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Speaker 4: She is the urban policy and planning professional with more

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Speaker 4: City of Los Angeles. That's a big gig, right there, folks.

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Speaker 4: Her program focuses on business licensing, compliance and technical assistance, grants,

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Speaker 4: without further ado, doctor Brown, thank you for hanging out

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Speaker 4: We've you know, everybody's been dealing with you guys in

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Speaker 4: like where are you from? Are you from Los Angeles?

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Speaker 6: Now I'm for Philadelphia. I'm a Philly girl, born and

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Speaker 6: and I rubbed.

436
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 5: The CD CBD cream.

437
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,919
Speaker 6: It just pulls that that ache out of my shoulder.

438
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 6: Sometimes my knees hurt when I when I you know,

439
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 6: walk maybe five or six miles, and it just pulls

440
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Speaker 6: the pain out of it. I'm very holistic and CBD

441
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 6: and cannabis have really helped me. I have insomnia sometimes

442
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 6: and sometimes I'll drink some tea with indica and it

443
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 6: just it helps me relax. Or sometimes when I have

444
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 6: you know, gut issues, it helps to calm down my

445
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,639
Speaker 6: stomach and my colon. So I don't take pharmaceuticals because

446
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,120
Speaker 6: I've learned have to use you know, cannabis in terms

447
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 6: of my health and wellness and also recreationally. I think

448
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 6: anything you know, in moderation, and I'm a big proponent

449
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 6: of moderation, and I do not believe that underage people

450
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 6: should be you know, consuming at all, you know, before

451
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 6: adult use, and in moderation, I think it could just

452
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 6: be such a plus in people's lives.

453
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we agree with that too, and not only that,

454
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Speaker 4: I mean just looking at even with children. When I

455
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 4: look at the children aspect, if you're an epilepsy, if

456
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Speaker 4: you have seizures, if you're medically inclined to qualify to

457
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 4: use cannabis rather than the other pills that they're giving you.

458
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 4: I mean, they're gonna sit there and let you go

459
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Speaker 4: to the nurser's office to give you a pill or

460
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Speaker 4: a shot of something. When why can't we put some

461
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Speaker 4: oils under their tongue and keep them just as calm

462
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Speaker 4: because it has.

463
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Speaker 6: The medical industry is a for profit industry. Let's just

464
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Speaker 6: being honest about that. It's for profit and it's not

465
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Speaker 6: in their interest to help people be healthy and well right,

466
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Speaker 6: It's not in their economic interest to do that, which

467
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,919
Speaker 6: is a sad state. That's why the you know, the

468
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Speaker 6: medical industry should not be a for profit industry.

469
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Speaker 5: But that's another discussion.

470
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Speaker 4: We could go down that crazy direction. I want to

471
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Speaker 4: go doctor b Is. We had a gentleman on the

472
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Speaker 4: show the other day and he was talking about the

473
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Speaker 4: Social Equity Program and how he pointed out some things

474
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Speaker 4: the Blue and Eye that were wayingby go hmm, as

475
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Speaker 4: you are the head of the department, I want to

476
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Speaker 4: get your thoughts on this as I see what you

477
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 4: guys are doing that are great and I'm going to

478
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Speaker 4: present the scenario as best as I can, and I

479
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 4: would love to get a response from you about it,

480
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Speaker 4: because it was on a previous podcast that aired and

481
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Speaker 4: he said something to the fact, I'm going to summarize.

482
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Speaker 4: People that get this social equity license, they get fifty

483
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Speaker 4: one percent, they have to own it if they're going

484
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Speaker 4: to get some loans or get funding. Is that correct? Right?

485
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Speaker 6: Well, no, that's for it to have a license, not

486
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 6: in terms of any kind of you know, we don't

487
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Speaker 6: do loans.

488
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Speaker 5: We just do grants.

489
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Speaker 4: Okay, so grant So if you give them the grant,

490
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Speaker 4: they own the license they'll get. Oh you guys, just

491
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Speaker 4: do the grants. Is that not the that's not the license.

492
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Speaker 6: The licensing side of the house. But in order to

493
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Speaker 6: you have to have fifty one percent ownership to for

494
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Speaker 6: to have a social equity license.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that's correct.

496
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Speaker 4: One thing that you kind of answered that I'm going

497
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Speaker 4: to put up there that I wish I knew these

498
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Speaker 4: answers when he was speaking the other day, because he

499
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 4: was saying some things like we should put these people

500
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Speaker 4: because of all the criterias right low income ten years

501
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 4: they're going to they might not be college educated, so

502
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Speaker 4: if they were able to get like a city college whatever,

503
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Speaker 4: junior college free classes. But then you just mentioned how

504
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Speaker 4: the website has over seventy hours of no.

505
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Speaker 6: One hundred and fifty hours of learning content, one hundred

506
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Speaker 6: and fifty hours of learning content, and over eighty hours

507
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Speaker 6: of live webinars.

508
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Speaker 5: They don't need to go to community college. It's all

509
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Speaker 5: right here.

510
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Speaker 4: That stuff is like unseen, unheard, unknown, because I don't

511
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Speaker 4: think what you stated there is common knowledge to the

512
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Speaker 4: folks that like I got chills right now, right, I

513
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 4: don't know about you, but like iye kills because you

514
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 4: know I didn't know that. I didn't know that either.

515
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 4: And here we talked to everybody that owns everything, and

516
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 4: that's why we're so excited to talk to you and

517
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,400
Speaker 4: hear this. And I was browsing the website as well,

518
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 4: and there's a prothers so much stuff on that website

519
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 4: to look at. It's crazy. And that was my first

520
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 4: time even going to that website, right, and I'm not applying.

521
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 4: But then to me, it's like I sit here and

522
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 4: say to the ones that are bashing it, like I said,

523
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 4: you're either loved or hated, right, Our people are like, well,

524
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 4: this is what they need to do better, and this

525
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 4: is that which everybody has an opinion and that's just life.

526
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 4: I get it, and I'm not mad at it either.

527
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Speaker 4: That's why I wanted to present it in a way

528
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Speaker 4: of can you answer these questions but yet you kind

529
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 4: of answered some of them for me that I'm like, hmm,

530
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 4: that's great. Like people need to realize this at least

531
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Speaker 4: LA County. You guys are offering this out there for

532
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Speaker 4: the people that are doing it. You're not just saying, hey,

533
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Speaker 4: here's this good luck fail. Because I feel like doctor

534
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Speaker 4: B the general impression is the majority of people that

535
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 4: goes with the social social equity licensing and all this

536
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 4: other stuff, they're set up to fail. That's what I

537
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 4: feel like in my gut. I don't know about you, Blue,

538
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 4: but that's what I feel like. The general consensus is

539
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 4: with around people that come around here that are business

540
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 4: owners and this and that, and they go, oh, why

541
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Speaker 4: don't they.

542
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Speaker 5: True what you're saying? It's some truth. It is.

543
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Speaker 6: It's a very LA has and we're the city, not

544
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,120
Speaker 6: the county. LA has one of the most complicated licensure

545
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Speaker 6: processes in the country.

546
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Speaker 5: I tell the truth. I tell the truth.

547
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Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, also, if you're

548
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 6: a serious entrepreneur, it's on you to get the information.

549
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 6: I mean, let's just be real about that. It's like,

550
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 6: if you're an entrepreneur, then don't you have the curiosity

551
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 6: to go online to see what's available.

552
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 5: We also have excuse me, three.

553
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 6: Hundred hours of one on one coaching, not online. You're

554
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 6: talking to a subject matter expert and you can ask

555
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 6: them anything that you want to ask them, and they will,

556
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 6: They'll give you the answers and they'll walk you through it.

557
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 6: And so I'm trying to do more marketing of our

558
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 6: services because we need to do a better job to

559
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 6: let people know what's available.

560
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Speaker 5: And so now that we have.

561
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Speaker 6: More capacity, because keep in mind, Joe and Blue, we

562
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 6: started from nothing. We were like a startup. There was

563
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Speaker 6: no infrastructure. When dc I was created. There was not

564
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Speaker 6: one form, not nothing.

565
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Speaker 3: And nothing and nothing to go off of.

566
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know to go format like a exactly.

567
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Speaker 5: This has never been done before in the country.

568
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 6: So there wasn't like a you know, we could we

569
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Speaker 6: could use best practices or or cut and paste forms,

570
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 6: none of that. And I always give the analogy like

571
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Speaker 6: when you have like a new housing development. Before they

572
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 6: even break ground and start to build, they have to

573
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 6: do all of the infrastructure. They have to lay all

574
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Speaker 6: the wiring, the plumbing, right the sewage lines, things you

575
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 6: don't see, the roads before they can even first build

576
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 6: a house. That's what we've had to do. We've had

577
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 6: to build infrastructure from the ground up. But that's what

578
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 6: move me the most because we have an opportunity to

579
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 6: put did in place progressive policy reforms because it's never

580
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Speaker 6: been done before.

581
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Speaker 5: So it's like building a plane.

582
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Speaker 6: As you're flying the plane and there's you know, there's

583
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 6: pros and cons to that. But when I started, there

584
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 6: was like six people here, and now we've been able

585
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Speaker 6: to hire seven. No, now we have fifty three people,

586
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 6: but twenty five of them, no, thirty of them were

587
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 6: just hired this year. But we also didn't have funding.

588
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Speaker 6: I mean I got hired in twenty what twenty eighteen, Oh,

589
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Speaker 6: when I started twenty seventeen. Yeah, because I'm going into

590
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 6: my ending my fourth year in July, i had no

591
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Speaker 6: staff and so we had and we didn't get any

592
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Speaker 6: funding until twenty nineteen, and so we've had to just

593
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Speaker 6: work with what we had.

594
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Speaker 5: And build something from the ground up.

595
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Speaker 6: And so I feel sad a little bit because that

596
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Speaker 6: first group of entrepreneurs, they were a little they kind

597
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 6: of dealt with some collateral damage because nothing was in place.

598
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 6: You know, we didn't have all these resources then that

599
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 6: would have made their trajectory very different. We didn't have

600
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 6: the training to offer them when I first started, and

601
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,479
Speaker 6: so they didn't get they didn't have you know, they

602
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 6: couldn't take advantage of these resources because they didn't exist.

603
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 4: Well, the tools weren't in place yet because everybody was

604
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 4: learning what to do. And then not only that, no

605
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 4: matter what, you guys are still dealing with the state,

606
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 4: and the state's bullshit that you guys got to deal

607
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 4: with as well, and then deliver that bullshit to the

608
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 4: people that are trying trying to help, and then they

609
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 4: get mad at y'all, like it's your pol that's true.

610
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Speaker 6: Well, we're on the ground with folks. I mean, the

611
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 6: state are they're kind of insulated. But we walk this

612
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 6: journey with people, and so we hear people's angs, we

613
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 6: understand their pain points, and I mean sometimes it's a

614
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 6: real challenge, I have to tell you, and it's a

615
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 6: heavy lift, it's a real heavy lift and sometimes I mean,

616
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Speaker 6: I'm just I'm sad and because we can't help the

617
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 6: folks the way I know they need help. We don't

618
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Speaker 6: have the capacity or the resources. So I'm a very

619
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Speaker 6: realistic person. We just we make the most out of

620
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Speaker 6: the resources that we have.

621
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Speaker 4: And doctor Brown, I want to ask you something that

622
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it really pertains to what you

623
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 4: do and how you do it, but I want your

624
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 4: thoughts on it because of your experiences and your knowledge

625
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 4: and expertise of what you've learned in school and whatnot,

626
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 4: especially with the sociology background you've mentioned. The illicit market.

627
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 4: Los Angeles has a tremendous amount of illicit black market storefronts.

628
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Speaker 5: We don't say black market.

629
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Speaker 6: Black is analogous to the illegal.

630
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Speaker 4: The illegal bottom line, they have a lot of legal stores, right, yes,

631
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Speaker 4: how do you guys that are trying to help people

632
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 4: get their own regular stores and like try to do

633
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 4: it right? And you're sitting there with the city looking

634
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 4: down the way, going, hey, let's have a group discussions,

635
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 4: like police, can you guys shut all these folks down

636
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,479
Speaker 4: that we're trying to help do these other Like, how

637
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 4: do you guys deal with that?

638
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Speaker 6: That's part of the heavy lift, Joe. I mean, we

639
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 6: only have purview over the licensed market. We have no

640
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 6: purview over the unlicensed market. We do work with LAPD

641
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 6: and we have a complaint portal, and when people complain,

642
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 6: we will, you know, we'll check it out and see

643
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 6: if they're licensed, and then we'll refer them to LAPD.

644
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 6: But keep in mind, we've been very intentional not to

645
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 6: create a war on drugs two point zero. That's not

646
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 6: what we want, and so we've been intentional and that's

647
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 6: been a real challenge because we have insisted that LAPD

648
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 6: use what we call progressive enforcement instead of going in

649
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 6: there and arresting people. Well, we'll do you know, like

650
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 6: we'll do padlocking, or we'll do utility shut offs. We'll

651
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 6: cut off their electricity or their water, you know, progressive enforcement,

652
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Speaker 6: because we're not trying to create another war on drugs

653
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Speaker 6: two point zero. But to day, the elicted market is

654
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Speaker 6: really you know, helping to keep prices the way they are.

655
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 6: You know, prices will go down if we don't have

656
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Speaker 6: this listed market.

657
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Speaker 2: You know, I like I like the progressiveness idea because

658
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: I think that's that's generally how they would shut down

659
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 2: you know, somebody that wasn't a licensed business. For example,

660
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 2: you know there's a barber shop that doesn't have a

661
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 2: license and he's operational. They don't go in there and

662
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: smash the door down, you know, and and rest them

663
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 2: to rest them. Granted, granted they're not you know, providing

664
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Speaker 2: a substance for somebody. But but at the same time,

665
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 2: you know, it makes more sense, Hey, cut the electricity off,

666
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 2: you know, let's let's ask him to leave. What's go

667
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 2: in there and tell them, hey, look, you know this

668
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 2: is this isn't going down or whatever. You can try

669
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Speaker 2: to do. A lot of these guys don't care. They're

670
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 2: continuing to open up the stores. But but again, I

671
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,919
Speaker 2: I do like the progressiveness of it. But I think

672
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 2: that one point, you know, right now, if if we

673
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 2: were selling liquor on an illegal level, the you know,

674
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 2: the well, I don't know, the tobacco, alcohol, tobacco and firearms,

675
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 2: you know, they would come in and they would shut

676
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Speaker 2: us down somehow.

677
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 6: You know, if they find you, they would give you,

678
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 6: you would have to pay a fine. You don't it's

679
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 6: not even a question of getting arrested. And that's where

680
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Speaker 6: the normalization comes into play. But also I would challenge

681
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Speaker 6: you guys. You know, we also have to look at

682
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Speaker 6: these landlords who want to dispensaries that they know don't

683
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 6: have a license, but they're paying five times over what's market,

684
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 6: and you know, so they're complicit also. So we've tried

685
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 6: to work through things where LAPD also goes over goes

686
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 6: after the landlord. And I think that's going to help

687
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 6: shut down these illicit places. If the landlord knows that

688
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 6: they're going to have responsibility and they're going to get

689
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 6: a hefty fine, you know, one hundred k a day

690
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 6: or fifty k a day, they'll stop leasing to these

691
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 6: unlicensed dispensaries. And so you know, it's not just the entrepreneur,

692
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 6: it's also the landlord who is leasing to that unlicensed dispensary.

693
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Speaker 3: Well, very true, you know.

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting because you know, I think sometimes the

695
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 2: landlord will pretend they don't know, but a lot of

696
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Speaker 2: them they obviously.

697
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 3: They at one point, at one point.

698
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Speaker 2: They know, you know, And I feel like, if you know,

699
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Speaker 2: is there a way that maybe the.

700
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Speaker 3: Law enforcement would work with the landlord, But the landlad

701
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 3: is like, I'm not going to give this up.

702
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 2: So there's too much money in it for them too,

703
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 2: and there's no repercussion, so they're just going to continue

704
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 2: to do what they're doing. I mean, and we're talking.

705
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Speaker 6: With LAPD to come up with something that can be

706
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 6: codified by city council.

707
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Speaker 5: So we're working with them.

708
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Speaker 6: But in the meantime, we don't want to see you know,

709
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 6: this vulnerable group of people in many instances, you know,

710
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 6: be over criminalized yet again. So we're doing the progressive enforcement,

711
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 6: cutting off utilities, padlocking, those kinds of things.

712
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Speaker 4: That seems like the moest, safest way too, because it's

713
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Speaker 4: just facing it's a bunch of people that look more

714
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Speaker 4: like us three exactly, they're doing it, and we're normally

715
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Speaker 4: the three that are being attacked anyways in judge absolutely quickly.

716
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 6: Well, you know, we all know and the history and

717
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 6: the data shows that black and brown people would overly

718
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 6: criminalize during more on drugs.

719
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Speaker 5: And it still happens today.

720
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 6: I mean, black and brown folks are arrested four times

721
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Speaker 6: more for possession than their white counterparts.

722
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Speaker 5: So you know, I think as people.

723
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Speaker 6: Become more educated, and that's something that we can all

724
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 6: do to let these landlords know you're going to be fine.

725
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 6: There's going to be a penalty for you when you're

726
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 6: getting twenty five a a month when two months ago

727
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 6: you were getting twenty five hundred a month for your

728
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 6: same space. Come on, you know that it's not a

729
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 6: legitimate business and I'm.

730
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Speaker 5: All for that.

731
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and got on, we'll see that happen. Let's take

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733
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736
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Speaker 5: Yes, thank you.

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754
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Speaker 4: Summer Edition event June seventeenth at the Mayfair Hotel from

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Speaker 4: three to nine. That's in Los Angeles. Talk about this,

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Speaker 4: Take into the actor list, what's going on.

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Speaker 5: Here so much? It's free to the public. This is

760
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Speaker 5: the summer edition.

761
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Speaker 6: We had one in February which was such a big

762
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Speaker 6: hit we decided to do it even better this time.

763
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Speaker 6: We have the whole hotel. It's a historic hotel, folks,

764
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Speaker 6: it's a beautiful venue. First of all, it's free to

765
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Speaker 6: the public. It's free valley parking, and also we're going

766
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 6: to have free self parking. We're going to have a

767
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 6: no host bar on the first floor. We're going to

768
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 6: have or Dures, a DJ on the rooftop, but from

769
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Speaker 6: three to five we're going to do what we call

770
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Speaker 6: speed dating, and it's going to be for social equity

771
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 6: businesses to have all the supply chains social equity folks

772
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 6: come to get their products on the shelves. And so

773
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 6: we want this to be a wonderful networking and business

774
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 6: development event for people to see each other face to face.

775
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 6: Everybody is still kind of coming out of COVID, right

776
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 6: for two years, almost two and a half three years,

777
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 6: we were sequestered in our own little silo, and folks

778
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 6: are now like really wanting to be together again because

779
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 6: we are over the fear of getting sick. And so

780
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Speaker 6: we just wanted to offer this venue and this opportunity

781
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Speaker 6: for thought leaders and you know, cultivators, manufacturers, delivery people,

782
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 6: retail folks to come together and see if they can

783
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Speaker 6: cultivate relationships which ultimately, you know, manifest into business relationships.

784
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Speaker 6: People do business with who they know and who they

785
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Speaker 6: feel comfortable with. And so this venue is a wonderful

786
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Speaker 6: opportunity for as I said, you know, supply chain people

787
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 6: to meet with dispensary folks. We're going to have a

788
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Speaker 6: resource room on the second floor where all of the

789
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Speaker 6: different resources that DCR provides. We're going to have tables

790
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Speaker 6: and talk about that. We're going to have our job

791
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Speaker 6: board and take you through. We have fifty nine jobs

792
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Speaker 6: on our jobs board. We're going to have folks from

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Speaker 6: Elevate Impact who do our grants. We're going to have

794
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 6: folks from Allie County Bar Association to talk about our

795
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Speaker 6: pro bono low bono legal services. We're going to have

796
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Speaker 6: coaches there to talk about whatever you want to talk about.

797
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 6: And then we're going to have the rooftop where we're

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Speaker 6: going to have the DJ after five o'clock and we're

799
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Speaker 6: just going to have a good time. And so we're

800
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Speaker 6: looking we're really looking forward to it. As I said,

801
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Speaker 6: the valet parking. That's what made the difference last time.

802
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 6: People don't want to pay twenty dollars to park and

803
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 6: we get that. So we're gonna we're spending, you know,

804
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 6: a good amount of our resources to offer this wonderful

805
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 6: networking event to the public. We just had our Cannabis

806
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 6: and Capital event in December at the La Convention Center.

807
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 6: That was during the torrential rains. Folks, I couldn't believe

808
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 6: four hundred and fifty people showed up in Torrential rain

809
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 6: and that was for it was an investor networking event

810
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 6: and that was fantastic. And so folks know our events

811
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Speaker 6: are serious. They have a good time. I believe that

812
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 6: when folks you know, no better.

813
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 5: They can do better.

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00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 6: And so this is just our giving back to the

815
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 6: community to offer a venue where folks can learn, they

816
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 6: can network, they can you know, meet business partners, business investors,

817
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 6: you know, get your brand out there.

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00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 5: And it's all you want it to be.

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Speaker 6: We have also we're going to have a professional photographer

820
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Speaker 6: to do professional headshots for free. I know, you can

821
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 6: put that on your website, you can use it for

822
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 6: you know, to market your company. And that was you know,

823
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 6: we did that in February.

824
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Speaker 5: That was a big hit.

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Speaker 6: So professional you know photos. We're going to have a

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Speaker 6: videographer there because we want to do some videos of

827
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Speaker 6: our entrepreneurs and you know you'll have access to that.

828
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Speaker 6: So you're going to have a professional videographer there. And

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Speaker 6: we're just excited about it and we're looking forward to it.

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Speaker 6: This is a this is the culmination of six months

831
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Speaker 6: of work and so we're looking forward to over seventeen

832
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 6: days out so you can go to event High and register.

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00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 6: As I said, it's free and it's open to the public.

834
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Speaker 4: And what's that day m a fair, hotel, event space,

835
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Speaker 4: you guys, it's downtown Los Angeles. The actual address is

836
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Speaker 4: one two five six West seventh Street in Los Angeles, California,

837
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 4: nine zero zero one seven. So go to event Bright,

838
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 4: get your tickets registered, Event High, Event High, Event High,

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: It's June seventeenth, that's on a Saturday. And so come

841
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 6: and have a glass of wine and go up on

842
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 6: the rooftop and whatever else you want to do up.

843
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 4: Their whatever you want to do up there, you do

844
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 4: it there.

845
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Speaker 6: It's a private venue. And so you know, it's just

846
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 6: we had we had a blast. The dj is want

847
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 6: to be rocking the house, and so we're going to

848
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 6: have a good time. We're going to do business and

849
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Speaker 6: we're gonna have fun.

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Speaker 3: Now this is just twenty one and over.

851
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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, And you know, I wonder if you know,

852
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 2: I got to look at our schedule, but if there's

853
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,760
Speaker 2: something that maybe we can all for, you know, Joe

854
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 2: is you know, maybe we could come do some kind

855
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 2: of training, like you know, like a podcast training or

856
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 2: some you know, media training or you know something of

857
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 2: that nature, just so that we can help out, you know,

858
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 2: maybe not this or maybe on the next one, because

859
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 2: we'd like to get involved in these things as well.

860
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Speaker 4: I'm hosting one here at our space, at our camp.

861
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Speaker 3: We can host one here in Orange County.

862
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 5: Let's talk about it.

863
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,760
Speaker 6: You know, I wish you guys weren't in Orange County

864
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 6: because that's quite a trek for folks. But hey, everything's possible.

865
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Speaker 6: That's the way I see it. And I just feel

866
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Speaker 6: as though, and we all feel as though there's room

867
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Speaker 6: out here for all of us. Everybody can make some

868
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Speaker 6: money and we can all do well. We can share

869
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 6: resources and share best practices. I spend a lot of

870
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 6: time helping other jurisdictions come online with their program across

871
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 6: the country, in New York, in New Jersey, in Illinois,

872
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 6: in Oregon. It's like I spend time helping them create

873
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 6: the program so that the community benefits from that. They

874
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,919
Speaker 6: don't have to start from scratch because they can learn

875
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 6: from our pitfalls and we have a lot of great

876
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 6: best practices to share. And it's my honor to help

877
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 6: folks get their programs up and running.

878
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,760
Speaker 4: As you say that, doctor B. And you know, looking

879
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 4: at your resume, looking at the LinkedIn, seeing what you've

880
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 4: done across this country, so to speak, from politics side

881
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 4: and everything else. Now having this big gig with the

882
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 4: social equity. What are some of those challenges, as you

883
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 4: say you share with them, what are some of the

884
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 4: challenges that you personally have to deal with of the

885
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 4: bureaucracy of dealing with your job of helping somebody that

886
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 4: looks like your sister, for God's sake, to your brother

887
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 4: and your mother you know me, they're your fan bam

888
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 4: where you're like, I want to help you, but this

889
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 4: is all I can do. Like, what are those challenges

890
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 4: that people think, Oh, you're just up there, you couldn't

891
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 4: make this happen. Sign this. I can only imagine how

892
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 4: people think because you work for the city, that you

893
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 4: have all the power, like you're the freaking you know,

894
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 4: president of the United States, and even he doesn't have

895
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 4: that type of power. But what are some of those

896
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 4: challenges and difficulties you have to deal with?

897
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 6: Well, you mentioned it, the bureaucracy. I mean, people have

898
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 6: no idea like making sausage. Nobody cares how the sausage

899
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 6: gets made. They just want the sausage. You know, I

900
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 6: like to give analogies. People can see it differently. You know,

901
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 6: we execute, we execute the ordinance. We execute the ordinance

902
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 6: that the city council put forth. We have spent the

903
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 6: last three years amending those ordinances because they so many

904
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 6: of the ordinances don't work in real time, right, and

905
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 6: so a lot of times our hands are tied. We're

906
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 6: not a private entity. We have to do things that

907
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 6: are for the good of the population. We you know,

908
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 6: we have to just do things in an equitable manner.

909
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 6: I just can't give a contract at to somebody. It

910
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 6: has to have a competitive process, which takes months to

911
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 6: do an RFP or to hire a vendor. I mean,

912
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 6: all these things, the bureaucracy of it, which takes time,

913
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 6: and so folks when they're on the ground dealing with things,

914
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 6: they don't want to hear that.

915
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 5: And I totally understand that. Sure, that's the that's the reality.

916
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 6: Dealing with That's the reality of any kind of jurisdiction

917
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 6: when you deal with the public, when you deal with

918
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 6: a public entity, the bureaucracy is baked in. And that's

919
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 6: just the reality of where we are. You know, we

920
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 6: try to cut through as much as possible I try

921
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:20,240
Speaker 6: to be trans as transparent as possible to manage expectations.

922
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 6: And I think that's where, you know, we did a

923
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 6: disservice to the community when Prop sixty four passed. A

924
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 6: lot of council members are saying, oh, come get this license.

925
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 5: It's like, no, you have to do you know, fifteen

926
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 5: things to get this license.

927
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 4: A process, folks of the process.

928
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 6: Yes, So I try to manage expectations. Also, you know,

929
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 6: you're going to need at least have access to a

930
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 6: million bucks if you are even considering a retail dispensary.

931
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 5: You know, delivery is.

932
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 6: Not as much because you don't have to have the

933
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 6: bricks and mortar. But unless you have access to some

934
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 6: serious capital, you're going to find it very challenging to

935
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 6: open up any kind of dispensary in Los Angeles.

936
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 2: And you know, how does how does a social actuality

937
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 2: application applicant find that kind of you know, capital when

938
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 2: when there's no banking or you know, and it's it's difficult, right,

939
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:14,280
Speaker 2: I mean, this has got to be a huge challenge.

940
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 2: And then to you know, one of the thoughts and

941
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,439
Speaker 2: that you know, on the previous show, someone says, well,

942
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,399
Speaker 2: how does somebody manage that kind of capital that has

943
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 2: fifty one percent of it that may or may not

944
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 2: have the experience to do so, because that's that's a

945
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 2: scary proposition itself, you know. So have you seen a

946
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 2: lot of that, you know go bad or work out?

947
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 5: Well, it's a challenge.

948
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 6: To your point, it's like, Okay, that's why these kind

949
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 6: of these kind of events are so helpful.

950
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 5: I always tell people, you know, your people are your

951
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 5: greatest resource.

952
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 6: It's like, talk to other folks who are in the

953
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 6: industry who've already gotten their license. They could be such,

954
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 6: you know, a resource for you to help you through

955
00:48:58,200 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 6: the pitfalls.

956
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:05,800
Speaker 5: You know. It's also it's promoted a predatory.

957
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 6: Industry, if you will, because to your point, blue folks

958
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,800
Speaker 6: might not have the experience. So they you know, folks

959
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 6: will come and they got the shiny here, I got

960
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 6: a two hundred k sign on the dotted line, or

961
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 6: I have the five hundred thousand dollars that you need

962
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 6: sign here, and they don't realize that they're signing their

963
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 6: life away.

964
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 5: Okay.

965
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 6: You know, all money is not good money, and so

966
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 6: we try to help our entrepreneurs. You need to really

967
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 6: vet your investor before you sign off because you find

968
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 6: yourself in a situation where you don't even have control

969
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 6: over your company anymore, you know, But all the time

970
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 6: they get the res by the time they realize that

971
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 6: it's too late. That's why I really recommend for people

972
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 6: to sign up for our one on one coaching and

973
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 6: get the information you need before you even begin this process,

974
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 6: to see if this is something that will be beneficial

975
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 6: to you and your family.

976
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 2: Because mother'ry no, no, please go ahead.

977
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 6: Most of the time, for equity entrepreneurs, since they might

978
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 6: not have the banking relationships because they've had an arrest

979
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 6: or conviction, they have to turn to their family and friends.

980
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 6: So I always say to folks, before you ask your mom,

981
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 6: you know, to take out a second on her house,

982
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 6: you need to do everything you can do to make

983
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 6: sure this is a good investment. I want to be

984
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 6: a part of creating generational wealth. I do not want

985
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 6: to be a part of creating generational debt.

986
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:34,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's what's going.

987
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 6: To happen if people don't do their homework, aren't smart

988
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 6: about who they're signing up with to be an investor,

989
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 6: and those are the things that take time.

990
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 5: And I would just implore folks to do their homework.

991
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 6: Before they sign their life away or have their families

992
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 6: invest in their businesses, and they go belly up and

993
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 6: their families lose their home. For most of us ninety

994
00:50:56,520 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 6: percent of the country, the people's homes are their biggest ass.

995
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 6: And when you're asking your family to take out a

996
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 6: second mortgage on their house, you damn sure better be

997
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 6: prepared to make a go of it so that your

998
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 6: family doesn't lose everything they've built.

999
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 2: You know, I got into, you know, kind of a

1000
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 2: situation in the beginning. This is years ago when when

1001
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 2: you know, the the applicants you know, first came on

1002
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 2: board and and I, you know, there was a group

1003
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 2: that I knew that were applicants, a socialeficity applicants, and

1004
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 2: they they had an invest that well I knew some investors,

1005
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 2: and I was talking to the investors and I was

1006
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 2: talking to the africant and the next thing, you know,

1007
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,720
Speaker 2: I realized I'm in the middle of something that didn't

1008
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 2: feeld right, you know, and and I kind of it was.

1009
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 3: It was one of those things I had to.

1010
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 2: Back way out of because you know, the investors over here, well,

1011
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 2: you know, you do you're supposed to own fifty one percent,

1012
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 2: but you know, you need to sign this contract that

1013
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 2: says that I can you know, operate the company in

1014
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 2: this manner.

1015
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. And there's so much.

1016
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 2: Going on, and then the applicants like, well blow it

1017
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 2: says you know, I should never do that, and I'm

1018
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 2: going with, yeah.

1019
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 3: But you're gonna get the money.

1020
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 2: And then I'm in the middle of going, wait a minute, like,

1021
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 2: you know what, let me exit this whole thing, because

1022
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 2: I seen how it was happening, and I I kind

1023
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 2: of pulled all the way out of it because I

1024
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 2: felt like it was predatory, you know, and because the

1025
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 2: applicant didn't have the resources, they didn't have the skills

1026
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 2: to probably operate that kind of capital, and the investor

1027
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 2: knew that and really they're going after that license. And

1028
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 2: then it was it was one of those weird, you

1029
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 2: know thoughts where I just go, you know what this

1030
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,320
Speaker 2: could be, you know, really go really bad, and I'd

1031
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 2: have to be involved in it, and I didn't want

1032
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 2: to put anybody in that position, you know, and I

1033
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 2: just so many people.

1034
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's why we say, before you enter into any

1035
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 6: you know, ownership agreement, have our attorneys from lap Bak, Right,

1036
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 6: look at your ownership agreement before you sign off on it,

1037
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 6: and don't be sure to sign something that you haven't

1038
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 6: had your attorney look at, right, And so you know.

1039
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 2: And you have attorneys that are that are with you

1040
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 2: guys that actually know.

1041
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 5: That's what I'm talking about.

1042
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, So.

1043
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 4: Thirty hours at thirty five bucks an hour, Yeah, forty

1044
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 4: hours right there.

1045
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, And so I would really spend the time with that,

1046
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 6: and and just take the time. I know sometimes people

1047
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,800
Speaker 6: just want to jump in and they they're so excited

1048
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 6: about it, but you have to stop and do your

1049
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 6: due diligence because the time that you spend on the

1050
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 6: front end is what's going to change the trajectory of

1051
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 6: your business life. And so get your attorney to look

1052
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 6: at that ownership agreement, get your attorney to look at

1053
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,479
Speaker 6: your leasing agreement. And you can get that here through

1054
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:49,399
Speaker 6: our pro bono and low bono legal services program. It's

1055
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 6: available to you, guys, please sign up for it. And

1056
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 6: then our grants program, we just had a we call

1057
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 6: it our Seed Rental Assistance grant program.

1058
00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:58,720
Speaker 5: We just gave out.

1059
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 6: The grand closed in March, but retail equity entrepreneurs, we're

1060
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 6: able to get fifty thousand dollars in grant dollars, and

1061
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:10,879
Speaker 6: then all other license types were able to get ten K. Now, yes,

1062
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 6: that money is taxed, but let's say fifty k you

1063
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 6: spend eight in taxes. Hey, that's forty two k in

1064
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 6: free money. I'm an entrepreneur. That would help my business

1065
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 6: forty two thousand dollars. But you have no idea how

1066
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 6: hard we have had to work to give this money away.

1067
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 6: And I'm still scratching my head. I don't understand why

1068
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 6: people aren't lined up to get grant dollars and to

1069
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 6: get free legal services. That's the disconnect that I'm still

1070
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 6: trying to wrap my arms around my whole team.

1071
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 5: We're still trying.

1072
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,240
Speaker 6: To figure out why folks don't take advantage of these

1073
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 6: free resources.

1074
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 4: Well, can we take some of that free money. Let's

1075
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 4: sit down and figure out how seats you want to

1076
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 4: want to capital life? Baby, Come on, doctor me, how

1077
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 4: was homies out? This is a new school teaching John

1078
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 4: right here trying to get down the babe. I just

1079
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 4: have a look private meeting after this. I have another

1080
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 4: serious one, though, doctor Brown, that I'm sitting here thinking

1081
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 4: as you're talking, and I'm going back to a previous

1082
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 4: podcast of a gentleman speaking and he was saying about

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Speaker 4: the when you get and this isn't your department, but

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Speaker 4: I just want your knowledge on this and speak on it.

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Speaker 4: The difference is when someone gets a social equity license

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Speaker 4: is not the same as if you get a normal license.

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Speaker 4: Why don't they give the people that give a social

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00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 4: equity license just the same license period because of all

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Speaker 4: the different requirements that they have that you're kind of

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Speaker 4: speaking on a little bit about. I mean, they still

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Speaker 4: have to do their due diligence either way right when

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Speaker 4: you have the license, but there's just so many more

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Speaker 4: different requirements once you have the social equity license that

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Speaker 4: limits the person unlike the person that has the regular license.

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Speaker 4: Do you A know the reason why that's the case?

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Speaker 4: And b wouldn't it be better from what I've heard

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Speaker 4: from the other standpoint of if they've getting a requirement,

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Speaker 4: if they have those three things, two of the three requirements,

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Speaker 4: why couldn't we just give them a normal license.

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Speaker 6: Well, when you say normal, you meet a general license,

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Speaker 6: and there's like pros and cons of that. That's the

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Speaker 6: way the ordinance was written. We didn't write that ordinance oh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm not I'm notcusing you, I understand.

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Speaker 6: But DCR did not write that ordinance. But at the

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Speaker 6: end of the day, you know, those requirements for a

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00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 6: social equity applicant, but the social equity applicant has a

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Speaker 6: lot more access to resources than the general applicant. We

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00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 6: don't offer the grants to general applicants. It's only for

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Speaker 6: social equity. All of our you know, our learning modules,

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00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 6: that's just specifically for social equity applicants, our grants, our

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00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 6: pro bono. You can't get that if you're a general applicant,

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Speaker 6: so you have to go through a few more hoops

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Speaker 6: to get the license. But once you get it, and

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Speaker 6: you know, you have all these resources that the general

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Speaker 6: applicant does not. And also we did an ordinance amendment

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Speaker 6: that speaks to the fact that only social equity applicants

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Speaker 6: have access to delivery, cultivation and retail licenses until twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty five. So we're trying to give the equity community,

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Speaker 6: you know, a chance to stand up their businesses until

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Speaker 6: twenty twenty five. And I'm telling folks, you know, get

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Speaker 6: it in gear, because after twenty twenty five, it is

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Speaker 6: going to be open to the general public. And that's

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Speaker 6: when big pharma and big tobacco are going to come in,

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Speaker 6: and then it's going to be a different.

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Speaker 3: Federal legalization comes Well.

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Speaker 5: We don't know that yet.

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Speaker 6: We don't know that, but we know in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 6: we know that, you know, the CBS's and all of

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00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 6: the tobacco industry is gearing up. And so it's just

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Speaker 6: like the tech industry when all the you know, these

1131
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 6: small tech companies. We want to help entrepreneurs at least

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00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 6: have something to leverage where you know, they can sell

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00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 6: their businesses for thirty million or twenty million if they

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00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 6: are in that position. But I always kind of push

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00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 6: back when people say, okay, equity entrepreneurs have more of

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00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 6: a hurdle to overcome to get the license, but then

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00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 6: once they get it, they have a robust suite of

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00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 6: assets and re sources that general applicants and licensees don't

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Speaker 6: have access to.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a something offline we should probably talk about,

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Speaker 2: but we we are working with a facility in Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles that is in a green zone that is trying

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Speaker 2: to acquire a licensee that has three stories and I

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00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 2: think or one hundred and fifty units inside that facility

1145
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 2: that you know they're looking at. You know, they were

1146
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Speaker 2: discussing with us to try and make it a cannabis

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Speaker 2: you know, friendly suites.

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Speaker 3: That allow people to operate there, and.

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Speaker 2: You know, maybe there's something there where we can you know,

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Speaker 2: set up for social equity applicants to have a location.

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Speaker 2: Because if I'm not mistaken, I think doesn't the state

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Speaker 2: or somebody help provide some of the rent or their

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00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 2: payments as well for their locations or does that something

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Speaker 2: that the city doesn't.

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Speaker 5: Help out Oakland.

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Speaker 6: Oakland has had that kind of programming where they helped

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Speaker 6: to create some cbators and they paid like, you know,

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Speaker 6: the down payment. We don't have the wherewithal for that

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Speaker 6: in terms of my program. And Karen Bass, who is

1160
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 6: our new mayor, all of the city's own properties now

1161
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 6: they're going towards the homeless. So that's even a more

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Speaker 6: that's even a greater strain on secure and compliant property.

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Speaker 6: I mean, there's not enough inventory out here in terms

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Speaker 6: of real estate. So you know, we're trying to figure

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00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 6: out how we can deal with that issue. We're trying

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00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 6: to work with the California Association of Realtors, you know,

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Speaker 6: just to figure out how we can how we can

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Speaker 6: deal with you know, supply and demand. And so it's

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Speaker 6: just as I said, it's a heavy lifted at every point.

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Speaker 6: But the fact that we're we're just in the beginning.

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Speaker 6: We're just coming out of prohibition people, We're just coming

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Speaker 6: out of prohibition. The industry is going to look very

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Speaker 6: different ten years from now, five years from now, you know.

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Speaker 6: I try to think about, Okay, how can I can

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Speaker 6: we put together some progressive policy reforms from which to

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Speaker 6: build and so that's I try to stay in the

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Speaker 6: moment and put together the programming that will allow people

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Speaker 6: to grow and build.

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Speaker 5: And that's where we are.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great to have you on the show with us.

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Speaker 4: Doctor Amani Brown, the director of Social Equity Program with

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Speaker 4: the City of Los Angeles Department of Cannabis Regulation. Is

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Speaker 4: there anything that you want to mention before we let

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Speaker 4: you get on out of here, And thank you so

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Speaker 4: much for your time today. By the way, thank you

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Speaker 4: for going to the office.

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