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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Moving on Friends, Bradley j for Dan one more night,

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Speaker 2: call in, use him, use him to lose him. If

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Speaker 2: you want to talk to me, call tonight, coush. You

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Speaker 2: can talk to Dan tomorrow night too. We have Angelie

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Speaker 2: Hutten with us, a Boston Globe reporter joining us to

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Speaker 2: talk about to discuss the new laws in Massachusetts going

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Speaker 2: into effect this year. And I could list them, but

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Speaker 2: we'll take it one at a time. So thanks for

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Speaker 2: being with us, Angelie.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me Bradley, of course.

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Speaker 2: Okay, joke, Yeah, So how many laws are there? How

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Speaker 2: many new laws this year?

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Speaker 3: So there's seven that we covered that will be going

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Speaker 3: into effects at different points this year, all right.

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Speaker 2: And I suppose we should just get going and go

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Speaker 2: through them. And you can give me any details on

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Speaker 2: these laws that you have, and we can ask folks

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Speaker 2: how they feel about them if they have any questions.

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Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. Well, let's

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Speaker 2: start with the cannabis cafe social consumption rule. Tell us

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Speaker 2: about that.

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Speaker 3: Yep. So Massachusetts Cannabis Commission last months voted to create

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Speaker 3: new social consumption licenses, and that means that entrepreneurs will

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Speaker 3: be able to create cannabis cafes and host wed infused

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Speaker 3: events like yoga classes or other things. Massachusetts is going

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Speaker 3: to be the first state in New England to allow

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Speaker 3: these businesses. However, they may not go into effect right away.

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Speaker 3: The Commission said it could take anywhere from a year

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Speaker 3: as the agency creates the new licenses and works with

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Speaker 3: local governments to determine where and how they can be issued.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, so it's not just cannabis cafes, it's it's it's

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Speaker 2: yoga classes. We'd infused events. That's a very open kind

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Speaker 2: of thing. We'd infused events like a yoga classes. Is

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Speaker 2: that really an event? It's interesting? You really, now, can

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Speaker 2: I we'd infused everything?

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Speaker 3: Can you?

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Speaker 2: Can you have restaurants that are cannabis friendly restaurants?

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Speaker 3: I think it's still working out. You know exactly what

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Speaker 3: types of businesses and events or such would qualify under

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Speaker 3: these licenses. But you know, that's why they're taking some

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Speaker 3: time to develop those consumption on premises.

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Speaker 2: Like I've certainly been to the Amsterdam cafes and it's a,

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Speaker 2: it's a cool vibe. Do you have any idea of

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Speaker 2: how they envision these? Are they the chill kind of

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Speaker 2: European cafes or is it going to be more raucous

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Speaker 2: rock and roll event? And well, does each each operation,

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Speaker 2: each bar or whatever it need to apply for license

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Speaker 3: So towns and cities will have to pass their own

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Speaker 3: petitions and ordinances if they want to allow social consumption, uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, in businesses in those communities. So it's going

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Speaker 3: to be on a local government by local government basis,

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Speaker 3: and then from there, you know, businesses can opt in

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Speaker 3: and apply for licenses. Is the process that's expected to

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Speaker 2: Interesting regulations approved by Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission now allow

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Speaker 2: for the on site consumption for cannabis licensed dispensary. So

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Speaker 2: this is another thing. The dispensary I go to, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's obviously smells very heavily of cannabis in there.

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Speaker 2: But you're telling me now that some dispensaries will also

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Speaker 2: be able to you'll be able to consume it right there,

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Speaker 2: like they'll have a smoking room in the back or something.

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Speaker 2: How is that going to work?

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Speaker 3: So we'll have to wait and see again, there's about

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Speaker 3: a year to eighteen month timeline for you know, establishing

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Speaker 2: All right, well, I'll I'll adjust that later. Are you

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Speaker 2: do you plan on going and checking these out?

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Speaker 3: Had no comment there.

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Speaker 2: Voter safety certificates. Tell us about that.

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Speaker 3: Yep, so last year about a year or so. Now

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Speaker 3: the messages Legislature and govern here you pass a lot

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Speaker 3: that will require voters born after January first, nineteen eighty

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Speaker 3: same requirements. But voters without a certificate are going to

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Speaker 3: while operate in the vote. This won't apply to certain operators, however,

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Speaker 3: such as merchant mariners or members of the US military

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Speaker 2: Interesting, as I understand that the key divisions include mandatory education,

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Speaker 2: carried while operating on a vessel. I'm sort of surprised

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Speaker 2: this took this long time for that to pass. That

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Speaker 2: seems pretty reasonable and the face didn't deadline. If you're

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Speaker 2: born after January one, nineteen eighty nine, you must be

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Speaker 2: certified by April one, twenty twenty six. Born on or

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Speaker 2: before jan one, nineteen eighty nine must be certified by

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Speaker 2: April one. Ages twelve through fifteen can operate motor boats

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Speaker 2: unsupervised only if they have the certificate. Under twelve cannot

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Speaker 2: operate motor boats unsupervised. Motor boat Ages sixteen to seventeen

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Speaker 2: must have a certificate to operate a PwC. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what that is powered watercraft. I bet that's powered watercraft.

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Speaker 2: Exemptions include merchant mariners, qualified military personnel, and those with

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Speaker 2: existing equivalent certifications. You might wonder about reciprocity certificates from

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Speaker 2: other states recognized by the NA the National Association of

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Speaker 2: State Boating Law Administrators are accepted, sort of like reciprocal

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Speaker 2: fishing licenses, And what's the reason for this? What's the purpose.

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Speaker 2: The Act, named for victims of boating accidents, brings Massachusetts

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Speaker 2: in line with other with federal standards. I guess we

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Speaker 2: operators have the knowledge to keep themselves and others safe

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Speaker 2: on the water. And enforcement. You may wonder about enforcement

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Speaker 2: after the deadlines, operators found without a certificate risk fines,

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Speaker 2: though enforcement grace periods are in place. Interesting, all right, now,

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Speaker 2: what's next?

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Speaker 3: Well, another one of the laws that went in to

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Speaker 3: a new data privacy law and Massachusetts attempt to protect

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Speaker 3: abortion rights and abortion providers here as Republicans have targeted

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Speaker 3: the procedure in other states. So this was passed last summer.

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Speaker 3: It went into effect on January first, and it mandates

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Speaker 3: also requires that insurance companies limit access to patients electronic

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you go ahead, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: It also, you know, is looking to protect the identities

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Speaker 3: something of a response to some of what the Trump

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Speaker 2: And what about increased paid family and medical leave as

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Speaker 2: another one.

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Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure about that particular law. That's not

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Speaker 3: one that we specifically covered, but you know, it's not

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Speaker 2: See I have your increased paid family medical leave and benefits.

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Speaker 2: The maximum weekly benefit for the states for that program

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Speaker 2: is increasing. And assault protection from for for transit workers.

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Speaker 3: Yep, So Massachusetts added transportation workers to the group of

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Speaker 3: And this is coming as you know, unions and such

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Speaker 3: have said that transportation workers have faced additional threats, you know,

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Speaker 3: new law means that those who commit offenses against them

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Speaker 3: will face heightened penalties beginning on March third, and that

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Speaker 3: can include any assaults, including with any bodily substance. Folks

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Speaker 3: who commit these offenses could face a sentence from ninety

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Speaker 2: All right, and what am I missing there a couple more.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, salary transparency. This is something that we can

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Speaker 2: talk about later too. Tell me about that one. That law.

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Speaker 3: This is another one we didn't specifically cover in our

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Speaker 2: How about the Down syndrome insurance coverage? Yep.

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Speaker 3: So in twenty twenty four, Massachusetts lawmakers passed a bill

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Speaker 3: this one was a little personal to the state legislature

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Speaker 3: when they passed it, you know, a center President Karence,

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Speaker 3: for you know, the Senate and for those legislature in

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Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you very very much for taking

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Speaker 2: giving us some the rundown on some of the new

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Speaker 2: for having me. Absolutely take care. WBZ News Radio ten thirty.

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's

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Speaker 2: Good to be with you, badly Jay and for Dan

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Speaker 2: one more night. Let me break down a little more slowly,

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Speaker 2: in a little more detail, a couple of the laws

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Speaker 2: cannabis law. It's pretty interesting. It's interesting, first of all

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Speaker 2: to see the change and how people view cannabis. How

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Speaker 2: Even if you're you know, older. It was always it

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Speaker 2: was always what was it? Reefer madness? You know some

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Speaker 2: of you watch the movie called Reefer Madness where they

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Speaker 2: People went to jail. It was taboo, and now it's

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Speaker 2: heavily marketed. I went to a dispensary in my neighborhood

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Speaker 2: and it's so normalized that they even have like a

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Speaker 2: special case with special promotion. I don't know if it's promotions,

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Speaker 2: and eating eating even more chips. I guess Massachusetts will

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Speaker 2: allow cannabis cafes to open in the state. How things

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Speaker 2: have changed. State agency overseeing cannabis regulation opened the door

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Speaker 2: wonder how you how you define entrepreneur. That's probably could

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Speaker 2: be tricky. Is an establishment that has multiple multiple sites,

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Speaker 2: an entrepreneur who waits draw the line? Who's not an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 2: The regulations took effect. I guess they were supposed to

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Speaker 2: take effect on January two. I imagine they did. We'll

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Speaker 2: make the Massachusetts the first state in New England to

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Speaker 2: allow these enterprises. Now, the folks in favor of it

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Speaker 2: say it's a way to further normalize cannabis consumption and

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Speaker 2: bolster the state's tourism and hospitality industries. That's interesting. A

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Speaker 2: way to boost tourism. I guess maybe. Yeah, I guess

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Speaker 2: that would work for now until other states do the

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Speaker 2: same and other countries do the same. I hadn't considered

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Speaker 2: the tourism aspect and the hospitality industries. Critics worry the

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Speaker 2: new business could increase impaired driving and risk workers health. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it could increase impaired driving, I guess, but you know,

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Speaker 2: And a lot of times when you're consuming cannabis, you

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Speaker 2: don't have a false sense of skill. Drunk drivers just

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Speaker 4: Yes, you were talking about cannabis cafes. Yes, And I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well do they require that for alcohol?

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Speaker 4: Well, they don't. You're supposed to take crystal responsibility and

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Speaker 2: So what was it again? Can you repeat what you're

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Speaker 4: Clear Well, just what I was saying is is developing

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Speaker 2: Which do you feel would pose a greater risk to

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Speaker 4: sad on it, and then they sat on it again

435
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 4: and delayed the implunation. But I think that they did

436
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 4: come up with the Cannabis Commission. They they didn't do

437
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 4: a good job in the end, really. But the guy,

438
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 4: I can't remember the name of the guy that was

439
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 4: ahead of it, but you've had him one they've had

440
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 4: been on the radio. But yeah, and uh, you know

441
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 4: they worked at Okay, that delay was alike. But I

442
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 4: mean it's the whole thing too about legislators don't listening

443
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 4: to the people too. They think they know better.

444
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Speaker 2: What's the yoga the cannabis infused the yoga of it?

445
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 4: Yeah?

446
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 2: Really, it's interesting to me what I can't think right now,

447
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 2: other things like that that might be cannabis infused, But

448
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 2: cannabis infused yoga really is there? You really? Should there

449
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,239
Speaker 2: really be cannabis? No, of course they can't be. But

450
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 2: would you want to go to that? Is my I

451
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 2: guess shouldn't you have at least at some point in

452
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 2: the day, some time when you're not exposed to smoke.

453
00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 4: But that's like work. I mean gradially, if you stoned

454
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 4: and then the instructors saying do this, you know, you

455
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 4: probably forget what you what they said two seconds ago,

456
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 4: maybe you know, defending a stone.

457
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 2: Honestly, there are some people, and I'm not kidding, this

458
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 2: is true. It's not just that they think that this

459
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 2: is the case. They function at a higher rate, higher

460
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 2: level when they are stoned. That's a thing I have.

461
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I have a physician. Friends they get

462
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 4: you know, they light up beforehand, and they played very well.

463
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 4: So just as they've commonized themselves to it, I guess

464
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Speaker 4: so what.

465
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 2: I don't want to be totally but ridiculous in my

466
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 2: what's next? But you know what's next? Cannabis like doctor's offices,

467
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: where you're it's okay to smoke because it relaxes you.

468
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 4: You're waiting for the appointment that you made an hour

469
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Speaker 4: ago to be seeing an hour ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe, yeah, maybe certain grocery store chains will become

471
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: cannabis friendly grocery stores.

472
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Speaker 1: Who knows?

473
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 2: And why not?

474
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 4: Boy did increase their sales? Would they?

475
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, that's you're so right. They should give it.

476
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 2: They could give give away free cannabis at the door

477
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 2: to increase to increase the sales of chips and soda.

478
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Speaker 2: That's a good one, Jim, Thank.

479
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 4: You very much. Fun let's hear you're on the radio.

480
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. If you can have

481
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 2: cannabis infuse yoga, why not have free joints at the

482
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Speaker 2: door of the the marketplace to induce people to buy

483
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 2: more chunk food and for that matter, same deal at

484
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 2: at a restaurant. Here, here's a free joint for your appetisers.

485
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 2: Go with your appetizer, say you order three times as

486
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 2: much on the menu. Let's take a break. I'm promised

487
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: to get to my stories about the weird ride share

488
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Speaker 2: ride and the interesting chat on the public transportation with

489
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Speaker 2: the Church of Latter day Saints missionaries coming up on

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Speaker 2: w b.

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Speaker 1: Z Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: All righty, I'm going to now share with you rideshare

493
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 2: ride I had the other day. See if you hadn't

494
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 2: have had anything like that. Have you had a strange

495
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 2: ride share ride? Here we go. First of all, I

496
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 2: could have taken the tea. I should have. I prefer

497
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 2: it because actually the roads are so bumpy in Boston.

498
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 2: I hate riding in cars around the roads of Boston.

499
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 2: It's like bang bang wham wham, especially on Huntington AF

500
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 2: It's brutal, Boylston Street brutal. But this time I thought

501
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 2: I would take a ride share. I did right. Share

502
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: showed up. You know, you always hope it's a nice car.

503
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: No it wasn't, and it was too expensive for me

504
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: to take an over black. I took a regular Comfort

505
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 2: That's a level I took. And the when I got

506
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 2: in it smelled like kind of spoiled milk, which is

507
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 2: a bummer. And then I noticed that the driver was

508
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: watching TV on his phone on a little rack there

509
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 2: right where they usually put phones. But there was some

510
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 2: sort of sitcom going on, and the driver was watching

511
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 2: the sitcom and driving, you know, looking up, looking down.

512
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 2: I thought, that's not great. That's not great at all.

513
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 2: So then it was a little upset by his distracted,

514
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 2: distracted driving, and I thought, and this is not important.

515
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 2: And then the language that it was doesn't matter. And

516
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 2: I'm perfectly fine with foreign languages. I love hanging around

517
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 2: with people from other places speaking foreign languages. But I

518
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 2: couldn't even enjoy the sitcom because I didn't understand the language.

519
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 2: It was kind of exclusive. I kind of felt like

520
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 2: we you know, when people are having a conversation in

521
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 2: some language in front of you, like to of your friends.

522
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: They happen to know another language, they start speaking it,

523
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 2: and you don't get what they're saying. I felt kind

524
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: of excluded like that, you know, it wasn't really it

525
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 2: wasn't a fun feeling. But then coming office store or

526
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 2: drive on to head into you can choose either the

527
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 2: Ken Moore Square exit the lower one, or go up

528
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 2: and go around down buist and chose the one to

529
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 2: go through Ken Moore and then take that. You have

530
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 2: to take a rite on too, maybe a speaking and

531
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 2: went up on the curb just boom, boom boom and

532
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: shook his head. Oh he shook his head, and I thought,

533
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 2: good grief, this is a I wonder if the ride

534
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: share company is aware that these kinds of things go on.

535
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 2: And here's the thing. After all this, I question you,

536
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 2: what would you give the person as a rating? And

537
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 2: this is taking the following things into consideration. Are they

538
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 2: going to see what you rate them and then rate

539
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 2: you low so that it hurts your rating so believe it?

540
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 2: Or I gave the guy a five star rating, which

541
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 2: was selfish of me, I guess, because it's more likely

542
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 2: that some somebody down the line is going to get

543
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 2: into a stinky, rotten, milk sweating car. But I didn't

544
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 2: want to get a low rating. And also on that subject,

545
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 2: another angle on that subject is do they see the

546
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 2: tip you give them before they rate you? If you

547
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 2: give a ride share driver a bad tip or no

548
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 2: tip because they don't deserve it, like in this case,

549
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 2: did they see that and rate you slowly. I've tried

550
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 2: to research that. I get mixed, mixed reviews, mixed answers,

551
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 2: and I just don't know. So you know, I just

552
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 2: gave the guy. I copped out and gave the guy

553
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 2: a five star rating. Why not? I wonder if that's

554
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 2: the case with everybody they're afraid to give low ratings.

555
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 2: Are you afraid to give a low rating that you

556
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 2: might get a low rating in return? And this here's

557
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 2: another the other interesting conveyance. I was on trip on

558
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 2: the MBTA. I got on and some over near Longwood

559
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 2: and a woman came up as attractive young woman came

560
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 2: up and and why does this matter? Why is the

561
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 2: attractive art matter? It does, as you'll see, said, do

562
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 2: you want to go to church on Sunday? Or do

563
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 2: you want to go to church? I said no. Then

564
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 2: I thought, wait a minute, what's going on here? I

565
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 2: want to find out about these people because there were

566
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 2: two of them on the train. So I said, excuse me,

567
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 2: you miss what religion? She said Christian? And I said, well,

568
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 2: can you be more specific? She said Church of Latter

569
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 2: day Saints And I said, oh, tell me about that?

570
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 2: Is that the religion of John Smith? And she said, no,

571
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 2: Joseph Smith. And I'm just going to share with you

572
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 2: what I learned about this. You may or may not

573
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 2: know this stuff. Many of you will know much more

574
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 2: than this, But what I saw was the Church of

575
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 2: Latter day Saints missionary thing in action. So I asked

576
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 2: about Joseph Smith and why, you know, why she believed

577
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 2: in him. She said that God decided that he should

578
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 2: be the new prophet, basically is what I understood. And

579
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 2: I'm just curious about why him and why after all

580
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 2: this time, she didn't really have an answer for that.

581
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 2: But then I was curious about where she was from,

582
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 2: like did she she from around here and went for

583
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 2: training in Utah at the headquarters. She said, no, I'm

584
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 2: from Utah. I'm from there. And she said that her

585
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 2: parents were in the church too, her mother was a missionary,

586
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 2: and that she kind of drifted away from a little

587
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 2: in college but felt bad. She didn't feel good, she

588
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: didn't feel right, and so she went back and she

589
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 2: decided to become a missionary too. And I guess the

590
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 2: job is as a missionary to go and get people

591
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 2: to go to church. There are a number of them around,

592
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 2: as you may know, and I was also curious about

593
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 2: if she had to have a job and do this.

594
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: She said, no, we have to save up. We have

595
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 2: to save our money and spend it to do this.

596
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 2: And I researched it a little bit, and I don't

597
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 2: know if it's always this way, but they contribute to

598
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 2: a fund and then that fund pays for them to go.

599
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: I said, how do you know where to go? The Uh?

600
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: She said, the boss in Utah praise and and and

601
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 2: waits for an answer and a vision to decide where

602
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 2: to send them. And it's possible that the church kicks

603
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 2: in a little bit too. And I just and then

604
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: the other one came over Andy. I asked him, what

605
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 2: do you say to people who say you're a cult?

606
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 2: And they have an answer for everything, just like just

607
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,320
Speaker 2: like flat earth people do, so you can't really argue,

608
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 2: But it was it was interesting to see, Wow, this

609
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 2: is a lifestyle. This is a lifestyle of quite a

610
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 2: few people to go out and be missionaries for the church.

611
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 2: I almost want to like go to the go to

612
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 2: the headquarters and go to church there and see what

613
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 2: it's like. Coming up on WZ, We're gonna give you

614
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 2: some finite actionable information to save you travel money and

615
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 2: travel hassle, and travel despair and travel tears. We've gotta

616
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 2: make sure that you don't make some mistakes that well

617
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Speaker 2: I've certainly made. We have Kevin Bresna from checkbook dot org,

618
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 2: as I mentioned earlier, and we'll again spell out what

619
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Speaker 2: that is. After this, we get rolling with Kevin on

620
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Speaker 2: WBZ