WEBVTT - How Marijuana Works 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome to Stuff you should know from house stuff Works 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:31.680 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.280 There's Charles W. Tuck Bride getting his demons out. Man. 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.479 How about this music? Yeah, this is the thanks to 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:44.400 our guest producer, Noel. Yeah, who is Jerry's actually producing, 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.239 but he's got the musical touch. He's if you want to, 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.600 he's our dub producer. Yeah, if you want to reggae. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.360 If I your podcast, Noel is the man. Yes, the 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.000 big thanks to Noel. Yeah, and great idea by you. 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:01.480 I and I Yeah, and I love that. How you doing, man, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.720 I'm great. You've got some good feelings going on. Yeah. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:09.040 I mean we've covered grow houses and um, we had 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.200 a medical marijuana right. I don't think so, no, no, 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.520 because a lot of it didn't seem familiar when I 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.720 was looking into it in this article. So we've definitely 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.880 done grow houses, which is kind of backwards. Yeah, well 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.520 not really. You gotta grow up, that's the first true. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:29.039 So chuck, here we are. We're talking about pot, and 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.840 as is our thing, we're gonna talk about pot in 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.000 a very like above the boards mature way. Are we? 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.280 I think we can we've talked about some other stuff 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.080 before poop. We've talked about poop plenty of times. Yeah, well, booze. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.360 Every time we cover drugs, we like to cover the 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:50.360 scientific aspects to social ramifications, how it's impacted culture. Why 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.480 would this one be any different? Well, and this is 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:54.840 probably the biggest, you know, it's the most ubiquitous. I 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.040 would say, yeah, you know, yeah, maybe the gateway to 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:04.960 all the other episode. It's very funny. So uh, I 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.360 guess if you we should start at the beginning. How 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.640 about that? Okay, let's talk about pot and its history. 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.880 It's very long, long, long history, UM. And actually for 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:22.080 most of that history it has been widely beloved and appreciated. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.840 The apparently pot has been cultivated or marijuana. We're going 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:31.640 to use all that, um and interchangeably weed pot marijuana, 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.760 but cannabis. That's probably where it will stop. Like if 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:39.960 either one of us says ganja or sticky it, we 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.040 should just shut it down it right? Then? All right, 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.760 all right, we'll do the Hey take that back. One 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.040 of us will say that. Okay, uh yeah, But like 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.280 you said, I mean, this is gonna be an overview 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.120 because we could do honestly for shows on the history 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.000 of pot. There's quite a rabbit hole we could go 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.440 down here. We got to avoid it, but we're just 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.960 we'll give you a historical overview about that. So um, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:08.280 like I said, pot has been cultivated for years, and 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.240 like I also said that it's mostly been appreciated most 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:17.160 of that time for two reasons. One, it is um 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.400 in industrial or it was, until the rise of the synthetics, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:25.320 a major industrial fiber hemp. And then secondly it was 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:31.120 a um or it still is a medicinal herb that 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.359 kind of spills over into recreational use as well. So 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:38.200 in the twenty century in China, uh, it looks like 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.360 it was probably used medicinally and not recreationally. But they're 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:47.240 definitely records written records of the cultivation of cannabis. Well. Yeah, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.640 a guy named shen Nung, who was an emperor but 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:54.160 was also China's first physician, wrote about how ma that's 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.800 what they called pot back then in China was good 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.440 for the yin and the yang, both of them, right, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.560 which is actually is we'll see, um, that's a pretty 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.120 astute observation early on, because what he's talking about is 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:14.280 balance or homeostasis, which part definitely affects. Yeah, they have 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.760 found a mummy, a three thousand year old Egyptian mummy, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.080 and looked into this and it it contained quite a 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:24.320 few drugs, but it definitely contained th HC. So the 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.960 Egyptians were getting down. Yeah, maybe medicine, who knows. In 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:33.720 a thousand and one Arabian Nights, it makes an appearance 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:38.560 called Bang Sad Bad apparently loves this stuff. But supposedly 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.240 his was hatch mixed with opium, which is way more 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:46.520 hardcore than what we're talking about. Uh yeah, yeah, probably so. Um, 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.440 they think it originated perhaps in India and um north 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.839 of the Himalayas is their best guess. Yeah, they really 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.120 have no idea. And actually there's like a lot of 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.719 debate still over whether there's more than one in um 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.640 type of plant. What do you mean, So there's Cannabis indica, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.039 Cannabis sativa. Yeah, they're different. There's another one called Cannabis 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:16.360 ut ruder alice um, and there's there's an ongoing debate 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:23.160 among botanists over whether they're all actually just different like 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.960 um varieties of the same plant, or if they really 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:31.200 are different species of plants in the same family. Oh interesting, Yeah, 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.480 but I think the the current common wisdom is that 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.920 there's at least two cannabis sativa and cannabis indica. Uh. Yeah, 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:41.800 we may as well get into that a little bit. Um. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.640 The Indica is uh the planet itself is shorter and 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:50.120 fatter and better suited for indoor growing. And the uh 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.040 Sativa is taller. It can get really tall like um 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.560 yeah and thinner. Um. Although I think for cultivation, I 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.720 don't think uh, even though it's grown outdoors, I don't 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.200 think they're growing the twenty five ft plants. No. I 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.800 would imagine the helicopters can see him a lot more easily. Yeah. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.719 And the Indica is known for more of a a 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:15.719 body high um quote unquote couch locked, yeah, mellow, and 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.640 the sativa is more known for more energetic and cerebral 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.120 and creative, more of a brain high. Right. And then conversely, 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.200 one can make you more paranoid, one can make you 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:30.000 more druy. Uh yeah. And typically these days, um, if 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.039 you are a recreational or medicinal user, you're probably getting 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.640 some sort of a U hybrid strain. Good point. And 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:41.400 actually some of the strains, those hybrid strains are have 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.360 some of the best names like green crack. It's a 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.320 pretty good name. A K forty seven, white widow. White 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.480 Widow is actually uh pure strain, isn't it of Indica? 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.040 I'm not sure. I think it is? Yeah, Maui Wowie. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.000 The pot names are they're pretty funny. They've definitely gotten 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.000 better from the seventies, like Mauie wow. Yeah, that sounds 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:08.279 very Yeah. Um, so should we talk about should we 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.360 talk a little bit about um its history in this country, 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.040 in the United States? Yeah, so I think we should 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.960 get to that because, as I said, Chuck, when you 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.440 look back on pot all of these years, and um, 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:26.320 it's how it was used. It was generally like appreciated, used, medicinally, used, recreationally, 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.360 not vilified. It wasn't until it hit North America that 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.400 it really started to become vilified. Yeah. Well it had 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.080 a good run here too, uh in the States for 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.160 a couple of hundred years. Um it was hemp was 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.160 grown and cultivated and widely used. Some people say it's, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.520 you know, the most versatile plant on earth as far 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.040 as the different us as you can get out of it. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:54.720 And it was in the six nineteen Virginia Assembly Assembly 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.360 they even said, do you have to grow hemp if 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.920 you're a farmer in Virginia. So not only was it encouraged, 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.280 it was actually law in Virginia at least. So I 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.680 had had a good run until the early nineteen hundreds 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.720 and nineteen twenties. Well, what's what's interesting is back in 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.840 this time, you remember that part in Days and Confused, 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:19.120 where um the like the the biggest owner of the 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.760 whole group is talking about George Washington like like planning 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:24.920 camp all day and then comes home and smokes a 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.280 big bowl of it. It's not clear whether or not 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.320 any of them were smoking pot, and it's entirely possible 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.840 that they weren't, because the idea of smoking pot was 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.800 lost to the ages for a very long time. Um, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.440 and the Greeks actually grew marijuana, but they didn't smoke it. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.760 They just used it for its fibers. And it almost 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.680 appears like they had no idea you could smoke it 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.720 and it was psychoactive. So it's possible that they our 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.679 forefathers didn't smoke pot, you know, and they were they 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.560 were just growing it for industrial uses. And meanwhile Native 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.679 Americans were like, you guys are crazy. Rope. Rope is 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.120 nice but you know it can be both, that's right. Uh. 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.839 In UM, the early nineteen hundreds, the Mexican Revolution in 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.240 nineteen ten, this is one of the big turning points 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.640 because a lot of Mexican immigrants came to the US 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.080 and they were like, hey, you know, you can smoke 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:22.640 this stuff. It's pretty nice. And because Mexican immigrants had 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.599 a UM, we're sort of looked down upon all of 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.120 a sudden, Putt was looked down upon. Really Mexican immigrants 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.640 were looked down upon somewhere in the US history. Yeah. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:37.000 The the whole thing about um pot being vilified or UM. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.960 I guess there was a moral panic basically is what 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.760 they call it that erupted around it. Yeah, and a 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.760 lot of it was based in racism towards UM, Mexican 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.320 Americans or Mexican immigrants. Yeah. In the nineteen thirties, especially 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:53.040 in the depression, UM, they were sort of had a 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.440 bad name because you know, they're immigrants in this country 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.840 and we're Americans and we're in depression and we want 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.240 the work and uh. Kind of a lot of the 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.440 same arguments here these days. But UM, the association with 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.440 Pott was definitely, uh, part of it it definitely was. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.240 But also I read this, um, this MPR blog code 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.480 switch about this very topic, and they were saying, like, yes, 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.120 there's a lot of racism that led to the criminalization 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.480 of pots, but Mexico was twenty years ahead of the 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.199 US and criminalizing pot as well. So you can't just say, well, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.079 it was just Americans disdain or dislike or distrust of Mexicans. 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.000 It was you know, it's more complex than that. And 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.240 this guy was saying that, really you can conclude there 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.000 was a fear of what this drug did. And the 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:40.800 reason why there was a fear of what the drug 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.960 did was because the newspaper reports at the time had 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.720 people like killing entire families and like wandering around the 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.600 streets like with somebody's head, um covered in blood because 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.640 they just smoked a joint. And um, they were really 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.959 trying to unpack this, like why would that happen? Did 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.400 it happen? We're all of them just overblown reports. The 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.920 fact was, when you picked up the Los Angeles Times 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.800 of the New York Times, there were front page stories 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.320 about this and they were like brown skin Mexican kills, 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.440 white family of eight on marijuana cigarette. And that's why 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.640 and actually the word marijuana was kind of used as 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.360 a derogatory term to kind of Mexican afi cannabis, which 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:27.439 is what it had been called prior to that. I 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.880 did not know that. I'm off my soapbox. Look at 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.760 you teaching me? Well, movies like Reefer Madness definitely didn't help. 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:38.120 In nine six, the famous propaganda movie from French director 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:43.320 Louis Gasnier, it's, you know, required viewing for any college 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.480 students at some Yeah, it's it's not very good and 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.160 it's not very enjoyable, but it is kind of funny 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.360 showing the the reeferradics, you know, driven to insanity by 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:57.200 the marijuana cigarettes. And somebody gets murdered, right, I think 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:01.440 someone murders somebody else because they smoked pot. Uh. And 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.559 then a ninety seven um, a year after we for Madness, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.400 Congress packs past the marijuanat Tacks Act, and this is 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:12.640 basically where the tide turn. And it was essentially criminalized 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:18.559 because it called for restricting possession just two individuals who 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.320 paid attacks wh was just like a thousand dollars for 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.040 medical or industrial use. So in other words, if you're 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:29.079 just you know, Sammy Podead, you can't live that way 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:30.800 anymore in this country. Now. You would basically have to 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.760 show set up a shell organization, pay the thousand dollar tacks, 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.280 and then you'd be able to import marijuana, but if 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.040 you were caught with smoking it, you'd still get busted. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.960 It was a big deal when that happened. And you 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.800 can kind of lay all of this at the feet 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.160 of one guy, a moral crusader who ran the Federal 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.920 Bureau of Narcotics in the thirties, well the thirties until 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.480 the sixties. His name was Harry Ann Slinger, and he 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.080 was the one who really kind of started this crusade 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.959 against Pott and got the government to um turn against it, 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.720 got the press to turn against it, and got the 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.360 Marijuana Tacks Act passed. But even while this guy's like 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.720 sitting there shouting like all marijuana is gonna kill us 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.960 all as a horrible drug and it's it's as bad 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.640 as it gets, there were studies, independent studies that were 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.520 um funded by the government that we're showing, like, you 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:23.440 guys are kind of overstating this a little bit. Yeah. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.080 Mayor Leaguardia of New York issued a report that basically 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:31.920 said that it doesn't induce violence, insanity, or sex crimes. Yeah, 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.079 and he was a moral reformer himself, remember you doing 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.560 after the Minsky brothers in the burlesque episode. So it's 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.079 not like he was just some big pothead, Like he 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.120 was a moral reformer himself, and he still founded this report. Yeah, 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.560 that's good point that led to. Um. The the sentencing 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.280 laws over time have kind of waffled back and forth. Uh. 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.360 In the fifties they were pretty strict because of the 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:58.040 Bogs Act and the Narcotics Control Act, And that's when 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:02.480 they started setting mandatory men of mum's for basically any 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.160 drug but including marijuana of course. Yeah, like you would 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.120 go to prison for a long time if you got 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.079 caught with pot. Yeah, two to ten years for a 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.920 first uh, first time offender. In the nineteen fifties getting 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:19.320 caught with pot, Yeah, that's it any any amount. Uh. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.960 And in the sixties things relaxed a little bit, um 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:26.680 in every way you can imagine in this country. And uh, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.480 you know, President Kennedy and UH and lb J issued 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.040 reports that found kind of the same thing as they 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.320 found out in the forties. It doesn't induce violence. Uh. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.560 And in these reports it said it didn't it wasn't 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:43.400 a gateway drug either. Yeah, in the nineteen sixties, which 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:48.440 is still up for debate. Really. Yeah, Now, because you 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.480 read every other report you read, it's gonna say something 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.160 a little different about what the gateway drug is. And plus, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.160 I think defining what makes a gateway drug too has 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.560 never been fully established. Yeah, you can't. Can you test 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:05.200 something scientifically if it's you don't have it defined, you know. Uh. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.480 And the that led to the nineteen sixties led to 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.880 a repeal of a lot of the mandatory minimums in 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:14.680 the seventies. Um. But then, of course Ronald Reagan in 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.840 the nineteen eighties brought a lot of that stuff back. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.760 And Nixon too, he fought that tooth and nail, Like, 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.200 even though the tide in the country was turning one way, 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:26.040 Nixon was like, Nope, we're going to keep pot as 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.480 illegal as possible, and as a matter of fact, we're 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.160 gonna put it on the same level as heroin and cocaine. Yeah. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.360 And during the Nixon administration, the Schaefer Commission was a 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:40.520 bipartisan commission found again that it should be decriminalized, and 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.280 Nixon was just like, well, I don't, I don't want 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.000 to hear that. Sorry, I'm gonna make up my own 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.240 mind about I'm the president exactly. Yeah. So, like you said, 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:51.720 the Reagan era brought it back, um not brought pot back, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:56.280 no probt back any kind of um anti government sentiment 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.240 toward pot itself was redoubled in the eighties under the 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:05.600 Reagan administration. Just say, no mandatory minimums were or mandatory 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.960 sentences were reenacted. Um in six things to the Anti 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.120 Drug Abuse Act. If you got caught with a hundred 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:18.920 marijuana plants, you got the same um jale time as 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.960 if you were caught with a hundred grams of heroin. Yeah, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.120 that's interesting. Plants versus grahams. It's sort of a apples 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.240 orange in comparison. Yeah, plants versus heroin, plants versus zombies. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:32.960 I know at one point this is sort of off 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.240 topic topic, but I don't know if they've changed it, 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:41.560 but at one point they were sentencing LSD users by 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.120 the weight, right, and when't that the deal is? Like 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.440 they would like if you were an LSD dealer and 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.920 you had twenty sheets of acid, they would weigh it. 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.800 And they were like, well, wait a minute, you can't 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.960 weigh the paper that's like weighing the suitcase. Yeah, and uh, 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.640 I think that's still the same though, didn't it. I 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.680 don't know, but I do know you're talking about and 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.280 apparently like if they would if you had it mixed 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.119 in with liquid or something like diluted into liquid form, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.720 they take the weight of all the liquid rather than 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.200 the proportion of it. Yeah. I don't know. It could 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.240 be we could be like showing our our gullibility for 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.960 urban legend or not. But I know that's the case. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.359 I don't know if it still is, but I know 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.840 it definitely was. Definitely was, Yeah, because I saw like 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.119 an HBO special on these LSD dealers. So we're basically 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:29.920 serving like life sentences for dealing acid right alongside murders 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.840 and rapists. Um. Yeah, I'll have to check into that 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.040 and people who were caught with pot in the thirties. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:40.200 That's right. So pot these days, cost wise, um, varies 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:44.320 a lot depending on quality. Obviously it ranges. Um. I 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.960 love that in this article it says a dollar seventy 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.200 seven to seventeen dollars and sixty six cents per gram 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.200 at like one gram of marijuana. Please. Yeah, that's interesting. Um, 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.240 but these days you can expect to pay um for 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.680 you know, what people consider good mayor I wanna about 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.520 a hundred and twenty dollars for uh a quarterback, which 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:08.080 is a quarter of an ounce, right, which is seven grams, right, 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.119 because there's twenty eight grams in and out. Yeah, I 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.280 think between seven eight grams. But it depends on if 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.239 the dealer likes you exactly. Yeah, but that's generally how 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.199 it breaks down. As you know, you have it by 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:24.320 the pound, which is you know, the pot dealer, I guess, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.000 and then they break it down into ounces and then 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.679 to quarterbacks and dime bags and whatever people can afford. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.920 I guess. Well. It's funny because in the state of 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.720 the country right now, like you can take dealer and 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.840 dispensary and basically flip them and interchange them, and no 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.600 matter what you're talking about, virtually the sentence is going 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:48.480 to remain unchanged basically, you know, because the marijuana dispensaries 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:53.280 are following like basically the same format that marijuana dealers 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.399 in this country have for decades, you know what I mean, 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.520 like pricing and yeah, the pricing, the um, the way 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.280 it's sold by weight. Oh sure, sure, Like I think 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:05.000 you still't buy like like quarters and half ounces and 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.560 ounces and stuff, which makes sense. But they're also getting 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.200 a lot of this stuff from people who are growing 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.439 it indoors in their basement. And it's like now they 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.840 have licenses for all this. But it's basically like all 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.520 the people who were doing it illegally before, or some 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.720 of the people who are doing illegally before point and 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.760 applied for licenses and now they're doing the same thing, 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.080 but they just have like a a license to do 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.959 it in a frame on their wall. Yeah, and dispensaries, 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.680 you're going to find a lot of other things, uh, 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:36.399 like edibles and um. They even have now cannabis strips, 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.520 like you know, the little listing breath strips. They have 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:44.480 little cannabis strips. It's just a little uh edible strip 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:48.320 of concentrated cannabis and I guess you put it under 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.160 your tongue and that's better for your lungs. I would 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.080 imagine if you're a oh yeah, a cancer patient or something. Yeah, 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:55.840 And we'll talk about that in a little bit. Let's 0:19:55.880 --> 0:20:00.679 let's talk about the plane itself. Chuck. Um. Maybe the 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:04.320 most recognizable plant that leaf, you know, yeah, which is um. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:09.439 Here's a little fact for you. The botanical description of 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:14.800 the way that marijuana leaves are arranged is groovy called 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:19.480 palmately like the palm of a hand with five fingers outstretched. 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:24.040 That's the pot leaf. That's you. You can find on 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:29.879 lighters and baseball caps, gas stations, um and the like 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.960 you said, the planet itself, depending on which variety it 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.040 is either very tall or kind of tall, depending on 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:42.000 whether it's trimmed or not. Um and the the buds 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.679 or whatever that are smoked are actually the flowers of 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:49.520 the plants, the flowers of the female which apparently are 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.119 that's sent semia. So the definition of the word sent 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.160 semia are female flowers that have reached maturity without being 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.560 um pollinated. I can't hear that word without thinking of 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.600 cat check what I don't remember that part. Phil Murray 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:06.359 A little California sens to me. Yeah, so that's what 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:09.680 that means. Yes, that's the term sense of meia means. 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:13.240 So basically, unless you're like fourteen, if you're smoking pot, 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:20.119 you're smoking censemia. So yes, the term senemia means pot. Okay, 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.680 the pot that's smoked. Although the male flowers do have 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:27.359 some thhd, it's just far far less of female than female. Yeah. 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.680 As a cultivator, males are not what you want. In fact, 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:35.840 males can can disturb the cycle of the female plants. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:37.919 So the goal of the cultivator is to get the 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.320 male out of there as quickly as it can be identified. Basically, Yeah, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.199 and weeds actually good moniker for pot because it's it 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:49.520 spreads very easily. There. Um, pollen is like twenty four microns, 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:53.400 which apparently is very easily wind born and goes very 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:58.680 great distances. There's very few obstacles to pollenization. Um. So 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.600 if you have female plants and you have what you 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.040 suspect to be a male plant anywhere nearby, you want 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.919 to get rid of the male plant and then tell 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:12.240 the officer, Uh, they must have just blown over here 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:16.720 and taken roots. Are these hundred plants in my backyard 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:20.119 came from my neighbor? There? Pollens is twenty four microns? 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:23.160 Come on, yeah, he says, he says, tell your story 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:27.400 to the judge, my friend, Um, there are about uh, 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:32.639 we should also say they're hermaphroditic plants. Hermaphroditic plants that 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:37.040 feature both male and female flowers. Those are probably a mess. Yeah, 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:38.640 I think that maybe that's a good thing. I think 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:43.040 that's like a lot of hybrid ones are hermaphroditic. Okay, yeah, Well, 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:48.160 there are hundreds of chemicals in the marijuana plant um 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:52.680 A hundred nine of which are cannabinoids. About thirty three 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.800 are cancer causing, and we'll we'll get to that stuff 0:22:55.840 --> 0:23:00.800 later too. But ironically they also are cancer killing some 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:03.960 of them. It is an on plant. But we're gonna 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:07.400 get to all that stuff too, write um, and your 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:11.359 th HC is really the main psychoactive ingredient. What's the 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:15.600 long name for it, Delta nine tetra hydro cannabin all 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:20.439 that is th HC. That is what the high that 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:23.560 you're seeking. It lies within that chemical. Yeah. And actually 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:25.800 you can point to the part of the plant where 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:29.160 it is um. If you've ever seen a marijuana plant 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:31.520 and it has kind of this hazy a period appearance 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:33.119 from far away, and you get up close and you 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:35.320 realize that haze is actually made up of a bunch 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:40.160 of little, clear, sticky protrusions coming off of the leaves. 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:44.200 Those are called tricombs, and that is where the THC 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:47.119 is stored. That's right, And depending on the plant in 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:49.840 the variety and how it's grown and when it's harvested, 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:53.320 in the genetics and how you process it. It's that's 0:23:53.359 --> 0:23:56.439 all gonna affect the th HC level. And it's a cultivator. 0:23:56.600 --> 0:24:00.240 Your goal is to have the th HC level how 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.119 as you can get it. Yeah, that is up for 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:06.560 debate as well. From what I've seen there, Um, apparently 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:09.320 they're just going higher and higher and higher as far 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:12.600