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Speaker 1: Now it's time for Cannabis Talk one on one with Blue,

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Speaker 1: Joe Grande and Mark and Craig Wasserman, the Pot Brothers

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Speaker 1: in Law with special guest l a cannabis company CEO

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Speaker 1: Armand Hello and welcome to Cannabis Talk one on one

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Speaker 1: Monday is Blue alongside of me or the world famous

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Speaker 1: Pot brothers in Law and Mr Joe Grande. Hello, Mr Wright,

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Speaker 1: and you are now tuned into the greatest cannabis show

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Speaker 1: Baby Joe's Joe. What's going down on the show today?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's good to see both of you guys online.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for joining us, Mark and Craig Washerman

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Speaker 1: that is I know your internet blowing up in the

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Speaker 1: you guys are working attorneys. And Craig, that looks nice

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Speaker 1: whatever you're smoking there? What is that West Coast here,

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Speaker 1: West Coast cure, I think this is some hardcore O

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Speaker 1: g Well, you guys are real class here over there,

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Speaker 1: Joe Grande fifty two today on the show we have

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Speaker 1: a sexy brother over here. Boy, this guy, I didn't

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Speaker 1: know he was gonna be so good look and I

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Speaker 1: right away. But I mean I just walk in and

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Speaker 1: just feel his vibe, which is great. Armand Who's the

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Speaker 1: CEO of l a cannabis company. They operate three retail

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Speaker 1: dispensaries and two indoor cultivation facilities in the city of

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. The website is l A Cannabis Code dot com,

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Speaker 1: which is l A c A N n A b

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Speaker 1: I s CEO dot com Armand thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for coming down, brother. I appreciate you. Thanks guys for

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Speaker 1: having me so arman. Walk us through. First off, where

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Speaker 1: you from? You from l A? Yeah, I grew up

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Speaker 1: So I was born in Armia and then you moved

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Speaker 1: to Glendale close? Yeah you are the Armenians are Glendale

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood and my favorite restaurant is Raffie's. Yes, exactly,

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Speaker 1: believe you me just asking you guys. It's so so

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Speaker 1: you've been here and born and raised basically then in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Yeah, I grew up here. Um lived in Hollywood,

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Speaker 1: went to cal State Northwards. So I've been a late

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Speaker 1: my whole career, whole life. And now you start off

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Speaker 1: with Iu'm assuming one dispensary. Did you start off that

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Speaker 1: because this is you're doing amazing work right here. You've

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Speaker 1: UM throughout the fourteen year history, we've transitioned from medical

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Speaker 1: So we've always been involved, but it's definitely a lot

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Speaker 1: ever have any problems with the Feds? No, we've never

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Speaker 1: It's just how soon, how it's gonna look, and what

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Speaker 1: traditional tobacco market, right, which would be going through the

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Speaker 1: seven elevens, the liquor stores, which would then I don't

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Speaker 1: there's still a lot of players to be determined, brands

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Speaker 1: whole facility that we only grow the original o G

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Speaker 1: like THEE. So we have that same strain that we've

430
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Speaker 1: been consistently growing UM before and after. Yeah, that's the

431
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Speaker 1: one that's kept us. Uh, that's survived through all these

432
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: all these times because the consumer, and I would think

433
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: the consumer can go there and get reasonable prices, like

434
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 1: for you to say this eight is forty Bucks and

435
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: it smells unbelievable. I mean, I think they can go

436
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,120
Speaker 1: there and purchase Flower at a decent price or at

437
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: a better price of high quality, because you guys are producing.

438
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Speaker 1: But that's only going to be if I'm not mistaken.

439
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,959
Speaker 1: That's only the Cannabis Coast product, of course. I mean,

440
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Speaker 1: because when now you start talking about another different brand,

441
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Speaker 1: another brand comes in, their price must be high. That

442
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,199
Speaker 1: we have eights all the way to some of the brands,

443
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: and then there's a certain amount we have to mark

444
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 1: up plus the taxes. So you're selling more of your

445
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: own brand. Probably, Yeah, it's it's it's our top store.

446
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 1: Our top ten sellers are our products. We have our

447
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: pre roles as well, which is all from Whole Flower,

448
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 1: so we don't do any of the shake ones. It's

449
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: Whole Flower, so we're paying for that convenience. I love

450
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: pre roles, so yeah, I pushed for that. That's the

451
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 1: only way to go. You know, it's funny because are

452
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 1: you carrying West Coast. I think now the show just

453
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: got you. You guys at home didn't get to see it,

454
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: but Mark's wife just jumped in the scene with a

455
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: bikini on. I didn't know she would bring two beach

456
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: balls with her. Sorry, no, thank you, you're like high Felicia.

457
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 1: Um So, so the the the thought process of it though,

458
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Speaker 1: is that you guys, you guys, what are some of

459
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Speaker 1: the other products I guess that you guys have in

460
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: your stores to sell well? Right? Um, so we're a

461
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 1: flower centric store. I think about our business is flower. Um.

462
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 1: We have mid grade, lower grade good stuff from the

463
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: Central Coast, work with a lot of direct farmers, so

464
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 1: we do a lot of the sourcing ourselves. We go

465
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Speaker 1: to the farms, we build the relationships for us, it's

466
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Speaker 1: about seeing the growth facility before we just kind of

467
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: bring in a brand smart. We get pitched brands to

468
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: be on the shelves every day all day like everybody

469
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: from inquiries online to distributors trying to get different products

470
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Speaker 1: on our shelves. But you know, at the end, Um,

471
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: we're at the end. We're the ones that have to

472
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 1: deal with the customers. So it's we're very selective because

473
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: like the grower will sell your product and if it's crap,

474
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: they don't have to deal with the customer like they're

475
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: just gonna do That's you gotta vet out everything that

476
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: you're putting on your shelf, and if it doesn't sell,

477
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: it sits there and you still gotta do it even

478
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: beyond your discount, you move it on. You move on.

479
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: But it's just people when they come to our store,

480
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Speaker 1: they know we've gone a good We only keep the

481
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: good brands around right right, and when we do a

482
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: lot of vetting so that that very selective on the

483
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: brands um that we carry nice well dope. People want

484
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Speaker 1: to check it out. The website l A Cannabis Code

485
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's l A c A N N A

486
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Speaker 1: b I S c O dot com. It's arm and

487
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Speaker 1: CEO of l A Cannabis Company. We come back. I

488
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: want to hear what's the worst thing that you went

489
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: through putting this together? Because someone out there wants to

490
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: get in the cannabis game. They want to open up

491
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 1: a dispensary, they want to start a grow, they want

492
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 1: to do it all, and you've done it. You're gonna

493
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: educate them on what's some of the things that to

494
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: look for. It's kind of a stalk one on one.

495
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: We'll right back after this, take a hit, get lit,

496
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 1: and sit back and enjoy cannabis. Top one oh one

497
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Speaker 1: here with Mark and Craig Pop Brothers, that Law Blue

498
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: and Joe Grande. Let's get back to a blue. We

499
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 1: were talking about some brands on the shelves over here

500
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: at l a cannabis company. Yes, welcome to the show, Mark, Yeah.

501
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: What what are some of the other brands are? I

502
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: mean you got West Coast Cure up there. Um, I

503
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Speaker 1: think we carry West Coast Carrett On our website. We

504
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: have a list of all the brands. I think we're

505
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: over a hundred different brands showing the shelves now, so

506
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: we definitely. Kelly Effects is a nice brand here. I

507
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 1: don't know if you've heard of that one. Kelly Effects

508
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: is a good one. Oh oh hey, Christine, I know

509
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: you're in the building. Skinny Weed, Yeah, Skinny Weed, of course,

510
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: all these great brands. It's just crazy to think that,

511
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: you know, when I smell your your fire and to

512
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: go wow, that's just one of the best parts of

513
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: having your own cultivation. But educate our listeners out there

514
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: that sit there and have said to themselves, it can't

515
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: be that hard. It's got to be. I just want

516
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 1: to get into the game, and I got fifty dollars saved.

517
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go what are some of the trials

518
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: and tribulations that you've gone through to help educate the

519
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: entrepreneur out there that wants to get into the game. Right, Um,

520
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: I think definitely do your due diligence. Right know what

521
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: space you're getting into, people are always uh contact, hitting

522
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: me up or like, want to talk about a business

523
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: idea or a pitch. I want to do this there

524
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: in other creative spaces. And then I kind of I'm like,

525
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: no one ever comes and says like I want to

526
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: grow really good weed. Yeah, like like I got this idea.

527
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: This is what actually I really do. I grow really

528
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: good weed. I and I sell it at a legal spot. Yeah.

529
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: You know, if if I think the cannabis industry right now,

530
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: it is thirsty for talent, like people who are talented

531
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: in other spaces to come on to cannabis, and it

532
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: needs more talent and needs more people wanting to be involved. Unfortunately, Um,

533
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: the regulatory bar is high, so you've got to do

534
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: a lot of due diligence before coming in. Definitely need

535
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: your attorneys to kind of guide you with experience. But

536
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: Craig walking right out, don't do it. It's gonna cost you. Listen,

537
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: if you don't got a million dollars five million dollar million,

538
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: you're just leave. A matter of fact, you gotta pay

539
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: me up front. Well, at least they're telling it to

540
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: you pretty pretty really pretty real. You need the capital

541
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: to survive. You know, we've organically reinvested into our company

542
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: for the last fourteen years, right, so it's well instantly

543
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: investing a lot of people think, you know, you you

544
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: have to realize in the in the retail space, I

545
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: mean you're now retailing or distributing to a public where

546
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: you're selling a ten dollar or twenty dollar or forty

547
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: dollar item. On that forty dollar item, the profit margins

548
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: maybe seven to fourteen dollars, you know, or something like that,

549
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: maybe maybe more, maybe less, whatever, you're making a percent profit.

550
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: So you're making twenty dollars. So how many twenty dollars

551
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: do you have to make in order to be like, oh,

552
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: I'm a gazillionaire, you know, I mean that's a lot

553
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: of lot, it's a lot of twenties, and so people

554
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: got align the freak up to in order to to

555
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: pony up to be sustainable. On top of that, you

556
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: still gotta pay rent, employees, medical, whatever else. You've got

557
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: going on. So I think the concept of what the

558
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: boom is is everybody's coming in going God, it's like

559
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: selling weed. And I've seen my son's nephews cousin. He's

560
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: rolling around in this beamer because he's selling weed. But

561
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to go through those taxes, he doesn't

562
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: have to go through those building costs, he doesn't have

563
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: to go through those you know, educational learning lessons that

564
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: you've got to teach all the people through your facility,

565
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: you know. So there's so much more to it, and

566
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: so people like yourself that are holding that standard in

567
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: our stay in this industry, you gotta take your hat off.

568
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not it's not an easy game. I

569
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: sold out a long time ago. I had a license,

570
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: Damn man, I had I had, I had, I would

571
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: I started in the same area, you know, And I

572
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: had a couple of dispensaries in Los Angeles and and

573
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, Leslie a couple other places. But you know,

574
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: through that process, you know, I've seen an exit. Dude.

575
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: I was like, bang, here you go, you know, thank you, goodbye.

576
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: You know, I appreciate you have a nice day. And

577
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: and it was because I didn't know what was going

578
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: to happen. I know, but the taxes are gonna crumble me.

579
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: I didn't know if I had the team to put

580
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: together everything the way I needed to do. I think

581
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: you said it best right there. I was gonna sorry

582
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: it paused you. But the team kind of does matter

583
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: a lot, like everyone and the team has to want

584
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: to be there, has to want to evolve in and

585
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: make that change. Right. It was a different time when

586
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: we were operating and it was like fun right before

587
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: we move on. I want to find out real quick

588
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: how difficult was it to when you branched out to

589
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: find locations. Um in those other areas where those I

590
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: pre pre I c O s are they in the

591
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,719
Speaker 1: city of l A. Are they social equity? They're all

592
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: E M M d s, so you guys would know

593
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: what those are. So they're existing medical marijuana dispensaries from

594
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: from the medical era, and um, you know, throughout the

595
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: years we do pay above market rate on on on

596
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: a lot of our terms. But we have been getting

597
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: better locations in the recent years and are our more

598
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: recent moves like our one locations on Lebray in Venice

599
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: Right there? Did you merge with somebody who already had

600
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: an E E. M D and then converted it to

601
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: a license. Yes, so all of ours were organic mergers. Nice.

602
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: And to have a name like l A Cannabis Company Russian,

603
00:32:54,040 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a trade markets genius because we're

604
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: the heart out here, you know what I mean. I mean,

605
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: it's it's just such who came up with that? I

606
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: love it? Um? It was one of our our team members,

607
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: our operations director. Um. And then when we saw we

608
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: were like, that's it. You know, that's us, That's totally us.

609
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: Like we've been here in l A, like in the

610
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: heart of l A for so long, and we've kind

611
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: of grown into a company. So and if you grow

612
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: into a company, how many lawyers? Because I know these

613
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: two lawyers that I hang out with, But how many

614
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: did you have to go through to be where you're

615
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: at now? To have three dispensaries to indoor cultivations? I mean,

616
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,479
Speaker 1: l A Cannabis Companies sounds like a monster so far.

617
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: And before you answer that, I think he said it

618
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: right to how many did you have to go through? Right?

619
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: Because you know it's not one or two. You've gone

620
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: through a few, but you know you you keep different

621
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: counsel for different things. You know, your your guys would

622
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: do your corporate stuff, and then we have our cannabis

623
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: attorney who does all of our compliance as well, and

624
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: he's constantly staying ahead of the game, even know they

625
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: change it every other freaking month, it seems. But I'm

626
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,479
Speaker 1: involved a lot as well. I'm part of the United

627
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: Cannabis Retailers Association, so I sit on the executive board.

628
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 1: So that whole group has council and government affairs. Do

629
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: you guys deal with the Bureau? Um? Do we what

630
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: do you guys deal with the bureau directly as well? UM?

631
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: I think we have a representation in Sacramento that kind

632
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: of is that Jason beck On that with you? Not Jason,

633
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 1: it's ah, we have different counts. So so it's a

634
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: bunch of retailers. So it's the United Cannabis Business Association

635
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 1: u c b A. UM did a lot of work

636
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: here in l A. You know, you need to have

637
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: your voice heard at a lot of these places, but

638
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: it's different when it's the it's the voice of a

639
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 1: lot of one thing. The most important thing that you're

640
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: getting that actually he's hitting on is what we advise

641
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: clients who are getting into the business, is you better

642
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: be involved, You better be involved, you better know the rules. Well, yes,

643
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: I know the rules. I know what compliance is, I

644
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: know how to I know how to teach that. But

645
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: you gotta know the rules. You gotta no track and trace,

646
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 1: You've gotta no metrics. You gotta know, you gotta know.

647
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: Hire somebody like, oh he's doing it. Yeah, you gotta be.

648
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: You really gotta be hands on unless you really put

649
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: one person in charge. But you know, when when I

650
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,959
Speaker 1: think the the the love and passion that you guys

651
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: have for your for your brand and and your business

652
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: is what drives is what's driving you guys and and

653
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: getting you out ahead of the curve because of the

654
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: way you you know, it's just like you know, our

655
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: our our kids were in the business, and it's the

656
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: passion that drives it. And uh, and people come back

657
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: to your store because like you said, I've never heard

658
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 1: that term flower centric, which means to people out there,

659
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: which yeah, coin coin phrase that one. And and now

660
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: now people can come into that store knowing that the

661
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: bud tenders should be and and I'm sure they are

662
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 1: very very knowledgeable about what they're gonna be purchasing what

663
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: someone asked for, um and so forth. So I commend

664
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: you guys for that. Thank you, thank you. No, we uh,

665
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: we take pride in what we do. I think you know,

666
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 1: everyone on our team loves what they're doing, not just likes,

667
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: they all love it. And when we hire, we don't

668
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: just hire anyone, right, We're like looking for the people

669
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: that love the cannabis or that kind of fit our

670
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: culture and what we represent, you know, all that stuff. Well,

671
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: now it's time for the high five arm and we'd

672
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: like to do this with every guest that comes in,

673
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: and we like to have some fun with us. And

674
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: being from Los Angeles, I can't wait to hear in

675
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: Hollywood where the first time you smoked weed was or cannabis?

676
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: Excuse me, but it's now time for the high five

677
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: with Arman from l A Cannabis Co. How old are

678
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: you the first time you smoked? And where'd you get

679
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 1: it from? Uh? Fourteen? And uh I got it from

680
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: just the local kids in my neighborhood. We were playing basketball,

681
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: fourteen year old, you know, pressure just at the park,

682
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: they're hanging out. Huh, try this, try this. It's not

683
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: a kebab, but right, it's not the Hookah, it's not

684
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:08,439
Speaker 1: the hook. Hook get you just as high said yeah,

685
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: if you inhale it, I could never do hooka. I

686
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 1: love Question number two the High five. What is your

687
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: favorite way to use cannabis? Um, I'm like a classic joint,

688
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: you know, I love my uh. I used to actually

689
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: roll pre roles before pre rolls were like cool. Like

690
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: I used to have like seven of them ready, ready

691
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: to go. That's like Mark. Mark has is a little

692
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: like a little flask. He has his little thing ready

693
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: with joints and CBD joints and I love it. But

694
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 1: I do care about the paper. Um, I like to

695
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,439
Speaker 1: hemp paper. I'm very specific about the paper. Very nice,

696
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: very nice. That's always nice. Question number three of the

697
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Speaker 1: High Five from with armand of the CEO of Los

698
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: Angeles l A. I'm sorry, hold on, he fumbled on

699
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: the one. Pick it up and it happening. It happens,

700
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: It happens. Question number three of the High Five with

701
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: arm and the CEO of l A Cannabis Company. Craziest

702
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: place you've ever used or smoked cannabis? Wow, it's been

703
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: a couple. I say, Disneyland, Disneyland Disneyland. Um, you know

704
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: I I snuck in a eight pen my kids a

705
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: little diaper bag. Every time you hit it, you're like

706
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: a horrible dad, not at all, Like, let's stay as

707
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: long as you want kids. It's a small world. Again,

708
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: it's a small world. Let's go through this. Let's go

709
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: through this. In front of me, it's a giant mouse.

710
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: We got question number four of the Cannabis Talk one

711
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: on one high five. What is your go to Munchie's

712
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 1: after you get high? My go to is in and

713
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: out and I'm fries. Yes, rush with you. I like

714
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: eat the whole thing. My wife she knows I'm like

715
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: looking at hers too. She'll be like. And the kids

716
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: they that look when you're done with yours and you

717
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: give that look. They know that I love looking at

718
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,479
Speaker 1: my wife. Speed. Are you done with that? You're gonna

719
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: finish that? You're not gonna finish that gristle that? Yeah,

720
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: I'm exactly let me know in that chicken bone. Question

721
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: number five at the high five, if you can smoke

722
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: cannabis with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?

723
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: In wine? I'm gonna go dead, I'll go o g

724
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: Bob Marley, Yes, just because who doesn't want to smoke

725
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: with Bob Marley and just think of though, all the

726
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: bad weed he was smoking back in the day. I

727
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: would That's what I would want to get his perception

728
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: of today's weed. What does he think like he's Bob

729
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: gonna love? Yeah, he might m I wish I went

730
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 1: to Maka. I went to Jamaica probably twenty years ago,

731
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 1: and then in the year I went, it was some

732
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: bomb ship. Really it was bombed. You got your hair braided, toy?

733
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: I did. I had a tail, I had a braided

734
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: and I remember I remember seeing it. That's why, as

735
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: he said, I'm serious about that. But they were, they

736
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: were buds about this long, and they came in this

737
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: in this bed, in this like trash bag from the

738
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: guy in the bus who took us from the airport

739
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: to uh to the grille. And it was I think

740
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 1: ended up being like twenty bucks really for about a

741
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 1: fourth how no, but it was it was yeah, maybe

742
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 1: maybe twelve inches, Joe, Is that your twelve inches? Craig?

743
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: Why do you have to go there, Craig, You're never

744
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: the one to take me to the gutter. And I

745
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: can't believe you just did that, right, now I cannot

746
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: appropriate night. He was gonna say, that's his dead. Hold on,

747
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,919
Speaker 1: let him finish, Craig, because you take alive? Who would

748
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: you alive? Um? You know, I let Craig answer this

749
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: for you, But who would like to smoke for the live?

750
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: Since you've been answering all his other questions? Probably me,

751
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: it's you? Yeah, it's you, is Jed alive? I would

752
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 1: go with master P. Make him say when I was

753
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: growing up in the two thousands, like master P was

754
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: the ship and like watching in MTV cribs, I was

755
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: just like I need that crib you know that. Let

756
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: me tell you p Miller none of his clothing brand.

757
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: He's such a good dude. Yeah, such a good business guy.

758
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: Everything he's done out there and now that his son's career,

759
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: what he's done for his son, little Romeo. I mean

760
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: follow him a lot. I think he's like a really

761
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: good Roman, a good business person, kind of evolved long careers,

762
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: hood movies and the tech companies he has. He's dope.

763
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: Let me tell you a good story about about Master Pete.

764
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: I'm working at Power one oh six and we have

765
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: a promotion going to do the Super Bowl in New Orleans,

766
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: I'm driving three listeners du cross town. It's a master

767
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: P promotion. We're in a Nissan vehicle, so it's Nissan

768
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: and master P. I get to New Orleans, I hit

769
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: a P. I'm like, yo, what's up? Im downstairs at

770
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: the hotel, Come meet the listeners. Blahlah blah, just so

771
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: they can slap hands. He comes downstairs. He's already spent

772
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: bookhoo bucks on this album that's coming out, but he

773
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: comes down to meet the listeners. He comes out to

774
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 1: welcome to New Orleans players. Here you go, boom boom,

775
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: three dars to each cat. Then he hands me six hundred,

776
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,280
Speaker 1: goes Joe, make sure you take care of and welcome

777
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: to New Orleans. Dirty. I mean, he just laced the

778
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: listeners up like that, laced me up like that. On

779
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: top of paid for the big promotional for everything else.

780
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 1: He's just always been a solid g and sent me

781
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: s boxes of the p Miller sweatsuits and the shirts

782
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: and stuff that they used to have. He's always, in

783
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:56,240
Speaker 1: my book, though, been hood certified, but classy and dope

784
00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: and down and just cool and riches can be. Yeah,

785
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: that's it's a good. That's good. That's so armand let

786
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: us know real quick. You know anything else you want

787
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: to tell the listeners out there about yourself or the

788
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 1: or the company before we got to get out of here. Yeah, no,

789
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: come check us out. You know. I think right now

790
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: in the cannabis industry, there is this big perception of oh,

791
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: it's expensive, it's tax which it is, right, But I

792
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: just we we have a big, a large spectrum of pricing. Right.

793
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: We have five dollar joints taxes included out the door

794
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: all the way to thirty dollar infused joints, right, So

795
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: what we the legal market definitely has affordable product that's

796
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: being competitive, and I think we're seeing the trend. So

797
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: we're slowly seeing just the retention on customers is higher

798
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: and then year over year we're growing more customers, right

799
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: because we're I think we're we are even though the

800
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 1: illicit market is thriving, we are chipping away with it.

801
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: You know. That's what keeps me going. We are chipping away. Um.

802
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 1: People under estimate the cannabis consumer. In the California, cannabis

803
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: consumer knows what it wants, knows good weed, and I

804
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: think the good weed is winning. I'll tell you what

805
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 1: that wedding cake that you popped out is winning very

806
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: much and there's no toxins. And we want to remind

807
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: people too. We want to remind people out there that

808
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: not only do you get tested, regulated, vetted out weed

809
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: from a company like l A Cannabis Company, also you're

810
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: not subject to arrest when you walk in there. That's

811
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: key right there, Craig. I mean some people think, oh,

812
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 1: I can go get it right over here after this

813
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: little whoop you whoop shop for cheaper. Yeah, good luck

814
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: if it gets rated player and we get those all

815
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: the time. You get those all the time, so'll be

816
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: safe out there, everybody. Well, there it is guys, Cannabis

817
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: Talk one on one. We want to thank you guys

818
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: for listening and remember this, if no one else loves you,

819
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: we do. We do. Thanks for listening to another podcast

820
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: off Cannabis Talk one oh one, the world's number one

821
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: source for everything cannabis, featuring l A Cannabis Company CEO

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Speaker 1: Arman m