1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to you Stuff you Should 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: Know from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. This is Charles W. 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant, who is seated across from me. Hello, and uh, 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,319 Speaker 1: you put the two of us together, you get a 7 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: podcast called Stuff you Should Know? Like it or not exactly? Um, 8 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: how are you doing? I'm well, I'm glad. Uh, Chuck, 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: We're going to talk today about why don't think is 10 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: a pretty important issue. Uh, medical marijuana. We've spoken for 11 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: about the potential health benefits a plenty of other drugs, ecstasy, LSD, psilocybin, mushrooms. 12 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: I feel like it's high time. Did you do that 13 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: on purpose? Sadly not interesting that we did medical marijuana. 14 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: This article had a couple of those little puns that 15 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: I thought were one strain of research man that silverman 16 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: thought he was so funny for getting that in there 17 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: and just like freaking the man out. So where do 18 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: we start? Do you have an intro? No? I don't 19 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: have an intro. I feel like this, uh, this subject 20 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:30,919 Speaker 1: itself needs no intro. It's using pot marijuana for medicinal purposes, 21 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: and apparently there is a pretty extensive body of research 22 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,119 Speaker 1: showing that it does in fact help, that seven hundred 23 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: and thirty thousand UH people who have grave diseases and 24 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: illnesses aren't really just faking so they can smoke pot, 25 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: that the stuff is helping. UM. There's a lot of 26 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: diseases that Jacob Silverman lists that this UM that medical 27 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: marijuana has been shown to howl with. Do you know 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: what they are? You recite them in alphabetical order. Well, 29 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: I have two lists UM. The list in the article 30 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: says nausea, especially chemotherapy, nausea, loss of appetite, chronic pain, anxiety, arthritis, cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, 31 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: MS or multiple sclerosis, insomnia, A d H D epilepsy, inflammation, migraines, 32 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: Crohn's disease, and if you're terminally ill, to improve your 33 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: quality of life. This is a list on the sign 34 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: outside of the Cush Doctor at Venice Beach, California. And 35 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: there's a lot more things on this list. Do you 36 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: suffer from? UM? They also include in here sickle cell anemia, UM, 37 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: psychiatric disorders basically anything autoimmune, sleep, disorders, and it says, 38 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: I think either sleeplessness or too sleepy? Does it say that? Yeah? Um? 39 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: Any any well? At list about twenty more things, and 40 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: then at the bottom it says, or any chronic or 41 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: persistent medical symptom. Write anything fingernail hurt right now. So 42 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: that's what the cush doctor will And that is an 43 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: actual I'm not just making that up at Venice speech. 44 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: I saw the picture. It says, cush doctor, and um, 45 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,959 Speaker 1: you can go in there with your little card and 46 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: get you some pot. So what you've just gotten at 47 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: is the heart of this problem. Like there is plenty 48 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: of legitimate, bona fide medical research that shows that marijuana 49 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: does help ease symptoms. It does a special double weighamy 50 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: on people who are nauseated and don't have any appetite, 51 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: which is a terrible symptom of several diseases, cancer AIDS. 52 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: So you have this part of the medical establishment saying yes, 53 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: pot helps, and then you have the drug warriors, the 54 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: d e A, lots of US district attorneys, plenty of 55 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: the square Americans, um saying now it's a drug, and um, 56 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: there's gonna be plenty of guys like the cush doctor 57 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: who are just gonna sell it to anybody they can 58 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: and use any medical marijuana laws that you enact as 59 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: a shield to operate criminally from behind, like don't don't 60 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: take that drug. So um. For a long time, the 61 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: medical marijuana idea has been taken up by states. It's 62 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: been a state's rights issue also, um. But the federal 63 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: government apparently was the first ones to ever legalize um 64 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: or sell or supply legal medical marijuana from a program 65 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,679 Speaker 1: that ran from nineteen seventy. UM. It kind of petered 66 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: out in the states, starting with California really took up 67 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: the cause. Yeah, for a while, they did not sit 68 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: very well, especially during the Bush years. That did not 69 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: sit well with the federal government, and the Feds used 70 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: to routinely raid uh legitimate uh medical pot dispensaries that 71 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,559 Speaker 1: were operating within the letter of state law because federal 72 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: law supersede state law. So the d A can read 73 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: you anytime they want, because according to the federal government, 74 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: pots still a drug. It doesn't matter what your state says, 75 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: right right. UM. With Obama, he came into office saying, 76 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not going to waste the resources 77 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: of the d O j on cracking down on legal 78 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: pot operations. Yeah, that was in two thousand nine, um 79 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: and memo. Yeah, and things really launched after that, like 80 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: more states pass legislation and more dispensaries like in l A. 81 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: At the time, after that passed, they say there could 82 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,679 Speaker 1: have been up to a thousand dispensaries in l A proper, 83 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: but then they and said no, it was more like six. 84 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: But what happened recently, well, UM, the the head of 85 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: the d A, UM, a woman named Michelle Leonhardt was 86 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: She was appointed by Bush and Obama reappointed her and 87 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: shortly after her reappointment, she rewrote the d a's position 88 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: on medical marijuana, saying like no, it's a drug and 89 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 1: we're gonna go after it. And her, let's see leon 90 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 1: Hart with the help of the district attorney no USA 91 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: U S attorney UM by less name of Hague. I 92 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: can't remember first name, Melissa Hague maybe she Um. She 93 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: started basically prosecuting we're sending sending the d e A 94 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: to medical dispensaries, and everything just totally changed, like it 95 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: just went backwards by years when it looked like it 96 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: was all about to change. Yeah, and um, the media 97 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: and especially the liberal media have held Obama's feet to 98 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: the fire, and they're like, dude, what is up with 99 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: this reversal? And um, isn't this probably just election year 100 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: campaign strategy And they're like, no, it's not a reversal. Really, 101 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: it's sort of the same as it always was. Really 102 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: but not really No, And apparently with so this is um. 103 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: Chuck and I both thread a really good article called 104 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: um Obama's Warm Pot in Rolling Stone. It's very thorough. Um. 105 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: But the the there there has basically been a step 106 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: up in the way that medical marijuana and the people 107 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: who use it and prescribe it are being treated by 108 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: the federal government. Um. With there there's been a hundred 109 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: raids so far, at least a hundred rates carried out 110 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: under Obama's watch. So if it keeps if it keeps 111 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: up with this pace, then um, he will be worse 112 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: than Bush as far as medical marijuana raids. Uh. And 113 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: this one guy, Rob Campia, who was executive director of 114 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: the Marijuana Policy Project, said that Obama is the worst 115 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: president on medical marijuana. Crazy. It is just totally crazy 116 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: because that's not what he said during the campaign. And Uh, 117 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: the I don't know, no what need astorney. I'm one 118 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: of the residents of Colorado that was campaigning hard to 119 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: you know, to keep this going against Obama even though 120 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: he voted for him, said he needs to watch it 121 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: because quote, medical marijuana is twice as popular as he is. 122 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: So he says he's already lost that vote no matter 123 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: what happens. So we'll see how this shakes down, all right. So, uh, 124 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: California has been studying this since about two thousand. In 125 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: earnest um, they were given about nine million bucks to 126 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: do genuine medical research on the effectiveness of marijuana for 127 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: different usually pain causing and nausea causing diseases. And um. 128 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: It's always been hard to do these studies though, because 129 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: the federal government, if they're gonna give you money, they're 130 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: gonna regulate like where the pot comes from. And this 131 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: at the time was that you see San Diego. They 132 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: would only let them get it from one place, one source, 133 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: and then they would visit them. Federal agents would in 134 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: uh the Medical Cannabis Research Center to verify that it 135 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 1: was kept in a vault that was bolted to the floor, 136 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: so they would, you know, they want to come by 137 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: and make sure they were all sitting around smoking joints 138 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: and like playing ping pong. You guess which I mean. 139 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: I guess if you are kind of hung up on 140 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: testing with medical marijuana, that's cool. That's your right to 141 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: drop by and make sure that everything is here and 142 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: it's not being Yeah, I'm not liking that. Um. The 143 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: federal government started, like like the the head of the 144 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: Bureau of Alcohol to back on firearms. Then a lighter 145 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: to firearms dealers saying it's um, it's illegal to sell 146 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: afire are armed to a person addicted to marijuana. So 147 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: if you are, if you are receiving medical cannabis, you 148 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: just had your Second Amendment right strip from your banks 149 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: are worried about getting prosecuted for money laundering by dealing 150 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: with dispensaries medical marijuana dispensaries. So now it's starting to 151 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: go to a cash only I eat, more dangerous business 152 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: for prone to robberies and tax evasion. It's just like 153 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: definitely going backwards, huge huge steps backwards. It's crazy, and 154 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 1: by backwards, I should say, if you're pro medical marijuana, sure, 155 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: let's talk about why um pot might help. Okay, th 156 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: HC is in um it's a cannaba cannabinoid in marijuana, 157 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: and that's what makes you feel high, and it's also 158 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: where you find your medicinal properties. They're all locked in 159 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: there together because we produce our own cannabinoids in the 160 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: form of indo cannabinoids naturally. Yes, so we have endocannabinoid receptors, right, 161 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: an abinoid, Yeah, cannabinoid. I like the way you said, 162 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: it's kind of pleasing phenomena UM in our body. And 163 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: when they are when they receive something, when something is 164 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 1: recepted to them, uh, they release things like pain relievers, 165 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: reduced anxiety. It has a whole just a whole lot 166 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: of effects on us mood, memory, appetite. Well, it has 167 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: a negative impact on memory. I think, well, it's it's 168 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: just to regulates these responses whether or not there makes 169 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: you sleepy or hungry or not. So with some with 170 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: some diseases, UM, this combination of UM introducing THHC to 171 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: the ENDO can now I can't say it correctly. Endocannabinoid 172 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 1: receptor UM results in increased appetite, results in UM lesson 173 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: muscle spasms. If you have multiple sclerosis, UM or if 174 00:11:55,040 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: you're quadriplegic, UM results in just a greater outlook a 175 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: sense of well being if you're dying. All these things 176 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: that have been studied and document it is actually working. 177 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: I got one for you. Uh. They did a study 178 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: in mice that showed that the cannabinoids may protect against 179 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: development of certain types of tumors, both benign and cancerous. 180 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: And not only that, listen to this. It appears to 181 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: kill only the tumor cells and may even protect the 182 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: healthy cells from cell death. That is some pot That's 183 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 1: pretty rad. That's all I'm saying. So on the other hand, 184 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: you've got people saying, Okay, all right, I'm going to 185 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: take the medical establishment at face value, and um say, yes, 186 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: THHD hit your endocannabinoid receptors and produces it alleviates a 187 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: lot of symptoms of certain diseases. Can we just not 188 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: come up with something that doesn't get you high? And uh, 189 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: some drug companies have been like, yes we can, and 190 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: they introduced um shiny black pills called marian All, which 191 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 1: is synthetic THHC. Josh, I have had a Marino pill? 192 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: Really did it? Did it alleviate your symptoms? Uh? It 193 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: was a very mild thing, to be honest. And this 194 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: was this was many years ago when I was living 195 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. But um, yes, I've had a marinal pill, 196 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: and it's did you get it from Dr Couch? Now 197 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,319 Speaker 1: I didn't. But it is funny how you just pointed 198 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: out because that kind of debated off air. I was like, 199 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 1: should I say that I've had a marinal pill. We're like, well, yeah, 200 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: it's an FDA proved drug, Like you can say that, 201 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: but you can't say, yeah, I smoked pot and not 202 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 1: get you know, the cross side stairs. Sure, it's just interesting, 203 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: Yeah it is. That's I guess that's at the heart 204 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: of all this. It's kind of like this this drug, 205 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: the synthetic drug, yeah, uh, that you can get through 206 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: a prescription right and go to your pharmacy and they'll 207 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: give it to you. Um, you can have that, but 208 00:13:55,760 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: this this drug gros in the ground, right, Yeah, that 209 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: actually works better than this other drug, the synthetic version 210 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: of it, supposedly. That's the big um complaint against marian 211 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: all is that it's like it's a synthetic teaching, but 212 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: it's lacking some really important parts. Yeah, well, and it 213 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: absolutely is lacking. I mean chemically it's it's lacking. But um, 214 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: but you can't have that and I'm really reminded of this, 215 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: Like this is where like witches and doctors came from 216 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: from the struggle of like the I guess some Middle Ages, 217 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: so where science was really starting to kind of come 218 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: about and um, to basically maintain a foothold or create 219 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: a foothold for itself over Western society, it had to 220 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: get rid of its rivals, which were um traditional healers 221 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: who very quickly became witches and outcasts and were ostracized 222 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: as backward and possibly even evil. So don't go to them, 223 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: come to me, because I'm the guy with the beat on. 224 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: We can protect you from the plague. Look at you, 225 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: Arthur Miller. But isn't that Isn't that kind of analogous? Yeah? 226 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: I think so. Um. There's also, uh, that's very astute, Josh, 227 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: thank you. Um. There's also a tv X which is 228 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: um a pain reliever, and it is actually an extract 229 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: of real marijuana administered by spray and I think they 230 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: have that's in England, Spain, and Canada, and it's in 231 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: trials here in the US. Yeah, so that's not synthetic, 232 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: that's actually an extract. Yeah. I'll bet everybody who uses 233 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: it goes oh, I can't. I don't feel any pain, 234 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: but you might as well just use this. Uh what's 235 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: the stuff you spray when you have tonsillitis? Oh? Yeah, 236 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: might as well just use superl That's not the one 237 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: I was thinking of, though, is the uh so, Like 238 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: you said, most experts agree that mare and all um 239 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: and it's at vax actually in clinical riles show to 240 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: have less of an effect than actual the marijuana plant itself. 241 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: But the d e A points out t S this 242 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: is what this is legal that and they make a 243 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 1: pretty good point here that um may and all is 244 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: the THHC what morphine is to opium. Like, yeah, you 245 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: might need morphine. We're not gonna tell you it's okay 246 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: to go smoke opium for your pain. There's morphine. Go 247 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: use the morphine. It's legal, it's regulated, it's taxed, and 248 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: it's not gonna get you landed in jail unless you 249 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: get your hands on it illegally. So the Feds are 250 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: the ones who are definitely blocking this right now. UM 251 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: this I should say in in a lot of states, 252 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: there's eighteen states, including d C that have UM laws 253 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: on the books that say, yeah, man, you you we've 254 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: got legalized medical marijuana to some degree. Yeah, and Oregon 255 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: is the king Daddy of medical marijuana. California was Yeah, 256 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: I mean there's probably more dispensaries and things like that. 257 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: But in Oregon you are allowed to possess up to 258 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: twenty four ounces of you what they call usable marijuana, 259 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 1: or twenty four plants um, six of which can be mature, 260 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: eighteen of which can be immature, which means they're like flowering, 261 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:26,880 Speaker 1: budding plants. They were Jeane jackets. So Washington's right behind them. 262 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: You can possess twenty four ounces or fifteen plants, and 263 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: uh not surprisingly, there are no states in the Southeast, 264 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: and Michigan is the only state in the Midwest. Uh 265 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: So yeah, in these in these Bible Belt areas, you're 266 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: not finding any pro marijuana medical marijuana states going on 267 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 1: and insert your own Detroit joke here. Uh we should. Yeah, 268 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: we don't have to read through just all those other 269 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: hippie states plus Iowa in New Jersey. Yeah, that's so 270 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: surprised thing have them Maryland. The thing is, though, is 271 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: a lot of these, like you said, a lot of 272 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: them rushed to um get laws on the books. Delaware. 273 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: I think Delaware just wanted to be like he remember us, 274 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 1: we're really a state. UM, but a lot of them 275 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 1: have backed off, like Rhode Islands UM Governor Lincoln Chaffee 276 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 1: is a vocal supporter of medical marijuana and a big 277 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: critic of the federal government for using like goon squad 278 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: tactics to like fight it and basically over rule state law. UM. 279 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: But even he's back down because federal prosecutors have been like, hey, 280 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,199 Speaker 1: don't make us come after your your state employees who 281 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: are running these these dispensaries, because we'll put him in 282 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 1: jail and they can do it. Thirty four states, Josh, 283 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: have UM laws passed that recognized marijuana as having medical value, 284 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: and I think New Mexico was the first one actually 285 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: in the oh yeah, yeah, even before California and UM. However, 286 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,239 Speaker 1: you know, you know how these laws go. It's like 287 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 1: the gay marriage laws. It's like it's legal and then 288 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,120 Speaker 1: it's repealed, and then it's legal, and then it's repealed 289 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: and you can do it here, and now you can't. 290 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 1: So there's been a lot of back and forth over 291 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: the years with the states. UH, sort of on a 292 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 1: roller coaster that duke in it out with the federal government. Interesting. So, um, 293 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: let's talk about California. Let's take California as a state. Yeah, 294 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: I love that place. I love California. So California is 295 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 1: I think they were the first state with legal medical marijuana, right, 296 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: I think so. I think it's properly to fifteen. Uh. 297 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 1: And they said, hey, if you have a doctor's recommendation, 298 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: because we should point out there's no doctor that can 299 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: legally prescribe marijuana, because exactly if you walk into your 300 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: local drug store, they'll be like, get out of here. 301 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,639 Speaker 1: We got marrin all. You want some of that, but 302 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: we don't have any pot. Um. So a doctor can 303 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,400 Speaker 1: recommend it in a state where you have legal medical marijuana, 304 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: that it can say, I doctor feel good, UH, say 305 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: that Chuck Bryant uh suffers from glaucoma and to relieve 306 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: the interocular eye pressure associated with his condition, I recommend 307 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: that he um use medicinal marijuana. And then that's that 308 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: signed Dr Kush right, and you, being a medical pot recipient, 309 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,360 Speaker 1: would keep that letter on you at all times, depending 310 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: on if you were in California, which also passed the 311 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: supplemental um law, saying you know what this is, you 312 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: can lose your doctor's note or whatever. So let's just 313 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,239 Speaker 1: issue I D cards to people who have a doctor's recommendation. Uh, 314 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: if you have an ID card or doctor's recommendation, you 315 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: can grow and you can um buy pot and possess yeah, 316 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: and ostensibly use it. You know what Senate bill that was, yes, 317 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: I do. Can you believe it? I could not believe it. 318 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 1: Two thousand three. Um, they passed Senate Bill four twenty 319 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: in California which um stipulated the cards and um that 320 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: you could have eight ounces of usable marijuana, six mature plants, 321 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: or twelve imager plants. Senate bill. That's crazy is that 322 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: the two thous three bill? Okay? Um, apparently even more 323 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: than that. The state said, by the way, uh, let's 324 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 1: take this down to the county level. You counties, if 325 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: you feel like you want to expand upon this, go ahead. 326 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: So some counties have been like sure, Like the Humboldt 327 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: is one that definitely expanded the amounts that you can 328 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 1: have in the situations in which it's not. Okay, boy, 329 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: I had some Humboldt fog two days ago. What cheeze, 330 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: it's cheese. But it sounds like marijuana doesn't it does. 331 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: And now that you mentioned that, I think I've had 332 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 1: that before too. Is really like yummy blue cheese. Um. 333 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: And we got some of the store down the street. 334 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: But I laughed, Emily, I was like, it always cracks 335 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: me up because some both Fox sounds like one of 336 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 1: those marijuana streams. It definitely does. Yeah, you got me 337 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: with that one. You're like, you can't say that, chuck. 338 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: Uh so if you so. California also has um what's 339 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 1: called a caregiver law. Yeah. A caregiver is somebody who 340 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: basically takes care of you if you're sick, right. Uh. 341 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: In California, a caregiver can also refer to a person 342 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: who supplies medical marijuana to people who have docutors recommendations. Right. Um, 343 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: It's like your grandmother has glaucoma, she didn't know where 344 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: to score, right, So you could be her caregiver and 345 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 1: get this for her, or you can be the guy 346 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: who's growing it for her. Right. Did you ever see 347 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: the Curb your Enthusiasm where Larry got pot for his dad. 348 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,400 Speaker 1: He got medical marijuanta for his dad because he had 349 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: I think it was glaucoma, And he smoked with him 350 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: and showed him how to do it and everything, and 351 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: like went in the bathroom and freaked out. It was 352 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 1: pretty funny. Yeah, and the whole buying process. So it 353 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: was the guy from Lost. Hurley from Lost was the 354 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: pot dealer. It was really really funny. It was good. 355 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, did you ever see the Mr. Show sketch 356 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: about medical marijuana. The pharmacist who has the brownies? Yeah, yeah, 357 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 1: and he always wants to play like the music he 358 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: recorded on his four track Yeah for everybody. Well, it's 359 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: it's funny. You mentioned that though, because at some of 360 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: these dispensaries, um, you can buy things like brownies and 361 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: butter and cookies and smoothies and yeah, because not everybody 362 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 1: wants to smoke pot. Who has a medical cannabis exactly? Okay, 363 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: so you have a recommended and you have a caregiver 364 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,719 Speaker 1: that you go to, and the caregiver, um, so this 365 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: is where it gets really cloudy. They the Feds don't 366 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: go after patients, even during the Bush years um and 367 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: now which is worse than the Bush years. Um. They 368 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: they have never gone after patients. It's basically, don't go 369 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: after patients. Caregivers used to be protected, but because caregiver 370 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:29,159 Speaker 1: is also basically synonymous for pot dealer in medical marijuana 371 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: states that that's no longer you're if you are one 372 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: of those caregivers who's really like spending your You live 373 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 1: with your elderly grandmother and you're taking care of her, 374 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 1: and she has medical marijuana that she takes and you 375 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: go get it for you're in jeopardy now too, because 376 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 1: a lot of these operations have gotten very, very big, 377 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 1: and though they may be bona fide and legitimate, they 378 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: may not be making any profit, which is part of 379 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: the law. Um, they are considered caregivers rather than like 380 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: dispensaries or anything like that. So that's what's clouded the issue. 381 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: You that's where a lot of the protections for regular 382 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: people who are caregivers are being stripped away. It got 383 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 1: out of hand and it was people like Dr Cush 384 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 1: sprung up and all of a sudden there were dispensaries 385 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: that weren't co ops where you have actually members growing 386 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 1: the weed for the co op. That's just say weed 387 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: stead of marijuana, medical weed, medical weed. Um. They supposedly 388 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: a lot of them were buying it illegally, making profit 389 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: off of it and kind of screwed it up. For 390 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: the legitimate ones. It is a cloudy issue. That's where 391 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 1: we're at right now. Basically, it sounds like some there 392 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: were either um, some groups who just want pro or 393 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: decriminalization of marijuana altogether, who were using this issue to 394 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: just force it through, hammer it through, or probably more realistically, 395 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 1: there were just a bunch of hoot dealers who found 396 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 1: like a lot a very easy cuss immers by supplying 397 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:07,880 Speaker 1: these co ops. Americans, by and large, if you believe poles, 398 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: are in favor of medical marijuana for people who really 399 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: need it. Um CBS News did a poll last year 400 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: UM seventy seven percent of Americans thought doctors should be 401 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: allowed to prescribe it for serious illness. And there was 402 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: a gallop pole in two thousand and ten UM that said, 403 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: do you favor or oppose to reduce to allow medical 404 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,199 Speaker 1: marijuana just to reduce pain and suffering for people with disease, 405 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: and seventy were proc said oh, and three percent said no, 406 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,880 Speaker 1: absolutely not. So it's pretty pretty low percentage. And again 407 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: we're pointing out this is for people who need it 408 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 1: for their disease. It's not to be confused with pot 409 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: legalization for recreation. Two different things did you know that 410 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: the v A in two thousand and ten, I believe 411 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: UM said that recommended cannabis, medical cannabis for soldiers returning 412 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: home them. What for PTSD, I believe PTSD. I'm sure 413 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: all sorts of other things. It's a legitimate course of 414 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: treatment for soldiers returning from the front lines. Wow, isn't 415 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 1: that crazy? It's interesting? Uh. And speaking of l A, 416 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: you know they hit their peak in uh two thousand 417 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: nine ish with you know what, they said, anywhere from 418 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: six hundred to a thousand dispensaries, and they said, you 419 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 1: know what, the city said, this is getting way out 420 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 1: of hand, Like you've got a strip mall over there 421 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: with like three medical marijuana dispensaries in it. That's kind 422 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: of ridiculous. So they ordered, um, four hundred and thirty 423 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: nine of them to be closed. Uh. And I think 424 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: what was the It was only dispensaries that registered with 425 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,119 Speaker 1: the city after the council adopted the moratorium in two 426 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: thousand seven were allowed to operate. So about a hundred 427 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 1: and thirty of the six hundred roughly were allowed to 428 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: stay open that were registered after the moratorium or for 429 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: it says, after which that doesn't make any sense. Yeah, 430 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't make any The most unfair law This is 431 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 1: from the LA Times too. But now people are, you know, 432 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: filing lawsuits and and such on on patients rights lawsuits 433 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: and uh, stuff like that. It's a it's a wild ride, man. 434 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 1: It's interesting to watch. You need to see anybody who 435 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 1: can use the help of something like medical marijuana being 436 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 1: denied it and suffer well. And that's the point of 437 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 1: one of the attorney says, He's like, why should we 438 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: treat them any different than the vicat and patient or 439 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: the OxyContin patient. Um. They did do a study to 440 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: when they closed down all those hundreds of dispensaries about crime, 441 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: and it was a Rand Corp study and they found 442 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: that crime went down, um with the dispensaries, and crime 443 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: went up when they closed him. But it was a 444 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: pretty hinky study. Admittedly, Yeah, they only looked at ten 445 00:28:55,560 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: days before and ten days after, and um, it was 446 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: within three tenths of a mile of the closed facility 447 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: there was a increase in crime. H within six tenths 448 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: It was just it was a pretty hinky study. Basically, 449 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: Even the people that are for it were like, come on, 450 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: you need to do a better job than this. If 451 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: you're going to study crime, well, I will tell you this. UM. 452 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: In that Rolling Stone article, the United Food and Commercial 453 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: Workers Union estimates that umred jobs have been lost since 454 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: the federal crackdown starting in the beginning of two thousand 455 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: and eleven. Jobs in this economy. That's unconscionable us. All right, 456 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: do you have anything else? No? I don't. Let's do 457 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: a follow up on this in five years. Good idea. Yeah, 458 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: you got anything else? I got nothing else. I don't either. 459 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: If you want to learn more about medical marijuana, you 460 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: can type those words into the search bar how stuff 461 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: works dot com. UM. That's m A R I JU 462 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: A n A. I believe uh. And since I said 463 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: handy search parts the time for listener mail. Actually I 464 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: did have one more thing. Brownie Mary. You ever heard 465 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: of her? She was a famous uh medical marijuana activists 466 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: in San Francisco, This elderly woman who would make brownies 467 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: for people, UM and you know, really went to the 468 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: mat for for people in need. Her name was Mary Jane. 469 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: That was her real name, Mary Jane. I can't think 470 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: of her last name. Let's call her that. I don't 471 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: know Brownie Mary because she delivered the brownies. I guess 472 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: Brownie Mary or Brownie Mary Jane. That's much better. She 473 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: always laughed about her name. Supposedly she was like, Hey, 474 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: I guess I was destined to do this, but those 475 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: of you don't know, Mary Jane is a street term 476 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:51,719 Speaker 1: for marijuana. If it's okay, Josh, I'm gonna call this. Uh. 477 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: It was just sort of a weird email from a 478 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: dude in Minneapolis. Hey, guys, I was just listening to 479 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: the Mexican Wrestling podcast and you called for something to 480 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: knock your socks off. I thought i'd shared this with you. 481 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: Please take a moment to aim your feet away from 482 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: anyone's face unless they want a knocked off sock up 483 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: in their grill. Are you ready for this? I was 484 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: an anthropological expedition. I was on one into the heart 485 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: of the darkest Iowa, researching archaeological and cultural leads regarding 486 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: a Mayan prince who fell out of favor and may 487 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 1: or may not have traveled up the Mississippi in twelve 488 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: seventy BC, setting up a kingdom in exile somewhere around 489 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: the current town of Farmersburg. Ancient text also hint that 490 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: he appointed a monkey as his head of agriculture, which 491 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: was particularly interesting to me because I think monkeys are hilarious. Anyway, 492 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: I was excavating near Farmersburg, uh their single stop sign, 493 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 1: when I was suddenly surrounded by a street gang. They 494 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: all had switchblades, so you knew they meant business. Their 495 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: leader threatened me by saying, I only need to touch 496 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: you once, like touching the wings of a butterfly, then 497 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 1: you're dead, to which I replied, actually that's a myth. 498 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: You can touch their wings without killing them as long 499 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: as you know break the veins. Clearly a reference to 500 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: our show on your dethence right, uh? Or no? Was 501 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: that part of your Desthence in this manner, I opened 502 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 1: up a dialogue and we discussed briefly butterfly anatomy, the 503 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: difference between cumulus and Sirrhus clouds, and the way the 504 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 1: sun works. They were so impressed by my knowledge they 505 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: not only let me live, but they gave me a 506 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: gift certificate to Applebee's made an honorary member of their gang, 507 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: the Lords of Lepidoperative lepidoptery. This is the study of flies. Anyway, 508 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: I just wanted to thank you and share a first 509 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: day knowledge. Uh is truly power yours innertitude Matt from 510 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: Innneapolis that I don't think it's true at all, but 511 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: I think it's hysterical. And Matt took great time and 512 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: crafting a very clever email. So yeah, of course not 513 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: a monkey head of agriculture. I don't know, man, maybe 514 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 1: that parts true. The minds were awfully rich, true, and 515 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: they were I guess in Iowa. Yes, Um, well, let's see. 516 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: If you want to take the time to craft a 517 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: very clever email that captures our attention, we are always 518 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: happy to read it. 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