September 23, 2025 • 28 mins
Bill takes the show straight to the source—the lobby of MJ Dispensary in Henrietta—for a conversation that’s as enlightening as it is… let’s just say, a little smoky. He’s joined by Michelle, MJ’s HR and Events Director (aka the woman who makes sure the vibes are professional and festive), and Grace, the official “Bud Trainer” (yes, that’s a real job title, not Bill’s new gym routine).
Together, they cover everything from the surprising health benefits of marijuana and the risks of some over-the-counter pain relievers, to why the medical community might lean into cannabis more in the future. Plus, Bill floats his own theory on why marijuana will stay federally illegal—and it’s one you’ll definitely want to chew on (preferably not in edible form, but hey, your choice).
On the lighter side, you’ll get the inside scoop on MJ’s big expansion, how you can join the MJ family, and the can’t-miss “Halloweed Party” that’s guaranteed to be a joint effort in fun.
Whether you’re curious about cannabis, passionate about legalization, or just in it for the puns, this episode of Billified: The Bill Moran Podcast is sure to keep your spirits high.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.
Together, they cover everything from the surprising health benefits of marijuana and the risks of some over-the-counter pain relievers, to why the medical community might lean into cannabis more in the future. Plus, Bill floats his own theory on why marijuana will stay federally illegal—and it’s one you’ll definitely want to chew on (preferably not in edible form, but hey, your choice).
On the lighter side, you’ll get the inside scoop on MJ’s big expansion, how you can join the MJ family, and the can’t-miss “Halloweed Party” that’s guaranteed to be a joint effort in fun.
Whether you’re curious about cannabis, passionate about legalization, or just in it for the puns, this episode of Billified: The Bill Moran Podcast is sure to keep your spirits high.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/billified-the-bill-moran-podcast--5738193/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
On location.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm driven by or Dots G. Brown. It's Billified the
Bill Moran Podcast. Well, hello and welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Thanks for getting your pot on or should I say
your pot on today because we were at MJ Dispensary
where we just recorded the third podcast, right.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Michelle is all excited. They've got their big hollowed.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Events on October twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, twelve to five. It's a Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Come on, yeah, man, have fun, put on a costume,
be something.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Costume contest, just say costume contest, Pumpkin carving contest, carving contest,
other games and prizes. We have our big Wheel.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Just a couple of things about MG, real quick expansion
is happening. Yes, this is to me amazing and there's
gonna be one I'm going to say on the far
west side and the far east side of Monroe County. Correct,
honeyways still in Monroe County, right.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I believe follows is still Monroe County.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Which is perfect because you're right out in that, you know, Pittsford,
Fairport to get all those Yes, that's fantastic, and these
are going to open in the next couple of months.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yep, I would say within the next two to three
months is what we're shooting for. I mean, right, can
be bumps in the road, you never know, but that's
our goal, right, Okay, Yeah, it's going to be phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It is. It's very exciting.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I'm doing a lot of hiring right now. Intent anybody
got a resume and three references.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Drop them off, right, And who's sitting with you today.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
This is Grace. She's one of our lead bud tenders.
She's phenomenal. She she's also is now we declared her
our lead trainer, real training people. She's been very good.
We brought on a couple of new employees.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, and she's got to train them all.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
She's taken the rain.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah. Yeah, uh, phenomenal. What what's your I'm going to
ask you, like what's your weed journey?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But like what is that?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Because well, you know, you come here and you've got
to if you're it's really about education, right, I mean,
there's so many different strains. The's somebody I used to
joke like you need a restrictor plate on weed nowadays
because you know, you get the wrong thing and it's like, hey,
i'll see you, I'll see you in the spring. You
know what I mean, right in three days, and I
(02:29):
just think that it. I think it's amazing what has
happened in New York State. I wish it would go
at the federal level. And we seem to be a
little silly with this stuff. Maybe the things should have
been reversed. Maybe there there should have been more regulations
on alcohol and not so much and weed. But whatever
that aside kind of you know, where did you get
your education and interest?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Was it the hallways of your high school?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
And then I don't know, I think after college ye
just kind of like helped me a lot, you know,
in terms of getting into like adulthood over anxiety and yeah,
I don't know, I think it helped me a lot.
And then I started learning more and more like through
my partner, and started like growing some plants, okay, started
(03:23):
watching some fun videos about all the processes of creating
the oils and you know, currying the flower and such, and.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Where did you go to college? And what? Four?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I went to college the College of Saint.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Rose, Yeah, which I think is no longer right, no longer.
That's just sad. It's kind of sad because that was
a really I assume music niche were.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yeah, I went from music industry and they were really
niche with a few different things like music industry, not
many places. What else was there?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I remember a friend of mine when I graduated, and
I'm bazillion years older than you, wanted to go to
Saint Rose and I think in but there was some
financial restraints on it. And what was like that was
considered one of the best in the area now by Albany. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
So you went for music, music and business, music and business. Sure, No,
(04:17):
that's great, that's like see you again.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Smart. So here we go here, that's smart, that's like
thinking ahead here.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
No, I gotta have some knowledge. I don't want to
get screwed on the contract kind of thing. That's the
kind of thinking that's going on in that.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And so from how did you end up with MJ
and the love of Weed? And I say love of it?
And I know it sounds bad maybe the way I'm
phrasing it, But what I mean is the knowledge, Right
you like helping people?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, I mean I just also love to learn as well.
So I mean I went from bartending to this, which
I think was a very easy maneuver.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Sure, I think I called those transferable skills, right yeah,
a way to talk to people, right yeah, looking for
an escape.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
That kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yep. But then I don't know, I think I just
love to learn, and so this provide me with an
opportunity to, like I already knew a lot, sure, learn
even more. And I just love the fact of like
helping people out and getting them to be a little
bit more knowledgeable themselves.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And right yeah, and then all the training stuff. So
what goes on in it in like training like.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Our buttender training on Wednesday, so the vendor will come in,
they give us their speel on the company, how the
company came about, and then whatever products they have they
teach us, whether if it's a vape or concentrate gummies,
how those are made. In the process of making those,
they'll bring in like products for us, Like if it's flour,
(05:47):
they bring in the flower, We sniff it, we can
feel it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Really, Oh yeah, wow, this is.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, it's like a good forty five minutes to an
hour training. They bring us breakfast too, so it's like
in samples they bring us. Yeah, you know it's nice.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's well, it's the way you it should be done.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh yeah, And it's the respect I mean, especially for
the new people coming in who don't know the products
we have on the shelves, right.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I think it's really important to to like meet the
people behind the brand as well.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, so you can know their story. Yeah, that's true
because it's their journeys.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, it's such a thing. Like doctor Dankenstein was one
of my favorite people.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, he's amazing. He's like just a big lovable bear.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He is he is, He's cool. He's cool as ship too.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I think it's it's it's fantastic. I love the fact
that there's the expansion and stuff, but I always worry, like, uh,
maybe it's more the edibles.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I grew up down by Woodstock, so weed was always around.
Uh not my not my house. My parents were not
into that at all, but my friend's parents were. Like
I got high with a friend's mom.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
We did this.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
People would make pop brownies, you know, and so the edibles.
And I had a teacher in high school who would
say to me all the time, if you're going to
smoke it, smoke it through a bong because the heat
on a joint can melt the soldering on a roach
Cliff smoke it through a water bond, and that's what
he would say to me. I don't know if this
is true or I'm just telling you what he said,
And this is nineteen eighties, eighty five, eighty seven somewhere
(07:28):
in there. And then he would say the best way
to consume it is to eat it, because you know,
you don't want that heat in your lungs.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
You don't want that, so you would eat it.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But the problem with eating it when it was made
in brownie for stuff is you Yeah, but it was
never evenly distributed. Somebody who eat at one end of
the brownie pan was fucked up for days and the
other person's like, hey man, I don't think anything happened, right, right,
So that was always it. And then the uh I
find though with sometimes with the gummies if I don't
know what I'm doing. I had a whole incident one
(08:01):
summer where a friend of mine gave me a gummy. Yeah,
we're down on uh Cuca Lake, and.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Then we're at his house and we're drinking, of course.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And then then.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, then he throws me a gummy. UH swears it's
five milligram. Nobody believes us. We get we get on
the boat. We go to another house, big party, everything
hanging out, and all of.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
A sudden, I'm like, I'm gonna get sick.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So I run into the bathroom and then I Michelle,
I had to crawl out. I crawl into the bed,
the perfectly made bed, and I just crawl up and
like I had to pass out for a while. But
not only is it not I.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Didn't even know the people's, did not.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Even know the people's whose house it was. I see
them all the time now, and I'm always like, oh
my god, I want to die. But it's like this big,
beautiful home right on Cuca Lake, and you know there's
all these people hanging out and park in their boats,
and you know they're drinking and having a good time.
And I am like gone, and I go that's the
bad part. And I think that sometimes turns people away
(09:14):
from what is a healthy alternative.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh yeah, that's why the legal markets the best, because
you know how much you're eating, and know how much
you're getting, you know what's in it that you're consuming. Also,
I mean I remember those days making brownies, making gummies.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And how do you make gummies?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oh, it's so easy, is it really?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh yeah, wait, you know how to make gummies too,
I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Guess I've seen it.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I've done it. You see. I prefer making oils instead
of butter can of oil and once there, what.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Do you do like cook things in it? Like instead
of like olive oil, you're throwing a panty, you.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Throw your.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
In the thc well oil. But like my best friend
and I, we always wanted the cheat way of making
gummies because it tasts so long. You gotta do the gelatine.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You gotta do this that.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
So we would buy Swedish fish and gummy bears and
we melted them and then just in a pot we
would infuse the oil with it and made like fruit
roll ups.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Okay, oh yeah, it was great. I love sweetish fish.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh yeah. I mean it was more expensive to make
that way, but it was so easy to make and
they were very tasty.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Now, and I was saying this to you on your
podcast or pot cast.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Excuse me, get it right, get it right, get it right.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Bell that alcohol you're starting to hear like no consumption
is ever good for you scientifically. Right now, I will
tell you I love to drink alcohol. Was glorified in
my household growing up. My dad, who wouldn't touch weed,
was you know, mister doctor in philosophy and.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Educator and all this love to get.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Hammered, I mean just loved it right. Used to buy
what was called the cocktails for two. You could buy
these pre made. They were called cocktails for two, so
old that the thing was had a styrofoam label on it,
and I used to try to peel it off without.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
As a kid. Yeah, well I'm a little older than you,
not by much.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And they so in the big fight in the house
was my mother screaming, he buys cocktails for two, but
they're really for one.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I could drink it all right, So, but it was
always glorified. This is what dad did to relax when
Mom wasn't.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Home, and he would make a big dinner, have the
house sparkling clean before she came home. He'd be helping
us with homework, but you would notice his tolerance would drop.
And it wasn't just orange juice he was drinking. And
then E would start singing to me as we're doing
the homework, and I couldn't figure out.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You are so stupid that I am so smart true. True,
you wonder why I'm fucked up, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
But but the point being that now we're starting to
get that education the other way on alcohol. Oh yeah,
And I would love to know what's being said about marijuana.
And I don't know in schools are they starting to
say there's medicinal benefits to it? I mean, look, I
had that one cool teacher, right, I mean I think
if any teacher was told her that he was telling
(12:26):
us that, they probably would have been filed.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Sure they don't talk about I mean, like I said,
my son is a senior now, but they don't talk
about it. And like the health classes at all in
the high school. He said, interesting, which I I think
personally they shouldn't talk about it. Okay, I think that
should be a parent's responsibility. No, I educate your children
right on marijuana, legal and illegal, right, I mean in
(12:54):
the alcohol too. I mean I get it. I grew
up in the family like yours. My dad was a
car salesman my whole life. Come home, crack open a beer,
sure weekends he'd have his dry Southern comfort Manhattan with
a twist. Yeah. After he passed away, my brother and
I took my mom out to eat and we tried
one in memory of my dad.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That thing was so.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Fucking discussed fuel that that's like, you know all those
cars that blow out fire to go down to the dragway.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
It's putting the octape.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I mean I grew up where Okay, I'm in fifth
grade here, Michell, I'll have a beer. Yeah, okay, it
was okay, yeah, I mean, and I'm not far off
from your age. I grew up in the eighties. We're
in the seventies, okay, I mean so yeah, I mean
part family parties, Me and my cousins would be running
around with half drank beers that our dads.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Would give us. I mean that's yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
So what's the difference of I grew up with alcohol
prominent or if my son grows up with marijuana prominent.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, I think the difference is what's the difference. I
do think there's a difference. I think that alcohol is remorse. Yeah,
I don't think there's ever any I was never told
drink responsibly. No, you had a Frank a newer podcast
which will be come now talk about consumption, right but proper.
(14:15):
I don't know if I'm using the right term, but
appropriate consumption. We'll say and to me that that is
what it's about, because there's so many things. You know,
we talk about just the sleep, talk about people with
and I'm going to say this wrong, but I hear
a lot of people talk about fibromyalgia.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I have fibromiologia.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh well look at me, just step into that one.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
No, len is a miracle drum, This is what I'm saying. Yeah,
I was on three different prescriptions, and you and I
have talked about how my doctor took me off all
my mads. I feel most my pain in my back,
my feet, in my hands. I will do either smoke
a little bit when I first wake up, so when
I get to work, I'm not stupid high. But it
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really is my pain.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
No, what it takes to relieve the relieve the pain.
So it would be like taking a time on all
or Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
For an average person would be like ibuprofen. But sometimes
the pain gets so bad an average person would want
a narcotic. That's how bad my pain can get. In
my hands, well, I mean yeah, a lot of times
I'm walking around here, I'm like, can you open this?
My hands aren't working today because fibromagia. It like it mirrors,
like if I'm having an issue on the left side,
the right side will be exactly the same, hands, knees, feet, head.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
What is that fibromyalgia? It is like an inflammation.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
It's an inflammation of your nerves. It's there's still controversy
over the exact disease because people say doctors made it
up because they couldn't find a diagnosis for people who
had these pains. They thought it was in their head.
I mean, it's very similar to rheumatoila.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
So many people were nuts. We just gave it exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It was like everybody basically that's basically.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Is so fed up.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's what the medical community was.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You're crazy, but we're going to give it to you.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, we're gonna okay, we're gonna make up this. And
other people, like in the insurance industries and other medical practices,
they're like, no, this is not a real disease.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You need to dig right.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It is and it's very common in females and it's
more common in males. Little do people know, and the
medications do not help men. I have seen three people man, Okay, wait.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
When you say don't help men.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
The first thing I think it is, and I'm not
trying to be crashed, but some kind of sexual problem.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, no, not that way. No, it does not.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Cause Okay, you know there's stuff to counter that.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Oh yeah, but like this gummy in here. Actually, we
do have marijuana for everything.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I told you, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
But like the medications don't help with the inflammation and
the pain for some reason with men. I honestly don't
know the scientific backing behind it. I don't know if
it has something to do with testosterone or women's with
their hormone levels. But I know three individuals men if fibromelogia,
none of the pills ever helped. Marijuana helps.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, let me just kind of keep it at a
even keel and it gets rid of it. I would
correct me if I'm wrong. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I haven't watched the news a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeither do I.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I find it very depressing, and I think that for
your mental health sometimes you need to honestly stay away
from ith. Yeah, but I thought I just heard something
where President Trump stood up and talked about how bad
tailand all is.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Now, I don't know if you did that, but I
can agree.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I think that he's okay.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Now, I'm glad I brought this up because and I
am because you were nurse he talked about like I think,
and then you gotta.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Be careful with some of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Oh yeah, you know he likes to shoot from the hip,
which can be someone.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
If you're not too affected by it, you can look.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
At what the fuck but the h I think he
was saying something about autism rates and then he goes,
it's just bad for you.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It's just bad for you. Don't take it. It's just
bad for you.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Now we've had it for so long and and and everybody,
I would think majority of people. At some point, I
think even doctors have said, if your kid has a
fever or something, alternate, Thailand, all advil, right, and I
think I did Thailand all sinus. You can wild side
of headaches at times like just wild.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I don't I don't know what would you?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
So I don't know about the whole I've been out
of the healthcare field since all these studies with the
autism and that comes out, I don't. The one thing
I do know, and I have seen the proof for this.
Talano can kill your liver, especially if you do take
it on a regular basis. Now me, I take it
here and there, not often if I have a headache,
which isn't that often, like yeah, but if you're taking
(19:02):
it like there was. At one point I was having
medical issues about ten fifteen years ago. I was taking
five advil four times a day, per my doctor. Advil
doesn't work on me anymore. Because of that, I built
up a tolerance where any ibuprofen does not help.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So yeah, I mean then they ruin your liver. I
mean I know some people who go in for liver
tests because they were chronic tunnel users.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, And so you can definitely have something at MJ
right that you can.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Get right, lots of stuff for pan as well. Yeah,
a lot of things for.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Paying headaches everything. CB.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
What would you say to somebody because you know it's
another one CBC. Okay, So if I came in here
and I said, I get migraines, right, what would you recommend?
Because I have a friend that tries acupuncture for this
stuff and it seems to work a little bit or temporary.
And I keep saying, go to MJ. I do I
(20:04):
just go to MJ. They'll help you find they're so smart,
they're so nice. You know, you don't have to worry.
I think there's still that stigma because boy did they do,
as we've said, a great job of painting it with
a broad brush. That's not not not appropriate, not true,
right right, not true.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I have grace answer this one.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, I would say, just like we've been talking about,
like the two biggest things that I get are either
pain or for sleep, for like headaches. Honestly, there's a
company called the Green Lady, and they label it the Painkiller.
That's like the name of the product. And yeah, it
has CBC and CBG in it, and yeah people people
(20:47):
love that one.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, yeah, like CBC.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
It's also just a very good.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I love that formula. Just it's like it's happiness to me.
Oh yeah really, And CBC has been as they say,
I mean, it's been shown to help headaches.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Jefferson Road and Henrietta soon to be in spencer Port.
Are you gonna have to train the spencer Port employees?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
There we go?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Are you are you going to be in charge of
MJ Dispenser MJ's training program.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I mean, now that's hopefully where we'll be heading, because
everybody will train in the store. This is going to
be the main hub. Okay, train everybody then put them
into their stores.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So yeah, I think that I like it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So this is like where so if you're in this area,
this is where you need to come. But then the
Honeyoy store Honeywoy Falls another quaint little village, right uh.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And then spencer.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Porty another quaint little village.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It is another quaint little village.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Now that they think about it, now we need to
go to Fairport.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I guess yes, yes, yes, well they're starting now too.
I think to even put some of the drinks, but
I think they have to be like hemp derived.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
What do you know about that?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
No, but the drinks, I think like bars are starting
to sell them, but they're really low percentage, like not.
People are like, why would I even drink this?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, it's like zero point zero three percent something like that,
and they're why is that? So you get the benefits
of the HEMP other than the just THHC like hemp,
like Christian was saying, is similar to that CBD that
gives you the relaxation, and hemp does that also.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay, So and I.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Think bars in stores that can legally sell those are thinking,
Oh it says THHC on it marketing, I'll be able
to sell these but even though they're not really one
hundred percent got it?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, Yeah, it's it's it's a whole changing world, but
very controlled.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Right, it's still very controlled.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
And when you think about the control and when you're voting,
think about this, it's money. What are they really what
what does it really come down to, and what is
going to benefit you your family? You know, somebody who's
living with some kind of condition that they're just trying
to navigate the world in this body that just isn't
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one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Right, Yeah, I mean, and you're talking about money. I'm
going to talk about it in another way. Us going
to Honeyway Falls and Spencerport. I have a shirt on
that says forty percent today. Yeah, forty percent of the
taxes we bring in stay in the community where our
store is shut up. Yeah, so thirteen percent is the
tax forty percent of that thirteen percent stays here in Henrietta.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Why is this not talked about? Or maybe it is
and I'm just not paying attention, is it?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
But not to the point like they'll separate it. This
goes here, this here this goes here. Well, look, it
turns out it's.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
My favorite argument always is my tax dollars paid for that?
And I'll go, I don't know what my tax dollars
paid for. I mean, I got a rage, but what percentage?
I have no fucking idea. And by the way, I
can never not pay them, So you.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Know what I mean, I get that tax seasons right now.
We just got our bill in the moon.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah right, so exactly, yeah, and so.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
You and eventually those monies that we're bringing into the
towns and the villages are going to bring your taxes down, right,
I mean, Henrietta, I can't remember the exact amount we
brought in last year. I want to say it's like
forty four something like that. I think quote me on that.
But yeah, I mean, and they saw their taxes didn't
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go up quite as much this year. They're projecting in
like the next full five year expansion from when we
started here five years, taxes are going to be going
down because of the cannabis in the communities.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Right, and don't tell me that people everybody's going.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
To want that, right, Like these towns that opted out.
I don't understand why the supervisors and the town boards
don't want to opt in because it's money for their schools,
for your town, for the roads, anything your school your
town needs.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, look because it's a vice, right, and some people go,
I don't want advice.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Pay it for whatever at the school. New York State lottery, Yeah, gambling,
gambling gambling to a certain degree.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Right, and by the way, all the gambling that goes
on on sports now, right with the legalized betting. Right,
did you bet? You seem like you bet or you
made a face.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Like you did.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I mean, we have a fantasy here, and yeah, I
bet sometimes.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Isn't it fun? It's a lot of fun. First time I've.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Done all those all those taxes, like all that tax
to I think New York State, like it was a
little bit later. They did it because Jersey did it.
People were crossing. You know, everything is run by New
York City and New York State, so many people were
crossing over to go to New Jersey to bet and
do these things. New York's like, well fuck this, And
so I think they surpassed them as a state. They're bigger,
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but it blew them away in terms of what the
tax revenue was. So all these things just benefit you
no matter what, and you're not putting the genie back
of the bottle.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
No, Next is sex workers, but we don't need to
talk about that in this podcast.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
They should Why not?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Next, we need psilocybins legal.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Okay, all right? I like that.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You know psilocybins. A lot of people don't know termits shrooms. Yeah, yeah,
I mean it's starting to go legal for medicinal purpose
purposes slowly, yes, very very slow, because it does have
a few microdos, does have a lot of a lot
of benefits for people when their ological issues.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
There you go, right, and they do it. It's already
in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, and I think I heard Cali's getting ready
to pass it too.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
So that's only going to be a matter of time, right,
And then again it's another plant grown in the earth.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, how dare you people?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
You know nature?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It feels better. I think that.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I think the Native Americans knew all this stuff and
we came in and fucked it all up somehow, someway
or another. But yeah, that's right. We're figuring it out.
We are figuring it out.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well. Thank you very much both of you for your time.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And uh for MJ Dispensary for allowing us to be
out here, for Michelle.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Thank you, Bill.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I'm gonna blank on her name.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Are that's all right?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
My name is Grace. She didn't know.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I like to call her Gracelynn, not her middle name.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It's not her middle name. No, No, it's a very
like it does.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It rolls off the tongue, and I would say, almost
like the Irish Catholic family names were like Grace Lynn. Yeah, yeah,
I got it. I'm Bill Moran. We'll see you tomorrow.
On location.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm driven by or Dots G. Brown. It's Billified the
Bill Moran Podcast. Well, hello and welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Thanks for getting your pot on or should I say
your pot on today because we were at MJ Dispensary
where we just recorded the third podcast, right.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Michelle is all excited. They've got their big hollowed.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Events on October twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, twelve to five. It's a Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Come on, yeah, man, have fun, put on a costume,
be something.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Costume contest, just say costume contest, Pumpkin carving contest, carving contest,
other games and prizes. We have our big Wheel.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Just a couple of things about MG, real quick expansion
is happening. Yes, this is to me amazing and there's
gonna be one I'm going to say on the far
west side and the far east side of Monroe County. Correct,
honeyways still in Monroe County, right.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I believe follows is still Monroe County.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Which is perfect because you're right out in that, you know, Pittsford,
Fairport to get all those Yes, that's fantastic, and these
are going to open in the next couple of months.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yep, I would say within the next two to three
months is what we're shooting for. I mean, right, can
be bumps in the road, you never know, but that's
our goal, right, Okay, Yeah, it's going to be phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It is. It's very exciting.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I'm doing a lot of hiring right now. Intent anybody
got a resume and three references.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Drop them off, right, And who's sitting with you today.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
This is Grace. She's one of our lead bud tenders.
She's phenomenal. She she's also is now we declared her
our lead trainer, real training people. She's been very good.
We brought on a couple of new employees.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, and she's got to train them all.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
She's taken the rain.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah. Yeah, uh, phenomenal. What what's your I'm going to
ask you, like what's your weed journey?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But like what is that?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Because well, you know, you come here and you've got
to if you're it's really about education, right, I mean,
there's so many different strains. The's somebody I used to
joke like you need a restrictor plate on weed nowadays
because you know, you get the wrong thing and it's like, hey,
i'll see you, I'll see you in the spring. You
know what I mean, right in three days, and I
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just think that it. I think it's amazing what has
happened in New York State. I wish it would go
at the federal level. And we seem to be a
little silly with this stuff. Maybe the things should have
been reversed. Maybe there there should have been more regulations
on alcohol and not so much and weed. But whatever
that aside kind of you know, where did you get
your education and interest?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Was it the hallways of your high school?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
And then I don't know, I think after college ye
just kind of like helped me a lot, you know,
in terms of getting into like adulthood over anxiety and yeah,
I don't know, I think it helped me a lot.
And then I started learning more and more like through
my partner, and started like growing some plants, okay, started
(03:23):
watching some fun videos about all the processes of creating
the oils and you know, currying the flower and such, and.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Where did you go to college? And what? Four?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I went to college the College of Saint.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Rose, Yeah, which I think is no longer right, no longer.
That's just sad. It's kind of sad because that was
a really I assume music niche were.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yeah, I went from music industry and they were really
niche with a few different things like music industry, not
many places. What else was there?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I remember a friend of mine when I graduated, and
I'm bazillion years older than you, wanted to go to
Saint Rose and I think in but there was some
financial restraints on it. And what was like that was
considered one of the best in the area now by Albany. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
So you went for music, music and business, music and business. Sure, No,
(04:17):
that's great, that's like see you again.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Smart. So here we go here, that's smart, that's like
thinking ahead here.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
No, I gotta have some knowledge. I don't want to
get screwed on the contract kind of thing. That's the
kind of thinking that's going on in that.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And so from how did you end up with MJ
and the love of Weed? And I say love of it?
And I know it sounds bad maybe the way I'm
phrasing it, But what I mean is the knowledge, Right
you like helping people?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, I mean I just also love to learn as well.
So I mean I went from bartending to this, which
I think was a very easy maneuver.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Sure, I think I called those transferable skills, right yeah,
a way to talk to people, right yeah, looking for
an escape.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
That kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yep. But then I don't know, I think I just
love to learn, and so this provide me with an
opportunity to, like I already knew a lot, sure, learn
even more. And I just love the fact of like
helping people out and getting them to be a little
bit more knowledgeable themselves.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And right yeah, and then all the training stuff. So
what goes on in it in like training like.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Our buttender training on Wednesday, so the vendor will come in,
they give us their speel on the company, how the
company came about, and then whatever products they have they
teach us, whether if it's a vape or concentrate gummies,
how those are made. In the process of making those,
they'll bring in like products for us, Like if it's flour,
(05:47):
they bring in the flower, We sniff it, we can
feel it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Really, Oh yeah, wow, this is.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, it's like a good forty five minutes to an
hour training. They bring us breakfast too, so it's like
in samples they bring us. Yeah, you know it's nice.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's well, it's the way you it should be done.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh yeah, And it's the respect I mean, especially for
the new people coming in who don't know the products
we have on the shelves, right.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I think it's really important to to like meet the
people behind the brand as well.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, so you can know their story. Yeah, that's true
because it's their journeys.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, it's such a thing. Like doctor Dankenstein was one
of my favorite people.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, he's amazing. He's like just a big lovable bear.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He is he is, He's cool. He's cool as ship too.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I think it's it's it's fantastic. I love the fact
that there's the expansion and stuff, but I always worry, like, uh,
maybe it's more the edibles.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I grew up down by Woodstock, so weed was always around.
Uh not my not my house. My parents were not
into that at all, but my friend's parents were. Like
I got high with a friend's mom.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
We did this.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
People would make pop brownies, you know, and so the edibles.
And I had a teacher in high school who would
say to me all the time, if you're going to
smoke it, smoke it through a bong because the heat
on a joint can melt the soldering on a roach
Cliff smoke it through a water bond, and that's what
he would say to me. I don't know if this
is true or I'm just telling you what he said,
And this is nineteen eighties, eighty five, eighty seven somewhere
(07:28):
in there. And then he would say the best way
to consume it is to eat it, because you know,
you don't want that heat in your lungs.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
You don't want that, so you would eat it.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But the problem with eating it when it was made
in brownie for stuff is you Yeah, but it was
never evenly distributed. Somebody who eat at one end of
the brownie pan was fucked up for days and the
other person's like, hey man, I don't think anything happened, right, right,
So that was always it. And then the uh I
find though with sometimes with the gummies if I don't
know what I'm doing. I had a whole incident one
(08:01):
summer where a friend of mine gave me a gummy. Yeah,
we're down on uh Cuca Lake, and.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Then we're at his house and we're drinking, of course.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And then then.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, then he throws me a gummy. UH swears it's
five milligram. Nobody believes us. We get we get on
the boat. We go to another house, big party, everything
hanging out, and all of.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
A sudden, I'm like, I'm gonna get sick.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So I run into the bathroom and then I Michelle,
I had to crawl out. I crawl into the bed,
the perfectly made bed, and I just crawl up and
like I had to pass out for a while. But
not only is it not I.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Didn't even know the people's, did not.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Even know the people's whose house it was. I see
them all the time now, and I'm always like, oh
my god, I want to die. But it's like this big,
beautiful home right on Cuca Lake, and you know there's
all these people hanging out and park in their boats,
and you know they're drinking and having a good time.
And I am like gone, and I go that's the
bad part. And I think that sometimes turns people away
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from what is a healthy alternative.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh yeah, that's why the legal markets the best, because
you know how much you're eating, and know how much
you're getting, you know what's in it that you're consuming. Also,
I mean I remember those days making brownies, making gummies.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And how do you make gummies?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oh, it's so easy, is it really?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh yeah, wait, you know how to make gummies too,
I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Guess I've seen it.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I've done it. You see. I prefer making oils instead
of butter can of oil and once there, what.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Do you do like cook things in it? Like instead
of like olive oil, you're throwing a panty, you.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Throw your.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
In the thc well oil. But like my best friend
and I, we always wanted the cheat way of making
gummies because it tasts so long. You gotta do the gelatine.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You gotta do this that.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
So we would buy Swedish fish and gummy bears and
we melted them and then just in a pot we
would infuse the oil with it and made like fruit
roll ups.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Okay, oh yeah, it was great. I love sweetish fish.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh yeah. I mean it was more expensive to make
that way, but it was so easy to make and
they were very tasty.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Now, and I was saying this to you on your
podcast or pot cast.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Excuse me, get it right, get it right, get it right.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Bell that alcohol you're starting to hear like no consumption
is ever good for you scientifically. Right now, I will
tell you I love to drink alcohol. Was glorified in
my household growing up. My dad, who wouldn't touch weed,
was you know, mister doctor in philosophy and.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Educator and all this love to get.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Hammered, I mean just loved it right. Used to buy
what was called the cocktails for two. You could buy
these pre made. They were called cocktails for two, so
old that the thing was had a styrofoam label on it,
and I used to try to peel it off without.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
As a kid. Yeah, well I'm a little older than you,
not by much.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And they so in the big fight in the house
was my mother screaming, he buys cocktails for two, but
they're really for one.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I could drink it all right, So, but it was
always glorified. This is what dad did to relax when
Mom wasn't.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Home, and he would make a big dinner, have the
house sparkling clean before she came home. He'd be helping
us with homework, but you would notice his tolerance would drop.
And it wasn't just orange juice he was drinking. And
then E would start singing to me as we're doing
the homework, and I couldn't figure out.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You are so stupid that I am so smart true. True,
you wonder why I'm fucked up, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
But but the point being that now we're starting to
get that education the other way on alcohol. Oh yeah,
And I would love to know what's being said about marijuana.
And I don't know in schools are they starting to
say there's medicinal benefits to it? I mean, look, I
had that one cool teacher, right, I mean I think
if any teacher was told her that he was telling
(12:26):
us that, they probably would have been filed.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Sure they don't talk about I mean, like I said,
my son is a senior now, but they don't talk
about it. And like the health classes at all in
the high school. He said, interesting, which I I think
personally they shouldn't talk about it. Okay, I think that
should be a parent's responsibility. No, I educate your children
right on marijuana, legal and illegal, right, I mean in
(12:54):
the alcohol too. I mean I get it. I grew
up in the family like yours. My dad was a
car salesman my whole life. Come home, crack open a beer,
sure weekends he'd have his dry Southern comfort Manhattan with
a twist. Yeah. After he passed away, my brother and
I took my mom out to eat and we tried
one in memory of my dad.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That thing was so.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Fucking discussed fuel that that's like, you know all those
cars that blow out fire to go down to the dragway.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
It's putting the octape.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I mean I grew up where Okay, I'm in fifth
grade here, Michell, I'll have a beer. Yeah, okay, it
was okay, yeah, I mean, and I'm not far off
from your age. I grew up in the eighties. We're
in the seventies, okay, I mean so yeah, I mean
part family parties, Me and my cousins would be running
around with half drank beers that our dads.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Would give us. I mean that's yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
So what's the difference of I grew up with alcohol
prominent or if my son grows up with marijuana prominent.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, I think the difference is what's the difference. I
do think there's a difference. I think that alcohol is remorse. Yeah,
I don't think there's ever any I was never told
drink responsibly. No, you had a Frank a newer podcast
which will be come now talk about consumption, right but proper.
(14:15):
I don't know if I'm using the right term, but
appropriate consumption. We'll say and to me that that is
what it's about, because there's so many things. You know,
we talk about just the sleep, talk about people with
and I'm going to say this wrong, but I hear
a lot of people talk about fibromyalgia.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I have fibromiologia.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh well look at me, just step into that one.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
No, len is a miracle drum, This is what I'm saying. Yeah,
I was on three different prescriptions, and you and I
have talked about how my doctor took me off all
my mads. I feel most my pain in my back,
my feet, in my hands. I will do either smoke
a little bit when I first wake up, so when
I get to work, I'm not stupid high. But it
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really is my pain.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
No, what it takes to relieve the relieve the pain.
So it would be like taking a time on all
or Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
For an average person would be like ibuprofen. But sometimes
the pain gets so bad an average person would want
a narcotic. That's how bad my pain can get. In
my hands, well, I mean yeah, a lot of times
I'm walking around here, I'm like, can you open this?
My hands aren't working today because fibromagia. It like it mirrors,
like if I'm having an issue on the left side,
the right side will be exactly the same, hands, knees, feet, head.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
What is that fibromyalgia? It is like an inflammation.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
It's an inflammation of your nerves. It's there's still controversy
over the exact disease because people say doctors made it
up because they couldn't find a diagnosis for people who
had these pains. They thought it was in their head.
I mean, it's very similar to rheumatoila.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
So many people were nuts. We just gave it exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It was like everybody basically that's basically.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Is so fed up.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's what the medical community was.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You're crazy, but we're going to give it to you.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, we're gonna okay, we're gonna make up this. And
other people, like in the insurance industries and other medical practices,
they're like, no, this is not a real disease.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You need to dig right.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It is and it's very common in females and it's
more common in males. Little do people know, and the
medications do not help men. I have seen three people man, Okay, wait.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
When you say don't help men.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
The first thing I think it is, and I'm not
trying to be crashed, but some kind of sexual problem.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, no, not that way. No, it does not.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Cause Okay, you know there's stuff to counter that.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Oh yeah, but like this gummy in here. Actually, we
do have marijuana for everything.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I told you, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
But like the medications don't help with the inflammation and
the pain for some reason with men. I honestly don't
know the scientific backing behind it. I don't know if
it has something to do with testosterone or women's with
their hormone levels. But I know three individuals men if fibromelogia,
none of the pills ever helped. Marijuana helps.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, let me just kind of keep it at a
even keel and it gets rid of it. I would
correct me if I'm wrong. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I haven't watched the news a whole lot.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeither do I.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I find it very depressing, and I think that for
your mental health sometimes you need to honestly stay away
from ith. Yeah, but I thought I just heard something
where President Trump stood up and talked about how bad
tailand all is.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Now, I don't know if you did that, but I
can agree.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I think that he's okay.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Now, I'm glad I brought this up because and I
am because you were nurse he talked about like I think,
and then you gotta.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Be careful with some of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Oh yeah, you know he likes to shoot from the hip,
which can be someone.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
If you're not too affected by it, you can look.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
At what the fuck but the h I think he
was saying something about autism rates and then he goes,
it's just bad for you.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It's just bad for you. Don't take it. It's just
bad for you.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Now we've had it for so long and and and everybody,
I would think majority of people. At some point, I
think even doctors have said, if your kid has a
fever or something, alternate, Thailand, all advil, right, and I
think I did Thailand all sinus. You can wild side
of headaches at times like just wild.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I don't I don't know what would you?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
So I don't know about the whole I've been out
of the healthcare field since all these studies with the
autism and that comes out, I don't. The one thing
I do know, and I have seen the proof for this.
Talano can kill your liver, especially if you do take
it on a regular basis. Now me, I take it
here and there, not often if I have a headache,
which isn't that often, like yeah, but if you're taking
(19:02):
it like there was. At one point I was having
medical issues about ten fifteen years ago. I was taking
five advil four times a day, per my doctor. Advil
doesn't work on me anymore. Because of that, I built
up a tolerance where any ibuprofen does not help.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
So yeah, I mean then they ruin your liver. I
mean I know some people who go in for liver
tests because they were chronic tunnel users.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, And so you can definitely have something at MJ
right that you can.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Get right, lots of stuff for pan as well. Yeah,
a lot of things for.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Paying headaches everything. CB.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
What would you say to somebody because you know it's
another one CBC. Okay, So if I came in here
and I said, I get migraines, right, what would you recommend?
Because I have a friend that tries acupuncture for this
stuff and it seems to work a little bit or temporary.
And I keep saying, go to MJ. I do I
(20:04):
just go to MJ. They'll help you find they're so smart,
they're so nice. You know, you don't have to worry.
I think there's still that stigma because boy did they do,
as we've said, a great job of painting it with
a broad brush. That's not not not appropriate, not true,
right right, not true.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I have grace answer this one.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, I would say, just like we've been talking about,
like the two biggest things that I get are either
pain or for sleep, for like headaches. Honestly, there's a
company called the Green Lady, and they label it the Painkiller.
That's like the name of the product. And yeah, it
has CBC and CBG in it, and yeah people people
(20:47):
love that one.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, yeah, like CBC.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
It's also just a very good.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I love that formula. Just it's like it's happiness to me.
Oh yeah really, And CBC has been as they say,
I mean, it's been shown to help headaches.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Jefferson Road and Henrietta soon to be in spencer Port.
Are you gonna have to train the spencer Port employees?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
There we go?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Are you are you going to be in charge of
MJ Dispenser MJ's training program.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I mean, now that's hopefully where we'll be heading, because
everybody will train in the store. This is going to
be the main hub. Okay, train everybody then put them
into their stores.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So yeah, I think that I like it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
So this is like where so if you're in this area,
this is where you need to come. But then the
Honeyoy store Honeywoy Falls another quaint little village, right uh.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And then spencer.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Porty another quaint little village.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It is another quaint little village.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Now that they think about it, now we need to
go to Fairport.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I guess yes, yes, yes, well they're starting now too.
I think to even put some of the drinks, but
I think they have to be like hemp derived.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
What do you know about that?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
No, but the drinks, I think like bars are starting
to sell them, but they're really low percentage, like not.
People are like, why would I even drink this?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, it's like zero point zero three percent something like that,
and they're why is that? So you get the benefits
of the HEMP other than the just THHC like hemp,
like Christian was saying, is similar to that CBD that
gives you the relaxation, and hemp does that also.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay, So and I.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Think bars in stores that can legally sell those are thinking,
Oh it says THHC on it marketing, I'll be able
to sell these but even though they're not really one
hundred percent got it?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, Yeah, it's it's it's a whole changing world, but
very controlled.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Right, it's still very controlled.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
And when you think about the control and when you're voting,
think about this, it's money. What are they really what
what does it really come down to, and what is
going to benefit you your family? You know, somebody who's
living with some kind of condition that they're just trying
to navigate the world in this body that just isn't
(23:23):
one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Right, Yeah, I mean, and you're talking about money. I'm
going to talk about it in another way. Us going
to Honeyway Falls and Spencerport. I have a shirt on
that says forty percent today. Yeah, forty percent of the
taxes we bring in stay in the community where our
store is shut up. Yeah, so thirteen percent is the
tax forty percent of that thirteen percent stays here in Henrietta.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Why is this not talked about? Or maybe it is
and I'm just not paying attention, is it?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
But not to the point like they'll separate it. This
goes here, this here this goes here. Well, look, it
turns out it's.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
My favorite argument always is my tax dollars paid for that?
And I'll go, I don't know what my tax dollars
paid for. I mean, I got a rage, but what percentage?
I have no fucking idea. And by the way, I
can never not pay them, So you.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Know what I mean, I get that tax seasons right now.
We just got our bill in the moon.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah right, so exactly, yeah, and so.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
You and eventually those monies that we're bringing into the
towns and the villages are going to bring your taxes down, right,
I mean, Henrietta, I can't remember the exact amount we
brought in last year. I want to say it's like
forty four something like that. I think quote me on that.
But yeah, I mean, and they saw their taxes didn't
(24:43):
go up quite as much this year. They're projecting in
like the next full five year expansion from when we
started here five years, taxes are going to be going
down because of the cannabis in the communities.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Right, and don't tell me that people everybody's going.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
To want that, right, Like these towns that opted out.
I don't understand why the supervisors and the town boards
don't want to opt in because it's money for their schools,
for your town, for the roads, anything your school your
town needs.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, look because it's a vice, right, and some people go,
I don't want advice.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Pay it for whatever at the school. New York State lottery, Yeah, gambling,
gambling gambling to a certain degree.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Right, and by the way, all the gambling that goes
on on sports now, right with the legalized betting. Right,
did you bet? You seem like you bet or you
made a face.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Like you did.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I mean, we have a fantasy here, and yeah, I
bet sometimes.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Isn't it fun? It's a lot of fun. First time I've.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Done all those all those taxes, like all that tax
to I think New York State, like it was a
little bit later. They did it because Jersey did it.
People were crossing. You know, everything is run by New
York City and New York State, so many people were
crossing over to go to New Jersey to bet and
do these things. New York's like, well fuck this, And
so I think they surpassed them as a state. They're bigger,
(26:06):
but it blew them away in terms of what the
tax revenue was. So all these things just benefit you
no matter what, and you're not putting the genie back
of the bottle.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
No, Next is sex workers, but we don't need to
talk about that in this podcast.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
They should Why not?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Next, we need psilocybins legal.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Okay, all right? I like that.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You know psilocybins. A lot of people don't know termits shrooms. Yeah, yeah,
I mean it's starting to go legal for medicinal purpose
purposes slowly, yes, very very slow, because it does have
a few microdos, does have a lot of a lot
of benefits for people when their ological issues.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
There you go, right, and they do it. It's already
in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, and I think I heard Cali's getting ready
to pass it too.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
So that's only going to be a matter of time, right,
And then again it's another plant grown in the earth.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, how dare you people?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
You know nature?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It feels better. I think that.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I think the Native Americans knew all this stuff and
we came in and fucked it all up somehow, someway
or another. But yeah, that's right. We're figuring it out.
We are figuring it out.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well. Thank you very much both of you for your time.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And uh for MJ Dispensary for allowing us to be
out here, for Michelle.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Thank you, Bill.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I'm gonna blank on her name.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Are that's all right?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
My name is Grace. She didn't know.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I like to call her Gracelynn, not her middle name.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It's not her middle name. No, No, it's a very
like it does.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It rolls off the tongue, and I would say, almost
like the Irish Catholic family names were like Grace Lynn. Yeah, yeah,
I got it. I'm Bill Moran. We'll see you tomorrow.
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