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Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks. It is Saturday, November fifteenth, and

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Speaker 1: did you catch it? In that bill that Congress signed

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Speaker 1: to reopen the government, they actually closed your favorite weed shop.

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Speaker 1: And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 2: Robes.

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Speaker 1: This is a shocker, and folks better stock up right now,

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Speaker 1: run out, get all the gummyes you can.

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Speaker 3: There are so many of us who have grown accustomed

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Speaker 3: now to legalized THHC products, marijuana products that are regulated

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Speaker 3: that you know what you're getting and can be, according

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Speaker 3: to a lot of doctors, a safer alternative to alcohol

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Speaker 3: in many regards, and so a lot of this is

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Speaker 3: a booming industry and we've gotten comfortable.

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Speaker 2: There's a dispensary.

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Speaker 3: Pretty much as many like on every block, as much

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Speaker 3: as there are Starbucks now here in New York City,

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Speaker 3: and they're beautiful and nice, and you have to go

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Speaker 3: through all of the extensive.

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Speaker 2: Like moments of you got to hand your idea. It's

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Speaker 2: all legal.

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Speaker 3: It all feels clean and nice and not dirty and

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Speaker 3: gross in backdoor and black market, and that's what it

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Speaker 3: used to be like, right when folks are trying to

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Speaker 3: get marijuana, and so it's yeah, it's been elevated and

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Speaker 3: legalized and actually convenient.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, Congress just shut it all down, folks. This

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Speaker 1: is not this is not being alarmist. This is not

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Speaker 1: just writing a click baity headline. Yes, when the government,

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Speaker 1: when Congress voted to reopen the government, in that bill,

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Speaker 1: there was something else in there that effectively eliminates the

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Speaker 1: marijuana or the hemp, the THHC, the gummy industry that

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Speaker 1: everybody has grown to become accustomed to too that you

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Speaker 1: just talked about ropes. This is a bill that was

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Speaker 1: supposed like everybody's paying attention to it. We see so

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Speaker 1: many times if things get tucked in there, something will

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Speaker 1: slid into some bill last minute, and this is one

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Speaker 1: of those things. What was the other one we talked

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Speaker 1: about that five hundred thousand dollars they could they gave

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Speaker 1: themselves permission to sue. This is something else now that

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Speaker 1: was slid in there. We don't exactly know who, and

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Speaker 1: nobody's taking responsibility. But folks, what it does is close

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Speaker 1: a loophole in the Farm Bill from twenty eighteen that

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Speaker 1: now would make all of your favorite gummies, edibles, baked goods, vapes,

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Speaker 1: thac infused beverages topical oils creams obsolete. They would be

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Speaker 1: illegal if this thing goes into effect. I guess the

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Speaker 1: one upside robes is that it's not going into effect immediately.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's supposed to take effect in one year. And

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Speaker 3: this hidden provision, yes, criminalizes nearly all consumable.

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Speaker 2: Hemp products across this country. Doesn't matter what state you

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Speaker 3: Doesn't even matter if you live in Colorado, probably the

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Speaker 3: most hemp friendly state in this country.

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Speaker 2: You are all and we are all under.

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Speaker 3: This same ban, this provision, So it prohibits products here's

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Speaker 3: the specific language that contain more than point four milligrams

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Speaker 3: of THHC per items. To give you an example, most

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Speaker 3: products contain fifty to one hundred milligrams per container, so

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Speaker 3: a single edible typically is five to ten milligrams. Again,

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Speaker 3: this ban, or this the measure that was put in

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Speaker 3: the bill, only allows point four milligrams of THHC. That

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Speaker 3: pretty much eliminates every single product on the market right

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Speaker 1: And a question why would they do this? Some wonder,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what, question why this was the moment

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Speaker 1: to do this? But rogues I when we talk about

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Speaker 1: the Republicans and Democrats trying to blame each other, trying

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Speaker 1: the shutdown. They're worried about who's going to get blamed,

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Speaker 1: who's gonna get blamed now for taking away everybody's weed

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Speaker 1: tac gummies like this. This was buried, it's coming out now.

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Speaker 1: But folks, what we are talking about, these are folks.

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Speaker 1: Look people like to get high. We know folks got

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Speaker 1: something in to pocket, something in the system all day long. Fine,

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Speaker 1: but there are a lot of folks, and older folks

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Speaker 1: in particular, this is an alternative, an alternative to a

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Speaker 1: lot of medicines. And this is not just about people

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Speaker 1: who just want to get high, correct.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yes, of course there's the recreational users, but

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Speaker 2: If you have chronic pain.

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Speaker 3: Marijuana and hemp has been a safe alternative to a

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Speaker 3: so this is going to have serious implications for folks

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Speaker 3: and have actually preferred to other traditional medicines, or even

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Speaker 3: like I said, people will turn to alcohol. Instead of

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Speaker 1: So I mean, at this point, we really don't know.

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Speaker 1: So we got a year. The argument a so why

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Speaker 1: But there are some who tell you there is nothing

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Speaker 1: we can't adjust too. There was a way one hemp

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Speaker 1: producer put it, this is an extinction level event. This

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Speaker 1: industry cannot continue with the way it is. However, Robes

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Speaker 1: it is not just a matter they give them a

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Speaker 1: year to And this is what called me down. And

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Speaker 1: I say call me down not because I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be in some way harmed if the hemp industry goes away.

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Speaker 1: But this is a multi billion dollar industry, almost thirty

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Speaker 1: billion dollars a year in this country.

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Speaker 2: And there's a lot of jobs, yes, three thousand jobs.

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Speaker 1: So the thing that they put us is it's not

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Speaker 1: a year until the band goes into a place. I said,

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Speaker 1: look at it like this, it's a year for us

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Speaker 1: to figure out how to properly regulate this industry.

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Speaker 3: And let's hope that's true, because yes, I think everybody

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Speaker 3: have regulations. I think that's what makes people feel safe

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Speaker 3: going into a dispensary, is they're not just they don't

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Speaker 3: obviously what other people have turned to in the black market.

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Speaker 3: But you mentioned twenty eight point four billion dollar industry

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Speaker 3: in this country. We meant three hundred thousand jobs. This measure,

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Speaker 3: if it is allowed to take effect, will wipe out

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Speaker 3: ninety five percent of the industry and will cost states

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Speaker 3: one point five billion dollars in tax revenue. Think about

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Speaker 3: the tax revenue the states that have legalized marijuana now

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Speaker 2: They are bringing in billions.

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Speaker 3: Of dollars collectively. And there is one senator who sounded

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Speaker 3: are a lot of you know, lawmakers who are up

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Speaker 2: That in mind.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where the debate is going on, right

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Speaker 1: they I mean, yeah, maybe in their districts. They need

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Speaker 1: and I know a lot of folks will point to

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Speaker 1: during the day. Look, those things are legit, but it's

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Speaker 1: got to be balanced out in some way. You can't

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Speaker 1: just and I don't think they will as we looked

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Speaker 1: don't do something, every all of it's going away. If

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Speaker 1: to do something about this. Yes, I just don't understand

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Speaker 1: why this was necessary in this moment. Maybe this is

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Speaker 1: something that wouldn't have normally gotten approval, and you slide

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Speaker 1: going to vote against it? Now kind of a thing

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Speaker 1: because we've got to get the government reopened. This is

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Speaker 1: just the timing of this is shitty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And there was too much on the line for

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Speaker 3: them to get hung up on something like this. And again,

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Speaker 3: as Congress typically does, they kick the can down the

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Speaker 3: can't imagine what it's like if you have invested. I

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Speaker 3: just think about all the dispensaries that have opened up.

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Speaker 3: We can only speak here it to New York City,

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Speaker 3: but we actually know some of the folks who they

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Speaker 3: family businesses. This is they have put their investments into

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Speaker 3: these companies that are now in limbo, and that's got

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Speaker 3: to be a very scary thing. One of the dispensary

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Speaker 3: owners I plucked a quote because I just thought it

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Speaker 2: It's kind of a dirty trick to pull on folks,

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Speaker 2: especially so quickly. Most people did not see this coming.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, they claim they do, and I want to

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Speaker 1: I mean, I want to say folks are doing it

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Speaker 1: And some people do believe this is something that kids

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Speaker 1: most Americans should have that easy access to for whatever reasons. Yes,

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Speaker 1: doctors might feel differently, individuals might feel differently. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: the timing is bizarre, But if folks have a legit reason,

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Speaker 1: this moment to do that. So now to your point

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Speaker 1: about that the dispensaries stressing out, Yes, a whole industry

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Speaker 1: for a year for what.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Yeah, I was just trying to imagine. You

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Speaker 2: can't pivot. There is no other alternative for these folks.

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Speaker 3: So that's tough, and it, I don't know, it reminds

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Speaker 3: me of prohibition when you have our government try and

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Speaker 3: and they're trying to impose that now on the country

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Speaker 3: as a whole. A lot of folks argue, a lot

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Speaker 3: of senators have argued this, and it has been a

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Speaker 3: the difference between a state like Texas and a state

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Speaker 2: And let that be the case.

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Speaker 3: But to have a federal, you know, widespread ban on

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Speaker 3: this is just gutting. There's no other way to put

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Speaker 3: it for these folks.

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Speaker 1: And that's what we talk about the stock market in

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Speaker 1: this a lot of time. But what do they hate?

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Speaker 1: Uncertainty they now for the next year, Like, how can

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Speaker 1: you plan out your your your supplies, how can you

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Speaker 1: plan out your rent, your lease, your employees. You can't

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Speaker 1: do anything because based on what they did, everybody needs

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, it makes me a little concerned about

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Speaker 3: these dispensaries have exploited this loophole on the twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's not just a matter we have to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all those things you listed the benefits of them,

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Speaker 3: Effects could include euphoria, a strong sense of happiness or well.

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Speaker 1: It could cause you to forget your problems. It's another

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