WEBVTT - Weed Everyday 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:04.840 You're listening and waiting on reparations production. The story is 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.480 the story of how I came to have eggs, all right, 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:13.040 pee uh picture that's oct up for two thousand fifteen. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.000 It's not the statement to say that I'm rounded in 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.520 to see of work at the university curves and I'm 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:19.560 taking personally my eggs. Got a new girl, but he's 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:21.840 still pounded on the sneak because that coochie is juicy, 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.720 is a corner pounded with cheese. Otherwise, I'm pretty worthless 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:26.480 that I mentioned that my house is pulled up LEAs 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.800 from a tabby catty nap to the kitchen cabinets. He's 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:30.960 not the students to catch your mouse's while he sleeps 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.040 up in the cup webs up more because even though 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.080 I got breakes, a loss of will power to eat, 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.720 will power to clean, will power to pay the power 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.199 pay the dentists in the hospital, but pay the internet. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.080 The want to build that at the office is pay 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.440 for kitten chousing out this little nigga hostage. Like he 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.920 said this to what Cosby did, It's not up of 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.520 to hear that it's adopted him. Because I needed a friend, 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.480 needed somebody to be with just needed body heating the bed. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:01:00.120 Ao shouts out to Eggs. Really rest in peace, Eggs 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:04.240 for you with Homie yo. Now in the meanwhile, situation 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.520 seemed foul, miss my Homie Eggs. So I had to 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.080 bust this freestyle snuck into my room trying to tell 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.160 me that he needs child. Told him I was sleeping, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.280 but he hit me with him. Me y'all, lord, while 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.000 you take him. It was long before his time, and 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.000 some girls let me fun because they thought that he 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.120 was mine. It had everybody crime, even me and nine nine. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.640 It was Thanksgiving Day. How am I gonna tell me? Rock? 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.320 But death is universal. It's what we are are facing sometimes. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.600 I believe in reincordination. Right now, Eggs is one of 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.400 the lost souls. Until then, Homie, I see you what 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.280 the cross roads and I'm gonna miss everybody, And I'm 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:42.279 gonna miss everybody. I'm dope. Night. We are waiting on reparations, 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:47.800 still waiting. No Biden check yet. So it is one 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.480 o'clock on a Monday night. If this were a regular 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.320 DJ gig, I think that was when I would like 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.840 press the button to que sill break God times come 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:04.240 off is celebration? Why are we celebrating. We celebrating because 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.520 tonight we elected Georgia's first Latina District Attorney to the 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:13.959 Western Judicial Circuit. And when I say we, I mean 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.680 like encouraging people to vote that. But we've literally been 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.359 out there like knocking on doors. Our team knocked on 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.320 about doors in the last week and a half. And 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.960 how much she went by She won by eight votes, 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.160 killing it, Like I'm super stoked about this. This is 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.679 the first this is the first winning campaign I think 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.040 I've ever been involved in in my entire life. The 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:39.960 student body joint that I did when I was like 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:44.040 the seventh grade, niggas lost that ship. Then the first 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.160 time I was ever really like when I first started 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.519 coming into my political awareness and niggas out there for 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:54.680 carry that nigga lost. Then like after like fifteen years 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.639 of malaise, you talked me back into it, like, yeah, 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.200 we gotta get out here for Bertie. I'm like where 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.399 we got out there, the hot South Carolina. The son 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:06.200 and Nike lost, but de Gonzalez did it. Not only 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.880 did she win the election, the election happened because Debra 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:13.240 Gonzalez sued Brian Kemp, who tried to cancel the election 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.200 and appoint someone to the seat. The case went all 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.440 the way to the Georgia Supreme Court and she won, 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.919 which is why the election happened at all. She actually 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:28.880 had the balls to just just she's great, crazy, she's crazy, 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.240 but it really it's some good news though, because like, 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.359 I mean, this has been I mean, this has been 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.640 the last week and a half, for two weeks of 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.840 my life. And I mean you've been like more involved 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.800 in than that, haven't. Yeah, I mean I've Debra has 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.880 been running for like two years, you know, Like I've 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.160 been you know, hanging out with her and supporting their 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.400 work for a long time. But it's been really like 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.520 a lot recently. So what do you what do the 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.040 people have to look forward to with Dereka Jals the 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.480 people of Athens. Yeah, so I mean abolishing cash bail 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.080 for non violent offenses and like other forms of low 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:06.840 level crime um using greater like caution in cases of 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.120 like she's like committed to ending the school to prison 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.960 pipeline and ending our racial disparities in like juvenile sentencing UM, 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.360 which all comes down to a d as discretion deciding 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.760 what charges are brought against people and if people are 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.560 brought up for bullshit charges. She can call it bullshit 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.120 and just throw it out. And so uh suddenly with 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.280 like weed, Um, she's interested in bringing restorative justice practices 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.040 into like our criminal legal framework, so that if you 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.560 have some bad happen to you, or you did not bad, 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.680 you actually have some resources for like learning how to 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.600 be different in future, rather than it's being locked in 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.240 the cage. So anyway, so all of us really she 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.080 supposed to do some really dope shit. So then you 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:51.279 would say that right now the jubilation isn't simply because 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.719 the Democrat one, but because the actual progressive one. Because 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.880 a progressive one. Yeah, And we suffered a couple of 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.240 losses in our in our state house races in the 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.320 general election, and so like there's this frustration with jerry mandering, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.919 this feeling like votes don't really count, and so for 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.800 us to actually come together and elect someone that is 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.880 like present in our communities and like straight up badass, 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.960 like fearless leader person. So we actually did it. You know, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.640 our power and numbers is great. Well that's stuff one, 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:26.359 because tomorrow tomorrow we start working on sorry, we started 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.680 working on the senator campaign. Yeah, um, which I want 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.960 to I want to clarify with all that is that 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:36.480 I don't really necessarily like particularly John us Off um 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.240 Raphael war Knock, mostly for the things that conservatives have 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.719 like tweeted about him, uh, that he has said previously 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.520 has actually made him ME like him more with this 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.600 hope that maybe like underneath he's a socialist or something 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.800 like that. This whole thing helping, the whole thing with 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:57.760 the Warnickers reminding me of the Reverend right situation back 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.720 when Obama was running. You might do you remember that, Um, 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.560 oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you're married, right, yeah. It 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.160 reminds me kind of I mean as far as like 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.479 the Republican strategy of it, like finding a snippet that 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:13.039 you can should I was on YouTube today and like 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.560 I must have seen that add like fifteen times today 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.880 of Warnock saying something about the I love it, I 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.320 see it. I want to vote for him more and more. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.000 And so that said, given the awareness that like their 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.719 teams would both spend all of the million dollars that 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.880 they're going to generate in these elections, UM on advertising 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.359 and consultants instead of investing in working people from the 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.720 communities start trying to flip blue knowing that as well 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.440 as the fact that they're going to be sending in 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.239 field organizers that don't know these areas. So like haven't 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:50.920 run campaigns here before. Um myself and my two fellow commissioners, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.799 Tim and Russell put together this thing called the Athens 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.919 Progressive Canvassing Corps. We were raising money to pay people, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:58.800 just fucking pay people to go talk to people about 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.880 the election instead up sending the stupid fucking mailers they're 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.279 paying for. You get the text on your phone or 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.440 somebody calls you and it's annoying, go knock on somebody's door, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.000 and like people who are out of work right now 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.240 and it's the holidays, Like give people stuff to do 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.840 so that they have money because nobody everybody's broke right now, 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.760 um so. And along in that process, like learn about 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.120 how campaigns work, like this is a fundamental feature of 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:27.880 like electoral organizing and organizing generally. Um. And so it's 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.800 just like trying to channel like the energy of this 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.960 moment in the most productive direction. Knowing that all this money, 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:35.640 all the people are going to be trying to find 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.760 somewhere to donate, and like the campaigns are going to 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.960 try to and fail to figure out what's going on. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:45.720 It's like, shut the funk up, everybody, just let us 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.000 do this. We know how already here, we've been here, 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.840 we've all won campaigns in this area. All of us 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:57.520 are elected, and we know the people, you know, the neighborhoods, 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.200 and do fucking pay people that are doesn't need money 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.280 because I'm gonna work around and coming here and try 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.800 to be on some like godfather, let us take over 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.560 the show. Know what the funk y'all are doing. Let's 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.960 be quiet, We're gonna help you. Okay. Well, unfortunately, yeah 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.640 we can't. We can't just be all celebration and smiles 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:24.080 tonight because the week was unfortunately not without impression. Yeah, 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.840 we're both. We're both definitely. Maria is definitely feeling it 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.880 harder to be. Some of y'all may may be aware, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.800 just if you listen to the every episode on some ship, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.160 then you might be aware that we have a housecat. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.920 You know, we record in our living room and we 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:45.520 have a housecat, beloved eggs Um, who's from time to 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.480 time jumping around on us, and he gets mentioned and 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.720 shouted out when we're when we're recording and things. But 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:57.600 unfortunately on Thanksgiving, eggs passed away sadly, and we have 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:03.160 been in the throes of grief while also working on 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:11.920 the campaign and everything. Um, yeah, everything there, Yeah, I'm okay. 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.360 Well it's really helpful. Actually, in fact, how we came 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.640 to the topic of today is that I've been just 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.600 trying to cope, go on a long walks, you know, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:27.040 listen to ocean sound yea, and eat edible. Well, we 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.839 had a we had a friend of the show, friend 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.640 of the show, good friend Caroline. She she sent us 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.520 some edible arrangements, let's say, and uh, you know it 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.000 just it's just all the package got here just coincidentally 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.480 while we were all kind of in a dark funk 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.319 in the house about eggs. So I feel liberated. We've 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.400 been feeling a little bit better, a little bit better. 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.240 I feel like I'm healing and so I mean so 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.360 that brings us to the topic of today, which is, um, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.640 we're gonna be talking about pot We're talking about Bud 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:11.440 Herb Mary Jane Kush what what gas the loud. So 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.920 it's been almost a month after presidential election and Trump 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.440 and the maggots are still on some fun ship. But 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.320 without a doubt, the clear cut winner of the election 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:29.760 on all levels was it was cleared in several states, 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.480 and it got us thinking about, you know, decriminalization, legalization, 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.920 the difference between the two. So that's we're gonna talk about. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.200 We're gonna talk about America's history with marijuana and how 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.240 racism has played a role in its legal status, as 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.280 well as go into the roots between hip hop and 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:52.080 its sacred bond with Sweet Sweet Chiba. Now full full disclosure. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:58.360 I am a pot smoker, but you know, like dare 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:11.320 to be different or some ship. So I mean, first 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.360 first things first, it's like, while you know, we were 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:19.600 putting this together tonight, I was personally, I don't want 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.480 to say sketch dout isn't the right word, but like 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.000 I was wondering, like are you cool with talking about 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.680 you know, I'm just a rapper dude, so like every 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.840 and my name is Dope, so everybody can assume that 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.400 I'd be smoking mad weed and do a edibles and 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.280 all that. Ship. How do you feel as an elected official? 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.719 Like it was cool first to talk about I mean 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.440 I feel that, uh, in many ways I engage in 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:47.080 civic life. I see that morality often up out strips 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.360 legality from you know, the caravans in the summer when 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.880 we were like blocking traffic and like engaging several disobedience. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.480 Um Like, I feel like anyone that would uh look 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:04.920 down on add activity in with regards to like a 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.040 plant that is now legal in fifteen states and legal 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:15.240 for a third of the US population. Um no, Like 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.280 I'm not like, I'm just not I'm not living in 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.520 the past. I'm not living the past. And I feel 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.360 like and I feel like a important part of my 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.360 politics is also like instantiating the world that you think 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.839 we should live in as a way of paving a 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.840 path towards that world, like to like to like make 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:39.200 to make like the vision of what shouldn't things should 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.319 be like a lot like more tangible for others, and 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:46.520 saying that, um like it's something we ought to demand, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.400 and so kind of being a little unapologetic in that. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.280 With regards to various forms of civil disobedience, I thin 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:56.240 guess I mean, I find uh smoking weed always. I 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.280 don't smoke weed, but I do eat weed. Um as 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.319 a former civil to obedience like it's bullshit, this is 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.920 this is I feel the same way about that as 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.280 I do, like just the consistency that I have on 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.080 like the abortion issue, where it's like I'm only trying 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.920 to have this moral argument or engage with somebody about 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:21.120 the moral compass of weed. Use if you're straight at 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.240 you know, like straight up like you have to be 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.320 like I don't do ship in order to like come 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.240 at me for me to even entertain it or else, 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.320 I just I don't get you. I mean, I'm not 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:35.120 going to have somebody talk to me about like how 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.720 bad it is to smoke weed when you drink beer 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.720 every day. You know what I'm saying, You're getting drunk, 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.240 and I just don't. I'm not there for it. So 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:50.160 that absolutely it's funny, like, um my mom recently figured 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:55.880 out that I smoked. My mom drinks wine and huh yes, yes, 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.640 now it's the same sweet ship that you do. The 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:04.120 hangovers are terrible, but I love it. But um yeah, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.760 now recently, I think it was last Christmas when I 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.880 went home. You know, she kind of put it together 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.480 that I kept going into my brother's garage and said, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.720 at this point, now you know, like I'm a grown 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.640 ass man. So it's like it was it was a 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.720 lot more understanding of a conversation and I thought it 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.320 would be then it would have been if it was 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.640 like when I was in high school or something like that. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.520 All right, So, Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.320 all clear cannabis for adult use, bringing the total number 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.240 of states that have approved it for that purpose to fifteen. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.040 With the general election. It's about a month ago now. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.760 John Hoodick, a cannabis policy expert and deputy director at 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:47.120 the Brookings Institution, said they passed overwhelmingly. These were not 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.440 close races. It was a resounding win for cannabis. And 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.400 I just want to pause here and say that like 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.840 the fact that this, among many progressive ballot measures like 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.800 passed with more popularity than like either presidential candidate in 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.400 some places really speaks to just like how fucked up 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.480 it is that the people that are running this country. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:13.600 I just can't one of the people just literally is 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.320 being ignored in the excruciating I think it's a rebuke 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.320 of the notion that the country is like center right leaning, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.000 you know what I'm saying. It's like, it's I really 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.640 think what you could determine as the country, the people 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.000 are not, yeah, the people exactly. The people are not 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.360 the people are not my friend. So UM industry members 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.840 and analysts say New Jersey likely will trigger domino effect 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.880 legalization measures within the Northeast, and most notably, this could 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.840 like trickle down to New York and Pennsylvania. Tiffany Devitt, 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:49.400 the chief of Government and consumer affairs at Cannacraft, which 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.760 is headquartered in California's Sonoma County and makes about two 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:58.000 hundred cannabis products. She told Business Insider about potential parallels 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.400 to this and the end of alcohol prohibition and a 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.040 desire during the Great Depression the spur economic growth. She said, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.600 you can see a similar trajectory playing out with cannabis, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.320 whereby economic issues that we're facing as a country is 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.880 waking people out to the fact that cannabis industry can, 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.280 in fact, would be a benefit in the community. The 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.760 guiding the Biden The guided the Biden campaign did talk 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:22.520 a little game about the criminalizing. Biden himself has refused 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:26.720 to join the majority of US voters and endorsing broad 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.280 cannabis legalization. We'll see how that plays out as the 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.120 administration goes on. But UM Andrew Yang was talking, he 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.840 was saying, he was he was saying this about Biden 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.480 he was less aggressive than say I or some of 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.400 the other candidates, but even Joe has been making signals 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.680 about the criminalizing and not prosecuting various marijuana related statues 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.560 and restrictions. She leading cannabis companies reported better than expected 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.000 results in the after bath of Biden winning canapy growth 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:59.000 surge t in auroral cannabis jump after both reported higher 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.480 than forecast sale and narrowing losses. So the stock market 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.280 is taking notice of it. I mean, it's it's one 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.160 of those things we just see. No, I mean, I'm 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.760 just talking about that you have to at this, you 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.520 kind of have to make at least for a sizable 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.359 amount of the population. You have to make the economic 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.800 you know what I'm saying, uh point of it. And 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.800 that's the thing that gets me for the for the 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:27.640 fiscal fiscal conservative types. It's like there's so much money, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:32.040 Like there's so much money in taxing weed. You know what, 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.359 We've been framed it all wrong. We need to push 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.040 we need to push for we legalization and then we 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.240 can argue that we don't have to defund the police 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.359 because we have enough money to fund mental health care 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:46.280 and like youth job skills programs. And community gardens and 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.240 fund the cops, and then we'll lie to them and 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.199 actually defund the police. But weekis be like, look, if 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.199 we just make we legal, we can all have everything 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.159 we want. Yeah, I mean that's a good that's a 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.159 good ass point. Like you honestly you could the cops 0:17:58.160 --> 0:17:59.920 could keep all the money they need and yeah, you 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:04.840 could just like use the revenue from generator. I feel 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.720 like a lot of like the calculus around police funding 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.800 is driven by the finiteness of city of city budgets. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.240 It's not like the federal government where they could just 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.840 print money. I think we're gonna have to extend it 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.040 and go into that just a little bit might have 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.720 to Um well, I mean, like with all things, you know, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.320 when when you sit down and you wonder, Yo, this 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.399 particular thing doesn't make sense, why is it that it 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.200 still occurs? If it doesn't make sense, And the chances are, 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.879 you know, racism is probably going to be at the 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.359 root of it, and that's you know, let's just just 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.960 call it what it is, called spade a spade. There's 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:47.280 a lot of racism, if not mostly racism, behind a 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.920 lot of how marijuana is legalized and adjudicated in this country. 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:53.560 So we're gonna get into a little bit of the 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.359 racist history of marijuana. Now. As as early as the 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.920 eight hundreds, there were no federal restrictions on the same 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.480 or possession of cannabis in the US. Hemp fiber from 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.920 the plant was used to make clothes, paper, rope. Sometimes 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:10.159 it was used medicinally, but as a recreational drug it 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.800 wasn't that widespread. In the early nineteen hundreds, and influx 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.360 of Mexican immigrants came to the U S fleeing political 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.000 unrest in their home country, and with them they brought 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.840 the practice of smoking cannabis recreationally and un surprisingly it 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.040 took off. The Spanish word for the plants started to 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:30.640 be used more often too, marijuana or as I spelled 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:35.080 the time, my juana with an h and nineteen thirty six, 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.560 a propaganda film called a reef Madness was released. Did 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:44.119 you ever see Reformada? Yeah? The movie you depicted teenagers 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.359 smoking weed and for the first time and and you know, 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:52.560 had some at the time embellishments of what the effects 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:58.240 of very wild, evolving hallucinations, attempted rape, murder. The media 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:02.040 portrayed as a gateway drug purpose this is the Business Insider. 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.639 In seven, the Marijuana Tax Act was passed. Cannabis sales 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.399 were now taxed due to the fearmongering at the time. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.440 The main instigator um behind the Marijuana Tacks Act was 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.680 commissioner to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics during the prohibition era. 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.320 His name was Harry Anslinger. Anslinger took the route of 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:24.159 junk science, stating marijuana as a violence inducing drug and 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.560 connecting it to black and Hispanic people, emphasizing that the 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.439 Spanish word marijuana you know, well Spanish, instead of the 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.760 word cannabis. He created a strong association with the drug 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.200 and the new Mexican immigrants that helped popularize it in 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.879 the States. He also started the narrative that we'd made 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.639 black people forget their place in the hierarchy of society. 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:49.800 I like that it makes me forget my place. I've 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:51.840 ever forget that. I've just at the bottom of the 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:57.280 total pole. Fucking Jeff Bezos and he insisted that the 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.360 jazz was evil music that was created by Pew under 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:05.200 the which was also that's that's false because everybody knows, 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:11.720 you know, heroin addicts were doing jazzy. I'm sorry that's terrible. Alright, 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.680 it's not too soon. It's time. It's time for that. Yeah, 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:19.160 it's been long enough. So by two the Bogs Act 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:23.800 made sentencing for drug convictions mandatory. First offenses of possession 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.120 could land you two to five years in jail prison 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.240 and to find up to two thou dollars, which ship two. 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:37.440 But it's funny, right, because it's like we're trying to 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:44.080 get back to the tax the criminalized you know way, 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.359 which was that even that in itself was instituted because 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.600 of some racist prick, you know what I'm saying, And 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.760 like here we are, damn near a hundred years later. 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.880 It's like, yo, can we just the criminalize the ship 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:57.520 at least? Like, can we at least get back to 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:04.320 you know, and just the Controlled Substances Acting seventy, passed 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:08.280 under President Nixon, repealed the Marijuana Tacks Act instead make 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:15.040 cannabis Schedule one drug, the most serious class great jobs 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:17.639 one drug to consider to have high potential for abuse 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:21.520 and addiction, and are not allowed for medical use. I 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.680 feel like it's almost cliche for us to go off 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.199 about the stupidity of that. All right. It's like, you know, 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:32.200 we all seen half baked all right, marijuana is not 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:38.680 like that. I have never seen somebody. Second, it remains 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:45.920 a schedule one to this day in your bloody blood 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:48.600 does a little bit. Those are all the sort of 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:52.320 like stoner bro facts that I've known since high school. 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.600 But like even even just reading it out loud, it 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:59.320 makes me upset. That makes me angry. Why this attitude 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:04.000 towards marijuana is not like that, Like it's just like 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.520 beer or any other you know what I'm saying, like 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:09.760 recreational drug like that. I just yeah, I mean, I've 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:14.160 been in fights when I was drinking. I would never 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:16.480 do that if I was ever stoned. Ship that you 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:18.040 might not get a nig out of the house if 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:22.560 I get stoned. Yeah, just you know the terrible things 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:26.480 that people do. How many people die are accidents? You 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:30.680 just you ever noticed that, like if you're hanging out 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:33.080 and maybe this is something I know because I do 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:35.720