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Speaker 1: The US legal marijuana industry was estimated at thirteen point

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Speaker 1: six billion dollars in two thousand nineteen, creating three hundred

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Speaker 1: and like Virgil Grant, but first I want to introduce

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Speaker 1: of his wonderful establishment. Thank you for having us over.

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Speaker 1: So we have a situation that she was doing everything

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Speaker 1: from my case. He became a judge, the a USA

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Speaker 1: everybody that was involved in that case, UH was able

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Speaker 1: was the only dispensary Incomftent. First, First of all, it

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Speaker 1: he said, Virgil, and then a turnament. Uh, turn up

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Speaker 1: of course when I did my time, I went to

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00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,679
Speaker 1: fire camp. And if you do any selfless act for

428
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: the state, if you do any any selfless act for

429
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: the state, uh, they will uh expunge your record. They

430
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: will allow you to uh apply and have your record

431
00:24:54,560 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: expunge and and uh doing uh um um the uh

432
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 1: fire camp. That's what That's what that was. So um yeah.

433
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: But Noine, nobody was gonna come to me and and

434
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: and say or tell me or do anything for me.

435
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:17,439
Speaker 1: That was not gonna happen under no circumstances. So um yeah, no,

436
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 1: it um to to really come at that question direct.

437
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 1: I didn't expect nobody to do nothing for me. I

438
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 1: ain't never expected nobody the system, damn. So don't expect

439
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: them to do nothing for me. I always expect them

440
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: to do something to me, but never something for me.

441
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying? So as long as

442
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: I don't trick myself, and the way I didn't trick myself,

443
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: I watched a lot of casts tricked themselves up in

444
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,159
Speaker 1: that that that that situation, in that system. I watched

445
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,120
Speaker 1: a lot of casts tricked themselves. I never got caught

446
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: up in that. How do you do They bought into

447
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: the system a lot. I'm bought into the system in

448
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 1: so many different ways for so many different reasons. But

449
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 1: I did not allow myself to buy into the system

450
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,959
Speaker 1: like you got cats in there who look at what

451
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: they did and felt what they did was wrong. He

452
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: was trying to feed your family. What's wrong about that?

453
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: You was trying to eat like everybody else? What's wrong

454
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: about that? You? These were the tools that was given

455
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: to you because you weren't given the same avenues as

456
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: as Johnny was given. You know what I'm saying, So

457
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: you can't trick yourself into believing I never felt I

458
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: did anything wrong. To this day, I haven't done nothing wrong.

459
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: Why did because you re licensed me? I got re

460
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: licensed when I got home by the city in the state.

461
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: So then what did I do wrong? Because so it

462
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: just confirmed my belief to start with, you went to

463
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: jail and had license, but when you got out, he

464
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: was able to google get the same license you had.

465
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: I was re licensed under the new ordinance. Keep in

466
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: mind I played the and creating that ordinance too. But

467
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: I got licensed under the new ordinance by the city

468
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 1: in the state of California as a convicted felon so

469
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: to speak, which I don't even carry that title, as

470
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 1: someone that that really was taken away from his family

471
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: and locked up ship to a slave for the state

472
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 1: for six years exactly. And just to say all that,

473
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: because the laws of course are so different now thanks

474
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: in part the sacrifices like brothers like you. Unfortunately, but

475
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: they can't get away with this ship man. They did, ye,

476
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: I applaud him because I would be. So you know,

477
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: that's six years is gone, that's right, and they just

478
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: get the skate off. It's kind of You can either

479
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,880
Speaker 1: either go after and try to fight them, which that's

480
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: your long as battle, or you can pick up where

481
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: you left off say funk that I didn't did it,

482
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: and then had him in chatting that you had and

483
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: say I'm going to create it did right here right

484
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: damn yea they laugh from it's a done deal. Yeah,

485
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: and and always look at it. You deal what you

486
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: could do. You shot your shot, You got that off.

487
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: But guess what, I'm back. You know what I'm saying

488
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: right now, because he was in sort of in so

489
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: many ways, he was the we're gonna make an example

490
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: out of this motherfucker yeah type of you get me,

491
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: even though it's the other cats in the motherfucking business

492
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: doing anything. He's the black man from Compton. You know,

493
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,479
Speaker 1: we know about what's going down, so we can't have that.

494
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: You know that happens at the time anybody's successful of

495
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: our color ship. But you gotta you gotta remember one thing.

496
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: They took me out the game for six years. It

497
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: allowed Madman to come in the game. It allowed all

498
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: these cookies to come in the game. It allowed these

499
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: other bigger businesses to come into the game, and all

500
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: of the all of this other corporate money to come

501
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: into the game while I was gone for six years.

502
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: So had had just let's just say they didn't take

503
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: me away, I'd be the biggest thing in the industry rightly.

504
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: I man Man wouldn't even be able to eat my lunch,

505
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: uh scraps off my table because I'd be running everything.

506
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: I had six stores in two thousand five six locations.

507
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: How many of you think I would have had had

508
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: I stayed in the game. Oh, I'd have tried to

509
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: eat up everything that was in my way. It's sort

510
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: of like it was a motherfucking plan. You can get me,

511
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: Like they got a plan because they know other motherfucker's

512
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: is on the come up or want to get into

513
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: the business. So we gotta stop that. We gotta stop

514
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: him because we know Virgil is on the rise right now.

515
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: It's just like the pharmacies mans trying to out and

516
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: and and then do yours because there's big money that,

517
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you know you have

518
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 1: to be careful, which you didn't see it coming, you

519
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Here, I am. I got all

520
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: my licenses and ship up here, everything they need if

521
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: they walk in this motherfucking daughter, but still I get handcuffed.

522
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: All these other motherfucker's got the same ship here. They

523
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: got drown out, but they go back into their shops.

524
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: I'm the only motherfucker to go to Jim, you don't

525
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: see the bullshit in this Yes, bullshit and hypocrisy, you know.

526
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: And it's just like like I'm sitting up here literally, man,

527
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: I'm mad for you and I'm upset because they do

528
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: him like that. That means that anytime they can go

529
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:38,719
Speaker 1: grab one of us worse our sons, it's almost like

530
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: you to no win situation. That's why the just system

531
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: as a whole just needs a a massive overhaul because

532
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: that wasn't that was kidnapping. Yeah, because it's been designing

533
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: the funk us over. That's the problem. The system has

534
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: always been designed to suck us over, especially us of color,

535
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: who in the situations of you know, we can calmed

536
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: and we've long be so central wherever we from. I

537
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: think it was a business thing where you probably ask

538
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: some people needed to get you out of the way

539
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: and spent a lot of money to get you out

540
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: of the way so they can implement some of the

541
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: ship that they had implemented. Gender Well, it was the

542
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: people that was glad I was gone, and that's for

543
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: sure because I was You keep in mind Compton to

544
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: the Valley, so I got six stores at one on Compton,

545
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: at one on Crenshawn hundred forty one. I had one

546
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: on forty seven in Crenshaw. I had one on Uh

547
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: sixteenth in Maple in downtown. I had one on Western

548
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: and Maplewood in Koreatown. And I had one on some

549
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: Povid and Sherman Way in the valley. So I was

550
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: covering a line going from Compton to the valley, and

551
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: people would stay shopping in between my locations because they

552
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: know one at the best weed, at the reasonable price

553
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: and great customer service. So I provid I did everything

554
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: that other shops didn't think to provide. You know what

555
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying. When you came in my shop, it was

556
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: very different. So I had I would I went to

557
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: and how I did this As I went to other

558
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: people's shops, and I watched how they did, they think,

559
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: and I saw the things that I didn't like. I

560
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: saw the things that people didn't like, and I made

561
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: sure I didn't do those in my shop. So that's

562
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: what made me better. UM one year into my business,

563
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: less than one year into my business, I was named

564
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: as a number one store in southern California, the Compton Store,

565
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: which was my goal to try to do that. I

566
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: can be somebody from Compton and do it better than

567
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: anybody in the industry, you know what I'm saying, because

568
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't think we can right there. That's

569
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: why they had to get him out the way because

570
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: you just you just heard it, and he represents everything

571
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: they fear. He's a dude from the community. Right then

572
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: the community like Mexican other whatever, they would come and

573
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: support because it's right because the community and dollars right there.

574
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was a massive conspiracy of the league,

575
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: man that you just think like this to it. Like

576
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: you said, it was a lot of us probably spending

577
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: money and the people spending money to give me. Now

578
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: when you you know, that's just like motherfucker when you're

579
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: making the records or some ship when you can sail

580
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: to us. But when you start going over to that

581
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: pop side, motherfucker boy, you you hit another level. You

582
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: got you got, you got a cracking and you really

583
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: got the motherfucker when you got the motherfucker other people.

584
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, might have more white folks

585
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: coming to the confant than the courthouse, you know what

586
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: I'm saying, The court coming down and they feel they're

587
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: getting some official Let me ask you this, man, because

588
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: you were around your brother man for you to rebound

589
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: from what you did. Man, I said, Lucas, this is

590
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: a beautiful location. How did you get started talking about Yeah? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Yeah,

591
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: it's open book. Um. I started selling out the liquor store,

592
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: my Daddy's liquor store on a Hunted twenty four for Wilmington. Yeah,

593
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, um, that's where I started.

594
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: And with that, I begin to expand my territory because

595
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,720
Speaker 1: we had the Rose Cran store, we had the Compton store.

596
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: And I'm a I'm a neutral cat to get along

597
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: with everybody, So I had I had all sides of Compton.

598
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: I had Joe neighborhood. You know what I'm saying, everybody

599
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: over there that was selling me, Spanky Jews Clip, everybody.

600
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: All the cats they know, you know what I'm saying.

601
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: I had all the cats over man. You know, I

602
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: was versed in retail, so it just made sense to

603
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: me because it was what I was already doing, but

604
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: it was in something that I really wanted to do,

605
00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So between those two liquors stores,

606
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: I was able to touch a lot of people and

607
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: then you gotta keep in mind we're talking late eighties

608
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: all the way through the nineties and then into the

609
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: two thousand's. So if we look at that era, game

610
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: banging was on the rise in the nineties, crack selling

611
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: was on the rise in the nineties, and then ninety

612
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: two was the l A l A Riot, So you

613
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: gotta keep in mind what the volatility was going on

614
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: around there. And I was still functioning through every community

615
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: I'm talking about it. You can't name a spot that

616
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: sold we Nord uh Street, Uh the earthquake sounds uh,

617
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: stripe on wheelm me to. You can't name a spot

618
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: or a hood that I did not have weed selling

619
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: it because that was my goal. I was always kind

620
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: of joked with myself, like Frank White said in the

621
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: King of New York, if a nickelbag has sold in

622
00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: Central Park, I won't like the nickel was sold in Compton,

623
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: I won't then. And because dope selling was the thing

624
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: to do back then, crack all the d boys came

625
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: to see me because guess what when they go bounce

626
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: out of town at Denver, the Oklahoma and all the

627
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 1: places they need we because they can't get no good

628
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: out there, so they come to me. So I'm talking

629
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: about all the heavyweight players in Compton through those eras,

630
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: and y'all know them. They all came to that story

631
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: when you move that way, but when you got legit.

632
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: But see, the thing was is that my name wasn't

633
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: my name. I wasn't who I was when you walk

634
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: into the liquor store. You couldn't approach me talking about

635
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: Oh I hey man, I heard you got that bud Yeah,

636
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,479
Speaker 1: I do bud Light, bud wise, Yeah, doing number five.

637
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: There you go. You know what I'm saying. But you

638
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: couldn't approach me with that foolishness because I don't know

639
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Homie. Ain't nothing popping like that here.

640
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And so the with that,

641
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: I began to create a different atmosphere for myself. My

642
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: goal was to deal with who's running this spot, who's

643
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: running this hood. That's who I need to talk to,

644
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: That's who I need to be dealing with. And because

645
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: I I went to Lynnwood, I grew up in Compton,

646
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: then moved into Lynnwood. For a while it I was

647
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: known all over. I was, like I say, number one

648
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: athlete quarter Millar and Hurdler, So a little popularity was

649
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: there running my daddy's liquor store. Then I begin to

650
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: start familiarizing myself with every neighborhood in Coompting, not just

651
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: some of the hoods, every neighborhood, you see what I'm saying,

652
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: And so getting to know who was running, who was

653
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: shaking and moving in those neighborhoods, who was the the

654
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: headballer over there? I may that my business to to

655
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: to build relationships. Uh in Wat's all three projects and

656
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: made it my business. Broadways, Main Streets, Avalons sixties eight seven.

657
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it was my goal to make sure

658
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: that I covered as much territory as I could. And

659
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: because if this is what I'm gonna do, one thing,

660
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: my mama told me, whatever you do, you be the

661
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: best at it. If you're gonna be a clown, you

662
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: be the best clown. Well, I made it to be

663
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: the best weed shaker and mover on the east side

664
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: back in its lovely Yeah. So how many shops you

665
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: got down? Have three shops? Yes, three shops? I want

666
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: to talk about your excellent product here? Okay, what's this?

667
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: Because you know, for all those out there not TV.

668
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, I thought I smoked the best

669
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: weed our life the week. Whatever. I've been telling you

670
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 1: this right here? What if I've been telling this right

671
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: here and I'm gonna tell you the thing I like

672
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: about it. I'm nice and high, but I don't feel

673
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: out of control like I'm telling you. Know what I'm saying.

674
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: I called you know what I mean, and it's you know,

675
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: it's excellent for the back pain some kids. I'm doing

676
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: this experiment, so you know this is you know, this

677
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: is for test research purposes. I had the research that

678
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: you know, and I don't thinate everything. So something that's

679
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: unique about your situation. I noticed your retail. You have

680
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: your ownline and you do distribution to it if I'm correct,

681
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: correct cultivation. Um, it took a lot to go. You

682
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 1: know you don't that's like, that's a lot of agriculture

683
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: involved and all kind of others. You gotta know your ship.

684
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: You gotta know your ship. This is just not like, um,

685
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 1: the logistics to go into something like this is just

686
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, you put this together despite being knocked down

687
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: for six years. Yes. Um, one thing they could do

688
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: is they could take away your freedom, but they can't

689
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: take away your mind. And so what I made sure

690
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: is that my mind stayed sharp while I was in prison.

691
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 1: I still uh did study, and I still stayed abreast

692
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: on what the industry was doing. I made sure I

693
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: had advocates sent me a lot of information to keep

694
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: me up to date on what was going on in

695
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: the cannabis industry. So I never fell off of my

696
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: craft and what I do. And mentally, I knew what

697
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: I was coming home to do. You see what I'm saying,

698
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: And so you gotta keep you You take advantage of

699
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: every opportunity to sharpen your skills and your tools. Well,

700
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: for me, it was to think was to sit back

701
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: and plan what my next move is once I'm released.

702
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: Always said, all they got to do is open that

703
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: door and I'll show you what I can do. You know,

704
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: the thing is is I'm good at what I do.

705
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: You know, Um, I don't know anybody that that move

706
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: is much weed and covered as much territory in the

707
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: areas that I've been in, Like I was in the

708
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: roughest areas. And look at me, I ain't no billy

709
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: badass you on some low key ship, you know what

710
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And so like and and you know when

711
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: I talk about the neighborhoods that I moved through, like

712
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: l A castaid, I was dealing with im like, hey man,

713
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: won't you know, hey man, I need to grab some

714
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: suss up. I'll be at the liquor store. Come to

715
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: the stuff. Man, we ain't coming to Compton over there.

716
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: L A Cash were not want to come over there

717
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: to Compton, not on a hund four from Wilmington. They

718
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: didn't want no parts of it. Right. I used to

719
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: tell them, I said, man, you good. Just tell them

720
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: you're coming to see me, and they like you sure,

721
00:41:58,160 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: I see yeah, Man, just tell them you're coming to

722
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: see me and you're good. And you know people will

723
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: hit them up in the parking. I'm the company Sea

724
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: Bird And that was good. No where can people find this?

725
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: You said, you've got six locations at three three vocations.

726
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: So I have one on seventy four and Crenshaw seventy

727
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: four fifteen Crenshaw Boulevard. And then I have one uh

728
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: sixteen o one South Soto Street in Boil Heights, Uh,

729
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: the old Sears Building. I'm right next to the Old

730
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: Sears building off of Soto and Olympic. And then I

731
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: have one off of mail rolls. Uh six five four

732
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: North Manhattan place, just right off of mail Rolls in

733
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: Western We got to create against the chronicles discount codes

734
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: they come in there. Absolutely absolutely absolutely, And so you know,

735
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: I beg you're talking about your bringers. These are cultivated

736
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: by you. Yes, sir, did you have right there in

737
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: this one right here? That's a hybrid And then the

738
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: straining is on the back. How many different do you have?

739
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 1: Your own? And everything to my own pens. So I cultivate,

740
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: so I grow the flower a manufacturer, which means I

741
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: extracted my own oil, which means I have a pens,

742
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 1: have edibles, um, anything on the concentrated level. I have shatter, wax, crumbles, sauce.

743
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: This is all the stuff that all the dabbers and

744
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: the dad heads and the concentrate consumers understand. Uh. And

745
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 1: then also have my apparel, which is California Cannabis Apparel.

746
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 1: I'm a complete brand. I'm one that does everything from

747
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 1: top to bottom. Um and I created that is because

748
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to make this a desirable brand. I wanted

749
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: this brand to be for everybody. I wanted to be

750
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: for the soccer mom. I wanted to be for the hippie,

751
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: the beach bum uh, the gangster and from the city

752
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: I'm from, which they had it way before everybody else did,

753
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 1: because California cannabis. I've been providing that long before the

754
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: name you know what I'm saying. So um, you know

755
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 1: in the city. So you can't you can't name uh

756
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 1: and and and my man Nate. No, you can't name

757
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: a rapper. And Compton didn't come by weed from me

758
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: coolioh uh dj quid um uh. And he really didn't

759
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: even smoke weed. He was more of a drinker at

760
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,959
Speaker 1: easy Dre, Dre stir and b G knock days all

761
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: coming to Dre, all of them, uh back in the

762
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: end of w eight days. And then even I was

763
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:44,720
Speaker 1: I was going up to death Row. Legend your servants

764
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: that I was serving death row. You know, snoops, first

765
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 1: purple cush came from me, you know what I'm saying.

766
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: So that's when he first signed with death Row. Um.

767
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: And you know I was coming through there all the time,

768
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: can damn studios. I was dipping through the d dipping

769
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: right back out, you know what I'm saying. You know

770
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: that's why I would just creep in and creep out

771
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: because I was there. I wasn't one of those that

772
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: you would see hanging out. That wasn't my thing because

773
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: at my pager, Oh, it was blowing up every time.

774
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: I had too many people that wanted to see me.

775
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: So I would come handle my business and then I'm out.

776
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying. No, I don't need

777
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: to meet nobody. No, I don't need to see you.

778
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 1: I don't need to know who you are. Thank you,

779
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: have a good day. I'm gone. It was it was

780
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: just that with me when it came to that, and

781
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 1: I didn't been to shift. Damn. There every studio in uh,

782
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: Southern California, Larry North Larby South Echo Sounds. You name

783
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: a studio, I can promise you I hadn't been there

784
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: and dropped off weed to some artists. Right, you know misconception.

785
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: I think that it's just hood people coming in and

786
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: degenerates coming in buying marijuana. How right is the range

787
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: of people? Is that your service? Um? To be honest

788
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: with you, I have more middle aged and elderly that

789
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 1: are in my patient base, uh, and then my customer

790
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: base more than anything. We're talking thirty five and up

791
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: is my larger uh consumer population. Youngsters are not as uh,

792
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: they're not as as big as consumers, at least not

793
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: in this legal space than the elderly in the middle

794
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: age people are aged people, thirty people, uh, late twenties,

795
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: mid twenties. Those are the people I see as far

796
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: as anybody like twenty one, I rarely get, you know,

797
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: young young young people coming through like that. It is.

798
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: It's been coming out too because you know me, I

799
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: didn't starts probably trying to experiment we a little bit

800
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: to his past year because of the need in back pain.

801
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: And my partner QT down to Texas he's been smoking,

802
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: was still here and you know, you just gonna smoke

803
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: some weeds instead of trying on her bullshit. Man. Now

804
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 1: I started working with the cd D flower of absolutely well,

805
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: cb D has your medicinal properties. Uh so does uh

806
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: the th A C. Because people think that cb D

807
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,479
Speaker 1: is just cb D by itself, and no, it's cb

808
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: D with t A C. No has small traces and

809
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: small levels of cb D I mean of th A

810
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: C within the cb D and it wouldn't be active.

811
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:46,280
Speaker 1: It can't activate. In other words, those properties healing properties

812
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 1: cannot activate without t A C. This is what people

813
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,240
Speaker 1: don't understand. C B G C B and cb d

814
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 1: uh and th A C and all of the components

815
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: um to that molecular structure of the T A C

816
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: plan all have to work in unison, all have to

817
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: work together. It's like me taking both arms and legs

818
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: off of you and then say go function. That's not

819
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,439
Speaker 1: gonna happen, right, And so you can't extract and pull

820
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: one thing out and think that it's gonna work in

821
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: its entirety. God made that plant to work in unison

822
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: the way it is in this perfect form. Uh. So

823
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: the's a misconception that when people say, oh, this is

824
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:29,919
Speaker 1: straight CB D no T A C. No, it's there

825
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: is a small trace of T A C exactly. May

826
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,240
Speaker 1: not be detectable if you take a test or whatnot

827
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: that will come out in a field drug tests or

828
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,959
Speaker 1: whatnot or whatnot, but just know it is there. Uh.

829
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 1: They're small traces and they have to be there for

830
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,839
Speaker 1: the plant to activate. It works, Oh, it definitely does.

831
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: They're going around because I actually heard it that market

832
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,439
Speaker 1: what's going to be a rising market because more people

833
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: are moving away from them peels and everything. But the

834
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: unfortunate and part, and I'm glad you said that, is

835
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,760
Speaker 1: that we are not participating in this industry as we should.

836
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: There are a hundred eighty eight shops licensed in the

837
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 1: city of Los Angeles, only four black owners. They're in

838
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: the state of California. In the state of California, you

839
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: have two in Oakland. You got four down here. You

840
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. Our numbers are Graham and Desmo.

841
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: Because so there is only six black owned Marijuanna shops

842
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: absolutely in the whole state of coming in the whole

843
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: state of California. Yeah. Yeah, So this is this is

844
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: what what people end up missing. They'll see black faces

845
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: behind the counter, They'll see black faces doing this and

846
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: that Latino faces and they think, oh, that's black owner,

847
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,720
Speaker 1: that's Latino. You see how many black folks up in cookies.

848
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: Cookies ain't known by not one black person. Show me one,

849
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: name me one. You know what I'm saying. When you

850
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: look at these shops that we gravitate to and go

851
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 1: spend our money with, they're not us and they're not

852
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: doing anything for our community. What is cookies done for

853
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 1: our community except for sale? Weed up in there, take

854
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,280
Speaker 1: our money and going back, going back to the valley

855
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: where they came from, in the Bay area where they

856
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: came from. You understand what I'm saying. I ain't mad.

857
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,760
Speaker 1: You know, they jumped at an opportunity and did business.

858
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: But we as consumers have to understand where we need

859
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: to be putting our dollars. These are black owned businesses

860
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 1: within the cannabis industry, very few. Why are we not

861
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: supporting those? And those only the same product I grow

862
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: my I grow products. I've been growing longer than Cookie

863
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: has been growing. You know what I'm saying. I've been

864
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: I've been around longer than met Man been around. He

865
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: got his ideal of multiple locations from casts like me,

866
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: because before he was even thought of in two thousand

867
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: and four, I had six of them. It was looking

868
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: to buy Folk Mob. Before I got arrested. I was

869
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: already in the deal to buy four more stores and

870
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: have Tien and my goal was to send on them

871
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: tim for about a year and then start buying up

872
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 1: other folks. So we have to understand that we need

873
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: to take control of the business aspect of certain things

874
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: that uh exists within our community. And that's what we

875
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 1: have not done in the cannabis industry. And our numbers

876
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 1: will always be low and we will then begin to

877
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: complain about the keeping us out of the industry. Well,

878
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: a lot of it is we're not getting involved to

879
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: get that type of information. For those out there that

880
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: may be interested in this trade, well they can always

881
00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: reach out to me UM my my email addresses VG

882
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 1: at California Cannabis WC for West Coast dot com. Um.

883
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: They can reach out to me and I can provide

884
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: them with all of the information regarding this industry. If

885
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: you want to get involved, being cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, retail

886
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: or delivery, UM, I can point you in the right

887
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: direction because I've done them all. Like I did before

888
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: there was a transportation or uh distribution license. I was

889
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: going to humblet to Humbolt to Compton. See I'm back

890
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: in those days. My connect was direct, so I growers

891
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: in humble that I was driving twelve hours up, twelve

892
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: hours back to go get my product and bring it

893
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: to Compton and sell out in three days. I couldn't

894
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: keep enough weed around were smoking weed and man, for real,

895
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: we had some of the number one spots. And that's

896
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: what I say. There would not be an industry to

897
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: a day for corporate America to even think about considering

898
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for players like me keeping the clientele

899
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,919
Speaker 1: flowing in our cities the way we did. I used

900
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,399
Speaker 1: to see white folks come up in Compton all day

901
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: to hit all of them spots that's up in Compton,

902
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: baby over there in the pockets over there on North Street,

903
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,800
Speaker 1: the grandees in their hood, they on that side of

904
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 1: the town. I've seen them coming through the trees and

905
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: the fruits when I was over there. I mean, I

906
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: just they was coming through because when when dre put

907
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: out the Chronic, people wanted to know what what Compton

908
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: was like with that week. You know what I'm saying.

909
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 1: In the place I fucking toward motherfucker's would be like,

910
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 1: you brought some of that chronic bullshit, you know, because

911
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: everywhere else you go they got that, they got the

912
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: dirt bulls bullshit. And then I'm telling you that was

913
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: the first thing the motherfucker would ask when they would

914
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: see us breaking the down on the table, they would

915
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: be like, what the is that that ship? And they

916
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: think they hit that ship and they just be floating like,

917
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: oh God, I gotta get I think it'll be ready

918
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: to take a trip just to come and get some motherfucker.

919
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, well, man, this has been one

920
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 1: of the most interesting, enlightening episodes that were formative. It's

921
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: just like very informative thing. And we can sit up

922
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: here and talk all night. Man. You got incredible story. Man,

923
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: it's incredible about what you've got going on. Now. I

924
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: think it's good because we're lucky that we're finding these guys,

925
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: these brothers, get these these hell of a stories. And

926
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,240
Speaker 1: nobody would have ever knew your story if we wouldn't

927
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: hear you know what I'm saying down Everybody don't understand

928
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 1: this was straight double jeovity bullishit. Damn if I do,

929
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: Damn if I don't, we want you. We're gonna get you,

930
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: regardless if you're not guilty or not. We can make

931
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: you guilty type of bullish it here. And it took

932
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 1: six years from a brother for them to do that

933
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: and not give a funk, not offer no money, not

934
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: offer nothing on the Yeah. So man, it's just a

935
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: lesson to all of us that we all got to

936
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: be careful and like you said earlier, we gotta start

937
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: supporting our our people. And you know we can't blame

938
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: nobody but ourselves because we don't go into stoes and

939
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 1: do what we do. Yeah, you exactly right, man. What's

940
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 1: your website? So the website is, uh www California Cannabis WC.

941
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: Dot com media social media's uh California Cannabis WC. You

942
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: can you can just hit me on on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Um,

943
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: you can see me on all of those when you

944
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 1: see the uh the double c's for California Cannabis with

945
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: the heart. But everybody, just so y'all know, there's always

946
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: a double untanger with them what I do, double C

947
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: City of Compton, you know what I'm saying. I put

948
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 1: it all in the mix with with my logo. I

949
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:16,839
Speaker 1: made this logo. De green represents cannabis, the gold represents

950
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 1: the Golden city, I mean the Golden state California, and

951
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: the heart for the love of what I do in

952
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: the cannabis industry. And I created that logo, not a

953
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: marijuana leave for a bud or nothing like that, is

954
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: because I want my stuff to sit in best Buy,

955
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, in in the commercial places Target, Walmart.

956
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: And so that's a soft and friendly logo, but it

957
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:52,919
Speaker 1: represents what it represents. Supporting his brother product and he's

958
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: doing some big things and he's one of us for sure.

959
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: And that's it. We'd like to thank you for tuning

960
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: into this episode Against the Chronicles again. Subscribe, download the

961
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Speaker 1: I Heart Act for Sure Apple Podcast, leave us comment,

962
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: We out of here, Jill, Thank you, thank