1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: It's now time for Cannabis Talk one oh one with Blue, 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: Joe Grande and Mark and Craig Wasserman the Pot Brothers 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: at Law. We're the world's number one podcast for everything 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: cannabis Hi with an H I g H. It's Cannabis 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 1: Talk one oh one, Martin Greig Pot, Brothers at Law, 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: Blue and Joe Grande. You know everybody's gone except for me. 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: I'm here holding it down. If you want to make 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: sure to contact us, you can hit us at eight 9 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: hundred nineteen eighty. 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It is always a pleasure to have 19 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 1: you back on the show, and when I heard what's 20 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: going on out back east, So we gotta talk to Leo, 21 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 1: get the scoop and find out what's what. Because New 22 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: York legalized Jersey did but there's all sorts of issues 23 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 1: and problems going on, Leo, what's happening? How you doing? 24 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: Talk to me? And if I was white, I'll be 25 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: read from blessing, Bro, you'd be giving me the best 26 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: intros for real. You know what I'm saying. I'm doing good, man, 27 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: I'm doing good. I'm very uh happy that when I 28 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: reached out to you yesterday to jump on this, you 29 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: were right there as you always are. And like I said, 30 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: I know there's some there's some bs going on. You know, 31 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: let's talk about it. What's what's happening out there? And 32 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: what's what is the negative aspects? Because you know, I'm 33 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: on the West coast and I hear New York legalized 34 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: Jerseys on their way and I'm feeling good and hopeful, 35 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: and then I get sprinkled with a bunch of BS 36 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: about the regulations being held up and all sorts of things. 37 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: So speak to it. I know you know it all well, 38 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: this and thanks for having me, man. This is this 39 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: is what it is. Right. Um, for all my all 40 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 1: my people's out on the West Coast and everything like that. 41 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: What you see happening here in New Jersey is pretty 42 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: much par for the course, especially when you're a state 43 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: fresh out. It's just been a long time since y'all 44 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: seen this, you know what I'm saying, And so UM, 45 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: A lot of it has to have to do with 46 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: the political The political environment here, you know, New Jersey 47 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: is we're having guberatorial elections. You know, us in Virginia, 48 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: I only to have an election. Uh, we're picking not 49 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: just governor, but we're picking um and we want Phil Murphy. Uh. 50 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: But we're not just picking governor, but our entire legislative 51 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 1: branch of government is up for re election as well. 52 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: And given the fact that New Jersey legalized with sixty 53 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: seven percent of the vote through ballot referendum, which as 54 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: a record, you know, um, it says a couple of things. 55 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: That Number one, that Cannada's vote is very real. And 56 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: when you look at the fact that a lot of 57 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: municipalities did an opt out because they didn't know what 58 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: the regulations were gonna be, you know, it showed it 59 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: was a bit of a disconnect. But now fast forward 60 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: to where we are today. Three hundred and sixty two 61 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: thousand New Jersey's got their records exponge automatically sponge last 62 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: summer automatically, Yes, automatically. Yeah. That was one of the 63 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: things people didn't understand as far as like what delay 64 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: was between the fight between the executive branch of our 65 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: state government, our governor and the legislative branch of our 66 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: state government. One of the variables and that fight was 67 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 1: the governor of New Jersey felt as though expungement is 68 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: something that can be very tedious to the point that 69 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 1: it turns off and he won't even do it. So 70 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: he felt that the burden should actually lay on the state. 71 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: And so that led to a bit of a fight 72 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,799 Speaker 1: between members of the legislative branch of our state government, 73 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: which held up the designing of the bill amongst other 74 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: things as well. But in this aspect, thank god, the 75 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: governor won, you know, And so that provision that it 76 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: would be automatic and that the burden what lay on 77 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: the state has resulted in last summer, three hundred and 78 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: sixty two thousand New Jersey and has got their records 79 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 1: automatically expunge, and another one hundred and fifty are due 80 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: to get there is done in the next up in 81 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 1: the next month or so. So it's taking some time 82 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: and people have to and mind you, because of COVID 83 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: and the whole shutdown and the light to coming back on, 84 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: there's an entirely brand new audience of people who just 85 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: went from Canada curious to now Canada serious, probably because 86 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: they don't have jobs to go back to. Because you know, 87 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: so there's remember how you still always say, Okay, we're 88 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: not facilitating a cultural shift in this, we're also facilitating 89 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: a massive transfer of wealth. Logistically, it can't be quantified. 90 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: That's where we are right now in the midst of 91 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: an election year. And the other thing as well is 92 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 1: our Cannabis Regulatory Commission. When you talk about social equity, 93 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: just look at the makeup of the Cannabis Regulatory Commission, 94 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: because it's the it's the one state agency that's more 95 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: reflective from the very top that of the of the 96 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: general population of the state than any other state agency 97 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: in the in the state right now. So it's not 98 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: hypothetical in theory in terms of social equity. It's a 99 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: lot of that. How is that working out in terms 100 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: of the social equity out there because you know, out 101 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: here like in l As, you know, it's a mess 102 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: and we're hearing about messes everywhere and people getting taken 103 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: advantage of. Is is there any hope for the social 104 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: equity to work out there? Well, so here's the thing. 105 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: You know, because of the way that you know, New 106 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: Jersey has you know, our Cannabis Regulatory Commission has dropped 107 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: its regulations. New York is writing theirs now, Pennsylvania ain't 108 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: even close to getting it done, but they'll get there eventually. 109 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: And what New so and what and by the way 110 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: New Jersey's c r C has done their regulations, they 111 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: literally turned New Jersey into the new ground zero for 112 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: thevolution of the cannabis industry. And here's why. Typically in 113 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: years past, whenever a social equity program was enacted, number one, 114 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: there was always a bunch of licenses that already been 115 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: issued before a social equity component was a part of 116 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: the process. You know, before California had a social equity anything, 117 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: you were thousands of licenses in Okay, we only have thirteen. 118 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: So what that means is is that because of percentage 119 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: of licenses have to go to minorities, women veterans and 120 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: now formally incarcerated and bro don't even matter if you're 121 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: if your record was expunged or not. And you get 122 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: you get you get priority, you know what I'm saying, 123 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: You get priority consideration and whatnot. So because these things 124 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: are happening, it's the it's the next evolution here of 125 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: the cannabis industry. Because the most important thing people need 126 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: to realize is that you cannot talk cannabis legalization New 127 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: Jersey and say nothing about New York. You cannot say anything. 128 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: You can't talk cannabis legalization in New Jersey and not 129 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: saying anything about Pennsylvania. It don't work like that here. 130 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: There are certain nuances to this area that you have 131 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: to live here in order to find out. Because we had, 132 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: for instance, people in New York City actually through their 133 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: shopping here in New Jersey. They come here to get 134 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: their cigarettes, and people in New Jersey go to Pennsylvania 135 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: to get their cigarettes, and people in Pennsylvania and New 136 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: York come to New Jersey to buy their gas. So 137 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: there's all this interstate commerce that's naturally taking place. Are 138 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: ready tourists wouldn't know that, you know what I'm saying 139 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: It's not unusual for someone to go from Philadelphia, New 140 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: York every day for work. A matter of fact, there 141 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: are people who travel from DC to New York every 142 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: single day on that bullet train. You see what I'm saying. 143 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: So it's something there's And within a two hundred square 144 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 1: mile radius of Trenton, New Jersey, you have twenty million, 145 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: over twenty million people who are over the age of 146 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: twenty one, you see. So, and and the thing about 147 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: it is is that these are these are things that 148 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: you cannot ignore, especially in the beginning, you know. And 149 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: so there's and it will help you to understand where 150 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: a lot of the disconnect is because there are people 151 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: who are still just thinking gate They were saying Gateway 152 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,719 Speaker 1: dry yesterday. Mark. I mean, like you know, and here 153 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: we are, I'm trying to figure out import export challenges 154 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: and how we would overcome those. I'm trying to us 155 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We're talking genetics and all 156 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,319 Speaker 1: that stuff, because that is where that is where the 157 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: current industry is, you know. And so and the fact 158 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: that here in New Jersey we are salvade between the 159 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: number four media market in the country and the number 160 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: one cannabis consuming city and world, which is New York. 161 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: Karaoke Pakistan is number two, New Delhi, India's number three, 162 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles is number four, and Chicago's number eight. 163 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,199 Speaker 1: Now New York and Chicago made one and eight with 164 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:18,199 Speaker 1: this ship being illegal. So and that's why. Yeah, and 165 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: so that's why I say to people, you know, and 166 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: I said this year's because I'm co founded Canadagat, and 167 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: I used to say this years ago. You're welcome, New York. 168 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 1: You're welcome because we all know that you will not 169 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: be this far ahead, this far advanced and cannabis legalization 170 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: if New Jersey wasn't doing what it's doing now. So 171 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: take these regulars. So I can take these regulations and go, okay, 172 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: here in New York, make them better. Then we could 173 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: take we could take regulations and go to Pittsylvanian and said, okay, 174 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: here in Pennsylvania, make them better. That's the whole point. 175 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: Let's make it better. And we have to go beyond 176 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: hypotheticals and theories. We have to start naming in things 177 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,679 Speaker 1: of practicality. And that's where I'm at right now. Well, 178 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: in the the interstate commerce that you mentioned, with everything else, 179 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: especially in that area where you're at one state to 180 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,599 Speaker 1: the other to hear to there. I mean that that 181 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 1: is going to be a hot ped of trafficking cannabis 182 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: that you know it, that should be tapped into to 183 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: be taxed, and let it happen. You're ready for this. 184 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: You New Jersey's state sales tax on retail cannabis six 185 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: point two five, Oh my god, and and and municipalities 186 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: just get to add up to present exercise tax. Yeah, 187 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: it's so that that's horrible. I'm gonna go ahead, go ahead, 188 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: because the two so when that happened, a whole lot 189 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 1: of money just stopped coming out west from New York. 190 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: The hell am I going to imp stuff from me 191 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 1: from California for when I could just go right next 192 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: door to my next door neighbor and it's even cheaper. 193 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: Do what? I so ain't no way in how Pennsylvanian, 194 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: you York are going to come in at eight point 195 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: two five. A something's gotta get I know it. And 196 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: you know what, We're gonna take a quick break and 197 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: when we come back, we are going to kick Leo 198 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:32,959 Speaker 1: Bridgewater's brain about federal legalization decriminalization. And I think you 199 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:34,599 Speaker 1: all out there and know how I feel about it. 200 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: I talked about it on the last show. We're gonna 201 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: be right back after this print. Welcome back to Cannabis 202 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: Talk one on one. I'm Mark Washerman filling in for 203 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: the whole crew, and I'm here with Leo Bridgewater. Man, 204 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 1: you are just a wealth of information knowledge and you know, 205 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: I know every time we talked to you, we bring 206 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: up how we met, you know what, five six years ago? Yeah, right, yeah. 207 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: One of the I found one of the old videos 208 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 1: and showed up as a memory on my on my Facebook. 209 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: I was like, whoa before the grade. Hey, well, this 210 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: is a stressful time and a stressful drinking world we're 211 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: living in. So look at my right now. Hey, cannabis 212 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: is dog gears brother, And I think and I think 213 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 1: people need to understand that this is this industry is 214 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: not for the fame of art. You know what I'm saying. 215 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: This is this is not that's not this No, it's 216 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: not And you know what, So, as I mentioned before 217 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: the break federal legalization with federal crap, I get asked 218 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: all the time, when do I think it's gonna go 219 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: federally legal and it's gonna be legal all the way around, 220 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what, Leo. Four or five years ago, 221 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: I had a nice outlook. But now I'll think it's 222 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: ever gonna happen in my lifetime. And here's why. And 223 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: I want somebody to convince me otherwise, because why should 224 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: I believe it's gonna happen when fifty years ago Normal 225 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: filed the first petition saying that cannabis has medicinal value. 226 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: Fifty years ago, they filed that petition, And we know 227 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: what's happened since then. We know what McConnell's done to 228 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: block everything since then and even to right now, cannabis 229 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: has been deemed an essential business for the last two years. 230 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: We've got thirty seven states that allow it. We've got 231 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: forty seven states in some form, whether it's CBD or whatever, 232 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: and it's still not federal. Convince me, Leo, why and 233 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: how is it going to be federal in the next 234 00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: few years? If ever? It would be a combination of things. One, UM, 235 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: a lot of old people gotta die, and how are 236 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: you talking about the ones in the senior citizen homes 237 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: I'm talking about, Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Um. 238 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: And then the other thing, too, is there has to 239 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: be a realization and and you will. And and this 240 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: is where I think advocates kind of loose sight of 241 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: or don't realize what to do is you know, you 242 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: constantly have to point out that that cannabis vote is real. 243 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: You know, I think that Joe Biden ought to be 244 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: brought to heal for the way he doesn't talk about cannabis, 245 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: and when he does, he says rehab. And so that 246 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: tells me, like a lot of the other politicians when 247 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: they're talking to me, they think us addicts. I didn't 248 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: realize that until I actually talked to some people, but 249 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: I realized in the mist of talking to him, Oh 250 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: at you think I'm an addict. See Leo Bridgewater might 251 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: be saying really nice words and speak so well whatever, whatever, 252 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: But in your mind, all I am is just a 253 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: high function and addict, but an addict nonetheless, So again 254 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: that cultural shift and how we view this plant. We 255 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: have to do that now, you guys know, I was 256 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: a part of the federal lawsuit against the Department of 257 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 1: Justice to get cannabis from a schedule one to a 258 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: schedule from a schedule one to just de schedule because 259 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: off the marriage of just what you said it's unconstitutional. 260 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: It shouldn't even be a Schedule one drug. In order 261 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: for it to be a Schedule one drug, you have 262 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: to hit all three markers. High dictionary, um, high dictionary, Um? 263 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: Uh uh? What else? What's the other two? I'm having 264 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: a moment. I'm having that moment with you. Okay, there's 265 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: three markets. Yeah, there's three markets. Hands don't hit that album. 266 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,360 Speaker 1: And so at this point, given that we're we're still 267 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: in the recovery of we're listening, y'all. We're only in 268 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: month nine of the or month ten of the recovery 269 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: of four years of Donald Trump, and we're still trying 270 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: to figure out what the hell happened got the COVID thing. 271 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: So right now the entire country now qualifies for the 272 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: medical marijuana card. Just offer post traumatic strength potmen. And 273 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: so now what has to happen is we have to 274 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: start coming out of the closet. You know, we have 275 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: to start changing people's frame of reference. Right now, these 276 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: people think cheach and Chad, that's what they think when 277 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: they see this, you know. And because systemically we've had 278 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: an issue when it comes to voting, you know, it's 279 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: easy for a lot of these people to get voted 280 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: in and stay in. So they kind of work with 281 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: a particular type of arrogance because nobody, you know, nobody's 282 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: going and and and they have that old way of thinking. Remember, man, 283 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: last week, these people are saying gateway drug. You know, 284 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: so someone who still says gateway drug. That's like somebody 285 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: who's still called black people colored, Like what year are you? 286 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: We ain't talked that way years. You know, it's the 287 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: same thing. And so what has to happen is those 288 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: those identified leaders, true leaders or how we just said, 289 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: elders in the tribe. They're gonna have to start to 290 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 1: be identified and recognized because the way things are going, 291 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 1: it's not indicative. And we have to be able to 292 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: start mobilizing. Mind you, we got mid terms coming next year. 293 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: Once again, that cannabis vote has to be real and 294 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: it has to be respected. And so point to the 295 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: fact that sixty seven percent of voters in New Jersey 296 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: excuse sixty seven percent of New Jersey and say yes 297 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 1: to this man, they say yes. That's the highest ever 298 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: in history of any state so far who has legalized 299 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: the ballot referendum. And so and yeah, pay attention to 300 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: these to the elections and in in New Jersey come 301 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: next month, and in and in in Virginia come next month. 302 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: It's the lead off. It will tell you, you know 303 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Look at how these people were voted in. 304 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: Look at why they were voted out. The guy that's 305 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: running for for running against Governor Phil Murphy, this dude 306 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: flat out told everybody, yeah if I if I get in, 307 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: I say no to all of it. Huh huh Okay, Yeah, 308 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: he's in another world. That that like to me. That 309 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: tells me there's a very serious disconnect between this guy 310 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 1: and the people. Sixt in percent of the people in 311 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: New Jersey said they said they want this, And the 312 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,679 Speaker 1: thing you think to do when you get on camera 313 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: is to tell everybody, no, you're trying to lose. I'm 314 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: gonna take it away. Like me, I'll take it away. Yeah. Now, 315 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: mind you. This is the state who has the largest 316 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: racial disparity of incarcerated citizens in the country. We beat 317 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: you all out by a laun shot. Bro all right. 318 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 1: We were averaging thirty two thousand arrest a year for 319 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: low level, nonviolent minor possession of cannabis. Eighty percent of 320 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 1: those arrests for people who look like me. We also 321 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: had eighty percent of all the use of forces by 322 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 1: police officers in the state of New Jersey were also 323 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: people like me. So the intentional targeting and tormenting people 324 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 1: in communities of color, that's a thing here in New Jersey. Okay, 325 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: that's a very real thing. Okay, So not only do 326 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: they lie to lock us up for this, but they 327 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: also like to beat us as well based off these numbers. 328 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: This is real. This has been going on. And this 329 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: guy gets on camera and says, I want to go 330 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: back to that um hopeful. Well here's the crazy part though, 331 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: To get the thirty two thousand the rest of the year. 332 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: That's not something that happens by accident. That takes a 333 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: long period of time, right, Okay, a lot of the 334 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: people who've watched that this happened on they're still in 335 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,879 Speaker 1: the state house. Bro They're still in the state House. So, 336 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 1: and you have to understand New York, New Jersey and 337 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania has some of the highest participation rates. Uh part 338 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: in that capital attack in January six to do with 339 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 1: the Confederate flag that was in the Capitol building. Man, 340 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: that dude was from New York. M Yeah, Look, man, 341 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: look up, look up, New Jersey. We got I think 342 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 1: we got the largest population of like white nationalists groups 343 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: in the state and whatnot. Man, they hire South Church. 344 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: That's what struck it is like, it's it is really here, 345 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 1: you know, like there's some real eyes on the Pride 346 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: ship going on out here in Jersey. So this whole 347 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: East Coast thing, there's nuances and stuff like that. There 348 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: are certain ways that you have to navigate this. You 349 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: can't just come up over here talking about y'all look 350 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,959 Speaker 1: like y'all need a basketball team. So what the New 351 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: Jersey Lakers gonna look like? What What do you think 352 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: about when we talk about federal legalization and the people 353 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: who say, you know, if it if it goes federal 354 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 1: or if it gets legalized all the way across the board, 355 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: what's gonna happen nothing? All those jails when they start 356 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: releasing hundreds of thousands of non violent cannabis offenders and 357 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: all these jobs. What you know that's that's coming into 358 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: play here where you've got all these jails, like you 359 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: just said, a majority of them are filled up with 360 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:22,440 Speaker 1: non violent cannabis offenders. If that all changes and everybody's 361 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 1: released a lot of jobs are going to be lost 362 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: at these correctional facilities. Did you know did you know 363 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: that cannabis consumers are private industry, private industry, prison, prison 364 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: industry's favorite. Uh that there were their favorite. And the reason, 365 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: the reason being is because we got cost smopen weed 366 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,400 Speaker 1: or something to do with we you's know what I'm saying. 367 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: It's not a violent crime. So we're typically not violent 368 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: people anyway, So we're the easiest ones that you won't 369 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: have to deal with, you know what I'm saying. And 370 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: so when you're talking about this stuff, like all right, 371 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: New Jersey was spending one hundred and forty five million 372 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: dollars a year on us. Oh yeah for low love 373 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 1: that that that low thirty two thousand. The rest of 374 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: the year, all that stuff added up to a hundred 375 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: and forty five million dollars. So understand, there's three types 376 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,119 Speaker 1: of money you mess with with old money that's the 377 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: pharmaceutical industry that they've been operating in this state for generations. 378 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: Then there's long money that's the alcohol industry and they've 379 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: been operating in New Jersey for generations. And then there's 380 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 1: big money, which is the prison industrial complex. To the 381 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: tune of a hundred and forty five million dollars. So 382 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: it's this and it's been in the best interests of 383 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: a lot of people because you gotta understand, reputations was 384 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: built on this being like it is. Career as we're 385 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 1: built on this being like it is. You know what 386 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: I'm saying. A lot of old people that's still in office, 387 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: that's still they got They come to you every four 388 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,719 Speaker 1: years for a job. They want to do an interview, 389 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and you vote for him, 390 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: whether you do or don't. So you know, like this 391 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: is one of those things where it's I was I've 392 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: always said, you army say this before this journey has 393 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: literally been the biggest real world civics lesson of my life. 394 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: You know that that Schoolhouse Rock video or build a Build, Yeah, 395 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: that needs to be updated like a mug because hey, 396 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: how it happens anymore? Right, It ain't that simple, you know. 397 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: But at the same time, we gotta get people mobilized. 398 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: We got it again, that Cannabi's vote has to be real. 399 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: So you need to have a political calendar persuasion to 400 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 1: your long term business strategy, you know, because if you don't, 401 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: you're screw somebody. Then I really wouldn't be surprised that 402 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: the Publicans did this as a last effort. It's gonna 403 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: snatch this from the Democrats and said we're on board 404 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 1: with this. They're gonna do that. What I'm saying, and 405 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: and and and and and you like this, say we're 406 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: gonna make were available da, somebody's gonna do that, and 407 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: it's gonna start an avalanche, you know. So again and 408 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: there's a disconnected is the National Cannabis Party now, you know, 409 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: which is why I said this is this, This is 410 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: where right now, the National Cannabis Party is in a 411 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 1: really unique position right now just because of where this 412 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: country is, where the world is. Everyone, this is the 413 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: time for oxy moronic politics gets over and and as 414 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: far as these regular people are concerned, they get so 415 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: sick of it. They're gonna somebody's gonna listen to somebody 416 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 1: from the National Cannabis and they're gonna be like, you 417 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: know what these protects is on the something? Yeah, you know, 418 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: somebody's gonna say something that's gonna make people feel like, yes, 419 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,880 Speaker 1: that's what I'm talking about. Yet, just like talk tam 420 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: in and played on equal spears, now people are going 421 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: to have to somebody's gonna have to come in and 422 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 1: speak to people's you know reason what I'm saying, And 423 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: that's why I say when you look at the current 424 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: political and racial climate of this country, my experience is 425 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: teaching me that the general population intends to lead more 426 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: towards the word of a veteran before politicians days, which 427 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: is interesting, you know what I'm saying, because they know 428 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: it ain't about that bullshit. We're gonna tell at all. 429 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 1: We tad no, absolutely, and I'm always glad to have 430 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: you with You wan't talking yet and that 's some wealth, 431 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: wealth of information and and just the activism and advocacy 432 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: that you bring compament awesome. And we're gonna take a 433 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: quick break when we come back. You know we've done 434 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 1: it before leave, but we are going to do the 435 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk going on want and I've five Leo Bridgewater. 436 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: After this break, take a hit, get lit and sit 437 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: back and enjoy Cannabis Talk one oh one, Mark and 438 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: Craig pop Earthers that Lob Blue and Joe Brande and 439 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 1: today you just got me Mark and I'm with Leo Bridgewater. 440 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 1: We've been hanging out talking, having a great time getting 441 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: caught up on everything going on back East and everywhere else. 442 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: And now I know we've done this before, Leo, and 443 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go fact check on some other interviews. We 444 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: had to see how your answers may have changed. Your 445 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: stays the same with the High five. So let's go 446 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: out of yes, because you've answered these questions before. But 447 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: who knows, maybe maybe some things have changed in the 448 00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: past couple of years. All right, well this shouldn't have changed, Leo. 449 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: How old were you the first time you smoked cannabis 450 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: and where did you get it from? I was one, 451 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: and I was with my cousins and my cousin Michael, 452 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: who my friend Ray and you know, and I was 453 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: trying to press a girl. That worked out not good 454 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: at all, Alight, it was crazy. It's always a cousin, alright. 455 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: Question number two the Cannabis Talk one on one High five. 456 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: What is your favorite way to use cannabis? Oh? Uh, 457 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: I prefer flower and you know, a combination of flower 458 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: and concentrate. If you roll that up, you're blunt your joint. 459 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,479 Speaker 1: You smell. I'm no longer using I don't use tobacco products. 460 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: I'm always you know, for man, you know, I like 461 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: my hemp roll papers um, and I since you know, 462 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: expanding my horizons to include not just concentrates, but you 463 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: know my micro dos with piliciting, like with shrooms and stuff, 464 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: and it's gotten really you know, like, and I think 465 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: that's important if you're gonna be in this industry that 466 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: you be familiar so that when you're talking about this 467 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: from a business perspective, it's different when you when you're 468 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: coming from It gives you a certain level of credibility. Yeah, 469 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: I would definitely suggest expanding your horizons go because at 470 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: some point I'm not even gonna be smoking and probably 471 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: just be doing edibles and stuff. So well, I know 472 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: how that is, right, I do it all. Number four 473 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: of the Canada's talking one on one high five. What 474 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 1: is your go to munchies after you get high? I 475 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: go to munchies after I yeah hi um now uh 476 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: yo on a rill. So we got this kind of 477 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 1: like this this flavor ran stressing or whatever something my 478 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: wife put put together. You know. But when you eat 479 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 1: that with glob of that with some with some broccoli 480 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: and some carrots, oh my god, that's healthy. Ye know. 481 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 1: I've gone to healthier munchies. As I've gotten older myself, 482 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: I had to find something. But it was the closest 483 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: thing to like. I was like, yo, I don't. I 484 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: don't think of it as like whether it's healthy or not. 485 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: It's good. It's just good. Yeah, it's something about that. Yeah, yeah, alright, 486 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:40,719 Speaker 1: question eat it too? In my house? You? Yeah? Nobody? Yeah, look, man, 487 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: it's my my house. I'm the porty one. You know 488 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: what I'm saying this, this whole cannabis stuff, and I'm 489 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: going no further than the office after I woke out 490 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: that door. They don't care about this. I'm the only 491 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 1: person me too. Yeah, yeah, all right. If you could 492 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who would it be. 493 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: I want to smoke weed with Barack Obama? Why? Mm hmm? 494 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: Because the way what it would say to everyone after 495 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 1: everyone found out I smoke weed with Barack Obama? Yeah 496 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: I do, I do. But you know, I got a 497 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 1: question for if you're say, you're you're, you're there, you're 498 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: light up, you're smoking with them, what's the if you 499 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: had one question to ask President Obama while smoking a 500 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: joint with him, what would it be? Oh? So I 501 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: had one question does Uh My question would be, how 502 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: hard was it knowing you had the expectations of pretty 503 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 1: much all the black people in this country? Well, was 504 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 1: that like? It doesn't matter whether it's perceived failure or success, 505 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: just what was that like being the first? Because damn 506 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: you know, and it would be That's one of the 507 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: reasons why I would want to sit and talk with 508 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: you know. I'm a veteran, so I got all my 509 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: my my, my military questions and all that stuff. So 510 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: things work a little bit different for me, you know. 511 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 1: But the fact that he smoked, we I'm with it 512 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely all right before we wrap up, tell us 513 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: everything you got going on, what's coming up for you, 514 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: what's happening with I know you had your hands and 515 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: some strains and got your hands in a lot of 516 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: different things. Give us a rundown. So I will be 517 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 1: at m J biscom Me and my partner Eugene Monroe, 518 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 1: look for us there. We'll be walking around talking with folks. Uh. 519 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: We have the c w C B Expo, which I'm 520 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: on the four for. That's November four through the six 521 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 1: in New York City at the Jacob job At Center. 522 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 1: Definitely need to be there for that, given the fact 523 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: that this is the first indoor big time in New 524 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: York post legalization, so you can imagine a lot it's 525 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: gonna be talked about. It done. I'll be in Detroit 526 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:20,879 Speaker 1: to have a fireside chat with myself and corporate dood 527 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 1: and some guy named Trick. Trick, you know what I'm 528 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,840 Speaker 1: saying with someone case and I look for me on 529 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:30,320 Speaker 1: all everything on social media's Leo Bridgeporter, Facebook, Instagram, everything 530 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:36,359 Speaker 1: LinkedIn UM and c w CBXPO. That yeah, that's that's 531 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,280 Speaker 1: you know, just did the New Jersey Cannabis inside his event, 532 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: did the Canadamics yesterday? You know, a lot happening, and 533 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,280 Speaker 1: then be anna look out the next couple of pretty 534 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: soon should be hearing the first of the two thousand 535 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 1: nineteen r f A here in New Jersey. They're gonna 536 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 1: start releasing those licenses, so we'll be finding out. So 537 00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,800 Speaker 1: we'll go from licensed thirteen to boom, boom and boom whenever, 538 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 1: you know, whatever they come out with, and then UM 539 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 1: and then you'll hear about the whatever our social equity 540 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,359 Speaker 1: program is gonna look like here in New Jersey as well. UM, 541 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 1: So do play paid close attention and see how things 542 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 1: are going as this evolved. I think that for all 543 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 1: my people's out there on the West Coast, you'll see 544 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,400 Speaker 1: by virtue of how things are going that there were 545 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: a lot of lessons learned. You guys did bump your 546 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,759 Speaker 1: heads for us a lot, you know. And so now 547 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 1: at this point we're just gonna take the ball and 548 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,600 Speaker 1: run with it, you know. And and you know, just 549 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,800 Speaker 1: thinking of it as we just got the cast taking offense. 550 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,359 Speaker 1: So you know, we were left handed dominant, now we're 551 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: now we're gonna be ambidextrous. I love that's a great analogy, 552 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,880 Speaker 1: a great way to put it. Leo, thanks for joining us. 553 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: Can't wait to see you in a weekend there in Vegas. 554 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 1: From NJA biz. Everybody, please check out Leo Bridgewater all 555 00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,160 Speaker 1: over social media doing great things. And remember of this 556 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,400 Speaker 1: Garrett Cannabis Talk one oh one. 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