June 18, 2025 • 33 mins
How did the US government ban Cannabis? How does it heal us? Why does big pharma hate it? Let’s find out together!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Card.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
In the realm of the unseen, chryst is lurking behind
the scene, ghost whispering in the night, conspiracies.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Holding onto side the metaphysical, a positive song, search for
ansis get involved, barely is fighing across the sky and
failing shoots.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Oh my, oh my, oh man.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
In the realm of beyond, the sigh was far in
the secrets coming out mysteryes on avel, stories unsong or
where the big rainbow steefo o, where the big pimples
(00:51):
see your balls them behind Wesi staring see this color
(01:31):
the stories on apple and stories.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
And so.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
In the world with the pamle stdiaro, the big mambo
studio phones.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Yeah, oh fuck, sorry, I didn't know you guys were there.
My bad.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
I was just in preparation for today's episode called smoking Mirrors,
the conspiracy to demonize cannabis. That's right, we're going there today, folks.
We are fucking going there. We roll up the truth.
This isn't just about getting high. This is about how
a healing plant became public enemy number one. This is
(02:46):
about money power, racism, and the government's long war on weed.
I'm your boy, the big Grambowski and you're listening to
another dive into the unknown. Welcome to smoke mirrors the
conspiracy to demonize cannabis. So cannabis isn't new. Humans have
(03:13):
been using this plant for over in thousand years easily.
Ancient Chinese texts called it a divine herb. In India,
it's still part of spiritual ceremonies used to connect with
a divine and a drink called bang Bha n g.
(03:40):
I could be pronouncing that wrong. Egyptians use cannabis oils
for inflammation in the Middle East. That was rolled and
smoked by scholars and mystics. And you can also ask
a lot of our troops who have been over overseas,
especially any of those that have been around in Afghanistan.
(04:02):
They will tell you that some of the finest fucking
cush comes out of Afghanistan. That's why there's that strain
Afghany kush and ain't just fucking random shit. There's truth
behind some of these. Even George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
(04:23):
grew himp.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Back then. It was scandalous.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
It was it was smart. Himp made rope, clothing, sails,
even the paper for the US Constitution.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
So what happened.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Why did a plant with thousands of years of medical
and spiritual value become so feared. Let's take a little
trip no pun intended, through history. But before that, let's
get us another puffy puff off the old Benjamin. Today
(04:58):
we're rocking the muhaih meds strawberry cough, and I gotta
tell you the flavor palette on this amazing. Obviously they
add extra terpenes to it and shit to make it
a little bit more flavorful, but strawberry cough is an
(05:18):
amazing strain. Anyways, Sativa, get your fucking going. I love it,
especially during the day. Gets you through that workday, keeps
you motivated, keeps you fucking pumping. Boy, does it get
the job done. So it's the early nineteen hundreds. Mexican
(05:48):
immigrants arrive in the US, bringing with them recreational use
of cannabis. White America didn't like that. Enter Harry Enslinger,
the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. This
guy built his legacy on lies, real dangerous lies. Reefer
(06:19):
makes darkies think they're as good as white men. Direct
quote from Harry himself. That's not paraphrase. That's word for word.
Anslinger's war wasn't about public health. It was about control.
He tied cannabis to jazz music, black musicians, and moral decay.
(06:42):
He pushed reefer madness literally with a propaganda film in
nineteen thirty six called Reefer Madness.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
The Fear worked.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
In nineteen thirty seven, the Marijuana Tax Act criminalized cannabis.
Doctors objected, scientists object, but money and fear drowned out science.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Now here's the real kicker.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
William Randolph Hurst, the newspaper tycoon, also owned timber mills.
He saw hemp, a cheaper, renewable competitor, as a threat
to his paper empire, so he printed fake stories of
Wee's We'd crazed Mexicans killing white women. DuPont had just
(07:30):
patent in nylon. Hemp was a threat to that too.
So what did these powerful men do. They got in
bed with the government and declared war on a plant.
So fast forward to nineteen the nineteen seventies, Richard Nixon
(07:51):
launches the War on Drugs. Cannabis is now a Schedule
one drug, meaning it has no acceptable metasse and a
high potential for abuse, the same category as heroin. Now,
I don't know about you, but never once have I
(08:14):
ever been any type of state close to being how
somebody is on heroin. Also, with that being said, you
don't overdose on cannabis like you do heroin. But moving forward,
but here's the thing Nixon knew it was a lie.
(08:36):
John Erlichman, one of Nixon's top aides, later confessed, you
want to know what this was really all about. The
Nixon campaign had two enemies, the anti war left and
the black people. We couldn't make it illegal against the
war of war or black but by getting the public
(08:59):
to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin,
and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
This is a quote from John in nineteen ninety four.
I guarantee majority of you that are listening to this
you were born before ninety four. That's not very long ago.
(09:24):
I'm thirty seven. I was born in eighty eight, so
I was certainly around in ninety four.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
But there it is.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
The war on cannabis was never about the plant. It
was about oppression, surveillance and profit, mass in incarceration, broken families,
billions funneled into private prisons, and law enforcement, all while
big Pharma pushes pills that kill hundreds of thousand Americans
a year. So let's flip the script. What does cannabis
(10:13):
actually do. Let's talk about THHC and the indocannabinoid system,
a system you have in your body right now. Discovered
in the nineteen nineties, this system is responsible for regulating mood, pain, appetite, sleep,
and memory. THHC tetrahydro cannabin all binds to CB one
(10:37):
and CB two receptors in your brain and body. It
doesn't just get you high. It modulates inflammation, reduces nausea,
slows tumor growth, and yes, eases anxiety and depression. Weed
works because your body was built to receive it.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
If it.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Wasn't, it would have zero effect on us whatsoever. If
we did not have this indo cannabinoid system, it would
do nothing at all. So to sit there and say
that this is something that we just evolutionarily, you know,
(11:20):
gained for certain kinds of like plants and whatnot, like, no,
that doesn't. This is the only this is the thing
that's going to to do this. There's not going to
be other things. Even more, the non psychoactive cannabinoid CBD,
reduces seizures, treats chronic pain, and helps with PTSD, and
(11:42):
yet still schedule one. That's not scientists science. That's suppression
at its finest. So let's break this down. Hemp makes
(12:04):
concrete called hymp crete, biodegradeable plastic, clothes, paper fuel. Cannabis
can treat cancer side effects, it has been positively helping
veterans with PTSD. It replaced opioids for chronic pain, soothe insomnia,
(12:30):
treat epilepsy, and children and more. We're talking about a
pharmaceutical industry disruptor, a green revolution, and a carbon negative
crop all in one. So why is this still banned
in many states? Why is the federal government still clinging
(12:52):
to outdated lies? Because the weed industry threatens everything that
makes the elite rich. I myself am somebody that lives
in a non green state, which absolutely sucks. But here
in Indiana you can't get t THHCA and CBD. Both
(13:14):
of those are still illegal, unlike Texas, which recently made
it to where THHCA is now illegal across the state.
So that right there is fucked. The reason why TC
THC TWC I keep Anyways, THCA The reason why you
(13:39):
can get it across all the other states, even ones
that that are the ones that are you know, not
green legal, is because of the twenty eighteen Farm Bill Act.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Get into that later. Here's the kicker.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Now that legislation is spreading, who's profiting Not the black
and brown communities ravaged by the War on drugs. Nope,
it's venture capitalists, white CEOs, and former politicians who once
demonized weed. They're locking up small growers, criminalizing the legacy market,
and monopolizing the green gold rush. Its prohibition version two
(14:23):
point zero, dressed up in slick packaging and overpriced dispensaries.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Don't believe that.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Look at the difference in your prices between going to
a dispensary in Michigan compared to going to a dispensary
in Illinois. Both are completely legal, one hundred percent recreational
and medical size. Michigan has much more affordable prices as
(14:50):
where Illinois has a much higher taxation on the planet
and the products that you buy from it, which.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Is super fucked up to think about.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
They want to own the plant, control the genetics, regulate
the vibe, and kill the spirit, but the culture still alive.
Still under ground, it's still growing. So what is cannabis really.
It's medicine, it's culture, it's rebellion, and most of all,
(15:26):
it's a mirror. A mirraly shows us what power fears
a free thinking population with healing in their hands. So
next time someone says it's just weed, remember it's never
been just weed. It's always been about control, and it's
(15:47):
always going to be about control, the same reason why
Indiana keeps denying the opportunity to.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Go legal.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Also, on top of that, some of the biggest pharmaceuticalceutical
companies are straight up based headquarters here in Indiana, so
they have a lot, absolutely lot to fucking lose, which
(16:22):
is crazy.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
But anyways, this has been a good episode so far
and we're having a lot of fun with it. First
(16:49):
time I ever tried it was at the age of.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Seventeen, dated a girlfriends little bit who she partook along
with her friends that lived right next to her out
in a really small bf e home out in the
(17:15):
middle of nowhere. It's not too far from free now,
little tiny ass town. But then I didn't really it
was one time, just one time, really nothing happened.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
But then.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Probably three more years go by and I started dabbling
in it then this is around college. Definitely had some
friends and we sometimes between classes we would go over
(18:02):
to the quote unquote dorms, which the college I went to.
First of all, it's not even there anymore. They went
bankrupt and closed down.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
But uh.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Uh what was that called International Business College in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
So yeah, your boy actually has a green graphic design
that I don't fucking use, even though I totally could,
but what I do know helps me do this, so
I can't appreciate that part. But yeah, those were those
(18:45):
are those were the days you would get an eighth
for about twenty fucking dollars of some fucking ooh, some
fucking dank cast cush And the thing was like here,
I am like the there was only so like, that's
one of those colleges where majority of like the kids
(19:06):
that are going to school there are white. Like it's
definitely like a white America kind of college. No, not granted,
there was definitely some other kids there that you know,
were of different ethnicities and stuff. But like one of
my one of my buddies, you know, in my class,
his name was a Zeem and his family came from.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Oh God, like.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Croatia or fucking it's something like that over somewhere over
there in in uh Europe slash Asia. I would I
would have to, I would have to look again. But
like he even hadn't he even had an act it
(20:01):
which was which was kind of funny.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
But like, you know, other than that that, there was
there was only there was only two dudes that actually
were dealing.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
And you know, of course they were about the h
the only two black guys in the whole in the
whole school. But boy, oh boy, they had some fucking
amazing ass ship, I tell you what. And uh, a
couple of times I remember we uh one of my buddies.
(20:36):
Don't know how however where he got it from, but
he had some Mexican red hair. And I tell you what,
I've never seen any type of weed that looks like this.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Other than then, and like I've seen some crazy fucking
bud I've gotten.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
I had a connect for a minute where I was
getting nothing but straight up dark purple weed. I'm talking
top to bottom stem and all, every single bit of
it just fucking deep dark purple. And that shit was fire.
(21:22):
I'm pretty sure that was just purple purple o G.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Something like that. Anyways, wo.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
But after that, after high school, dark, high school, college,
I didn't really smoke for a while. Was it first
several years and you know, having jobs and having to
you know, take pissed tests in order to get jobs,
and you know this and that. And it wasn't until oh,
(22:08):
I want to say, around maybe like twenty thirteen.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Or so, and.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
I started to quite regularly, and then that turned into
a daily thing, which then turned into a all day,
everyday event. And that is where we have been at
for the last several years, is the all day, everyday
consumption of this glorious plant in all shapes and forms.
(22:48):
There is a true testament to this plant, there really is.
If you've not experienced it, you have no room to
say anything about it. If you do not know how
this plant affects you, how it can help you, and
you have never once experienced it, you have zero right
to have any say on the matter.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
You know nothing. Until then can we.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Truly speak on it and discuss the pros and the cons,
Because yes, there can be some cons. Like some people,
it doesn't agree with them very well. They get over anxious,
which also has to do with they're tolerance level, and
whether or not they're smoking sativa or Indica, Sativa is
(23:40):
gonna be getting you that Upton going around, getting you
all bouncy, feeling good.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
That's what you want through to day.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
But like, if you're not trying to be moving around
and you're trying to chill, you don't want strawberry cough.
You want something that is going to be Indica based.
Maybe some sunset sherbet. I actually know that'd be a hybrid,
(24:10):
but it's not straight up. I'm trying to think of
a good Indica I've had lately. I did add this
(24:31):
one strain there for a while. Yeah, I'm pretty sure
that was Indica called red cab. Cab was short for
uh cabernet, so essentially red Cabernet.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
This was.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
You can find the strain red Cab and your comings
and your goings. I highly suggest you try that. And
if you guys are interested in learning more about about
different strains and how it can help you and this
(25:12):
and that, like, I will.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Definitely definitely dive into it. I love this topic.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
I love I love weed itself, I love smoking. I
actually have the chemical compound for THHC that I tattooed
on my left forearm, and I can say through my
(25:40):
experiences that without this plant, without what it does, I
can be a completely insufferable person to be around.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
And anyone who knows me current and talks to me
knows that that's.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Never the case of who I am during their interactions
with me, because I don't like to be that way.
I don't like to be angry at the world. I
don't like to be you know, anxious, or depressed or
any things. I want to just be happy. I want
to have fun, I want to joke. I want to
(26:26):
enjoy what life I do have. Because no day is promised, Tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
May never come.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
For all you know, this could be one of the
last things that you do in your life is listening
to this episode right here. Hell, this could be the
last podcast I ever do, the last episode I ever do,
because nothing is promised. But I can tell you that
(27:04):
cannabis does make life a hell of a lot better.
And also I can truly say for being the age
at which I am, which granted, and I'm not that old,
but I am almost almost forty, and a lot of
people who are in the same age group as I
(27:26):
am definitely feel the aches and the pain, especially if
you do any type of laboring work. Hell, even if
you're just doing work where you're just sitting around all
day that, even then, that shit's fucking tough to just
sit and not have to and not be able to
get up and go. And I'm on my feet all
day long. I'm moving around like NonStop. So this definitely helps.
(27:52):
The only thing that it can't do is fix my
fucking neck and back of chiropractor. That's a whole different
fucking thing. But I tell you what, get yourself nice,
a fucking toasty before you go and see the chiropractor.
Oh you are going to have a hell of a
fucking time. I can promise you that right there.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
And I love it. Oh so, apparently I've been not
even on this one. I've been. I thought I was
using one of my other mics. I actually put on
both mics to uh to roll for this. So hopefully the.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Audio doesn't end up sounding terribly bad because it's been
sitting in my pocket. But oh well, I wonder if
I accidentally turned it off. No, that's battery. Definitely battery
on my other mic. Oh man, that's okay, though, No
big do we've been doing good. In fact, let's see
(29:04):
how long we're up to right now, Well, that's thirty
minutes so of recording. Hell yeah, so let's see. Definitely
there will be a custom uh song at the end
of the episode. I'm trying to make sure that these
(29:25):
have at least that at the end of all of them,
I will probably uh yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead
and use one of my previous songs at the beginning
of the episode called Green Dream, AI track that I
(29:46):
had developed. But yeah, we're gonna we're gonna keep doing this,
and thank you guys for coming again during this uh
this lunch interventioned as it were, because this has been
another episode of The Big Grimbowski, and today you heard
(30:06):
the truth under the smoke. Stay curious, stay it, and
don't believe the hype, and also stay fucking weird, y'all.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
They said, they said, it's a villain in the Garden
of Life, lighted in chains and shopping the knife. But
the sleeve's got a soul, a shilling and grace. If
they painted the guilty, put a mask on his face,
green child, and the salt.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
We rise bet in the plain. They try to disguise.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Bos in the Earth, reaching the skies, Cannabis was with
the system.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
The knives one hundred years.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
They've been playing this game, fearing the air, written a
lot in the name.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
With the sea home with them, the soil nose best.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Still they bury the truth, put the plant to the chest,
green truth, and the talk we rise, giving the pain
they tried to disguise with the earth reaching the skies,
Cannabis whispers, with.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
The system denies.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
One hundred years. They've been playing this game, fearing the
air and the lot of the name. But the thieves
hoole wisdom, the soil nose best, So they bury the truth.
Put the plants of the test green truth, and the
salt we rise, giving the pain they try to disguise.
Whoops in the earth, reaching the skies, Cannabis whispers.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Put the system denies.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
They say it's a danger, they say it's a crime.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
But the healing grows and it's rhythm, and Ryan big
Farmer got dollars. They push and they shove, while the
plants got their answers from the roots to above.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Now people put awaken, the.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Tide starts to turn truth in the embasis. The knowledge
we burn the powers in nature, not the pills they describe.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
In the plant keeps calling through the smoke. We vibe
(32:20):
hundred years.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
They've been playing this game.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Fear in the air and a lot of the name,
But the seeds whole, wisdom, The soil knows best till
they bury the truth.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
Put the planet to the.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Test, green truth in the fault, we.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Rise even the pain.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
They try to disguise, the earth reaching the skies. Cannabis whispers,
but the system denies.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
They say it's a danger, they say it's a crime.
But the healing grows, and it's rhythm and rhyme. Big
Farmer got others, the show hill. The planet's got the
ass from the roots to above.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Now people are waking.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
The tide starts to turn. Truth in the embassis the knowledge.
We burn, the powers in nature, not the pills they prescribe.
And the plant keeps calling through the smoke.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
We vibe
Speaker 3 (33:20):
H
Card.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
In the realm of the unseen, chryst is lurking behind
the scene, ghost whispering in the night, conspiracies.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Holding onto side the metaphysical, a positive song, search for
ansis get involved, barely is fighing across the sky and
failing shoots.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Oh my, oh my, oh man.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
In the realm of beyond, the sigh was far in
the secrets coming out mysteryes on avel, stories unsong or
where the big rainbow steefo o, where the big pimples
(00:51):
see your balls them behind Wesi staring see this color
(01:31):
the stories on apple and stories.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
And so.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
In the world with the pamle stdiaro, the big mambo
studio phones.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Yeah, oh fuck, sorry, I didn't know you guys were there.
My bad.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
I was just in preparation for today's episode called smoking Mirrors,
the conspiracy to demonize cannabis. That's right, we're going there today, folks.
We are fucking going there. We roll up the truth.
This isn't just about getting high. This is about how
a healing plant became public enemy number one. This is
(02:46):
about money power, racism, and the government's long war on weed.
I'm your boy, the big Grambowski and you're listening to
another dive into the unknown. Welcome to smoke mirrors the
conspiracy to demonize cannabis. So cannabis isn't new. Humans have
(03:13):
been using this plant for over in thousand years easily.
Ancient Chinese texts called it a divine herb. In India,
it's still part of spiritual ceremonies used to connect with
a divine and a drink called bang Bha n g.
(03:40):
I could be pronouncing that wrong. Egyptians use cannabis oils
for inflammation in the Middle East. That was rolled and
smoked by scholars and mystics. And you can also ask
a lot of our troops who have been over overseas,
especially any of those that have been around in Afghanistan.
(04:02):
They will tell you that some of the finest fucking
cush comes out of Afghanistan. That's why there's that strain
Afghany kush and ain't just fucking random shit. There's truth
behind some of these. Even George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
(04:23):
grew himp.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Back then. It was scandalous.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
It was it was smart. Himp made rope, clothing, sails,
even the paper for the US Constitution.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
So what happened.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Why did a plant with thousands of years of medical
and spiritual value become so feared. Let's take a little
trip no pun intended, through history. But before that, let's
get us another puffy puff off the old Benjamin. Today
(04:58):
we're rocking the muhaih meds strawberry cough, and I gotta
tell you the flavor palette on this amazing. Obviously they
add extra terpenes to it and shit to make it
a little bit more flavorful, but strawberry cough is an
(05:18):
amazing strain. Anyways, Sativa, get your fucking going. I love it,
especially during the day. Gets you through that workday, keeps
you motivated, keeps you fucking pumping. Boy, does it get
the job done. So it's the early nineteen hundreds. Mexican
(05:48):
immigrants arrive in the US, bringing with them recreational use
of cannabis. White America didn't like that. Enter Harry Enslinger,
the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. This
guy built his legacy on lies, real dangerous lies. Reefer
(06:19):
makes darkies think they're as good as white men. Direct
quote from Harry himself. That's not paraphrase. That's word for word.
Anslinger's war wasn't about public health. It was about control.
He tied cannabis to jazz music, black musicians, and moral decay.
(06:42):
He pushed reefer madness literally with a propaganda film in
nineteen thirty six called Reefer Madness.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
The Fear worked.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
In nineteen thirty seven, the Marijuana Tax Act criminalized cannabis.
Doctors objected, scientists object, but money and fear drowned out science.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Now here's the real kicker.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
William Randolph Hurst, the newspaper tycoon, also owned timber mills.
He saw hemp, a cheaper, renewable competitor, as a threat
to his paper empire, so he printed fake stories of
Wee's We'd crazed Mexicans killing white women. DuPont had just
(07:30):
patent in nylon. Hemp was a threat to that too.
So what did these powerful men do. They got in
bed with the government and declared war on a plant.
So fast forward to nineteen the nineteen seventies, Richard Nixon
(07:51):
launches the War on Drugs. Cannabis is now a Schedule
one drug, meaning it has no acceptable metasse and a
high potential for abuse, the same category as heroin. Now,
I don't know about you, but never once have I
(08:14):
ever been any type of state close to being how
somebody is on heroin. Also, with that being said, you
don't overdose on cannabis like you do heroin. But moving forward,
but here's the thing Nixon knew it was a lie.
(08:36):
John Erlichman, one of Nixon's top aides, later confessed, you
want to know what this was really all about. The
Nixon campaign had two enemies, the anti war left and
the black people. We couldn't make it illegal against the
war of war or black but by getting the public
(08:59):
to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin,
and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
This is a quote from John in nineteen ninety four.
I guarantee majority of you that are listening to this
you were born before ninety four. That's not very long ago.
(09:24):
I'm thirty seven. I was born in eighty eight, so
I was certainly around in ninety four.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
But there it is.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
The war on cannabis was never about the plant. It
was about oppression, surveillance and profit, mass in incarceration, broken families,
billions funneled into private prisons, and law enforcement, all while
big Pharma pushes pills that kill hundreds of thousand Americans
a year. So let's flip the script. What does cannabis
(10:13):
actually do. Let's talk about THHC and the indocannabinoid system,
a system you have in your body right now. Discovered
in the nineteen nineties, this system is responsible for regulating mood, pain, appetite, sleep,
and memory. THHC tetrahydro cannabin all binds to CB one
(10:37):
and CB two receptors in your brain and body. It
doesn't just get you high. It modulates inflammation, reduces nausea,
slows tumor growth, and yes, eases anxiety and depression. Weed
works because your body was built to receive it.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
If it.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Wasn't, it would have zero effect on us whatsoever. If
we did not have this indo cannabinoid system, it would
do nothing at all. So to sit there and say
that this is something that we just evolutionarily, you know,
(11:20):
gained for certain kinds of like plants and whatnot, like, no,
that doesn't. This is the only this is the thing
that's going to to do this. There's not going to
be other things. Even more, the non psychoactive cannabinoid CBD,
reduces seizures, treats chronic pain, and helps with PTSD, and
(11:42):
yet still schedule one. That's not scientists science. That's suppression
at its finest. So let's break this down. Hemp makes
(12:04):
concrete called hymp crete, biodegradeable plastic, clothes, paper fuel. Cannabis
can treat cancer side effects, it has been positively helping
veterans with PTSD. It replaced opioids for chronic pain, soothe insomnia,
(12:30):
treat epilepsy, and children and more. We're talking about a
pharmaceutical industry disruptor, a green revolution, and a carbon negative
crop all in one. So why is this still banned
in many states? Why is the federal government still clinging
(12:52):
to outdated lies? Because the weed industry threatens everything that
makes the elite rich. I myself am somebody that lives
in a non green state, which absolutely sucks. But here
in Indiana you can't get t THHCA and CBD. Both
(13:14):
of those are still illegal, unlike Texas, which recently made
it to where THHCA is now illegal across the state.
So that right there is fucked. The reason why TC
THC TWC I keep Anyways, THCA The reason why you
(13:39):
can get it across all the other states, even ones
that that are the ones that are you know, not
green legal, is because of the twenty eighteen Farm Bill Act.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Get into that later. Here's the kicker.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Now that legislation is spreading, who's profiting Not the black
and brown communities ravaged by the War on drugs. Nope,
it's venture capitalists, white CEOs, and former politicians who once
demonized weed. They're locking up small growers, criminalizing the legacy market,
and monopolizing the green gold rush. Its prohibition version two
(14:23):
point zero, dressed up in slick packaging and overpriced dispensaries.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Don't believe that.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Look at the difference in your prices between going to
a dispensary in Michigan compared to going to a dispensary
in Illinois. Both are completely legal, one hundred percent recreational
and medical size. Michigan has much more affordable prices as
(14:50):
where Illinois has a much higher taxation on the planet
and the products that you buy from it, which.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Is super fucked up to think about.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
They want to own the plant, control the genetics, regulate
the vibe, and kill the spirit, but the culture still alive.
Still under ground, it's still growing. So what is cannabis really.
It's medicine, it's culture, it's rebellion, and most of all,
(15:26):
it's a mirror. A mirraly shows us what power fears
a free thinking population with healing in their hands. So
next time someone says it's just weed, remember it's never
been just weed. It's always been about control, and it's
(15:47):
always going to be about control, the same reason why
Indiana keeps denying the opportunity to.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Go legal.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Also, on top of that, some of the biggest pharmaceuticalceutical
companies are straight up based headquarters here in Indiana, so
they have a lot, absolutely lot to fucking lose, which
(16:22):
is crazy.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
But anyways, this has been a good episode so far
and we're having a lot of fun with it. First
(16:49):
time I ever tried it was at the age of.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Seventeen, dated a girlfriends little bit who she partook along
with her friends that lived right next to her out
in a really small bf e home out in the
(17:15):
middle of nowhere. It's not too far from free now,
little tiny ass town. But then I didn't really it
was one time, just one time, really nothing happened.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
But then.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Probably three more years go by and I started dabbling
in it then this is around college. Definitely had some
friends and we sometimes between classes we would go over
(18:02):
to the quote unquote dorms, which the college I went to.
First of all, it's not even there anymore. They went
bankrupt and closed down.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
But uh.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Uh what was that called International Business College in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
So yeah, your boy actually has a green graphic design
that I don't fucking use, even though I totally could,
but what I do know helps me do this, so
I can't appreciate that part. But yeah, those were those
(18:45):
are those were the days you would get an eighth
for about twenty fucking dollars of some fucking ooh, some
fucking dank cast cush And the thing was like here,
I am like the there was only so like, that's
one of those colleges where majority of like the kids
(19:06):
that are going to school there are white. Like it's
definitely like a white America kind of college. No, not granted,
there was definitely some other kids there that you know,
were of different ethnicities and stuff. But like one of
my one of my buddies, you know, in my class,
his name was a Zeem and his family came from.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Oh God, like.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Croatia or fucking it's something like that over somewhere over
there in in uh Europe slash Asia. I would I
would have to, I would have to look again. But
like he even hadn't he even had an act it
(20:01):
which was which was kind of funny.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
But like, you know, other than that that, there was
there was only there was only two dudes that actually
were dealing.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
And you know, of course they were about the h
the only two black guys in the whole in the
whole school. But boy, oh boy, they had some fucking
amazing ass ship, I tell you what. And uh, a
couple of times I remember we uh one of my buddies.
(20:36):
Don't know how however where he got it from, but
he had some Mexican red hair. And I tell you what,
I've never seen any type of weed that looks like this.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Other than then, and like I've seen some crazy fucking
bud I've gotten.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
I had a connect for a minute where I was
getting nothing but straight up dark purple weed. I'm talking
top to bottom stem and all, every single bit of
it just fucking deep dark purple. And that shit was fire.
(21:22):
I'm pretty sure that was just purple purple o G.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Something like that. Anyways, wo.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
But after that, after high school, dark, high school, college,
I didn't really smoke for a while. Was it first
several years and you know, having jobs and having to
you know, take pissed tests in order to get jobs,
and you know this and that. And it wasn't until oh,
(22:08):
I want to say, around maybe like twenty thirteen.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Or so, and.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
I started to quite regularly, and then that turned into
a daily thing, which then turned into a all day,
everyday event. And that is where we have been at
for the last several years, is the all day, everyday
consumption of this glorious plant in all shapes and forms.
(22:48):
There is a true testament to this plant, there really is.
If you've not experienced it, you have no room to
say anything about it. If you do not know how
this plant affects you, how it can help you, and
you have never once experienced it, you have zero right
to have any say on the matter.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
You know nothing. Until then can we.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Truly speak on it and discuss the pros and the cons,
Because yes, there can be some cons. Like some people,
it doesn't agree with them very well. They get over anxious,
which also has to do with they're tolerance level, and
whether or not they're smoking sativa or Indica, Sativa is
(23:40):
gonna be getting you that Upton going around, getting you
all bouncy, feeling good.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
That's what you want through to day.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
But like, if you're not trying to be moving around
and you're trying to chill, you don't want strawberry cough.
You want something that is going to be Indica based.
Maybe some sunset sherbet. I actually know that'd be a hybrid,
(24:10):
but it's not straight up. I'm trying to think of
a good Indica I've had lately. I did add this
(24:31):
one strain there for a while. Yeah, I'm pretty sure
that was Indica called red cab. Cab was short for
uh cabernet, so essentially red Cabernet.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
This was.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
You can find the strain red Cab and your comings
and your goings. I highly suggest you try that. And
if you guys are interested in learning more about about
different strains and how it can help you and this
(25:12):
and that, like, I will.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Definitely definitely dive into it. I love this topic.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
I love I love weed itself, I love smoking. I
actually have the chemical compound for THHC that I tattooed
on my left forearm, and I can say through my
(25:40):
experiences that without this plant, without what it does, I
can be a completely insufferable person to be around.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
And anyone who knows me current and talks to me
knows that that's.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Never the case of who I am during their interactions
with me, because I don't like to be that way.
I don't like to be angry at the world. I
don't like to be you know, anxious, or depressed or
any things. I want to just be happy. I want
to have fun, I want to joke. I want to
(26:26):
enjoy what life I do have. Because no day is promised, Tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
May never come.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
For all you know, this could be one of the
last things that you do in your life is listening
to this episode right here. Hell, this could be the
last podcast I ever do, the last episode I ever do,
because nothing is promised. But I can tell you that
(27:04):
cannabis does make life a hell of a lot better.
And also I can truly say for being the age
at which I am, which granted, and I'm not that old,
but I am almost almost forty, and a lot of
people who are in the same age group as I
(27:26):
am definitely feel the aches and the pain, especially if
you do any type of laboring work. Hell, even if
you're just doing work where you're just sitting around all
day that, even then, that shit's fucking tough to just
sit and not have to and not be able to
get up and go. And I'm on my feet all
day long. I'm moving around like NonStop. So this definitely helps.
(27:52):
The only thing that it can't do is fix my
fucking neck and back of chiropractor. That's a whole different
fucking thing. But I tell you what, get yourself nice,
a fucking toasty before you go and see the chiropractor.
Oh you are going to have a hell of a
fucking time. I can promise you that right there.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
And I love it. Oh so, apparently I've been not
even on this one. I've been. I thought I was
using one of my other mics. I actually put on
both mics to uh to roll for this. So hopefully the.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Audio doesn't end up sounding terribly bad because it's been
sitting in my pocket. But oh well, I wonder if
I accidentally turned it off. No, that's battery. Definitely battery
on my other mic. Oh man, that's okay, though, No
big do we've been doing good. In fact, let's see
(29:04):
how long we're up to right now, Well, that's thirty
minutes so of recording. Hell yeah, so let's see. Definitely
there will be a custom uh song at the end
of the episode. I'm trying to make sure that these
(29:25):
have at least that at the end of all of them,
I will probably uh yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead
and use one of my previous songs at the beginning
of the episode called Green Dream, AI track that I
(29:46):
had developed. But yeah, we're gonna we're gonna keep doing this,
and thank you guys for coming again during this uh
this lunch interventioned as it were, because this has been
another episode of The Big Grimbowski, and today you heard
(30:06):
the truth under the smoke. Stay curious, stay it, and
don't believe the hype, and also stay fucking weird, y'all.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
They said, they said, it's a villain in the Garden
of Life, lighted in chains and shopping the knife. But
the sleeve's got a soul, a shilling and grace. If
they painted the guilty, put a mask on his face,
green child, and the salt.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
We rise bet in the plain. They try to disguise.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Bos in the Earth, reaching the skies, Cannabis was with
the system.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
The knives one hundred years.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
They've been playing this game, fearing the air, written a
lot in the name.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
With the sea home with them, the soil nose best.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Still they bury the truth, put the plant to the chest,
green truth, and the talk we rise, giving the pain
they tried to disguise with the earth reaching the skies,
Cannabis whispers, with.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
The system denies.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
One hundred years. They've been playing this game, fearing the
air and the lot of the name. But the thieves
hoole wisdom, the soil nose best, So they bury the truth.
Put the plants of the test green truth, and the
salt we rise, giving the pain they try to disguise.
Whoops in the earth, reaching the skies, Cannabis whispers.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Put the system denies.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
They say it's a danger, they say it's a crime.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
But the healing grows and it's rhythm, and Ryan big
Farmer got dollars. They push and they shove, while the
plants got their answers from the roots to above.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Now people put awaken, the.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Tide starts to turn truth in the embasis. The knowledge
we burn the powers in nature, not the pills they describe.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
In the plant keeps calling through the smoke. We vibe
(32:20):
hundred years.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
They've been playing this game.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Fear in the air and a lot of the name,
But the seeds whole, wisdom, The soil knows best till
they bury the truth.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
Put the planet to the.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Test, green truth in the fault, we.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Rise even the pain.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
They try to disguise, the earth reaching the skies. Cannabis whispers,
but the system denies.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
They say it's a danger, they say it's a crime.
But the healing grows, and it's rhythm and rhyme. Big
Farmer got others, the show hill. The planet's got the
ass from the roots to above.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Now people are waking.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
The tide starts to turn. Truth in the embassis the knowledge.
We burn, the powers in nature, not the pills they prescribe.
And the plant keeps calling through the smoke.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
We vibe
Speaker 3 (33:20):
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