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August 7, 2024 15 mins
How did the first day of recreational weed sales go?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'd like to start off by thanking Chuck Douglas for

(00:03):
bringing lunch in today.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
And he had a whole.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Slew of those dollar tacos for sheets, and I am
here to tell you they are worth every single penny.
And I was just asking Zach if he tried one. Josh,
you passed on trying one today, but I asked Zach
if he tried one, and he said, yeah, he ate
most of it, but was saying he really really liked

(00:27):
it as well. I cannot believe those are dollar tacos.
And I don't know how they get the shell to
stay crispy either, because it seems like if you're longer
than about three or four minutes on a crispy on
a crispy taco from Taco Bell, it is like it

(00:49):
goes sog city on you, soggy city on you.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
So anyway, thank you Chuck for bringing those in.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Incredibly tasty, incredibly tasty and uh, thoroughly impressed. And so
even though it's what it is today, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's not Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I was thinking it might have been Tuesday as in taco,
but it was Taco Wednesday today as well. So yeah,
have you had those before or no, you've never negative ghostwriter. Okay,
I have not had those before.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I normally I would have taken them up on that offer,
but I just I don't know. I've been eating a
lot of a lot of Mexican ish lately, and ironically
we just went to All Vico so mm hmm, it's
a cowboy yes, all right, well okay, that's uh so.

(01:42):
I just wasn't in the mood for a taco, That's
all it was.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I got you. But I will try those now.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I did ask him and and everyone we were in
both an agreement with the Mazarella sticks.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
That sheets are pretty spectacular. They're really good. Yeah, those
are really good.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Matter of fact, I don't know anything there that you
would order and you go, yeah, it's suck.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I just haven't. I haven't seen any.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
I hear.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
They have a decent chicken sandwich. Their wings supposedly are
really really good too.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Their chicken wings. All right, I'm like I have so
I'm thoroughly impressed with that. But Chuck, that's very generous
of you. Thank you, very much, very very much. Oh boy,
here we are, Hey Jim, welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
Hey, aye, guys. Hey. The reason they have the that
those shells don't get soggy is because they put a
non nutritive food varnish on them.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Okay, Clark Griswold, there you go, you got the reference.
Good job, great show, guys. I'll let you go and
have a great day.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Thanks. I'm glad we passed your test.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's how he kept That's how Clark make sure the
cereal didn't get soggy.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
He explains it. And Christmas Vacation, right.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
You know, as many times as I've seen that movie,
I still didn't get the reference. Just now, I'm glad
you picked up on it, because I still don't.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't really. That was in Christmas Vacation.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Christmas Vacation where he's explaining how he keeps the flakes
from getting soggy.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Gotcha, hey.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I will say also that I had a friend that
did some research on the recreational weed here in the
city and how she went to a dispensary.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
No, actually he didn't, Oh he did not. I will
tell you.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
He did some research via online and said, do you
understand now, I don't know that this is it was
just one place, but he was telling me that it
is way more expensive than what he is used to
paying for the same amount, and he was talking about Flower,
so it was it was shockingly more than what he's

(03:58):
able to and or pay for. So I wonder if
we're going to have that kind of a competition with
you know, Michigan for instance, because it's it's clearly available.
They are just absurd, he said, he was just like, man,
it was really Now. I don't know if that will
calm down once a lot of the other brick and

(04:20):
mortars start opening. But I believe ten in the Columbus
area is what I heard during one of the news reports.
Ten in the Columbus area and then of course a
bunch in the outlying areas. But I feel like maybe
that comes down once they you know, I don't know,
are they just hitting you over the head right now
because there's a mad rush for it. So some of

(04:41):
the footage that I've seen that was, you know, on
the news, they were it looked like there were people
down the street waiting, like out the door.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
And did you see any of that. I saw a.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Couple of pictures on one of the local news yes,
last night.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, but you know, anybody who's done any exploring yet, no,
all my.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
People I know who smoke just they still continue to
get it from Michigan. They haven't and I plus none
of them wanted to deal with the pain in the
ass of the lines yesterday.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well that and then there are a lot of people
also who are getting it, you know, getting it through
the way that they get it here locally, whether that
be you know, somebody that they know, is the way
that they're getting it. And I'm telling you, these dispensaries
are gonna I don't know, how is it advantageous for
somebody who's like, look, I've been getting it this way

(05:33):
for a long time, I'm gonna go there and pay more?
Why why would I do that?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, they they're gonna learn the hard way if they
don't figure this out. And besides, every weed is everywhere.
Everybody has weed. It is not hard you walk into
I can call twenty people right now, I guarantee I
can get weed. Just because it's just so prevalent. I
don't see any need or reason to why anyone would

(06:01):
go to a dispensary when it's just literally everywhere.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
The only thing that I can think that I've heard
people vocalize is they want to go if they go
to a brick and mortar. They know that they're not
going to get anything that is stupid, and you know,
maybe something happened to it whatever, and then they have
some sort of bad reaction that's not going to happen
at a dispensary. It's probably a little more solid. Would

(06:26):
you agree with that? Out, Yeah, it's definitely vented, you know.
So Yeah, Hey, Mike, welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
Hey, a couple of weeks, six weeks ago, I was
paying twenty five dollars for a two point eighty three
grams and now that same product is forty five dollars.
It's gone up that much since we've become time to
sell it on the market. They've just been jacking prices up.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
So let me ask you, then, the price that you
quoted before was from a dispensary or just from.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, dispensary prices have gone way up, Matt.
You're going to make a black market is all they're doing.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, So here out here in Ohio, Mike, they switched,
is what you're talking about here in Ohio. Okay, you
didn't specifically say that, but I wanted to confirm that
that's what you met. So you go to a specific place,
so it's the same exact place, same exact stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
And it went up that much.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
Sure in the last in the last four months.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, you have to be going, hey, are you saying
something to the people there, going what's going on here?

Speaker 5 (07:33):
And they just tell you that day that's the way
it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Wow, and you go, unless I feel like driving to Michigan.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
Michigan's a better deal.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
No, I mean that's what That's the word on the
street right now is well, it's the way they do
it is better.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
You walk in there, you walk around, you get to
try things, look at things, touch things here, you get
what's on the screen. Yeah, I'll try that. And you're
out the door there you actually talk to somebody. They
have big things. You can smell it, you can talk
to him about it. You can buy it already pre rolled.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
You can't buy pre rolls here. No, what are we doing?
Are they going to change that or is that just
an initial thing? I don't think so, they don't know yet.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
I see no reason ever to go to a dispensary
in Ohio at the if they're jacking the price is up.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
You can't touch anything.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
You can't see anything, and and you can't even get
a pre roll, like what is what?

Speaker 2 (08:33):
What's thanks? Mike?

Speaker 1 (08:35):
All right, Mike was done with us. Stupid Mike had
to hang up. He was in search of a better deal.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
I was just dumb. Hey, Chuck, welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Hey, how's it going?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Hey good man? How you doing?

Speaker 4 (08:49):
I heard you all right, I heard you guys talking
about the dispensary and I was there yesterday. I'm a
medical marijuana user and that's how I got started, I
guess should say. And like yesterday, I know, if you
were what might be called, well, a recreational believer or
a recreational type person, you went in and you were

(09:12):
in line for whatever length of time it took. But
being a medical marijuana person, we were automatically shipped in
as long as we did our previous online stuff as well.
So you know, you get an ordered and then you
go in and pick it up. And like when I
was in yesterday, it took me about five minutes, but
there were probably thirty people.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Wait, explain this process? What do you want? They jumped
the line? You jump the line? Is that what you do?
You go? You go to the front.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Well, I think in this particular case, the reason is
is because you know, with the medical marijuana where you did,
we know the if you will, we know the format,
how to get in and so forth, which is really
just going online and doing your due diligence and getting
that ordered, and then when you go to pick it up,
your name's already. You know, you're already in there. When

(10:02):
you go up to the counter, I'll just tell you
to get in line. But you know, yeah, because of
a medical marijuana and I think because of a I
don't really know. I don't know what they're thinking is,
but I was told the day before it started that
you know, if the medical marijuana people would be treated
the way they always have been, which basically meant when
we went in, we had our order there, we go

(10:23):
up to the counter, they ship us right in and
they you know, we get our stuff. So now how
long that's going to last, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
You walk up to basically, so what it is is
you go, hey, it's like pick them up a prescription
at Kroger. It's like okay, you give them your name
and they have it ready for you. And then all
you're doing is just waiting on them to go into
back and retrieve it.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Yeah. I mean you know, so when you like, when
you're letting, at least where I go. When you're let
in the back room, they already have your order and
you're just waiting for your name to be called and
then you go and pick it up. But how you
can in the back room, of course, is reporting in first,
and that's where you would normally show like your your
ID and your medical marijuana card and uh. And then

(11:10):
you know, once you've done that, they say, okay, you're ready.
The way I saw it, Yes, did.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
They ask for your medical card? Now did you have
to produce that? Now that it's wreck is legal.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Uh, you can still show it? Which yeah, well, in
this particular case, the main reason I showed it was
because that got me through the door.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Quicker, gotcha? Okay.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Now whether or not that yeah, like I said, whether
or not that's going to continue because I think what
the deal is. I mean, I know they were already
aware that they were going to get hammered right off
the start, so they may have you know, kind of
done some things up front until people get familiar with
the process and then it should go a lot smooth.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
I understand. All right, Chuck, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
There are a lot of I think there are a
lot of medicinal people who they stopped up right before
all this started, most of them, Chuck is I feel
almost like a little bit of a unicorn there. There
are people who medicinally have been partaking for you know,
the better part of the you know, a year or
two however long it's been legal medicinally here in Ohio.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
And they are going to.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
I feel like, kind of get ahead of the game
there and stock up so they can miss that initial rush.
But something like that happening, I mean, clearly, why would
you bother?

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Then?

Speaker 3 (12:27):
It sounds like he didn't really explain that as well
as I had hoped. But I get the just now
of what he's saying is that he ordered it online.
You ordered it online because he's you know, yes, and
it was ready, yeah. And when he got there he
said they shuffle, he kept some word he kept using

(12:48):
to the front or whatever. But it sounds like to me,
it's no different than walking up to Kroger.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
So I feel like it's almost like Uber eats. When
you go into a place that you're going to order
and you haven't you haven't ordered via that way, and
you'll see drivers come in and they go right up
and their stuff's already packaged and sitting there. Well, they
pick it up and they're gone. Well it sounded like
he was all of that and then he's like the driver,

(13:15):
except they they moved him through faster than everybody standing
in line. So there was probably wreck weed people.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Well, I think I had more to do with the
fact that he had pre ordered it. Yes, I think
that is what what do you call that expediated his process?

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, So New Albany now enacting its own ban. The
vote came on the same day the sales of wreck
marijuana started here in Ohio, City Council yesterday passed legislation
that prohibits cultivation, processing, and retail dispensing of marijuana for
w recuse.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
At the time.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
When council put in the ban for medical marijuana in
twenty seventeen, the city sided the fact that the federal
government continues to outlaw marijuana notice discussion on Tuesday before
the band was approved by counsel. The ordinance says the
prohibition is in the best interest of the community's health, safety,
and welfare. The government is helping you out in New Albany.
They're gonna help you be safe and have you, but

(14:15):
they want to they want to make sure.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
You're healthy and that you're welfare.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
I have to just be honest. I'm not a huge
fan of the New Albany. We have some great, loyal,
amazing listeners. There's some great, amazing, incredible Ohioans and Americans
that live in New Albany. I understand that, but just
the way the actual city operates and so forth, like

(14:40):
every single building looks the same.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Their ordinance is different, you are correct.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
And the fence thing that they got going on, which
I'm just like, uh okay, yeah, I'm just not surprised
that New Albany would saying no, no, no, we don't
want show mero woma.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Listen here. You can keep going demon wing, you can
go on to Columbus, go to where the peasants are,
because they're not here in New Albany. That's right. Don't
come here looking for the devil's are devils are so
there it is.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
The Ornate says the prohibition is in the best interests
of the community's health, safety, and welfare because.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Nobody in New Albany smokes marijuana. Nobody, not one single person. No,
there isn't a single New Albany Height that would ever
be dare caught dead with a joint.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
New Albany Height, New Albany.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
And New Albanians, New Albanians.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
The San Diegans whatever San Diego in Sandy White, the
white fence people,
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