state's going to see their money come in for.
Sure, for sure. So besides SB3, what have been

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some some of the biggest challenges that you guys have
had to overcome, whether that belike inside your industry or I
mean even, you know, opening up a new store, What are some of
the biggest challenges that you guys as a business owner have
have faced? There's all kinds of struggles,
you know, I put them upon myself, so I take them in stride

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and and keep moving. We all have our different
strengths. So for instance, my struggles
will come in back office stuff. Other people might have
different struggles like openinga store.
I don't have a problem feeling opening building a store, but I

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struggle in back office. So that's kind of person
specific. I think there's nobody holding
people up from operating. So if you're talking about
industry wide there, there's nota reason you can't go open a
shop, a little bit of paperwork online, which I have to have
support to do and that's it. I remember in setting this up,

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I, I told you, I'm going to sendyou an e-mail, you know, so we
can work out all the details. And you're like, man, I, I don't
read emails. I'm not.
You're not going to get a response from me.
I'm not that guy. Is that what you got James here
for? James does all my reading for
me. He's.
Your AI, he's he's the AI bot that summarizes your emails.
I've seen numbers in a matrix, so I don't need him to do my

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math, but he's got to do all thereading, yeah.
Yeah, that's awesome. James, what about you?
I mean, I, I get maybe you're not necessarily an owner, but
like as a as a manager and operating the shop, what are
some of the challenges that thatyou have to overcome?
I know when I talk to business owners a lot in the retail space
in general or like managers in the retail space, turnover is

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huge for you guys in terms of employees.
Is that something that you guys face?
I mean, in this growing industry, turnover is always
gonna be huge. One of the luckiest things, at
least for us anyway, is that we have a couple of good solid
employees that have been there for a couple of years that are
willing to get dirty and get down and get those hours and,

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you know, do what they have to do to make sure that we stay
running. As far as some of the biggest
challenges, I wouldn't say turnover.
I say more of training or product knowledge.
You know, coming in as a new staffer, sometimes you're a
little green. You don't, you know, and having
to pick up, you have to be able to pick up information quickly

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and be able to not only remember, but disseminate back.
And it it's, it's a beast and it'll churn you out if you're
not correct. You you guys mentioned that most
of your employees are are certified.
Like what? What does that certification
look like? How do you guys get it?
They're required within the 1st 90 days to take it.
It's one of the ways since I've grown to the point where I can't

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physically be involved in training every individual that
I'd make them do. It's a it's a good course and
that's something the state needsto do the same as you have a TBC
license to serve alcohol. But James is more familiar with
the course because he has to explain it to everybody.

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Cannabis Training University It's an online course.
It's gives you up to 90 days to take the course.
You can do it at your own leisure within that 90 days.
So that means you sit down and you banging out in the first
four or five hours. It's totally up to you at the
end of the course. It does give you 10 different
certifications within the cannabis industry all the way

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from growing up to medical dispensary and proper dosing and
not only that but also being able to run a retail business.
Like I said, the courses it's somewhat of self-explanatory,
like you walk your way through it.
The information is is a lot to need to know and some of it's
somewhat basic, but I mean it's a great course to have under

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your belt to be honest with you.Anybody can take it or.
Is it it's, It's not limited to people in the industry.
If you go online and hop on and take the course, you'll be able
to get the same certificate I have, but it'll give you the
same information that I have. Interesting, very cool.
When you know, I know we talked about kind of like your, your I,

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I know you guys are really involved with the Lolo car show
which. Is coming up in November.
In November. I wish I I wish I knew the date.
OK, should have looked on that. That's all right.
Well, maybe we'll have you back as we of course in November.
You can, you can talk about a little bit more for sure, but
you so you guys do that. Besides that, what other kind of

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community events did you guys that you guys have, I know you
you have something on 4/20, but like what impact do you see your
business having on the the greater San Antonio community?
Well, I think one of the big things is, you know, we have an
event where we do stuff for the community and free stuff and

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make it fun. But I think the bigger impact is
just the the jobs and the tax money we can provide for the
city. I mean to be straight up about
it is is you know, we've unemployed again over 30
something people and all my taxes are paid payroll taxes,

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sales taxes. And I think that's a big
contribution to the city when you're talking about millions of
dollars. Yeah, it's interesting you don't
see a lot of business owners talk about being willing to pay
tax, you know? I've said from the beginning, so
long as they will let me operate, I'm willing to pay any
tax that they imply on to the industry or put on the industry.

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Because for me, it's not just about, you know, the, the money
side of it. The this is a plant that's
supposed to be in people's livesand help them heal.
It may not be for everybody, butthere's a lot of us that would
not have the same quality of life without it.
For sure. Yeah, I mean, sure, there's a

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ton of use cases, right? Especially people with mental
health issues, people with, you know, PTSD, I hear veterans use
it often, people with a lot of ailments, you know, body aches
and things like that. So I mean that that there was a
whole that was a whole reason why it was medically available

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before it was available, available recreationally, right.
Yes. Yeah, there's, I mean, there's
several cases, the most popular ones, probably the, you know,
the girl with Charlotte's Web that helped with seizures.
That's, that was a big one from years back.
But I mean, it goes into there'speople that I've helped in the

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store that literally haven't left the house in years.
Their family members would come in and I would start working
with them. And my shop was like their first
safe place out of the house and help work them back into society
besides just chronic pain and other situations.

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Looking back over the years, since you've, you know, been
open for six years now, what's one thing, what's 1 lesson that
you wish you would have learned way earlier to kind of help
propel you forward? Making the, not that I didn't
sacrifice a lot, but making the sacrifice to hire the right

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people instead of thinking I could do everything or trying to
save a couple bucks an hour or something like that.
And it's still something I learned, you know, and learning
how to manage now even, but the payroll and hiring the right
team is very important for people to to recognize very

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early on you, you get what you pay for in life and that comes
with labor as well. Yeah, yeah.
One of the things that you know,I've I've heard a lot of
business owners, managers talk about is building the right
culture for your for your team. What do you think the culture
culture looks like with your with your stores?

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I don't know if you're employeesfrom all the stores kind of know
each other. Do you just have like little
built in communities and and thedifferent retail stores that you
that you have, how do you guys keep that that culture going?
I mean, we all know each other. They're all able to communicate
and talk to each other. We have a group chat that
everybody's a part of. Each store has its own group

(30:54):
chat. Not only that, but we do have
events where everybody from certain stores do show up to be
able to help represent, you know, the store and the brand.
The 420 event, the low, low showwhere we were all out trying to
make sure that everybody knew that we were there.
I mean, for us, I want to go as far as saying a family, but I
would say that we're all in thisindustry to make sure that it

(31:15):
succeeds. They're, they're all involved in
the community too. And I set them up that way and I
try to hire people that are fromthe community so they can
understand the people they're, they're dealing with, right.
But each store is set up for itsown community and the staff as

(31:36):
well. Yeah, nice.
In terms of in terms when you think of legacy, what does
legacy look like for you guys? For Green Botanical, what does
it look like for your community?What does it look like for your
business? What does it look like for your
family? You know, the SB3 is going to
have a big impact on that, but where we're at right now, I'm

(31:58):
actually happy and comfortable with and even if it does pass, I
see a brighter side coming. But I I think that being one of
the first ones that truly brung medical quality cannabis and

(32:19):
education to Texas for me is a big thing.
That's that's something I feel will be passed down through my
employees, through my consumers,through my business for a long
time to come. Nice.
That's awesome, man. James, what about you?
What does the legacy look like for you?

(32:40):
Legacy for me, to be honest withyou, I got into this industry
for a career. It wasn't for a status quo or to
I'm here to make sure that our patients get the medical
requirements they need to be able to have a great quality of
life. That's literally what I'm here
for. Legacy makes no difference to me
as long as that every person that walks through our door come

(33:01):
leaves. But what they need to be able to
continue being happy, and that'swhat I'm doing.
Yeah, that's awesome. We, all of our employees make a
huge impact. He's being a little humble as I
am as well. But, you know, we make a huge
impact on, on thousands of people daily, yeah.
And their quality of life. James will have his own legacy.

(33:24):
He's touched hundreds, if not thousands of people already
working for me here. What Commission?
I hope well. In a in a different way.
You know, in a different way. I've always said like our shops
are a potheads bar and that's one of the reasons I don't do
the smoking lounge and this and that is I want people to come in

(33:47):
and feel like they can be open to us so that we can help them
through whatever situation. And I think a lot of my
employees will, you know, or from this or making their legacy
as we speak and they're gonna grow in the industry or beyond.

(34:08):
Yeah, nice. Well, guys, thanks so much for
coming on the show, man. It's this was really helpful to
learn about what you guys are doing, to learn about your
industry a little bit more and to really just kind of get to
know you guys and your vision for green botanicals and what
you guys are hoping to accomplish with that.
If people wanted to like reach out to you guys, they find you

(34:29):
on social media and I know, I know you don't do e-mail very
well, but come visit you in the store.
Like how should people reach outto you guys?
I always welcome people into thestore and I make sure everybody
leaves with something in their hand and a smile.
It doesn't matter if you came inwith a dollar or 100, but I

(34:49):
always welcome people into the store that you can find us on
Google depending on what area ofof the San Antonio Metroplex
you're in. You want to.
Get a phone number, James. Green Botanicals Instagram We
have green botanicals and in green botanical was XSTXTX or

(35:11):
some SATX. Well, we're going to link it in
the show notes, so it'll. Be I have two Instagrams, so the
the San Antonio Instagram, it has its own Instagram.
It's for fun, for community, forfestivals, and I keep the other
one, you know, set up with education and sales and stuff
like that. So we'll, we'll be sure to link

(35:33):
them. We'll put your website on the
show on the on the show notes aswell, so people can find your
locations as well. Guys, thanks so much for coming
out, Sean and James with green botanicals.
Green, by the way, it's spelled like the city GRUENE.
There we go. Groom if you ask a local there.
Green Botanical, Sean and and James, thank you guys so much

(35:55):
for coming on the show. Thank you once again for tuning
in to another episode of Chingo and SA.
We'll see you guys next week wondering.
I spent my life just traveling.

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