1
00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,120
Speaker 1: Welcome the Cannabis Talk one oh one featuring Blue with

2
00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,960
Speaker 1: Joe Bronde, the world's number one source for everything cannabis.

3
00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,040
Speaker 2: Hello, welcome to Cannabis Talk one oh one, the world's

4
00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:10,879
Speaker 2: number one source for everything cannabis.

5
00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:11,479
Speaker 3: Money is Blue.

6
00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,520
Speaker 2: Alongside of me is mister Joe Grande, and you are

7
00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:15,640
Speaker 2: now tuned into the greatest cannabis show.

8
00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,360
Speaker 3: On the planet. That's right, you, guys. Thank you for

9
00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,760
Speaker 3: listening to our podcast all around the world, and make

10
00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:21,759
Speaker 3: sure you check out the website Cannabis Talk one on

11
00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:23,640
Speaker 3: one dot com as we have so many great articles

12
00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,160
Speaker 3: and blogs on the site for you to check out

13
00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:26,840
Speaker 3: and read. Joe free to give us a call any

14
00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,159
Speaker 3: time one eight hundred and four twenty nineteen eight, or

15
00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,640
Speaker 3: go check out our Instagram pages at Cannabis Talk one

16
00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,160
Speaker 3: oh one. My brother from Another Mother Right here, Blue

17
00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,599
Speaker 3: is at number one, Christopher writes, and I am at

18
00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:38,519
Speaker 3: Joe Grande fifty Q. And if you're looking for a

19
00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,040
Speaker 3: trusted cannabis seat at a fair price, head to rocket

20
00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:44,560
Speaker 3: seats dot com or on Instagram at Rocket Underscore Seeds.

21
00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,400
Speaker 3: Our guest today, Blue, I'm so excited. The show set

22
00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,080
Speaker 3: looks amazing. I mean not only did she fly all

23
00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,120
Speaker 3: the way from Canada to be here with us today,

24
00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:56,000
Speaker 3: but I feel this personal love for her. Ashley Newman, Actually,

25
00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,080
Speaker 3: I have a huge intro for you, so bear with us.

26
00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,040
Speaker 3: Ashley Newman is the CEO and founder of Queen of Bud,

27
00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,480
Speaker 3: where they sell cannabis products legally in Canada. Actually is

28
00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,679
Speaker 3: a passionate entrepreneur and founder of the spiritual cannabis brand

29
00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,680
Speaker 3: Queen of Bud. Now. Her devotion to cannabis began when

30
00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,000
Speaker 3: she was looking for a natural, alternative method of treating

31
00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,640
Speaker 3: her indo matrosis. Is that how I say that? How

32
00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:22,400
Speaker 3: do we say that? Metriosis? Thank you? The women's problem there,

33
00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,360
Speaker 3: so women, you guys understand exactly what that is. Since then,

34
00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,920
Speaker 3: cannabis has been a major part of her life and

35
00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,360
Speaker 3: she hopes to break the stigmas surrounding the use of cannabis.

36
00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,039
Speaker 3: Actually was the first female in Canada to open a

37
00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,520
Speaker 3: government approved legal cannabis business, proving of course, that women

38
00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,560
Speaker 3: belong in this industry. Now. Queen of Bud began as

39
00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,040
Speaker 3: one of the first recreational cannabis retailers to open up

40
00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:50,040
Speaker 3: post legalization. In October twenty eighteen. The Queen of Bud

41
00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,640
Speaker 3: brand has always focused on bringing happiness and beauty to

42
00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,960
Speaker 3: the lives of others, and the products serve as a

43
00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,840
Speaker 3: reflection of these ideologies. In December twenty twenty, Queen of

44
00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,520
Speaker 3: Bud cannabis products were introduced for the first time. Each

45
00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,040
Speaker 3: of these products are paired with the crystal, which is

46
00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,959
Speaker 3: so dope as you think about that as a representation

47
00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,240
Speaker 3: of the beauty found within and because they believe the

48
00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,720
Speaker 3: energies we receive from crystals are similar to those we

49
00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,720
Speaker 3: gain from cannabis, and She's gonna explain each of the

50
00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,360
Speaker 3: cannabis as they have the crystals right there for us,

51
00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,920
Speaker 3: and she'll explain all that to us. Each day, Ashley

52
00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,560
Speaker 3: challenges herself to become the best human she can be,

53
00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,440
Speaker 3: to fight for equality and inclusion and bring a little

54
00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,080
Speaker 3: extra love to the lives around her. She is proud

55
00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,520
Speaker 3: to be a part of the industry that is forever

56
00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,440
Speaker 3: growing and changing and to have a role in this

57
00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,880
Speaker 3: moving forward, you guys, Her vision is to change people's lives,

58
00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:50,320
Speaker 3: to heighten connections, moments, memories, and elevate your everyday experiences.

59
00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,280
Speaker 3: To stop and take in the moment, to celebrate where

60
00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,360
Speaker 3: you are to celebrate who you are. This also relates

61
00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:01,920
Speaker 3: to how Ashley's team grows, produces, and manufactures their products.

62
00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,360
Speaker 3: They take pride and their attention to detail, no matter

63
00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,920
Speaker 3: how small, and look at the detail of how this

64
00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:12,040
Speaker 3: table rolled out. She's amazing. They talk about the Queen

65
00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:13,959
Speaker 3: of Bud. She rolled out the whole. She is the

66
00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,240
Speaker 3: Queen of the South, the Queen of Bud. Right here, guys,

67
00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,799
Speaker 3: They thoughtfully and purposely choose their crystals to mirror their cultivars.

68
00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,959
Speaker 3: Energy is everything for them and they believe that their

69
00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000
Speaker 3: cultivars can take on the feelings and energies of its

70
00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,239
Speaker 3: paired crystal. It doesn't matter if you are a daily

71
00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,000
Speaker 3: user or an experimental enthusiast. Queen of Bud is here

72
00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,680
Speaker 3: to educate, welcome, and elevate your smoke. Check out their

73
00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:43,839
Speaker 3: website Queenabudcannabis dot com, are on Instagram Queen of Bud Cannabis.

74
00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,320
Speaker 3: They are currently manufacturing and selling Queena Bud Cannabis products

75
00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,440
Speaker 3: across Canada with great success. Please everybody put your hands

76
00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:56,800
Speaker 3: together for Ashley Newman in the building. Ashley, you come

77
00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,480
Speaker 3: in here looking nothing as to do you guys? Yeah,

78
00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,480
Speaker 3: so do I with her too, like four flats on

79
00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,200
Speaker 3: the cattle dude. So it's funny because Ashy and I

80
00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,080
Speaker 3: have been friends online, stalking each other since she's been

81
00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,960
Speaker 3: honest with Zoom and since twenty twenty we first found her.

82
00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,280
Speaker 3: I don't know how we found you, but we interviewed

83
00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,760
Speaker 3: you online and we've been friends ever since, constantly commenting

84
00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,880
Speaker 3: back and forth, jumping on the phone with each other,

85
00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,560
Speaker 3: and you have been such a friend, Like I look

86
00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:24,960
Speaker 3: at you as my Canadian friend, like my Canadian sister

87
00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,279
Speaker 3: that came to town to where like she came up,

88
00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:29,400
Speaker 3: I got, I'm like, oh my god, Ashley's here, and

89
00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,080
Speaker 3: I was having this feeling like I was having a

90
00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,640
Speaker 3: lot of feelings her boyfriend's here right now. Well, it's

91
00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,640
Speaker 3: not about the love. It's an adopt love dog. It's

92
00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,040
Speaker 3: the sisterly love that I have for because there's nothing

93
00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,039
Speaker 3: been that that we've only been friends online and seeing

94
00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,440
Speaker 3: her two beautiful daughters, and you know, like we just

95
00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,839
Speaker 3: comment on the family things and talk to each other

96
00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,040
Speaker 3: and seeing what you've gone through and then even having

97
00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,400
Speaker 3: conversations of all the bullshit that you've had to go

98
00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,520
Speaker 3: through that we've had like great conversations just on the phone.

99
00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,560
Speaker 3: So I really am so happy that you're here, and

100
00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,440
Speaker 3: you come in looking so daper like I said, Queen

101
00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,520
Speaker 3: of the South, Dadassa. Looking for those who have watched

102
00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,440
Speaker 3: Queen of the South, you guys know what I'm talking about.

103
00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,280
Speaker 3: She's all in white looking like a queen. But you

104
00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,719
Speaker 3: have so much here, so much to talk about. But

105
00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,760
Speaker 3: let's go back and say, how has the brand and

106
00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,560
Speaker 3: where does this come from? Because you started off, I believe,

107
00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,520
Speaker 3: as a dream of opening up a store. Talk about it.

108
00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:28,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, so well, I just wanted to be involved with

109
00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:33,000
Speaker 4: cannabis in some way and the opportunity came up in

110
00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:36,120
Speaker 4: Alberta where you could open cannabis store and it was

111
00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,679
Speaker 4: extremely competitive. I was going up against multi billion dollar

112
00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,440
Speaker 4: companies and to be honest, I really think that I

113
00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,320
Speaker 4: was able to open the store just because I was

114
00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,479
Speaker 4: really nice. I was really nice to the people that

115
00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:54,440
Speaker 4: were doing the approvals. Intention is so important behind anything

116
00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,560
Speaker 4: that you do, and I think the intention was to

117
00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,720
Speaker 4: spread a lot of love and positivity. I've gone through

118
00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:06,080
Speaker 4: a lot, and I've experienced so much pain, and our

119
00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,680
Speaker 4: thoughts really contribute to our perception of reality, and we can,

120
00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,159
Speaker 4: you know, control our thoughts or change them to something

121
00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:19,280
Speaker 4: more positive, which therefore changes our reality. And a negative

122
00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:24,440
Speaker 4: experience can be a beautiful lesson and an opportunity to grow.

123
00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,440
Speaker 4: And I just wanted to spread that message to others

124
00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,599
Speaker 4: because I think cannabis that's kind of what it's all about,

125
00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,720
Speaker 4: is connecting with yourself, connecting with others.

126
00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,479
Speaker 3: You know, like what kind of you know?

127
00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,720
Speaker 2: I know this is going to be like way off track,

128
00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,919
Speaker 2: but like you know, who are you?

129
00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,040
Speaker 3: Right? Like before this, right before cannabis? Like where does

130
00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:44,320
Speaker 3: you know?

131
00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,520
Speaker 2: You know that that compassion come from?

132
00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,800
Speaker 4: Again, I've experienced a lot in life. I think one day,

133
00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:55,880
Speaker 4: one day I'll write a book.

134
00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,599
Speaker 3: Or no, I I want to bring it out, like

135
00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:00,320
Speaker 3: bring it out right now? Yeah?

136
00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, I think I had a little bit of

137
00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,760
Speaker 4: a rough upbringing. We had a little some abuse in

138
00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,120
Speaker 4: our household, and I witnessed my mom go through a

139
00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,320
Speaker 4: lot of difficulties and then I myself went through some

140
00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,200
Speaker 4: of those difficulties and different relationships. And to be honest,

141
00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,320
Speaker 4: who I was. I don't think I knew who I

142
00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,320
Speaker 4: was before I started using cannabis. And that's why I

143
00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,120
Speaker 4: love it, is because I think I discovered myself through

144
00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,440
Speaker 4: the use of cannabis. It calmed my ego, it calmed

145
00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,360
Speaker 4: the mind and allowed me to discover, or I guess,

146
00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,400
Speaker 4: figure out who I wanted to be. Yeah, because it's

147
00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,200
Speaker 4: not who you are. It's like who you want to be, right,

148
00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,640
Speaker 4: You don't attract what you want, you attract who you are.

149
00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,960
Speaker 4: And so I needed to vibrate at that vibration of

150
00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,960
Speaker 4: being able to attract those positive things into my life.

151
00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,680
Speaker 4: And I started using psychedelics a little bit as well,

152
00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,480
Speaker 4: and that really opened up my mind.

153
00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,280
Speaker 3: To like mushrooms or like acid or all of them. Both.

154
00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:04,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, both.

155
00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:05,760
Speaker 3: They weren't good together. I hear.

156
00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,720
Speaker 4: I didn't use them together. I used them separate.

157
00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:13,440
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying I heard try it. You probably should. Yeah,

158
00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,000
Speaker 2: you know, what did you go? What high school did

159
00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:15,240
Speaker 2: you go to?

160
00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,760
Speaker 4: So I went to Bishop Carol and it was interesting.

161
00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,920
Speaker 4: It's a school where and you guys aren't to love this.

162
00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:27,240
Speaker 4: There's no classrooms, there's no teachers. You basically go in

163
00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,320
Speaker 4: and study and then challenge the exams. And so I

164
00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,960
Speaker 4: was able to pass all three grades in a year

165
00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,319
Speaker 4: and a half, which is funny because I got diagnosed

166
00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,800
Speaker 4: with ADHD when I was very little. They said I

167
00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:43,040
Speaker 4: had a learning disability, and I think I just needed

168
00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:47,000
Speaker 4: to figure out how is the best way that I learn?

169
00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,440
Speaker 4: And so that was a really great experience because it

170
00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,320
Speaker 4: wasn't me board in a classroom listening to a teacher

171
00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,600
Speaker 4: go on and on. It was okay, how can I

172
00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,600
Speaker 4: teach myself this information? And it also allowed me because

173
00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,520
Speaker 4: I didn't have to be at school every day. I

174
00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,600
Speaker 4: was already starting, Like I started my first company at seventeen.

175
00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,880
Speaker 4: My mom had to co sign for me. So I

176
00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:11,720
Speaker 4: always had that entrepreneurial spirit. I just didn't know what

177
00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,160
Speaker 4: I wanted to do. And it's not like Queen of

178
00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:15,400
Speaker 4: Bud was the first thing and it.

179
00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:17,840
Speaker 3: Just you probably wanted to.

180
00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,959
Speaker 4: But for ten years I had multiple businesses and ideas

181
00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,560
Speaker 4: and concepts and none of them worked. And I truly

182
00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:28,120
Speaker 4: believe that it was just gaining experience so that I

183
00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,080
Speaker 4: could execute on Queen of Bud.

184
00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,040
Speaker 3: The way that I had. What's your ethnicity?

185
00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,640
Speaker 4: So I am English and German and kind of just

186
00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,200
Speaker 4: a mix of European. But I know I get asked

187
00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:40,760
Speaker 4: that all the time.

188
00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she does have such a look. I got

189
00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,240
Speaker 3: just a different look. And then and your parents are

190
00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,360
Speaker 3: from from where So my.

191
00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,240
Speaker 4: Parents are from Canada, okay, yeah, and then their parents

192
00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,080
Speaker 4: was from English. It's quite born.

193
00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:55,880
Speaker 3: Yeah. You could just hear like if she started talking

194
00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:57,800
Speaker 3: in some accent, you'd be like, oh it's appropriate.

195
00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:58,040
Speaker 4: Yeah.

196
00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,959
Speaker 3: Yeah. She just had this exotic going the right everybody,

197
00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:07,960
Speaker 3: I'll tracks right, and she get to Italian French like

198
00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,720
Speaker 3: you could pass for so many different nationalities. It's just

199
00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,000
Speaker 3: it's awesome. You have this great lift about yourself. I

200
00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,800
Speaker 3: love seeing everything that you put online. Talk about how

201
00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,000
Speaker 3: you got this brand because you're a woman like you.

202
00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,840
Speaker 3: We've said in the intro, the first one to open

203
00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,920
Speaker 3: up a dispensary out there in Canada. That had to

204
00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,520
Speaker 3: be so hard because it wasn't like, oh here's the footprint,

205
00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,240
Speaker 3: let me talk to this lady, let me talk to

206
00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,840
Speaker 3: this group, let me do this. You did it and

207
00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,679
Speaker 3: you were the first. After this break, it's Cannabis Talk

208
00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:35,719
Speaker 3: one on one with Bread Back.

209
00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,440
Speaker 1: Subscribe to our weekly newsletter on our website Cannabis Talk

210
00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:48,560
Speaker 1: one on one dot com.

211
00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:53,280
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Kelly. If that's just full of bronzepectrum,

212
00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,679
Speaker 3: himp extractor products, contake, CBD CBG, it's a thirteen.

213
00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,959
Speaker 5: Hundred other elements. You guys are next arrive stuff. It's

214
00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,280
Speaker 5: just from the hemp, the plant check out, the tastes,

215
00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,439
Speaker 5: the water, the top hours and the bag collections. Go

216
00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,719
Speaker 5: feel the effects with Cali effects. We're sitting here with

217
00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,040
Speaker 5: Ashley Newman. You were the first to open up a

218
00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,479
Speaker 5: place in Calgary, like Calgarry.

219
00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:12,679
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, so our first.

220
00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,160
Speaker 4: Yeah. So it was interesting because Alberta was the first

221
00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,600
Speaker 4: province to figure out how they were going to roll

222
00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:25,400
Speaker 4: out the dispensary model. And I lived in Calgary, Alberta.

223
00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,360
Speaker 4: So that was how I was able to see one

224
00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,280
Speaker 4: of the first slores opened was because they were one

225
00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,120
Speaker 4: of the first cobon places to begin allowing the cannabis

226
00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,320
Speaker 4: the country. So yes, there was no act. They called

227
00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,480
Speaker 4: me their guinea pigs because they didn't even know what

228
00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,200
Speaker 4: the roles were. One day they said our window coverings

229
00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,120
Speaker 4: were fine. The next day they came in and said, oh,

230
00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:46,800
Speaker 4: actually they're not.

231
00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:47,880
Speaker 3: You got to take it down.

232
00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,040
Speaker 4: Our cabinets were good. Then all of a sudden they

233
00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,679
Speaker 4: came in They're like, no, you have to put locks

234
00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,520
Speaker 4: on everything. And so it was kind of like it

235
00:11:55,679 --> 00:12:00,079
Speaker 4: was cool because you got to I guess build I

236
00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,959
Speaker 4: guess be on the forefront of a brand new industry,

237
00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:04,920
Speaker 4: and not many people can say that in their lifetime.

238
00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,920
Speaker 4: Most industries are already established in some capacity. And so

239
00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,640
Speaker 4: I do feel very grateful to have been born in Canada,

240
00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,880
Speaker 4: to have this opportunity as a female, and to be

241
00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,240
Speaker 4: one of the first. And the only reason that I

242
00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,440
Speaker 4: was one of the first was because there's so many

243
00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,800
Speaker 4: people that helped me along the way. I mean, the

244
00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:28,040
Speaker 4: day before my store was supposed to open, the City

245
00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,080
Speaker 4: of Calgary so you had to have a development permit

246
00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,920
Speaker 4: that was approved, and so I applied for the development

247
00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,479
Speaker 4: permit and if you got that, which was very competitive

248
00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,679
Speaker 4: to try and get one, But again I think a

249
00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:41,760
Speaker 4: little bit of luck had something to do with it.

250
00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,079
Speaker 4: But they phoned the City of Calgary phoned me, and

251
00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:49,920
Speaker 4: the EGLC, which is the government body that would approve

252
00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,319
Speaker 4: your cannabis store and give you a license for one,

253
00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:54,960
Speaker 4: they phoned me the day before we were supposed to open.

254
00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,679
Speaker 4: I had everything ready to go and they said, oh,

255
00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,079
Speaker 4: you're going to have to start your application again. And

256
00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,640
Speaker 4: I said, what do you mean, because you're like, yeah, yeah,

257
00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,920
Speaker 4: And I had been working on this since February and

258
00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:09,480
Speaker 4: This is in October, so almost a year. I had

259
00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,920
Speaker 4: been working on the due diligence and building the store

260
00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,040
Speaker 4: of year, Yeah, and trying to find an investor, and

261
00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,319
Speaker 4: and that would in itself was quite difficult because everyone

262
00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,040
Speaker 4: was quite weary on what the industry was going to

263
00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:25,719
Speaker 4: look like, and so that Yeah, the address on the

264
00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,160
Speaker 4: development permit didn't match what the AHLC had because originally

265
00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,079
Speaker 4: when we leased the building, it was one building, but

266
00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,480
Speaker 4: then we divided it into two separate buildings, and so

267
00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,080
Speaker 4: the address changed, and they said, I'm sorry, you're going

268
00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:40,079
Speaker 4: to have to start your application.

269
00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:41,480
Speaker 3: Why did you separate it?

270
00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,800
Speaker 4: Uh, the it was just too big. It was a

271
00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,160
Speaker 4: massive building, like six or seven thousand square feet and

272
00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,640
Speaker 4: we just didn't need that big of a store that much.

273
00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:53,120
Speaker 4: So we divided it into two and then that changed

274
00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:53,720
Speaker 4: the address.

275
00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,839
Speaker 2: And uh so at first I changed your address, you

276
00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:58,959
Speaker 2: didn't change the other one, right, right? That was the

277
00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,600
Speaker 2: application was on the other address, gotcha, Yeah, makes sense.

278
00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:04,199
Speaker 2: Why did they just say we'll just change it for

279
00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:05,680
Speaker 2: you and change the address. They want you to redo

280
00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,640
Speaker 2: the whole vacation, which just meant changed the address.

281
00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it scared it.

282
00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,160
Speaker 4: Really scared me and the AHLC was they were not

283
00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,160
Speaker 4: going to help at all, and so I phoned the

284
00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,920
Speaker 4: city at Calgary and I got this lovely woman. She

285
00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,160
Speaker 4: didn't know me, shouldn't know my story, and I just said, listen,

286
00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,640
Speaker 4: you have the ability to change my life right now,

287
00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,440
Speaker 4: and it would mean the world to me. I've struggled

288
00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:31,480
Speaker 4: for so long and like, please do mother, two daughters,

289
00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,080
Speaker 4: come on, give me, can you help me out? And

290
00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:35,800
Speaker 4: she did and she changed it and I was able

291
00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,520
Speaker 4: to get the paperwork over to the AHLC and got

292
00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,000
Speaker 4: to open. But there's I mean, that's just one example.

293
00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,840
Speaker 4: There's probably twenty different things that went wrong, and there's

294
00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:47,120
Speaker 4: still always something kind of going wrong. But now I've

295
00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,160
Speaker 4: just looked at it as this is all happening for

296
00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,120
Speaker 4: me to help me to grow. There's a lesson in this,

297
00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,520
Speaker 4: and the quicker you learn the lesson and figure out

298
00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,920
Speaker 4: the lesson, the quicker it'll go away. The more that

299
00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,280
Speaker 4: we kind of fight it and you don't learn lessons,

300
00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,720
Speaker 4: and the universe just seems to keep it gets bigger

301
00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:05,520
Speaker 4: and bigger. Should remind us.

302
00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,200
Speaker 3: Yes, course that's the world in the nutshell, and it is.

303
00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,800
Speaker 3: It's always like there's a blessing and everything that happens

304
00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,400
Speaker 3: for some weird reason, somehow, some way, hopefully we find

305
00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:15,000
Speaker 3: out what it is.

306
00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:19,160
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes when when you lose something or you you

307
00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,080
Speaker 2: get buried, essentially you're actually just read putting a new

308
00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:24,960
Speaker 2: seed so that the new route can start right and

309
00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:25,960
Speaker 2: something else can grow.

310
00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,360
Speaker 3: And a lot of things have grown out of Queena

311
00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,440
Speaker 3: Bud from when you first started, because now you're pairrying

312
00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,800
Speaker 3: all these crystals. You have a line of so many

313
00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,880
Speaker 3: great products on the website that I see here. I mean,

314
00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:39,920
Speaker 3: I even love the quizzes that you can take on

315
00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,600
Speaker 3: your website for the crystals of what you're going through

316
00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:43,960
Speaker 3: and what you need to go through. But you have

317
00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,640
Speaker 3: candles talk about the different things that you have here

318
00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,160
Speaker 3: and that you've grown to so much. Yeah.

319
00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,280
Speaker 4: So in Canada, as you probably are aware, it's very

320
00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,800
Speaker 4: strict the rules and regulations, and so I would say

321
00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,120
Speaker 4: that the brand is built on me being.

322
00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:00,800
Speaker 3: Told no numerous times.

323
00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so me just kind of redirecting. And so

324
00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,000
Speaker 4: Health Canada states that you cannot make a claim about

325
00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,840
Speaker 4: your products, you cannot create an emotional reaction with your products,

326
00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:18,560
Speaker 4: and so it's very strict on what you can say

327
00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,000
Speaker 4: and how you can market, and that's why so many

328
00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,520
Speaker 4: cannabis brands have failed. Even some of the biggest in

329
00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,280
Speaker 4: the US have tried to enter Canada and failed because

330
00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,200
Speaker 4: it's just it's impossible to market. And so I wanted

331
00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:35,280
Speaker 4: to think of a way that I could, really I

332
00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,640
Speaker 4: do want to bring emotion to cannabis, because that's what

333
00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:42,280
Speaker 4: it is. It's about connection and intention. And so the

334
00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,240
Speaker 4: crystals it kind of fit well with. I mean, it

335
00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,640
Speaker 4: just clicked in my mind in the moment. As a

336
00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:49,960
Speaker 4: little kid, I'd always go to the crystal store, and

337
00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,040
Speaker 4: I always believe that it had magical powers, and not

338
00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,440
Speaker 4: that the crystals had magical powers per se, but my

339
00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:01,680
Speaker 4: mind had the power to focus on that intention, and

340
00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,359
Speaker 4: I guess kind of make that my reality in the moment.

341
00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:10,119
Speaker 2: And so many women embrace the crystals and and they

342
00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,919
Speaker 2: tend to make turn the men I believe because I mean, well,

343
00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,480
Speaker 2: women have brought it into my life.

344
00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:16,080
Speaker 3: Let me say this.

345
00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,480
Speaker 2: Women have brought it into my life and and made

346
00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,239
Speaker 2: it intentional in my home, you know, Like I've had

347
00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:22,919
Speaker 2: women come over and be like, Hey, I'm gonna put

348
00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,639
Speaker 2: this crystal up here above your door, like it means something,

349
00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,400
Speaker 2: you know, And I'm like, cool, and then.

350
00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,080
Speaker 3: I'm gonna my daughter's done that.

351
00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,680
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's just I mean, you know, I'm single,

352
00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:32,840
Speaker 2: so I just have girlfriends coming.

353
00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:35,720
Speaker 3: Yeah.

354
00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,040
Speaker 2: But but you know, with that being said, though, it's

355
00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:39,879
Speaker 2: it's been kind of cool though to kind of get

356
00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,399
Speaker 2: that vibe. And when I've seen it right now, I

357
00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,280
Speaker 2: fisit like I snapped a shot of it and I

358
00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:45,600
Speaker 2: was like, oh, that's dope, because you know, I haven't

359
00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,159
Speaker 2: seen it paired with cannabis, you know, and and I

360
00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:50,360
Speaker 2: like even, you know, just just I just haven't seen

361
00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,720
Speaker 2: anybody trying to put you know, anything together like that

362
00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:57,560
Speaker 2: and just your your whole Like everything about vibe has

363
00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:02,280
Speaker 2: got like its own like therapeutic already. I want to say,

364
00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,360
Speaker 2: I don't want to say women. I want to say

365
00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,040
Speaker 2: very therapeutic, elegant.

366
00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:10,480
Speaker 3: It's sexy, beautiful. Yeah, it's different. You know, it's not

367
00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,680
Speaker 3: like here's a backwaed you know. Well, dude, don't get

368
00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:16,280
Speaker 3: me wrong, but I mean this is like, well I

369
00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:18,720
Speaker 3: got the education earlier. Please share it with the listeners

370
00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:20,760
Speaker 3: in blue, the pairing that you've done and how you

371
00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,400
Speaker 3: did this crystals to the cannabis brands that you have yeah,

372
00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,280
Speaker 3: so with you can.

373
00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,840
Speaker 4: You can't make claims about cult of our product, but

374
00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,400
Speaker 4: you can make claims about a crystal. And so that's

375
00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,560
Speaker 4: allowed me to market in ways that I can compete

376
00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,480
Speaker 4: with the larger companies that have billions of dollars when

377
00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,760
Speaker 4: it's just me, I have, you know, nothing, But I

378
00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,359
Speaker 4: was able to compete with them because I can market

379
00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:45,040
Speaker 4: in a way that they cannot. It doesn't matter how

380
00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,080
Speaker 4: much money you have. If you can't market your brand,

381
00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:52,080
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. But the so a venturing for instance,

382
00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:57,320
Speaker 4: that's going to be our most energetic products, the amethyst

383
00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,800
Speaker 4: that's specifically for our CBD products, and that has the

384
00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,639
Speaker 4: intention of confidence, of entering, has the intention of optimism.

385
00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,800
Speaker 4: Rose Courts has the intention of love, so when we consume.

386
00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,160
Speaker 4: When I worked at the cannabis dispensary, we there's what's

387
00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,040
Speaker 4: called a QCW, which is a certification to work at

388
00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,320
Speaker 4: the store. But because I was one of the first,

389
00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,320
Speaker 4: no one had that qualification. So I had to be

390
00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,479
Speaker 4: the bud tender and open the store and be there

391
00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,159
Speaker 4: every day, which was such a blessing because I got

392
00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,720
Speaker 4: to hear what the customers wanted and the biggest complaint

393
00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:35,040
Speaker 4: that I got was that cannabis makes me paranoid and

394
00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,919
Speaker 4: it stresses me out, and that was kind of their concern,

395
00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,440
Speaker 4: and I thought, Okay, well that's like a mindset thing.

396
00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,080
Speaker 4: So how do you change people's mindsets so they're in

397
00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,680
Speaker 4: a place to consume cannabis and really get the most

398
00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,200
Speaker 4: out of that experience. So when you consume Rose Courts,

399
00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:51,840
Speaker 4: we want you to write down five things that you

400
00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 4: really love about yourself, that you really love about being alive,

401
00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,160
Speaker 4: and just focus on something a little bit more positive,

402
00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,239
Speaker 4: and that in itself will make your cannabis experience more

403
00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:02,120
Speaker 4: positive as well.

404
00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,680
Speaker 3: So gratitude, I love it, Yeah, And what about the

405
00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:06,840
Speaker 3: other ones? Explain the other ones?

406
00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,960
Speaker 4: So Shun Guide is for gratitude, as you just said,

407
00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,679
Speaker 4: So that one's going to be our products that are

408
00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,160
Speaker 4: more of a body high but your mind is clear.

409
00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,880
Speaker 4: And then you have Blue Topaz it's for serenity. That's

410
00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,720
Speaker 4: our most relaxing line of products. Totally indoica leaning. But

411
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,119
Speaker 4: I don't really like saying sativa indicico because everything's been

412
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,840
Speaker 4: crossed so many times. It's technically a hybrid, and so

413
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,480
Speaker 4: I wanted to bring not just a sophistication to cannabis,

414
00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,960
Speaker 4: but also to spirituality and to I guess find a

415
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:43,480
Speaker 4: solution for people labeling things into caar sativa. But there's

416
00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:48,480
Speaker 4: so many more characteristics about a cultivar that should be mentioned,

417
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:49,400
Speaker 4: and that's.

418
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,879
Speaker 3: What we kind of I love that because a lot

419
00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,960
Speaker 3: of people high behind that that reality. It's true.

420
00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:59,200
Speaker 2: Like I mean, if you know, you know, everything's a hybrid.

421
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,480
Speaker 2: Now it's almost important. It's almost like people, you know

422
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,160
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like we're all pretty much hybrids.

423
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,240
Speaker 6: They're not just one Puerto Rican I mean, yeah, exactly,

424
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,160
Speaker 6: I'm German, Puerto Rican and you know, Mussian.

425
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:11,440
Speaker 4: You know.

426
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 3: It's like, how how did that happen? I don't know,

427
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:15,480
Speaker 3: but it's what it is when you do the DNA

428
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:16,920
Speaker 3: tests and it breaks down all these other things.

429
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:18,640
Speaker 4: Love it's connected.

430
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well it's it's a bond through through years

431
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,200
Speaker 2: and years of growth. And I think that's what you know,

432
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,879
Speaker 2: this plant also brings to a lot of people. Now

433
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 2: what is this over here that I'm looking at? This

434
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 2: is this you know, perfume line, colone line?

435
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 4: What is this? Yeah, so it's not a perfume line

436
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 4: or colone line. All it is is that again at

437
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 4: the store, level, we'd have different licensed producers come in

438
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,240
Speaker 4: and hand out swag, so everyone was handing out T

439
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,119
Speaker 4: shirts and hats. And when you get twenty T shirts

440
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 4: or hats every single time you walk into a cannabis store,

441
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,879
Speaker 4: it doesn't really stand out anymore. And so everything that

442
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 4: Queena Bud does has to be unique in something that

443
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,119
Speaker 4: no one's done. So that's literally just our swag that

444
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:57,040
Speaker 4: we hand out for free.

445
00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,119
Speaker 3: It's huge. I know it's not word it smells like

446
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 3: it's for women, but I feel like I still put

447
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 3: it off. I know she said I got perfume. I

448
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 3: joined this today. Is that what you were today? Is

449
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 3: that perfume or was that clone?

450
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:12,400
Speaker 4: So that one's a unisex you know, procket.

451
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 3: And then not only that, you have such amazing gear.

452
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 3: Two in candles. I mean, I guess it goes hand

453
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 3: in hand with the crystals, but what made you get

454
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:21,920
Speaker 3: into the candles and what's in them?

455
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,439
Speaker 4: Yeah? So in Canada again, because the rules are so strict,

456
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,880
Speaker 4: you weren't allowed to sell anything at a cannabis store

457
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 4: that wasn't a cannabis products. You weren't allowed to sell

458
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 4: T shirts and hats or anything outside of it. Yes, yeah,

459
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 4: which it led to kind of the downfall of the

460
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 4: retail industry, and why we got out of it was

461
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,440
Speaker 4: because you couldn't differentiate yourself outside of price point, and

462
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,119
Speaker 4: eventually someone will always be willing to go lower than you,

463
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 4: and the publicly traded companies are willing to lose a

464
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 4: lot of money in order to gain that market share,

465
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,880
Speaker 4: and so it was a little bit disappointing, and they've

466
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 4: changed it since. I'm a bit big advocate for the

467
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 4: industry and work closely with the government, and I'm so

468
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 4: happy that they're starting to listen to me on a

469
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,119
Speaker 4: few things. But the candles were just a way of

470
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 4: creating a Queena Bud shop that had products outside of

471
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 4: cannabis that therefore could market the cannabis products in a

472
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 4: way that we could not because of the strict regulations

473
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 4: and the smoke eliminating candles. I mean, it just kind

474
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 4: of it was just something I wanted. Everything about this

475
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 4: brand is authentic to me and something that I would

476
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 4: use myself, and the esthetic is very Again, I just

477
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 4: wanted to bring a little bit of sophistication and class

478
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 4: to the cannabis industry because cannabis is so beautiful and

479
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 4: it deserves to be represented in that light.

480
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you do. You bring that light so strong.

481
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 3: And you just alluded to the store being shut down.

482
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 3: That's why that was in the stores and you couldn't

483
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 3: sell products there? What was it in that Canada place

484
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 3: that like, cause you go to dispensers here, you're buying bags,

485
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,679
Speaker 3: you're buying hat. You got all time stuff in these

486
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 3: stores right the back door, the front door exactly, you

487
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 3: buying a bootleg one next door as well in the

488
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 3: parking lot that Toya Bed talk about some of the COSFLA,

489
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 3: the bad things that we've had conversations about on the

490
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 3: phone that you know, whether it's fortunate unfortunate that you

491
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 3: had to shut down the store, but then you kept

492
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 3: the brand and other brands thriving and you're selling it

493
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 3: and other stores like what was it about the government

494
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 3: that allowed that to do that to all these other stores?

495
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 4: So when we opened up the Calgary store, my initial

496
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 4: plan was, oh, we're going to expand retail. So we

497
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 4: had one in Siscatchan, Saskatchewan, and then one in Toronto.

498
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 4: We opened up those stores and quickly I saw the

499
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 4: industry changing. So we actually sold off those stores, and

500
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 4: because at the time I did a partnership with a

501
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 4: licensed producer that they didn't even really have a facility.

502
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 4: They were just getting started. And I decided to partner

503
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 4: with them because I felt that they could grow superior quality.

504
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 3: And I was right.

505
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 4: And I think that that's what helped Queen a bud

506
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 4: To I guess, gain respect in the community because in

507
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 4: Canada there was such a lack of quality. The big

508
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 4: companies were so focused on yield and getting product out,

509
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 4: they weren't concerned at all about quality in the details.

510
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 4: This is a plant. You can't rush it. You can't

511
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,360
Speaker 4: skip those. Skip those.

512
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 2: It's like fresh meat, like if you're if you meet

513
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 2: you know, you like a good cut versus just getting

514
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like there's there's a lot to that.

515
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, uh, beauty takes you know, takes time,

516
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 2: I guess, especially on a plant.

517
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 4: But it's expensive.

518
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 3: But it costs more costs that's okay. We were willing

519
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 3: to pay that.

520
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you're curing the product for ten days, or

521
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 4: your hand trimming or your hand packaging like we'd Actually

522
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 4: it was very important to me that people got one

523
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 4: big nug in a three point five gram container, so

524
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 4: we actually hand a way exactly three point six gram

525
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 4: nugs and when there wasn't any more left, we stopped

526
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 4: uh creating that format in the pre rolls. We would

527
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 4: never use shake or trim. The big companies like, why

528
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 4: are you doing that? Like you know it doesn't make sense.

529
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 3: This is what people want, so it's.

530
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 4: Going to burn. I mean for three months, I test

531
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:12,679
Speaker 4: out different papers, filter sizes, every detail of this product mattered.

532
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 4: But it mattered to me because I'm a consumer, a

533
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 4: daily consumer, and a lot of these companies, like one

534
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 4: of the largest companies in Canada, their CEO reached out

535
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 4: to me. I'd never met him before, and he wanted

536
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 4: to have a meeting. And he goes, I hear that

537
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 4: you're like the expert in cannabis, so why isn't our

538
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 4: brand selling? And I said, well, I think you.

539
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 3: Give me a couple hundred grand our company.

540
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 4: I've never charged. I have never charged. I held hundreds

541
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 4: of stores open. I've consulted for some of the biggest

542
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 4: companies in Canada and I've never charged.

543
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 2: Because we should do an education platform rocher because I

544
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 2: just right, it's.

545
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 4: More important to me that that we evolve the industry

546
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 4: as a whole versus money. I've never been in this

547
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 4: for money. I don't care about it.

548
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 2: It's well, let me say this money comes when you

549
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: don't care, right, Yeah. So I get that part of

550
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 2: it too, Okay, you know, and I know that. So

551
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 2: but but at the end of the day, you know,

552
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 2: our whole ecosystem, including the plant, is revolved around money.

553
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 2: And it's not a bad thing to talk about it,

554
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 2: I think, you know, but I do understand the compassion.

555
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 2: I do understand that you have the care and communicate,

556
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 2: you know, follow up all these things that really do matter,

557
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 2: that actually mattered more than the money, because the money

558
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 2: is a byproduct of all those other things.

559
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 4: Well, and if you're in it for the right reasons

560
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,959
Speaker 4: and you have an intention, energy can't be faked as

561
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 4: much as you can try and fake it to other

562
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 4: people the universe, and it just knows.

563
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

564
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 4: And so I think that I've been quite lucky or

565
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 4: always gotten what I needed to continue going because I'm

566
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 4: in it for the right reasons. And so when the

567
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 4: CEO reached out to me, I sat down with him

568
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 4: and I said, well, I know you're selling, you're buying

569
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 4: B to B product, you're not growing it anymore because

570
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 4: when you were growing it, it was a different level

571
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 4: of quality. And now I feel like you're rushing it

572
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 4: and I can tell. And then he actually asked me,

573
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 4: and I said, I don't think your THHC is high enough.

574
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 4: Your terpeens and he asked me what THHC was And

575
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 4: I thought you were one of the biggest companies in

576
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 4: Canada and you and he's never consumed cannabis. He didn't

577
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 4: know what THHD was. How do you create a product

578
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 4: when you don't even understand that the product, let alone

579
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 4: the consumer. And that is and unfortunately in Canada, and

580
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 4: this is very disappointing because of the rules and regulations

581
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 4: that the Canadian government put in place. It wiped out

582
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 4: a lot of the passionate people because the corporate guys

583
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 4: didn't want to deal with passionate people like me that

584
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 4: are telling them to take more time and these details matter.

585
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 4: It's annoying for them.

586
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 3: They look at bottom line and what numbers and production

587
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 3: and just know, we want people to buy it whatever. Yeah,

588
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 3: that's it. That's dollars and cents.

589
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 4: For them, right, And that's why I'm one of the

590
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 4: only founders left anymore, is because all of the other

591
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 4: founders have even either been pushed out or bought out,

592
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 4: and now you're kind of left with this whole corporate

593
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 4: world of people that don't have never even consumed cannabis.

594
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 3: And why the name Queena Bud? How did that come about?

595
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 4: You know? I wish I could give you, like a

596
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 4: really cool explanation. I was just smoking weed in my

597
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 4: grade one day and I thought, oh, if I could

598
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 4: one to open a dispensary, I'd call it Queena Bud.

599
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 4: And do you know when something just comes to you

600
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 4: and you don't know how it came to you?

601
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 2: Cannabis talk one on one, Yeah, the world's number one

602
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 2: source for everything cannabis exactly.

603
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. And even the logo and yeah,

604
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 4: I don't know, it just kind of all came to me.

605
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 4: I truly believe that this is kind of my purpose

606
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 4: and I think I can spread a lot of good

607
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 4: and a lot of positivity through this brand. And so yeah,

608
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 4: I think you already has come.

609
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 2: You know, first of all, congratulations, you already have, right,

610
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 2: I mean, for you, I know what it takes to

611
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: have one of these products, let alone all of them.

612
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 2: I know what it takes to you know, put these

613
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: bags together, from the time and energy that it takes

614
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 2: to put these table tents and then actually put them up,

615
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 2: set them up places and put them places, you know,

616
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 2: and I know what and when it hurts, you know,

617
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 2: when it doesn't work, you know, and you have to

618
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 2: turn around and do it harder, you know, and you

619
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 2: don't give up, and and and and and so, and

620
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 2: then you end up in places like this and like that.

621
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I I know you know what it's

622
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: like because I'm here doing this with my partners and

623
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 2: my family and my friends, and we get to suffer

624
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 2: and go through those same emotions and feelings. So you know,

625
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 2: congratulations on everything you've done. And you know, I just

626
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 2: being a woman in cannabis, we need more women like you,

627
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 2: and I sincerely mean this to step up, step out

628
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,719
Speaker 2: and give us just because this feels great, I mean,

629
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 2: this feels feel felt emotional like it's so exactly does

630
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 2: it really agree with you?

631
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 3: It gets you emotional? Like you when when you took

632
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 3: the picture over there right now, when I said that,

633
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 3: I knew that I sent it to every known and

634
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 3: not only that, I'm like, look, baby, I need to

635
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 3: because I follow her online and I would just stalk

636
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 3: her borderline and knowing how her energy is and what

637
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 3: she is out. Yeah, and that's what she does. If

638
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 3: you got to go to Queena Butter and eg, She's

639
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 3: always doing things like this. And it's that same feeling

640
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 3: that I get when I see you online, right and

641
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 3: even your pictures you take and just the way you

642
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 3: promote your brand, it just feels so beautiful like you

643
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 3: just care. You put that extra time, you know, and

644
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 3: I feel that and to look at it and tell

645
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,719
Speaker 3: and I know what it's like. You know what I mean.

646
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 3: Look around Hell we care, clearly we care. And to

647
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 3: think like you went the extra mile. I've never seen

648
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 3: anybody have their own Rose dealer where you have the

649
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 3: red the red and what is this red Rose dealer about?

650
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 3: And what is red Jasper exactly? I want you to

651
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 3: explain it to yeh.

652
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 4: So Red Jasper is a crystal knowing to ignite passion

653
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 4: and intimacy and connection and so again. And you can't

654
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 4: make claims like that in Canada about a product, but

655
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 4: you can make a claim about a crystal. And so

656
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 4: the Red Jasper line. I saw someone have a rose

657
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 4: petal blunt once, but it wasn't made out of actual roses,

658
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 4: which I didn't like. It had like some flavor of rose.

659
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 4: And again, oddly enough, I was somehow connected with David

660
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 4: and we just hit it off. And so now in

661
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 4: Canada you can buy are rose petal candagars infused with diamonds,

662
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 4: are rose petal blunts for lovers, and then now are

663
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 4: mini roses and they're yeah, they're all infused with diamonds

664
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 4: and have a specific terpene profile that is too supposed

665
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 4: to increase one's level of passion and intimacy.

666
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 3: And it's real roses, and it's real roses.

667
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 4: And on top of that, so I actually looked for

668
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 4: two and a half years a lot of these products

669
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 4: that you see. Nothing has just been like, oh, we

670
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 4: should do this, and it happens overnight. I mean those roses,

671
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 4: I serve for two and a half years to find

672
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:07,959
Speaker 4: someone that could create quality and that it was. It's

673
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 4: certified organic and they're washed and filtered water, there's no pesticides,

674
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 4: no chemicals, and this is something that's like safe for

675
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 4: people to smoke and consume slow burning. Uh, and so yeah,

676
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 4: again it took a very long time, but I'm so grateful.

677
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 4: I'm so happy that we got to bring them to market.

678
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 4: We also have cammeal petals, we have hbiscus and lotus flowers,

679
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 4: and so it's really allowed and thank you to David

680
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 4: and CALLI green Gold, because it's really allowed me to

681
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,719
Speaker 4: differentiate our brand in with those products because no one

682
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 4: else has anything like it.

683
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never seen anything like that.

684
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 4: Dealing with my dealer only and not only that.

685
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 3: He came in here with his pink hat on his

686
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 3: pink shirt. He's got a whole show coming. He's product.

687
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 3: He is killing it. It it easy. Let me tell you, Hey, Yeah,

688
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 3: I love this box right here. After this break, it's

689
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 3: Cannabis Talk one on one. We'll be right back yet.

690
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: Make sure you like, follow and subscribe to Cannabis Talk

691
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: one on one.

692
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 3: Now now back to the number one cannabis show on

693
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 3: the planet.

694
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: You know what get Now back to the number one

695
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: cannabis showing the universe, Cannabis Talk one one.

696
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 3: Are you ready to live the life you crave? You guys?

697
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 3: At Elevation Nations there created a community. We're Authenticity in

698
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 3: the Adventure Meet Curiosity of Space for members to explore

699
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 3: culinary adventure, travel, cannabis, wine, culture, and unforgettable experiences, providing

700
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 3: access to an exceptional life full of elevated and inspired

701
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 3: seasons at Elevation Nations. Membership is the key to having

702
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 3: at all. Visit Elevation Nations dot com to discover new possibilities.

703
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 3: Now as I'm reading this Blue right now, in my head,

704
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 3: I'm going, yes, you already know where I'm going with it, right,

705
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 3: you already know where I'm exactly. This is a what

706
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 3: Queen of Bud is in my opinion, actually new It's

707
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 3: it's like your product that could be in a high

708
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 3: end hotel first off, you know what I mean, or

709
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 3: any hotel for that matter, but I feel like it's

710
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 3: very high end. As Blue mentions, what's in this box,

711
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 3: and we'll get to that box because that type of box,

712
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:23,479
Speaker 3: your type of products, your candle, your crystal, your bag,

713
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 3: even for God's sakes, is gonna be here.

714
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 6: Is It's gonna be on the bed when you walk

715
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 6: into your nice hotel when they were partying.

716
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 3: On this one last night. But you know what I mean,

717
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 3: it's yeah, you just have such a classy good look

718
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 3: that I can just see your stuff being like when

719
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 3: I go to Mexico and I go for my honeymoon,

720
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 3: it's like boom, oh, I'd like to order the Queen

721
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 3: of Bud for my bride, the whatever, the rose petal

722
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 3: blunt for us to smoke.

723
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 4: So it's funny. A lot of people consider Queen a

724
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 4: Bud a female brand, and sixty percent of our customers

725
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 4: are males. No, of course, listen, beautiful things too, and

726
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 4: everyone wants to connect with their soul, with their true essence,

727
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 4: and this kind of reminds them who they are outside

728
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 4: of I guess life.

729
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like like right here, you got an energy chart, right,

730
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 2: it gives you kind of like the how these the

731
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 2: different crystals crystals work and that pairs with your cannabis

732
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 2: right crash.

733
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 4: Yeah er relaxing to energetic and everything in.

734
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 2: Between, right because you're selling the crystal to them and

735
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 2: they're getting the flower or they're getting the flower with

736
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 2: the crystal comes for free or how does that work?

737
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 4: So howth Canada does not allow us to sell anything

738
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 4: with other than the cannabis with the with the product.

739
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 4: But it's the terpene profile. So the terpene profile affects.

740
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 4: When I was at the dispensary, I try and explain

741
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 4: terpenes because it's so important, like more important than THHC,

742
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 4: more important than anything, and they were so overwhelmed and

743
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 4: confused by it. And so I really wanted to simplify

744
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 4: the how we see terpenes. And so we pair theine profile,

745
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 4: which is the effects to the crystal.

746
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 3: Gotcha. So you're just explaining it better that way.

747
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 4: So if it's very relaxing and sedative and that's the

748
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 4: terpene profile, it's going to be paid, it's going to

749
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 4: be paired with blue topaz and the intention is serenity.

750
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 4: So we really want you to like, that's a perfect

751
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 4: line of products to meditate and relax and yeah, and

752
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 4: the box, yes, yes, okay, so the box is uh,

753
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 4: I just I no one had not a lot of

754
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 4: people had done, I guess like an accessory box, at

755
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 4: least in Canada, and and all of the ones that

756
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 4: were out were kind of like not that beautiful looking,

757
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 4: and so uh yeah, that was just something I designed.

758
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 4: I drew out everything and then I partnered with High Tide,

759
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 4: so Cannacabana, they're a large company in Canada. Raj is

760
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 4: a friend of mine, and yeah, we decided to collaborate

761
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 4: and make this box and then it sold out like

762
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 4: crazy and everyone loved it, and so now we're doing

763
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 4: some more accessories and what is really So we started

764
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 4: off as retail, then we became an lp SO, a grower,

765
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 4: and then in August of twenty twenty two, I felt

766
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 4: really I worked so hard to be financially independent, and

767
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 4: because I had this board of all males, I just

768
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 4: couldn't do what I wanted to do with the brand

769
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 4: because they obviously it's more corporate, right they They're like.

770
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 3: Oh, Ashley, your dream of bib. Yeah, They're like, no,

771
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 3: but for real work, it'll work listen.

772
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 4: And so yeah, some pretty crazy stuff went on there,

773
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 4: and at the time I thought, oh my gosh, like

774
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 4: this is just over, Like this is the worst thing

775
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 4: that could be happening. But what I didn't see is

776
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 4: it was the best thing that could have happened because

777
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 4: through all of that, my investor, we had one investor,

778
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 4: He was so kind. I think he felt bad for

779
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 4: certain things that went on, and he gave me the

780
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 4: brand back and they'd pay a lot of money for it.

781
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 4: So he gave me the brand back and I became

782
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 4: the sole owner of Queena bud and so what I

783
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 4: wanted to do is collaborate with other companies. I started

784
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 4: seeing that, as I said before, it's very difficult to

785
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 4: build a cannabis brand. It's expensive and it's hard, and

786
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 4: it's it's tough to be good at everything, to be

787
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 4: the best at vapes, the best at whole Flower, the

788
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 4: best at pre rolls, the best at edibles. And so

789
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 4: I thought, you know what, I think the only way

790
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 4: to really build a cannabis brand in this climate is

791
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 4: to collaborate with other companies that are the best in

792
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 4: that category. They put up the resources, the and they

793
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 4: already figured it out. Yeah, and then I just get

794
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 4: a royalty on the gross sales. And so what's beautiful

795
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,959
Speaker 4: about that is there's most cannabis companies have a team

796
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 4: of fifty to one hundred people that are just in

797
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 4: marketing alone. I do ever thing myself, the website, every accessory,

798
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 4: the candles, the manufacturing, the photography, the videoography, the sales.

799
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 4: I don't pay for shelf space in Canada, as you

800
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 4: would assume, just like grocery stores, you say, hey, I'll

801
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 4: pay you this much money to carry my product. The

802
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 4: problem with that is that the cannabis margins are already

803
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 4: so tight. So yes, you're moving product and perhaps gaining

804
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 4: market share, but there's no profitability in it. Yeah, and

805
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 4: so this way you're kind of spreading the resources and

806
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 4: the I guess the financial stress to a variety of

807
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 4: different companies. But what's really beautiful about that is these

808
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 4: companies are all competing with one another and it's very competitive,

809
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 4: and but yet when it comes to Queen a Bud,

810
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 4: they're all building a brand together. This is not my brand,

811
00:40:54,160 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 4: this is the entire Canadian cannabis industries collaboration and deciding

812
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:05,280
Speaker 4: to work towards a common goal and to build something

813
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 4: as a team. That's what cannabis is about is unity

814
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 4: and togetherness, and so that's I think what I'm most

815
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 4: proud of when it comes to this brand is the

816
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 4: fact that how many people it's brought together, and that

817
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 4: people that are perhaps competing on another level are now

818
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 4: working towards the same goal.

819
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 3: And not only that, they're working with you, which is

820
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 3: a testimonial of who you are as a person, right because,

821
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 3: like utilizing what you just said, you're not trying to

822
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 3: become the best at everything. You're going to work with

823
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 3: the best of everyone and say, hey, let's utilize my

824
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 3: brand that has a great name for it. Your product

825
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 3: has a great product line, and let's put my name

826
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 3: on your product, and let's all make some money off this. Yeah,

827
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 3: and it's like working together. I don't I don't like her.

828
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 3: I love her, right, dude. And I remember when she

829
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 3: told me that story on the phone. I was at

830
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 3: the gas station when like that part of that story

831
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 3: hit like I remember hearing this from you, when you're

832
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 3: like Joe, I figured this, I'm going to be working

833
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 3: with it. You're working with so many amazing people that

834
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 3: it just goes to show you. And that's what I

835
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 3: want the listeners to realize is who they are. Are

836
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 3: you producing this in Cali? Not yet.

837
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 4: We are in the process of signing a deal with

838
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 4: one of the largest licensed producers and cannabis companies in

839
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 4: the US as well as Germany.

840
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 3: Okay, I can't say yeah, yeah.

841
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 4: But I will as soon as I can. You know,

842
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 4: I'll fill you.

843
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, come back on, give you another reason

844
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 3: I need to be back on this. So let's go

845
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 3: and talk about to how the people out there in

846
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 3: Canada perceive this product. Is it what we all feel

847
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 3: right now? Is it this elegance? Like you said, the

848
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 3: majority of your buyers though, are male. Are you getting

849
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 3: to support though from the female clientele or the people

850
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 3: just out there loving it and saying, oh thank you, Ashley?

851
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 4: It shocks me, Like actually, I was just with my

852
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 4: daughter before we were flying here, and I had to

853
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 4: go into Sephora quickly and grab some things.

854
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 3: What's your name?

855
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 4: Alia? Aralia and elites?

856
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I hope they had a great tit. Did

857
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 3: they already go to Disneyland? Oh?

858
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, we went last yeah, yesterday, but we're going again

859
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,760
Speaker 4: tomorrow and then Universal on Friday.

860
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 3: I told her that too. She goes Joe, but leave

861
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 3: my kids. We have somebody to watch him. I go, oh,

862
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 3: we're kid friendly here, don't trip. But yeah, go who's

863
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 3: this gentleman?

864
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 4: So this is Zachary. He's my fiance.

865
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 3: Oh well, I love your fiance, as you heard and

866
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 3: seen when I went and hugged her so passionately in

867
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 3: front of you. Do you have a sister?

868
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 4: I wish no?

869
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 3: Oh damn it. Matter of fact, she did tell me

870
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 3: she was bringing her fiance out there, and I couldn't

871
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 3: wait to meet her. I should have put all that together.

872
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 3: I remember you telling me that going oh, and I

873
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 3: was like, I can't wait to meet him. I don't

874
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 3: know why, I just remember that right now. I remember

875
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 3: my fiance.

876
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 4: He's so wonderful. I really I.

877
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 3: Made this.

878
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 4: List of everything that I wanted in a partner shortly

879
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 4: after I'd opened up the Queen of Bud store, and

880
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 4: I went online and I made this like not fake

881
00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 4: profile but just said Ashley like no like pictures, no one, formation,

882
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 4: and no because I couldn't. I couldn't like go out

883
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 4: on the internet and post stuff right sound.

884
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 3: And then so I go on.

885
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 4: I'd never done online dating before I go on, and

886
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 4: I think, I'm like, okay, let's just see if you know,

887
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 4: the universe brings me kind of what I'm looking for.

888
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 4: And his profile was the first one that popped up,

889
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 4: and he was with an elephant in Thailand and he

890
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 4: just looks so kind and sweet. And my list was

891
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 4: so specific. It was like he had a small town

892
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 4: in BC, so they kind of got my weed thing

893
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 4: he had to yeah, just so detailed. And then anyways,

894
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 4: we decided, yeah, we decided to meet for coffee. And

895
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,439
Speaker 4: as he's telling me like, oh, I'm from a small

896
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 4: town in BC. Or one was, oh, he had to

897
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 4: have a cat so that he like my cats. I know,

898
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 4: it's weird, come on, guys. And then he's like, yeah,

899
00:44:58,480 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 4: my cat hunter.

900
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 3: And just so I really thought a cat's research. It's

901
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 3: like pull out the cats off, pull a cat out?

902
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 3: Can I bot? He was like, so you have the

903
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 3: cat hunter. Uh.

904
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 4: And he's so supportive and just lets me be me

905
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,399
Speaker 4: and he truly loves me for exactly who I am

906
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 4: and the good the bad, and so I do feel

907
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 4: very fortunate because I don't think I could do what

908
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 4: I do. I don't sleep much as you can imagine.

909
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 4: I'm doing like fifty people's jobs. And so he's always

910
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 4: there for me and always supportive and kind.

911
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 3: And really it's a good process because I think when

912
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 3: I when we first interviewed you, you didn't have a boyfriend.

913
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 3: Has been talking to you for the last few years.

914
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 3: It's like I've you know, this whole revolution and evolution

915
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 3: of your life has come together, and now you're out

916
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 3: here with your fiance, your kids and joined Disneyland. And

917
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 3: you were saying something about your kids before we went

918
00:45:59,560 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 3: on this.

919
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:04,720
Speaker 4: Yes, so female support. Yeah, I'm I go into Sephora

920
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 4: to grab a few things, and this girl comes up

921
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 4: to me and she goes, are you Ashley, And I

922
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 4: was like, yeah, and Aralia is looking because this is

923
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 4: has happened a few times. Yeah, and she goes, you

924
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 4: like changed my life with your products, with your brand.

925
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 4: I went and got the job that I wanted. You

926
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 4: gave me motivation and inspiration. Look at everything that you've

927
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 4: done in the industry. I mean I was on the

928
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 4: retail side, the B to B and doing helping other

929
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 4: licensed producers connect with micros and buy product. I also

930
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 4: was on the EUGMP side and exporting from our facility

931
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 4: to Germany. I the product side of things, marketing sales,

932
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 4: Like I really have had experience in every single category,

933
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 4: which is extremely rare. Usually people kind of stick to

934
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 4: one thing. And so the feedback that I've gotten and

935
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 4: just it's been it's been a aaz yeah, amazing, and

936
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 4: it keeps me going. Like in the really really hard

937
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 4: times where it was dark and tough, like with the

938
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 4: board and with the company that I was with, because

939
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 4: I felt like I didn't have any value and you know,

940
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 4: just not very ease.

941
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 3: And you got the name back in the brand back

942
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 3: and now it's all yours. One of the things I

943
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 3: want you to talk about real quick is as how

944
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 3: you're making a change in Canada because you're actually working

945
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 3: with the government. Yeah, and how did that come about?

946
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 3: And what do you see your role doing. How would

947
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 3: you like to change things? What's going to make things

948
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 3: better for you out there for everybody else in the game.

949
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 4: So it all began again. I worked really closely with

950
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 4: the AGLC opening up the store, and I was really

951
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 4: nice to everyone, and I think that they were people

952
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 4: were really frustrated with them and they received a lot

953
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 4: of negativity. I was not like that, and so they

954
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 4: actually nominated me to be vice chair of the Alberta

955
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 4: Cannabis Council or join this council, and I accepted and

956
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 4: for two years I was on the council and helping

957
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 4: other stores open. I also worked closely with Canadian Global

958
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 4: Affairs and with the BC government on the rollout of

959
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 4: their stores, what Alberta did right, what they did wrong.

960
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 4: And then from there I just kind of connected with

961
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 4: so many different provinces and they I think they value

962
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 4: how much I care about the industry, but more importantly,

963
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 4: how much I care about other people in this industry

964
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 4: and it's not self serving. So a lot of the

965
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 4: other companies that were that they would consult with, it

966
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,879
Speaker 4: was always what can you do for me, and it's

967
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 4: my company needs this, But I would kind of look

968
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 4: at it a side of anything that I wanted and

969
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,399
Speaker 4: needed and just gave them my true opinion on how

970
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 4: they could improve. And yeah, So in Alberta we just

971
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 4: got sampling approved. That was like a really really big

972
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 4: thing because you couldn't hand out samples. You couldn't show

973
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 4: anyone your product. I work with I'm on the planning

974
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 4: committee of A Kind magazine and we were doing a

975
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 4: really big event in Calgary, and yeah, we couldn't do samples.

976
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 4: And so I made a couple of calls and within

977
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 4: you know, people had been lobbying the government for three

978
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 4: and a half years and made a quick call and

979
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 4: we were able to get it approved.

980
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 3: Look at you making changes out there in Canada.

981
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 4: And so now we're working on BC and a couple

982
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 4: other things. But it's just people reaching out. I am

983
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 4: always there to help and everyone knows that.

984
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and not only that you've been there,

985
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 3: you've had a store. So these people look at it,

986
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 3: oh as you don't fucking know. You're like, dude, Remember

987
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 3: I'm the first woman that opened the store that hadn't

988
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 3: changed my fucking locks after I put them all up

989
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 3: and had to change the window things after we paid

990
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 3: for a ball. I do know exactly what you're going through,

991
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,479
Speaker 3: and I think that makes a big difference for people

992
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 3: who are coming up looking up at any facility, right,

993
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 3: that's like Congress, government, whatever, one. Well, at least we

994
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 3: have one of our own up there that at least

995
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 3: had one. And you seem to be passionate and careful

996
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 3: like you feel that from her. Right. Of course, that's

997
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 3: the thing too that I want people to understand and

998
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 3: see because I felt that from you from the first

999
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 3: time we interviewed. You want to zoom to see you

1000
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 3: just look. It bleeds into your product line.

1001
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 2: Like I said, you know, I don't know how I

1002
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 2: could look at your your whole product line and go,

1003
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 2: oh this this team cares, right, because it's probably definitely

1004
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 2: more than one person. I mean, you can't do everything

1005
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 2: by yourself, right, Well, I mean.

1006
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 4: And it's other companies that are totally manufacturing this thing

1007
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 4: and behind it. I get to innovate it and marketing.

1008
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything comes up with it.

1009
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 4: But they're the ones doing the work and bringing these

1010
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 4: products to market with me.

1011
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,800
Speaker 3: So this is not in any way solo.

1012
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you could tell everybody that cares and put

1013
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 2: their time into it, and first it starts with your care, right, So.

1014
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, she's not good. Yeah, she's not gonna let

1015
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 3: some bullshit come out. She's like, no, it's gonna look

1016
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 3: high and nice and ride. So now it's time to

1017
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 3: do the high five with you. Actually five ship of questions.

1018
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 3: It's have some fun with it. It's actually newman, the

1019
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 3: owner of Queenna Bud. How old are you the first

1020
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 3: time you smoked cannabis? And where did you get it? From?

1021
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 4: Fifteen? And a friend of mine in.

1022
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 3: Canada obviously yeah, was friends then.

1023
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 4: I think his name was Auto, Like yeah, I don't.

1024
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,720
Speaker 4: I think we're at like a party and then someone

1025
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 4: had it and then they you want to hit this.

1026
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 3: You're like, well, okayed, did it change your life from

1027
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 3: that moment or was it later in life that really

1028
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 3: it was just like okay, I'm just gonna slid it

1029
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 3: was it.

1030
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 4: Was later, So I mean I didn't mind it. It

1031
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,320
Speaker 4: was like fun and nice. But I would say that

1032
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 4: I became really into cannabis around the age of like

1033
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 4: twenty four, and I'm thirty three now twenty four. My

1034
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:41,800
Speaker 4: favorite number it is because my endometriosis. I mean, we

1035
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 4: wasn't legal in Canada at that time, and so I

1036
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 4: went to three different doctors to try and get a prescription,

1037
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 4: and they were all like looking at me, like I'm crazy,

1038
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,439
Speaker 4: but they prescribed me, you know, oxy cotton or opioids,

1039
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 4: and that was more normal than me asking for cannabis.

1040
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 4: So finally I went to what was called a four

1041
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 4: to twenty clinic and I was able to get my

1042
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 4: medical card and I started using more CBD first, and

1043
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 4: I thought, oh wow, this is really helping my inflammation

1044
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 4: and my my endometrios. Oh yeah yeah. Within like two weeks,

1045
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 4: it was night and day different. And I'd had multiple surgeries,

1046
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,439
Speaker 4: a hysterectomy, like it was bad, like very very bad,

1047
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden it kind of started to

1048
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 4: alleviate the pain. And then I started incorporating more THHC

1049
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 4: and I just loved who.

1050
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 3: It made you, or who you allowed it to make

1051
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 3: you be.

1052
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 2: Explor Question number two of the High five, What is

1053
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,240
Speaker 2: your favorite way to use or smoke cannabis.

1054
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 4: Uh, definitely, Like right now, I'm super into like cannigars,

1055
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 4: blunts and pre rolls. I would say that's my main

1056
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 4: way of consuming.

1057
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, canni bars, blunts and preroll That's awesome. So you've

1058
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 3: been out here to the States many times, I'm sure correct.

1059
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 3: So when you come here, is there like a dispensary

1060
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 3: that you go to right away or is there a

1061
00:52:58,280 --> 00:52:59,800
Speaker 3: certain shop or you have your buddies that you just

1062
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 3: gonnect with.

1063
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 4: No, I think I just connect with different people.

1064
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 3: You need something.

1065
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: My own.

1066
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 3: Anyone asked that, I didn't want to say that, I'm

1067
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 3: sure you, but no, not from Canada. She didn't.

1068
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 4: California market is so interesting to me. I absolutely love

1069
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 4: it because you guys are way ahead of us in Canada.

1070
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 3: With what you but you guys have had longer. There's

1071
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 3: that too, Yeah, right, yeah, it's great. I've had it

1072
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 3: longer and we're ahead of them now.

1073
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 4: Well because of all of our rules.

1074
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 2: I've been buying weed from Canada since I mean, I like,

1075
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 2: I I know some some of the big producers out

1076
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 2: of Canada, Canada from when I was young, you know,

1077
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 2: and they big hockey bags, hockey bags and little flat

1078
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 2: packs and different you know, different brands, and the way

1079
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 2: they packaged it, the way I mean, I don't even

1080
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 2: know how they were getting it here, but I know

1081
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 2: that we got.

1082
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,320
Speaker 3: To buy the boatload and and and it was just

1083
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:56,800
Speaker 3: from Canada. Amazing.

1084
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 2: It was really consistent all the time, just boom boom,

1085
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 2: boom boom, you know. And it wasn't really amazing, like

1086
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 2: it wasn't the best quality. It was just the consistency

1087
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 2: was just always there. Nice you knew what you're getting,

1088
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 2: like the bubble cushes, you know, like, oh that's a

1089
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 2: coming in. It wasn't the best quality anything, but it

1090
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 2: was just always there, you know what I mean. It

1091
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 2: was this it was and the best prices. Yeah, this

1092
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 2: is like you know, back when I was at.

1093
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 3: Least three weeks ago, question high five. Craziest place Ashy

1094
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 3: you've ever used or smoked cannabis?

1095
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 4: I don't know. I pretty much just smoke it everywhere.

1096
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 3: I don't know's like Disneyland yesterday. Be careful, they'll take

1097
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 3: you to jail there. They'll come arrest you afterwards.

1098
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 4: I don't know.

1099
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 3: You guys got the whole week past.

1100
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 2: She's like, I can't wait to get out of here

1101
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 2: and go straight this not again, seriously, so much more

1102
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 2: to see?

1103
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 3: Hyeah, I don't know. I can't too crazy. That stands out.

1104
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 4: Nothing too crazy. I mean I'm pretty much high all

1105
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 4: the time, so it's I think, not very.

1106
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 2: Far right here down the street too, you guys, very

1107
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:05,879
Speaker 2: farm of super super like coasters. Yes, it's like half

1108
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 2: the price of Disneylan and it's a lot of roller coasters.

1109
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:09,800
Speaker 3: It's a lot of cool stuff. It's really cool. You

1110
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 3: really should go to it.

1111
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like half the price. Question number four, the

1112
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 2: high five, What is your go to munchie after you

1113
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 2: get high?

1114
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 4: Anything? I really like carbs, so I would say like

1115
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 4: pro gys, burritos. People make fun of me, like I

1116
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 4: love burritos. Potatoes, like any kind of potato.

1117
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 3: Really potato.

1118
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 4: Potato, like a potato, actual potatoes, like mashed potatoes.

1119
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,800
Speaker 3: That high metabolism baked potato.

1120
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, or I think so. We are launching fit Queen,

1121
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,879
Speaker 4: which is a high th h c V line which

1122
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 4: suppresses your appetite and increases your metabolism along with humanliness

1123
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 4: as a terpene. So I don't know. Maybe it's all

1124
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 4: the th h c V, but I do have a

1125
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 4: very high metabolism, for sure. People ask me all the

1126
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 4: time they see it, how are you eating? You know what?

1127
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 3: I even told Blue this story, I go, I love. Actually,

1128
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 3: I brought her some meat from the Raffi's that we

1129
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 3: had here, I go. She took a bite of each one.

1130
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 4: I go.

1131
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 3: She's just such a woman to me. Anybody who can

1132
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 3: bite off my fork and just grab a piece of meat,

1133
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 3: it's just my type of family person. Like some people

1134
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:20,959
Speaker 3: chicks are, no, we are. And because she already denied

1135
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 3: a full plate, which was great because she already in

1136
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 3: other way and understandable. But she took three bites the steak.

1137
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 3: The so good that.

1138
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 2: Foods like two and a half hours old. I mean,

1139
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,240
Speaker 2: that's literally came from an hour and a half away.

1140
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 2: I mean, if granted was in some kidterines, you know stuff,

1141
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 2: But it's like an hour and a half warm it

1142
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 2: right for now, we didn't rewarm it, and Bowman's still fire.

1143
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 3: But that's funny that you say that. Now think about it.

1144
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 3: I mean number five of the high five. We could

1145
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 3: talk food all day. Actually, it looks like you can

1146
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 3: eat all day too. By the way, you wasn't a

1147
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 3: bad thing exactly high metabolism girl. None of that strung

1148
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 3: off on me as she knew bro Yes, she does.

1149
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 3: Queen of the South and Queena Bud. If you could

1150
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 3: smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?

1151
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 3: And why Elon Musk And why Elon? He's just.

1152
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 4: He really thinks outside of the box and he believes

1153
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 4: that anything is possible and just I think that smoking

1154
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 4: weed with him would be very insightful. I'd learn a

1155
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 4: lot and I think it'd be really cool. And I

1156
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 4: also want to ask him about the whole simulation theory

1157
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,560
Speaker 4: as well, super into that. What is that that I

1158
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 4: guess that this is a simulation that the advances with VR.

1159
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 4: If you think about how quickly VR has advanced in

1160
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 4: the last five years, now, imagine one hundred or two

1161
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 4: hundred years from now. Could this be a simulation that

1162
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 4: we're in? And did we perhaps invented ourselves to have

1163
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 4: a physical body to experience emotions and all of the

1164
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 4: beautiful things that we have here? We have so many

1165
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 4: and this is why I created Queen of Bud. We

1166
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 4: have so many beautiful places around the world, and this

1167
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 4: truly is heaven, but none of us enjoy it. Because

1168
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 4: we're so focused on things that don't matter, and this

1169
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 4: is an experience.

1170
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 3: That's deep, that's deep, deep, deep, because like I'm sitting

1171
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 3: here going wow, that's who knows. I'm not going to

1172
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 3: say no, it's not right, Like you never know.

1173
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 4: And what a challenging game where you don't know you're

1174
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 4: in a game and you have to overcome your own

1175
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,959
Speaker 4: mind to enjoy the experience. And that's what life is about.

1176
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 4: It's not about what you gain, materialistic things, how much

1177
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 4: money you have, who likes you, who doesn't. It's just

1178
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 4: about the experience.

1179
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 3: It's a well living, gotta do it.

1180
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 2: I feel like people don't realize that they're in the

1181
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 2: you know, you're actually in the journey, right, you know

1182
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 2: most of the time.

1183
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 3: You know, like while we're working, it is a journey,

1184
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 3: like you're living what you want to do, you know,

1185
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 3: like we're.

1186
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 4: Here to innovate. Yeah, we're here to Like everything around

1187
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 4: you was created by someone's imagination. That in itself is.

1188
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 3: People are like I feel like I'm high right now.

1189
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 4: People say, oh, there's nothing beautiful about life, or you know,

1190
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 4: they get kind of down and look around you like

1191
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 4: this all came from someone's mind. That's so so wonderful.

1192
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 3: Imaginarium. Have you ever seen that movie The Imaginarium? Watch

1193
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 3: now that you say that's the last movie you watched.

1194
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 4: Hmmm, it's the last. We watched a movie on the

1195
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 4: way here on the plane called Rosie and it was

1196
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 4: about a Native orphan that had to go and live

1197
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:50,240
Speaker 4: with Rosie and it was super interesting. It was based

1198
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 4: in Montreal, and uh, Native children have a massive issue

1199
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 4: getting adopted, and so it just kind of focused on

1200
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 4: some of their challenges.

1201
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 3: When you say native Native American Indian is what I'm thinking.

1202
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 3: Is that what you're referring to? Yeah, okay, well listen

1203
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 3: real quick.

1204
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,160
Speaker 2: I want to say congratulations on the article that Cannabis

1205
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 2: Talk Magazine's gonna do on you, because I heard we're

1206
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 2: doing an article on you.

1207
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 3: Yeah. Jessica was so juiced on you earlier at lunch.

1208
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 3: She's like, Joe, you know, I've been trying to get

1209
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 3: a holder for you. I'm like, well, why did you

1210
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 3: tell me I got herself? I know.

1211
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,479
Speaker 4: She's like, I've been trying to reach you for years.

1212
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 4: I sent you numerous Instagram messages and so I feel

1213
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 4: awful because I usually I do really try and respond

1214
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 4: to everyone.

1215
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 3: But that is so funny too that I I Yeah,

1216
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, I think she's the coolest person. What

1217
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 3: do you mean, you're geld of? Well, is there anything

1218
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 3: that we forgot before we let you get on out

1219
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 3: of here?

1220
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: Oh?

1221
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 4: I don't think so. Thank you guys so much for

1222
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 4: having me on.

1223
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 3: And it's been a great experience. Yeah, we love it.

1224
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 3: And people that are in Canada go support this product

1225
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 3: and hopefully it's a coming to the state too. I'm

1226
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 3: sure there's gonna be a multi state operating product right here.

1227
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 3: This is who wouldn't want to pick the stuff? Right

1228
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 3: You're in Chicago, you're in New York, You're in Arizona,

1229
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 3: you're in Nevada, you're in California. I see this between

1230
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 3: a budgeting everywhere. If it doesn't work out with you,

1231
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,760
Speaker 3: we got we got some. Yeah, there'll go ahead.

1232
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 4: Collapse sounds good.

1233
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 3: Well, there it is, guys. It's Cannabis Talk one on

1234
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 3: one and remember this if no one else loves you, wait.

1235
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk one on one

1236
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 1: with Blue with Joe Grande, the world's number one source

1237
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 1: for everything cannabis. And make sure you like follow and

1238
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 1: subscribe to Cannabis Talk one on one now