1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Happy Saturday. This is Chuck here to introduce 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: you to this week's Saturday Select, and we are going 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,719 Speaker 1: with a classic from the archives, How Marijuana Works. Why 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: are we releasing this today on a Oh because we're juveniles, 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: that's why, everybody. I hope you enjoy. It's very insightful episode. 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: And here we go with how Marijuana Works. Welcome to 7 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: stuff you should know from how stuff works dot com. Hey, 8 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. 9 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: Tuck Bride getting his demons out, man. And how about 10 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: this music? Yeah, this is a thanks to our guest 11 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: producer Noel. Yeah, who is Jerry's actually producing, but he's 12 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: got the musical touch. He's if you want to, he's 13 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: our dub producer. Yeah, if you want to reggae. If 14 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: I your podcast, Nol is the man. Yes, the big 15 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 1: thanks to Noel. Yeah, and great idea by you. I 16 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: and I yeah, yeah, I and I love that. How 17 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: you doing, man, I'm great. You've got some good feelings 18 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: going on. Yeah. I mean we've covered grow houses and um, 19 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: we had a medical marijuana right I don't think so. No, no, 20 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: because a lot of it didn't seem familiar when I 21 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: was looking into it in this article. So we've definitely 22 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 1: done grow houses, which is kind of backwards. Yes, well 23 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: not really. You gotta grow up. That's the first two. 24 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: So chuck, here we are. We're talking about pot, and 25 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: as is our thing. We're gonna talk about pot in 26 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: a very like above the boards mature way, are we? 27 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: I think we can. We've talked about some other stuff 28 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: before poop. We've talked about poop plenty of times. Yeah, well, 29 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: I think booze. Every time we cover drugs, we like 30 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: to cover the scientific aspects, social ramifications, how it's impacted culture. 31 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: Why would this one be any different? Well, and this 32 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: is probably the biggest, you know, it's the most ubiquitous. 33 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, you know, yeah, maybe the gateway 34 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: to all the other episodes. Very funny, So, uh, I 35 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: guess if you we should start at the beginning. How 36 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,119 Speaker 1: about that? Let's talk about pot and its history. It's 37 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: very long, long, long history, UM, and actually for most 38 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: of that history it has been widely beloved and appreciated. 39 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: The apparently pot has been cultivated or marijuana. We're going 40 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: to use all that, um and interchangeably, we'd pot marijuana, 41 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: but cannabis, that's probably where it will stop. Like if 42 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: either want of us as ganja or sticky, it's in 43 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: this article, we should just shut it down it right then, 44 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: all right, all right, we'll do the Hey take that back. Yeah, 45 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: one of us will say that. Okay, uh yeah, But 46 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:15,679 Speaker 1: like you said, I mean, this is gonna be an 47 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: overview because we could do honestly, four shows on the 48 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: history of pot. There's quite a rabbit hole we could 49 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: go down here. Yeah, we got to avoid it. Yeah, 50 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: but we're just we'll give you a historical overview about that. 51 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: So um, like I said, pot has been cultivated for years, 52 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: and like I also said that it's mostly been appreciated 53 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: most of that time for two reasons. One it is 54 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: um in industrial or it was, until the rise of 55 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: the synthetics, a major industrial fiber hemp. And then secondly 56 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: it was a um or it still is a medicinal 57 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: herb that kind of spills over into recreational use as well. 58 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: So in the century in China, uh, it looks like 59 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: it was probably used medicinally yea, and not recreationally. But 60 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: they're definitely records written records of the cultivation of cannabis. Well, yeah, 61 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: a guy named shen Nung, who was an emperor but 62 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: was also China's first physician, wrote about how ma that's 63 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: what they called pot back then in China. H was 64 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: good for the yin and the yang, both of them, right, 65 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: which is actually is we'll see. Um, that's a pretty 66 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: astute observation early on, because what he's talking about is 67 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: balance or homeostasis, which pot definitely affects. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Uh. 68 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: They have found a mummy, a three thousand year old 69 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 1: Egyptian mummy, and looked into this and it it contained 70 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: quite a few drugs, but it definitely contained th HC. 71 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: So the Egyptians were getting down. Yeah, maybe medicinally, who knows. 72 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: In a thousand and one Arabian Nights, it makes an 73 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: appearance called bang g Sambad apparently loves this stuff, but 74 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: supposedly his was hash mixed with opium, which is way 75 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 1: more hardcore than what we're talking about. Uh yeah, yeah 76 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: probably so. Um they think it originated perhaps in India 77 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: and um north of the Himalayas is their best guess. Yeah, 78 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: they really have no idea. And actually there's like a 79 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: lot of debate still over whether there's more than one 80 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: um type of plant. What do you mean, So there's 81 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa. Yeah, they're different. There's another one 82 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: called Cannabis rude or alice um. And there's there's an 83 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: ongoing debate among botanists over whether they're all actually just 84 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: a different like um varieties of the same plant, or 85 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: if they really are different species of plants in the 86 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: same family. Interesting. Yeah, but I think the the current 87 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: common wisdom is that there's at least two Cannabis sativa 88 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: and Cannabis indica. Uh. Yeah, we may as well get 89 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: into that a little bit. Um. The indica is uh, 90 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: the plan itself is shorter and fatter and better suited 91 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: for indoor growing. And the uh sativa is taller, it 92 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: can get really tall like um yeah, and thinner um. 93 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: Although I think for cultivation, I don't think uh, even 94 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: though it's grown outdoors, I don't think they're growing the 95 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: twenty five ft plants. No. I would imagine the helicopters 96 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: can see them a lot more easily. Yeah, And the 97 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: indica is known for more of a a body high 98 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: um quote unquote, couch locked, yeah, mellow, and the sativa 99 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: is more known for more energetic and cerebral and creative, 100 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: more of a brain high. Right, and then conversely, one 101 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: can make you more paranoid, one can make you more druy. 102 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: Uh yeah. And typically these days, um, if you are 103 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: a recreational or medicinal user, you're probably getting some sort 104 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: of a uh hybrid strain. Good point. And actually some 105 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: of the strains, those hybrid strains are have some of 106 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: the best names, like green crack. It's a pretty good name. 107 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: A K forty seven white widow. White Widow is actually 108 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,679 Speaker 1: uh pure strain, isn't it of Indica. I'm not sure. 109 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: I think it is? Yeah, Maui wowie. The pot names are, 110 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: they're pretty funny. They've definitely gotten better from the seventies. 111 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: Like Maui wowie. Yeah, that sounds very slapping. Yeah. Um, 112 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: so should we talk about we should we talk a 113 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: little bit about um its history in this country, in 114 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: the United States. Yeah, so, I think we should get 115 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: to that because, as I said, Chuck, when you look 116 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: back on pot all of these years, and um, it's 117 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: how it was used. It was generally like appreciated, used, medicinally, used, recreationally, 118 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: not vilified. It wasn't until it hit North America that 119 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: it really started to become vilified. Yeah, well it had 120 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: a good run here too, Uh in the States for 121 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: a couple of hundred years. Um, it was hemp was 122 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: grown and cultivated and widely used. Some people say it's, 123 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: you know, the most versatile plant on earth as far 124 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: as the different uses you can get out of it. 125 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: And it was in the sixty nineteen Virginia Assembly Assembly 126 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: they even said, do you have to grow hemp if 127 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: you're a farmer in Virginia. So not only was it encouraged, 128 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: it was actually law in Virginia at least. So I 129 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: had had a good run until the early nineteen hundreds 130 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: and nineteen twenties. Well, what's what's interesting is back in 131 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: this time, you remember that part in Days and Confused, 132 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 1: where um the like the this the biggest owner of 133 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: the whole group is talking about George Washington like, oh yeah, 134 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: like planning camp all day and then comes home and 135 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: smokes Martha. It's not clear whether or not any of 136 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: them were smoking pot, and it's entirely possible that they 137 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: weren't because the idea of smoking pot was law to 138 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: the ages for a very long time. Um and the 139 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 1: Greeks actually grew marijuana, but they didn't smoke it. They 140 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: just used it for its fibers. And it almost appears 141 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: like they had no idea you could smoke it and 142 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:15,479 Speaker 1: it was psychoactive. So it's possible that they our forefathers 143 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: didn't smoke pot, you know, and they were they were 144 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: just growing it for industrial uses. And meanwhile Native Americans 145 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: were like, you guys are crazy. Rope rope is nice, 146 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 1: but you know it can be both, that's right. Uh. 147 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: In um the early nineteen hundreds, the Mexican Revolution of 148 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: nineteen ten, this is one of the big turning points 149 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: because a lot of Mexican immigrants came to the US 150 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: and they were like, hey, you know, you can smoke 151 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 1: this stuff. It's pretty nice. And because Mexican immigrants had 152 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: a UM, we're sort of looked down upon all all 153 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 1: of a sudden, putt was looked down upon. Really, Mexican 154 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: immigrants were looked down upon somewhere in the US history. Yeah. 155 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: The the whole thing about um pot being very ified 156 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: or UM. I guess there was a moral panic basically 157 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: is what they call it, that erupted around it. Yeah, 158 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: and a lot of it was based in racism towards um, 159 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 1: Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants. Yeah, in the nineteen thirties, 160 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: especially in the depression, UM, they were sort of had 161 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: a bad name because you know, they're immigrants in this 162 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: country and we're Americans and we're in depression and we 163 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,959 Speaker 1: want the work and uh, kind of a lot of 164 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: the same arguments here these days. But um, the association 165 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: with Pott was definitely a part of it. It definitely was. 166 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: But also I read this um, this MPR blog code 167 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: Switch about this very topic, and they were saying, like, yes, 168 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: there's a lot of racism that led to the criminalization 169 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: of pot, but Mexico was twenty years ahead of the 170 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: US and criminalizing pot as well. So you can't just say, well, 171 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: it was just Americans disdain or dislike or distrust of Mexicans. 172 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: It was you know, it's more complex than that. And 173 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: this guy was saying that, really you could conclude there 174 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: was a fear of what this drug did. And the 175 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: reason why there was a fear of what the drug 176 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: did was because the newspaper reports at the time had 177 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: people like killing entire families and like wandering around the 178 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: streets like with somebody's head, right, um, covered in blood 179 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: because they just smoked a joint. And um, they were 180 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: really trying to unpack this, like why would that happen? 181 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: Did it happen? Where all of them just overblown reports. 182 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: The fact was when you picked up the Los Angeles 183 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: Times of the New York Times, there were front page 184 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: stories about this, and they were like brown skin, Mexican kills, 185 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: white family of eight on marijuana cigarette and that's why. 186 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 1: And actually the word marijuana was kind of used as 187 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: a derogatory term to kind of Mexican afi cannabis, which 188 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: is what it had been called prior to that. I 189 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: did not know that. I'm off my soapbox. Look at 190 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: you teaching me. Well. Movies like Reefer Madness definitely didn't help. 191 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: In n six The Family, a propaganda movie from French 192 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: director Louis Gasnier, it's, you know, required viewing for any 193 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 1: college student at some Yeah, it's it's not very good 194 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 1: and it's not very enjoyable, but it is kind of 195 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 1: funny showing the the reefer addicts, you know, driven to 196 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: insanity by the marijuana cigarettes. And somebody gets murdered, right, 197 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: I think someone murders somebody else because they smoked pot. Uh. 198 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: And then a n seven um a year after refer madness, 199 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: Congress packs past the Marijuana Tacks Act, and this is 200 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: basically where the tide turn, and it was essentially criminalized 201 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: because it called for restricting possession just two individuals who 202 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: paid attacks, which is like a thousand dollars for medical 203 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: or industrial use. So in other words, if you're just 204 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: you know, Sammy pod head, you can't live that way 205 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:55,599 Speaker 1: anymore in this country. Now. You would basically have to 206 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: show set up a shell organization, pay the thousand dollar tax, 207 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: and then you'd be able to impore marijuana. But if 208 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: you were caught with smoking it, you'd still get busted. 209 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: It was a big deal when that happened. And you 210 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: can kind of lay all of this at the feet 211 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 1: of one guy, a moral crusader who ran the Federal 212 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: Bureau of Narcotics in the thirties, well the thirties until 213 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: the sixties. His name was Harry Anslinger, and he was 214 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: the one who really kind of started this crusade against 215 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: Pott and got the government to um turn against it, 216 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: got the press to turn against it, and got the 217 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: Marijuana Tacks Act passed. But even while this guy's like 218 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: sitting there shouting like all marijuana is gonna kill us 219 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: all as a horrible drug and it's it's as bad 220 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: as it gets. There were studies, independent studies that were 221 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: um funded by the government that we're showing, like, you 222 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: guys are kind of overstating this a little bit. Yeah, 223 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: in Mayor Leaguardia of New York issued a report that 224 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: basically said that it doesn't induce violence, insanity, or sex crimes. Yeah, 225 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:58,959 Speaker 1: and he was a moral reformer himself, remember doing on 226 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: after the Minsky brother there's the burlesque episode. Yeah, so 227 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 1: it's not like he was just some big pothead, Like 228 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: he was a moral reformer himself and he still founded 229 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: this report. Yeah, that's good point that led to um 230 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: the The sentence and laws over time have kind of 231 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: waffled back and forth. Uh. In the fifties they were 232 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: pretty strict because of the Bogs Act and the Narcotics 233 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: Control Act, and that's when they started setting mandatory minimums 234 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: for basically any drug but including marijuana of course. Yeah, 235 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: like you would go to prison for a long time 236 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: if you got caught with pot. Yeah, two to ten 237 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: years for a first uh, first time offender in the 238 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: nineteen fifties getting caught with pot. Yeah, that's it, any 239 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: any amount. Uh. And in the sixties, things relaxed a 240 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: little bit, um in every way you can imagine in 241 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: this country. And uh, you know, President Kennedy and UH 242 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: and lb J issued reports that found kind of the 243 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: same thing as they found out in the forties. It 244 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: doesn't induce islands. Uh. And then these reports it said 245 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: it didn't wasn't a gateway drug either. Yeah. In the 246 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, which is still up for debate. Really, Yeah, 247 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: I've ever been definitively because you read every other report 248 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: you read, it's going to say something a little different 249 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: about what the gateway drug is. And plus I think 250 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: defining what makes a gateway drug two has never been 251 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: fully established. Yeah you can how can you test something 252 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: scientifically if it's you can't have it defined, you know. Yeah. Uh. 253 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: And the that led to the nineteen sixties led to 254 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: a repeal of a lot of the mandatory minimums in 255 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: the seventies. Um. But then, of course Ronald Reagan in 256 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties brought a lot of that stuff back, 257 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: and Nixon too, he fought that tooth and nail like, 258 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: even though the tide in the country was turning one way, 259 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: Nixon was like, Nope, we're going to keep pot as 260 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: illegal as possible, and as a matter of fact, we're 261 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: going to put it on the same level as heroin 262 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: and cocaine. Yeah. And during the Nixon administration, the Schaefer Commission, 263 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: it was a bipartisan commission, found again that it should 264 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: be decriminalized. And Nixon was just like, well, I don't 265 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that. Sorry, I'm gonna make 266 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: up my own mind about it. I'm the president exactly. Yeah. So, 267 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: like you said, the Reagan era brought it back. Um, 268 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: not brought pot back, No, brought back any kind of um. 269 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: Anti government sentiment toward pot itself was redoubled in the eighties. 270 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: Under the Reagan administration, mandatory minimums were or mandatory sentences 271 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: were reenacted. Um in six things to the Anti Drug 272 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: Abuse Act. If you got caught with a hundred marijuana plants, 273 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: you got the same um jale time as if you 274 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: were caught with a hundred grams of heroin. Yeah, that's 275 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: interesting plants versus grahams. That's sort of a apples orange 276 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: in comparison. Yeah, plants versus heroin. It's like plants versus zombies. 277 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: I know at one point this is sort of off 278 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: topic topic, but I don't know if they've changed, But 279 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: at one point they were sentencing LSD users by the weight, right, 280 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: and when that the deal is like they would like 281 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: if you were an LSD dealer and you had twenty 282 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: sheets of acid, they would weigh it. And they were like, well, 283 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: wait a minute, you can't weigh the paper. That's like 284 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: weighing the suitcase the cocaine comes. Yeah, and uh, I 285 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: think that's still the same though, didn't it. I don't know, 286 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: but I do know what you're talking about. And apparently 287 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: like if they would if you had it mixed in 288 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: with liquid or something like diluted into liquid form, they'd 289 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: take the weight of all the liquid rather than the 290 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 1: proportion of it. Yeah. I don't know. It could be 291 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: we could be like showing our gullibility for urban legend 292 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: or not, but I know that's the case. I don't 293 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: know if it still is, but I know it definitely was. 294 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: Definitely was yeah, because I saw like an HBO special 295 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: on he's LSD dealers, So we're basically serving like life 296 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: sentences for dealing acid right alongside murders and rapists. Um. Yeah, 297 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: I'll have to check into that and people who were 298 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: caught with pott in the thirties. That's right. So pot 299 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,400 Speaker 1: these days, costwise, um, varies a lot depending on quality. 300 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: Obviously it ranges. Um. I love that in this article 301 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: it says a dollar seventy seven to seventeen dollars and 302 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: sixty six cents per graham, like one gram of marijuana. Please. Yeah, 303 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: that's interesting. Um, but these days you can expect to 304 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: pay um for you know, what people consider good marijuana 305 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: about a hundred and twenty dollars for uh a quarterback, 306 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 1: which is a quarter of an ounce, right, which is 307 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 1: seven grams, right, because there's twenty eight grahams in and out. Yeah, 308 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: I think between seven eight grams. But um, it depends 309 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: on if the dealer likes you exactly. Yeah. But that's 310 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:43,679 Speaker 1: generally how it breaks down. As you know, you have 311 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: it by the pound, which is you know the pot, 312 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,719 Speaker 1: uh dealer, I guess, and then they break it down 313 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: into ounces and then to quarterbacks and dime bags and 314 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: whatever people can afford. I guess. Well. It's funny because 315 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: in the state of the country right now, Like you 316 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: can take dealer and dispensary and basically flip them and 317 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: interchange them, and no matter what you're talking about, the 318 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: virtually the sentence is going to remain unchanged basically, you know, 319 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: because the marijuana dispensaries are following like basically the same 320 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: format that marijuana dealers in this country have for decades, 321 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like pricing and yeah, the pricing, um, 322 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 1: the way it's sold by weight, like I think you 323 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: still't buy like like quarters and half ounces and ounces 324 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: and stuff, which makes sense. But they're also getting a 325 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: lot of this stuff from people who are growing at 326 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: indoors in their basement. And it's like now they have 327 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: licenses for all this, but it's basically like all the 328 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,439 Speaker 1: people who were doing it illegally before or some of 329 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 1: the people who are doing illegally before point and applied 330 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: for licenses and now they're doing the same thing, but 331 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: they just have like a a license to do it 332 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,919 Speaker 1: in a frame on their wall. Yeah, and dispensaries, you're 333 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: gonna find a lot of other things, uh, like edibles 334 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: and um, they even have now cannabis strips, like you know, 335 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: the little listing breath strips. They have a little cannabis strips. 336 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 1: It's just a little uh edible strip of concentrated cannabis. 337 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: And I guess you put it under your tongue and 338 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: that's better for your lungs. I would imagine if you're 339 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: a oh, yeah, a cancer patient or something. Yeah, And 340 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,880 Speaker 1: we'll talk about that in a little bit. Let's let's 341 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 1: talk about the planet itself, chuck. Um. Maybe the most 342 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 1: recognizable plant that leaf, you know, yeah, which is um. 343 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: Here's a little fact for you. The botanical description of 344 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: the way that marijuana leaves are arranged is groovy called 345 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: palmately like the palm of a hand with five fingers outstretched. 346 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: That's the pot leaf. That's you. You can find on 347 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 1: lighters and baseball caps, that gas stations, um and the like. 348 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: You said. The planet itself, depending on which variety it 349 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,919 Speaker 1: is either very tall or kind of tall, depending on 350 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: whether it's trimmed or not. UM. And the the buds 351 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: or whatever that are smoked are actually the flowers of 352 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: the plants, the flowers of the female which apparently are 353 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: that's sentemia. So the definition of the word sentema are 354 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: female flowers that have reached maturity without being um pollinated. 355 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: I can't hear that word without thinking of Caddyshack. What 356 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: I don't remember that part Bill Murray A little California 357 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: sens to me. Yeah, yeah, so that's what that means. Yes, 358 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: that's the term sense of mea means. So basically, unless 359 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: you're like fourteen, if you're smoking pot, you're smoking centemia. 360 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: So yes, the term centemia means pot, the pot that's smoked. 361 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: Although the male flowers do have some THHD, it's just 362 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 1: far far less of female than female. Yeah. As a cultivator, 363 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: males are not what you want. In fact, males can 364 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: can disturb the cycle of the female plan. So the 365 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: goal of the cultivators to get the mail out of 366 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 1: there as quickly as it can be identified. Basically. Yeah, 367 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: and weed's actually good moniker for pop because it's it 368 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: spreads very easily there. Um pollen is like twenty four microns, 369 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: which apparently is very easily wind born and goes very 370 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: great distances. There's very few obstacles to pollenization. Um. So, 371 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: if you have female plants and you have what you 372 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,880 Speaker 1: suspect to be a male plan anywhere nearby, you want 373 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: to get rid of the mail plant and then tell 374 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: the officer, Uh, they must have just blown over here 375 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: and taken roots. Are right, These d plants in my 376 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,959 Speaker 1: backyard came from my neighbor. The pollens is twenty four microns. 377 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, he says, He says, tell your story 378 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: to the judge, my friend, Um, there are about uh 379 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: we should also say they are hermaphroditic plants. Hermaphroditic plants 380 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 1: that feature both male and female flowers are probably a mess. Yeah, 381 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: I think that maybe that's a good thing. I think 382 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: that's like a lot of hybrid ones are hermaphroditic. Okay, yeah, Well, 383 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: there are hundreds of chemicals in the marijuana plant. Um, 384 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: a hundred and nine of which are cannabinoids. About thirty 385 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: three are cancer causing, and we'll we'll get to that 386 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: stuff later too. But ironically they also are cancer killing 387 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: some of them. It is an odd plant. But we're 388 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 1: gonna get to all that stuff too, right, Um, And 389 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: your th HC is really the main psychoactive ingredient. What's 390 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: the long name for it, Delta nine tetra hydro cannabin 391 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 1: all that is th HC. That is what the high 392 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: that you're seeking. It lies within that chemical. Yeah, and 393 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: actually you can point to the part of the plant 394 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 1: where it is. UM. If you've ever seen a marijuana 395 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,719 Speaker 1: plant and it has kind of this hazy a period 396 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: appearance from far away and you get up close and 397 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,919 Speaker 1: you realize that haze is actually made up of a 398 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: into a little clear, sticky protrusions coming off the leaves. 399 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: Those are called tri combs, and that is where the 400 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,679 Speaker 1: th HC is stored. That's right. And depending on the plant, 401 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 1: in the variety and how it's grown and when it's harvested, 402 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 1: in the genetics and how you process it, it's that's 403 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 1: all gonna affect the THHC level. And it's a cultivator. 404 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: Your goal is to have the th HC level as 405 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 1: how as you can get it. Yeah, that is up 406 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: for debate as well. From what I've seen there, UM, 407 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: apparently they're just going higher and higher and higher as 408 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: far as th HC content goes. And there's a lot 409 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: of recreational pot users and um medicinal pot users, so 410 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: we're saying too much. Dude like K has a bit 411 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: about how when he was in like the in the seventies, 412 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: he can smoke like a whole joint and be like 413 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,360 Speaker 1: totally mellor cool. Now he's saying, it takes like one 414 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: hit and you go totally insane. Um. And apparently there 415 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 1: is like a point where it's just like that's too much. Well, 416 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,199 Speaker 1: Louis c cake in for better pot these days to now. 417 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: But you're right, it all depends on the the end user, 418 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: you know what they're into. But generally speaking, uh, the 419 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: cultivator wants to deliver the most bang for the buck, 420 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: you would think so. Sure, so, Chuck, let's figuratively smoke 421 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: some pot and follow it through the body. Okay, okay, 422 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: you know what, we probably shouldn't do this ourselves. No, 423 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 1: we we like our jobs exactly, and we might be 424 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,360 Speaker 1: fired for even figuratively smoking pot. Well, yeah, and who 425 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: wants to Let's let's get how about that scruffy looking 426 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: guy farmer Ted. Yeah, he's he's look at him. He's game. 427 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 1: So a lot of people don't know this, but we 428 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: have a friend named farmer Ted who has the very 429 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: strange um characteristic of having entirely translucent skin. He's kind 430 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: of like the Invisible Man or something like that. Yeah, 431 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: and what better person than to follow the trail of 432 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 1: THHC And the human body. Then you can actually see yeah, 433 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: because the rest of his organs or anything aren't translucent. 434 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: It's just a skin. Yeah, and uh, thank you for 435 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: coming in, Ted. Um. So Ted is going to smoke 436 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: a joint, a marijuana cigarette. Yes, and uh, He's going 437 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 1: to smoke what is a typical marijuana cigarette, approximately five 438 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: milligrams of marijuana, which translates to roughly, um, I don't know, 439 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 1: maybe ten milligrams of th HC. So he's going to 440 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: take a lighter and take it to the end of 441 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: this joint. I'm making air quotes here because it's that's vernacular. 442 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: Uh and uh. The th HC is going to be 443 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: burned and carried into his lungs, so farmer Ted is 444 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: kind of high already. Um. The the th HC in 445 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 1: the smoke is carried to the a viola in the lungs, 446 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: and the aviola is where gas exchange occurs. It's where 447 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,199 Speaker 1: your oxygen to pride blood comes to get a refill 448 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: of oxygen to be replenished. And since there's th HC 449 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 1: smoke present in that oxygen in the lungs, the t 450 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: HC is gonna hit your ride into the bloodstream and 451 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 1: travel through the body, so it just takes seconds. Yeah, 452 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 1: one of the places it's going to go is the brain. Uh. 453 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: And when it hits the brain, it starts doing some 454 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: pretty funky stuff. That's right. We could ask farmer ted 455 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: how he's feeling right now, and he'll probably say, yeah, 456 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: he can't talk. He might say that my eyes are 457 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 1: dilating and the colors are a lot more vivid. Yeah, um, 458 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: I'll be hungry soon. I'll be hungry soon. My other 459 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: senses are enhanced as well. But hold on, I'm starting 460 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: to feel at paranoid. Yes, let's let's get into this. 461 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: Let's let's get into how pot affects the brain, because 462 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 1: it is pretty gosh darn interesting if you ask me. Yeah, 463 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: And and this is how it the physiological effects. Um, 464 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: the end user might have different reactions to it. Didn't 465 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: make everyone paranoid necessarily, No, And I really looked into 466 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: it hard to find out why some people are paranoid 467 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: and some people don't. Part of it is it? Well, 468 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: there's two things. One and I didn't find anything definitive, 469 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: which I'm I'm sad about. But one the two things 470 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 1: I came up with, it's one. It depends on the pot. 471 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: Sure if if there is a difference between indica and sativa, 472 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: the prevailing wisdom is that if you smoke indicate, you're 473 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 1: going to be less likely to be paranoid. Okay. Uh. 474 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: The other reason is it would depend probably on the 475 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: existing brain chemistry of the user. My brain chemistry is 476 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: not the same as yours, um, and neither one of 477 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: ours are just the same as Jerry, So of course 478 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: when we introduce the psychoactive chemical into that chemistry, it's 479 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 1: going to affect it differently. So that's what I came 480 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: up with. Basically, I wonder if one of the reasons 481 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: indica is less likely is because that's the couch bound one, 482 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: and you're less likely to be a paranoid sitting on 483 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: your couch rather than the more active one like smoking 484 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: and going to the Renaissance festival where you'd be freaked 485 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: out stone sober, where you'd meet John Strickland and he 486 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: would mess with you if he found out your stone anyway. 487 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 1: I'm curious, Um, Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah. I've also 488 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: found there's research um that shows the the cannabin als 489 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: there's a precursor um chemical to them that's called cannabin 490 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: dialoic acid CBD and cbd UM has been found that 491 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: to actually counteract the schizoid effects of pot, like the 492 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: stuff that makes you paranoid, that symptom if you get 493 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: if you smoke a pot that has a higher CBD 494 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: T th HC ratio maybe it's even or something like that. Uh, 495 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: the CBD is going to cut down on the schizophrenic 496 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: symptoms while leaving like the rest of the stuff intact 497 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: interesting and that weird. So I wonder if if indicate 498 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: just by nature has a higher CBD content. Yeah maybe, so, yeah, 499 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: there are people that know this. Okay. So back in 500 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: the sixties, there was a researcher his name escapes Me 501 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: who started looking into what the heck made pot make 502 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 1: you loco? Right, right, and he found th HC. So 503 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: TC was isolated in the sixties, and from that they 504 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: reverse engineered um how th HC affected the brain and 505 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: effectively discovered an entire system that we didn't know existed 506 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: thanks to pot research. It's called the endocannabinoid system, and 507 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: it's a very ancient system that's found in everything from 508 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: C squirts to every vertebrate on the planet squirts C squirts, 509 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: very primitive animals, all the way up to us. Well 510 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: I know that, Uh, I didn't quite get the indocannabinoid parts, 511 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: so take it away, Okay, So I know it works backwards. Yes, 512 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: that's a very important point. So you know when like um, 513 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 1: when we do anything from our brain says grab coffee 514 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 1: mug right to um, to us thinking about how we're 515 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 1: feeling at any given point, all of that is based 516 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: on the transmission among neurons, right, Yeah, we've covered that 517 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 1: a lot. The neurotrans ter's kind of cover that gap 518 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: between the neurons and deliver the message, and then depending 519 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: on where the neuroprint transmitter is and what chemical has 520 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: come across, then different things happen. Right. Well, the endocannabinoid 521 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: system is this kind of dimmer switch, uh that is 522 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: around all neurons that works backward to kind of say whoa, whoa, 523 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: let's not pump those neurochemicals out as frequently or in 524 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,959 Speaker 1: as much abundance. And the whole point of the endocannabinoid 525 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: system is to maintain homeostasis or good for your in, 526 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: good for your yang and that weird. Okay, So when 527 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: you smoke pot, your endocannabinoid system, which has receptors all 528 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: throughout the body. There's cbtwo receptors which are mainly associated 529 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: with your immune system, and then CB one receptors are 530 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: throughout the brain. And when you smoke pot, the cannabinoids, 531 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: the phytocannabinoids, which is THHC in this case, go into 532 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 1: these reasons of your brain and stick to your brain, 533 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: to your endocannabinoid receptors. Yeah, they basically just kind of 534 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: hijacked the system. So these the systems that the endocannabinoid 535 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: receptors are meant to regulate are no longer being regulated 536 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 1: by our bodies endocannabinoids. They're being hijacked by th HC, 537 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 1: which is not subject to our bodies whims and and 538 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 1: all that. We just basically have to ride that snake 539 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: out until it's over. So you end up with all 540 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: these different weirdo symptoms that you normally wouldn't have, which 541 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: is basically the result of your endocannabinoid system going hey 542 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: whire because it's been hijacked by th HC. So like 543 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: your hippocampus, yes, we've talked about that that's good for learning, 544 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: and when the endocannabinoid receptors are full of th HC, uh, 545 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: you're not learning or making memories as well as normal. Yeah, 546 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 1: we're talking short term memory. It definitely impairs that. And um, 547 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: that's why if you've ever hung out with a bunch 548 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 1: of pot heads, you'll hear the phrase what were we 549 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: just talking about quite a lot. Because it's gonna affect 550 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,960 Speaker 1: the hippocamp us in that way, you're not forming memories. 551 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: It's also gonna affect your coordination, which is the cerebellum, 552 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: so you may be a little clumsier. And then you 553 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 1: have the basil ganglia and that directs your unconscious muscle movements. Yeah. 554 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: Uh so the reason farmer Ted is paranoid. He doesn't 555 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: like that plant looking at him the way it is right. Uh, 556 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: he's paranoid because his bazo medial um amygdala has been affected. 557 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 1: It's uh, endocannabinoid receptors have been hijacked by THHC, and 558 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: it's this region of the brain where we learn to 559 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: fear dangerous situations. Farmer Ted is learning to fear things 560 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: he normally wouldn't fear because the endocannabinoids that the body 561 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: normally makes there not um operating the way that they're 562 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,120 Speaker 1: supposed to be. So he's now afraid of that plant. Now, 563 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: isn't that this aren't the endocannabinoids the same system that 564 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: they have finally been pointed the munchies activates the munchies. Yeah, 565 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 1: and your hypothalum miss um. You're grilling production. Remember grilling, 566 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 1: it's that chemical that makes you feel hungry, so you 567 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 1: go eat. You're grilling production and absorption UH is mediated 568 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: by endocannabinoids in the hypothalamus, which gets hijacked by THHC, 569 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 1: which suddenly all food looks irresistible. Yeah, and which is 570 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: why it is prescribed for people going through chemotherapy and 571 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 1: other things, because they lose our appetite and lose a 572 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: lot of weight and UH, aside from helping the stem nausea, 573 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 1: it also will stimulate the appetite. Yeah. So that's the 574 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: endocannabinoid system, and that is how pot affects it. I 575 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 1: feel like that. Yeah, we left out the biggest part. 576 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 1: It also causes a release in dopamine, which is what 577 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 1: makes you feel high. Any euphoric feeling comes from that 578 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: release of dopamine. But it's also possible that any paranoia 579 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 1: or those schizoid symptoms that come along with it are 580 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: from too much dopamine. Right, So that too high a 581 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: release of dopamine can lead to feelings of paranoia and anxiety. Yeah, 582 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 1: and these feelings. Um, the effect of THHC period is 583 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:11,040 Speaker 1: gonna last a couple of hours, depending on obviously how 584 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: good the pot is and how much you smoked. Um, 585 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: but the chemicals are going to be in your body 586 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: a lot longer than that, with a terminal half life 587 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 1: of twenty hours to ten days after you've smoked it. 588 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,960 Speaker 1: So um, if you get you know, if you're one 589 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,479 Speaker 1: of the how many percentage of companies drug test fifty yeah, 590 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: fifty some and fifty three maybe yeah, depending on your 591 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: weight and how much you smoked, on how long you smoked, Uh, 592 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 1: you're gonna either pass that drug test here or not. 593 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 1: It can stain your body for you know, weeks though, Yeah. Yeah, 594 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 1: and there's no way to tell because it depends on 595 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: you your metabolism and the pot potency of the pot too. Um. 596 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 1: But yeah, your body breaks it down into five metabolites 597 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,920 Speaker 1: and they test for all five to just using a 598 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,600 Speaker 1: basic immuno essay where they introduce an antibody to your 599 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,560 Speaker 1: urine and it reacts or doesn't react and turns it 600 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:34,359 Speaker 1: a pretty color, a pretty bad color, right, Okay, farmer Ted. Um, 601 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,320 Speaker 1: stand back up, let's abuse you some more. Although he 602 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,400 Speaker 1: seems like he's enjoying it, he's a little he's a 603 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,040 Speaker 1: little cooler now. He was petting that plant. I mean, 604 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 1: and I think they made up. So if you can 605 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,760 Speaker 1: see his liver right here right there. Um, so farmer 606 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,720 Speaker 1: Ted is going to eat some pot this time. Okay, 607 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:56,399 Speaker 1: So what's going to happen. He's ingested pot orally one 608 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,080 Speaker 1: way or another, whether cooked in a brownie or just 609 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,680 Speaker 1: eating the pot. And the body is going to take 610 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: this and break it down, metabolize it and send it 611 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: to the liver. And when this happens, it's going to 612 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,680 Speaker 1: the th HC is going to hit the bloodstream in 613 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,080 Speaker 1: this stomach anyway, so he's gonna get some sort of 614 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,560 Speaker 1: buzz or whatever. But in the liver he's going to 615 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:24,200 Speaker 1: metabolize it into another psychoactive chemical that isn't really present 616 00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,280 Speaker 1: when you smoke it, so it doesn't it's the effects 617 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 1: aren't quite as pronounced, but they last longer. And there's 618 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 1: an additional weirdo thing to it. Well, it's gonna take longer, 619 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:38,040 Speaker 1: but lasts longer, and um, the effects of it, yeah exactly, Yeah, 620 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 1: But there's also the extra psychoactive chemical that's produced in 621 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,759 Speaker 1: the liver that's not really produced when you smoke it. Yeah, 622 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 1: and that weird. It is weird, and it's also the 623 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:53,120 Speaker 1: reason why um, new young travelers to Amsterdam, you know, 624 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,480 Speaker 1: I want to try their first pot brownie. They don't 625 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,000 Speaker 1: think it's working. Then they try another one. And this 626 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,800 Speaker 1: is the ones you see like sitting alongside the canal, 627 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,640 Speaker 1: like rocking themselves. Yes, because it takes a little while. 628 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 1: It does when you when you ingested via smoke, it's 629 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:11,960 Speaker 1: almost instantaneous. When you ingest it by eating it, it's 630 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,719 Speaker 1: going to take a lot longer, that's right. So, UM, 631 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 1: I guess we should talk a little bit about whether 632 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,319 Speaker 1: or not it's addictive, because that's another raging debate for 633 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,600 Speaker 1: years and years. How addictive is pot? Uh? There are 634 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,359 Speaker 1: all kinds of studies that contradict one another, and UM, 635 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,319 Speaker 1: I think it's one of these things that probably comes 636 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:35,320 Speaker 1: down to the person somewhat if you have that addictive personality. 637 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 1: But they do see effects of pot cessation, um, irritability, anxiety, depression, 638 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:47,200 Speaker 1: maybe sleeplessness and insomnia, restlessness, And that's if you quit 639 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 1: the pot after having been a user, and it's you know, 640 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,399 Speaker 1: psychologically addictive. Like any drug, you're gonna crave it if 641 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,440 Speaker 1: you want it. Sure apparently, UM, it can have an 642 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: impact on your levels of anxiety, Like you might not 643 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 1: feel anxious when your stone, but you could feel anxious 644 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,360 Speaker 1: when you're not stoned, so you get stone more often, 645 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,240 Speaker 1: which while not necessarily a classic addiction because the addiction 646 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,399 Speaker 1: model follows the strictly the limbic system and I think 647 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,400 Speaker 1: activates it somewhat, but it's not really acting specifically on 648 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,799 Speaker 1: that is acting more on the endocannabinoid system, right, So 649 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,439 Speaker 1: indirectly it might be hitting the limbic system, but it's 650 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,359 Speaker 1: not following that classic addiction route. But at the very least, 651 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 1: that's habitual. If you need to smoke something to get 652 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,960 Speaker 1: back to normal, that's a habit and a bad one 653 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,720 Speaker 1: because you have a crutch there. Yeah, unless you're Willie 654 00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,400 Speaker 1: Nelson and then you're just like, what's the problem? You 655 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:47,680 Speaker 1: just keep smoking it? Um really know that? What are 656 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,239 Speaker 1: some Uh? Well, I guess we can talk about some 657 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: of the medicinal uses. UM. We did talk about cancer 658 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:59,680 Speaker 1: and AIDS patients to stimulate appetite. UM. The old glaucoma card. 659 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,719 Speaker 1: It is a big one to play. Yeah, if you're 660 00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,400 Speaker 1: applying for your medical marijuana card, it relieves I pressure. 661 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,160 Speaker 1: I couldn't find how it does that. Yeah, but it's 662 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,800 Speaker 1: been that's one of the earliest uses of Hell. You remember, 663 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,440 Speaker 1: remember when all this first started to hit California past 664 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:21,239 Speaker 1: u UM legal medicinal marijuana. It was almost all glaucoma 665 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,000 Speaker 1: at the time, in which it seems like everybody was like, 666 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:28,040 Speaker 1: you are so facant glaucoma, you need pop for glaucoma. 667 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,200 Speaker 1: And then it just became more and more established as 668 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,440 Speaker 1: fact became associated with helping more and more maladies. And 669 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,799 Speaker 1: of course if you go to get your card and 670 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,400 Speaker 1: you go to the dispensary, they have a long list 671 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 1: of things that it can help, right, basically anything you 672 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: can think of they will they will put on their list. 673 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,920 Speaker 1: As long as you have a prescription card. I think 674 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,839 Speaker 1: they're cool with that. Well, no, that's to get the card. 675 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:58,359 Speaker 1: Oh like the you know the Yeah that's what new 676 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,760 Speaker 1: doctor wears Birkenstocks. Yeah, you can probably get a medicinal 677 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,040 Speaker 1: marijuana car from him, but don't see him for anything else. Um. 678 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,960 Speaker 1: It can help with epileptic seizures. In fact, here in 679 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,040 Speaker 1: Georgia that's been on the table due to a famous 680 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 1: story of a boy here in Georgia who whose seizures 681 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,400 Speaker 1: were like massively cut down by taking a marijuana oil 682 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:25,319 Speaker 1: which has no THHC, like the kids not getting high. 683 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:29,960 Speaker 1: Basically it doesn't have psychoactive properties. When Georgia is believe 684 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,759 Speaker 1: it or not, trying to speed through. I know it 685 00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:36,320 Speaker 1: didn't go through initially a few weeks ago, just because 686 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,480 Speaker 1: I think they didn't have time to get it through. 687 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 1: But there seems to be support for it. But just 688 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,839 Speaker 1: for yeah, just for the marijuana oil though not uh 689 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,080 Speaker 1: like dispensaries or anything like that. Yeah, well, I mean 690 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,239 Speaker 1: it could be the beginning of it, or it could 691 00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,400 Speaker 1: be a sea change in how in Georgia states, you know, 692 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,480 Speaker 1: legalized marijuana. I'd be surprised. Well, but I'm wondering if 693 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,960 Speaker 1: it's a change like, Okay, this medicinal marijuana oil works, 694 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,239 Speaker 1: We'll just we can legalize that and that's it and 695 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,600 Speaker 1: it'll be like the model for other states or oh, 696 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,200 Speaker 1: I see what you mean. Uh and then MS multiple 697 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:13,759 Speaker 1: sclerosis UM decreases muscle spasms, And I've seen this firsthand 698 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,360 Speaker 1: with a good friend. It really helps him out. And 699 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,759 Speaker 1: Montell Williams is uh famously come out as an MS 700 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,440 Speaker 1: sufferer who is a longtime advocate for using marijuana. Well, 701 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,960 Speaker 1: it makes sense again. I mean, if you're having muscle spasms, 702 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,239 Speaker 1: perhaps your endocannabinoid system is not functioning correctly and the 703 00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,799 Speaker 1: THHC goes in and actually supplements it, you know. And 704 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:36,759 Speaker 1: also I remember I said that fights cancer. Yeah, if 705 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,840 Speaker 1: you're going to cancer dot GOVN type cannabis and medicinal cannabis, 706 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 1: I think it brings up basically a laundry list of 707 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,440 Speaker 1: all of the ways that marijuana helps. And it's been 708 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:51,640 Speaker 1: found to fight to destroy cancer cells, like th HC 709 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,360 Speaker 1: goes in and destroys cancer cells in the liver. Apparently 710 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,640 Speaker 1: it's been shown to destroy cancer breast cancer cells like 711 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,200 Speaker 1: not helps you feel better when you have cancer, can 712 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:06,279 Speaker 1: actually cure cancer in some cases. Um it was a 713 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,880 Speaker 1: carcinoma in the liver that it was shown to be 714 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,080 Speaker 1: able to cure. It's definitely worth checking out too. That's awesome. 715 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:18,719 Speaker 1: And it also alleviates pain and um uh inflammation associated 716 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,839 Speaker 1: with um injury or disease. The way it does that 717 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,719 Speaker 1: is what the other cannabinoid receptors. The CB two receptors 718 00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:30,120 Speaker 1: in the body are related to the um immune system, 719 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,520 Speaker 1: so it goes in and messes with those and says, hey, 720 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,239 Speaker 1: everybody calmed down, let's stop being so inflamed. Well that's uh, yeah, 721 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,319 Speaker 1: I guess that's why it's prescribed a lot for um 722 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,080 Speaker 1: arthritic conditions these days. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, rhuman 723 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,200 Speaker 1: TOID arthritis and that's called Yeah. I don't know what 724 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,799 Speaker 1: the what the differences between rheuma TOID and regular arthritis. 725 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,880 Speaker 1: We should do one on arthritis, how about that? Um 726 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,000 Speaker 1: it is still despite all the medical research, it is 727 00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,920 Speaker 1: still scheduled as a UM or classified as a Schedule 728 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,840 Speaker 1: one substance, which is uh the most dangerous drugs that 729 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,200 Speaker 1: currently have no accepted medical use and a high potential 730 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,920 Speaker 1: for abuse. And there have been many pushes over the 731 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,520 Speaker 1: years to get it reclassified uh and not in the 732 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:18,120 Speaker 1: same group as heroin and cocaine and ecstasy, but um 733 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,440 Speaker 1: that has not been successful as of yet, but I 734 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,239 Speaker 1: think that will probably happen at some point soon. It 735 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,279 Speaker 1: seems like it's going that way. But supposedly around the 736 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:30,200 Speaker 1: time normal was found in the National Organization for the 737 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:35,239 Speaker 1: re legalization of marijuana legislation is I'm pretty sure it's 738 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:39,520 Speaker 1: quite a mouthful. Every festivals used to have in Piedmont 739 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:43,040 Speaker 1: Park in the nineties, the normal rally hashbash. Yeah, I 740 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,719 Speaker 1: saw the Black Crows there once. It was great, right, 741 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,040 Speaker 1: um so, but yeah, normal was found in the seventies 742 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,160 Speaker 1: at a time when it looked like, I mean, Carter 743 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,880 Speaker 1: was president, Willie Nelson had smoked to join on the 744 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,239 Speaker 1: White House roof, like it was the time for you know, 745 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,759 Speaker 1: hot to be decrimin realized, and everybody thought like, it's 746 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,279 Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's happening, it's happening, and apparently nope, it 747 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,759 Speaker 1: didn't happen. They pulled back from the brink. So it's 748 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,799 Speaker 1: entirely possible that what looks right now to be the 749 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,920 Speaker 1: wind of change that is very much sweeping through the country. 750 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:19,080 Speaker 1: It could could be stopped, baffled, I guess. So it's 751 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,000 Speaker 1: the the fat Lady has not sung yet. Well, I 752 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,640 Speaker 1: think the first step toward a federal and the difference 753 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,759 Speaker 1: here is, you know, federal laws versus state laws. It's 754 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,120 Speaker 1: still federally not accepted, but in states like of course 755 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,600 Speaker 1: Colorado and Washington, and then how many states have medical 756 00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:41,719 Speaker 1: like eleven. Okay, Um, if anything's gonna happen federally, it's 757 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,760 Speaker 1: got to be reclassified away from Schedule one first. Uh 758 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,879 Speaker 1: So until that happens, you're probably not gonna see any 759 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,879 Speaker 1: um federal laws enacted or repealed. And we should say 760 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,240 Speaker 1: the mood of the country right now is about split 761 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,560 Speaker 1: a little bit in favor toward um pot pro pot. 762 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,880 Speaker 1: So like in Washington and Colorado, both votes were like 763 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:08,000 Speaker 1: fifty four, fifty five, forty three, something like that. And 764 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,640 Speaker 1: then a CBS poll from two thousand fourteen, I think 765 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:18,520 Speaker 1: in January found about the same of Americans favor legalizing 766 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:23,520 Speaker 1: pot um opposed to like, I think forty four. Yeah, 767 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:27,319 Speaker 1: so it's it's clearly moved out of you know, just 768 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,280 Speaker 1: the hippie stoners at the normal rally and two people 769 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,759 Speaker 1: supporting that kind of legislation that don't even use marijuana 770 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,480 Speaker 1: because there is a groundswell of support that hey, uh, 771 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,120 Speaker 1: it's not a schedule wonder, it's not a Schedule one drug. 772 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:47,920 Speaker 1: Alcohol is more destructive to uh, to your life and 773 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,480 Speaker 1: your body. And why are you gonna outlaw this plant 774 00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:56,040 Speaker 1: uh and put people in prison with a war on 775 00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,480 Speaker 1: pot that isn't working. It's like wasting money, whereas we 776 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,640 Speaker 1: can attack sit and raise money. So there's uh, there's 777 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:06,680 Speaker 1: been a big title shift in the past decade, really 778 00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,120 Speaker 1: in the past twenty years, but in the past ten. 779 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:11,920 Speaker 1: Like if you had asked me ten years ago if 780 00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,120 Speaker 1: there would be recreational use allowed in any state, I 781 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,880 Speaker 1: would have said probably not. But here we are with 782 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:21,040 Speaker 1: Washington and Colorado. Here we are like where you can 783 00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,400 Speaker 1: grow it, you can buy it and have it. I 784 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,759 Speaker 1: don't know how much, but I think you're allowed to 785 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,680 Speaker 1: have a certain small amount, right, Yeah, Like you can't 786 00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,600 Speaker 1: drive around to ten pounds in your trunk or anything. 787 00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,120 Speaker 1: I don't know how much you can um, but it's 788 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,200 Speaker 1: it's definitely more than just like a small amount, but 789 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:38,880 Speaker 1: you um and you can just literally go to the 790 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:43,160 Speaker 1: store and buy pot. There's actually an awesome New Yorker 791 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,960 Speaker 1: article called buzz Kill from late last year, and it's 792 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:50,960 Speaker 1: about this economist that Washington State hired to basically create 793 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,960 Speaker 1: the framework for their legal pot industry. Like the economic model. Yeah, 794 00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,680 Speaker 1: and like on a on a macro economic level and 795 00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,400 Speaker 1: a microeconomic level, it's like we're whether you like it 796 00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,479 Speaker 1: or not, you're going to be competing with dealers still, 797 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:05,960 Speaker 1: and so you want to make your tax money, but 798 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,000 Speaker 1: you don't want to make so much that you price 799 00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,160 Speaker 1: yourself out of the market and the black market stays open. 800 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:12,719 Speaker 1: You want to get rid of the black market by 801 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:17,760 Speaker 1: basically competing against them, competing amount of business. And there's 802 00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,040 Speaker 1: this all these different factors that this guy like was 803 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,160 Speaker 1: kind of laying out, and it was really interesting. Buzz kill. 804 00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:49,399 Speaker 1: I have to check that out. Yeah, all right. There's 805 00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,360 Speaker 1: a debate that I don't quite understand about the potency 806 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,960 Speaker 1: of marijuana in like the sixties and seventies versus today. 807 00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,080 Speaker 1: The debate is that that pot is much more potent 808 00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:02,279 Speaker 1: than it was in the sixties and seventies. And first 809 00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,000 Speaker 1: of all, they didn't they didn't test a wide variety 810 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,360 Speaker 1: of marijuana strains in the sixties and seventies, right, it 811 00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:11,120 Speaker 1: was like stems and seeds Mexican like. Yeah, So that's 812 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:12,800 Speaker 1: the only way you can tell a true test of 813 00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,480 Speaker 1: potency is to study a wide variety. They didn't. They 814 00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,719 Speaker 1: never did that. They didn't test the mauie wawie. They 815 00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:20,759 Speaker 1: never did that in the sixties seventies. And you can't 816 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,719 Speaker 1: go back in a time machine. So what's the point 817 00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,200 Speaker 1: in debating it. The pot today is is how it is. 818 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,359 Speaker 1: It is, And basically, what the best you could hope 819 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,600 Speaker 1: to do is like have Dennis Hopper smokes some pot 820 00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,120 Speaker 1: and be like huh, and he can be like dead. 821 00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:38,799 Speaker 1: Hopper is dead, dude, since when Yeah, I just saw 822 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:43,040 Speaker 1: him on like an insurance commercial he got years ago. 823 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:47,440 Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yeah, that's sad. It is sad. Sorry, 824 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,879 Speaker 1: a state of Dennis Hopper. Um get Willie Nelson though. 825 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:53,480 Speaker 1: Peter Fonda, Yeah he's alive, Okay, So you just have 826 00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,839 Speaker 1: Peter Fonda tell you. He can tell you. There's plenty 827 00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,719 Speaker 1: of people who could say the point is that is 828 00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:03,440 Speaker 1: largely irrelevant because we're not dealing with creating pot policy 829 00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:07,879 Speaker 1: based on the nineteen sixties. We're dealing with pot policy today. 830 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:12,360 Speaker 1: And we know very clearly that pot is more potent 831 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,680 Speaker 1: today than it was even a couple of decades ago. 832 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,839 Speaker 1: And we know that in part because of something called 833 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:22,080 Speaker 1: the University of Mississippi Potency Monitoring Project. Basically, they get 834 00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,200 Speaker 1: their hands on seized pot that the cops get their 835 00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,600 Speaker 1: hands on, they send some of it to Mississippi, and 836 00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,680 Speaker 1: Mississippi tests it for potency, and they said that between 837 00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:36,800 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, the UM average, the average amount 838 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:41,000 Speaker 1: of th HC across all samples rose from three point 839 00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:45,000 Speaker 1: four percent to eight point eight percent from two eight 840 00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,279 Speaker 1: and it's going up, up, up, apparently now with the 841 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,719 Speaker 1: rise of dispensaries and the UM openly shared knowledge of 842 00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:56,200 Speaker 1: how to cultivate pot and do you know what you 843 00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,479 Speaker 1: want to genetically select for? It's up to a quarter 844 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,400 Speaker 1: like twenty five percent supposedly, And I didn't see that 845 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:10,279 Speaker 1: figure disputed th HC content. That's insane. That's that will 846 00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,200 Speaker 1: drive you and say, I can't imagine that if if 847 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,479 Speaker 1: the average is eight point eight or was three point 848 00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:24,520 Speaker 1: four and is now up to that's potent and that's 849 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,160 Speaker 1: I guess for the top of the line most expensive 850 00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:29,560 Speaker 1: pot you can buy. Yeah, but I predict that there's 851 00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:35,240 Speaker 1: going to be like kind of retro vintage push back, 852 00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,680 Speaker 1: not necessarily that, but something that's like way more toned down, 853 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,239 Speaker 1: or it'll be like marketed to people who like don't 854 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:48,120 Speaker 1: want like that level of high I guess like seventies weed. Yeah, 855 00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,120 Speaker 1: like all they have to do to market at green 856 00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,719 Speaker 1: leisure suit or something like that. Boom success. Although I 857 00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:55,279 Speaker 1: don't know if anybody would want to go back to 858 00:51:55,320 --> 00:52:01,399 Speaker 1: the seventies because I think it really was very potency 859 00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:04,239 Speaker 1: comparatively speaking. Yeah, all right, should we cover some of 860 00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:08,239 Speaker 1: the ways that it's smoked. Well, I already covered, um, 861 00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,319 Speaker 1: the joint, right, yes, that's what slim hand. Slim had 862 00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:15,360 Speaker 1: the joint. Um. I do know that slim happens to 863 00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,320 Speaker 1: prefer the blunt. Oh yeah, and that is a cigar 864 00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,120 Speaker 1: uh that is sliced open and U tobacco is taken 865 00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,920 Speaker 1: out and generally mixed back in with some of the 866 00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,920 Speaker 1: pot and it's um was there, right, it's called a blunt. 867 00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,440 Speaker 1: I didn't know that the tobacco is ever mixed back in. 868 00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,239 Speaker 1: It depends on I mean, you don't have to. Like 869 00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,200 Speaker 1: a spliff is popular in Europe, and that's with regular tobacco, 870 00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,640 Speaker 1: uh like drum yeah whatever, just any kind of loose 871 00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,480 Speaker 1: leaf tobacco mixed in with with the pot. Yeah. I 872 00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,640 Speaker 1: think the blunt's usually they take most of the cigar 873 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,400 Speaker 1: tobacco out. I think you're probably right, and then you 874 00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,160 Speaker 1: don't even need to buy a cigar. Now they have 875 00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:54,479 Speaker 1: blunt wrappers like basically cigar rolling papers. Oh really Yeah, 876 00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:59,040 Speaker 1: And flavored ones too. Yeah, I've heard of those. Interesting man. Uh, 877 00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,960 Speaker 1: you can have your just traditional pipe. If you go 878 00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,440 Speaker 1: into any head shop, you're gonna find a big variety 879 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,120 Speaker 1: of all sorts of handmade glass pipes. Or remember the 880 00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,560 Speaker 1: brass ones with the the little kind of tied eye 881 00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,480 Speaker 1: plastic thing in the middle for holding because the brass 882 00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:19,000 Speaker 1: would get so hot apparently remember that? Do you remember 883 00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,839 Speaker 1: that from the nineties, Like, did you go to Lalla Palouza. Yeah, 884 00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,319 Speaker 1: I went to Lallapaluza. Well then you saw those things. 885 00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:26,800 Speaker 1: I remember the first time I smell pot It was 886 00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:31,759 Speaker 1: at a concert and uh, he was like and it 887 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:33,360 Speaker 1: was such a foreign I think I've talked about this 888 00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:34,600 Speaker 1: on the show. I was just like, what in the 889 00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,920 Speaker 1: world is that. It's like, I've never smelled anything like 890 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,480 Speaker 1: that in my life. It's like someone burning a spare 891 00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:44,680 Speaker 1: tire or something. Uh. And then you've got the the 892 00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:48,640 Speaker 1: bong the or water pipes and uh that uses water 893 00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:53,200 Speaker 1: to uh to I guess cool down the smoke. And 894 00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,560 Speaker 1: I remember that from the Scott Bayo After school special 895 00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,799 Speaker 1: Stone Did you ever see that one? No? I saw 896 00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,800 Speaker 1: Zapped that was a regular movie, but he was growing 897 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,640 Speaker 1: pot in that one he wasn't, so we're going to 898 00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,280 Speaker 1: it's school. Yeah, And Stone was one of the classic 899 00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,440 Speaker 1: capture school specials where he was a pothead that like 900 00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,960 Speaker 1: ended up accidentally killing his brother or something like he 901 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,560 Speaker 1: went swimming and knocked him on the head with the 902 00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,719 Speaker 1: oar of a boat, but he may not have died, 903 00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:19,040 Speaker 1: though he may have rescued him. So the after school 904 00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,200 Speaker 1: special that I remember most vividly is the one where 905 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,120 Speaker 1: Helen Hunt took PCP oh yeah and jumped out the 906 00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:27,879 Speaker 1: window like the second story over school. I mean, they 907 00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:30,440 Speaker 1: scared the pants off of us, which is the point 908 00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:34,080 Speaker 1: Nancy Reagan was like off on the set, like, but 909 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:35,880 Speaker 1: I remember hearing the bong he smoked out of the 910 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,800 Speaker 1: bong Scott bo did, and I heard that the bubbling sound, 911 00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:40,840 Speaker 1: and I was like, well, that's a weird sound. And 912 00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,319 Speaker 1: then you heard it on the Cypress Hill album years later, 913 00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:47,200 Speaker 1: and like hey Scott beyo. And then of course we've 914 00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:51,799 Speaker 1: talked about the edibles um and vaporizing, which is like 915 00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,920 Speaker 1: all the rage these days. Yeah, And I imagine it 916 00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,359 Speaker 1: just hit me the other day. I'll bet everyone who 917 00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:01,480 Speaker 1: smokes pot uses East cigarettes as like little vaporizer one hitters, 918 00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,959 Speaker 1: don't they? Uh, some do, I would imagine. So Yeah. 919 00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:09,600 Speaker 1: In fact, you can buy like pre made cartridges of 920 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:12,480 Speaker 1: like hash oil and things to stick in your little cigarette. 921 00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,960 Speaker 1: I know they saw those in Colorado stick that in 922 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,399 Speaker 1: your East cigarettes. But we should point out, we say 923 00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:22,440 Speaker 1: kids these days and teenagers. Um. Although marijuana use and 924 00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:26,400 Speaker 1: teenagers has escalated over the years, you can't pin it 925 00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,799 Speaker 1: down to one demographic. Um. I think you would be 926 00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:34,960 Speaker 1: surprised if everybody who smoked pot on a semi regular 927 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:39,520 Speaker 1: basis was outed about. Who you would see. Um. I've 928 00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:44,319 Speaker 1: heard stories from friends whose fathers were like CEO executives, 929 00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:48,239 Speaker 1: and they had cannabis clubs where all the other CEOs 930 00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:52,160 Speaker 1: that they were friends with like grew their own specialty 931 00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:54,919 Speaker 1: pot and traded it among each other. So a wide 932 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,839 Speaker 1: range of people, UH use it, although the vast majority supposedly, 933 00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,240 Speaker 1: I don't know, a fast majority. It's right. Although according 934 00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:07,120 Speaker 1: to polls or surveys, the vast majority are teenagers, followed 935 00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:16,320 Speaker 1: by post teens. Yeah, but in between nine and marijuana 936 00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:21,439 Speaker 1: used among teenagers doubled. And you know what, I lay 937 00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,560 Speaker 1: that almost exclusively, at least at first at the feet 938 00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,640 Speaker 1: of Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg. I think so, I'm 939 00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,040 Speaker 1: I put it out there. Yes, with the Chronic absolutely, Yeah, 940 00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:35,120 Speaker 1: that was a great album. Yeah, I listen. I can 941 00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,640 Speaker 1: when I hear that album, I think of street Fighter two? 942 00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,600 Speaker 1: Did you play a lot of that? Then? We least 943 00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,880 Speaker 1: we would sit around in college listen to the Chronic 944 00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:45,120 Speaker 1: and play street Fighter two. Yeah, it was a good album. 945 00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:48,399 Speaker 1: It was a great game. I never really played street Fighter. 946 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,000 Speaker 1: They were really good. Uh So I found a study here. Um, 947 00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:55,719 Speaker 1: I have to interject one another thing. Um, have you 948 00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:59,440 Speaker 1: seen the YouTube of Mike Tyson clips set to street 949 00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,920 Speaker 1: Fighter sound effects? It's pretty awesome from his one man 950 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,000 Speaker 1: show or No No, from his boxing career. It fits 951 00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:08,920 Speaker 1: like perfectly. He's like, shy are you getting? At one point? 952 00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:13,399 Speaker 1: I'll have to see that. Uh So, if you're smoking pot, 953 00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,880 Speaker 1: it's obviously not going to be great for your lungs 954 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,400 Speaker 1: in your body because you're inhaling smoke. And like we 955 00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:24,080 Speaker 1: said earlier, there's they're thirty three cancer causing chemicals in marijuana, 956 00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,200 Speaker 1: and it's gonna deposit tar into your lungs just like cigarettes. 957 00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,000 Speaker 1: Uh And in fact, if you smoke equal amounts of 958 00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:33,320 Speaker 1: marijuana and regular tobacco, it's gonna deposit about four times 959 00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:37,880 Speaker 1: as much tar as regular tobacco. What's called the tar burden, 960 00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:43,200 Speaker 1: is it? Uh? However, there was a large scale long 961 00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:47,440 Speaker 1: term study UM released recently UM by the University of 962 00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:52,120 Speaker 1: Alabama at Birmingham, and they collected data from five thousand 963 00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:55,000 Speaker 1: adults for more than twenty years, which these are always 964 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,200 Speaker 1: my favorite studies, you know, because you can tell stuff 965 00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,640 Speaker 1: long term. Uh. And they found that low to moderate 966 00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,440 Speaker 1: use of pot is less harmful to your lungs than 967 00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:06,920 Speaker 1: exposure to tobacco, and I think it's Uh. They measured 968 00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,880 Speaker 1: airflow rate, which is the speed which you can blow 969 00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,880 Speaker 1: out air, and then lung volume, which is the amount 970 00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,960 Speaker 1: of air you can hold UM in your lungs, and 971 00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,440 Speaker 1: they found that with tobacco there's a one to one relationship. 972 00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,760 Speaker 1: The more you lose, the more loss you have lung wise, 973 00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,280 Speaker 1: and with marijuana, up to a certain rate, it actually 974 00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:30,440 Speaker 1: increased the airflow rate and UM. Their rationale was that 975 00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:35,320 Speaker 1: a cigarette smoker, like a moderate to heavy smoke or 976 00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:38,360 Speaker 1: smoking like you know, twenty cigarettes a day, whereas no 977 00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:40,840 Speaker 1: one's going out there and smoking you know, well that's 978 00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:44,360 Speaker 1: not true twenty today, Yeah, but it would be probably 979 00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:47,160 Speaker 1: less than that because it's more concentrated. But you don't 980 00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,240 Speaker 1: see people smoking five joints a day either, unless they 981 00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:53,600 Speaker 1: have they're they're Willie Nelson, Snoop Dog. I'm sorry, snoop Lin. 982 00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:56,840 Speaker 1: Is he still on Snoop line? I think so? Um. 983 00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,480 Speaker 1: I could see how pot would have an effect on 984 00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,640 Speaker 1: your lungs though as well, especially compared to cigarettes, because 985 00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,919 Speaker 1: like no one uses a filter on their joints. Well yeah, 986 00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,720 Speaker 1: and they you inhale deeper with marijuana than you do 987 00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:12,680 Speaker 1: with tobacco. So those are both factors. But if you're 988 00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,640 Speaker 1: smoking a pack of day and you're smoking a lot 989 00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:18,439 Speaker 1: of weed, you're not doing yourself any favors in the 990 00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:21,439 Speaker 1: long department. Yes, even though it might help you fight 991 00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,280 Speaker 1: that cancer, it may give you cancer to begin with. Yeah, 992 00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:29,560 Speaker 1: just use some non psychoactive uh marijuana oil like they 993 00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:34,000 Speaker 1: give that little kid, Yeah, or marian all although that's psychoactive, 994 00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:38,760 Speaker 1: uh is it? It's a THHC pill, remember, like wasting 995 00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:42,800 Speaker 1: disease and um to increase appetite and that kind of stuff. 996 00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:45,960 Speaker 1: Just a mess with the endoconebinoid system of people who 997 00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:49,440 Speaker 1: need it. That's right, You got anything else. No, I 998 00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:51,000 Speaker 1: mean this could have been a two parter, but well, 999 00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:52,920 Speaker 1: this is a good, good overview, I think it is. 1000 00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:56,040 Speaker 1: I hope everybody enjoyed it. Yeah, you learned a little something. 1001 00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:59,320 Speaker 1: Anything else, nope. Uh. 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