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Speaker 1: And we have Lorena Beltrn Lorena, Lorena Lorena. She's the

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Speaker 1: other activities within the current legal medical cannabis framework in Mexico.

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Speaker 1: the CEO and co founder of Cannabi Salute. It's La

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Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen Charlotte fourteen or whatever was Charlotte? Wein? Yes,

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Speaker 1: back to school. I only have one. He's fifteen. Fifteen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Before we went to break, we're talking just briefly a

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Speaker 1: lot about you. But there's big three day summit coming

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Speaker 1: are leaders of the activism in Mexico that decided to

424
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Speaker 1: camp there. That's amazing. Yeah good, I want to interview

425
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: some of them. Oh yeah, definitely, I can introduce you.

426
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,360
Speaker 1: It was such an incredible movement that helped us educate

427
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: the legislators because they had to pass through the park

428
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 1: to get into the Senate. Wow, and you have all

429
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: these people coming to the park to learn. They will

430
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: give in, you know, workshops to learn how to cultivate.

431
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: They couldn't move them. They couldn't move them. No, no,

432
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: we have a right to protest. Do you ever did

433
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 1: you camp there? I didn't camp there. I visited many times,

434
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: and I took a lot of people there and we

435
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: did a lot of interviews and took the media there too.

436
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: But now they they're not longer there because they said, Okay,

437
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 1: the Senate knows everything we have, you know, share so

438
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,439
Speaker 1: much information and education. Like now what Now it's just

439
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: becoming a spot that it's touristic and people are actually

440
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 1: selling with here. That was not the goal. So we're moving.

441
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 1: So they're doing different efforts in order to help pass

442
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,120
Speaker 1: this proposed bill. I just had a conversation earlier with

443
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: the Commission of Justice inside the Senate, and they're about

444
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 1: to publish this proposed bill to regulate the adult use

445
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: commercialization next week. So what we're gonna see during March

446
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: and April is probably the voting of this proposed bill

447
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: in the Senate. If it passes in the Senate, it

448
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: goes to the Chamber of Deputies, and if it passes

449
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: there and goes up to the President for the signature

450
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 1: in order to make that a law. You're so much

451
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: in the know in Mexico, and I want to ask you.

452
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 1: I've heard a scenario that Mexico was looking at cannabis

453
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: friends from California to bring them out there to sell

454
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: come back. I want your thoughts, your opinions on is

455
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: this a true statement? Can this happen? Are we gonna

456
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: be able to cross state lines? It's Cannabis Talk one

457
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Speaker 1: oh one. We were like, with what we'll go right

458
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Speaker 1: back after this break, even locks you pulled a me Joe,

459
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with Cannabis Talk one oh one.

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474
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Speaker 1: I was just asking you about this rumor I heard

475
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: about Mexico wanting to bring California brands and intrough Mexico.

476
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: Is that something that I heard as a myth? What

477
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: do you know about that one? Okay, so right now

478
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: we we are invaded but by California brands. Oh really yes,

479
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: legally obviously some of them. Others are not legal, so

480
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: we have so much product from California, you have no idea.

481
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: So of course we have an unregulated market because we're

482
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: also consumers. And since California Colorado, we have all these

483
00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: states in the United States that have a recreational state law. Um,

484
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: we they send us stuff like it's not like Mexico

485
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: is now is not longer exporting that much product to

486
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: the US obviously legally, but now we have California, Colorado,

487
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: mainly California, you know, sending us product, um high tac

488
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 1: products is our Is it like sold at flea markets?

489
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: Is it sold at like dispensary style stores? I mean

490
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: do they have dispensaries or because they've pharmaceutical stores or

491
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: how how is it sold their Marx So medical it's

492
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:38,479
Speaker 1: strictly you know, pharmacist clinics, doctors. But the recreational market

493
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: that exists in Mexico, uh, we have underground dispensaries. There

494
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: are e commerce, all kinds of e commerce online. Yeah,

495
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: real worder online and you'll get to your to your

496
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: door and no one regulates at it all there. No,

497
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: it's not regulated. And the market it's it's huge, you know,

498
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: and you're getting cookies brand or whatever. And oh yeah.

499
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: Also if you go to Tepeto, you know, like this

500
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: downtown flea markets, you'll find all kinds of brands there,

501
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: not the original ones, the pidatas, but you see cookies

502
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: everywhere on blankets, some pillows, you know, everywhere. Yeah, definitely,

503
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: is that one of the bigger brands that they're out

504
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: there bootlegging? Yes, yes, of course cookies. Everybody knows cookies

505
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,719
Speaker 1: in Mexico. And not only you'll find cannabis products as

506
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: well in the flea market, e commerce on the ground,

507
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: dispensaries as well as you know, you have menus that

508
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: they send you on WhatsApp telegram, like every week they

509
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: update their menus and you have all kinds of products

510
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: mainly from California, UH to pick from. And if they

511
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: have a distribution person in that city, you'll get it

512
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: in hours or they'll send you a package in one

513
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: or two days. In the country. The city's out there

514
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: in Mexico just starn't doing anything about it. They're just

515
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: not what about it. They're they're missing taxes right right.

516
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: And are the local companies out there feeling like, no,

517
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: get them at the hell out of here? Are they

518
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: just saying, oh, let's piss package rs and call it cookies. Yeah, exactly,

519
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: everybody's doing whatever they want. Um. People are just trying

520
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: to make a business out of this. UM. And in

521
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: terms of like the organized crimes or like ourtels, which

522
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: I don't like to just put tax or generalize with

523
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: the terms, because we have all kinds of people and groups,

524
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: and you have bad people good people everywhere, not only

525
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: inside that the cartel. Exactly right, you haven't in politics

526
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: more bad than good, in churches everywhere everywhere. So right now,

527
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: with this proposed bill that it's going to be discussed

528
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: in the Senate to be voted again, UM, we really

529
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: expect regulators to help out and regulate the industry that's

530
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: out there, just because we have so many health issues

531
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: mainly you know, that's the main concern, the health issues

532
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: through this fake products or very low quality products that

533
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: they just rebrand with whatever brand you know, they find

534
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: that it's trendy or you know, popular. So we hopefully,

535
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: you know, regulate this part of the market. It's there,

536
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: it exists, and it's expanding, it's not going anywhere. And yeah,

537
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: these organized groups are also part of it, but in

538
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: their menus just like they sell all kinds of drugs.

539
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: They have cannabis in there, and they know once we

540
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: have a regulation for the recreational market, it's kind of

541
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: like game over in a sense for them in the

542
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: term of like we are controlling this, you cannot be

543
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: able to control it anymore. Right now, they're not even

544
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: controlling it anymore because there's so many people selling. You know,

545
00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: I have so many friends and family members and people

546
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: that I know that have their small circle, you know,

547
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: selling to the grandma, to the uncle, to the cusin

548
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: because they use it for whatever medicinal purposes, uh, ritual purposes,

549
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But everybody's trying to get their hands

550
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: on it and try it, even CVD TACUM. So yeah,

551
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: the cortails, I don't see them like really controlling this

552
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: all the time. However, a situation that happens in Mexico

553
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: is that any business that makes money, you're gonna be

554
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: in risk. Why because yes, this organized groups criminals want

555
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: a piece of your cake, no matter what it is,

556
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: no matter what if it's a bar, restaurant, if that's

557
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: strong out there. Huh, Like, if you have a successful company,

558
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna start knocking on your age. Yes, you need

559
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: to pass if you want to keep doing business like

560
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: the Morrida, you know, they want a piece of your

561
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: cake every month you have to pay in order to

562
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: what live, you know, not to continue to sell and operate.

563
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: It's crazy that it goes down like that, still there. Yeah,

564
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: it is like that, and it's very sad and unfortunate

565
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: that our government, you know, and our authorities are not

566
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: really focusing on the main issues like that. Let me

567
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: ask you, because we started the show talking about how

568
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: you're doing research and other companies as research, how is

569
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: Mexico at a hole looking at when it comes towards

570
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: the research that cannabis can help people. Yeah, so I

571
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: think we are stepping forward in that area because comparing

572
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: to the United States, the US doesn't have a federal LA.

573
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: We do have a FEDERLA, meaning that the pharmaceutical labs

574
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: and the researchers get involved and it's easier for them

575
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: to get their hands on cannabis and do their research.

576
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: So right now, the pharmaceutical labs that are starting to formulations,

577
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: the next step is do clinical trials on those formulations.

578
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 1: So usually clinical trials can take years depending on the

579
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: condition that you want to treat. So let's say, Okay,

580
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: we have a formulation that's good for colon cancer. So

581
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: they do their clinical trial for cancers, usually more than

582
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: five years on clinical trials. But the advantage is that, yes,

583
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: is fairly illegal, and clinical trials in Mexico are a

584
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: little bit less costly expensive than the United States or Canada.

585
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: We've seen this. We've seen companies they want to go

586
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: to Mexico adding invest in clinical trials because it's ten

587
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: times less than in the United States. So we have

588
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: that advantage. So that's why we're going to see more

589
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: medical research in Mexico than the rest of Are they

590
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: building up these type of labs and getting ready for

591
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: you because it's fairly illegal like this, they don't have

592
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: to build new labs. They're using their pharmaceutical labs that

593
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: exist already because they're treating can as another active ingredient.

594
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: They're not looking at cannabis. So oh, it's a drugs,

595
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: its normal drugs whatever. Yeah, it falls into the same

596
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: regulations as any other active ingredient that goes into a

597
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: pharmaceutical formulation. Are they making them pills there as well,

598
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: like THHC pills like they make out here? In certain

599
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: clients or companies out here. Yeah, what do you think

600
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: that that? Are they doing that? At the pharmaceutical levels.

601
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: I've seen pharmaceutical labs working on tablets on sublingual products,

602
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 1: not that many like in the US or Canada because

603
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: sublingual oils don't really fall into a pharmaceutical product category.

604
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: It's more like a herbal medicine the drops, right, So pharma,

605
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: it's looking at tablets, it's looking at inhalers, it's looking

606
00:35:53,760 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: at topicals. Um, it's looking at even injections really yeah,

607
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: with cannabinoids and of course it's a formulation with other ingredients.

608
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a pharma. Wow, so many crazy things

609
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: that just when I think about what Mexico can do

610
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: and how they can help so much because now that

611
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: you say it's on a federal level, you're right, they

612
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: can get so many more people involved. And because it's

613
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: on a federal level, can they cross the other states

614
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: and countries? Like can Mexico start working with Israel so

615
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 1: to speak? Yes, yes, we actually have clients with alliances

616
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: with Israel, with Germany. I personally hold a license to

617
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 1: import raw materials through my company and Don Labs, and

618
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: we are importing raw materials from Czech Republic, meaning isolates

619
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: and distillates with the EGU GMP certificate and other certifications

620
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: that the pharmaceutical labs require in order to use that

621
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: as an active ingredient for a formulation of a medicine.

622
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: So right now we're doing that importation. So Europe has

623
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: very similar medical regulations as Mexico. So that's why we

624
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: work very closely with Europe. And what is your lab doing?

625
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: What do you guys do there at your lab? So

626
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: I don't have a lab that formulates. I only am

627
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 1: the license holder that brings the raw materials and I

628
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: give it to the pharmaceutical labs for their formulations. I

629
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: don't have my own brand of an end product yet.

630
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: I will, but not right now. Oh really, And what

631
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: kind of product are you going to get? So I

632
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: am more looking into cosmetics, a line of cosmetics, and

633
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, I'm not a doctor,

634
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: I work with a lot of them and kind of resolute.

635
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: The Medical Cannabis Summit has helped us. You have this

636
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: relationship with doctors and researches, but I personally have an

637
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: interest in cosmetics. So in Mexico, right now, you can

638
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: import products with less than one percent TACU. These products

639
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:08,240
Speaker 1: fall into different categories cosmetics, dietary supplements, and food and beverages.

640
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: So anything with less than one percent TC we can

641
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 1: register and import into Mexico from anywhere, from anywhere, as

642
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: long as you comply with our requirements on coffee PRIs,

643
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: which is also the entity that regulates and registers like

644
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: the FDA. So yeah, all these products go through there.

645
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're able to do that right now. And

646
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: then are you guys looking to eventually export products too? Yes, yes,

647
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: we haven't seen it legally, I should say this time.

648
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: Yes for medical purposes. Legal, yes, I haven't seen a

649
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: company that's vertically integrated, that's cultivating and all these things

650
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 1: hopefully in the future. But once the pharma releases a

651
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: medicine to the market, I'm pretty sure they're going to

652
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: be able to export it to other countries that's going

653
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,439
Speaker 1: to be in I'm just wondering, too, have you known

654
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: or whatever, because because we were talking earlier about blue

655
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: and I always say this going you know, some of

656
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: the best weed obviously comes from northern California, try you know,

657
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: fact out there and California in general really supplies it.

658
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: But when we thought about it, we talked, we said,

659
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: Mexico really supplies the country though, with a lot of cannabis. Right,

660
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: have you been to or seeing these huge growths that

661
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: are out there in Mexico. Do you know any of

662
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: these guys that just have the massive growths that are

663
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: just producing so much? Yes? How big? Like how big

664
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: are we talking? Okay, so we're talking about on regulated

665
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: cultivation facilities, right, yeah, of course that's what I really

666
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: want to know about it. Yeah, yeah, that's what I

667
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: want to know because I only seen him in movies

668
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: and stuff. You know what I mean, You see it

669
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: like oh wow, But like you know how big. As

670
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: as a communicator, I really like to connect with all

671
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: the people involved in this market. The legacy, well you

672
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: have to know everybody because let's face it, everything comes

673
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: from the legacy. Mexico wasn't always legal. Just by got legal.

674
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: Here wasn't legal. Blue was sailing we back in the

675
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: days dare talking about of sailway. It's like it's part

676
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: of the game. Correct, So yeah, I being to the mountains.

677
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: I'm from Chihuahua, so Chiuawa is part of the Golden Triangle.

678
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:19,280
Speaker 1: Is Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango. And that's where Garo Quintero

679
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: used to grow the sin cemiia. That's where it generated

680
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: the sin cemilia. Yes, so he did this, you know,

681
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: he feminized the plant. And he's the first one, at

682
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: least in Mexico to grow the sin semiya. And they

683
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: had the Rancho Buffalo in this part of the Golden

684
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: Triangle where they had over one thousand hectors of cannabis,

685
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 1: the largest cultivation space ever in Mexico. And of course

686
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: everybody was involved, even the government. Don't tell me that

687
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: you didn't see that, that thousand hector in the mountain

688
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: full of cannabis. So yeah, they were crossing it to

689
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: the United States in the eighties. Now Kokinteto, he went

690
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: to prison, Now he was released, and now they got

691
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: him again. I don't know what for. He already did

692
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: his years in prison and he was a cultivator. So

693
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: we have a lot of history around this legacy market

694
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: cannabis industry, however you want to call it. But Mexico

695
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: has done so many things around this plant, good and bad,

696
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: mainly because of prohibition. You know, what has happened to

697
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: all our indigenous communities in the mountains who are the

698
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: main workers on the fields. So we have a lot

699
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: of people in prison still but for growing the plant

700
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,760
Speaker 1: in the mountains, people that saw that as just another

701
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: agricultural product and a way of living. And these farmers

702
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: are still in prison with no sentence, you know, just

703
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: they forgot about them in there. So there's so much

704
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,760
Speaker 1: work we need to do in Mexico and around the world,

705
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. But Mexico with all these history around

706
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: cultivation of cannabis, and now people are not cultivated that

707
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: much because the prices went down so bad, like very

708
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 1: low prices even on amapola for um la godepla um

709
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: it's a it's another flower, the amapola where you get um.

710
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: You can get heroin from there too, oh really so um.

711
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: So the prices on that went down too. So now

712
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: they have labs of fentanyl, which is really really bad

713
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 1: even for the people that work in these labs. So

714
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: we need cannabis back. We need this to be legal

715
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: in order for these farmers to go back into a

716
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 1: legal agricultural product like cannabis, and only cannabis. Also hemp.

717
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 1: Hemp doesn't have restrictions is not prohibited in Mexico, but

718
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: we lack certain norms and regularlyations around hamp so that's

719
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: why not many people are doing it. But now we

720
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: created an interest on state governments so they can start

721
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: pilot programs around cultivation of industrial hemp, hemp for industrial purposes,

722
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 1: you know, for textiles, for construction materials, and are they

723
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: going to start doing more of that there too, because

724
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: I could see Mexico being a leader in that right

725
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: and doing hemp t shirts, clothes, I mean everything. Yes,

726
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: Mexico is definitely going to be a leader in hemp.

727
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: Why because we are a manufacturing countries. We're like China,

728
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: who's the main manufacturer of hamp tex styles. We are

729
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: like India, who's all due is doing all kinds of

730
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: manufacturing products. Mexico, we can manufacture textiles, biofuels, construction materials.

731
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 1: We have the largest companies that are doing plywood, so

732
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: we can do hempwood materials as well. So we have

733
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: all the manufacturing facilities that connect with hemp. So yes,

734
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: so now the governments, the state governments have a very

735
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: special interest in hemp and we're doing We're putting together

736
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: these pilot programs that will start this year in states

737
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: like Michua, kan like Chihuahua, like Tamaulipas, like Lascala, and

738
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 1: many other states that we already are working, you know

739
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 1: how long before before we actually see real product coming

740
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,240
Speaker 1: out of their people you can use even in the states,

741
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: I'll stay around a year, year and a half over

742
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: that soon, Yes, because the militaries are involved. The militaries

743
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: want to grow hemp and they're going to start a

744
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: pilot program to do textile for their uniforms so they

745
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: can show something tangible that you can really do with hemp.

746
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: And what's better than the military is wearing it. They're

747
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,280
Speaker 1: the ones that have been burning the fields out there,

748
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: They're the ones that have been putting people in prison,

749
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: so it's time for them to do something good. Wow,

750
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:54,399
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Oh another, I can just keep going back

751
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: and forth and talking, asking you so many questions. I

752
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: want to do the high five with you as you're

753
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: the CEO and co found under of Cannabis Salute, which

754
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: is a big conference going down in Cancoon in June.

755
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: The website again if people want to get tickets and

756
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: go to that is that's June fourteen to the sixteen

757
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: in Cancun Cannaby Salute Business and Investment Summit, and you

758
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: can find us on social media Facebook, Twitter, Instagram as

759
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: Cannabi Salute MX and also my personal social media which

760
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: is public. There it is and behind five La beltran

761
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: is b E L t R A N. By the way,

762
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 1: how old you the first time he smoked cannabis? Soon?

763
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: Where do you get it from? First time? Sixteen years old?

764
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: I didn't go to school that day, so me and

765
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: my friends decided to smoke wheat for the first time,

766
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: and it was so much fun. We just left all

767
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: day long. It was the best experience, but it was

768
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 1: just one time at sixteen. Then I tried it again

769
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,280
Speaker 1: when I was twenty five, and it was a completely

770
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: different experience. It was more spiritual. I got to, you know,

771
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: go inside, you know, um this psycho analysis of myself

772
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: and this connection with my spirit, and it was very healing.

773
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: So I highly recommend if you haven't tried, to wait

774
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: until your twenties because that experience compared to sixteen, Yeah,

775
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 1: it was fun, but when you already know you know

776
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: a little bit more about life and consciousness, it's just

777
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:32,399
Speaker 1: a beautiful spark inside your body that's really gonna well,

778
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: at least to me, it helped me a lot. Well,

779
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: that's awesome right there. What is your favorite way to

780
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:45,399
Speaker 1: use cannabis smoke, smoking, just the plant, especially points joints. Yes,

781
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: and I really love and appreciate a good outdoor organic

782
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: cannabis flower, really outdoor h from the mountains. You're like,

783
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: this is the weed I want right here. Where's the

784
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: craziest place you ever use or smoked cannabis? Craziest place? Okay,

785
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: So I'm the person that doesn't care where she's at.

786
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: If I'm craving a joint, I'll light it up at

787
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 1: the restaurant. So if I'm in a smoking area of

788
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: a restaurant in Mexico City, I'm like, okay, I'm just

789
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: gonna smoke here until somebody comes and tells me I

790
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: cannot do it. So yeah, I usually do that. Chick Huh.

791
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: I like that. It's part of the advocacy in the activism.

792
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, there's smoking tobacco, you know, why can't

793
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: I smoke cannabis. They're like, I wish you could, and

794
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: I wish I can, you know, have a joint too,

795
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: but I'm not allowed. You know, people want it. You're like, well,

796
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: then don't smoke. I will exactly, I will. So. Now

797
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: in Mexico there's a restriction for cigarettes too. You cannot

798
00:47:53,560 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: smoke cigarettes in public anymore. Wow, they're cracking down out there. Huh.

799
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: I thought it was the wild wild West forever in

800
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: Mexico you could do whatever you wanted. Oh well, Question

801
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: number four or the High five? The Renno, what is

802
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: your go to munchies after you get high? I think, uh,

803
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: Dairy Queen, the Blizzard with Oreo and Brownie. Who I

804
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: love me a blizzard. They have blizzards out there in

805
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 1: Mexico there. Oh, that is my go to crack spot.

806
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,240
Speaker 1: I love that Ario and Brownie. I never had Oreo

807
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: and Brownie. I have to get an Oreo and Brownie

808
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: had a little caramel in that mug. I'm gonna go

809
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: get one of those reels soon. I'm gonna get one

810
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,479
Speaker 1: of those that for real, I go. I love those ones.

811
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: Question number five or the High five? If you could

812
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?

813
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:54,439
Speaker 1: And why I already mentioned this person? I don't know. Well,

814
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be judged by a lot of people and criticize,

815
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: but I don't care the guy who created it. The

816
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 1: big growing out there is that the guy Why him?

817
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: Because um, because of what he did? And don't you

818
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: know that since yah, it's kind of like a brand.

819
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: Like I think that we have a recreational industry with

820
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: all these premium indoor flowers thanks to the feminine seed,

821
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: and I think he's the one that put the signature

822
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: to it. The scene and media, you know, the largest culture.

823
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,399
Speaker 1: We should call that sesse Like, oh, yeah, got some sesse,

824
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, right, that's what we should

825
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: call it, right, I got a bag of sesse, Like

826
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: that's in the States. I'm telling you the truth. That's

827
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: what we used to call it. That's what I used

828
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: to call it anyways, and then it was just short

829
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: term for sense to media, you know. Yeah, so yeah,

830
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,919
Speaker 1: I mean I would love to smoke a joint with him.

831
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: He's already seventy something, and just to learn how it

832
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 1: was back in the day and just like what he

833
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: felt by having this huge cultivation Asian space with so

834
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: many people working with him, what it really meant for him,

835
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: you know, cannabis in his life, because I don't think

836
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 1: he was all bad like people put it out there

837
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: or the Narco series, you know that they exaggerate everything.

838
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: But I want to know the true story behind everything

839
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: he did. I love that answer. That'd be a good one,

840
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 1: because those Narco series are amazing. Yeah, Like you could

841
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: just watch him, watch him and watch him. And it

842
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: is the most watched series of Netflix. It's crazy and

843
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: there's so many. Yeah, I mean, I feel like I

844
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Speaker 1: want to watch a new one. Starting to listen, Oh,

845
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: let me see this one. Yeah. And it's not like

846
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: I am supporting Narcos or Idio Lisando idolizing them or

847
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 1: their culture because I lived experiences very close to that

848
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: type of groups and they have done so much damage

849
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: to my country to the point that I had to

850
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: run away from my right for all the violence. But again,

851
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 1: there's good and bad people, and I think this industry

852
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: has so much to offer if we would just do

853
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: things the right way. Because people would just want a

854
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:17,359
Speaker 1: lot of money and power. You can have that by

855
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 1: also sharing and not being a bad person, not being

856
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: violent or killing people like you can share and have

857
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: abundance also in your life. You know, you don't need

858
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: billions of dollars in your under your mattress because you

859
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: cannot put it in the bank. But I mean, let's

860
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: just share and make this industry what it came to be,

861
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: you know, it came to do. The counterbis plant has

862
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: so much to offer. We are limiting this plant and

863
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: we are not doing it in the right way of

864
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: just sharing and make it accessible for everybody that really

865
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,879
Speaker 1: needs it. Thank you so much for coming on the show.

866
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you a rand him question that

867
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 1: it's just pondering my mind right now thinking about how

868
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: we live here in the States, and you know, I

869
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: may know somebody like my buddy Daniel, and I know

870
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: this other guy, and this guy is connected to Eighteenth

871
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: Street Gang, right, and we know that that's a big

872
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: gang because his dad was in it, so he's kind

873
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: of affiliated. I'm just using this as an analogy. Is

874
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: it so close like that? Are you know there's a

875
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: lot of people where do you know people that are like, Okay,

876
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: my cousin's friend, he's in the cartel. Are like, oh,

877
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: our neighbors, cousin, our brother, he's a cartel member. But

878
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 1: the families not. Are there kids that are in the

879
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: gang so to speak? Like out here we know cats

880
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: are in the gang. But even their parents wouldn't be

881
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: in it, but their son is. Are their parents in it?

882
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: And they're like no, me, oh you're not in it?

883
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: You know. I mean, is it like that there with

884
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: the cartel or how does that dynamic work? Okay, So

885
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: we have normalized this culture. That's what I mean. It's

886
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: so normalized the cartel. It's like it's just there's Netflix

887
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: special after special after special with different cartels in differently Godos.

888
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: The music it's everywhere, right, exactly, there's cartel singers exactly right, like,

889
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: oh he's a singer, he's from the cartel. It's great.

890
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 1: So yeah, so I come. My family comes from a

891
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: little town in in Chihuahua, and I lived there for

892
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: like a year, and I could see how girls are raised.

893
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 1: To maryann Arco, for example, it's like, oh my god,

894
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: we're so proud if you have, you know, a boyfriend

895
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: that's doing that, because that means money, that's means success,

896
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 1: that means that that person is going to take you

897
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: out of this poor town and have a better life.

898
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: So so for you guys where you were from, it

899
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: was looked at like we want to get a guy

900
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:51,879
Speaker 1: like that. Some women yeah, unfortunately, but now we see

901
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: so many killings of young men and women, you know,

902
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: in general, so now more and more violence, and of

903
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: course their families that are like, okay, so if you're

904
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: in there, means that you can die, right, So it's

905
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: like yes and no, there's a mix, but it's very normalized.

906
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:19,280
Speaker 1: It's normalized to okay, be part of that and make money.

907
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: It's normalized that. Okay, but if you're in there, there's

908
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: a risk and you might die. So yeah, it's it's

909
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: part of our culture. Unfortunately now one days and they

910
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: just live everywhere amongst everyone or do they all know

911
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:36,839
Speaker 1: they're everywhere? They're politicians too, I mean, come on, we

912
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:41,439
Speaker 1: live in an arca politic government in Mexico. A lot

913
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: of politicians are part of the drug cartels. Really well,

914
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: that's why they're one of the richest industries in Mexico

915
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: and in the world. How can they do it by themselves.

916
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 1: They need the government to support them in order to

917
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: be that big, right, And why are they keeping prohibition?

918
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: Why is Mexico still prohibiting the recreational market. Why have

919
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: we already voted in the Senate and the Chamber of

920
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: Deputies and already passed, but the president doesn't want to

921
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: sign it. Why are we trying it again? Prohibition is

922
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 1: it's what has brought so much violence. I don't want

923
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 1: to point to a certain broup, a specific group. I

924
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 1: think it's just prohibition in general, and who sticks to prohibition.

925
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 1: It's our government right now. Will it change, Yes, it

926
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:37,320
Speaker 1: will change because now we have more women in power.

927
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 1: Because we have more women leading politics, we see more governors,

928
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: the women there will be, you know, cartel leaders as well. Yes,

929
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: but from all the cartels that we have. I seen

930
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: Queen of the South by the way, so you know

931
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 1: she's a badass. Yeah, but from a hundred males, there's

932
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: one female right in the cartels. Honestly, there's way more

933
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: males in that part of the industry per se. So no,

934
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 1: definitely having more women in power in office, and also

935
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,839
Speaker 1: more younger people. So we have governors that are now

936
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: thirty five years old. So these new generations definitely are

937
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: going to change things in my country because the people

938
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: in power right now, President and people around him are

939
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: very old, are very old. They just want money and power,

940
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: and yeah, sometimes they try to do good things here

941
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: and there. But I think our hopes are in women

942
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: and younger people. Well, is there anything else that we

943
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 1: left and you want that you want to bring up

944
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:45,959
Speaker 1: again real quick before my dog jumps off this table

945
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: real quick and I have to take her to the vet.

946
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:54,879
Speaker 1: Fix is broken leg. Well, I just want to let

947
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:59,879
Speaker 1: people know that Mexico is not bad. Mexico is take

948
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: in its time to get out there. But I think

949
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: once we are completely regulated and we understand how to

950
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: navigate this emerging industry, I think it's gonna be the

951
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: mecca of the cannabis industry around the world. We can

952
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: produce cannabis everywhere all around this kind of my country.

953
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: We have been one of the largest producers outdoor. We

954
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: have we have a lot of passion for this plant

955
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: and we want to see a thrive. And as you

956
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: were mentioning, we're putting a lot of hopes in industrial

957
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: hemp and I think we're going to be leaders on that.

958
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: Tesla is already establishing their largest facility in Mexico, the

959
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: largest of the world. So that puts puts us on

960
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: the map again, an international map in terms of industrial

961
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: production of different things. So yeah, keep an eye on Mexico.

962
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: Come to cannabis. Salute June sixteenth in kan Koun to

963
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: learn more about the rules, regulations, how to get in,

964
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: what's legal right now, business that have been successful, and

965
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: we'll help you how to navigate Mexico. Especially to all

966
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 1: the Latinos in the United States and all over the

967
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: world that are always in their heart hoping to one

968
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: day come back, you know, to their home, to their country.

969
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 1: Well maybe this is the chance, this is the opportunity

970
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: through this cannabis industry and this cannabis plan that we

971
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: all love. Well, there it is you, guys. Thank you

972
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: so much for coming on the show. We appreciate you

973
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: traveling all the way from Mexico to be here. Love

974
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: seeing you again and I can't wait to see you

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00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 1: more often it's Cannabis Talk one oh one, and if

976
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: nobody else loves you, we do. Thank you for listening

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00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: to Cannabis Talk one oh one on the iHeartRadio app,

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