True Patriot Love - The Side Effects Of Retail Cannabis

00:00:00.320 hello my fellow patriots i am brady wedham and this is another feature on tplmedia.ca

00:00:10.880 what we're doing today is we're sitting down and talking about cannabis and its side effects

00:00:14.800 so i have a big past with cannabis i've been researching it for 25 plus years

00:00:20.480 but realistically i think there's a lot that's going on in the cannabis world that a lot of

00:00:24.080 people don't really understand so my guest today is paul micucci we're going to sit down and break

00:00:29.200 down some of the misconceptions of cannabis and some of the i guess overlooked um things like i

00:00:37.200 think when people think of addiction they automatically think of uh drug use being

00:00:42.480 it's draining your bank accounts it's making you unhealthy but there is way more side effects

00:00:48.000 with cannabis especially now that it's retail that we don't really actually talk about enough so

00:00:53.200 i as far as i know you're not a cannabis user no no and i i've done it i've you know i've smoked pot

00:01:01.520 i've enjoyed it yeah when i was younger but it's not something i really took uh and started to do

00:01:07.280 frequently quite frankly and so it's interesting brady you know i really didn't pay much attention

00:01:13.360 to it other than the fact that you know on every corner a cannabis shop popped up in my neighborhood

00:01:18.480 yeah especially around 2017 that was everywhere yeah so uh you know so we decided to give these

00:01:24.240 licenses out all over the place they happened they're fairly quiet for the most part you know

00:01:30.080 yeah you don't hear much people come and go you know it's a you don't see many people going and

00:01:35.360 coming but they do it all day long quietly so you know didn't really pay attention to it and what

00:01:41.120 happened was i got into this project so you know in my background i've done a ton of construction in my

00:01:46.560 life about a billion dollars in construction um i did this charity project okay right um and yeah

00:01:52.960 i'm not going to bring up names so i'd rather just keep names out of it but you know it was a soccer

00:01:57.440 field for a community and i started working on this soccer field and putting it together for as a

00:02:03.440 community project and this gentleman uh comes and he says i want to be part of it i want to help you

00:02:09.200 with it he's 25 so there's a big age difference between him and i yeah that's pretty you know yeah pretty

00:02:13.920 big but you know what i'm like okay great so we get working on this field and you know uh very smart

00:02:20.080 guy you know did a lot of research love the game of soccer you know so talking to me about soccer and

00:02:26.160 his favorite things so you know what i'm like great you know help me along we'll you know we'll get the

00:02:31.360 field the the grass grown cut we'll get it lined out all those good things get it built uh you know get

00:02:38.160 stands and security for it everything set up for the community so you're making like a full-on rink

00:02:44.240 yeah yeah yeah well a field and and we're getting this thing done and quite frankly um i'm not paying

00:02:50.400 a lot of attention other than we're working alongside each other and seems like a good guy so i start

00:02:56.000 kind of doing it after work at night so at night as the lights came on and i start working on it

00:03:01.680 i'm doing it at night um and he starts showing up and he's you know he's smoking a joint right

00:03:08.560 which seems a lot of people yeah and i'm like okay right after hours he's working on a project

00:03:12.800 yeah why not yeah and as i get to know him i find out that he's in medical school okay right so you

00:03:19.360 know i'm like oh great you know uh good conversations during the day very witty uh obviously educated

00:03:26.640 on what he's smoking very knowledgeable right so then what happens is kind of weird at night as i'm

00:03:32.800 working away he starts showing up right he's a little off center okay right and i'm thinking okay

00:03:40.880 i don't know what's going on maybe he's having a bad day i'm not really thinking much i keep working

00:03:44.800 away and um i keep looking over once in a while and he's standing in the corner of the field looking

00:03:49.920 into the sky so this cannabis is hitting him on a different level yeah so this happens one day and

00:03:58.640 i kind of say okay you know i'm not gonna so then the next day you know he shows up with a couple beers

00:04:03.760 and you know smoking a joint again at night so he's just having a time out there yeah he's having a time

00:04:08.720 this is relaxation time right yeah but which i'm okay with you know i'm not a prude frankly in my

00:04:13.760 business i can't be a prude i'm very liberal as far as my views and i think even if it wasn't legal

00:04:18.560 you probably still wouldn't judge you don't seem like the type of person i don't care no i honestly

00:04:23.040 you know based on you know what my lifestyle and everything else i don't really care right honestly

00:04:28.400 i'm i'm pretty much as long as the job gets done and done safely yeah whatever and it's he's not

00:04:33.440 doing anything that could harm himself right but then all of a sudden like uh it's getting to the point

00:04:39.360 where like i have to direct him to walk to certain areas of the field i have to direct him to pick up

00:04:45.600 tools i have he's not capable of functioning in a an advanced manner to do any job so when he shows

00:04:53.440 up before he's ganked out on this cannabis is he coherent like is it that's not just him no no when

00:04:59.280 he shows up like when he comes over he's good no oh he's already done by the time he gets there

00:05:05.360 my thing is he's probably you know smoked a couple joints had a couple beers but you know i i grew up so

00:05:11.920 let's back up for a minute so i grew up in a generation of very heavy drinking people you know

00:05:18.000 they didn't smoke a little bit of hash you know maybe some weed sometimes but for the most part

00:05:22.560 it was drinkers it was a joint usually came out after the buzz yeah yeah but it was an afterthought

00:05:27.120 to go to sleep or something it wasn't really something that that people did a lot of and quite

00:05:31.200 frankly um part of you know as i got older quite frankly why i quit drinking was because my tolerance

00:05:38.320 was going up and up and so you know i think we all share experiences of sort of what happens to

00:05:44.480 us over life yeah but i just my tolerance for drinking became more and more to the point where

00:05:48.800 i was like i hit covid and then i thought to myself ah you know what i'm not enjoying this as much

00:05:54.560 quite frankly my my tolerance is getting too high well and at that point too you're bored so now you

00:05:59.520 actually feel the buzz yeah and you're like okay this is not what i like i like it in a social setting

00:06:03.760 but at home by myself drinking a 26 or whiskey is probably not a great idea and the stress through

00:06:09.120 covet i've talked about it many times on the show the stress through covet is so bad at that point

00:06:13.840 i'm like i'm gonna cut off because there's so many business issues going on i have to have a clear head

00:06:19.360 and so you know my story is a little different than a lot but and a shout out to howard stern on this

00:06:25.120 one i was actually listening to a howard stern show and joe namath came on okay and you know it's

00:06:32.000 funny how you listen to you know and joe namath for those of you you know a famous uh you know a

00:06:38.640 football player for the jets exactly you know won a super bowl called it out called his shot a little

00:06:45.120 very flamboyant and for those of you remember he had a very bad alcohol problem he was a party boy

00:06:51.680 yeah lost his job uh with monday night football because he got super drunk and made a pass at one

00:06:57.840 of the other uh female broadcasters and right on tv was really bad and yeah they you know he apologized

00:07:05.920 and it was you know he handled it really well after but um he does tell the story and when he goes on

00:07:11.600 howard stern how he uh kicked his alcoholism by uh having a jug of root beer a glitter gallon of loop root

00:07:22.960 beer and ice cream every night so he replaced the alcohol sugar with the sugar from the ice cream and

00:07:29.040 the pop so his body wasn't going through withdrawal it was just his mind and then he slowly once he got

00:07:34.240 off the alcohol and got on to the ice cream and root beer he slowly got off of that so he he he detoxed

00:07:42.640 himself through uh sugar transitioning the insulin so and it worked for him right it did but he's all

00:07:49.360 like you're trading in cirrhosis for potential diabetes but i guess whatever yeah it's it's

00:07:55.120 whichever one kills you first right so in his case being you know he was his tolerance had gotten so high

00:08:01.040 and he was drinking so much that you know he had to do massive amounts of replacement sugar to get

00:08:08.160 off yeah so so i believe it or not i did the same thing not to his extent i didn't eat a gallon but

00:08:13.600 i did ginger cookies right and quite frankly and i and anybody watching paul loves ginger cookies please

00:08:20.640 mail them to us no not anymore i'm on diet right now but but no i did ginger cookies right and diet

00:08:26.320 root beer but not pop uh sugar and uh it worked for me so i transitioned off and to tell you the truth

00:08:32.960 once i got off i slowed down the ginger cookies and the sugar and uh yeah i just i never went back and

00:08:39.680 so you know uh not that i had a problem with it we were all functional and moving around

00:08:45.520 but you know i i did grow up in an era of pretty functional alcoholics and i didn't understand sort

00:08:50.320 of people who had challenges so you know i knew what that looked like and quite frankly um when he

00:08:55.680 was showing up i'm thinking to myself hmm you know he seems to be struggling a little but then i'm watching

00:09:02.800 him and he's not functional which i you know when you deal with functional alcoholics for the most

00:09:08.800 part they are functional so they work they can move you tell them to pick up a shovel you tell

00:09:13.760 them to cut some grass you tell them to line a field they can do it right whatever he's doing

00:09:20.480 he can't do so he can't seem to function between tasks and i'm looking at it i'm thinking okay it's

00:09:29.040 something to do with and he again he's smart he has a medical background well it's the cannabis it's

00:09:34.160 the cannabis it is the cannabis yeah and but so with that said though he seems to be the average

00:09:40.720 person that shouldn't be using cannabis and what i did uh getting a little bit of uh uh pre-show prep

00:09:48.560 was i put together some stats uh not only about how how much recreational cannabis is being used

00:09:54.560 nowadays but the differences between people that should be using it and some people that shouldn't

00:09:59.280 be using it okay so with alcohol like you're saying you see focus people who are focused and

00:10:05.760 and still have the ability to go to work every day yeah well that that is with cannabis as well i know

00:10:11.680 many a people that are using cannabis from the second they wake up to the second they go to sleep

00:10:16.640 and they're some of the most successful people i know i also know people that do that same thing

00:10:20.640 and they sit at home all day playing playstation right so it's not the cannabis that's making the

00:10:25.680 person complacent and lazy it just happens to be that they are that person happens to be lazy and

00:10:31.200 the cannabis doesn't help that so there's different ways that people are partaking in cannabis the

00:10:38.000 most most people are usually smoking it it seems to be the thing that that's what people are doing

00:10:43.280 yeah the old-fashioned way 30 of all of all sales here in canada is dried flower dried flowers

00:10:49.040 usually turned into a pipe or turned into a joint right so 30 of all sales that are going through

00:10:55.440 cannabis in retail seem to be dry flower so most people are smoking it that still does affect a

00:11:01.360 certain person on a certain level but it also does it we go into things like edibles too right

00:11:06.320 people don't really understand what an edible the difference between an edible and smoking is

00:11:09.680 edibles are much stronger a lot of people that even smoke will like to eat a little bit of an

00:11:14.880 edible to kind of keep the buzz going so what happens is when you're smoking cannabis it goes

00:11:18.800 straight to your bloodstream right straight to your brain straight to your bloodstream comes into the

00:11:22.720 lungs and goes that way it's pretty fast uh in and out type thing if you're a regular user with

00:11:29.520 cannabis while you eat it what happens is it goes into your liver and gets broken down to a into a

00:11:34.000 compound called 11 hydroxy thc so that comes from enzymes mainly the cyp2c9 i always screw that up so

00:11:41.840 that's why i wrote down those enzymes um genetically in the average person are hyperactive so when you eat

00:11:49.280 this cannabis it creates a new hallucinogenic effect that you wouldn't get from smoking so a

00:11:54.640 lot of people that you're seeing that are going to the emergency room they're overdosing on cannabis

00:11:58.720 which is not possible but it feels like you're overdosing or the bag of doritos is eating you as

00:12:02.880 opposed to eating it yeah yeah that's coming from from people using uh cannabis in in edible form

00:12:10.480 right so the buzz from the average user of cannabis that's smoking is about 15 to 20 minutes so let's

00:12:15.760 say your friend's out there and you notice after 20 minutes he likes another one well he's trying to

00:12:20.320 keep that sedative state he's trying to keep himself bogged out if he was to eat an edible it would

00:12:25.360 probably last six to eight hours as opposed to 15 20 minutes so somebody like that who's not

00:12:31.440 functioning on cannabis already is probably better off eating an edible and just calling it a day and

00:12:37.120 not smoking and chasing that buzz all day right this gentleman sounds like he's the type of person

00:12:41.680 that technically shouldn't be using cannabis everybody's different we have an eco cannabinoid

00:12:46.080 system inside of our bodies it's only affected by a few things on the planet um one of them is

00:12:50.800 cannabis so the cannabis plant is actually linked to us genetically and i don't think that means that

00:12:56.480 everybody should be using cannabis and i don't think that everyone should be medicating with

00:13:00.000 cannabis but the majority of the average people i think it is good for them in small doses probably

00:13:05.280 not smoking probably not eating right there's got to be some sort of way to get it into your system

00:13:10.640 where it's not giving you that thc effect so thc a through z um basically thc a and thc all the way

00:13:19.440 to z are going to be the things that carry the hallucinogenic effects of cannabis there's lots

00:13:23.680 of people that get medical benefits from cbn cbd and all the other compounds that are inside of cannabis

00:13:30.240 if you can figure out a way to remove the hallucinogen keep those things and a gentleman like that who

00:13:37.360 seems to be not the average person smoking it seems to be that it hits him on a level that is

00:13:42.880 probably not healthy right might be a little bit better if it is getting benefits from the medical

00:13:47.840 side of the plant to not be taking any thc and this is a this is a thing that people in the gray market

00:13:54.000 for years before retail cannabis was around the medical markets and basically the entire system

00:14:00.160 of cannabis itself it's not meant for everyone no no the same way alcohol like if i have a drink of

00:14:05.360 alcohol when i was a kid i never noticed it if i have a drink of alcohol now my stomach starts turning

00:14:09.920 right right so my body doesn't like it it's not made for it it doesn't want it even though i'm irish

00:14:15.280 yep it's probably in my genes it doesn't want it right cannabis is the same thing there there's so

00:14:20.480 many side effects with cannabis from everything from anxiety like there used to be an old tale that

00:14:25.760 don't smoke sativa because it's a mind a mind buzz smoke indica well i know people that get anxiety

00:14:31.440 from both it doesn't matter if it's a hybrid if it's sativa or if it's indica right which sativa

00:14:36.960 is usually the upper effect more of a brain buzz indica is into couch so when you think of like

00:14:42.400 netflix ready stuff yeah right that's what indica is it's going to be a comatose kind of a vibe right

00:14:47.600 yeah one of the things too is that we're seeing with the rise and increase of the percentage of thc

00:14:53.200 which is the hallucinogenic effect inside of these these plants that are being pushed the stores want

00:14:58.880 to push 30 they want to push 31 the average cannabis smoker in the 1970s was smoking about a

00:15:04.880 seven percent cannabis right even up into the 90s when yeah when i was cool when i was a kid 12 15 yeah

00:15:11.760 the increase is doubled since the 2000s right we're now into a zone where we're smoking and that's just

00:15:17.120 flower right we're not talking about the concentrate when we start breaking down into distillate loops

00:15:21.680 and concentrates and live resins and pressing fresh bud and taking the resin that comes out of

00:15:27.040 that and smoking that you're now getting into the 90 to 92 percent thc ratios so where did that so

00:15:33.200 help me out though and this is where i need i talk very fast no no this is where i need to be educated

00:15:38.000 a little so i grew up in the air with the 12 you know smoke that bud and enjoy yourself right now we

00:15:44.480 legalized it now we've got into different forms right different stronger strains start stronger strains

00:15:51.600 yeah which where do we kind of cross that like this is the interesting thing and this is why

00:15:56.560 sometimes you know it's always that first uh foot in the door and then everyone cracks the door open

00:16:02.000 i get i get that happens that's in any business that's kind of the natural uh inclination of people

00:16:08.160 in that business yeah but so now okay you you got in the door with 12 or 14 or 16 percent now you're

00:16:16.960 actually selling 90 percent well when they got what is that right like and that's where i'm struggling

00:16:22.720 because i'm looking at this guy sorry and yeah and i'm looking at this guy and then i go to this site

00:16:26.960 because you know it it was bugging me a little because i'm trying to figure out a way you know

00:16:32.640 because i'm still in contact with them i'm trying to figure out a way to have a lunch with them and

00:16:36.480 just say hey you know what observation right you know without offending them to say observation

00:16:43.360 maybe it's not for you and whatever your strain whatever you're smoking whatever you're getting

00:16:48.960 maybe it's not working for you and then i go to this site every brain matters yes everybrainmatters.org

00:16:53.920 is actually a great site for people that have personal experiences with cannabis negative and

00:16:58.480 positive and a lot of it seems to be young children right stories from parents talking about their young

00:17:03.680 children yeah and you know and and uh there's uh brian the one lady you know she gets uh i think

00:17:10.560 it's an edible and she overdoses on edibles and then she goes bananas she stabs her boyfriend to 1.00

00:17:15.680 death she's in jail another medical professional she was actually finishing medical school also

00:17:21.600 you know we got story after story of these people and then uh people who are uh they won't eat they

00:17:28.160 won't drink after a while because they vote like so that you know and you go you start going through

00:17:33.040 this site and you're like my goodness like and and there's technical terms for uh uh what's the

00:17:39.520 term hermesis yeah so the the the new term for it the street slang is scrommeting okay so basically

00:17:46.880 what they're saying is you're screaming and vomiting it causes a uh a very violent regurgitation

00:17:52.960 and a lot of that is coming from either pesticides carrying not like not curing the plant right

00:17:58.080 properly there's a few things that actually uh jump into that but when we go back to the actual

00:18:03.280 psychoactive effects right that is a genetic thing right it's in you it's in you it's in you right

00:18:09.760 you probably were struggling a little bit with it anyways you had depression you were

00:18:14.000 you're a little off center to begin anything that triggers that yeah unfortunately when we're like

00:18:18.800 we've said when we're eating cannabis it's a six hour to eight hour buzz hallucinogenic feelings

00:18:25.040 and properties attached to it if you're already dealing with psychosis or have that buried deep inside

00:18:30.000 it's not a good mix and in every the earliest adapters of the medical community the guys in

00:18:36.960 california harvard everyone who kind of just researched this is to death even when it was

00:18:42.000 illegal they did find out one of the major things is if you have any sort of mental health in your

00:18:48.000 family you should not be using cannabis if there's some sort of genetic d if you have chronic depression

00:18:53.040 that's sent down from your grandparents or whatever it is stay away from cannabis but you should be

00:18:58.080 staying away from anything that has a psychoactive effect but here's the crazy part a little bit

00:19:03.040 and i i think you know uh this this gentleman i'm talking about right uh a new culture to canada right

00:19:10.640 well just like my parents were and and my grandparents you know quite frankly they didn't

00:19:15.760 talk about depression i'm sure they did suffer it right i'm sure his ancestors suffered whatever

00:19:21.680 but you know there be a lot of communities in my era and before my era no one admitted depression

00:19:27.280 like if you it's a western baby boomer kid thing yeah if you were ever bummed out about something

00:19:33.040 you didn't talk about it right you never told anyone you never you just weathered through it

00:19:36.720 right you kind of got through it and you know my mom and everyone else like they just kind of

00:19:41.200 i'm sure they had bad days they just kind of went through it right a term that's negative now

00:19:45.040 apparently since culture has changed but it used to be man up yeah just man up so mental health

00:19:51.440 probably like the challenge a little bit that i think people are having is you know the history of mental

00:19:55.440 health and you're when people say that they probably don't know like they've no no one ever

00:20:00.080 admitted it oh wacky uncle andy right i had a wacky uncle andy i had a uh wacky uncle stewie right

00:20:07.360 yeah i'm on my mom's guide which was scottish but uh usually all of our fathers said our mother-in-laws

00:20:12.240 were wacky their mother-in-laws were wacky right so you can track that a bit i guess what the mother-in-law

00:20:16.640 side but you're right no it wasn't talked about so it there was probably a lot of people out there

00:20:20.880 that have no idea that mental health is running in their family so now we unleash so there's the

00:20:25.360 interesting thing now we unleash this whole cannabis flurry which i get just like alcohol

00:20:29.680 you know we had the same uh there were people who didn't manage their alcohol well you know and became

00:20:34.240 alcoholics now we have this whole cannabis flurry it's all out there every every corner you know

00:20:39.200 they're selling cannabis you know the education i think they're trying to do it in schools which i think

00:20:45.200 is good i think the schools are trying to do it probably could be done a little bit better they

00:20:48.640 could do a little i looked into what they're teaching the kids with cannabis use yeah it's

00:20:52.720 actually not very responsible yeah well and i think you know that's when i i hit on this site

00:20:57.680 and i thought to myself man like people should read this story so then you can kind of figure out

00:21:02.000 and then if you start doing it and you figure out it's not working for you yep like he's again this

00:21:08.880 gentleman is a medical profession like he's got at some point so either he's trying to numb some pain

00:21:15.280 or he's trying to figure out what he's doing with it i would feel like he's probably seeing

00:21:20.560 like most guys even the guys that work for the ambulance yeah like my god the stuff that they have

00:21:26.480 to see the pain that they have to go through if they have any piece of empathy in them having to

00:21:30.800 see somebody in a situation that's in pain that's going to be the worst thing to process but then

00:21:35.040 if you start medicating to overcome it it's going to cause a huge problem it's a spiral effect right

00:21:40.080 you're not going to do yourself any good and maybe that then maybe you know that's the the lunch i was

00:21:44.640 going to have with them and just say hey you know life's long do you really maybe this isn't for you

00:21:50.560 maybe this profession isn't for you you know i started off i i think i told you i started off

00:21:54.800 i thought i wanted to be in sports medicine i went and worked uh work term in uh northwest hospital

00:22:00.880 uh uh i couldn't do it it's just not i worked with stroke victims yeah i worked with stroke victims i

00:22:06.320 worked on rehab with stroke victims um turning their limbs and trying to get them to you know

00:22:11.360 because as they as they tighten up and they form you try to you know it's all the twisting and turning

00:22:17.040 to try to get them to be more mobile right yeah and it was terrible i just listen i did you know

00:22:23.600 four months of it and i was like i'm done and and hats off to anybody you can shut that uh that

00:22:28.240 empathetic switch off for the day to go to work right because it is it's it's amazing yeah it's amazing

00:22:33.120 and stay uh for and leave your work and go back to a normal life because if you're going to do it 0.65

00:22:40.400 and medicate yourself through it then there's no point in doing it right you're hurting yourself

00:22:45.680 and eventually you're going to hurt other people well when you're saying spiraling out of control

00:22:49.200 too right like if the cannabis is already hitting this gentleman and i hate to keep bringing him up

00:22:53.200 like he's not here and we're talking about him but it does come from a place of concern right so i guess

00:22:58.320 it's a case if if the cannabis is not hitting him properly and he does spiral out of control like

00:23:04.720 he said he's 25 years old let's say he's doing this for another 25 years that could lead to sicko

00:23:09.360 psychosis i don't see any link from cannabis itself specifically causing psychosis i don't know if the

00:23:15.760 research has been done enough yet from everything that's been publicated and put out there yeah it

00:23:20.560 doesn't seem to be the major cause of it it seems to be the the straw that broke the camel's back that if

00:23:26.480 you are partaking in you know let's replace cannabis with kratom for a second right kratom 0.96

00:23:32.640 seems to be a super drug a natural super drug that everybody loves it causes a lot of problems like

00:23:38.720 there are some severe psychosis issues that come from kratom i think that everybody is different

00:23:44.720 right the cannabis plant itself is extremely powerful a lot of uh kooky hippies have always called it the

00:23:50.240 magical plant the magic plant yeah well with great power comes great responsibility if this plan is so

00:23:55.920 strong and is so good for us medically maybe one of the things that we should do is maybe take a

00:24:00.560 step back from it as human beings recreational and start focusing more on the medical side and

00:24:06.640 i brought an activist in here we did an interview it should be out about probably by the time anybody's

00:24:10.720 watched this where we talked about cannabis and we broke it down with saying in canada specifically

00:24:16.240 we always thought when this was legalized and we were on the front lines as activists putting ourselves

00:24:20.320 out there willing to get arrested for this that once this was legalized things like hemp

00:24:26.320 textiles and things like that making hemp concrete all that stuff would come out on the horizon

00:24:31.840 it didn't it didn't we're still using pulp we're still using you know concrete and we're not using

00:24:37.360 hemp the way that it should be used we also didn't research this medically the way that we thought we

00:24:43.040 thought that the doors would be open now you didn't have to hide behind closed doors you didn't have to

00:24:48.480 get a grant to research cannabis anybody could just go home and become a researcher in cannabis

00:24:53.440 nothing has changed we have not seen anything in eight years that would we didn't already

00:24:58.720 know before legalization so when it comes to retail i'll read you some numbers paul maybe

00:25:03.840 maybe some of these alarm you maybe they don't so in august of 2025 there was 498.7 million retail

00:25:12.800 sales in canada oh yeah that was in one month it's huge it's massive so a lot of people are

00:25:18.000 using it we actually broke it down seems to be six percent of the country is using cannabis right

00:25:22.240 now in some form yeah six percent is a high number can i jump in yeah so i've ran i've ran companies as

00:25:29.440 big as 12 000 people yeah right and i'm not going to go into the details of it but when i actually got the

00:25:36.400 health benefits you get a summary of the health benefits you know your your uh benefit provider

00:25:42.320 provides you yeah right did you know more than 50 of the people that worked there were on an

00:25:47.680 antidepressant what year was this so this is back in the early 90s so early 90s early 90s early 90s so

00:25:56.960 early 90s early to midnight even invented half of them yeah early been 90s and and as we got to 2000 it

00:26:03.680 increased even more right holy so so just i'm sure if you look so you know the interesting part

00:26:10.800 is go ahead certain no no i'm now you got me intrigued but here's the thing you know and they

00:26:16.240 don't tell you that with the you know weed or or anything you know you shouldn't be mixing your

00:26:24.480 yeah you shouldn't be co-mixing your drugs or your you know that chemical imbalance in your brain

00:26:29.040 so i've never asked this gentleman i'd like to have that conversation at some point if he's willing

00:26:32.640 to disclose it i wonder if there is something else have you or have you used you know an antidepressant

00:26:37.920 have you you know thought about it now it's interesting because you know as i got to you

00:26:42.400 know soccer came about and everything happened and i got to meet all his buddies in that right

00:26:47.360 i you know didn't mean they're they're all little off balance kind of guys and you know

00:26:52.480 most of them are in some type of medical field surrounding what he's doing you know and it's very

00:26:57.920 interesting to watch you know as they all came and went and drank and did their thing and i was you

00:27:03.200 know interacting with them but you know i also didn't see uh a lot of uh how do i say it from what

00:27:10.480 uh female interaction like they're all together you know what i mean like they're in and they were all 0.88

00:27:15.760 mostly single they kind of were hanging out and i'm thinking to myself hmm you know they're getting older

00:27:20.640 and they're sort of not you know maybe maybe quite frankly you know they are having some

00:27:26.080 challenges with everything going on in their life and it brings me to my next point that i had written

00:27:31.360 down here impotence is a real thing with cannabis really yeah oh okay so there's always been a

00:27:38.480 there's always been like an unwritten wives tale or uh whatever you want to call it an old fable that

00:27:43.440 said that cannabis makes sex feel better maybe it does to the average person okay but cannabis has a

00:27:49.360 a way of shutting everything down oh numbing you so okay numbing and when you get that numbing

00:27:54.800 sensation like i know a lot of a lot of people that are just casual users when they smoke cannabis

00:27:59.280 they get hungry right the average user doesn't get hungry oh okay oh you don't it's just it just numbs

00:28:07.200 whatever sensation you have and then you notice that guys like me when i'm at home and i've had

00:28:12.640 cannabis and i feel too numb i counterbalance it with coffee coffee and cannabis seems to be a

00:28:17.840 match made in heaven with a lot of users a lot of average users oh okay so you'll see a balance

00:28:23.440 you're chasing a balance all day oh right and like the hardcore cocaine heads back in the 80s they used

00:28:28.000 to balance it out by saying if you did too much cocaine take a shot of whiskey yeah yeah and it'll

00:28:31.760 it'll bring your levels back down that ended up leading to a whole bunch of problems and overdoses

00:28:35.680 but remember in the 90s so in the 90s honestly in the 90s if you drank too much they'd give you a

00:28:40.320 cocaine to straighten you out straight you know it's the same thing but it's the balance right like and

00:28:44.640 and the thing is with cannabis is and we were talking about this at the early at the beginning

00:28:48.160 of the show a lot of people back in the day would the joint would come out once you already had a

00:28:51.840 couple beers in you yeah that would make guys puke yeah a lot of the time right alcohol and cannabis

00:28:57.520 do not mix well together and that's why the alcohol companies are having such a strong or hard time here

00:29:03.680 making cannabis spirits they just don't go well together there's a few out there i was at an event

00:29:09.200 last year where there was a wine infused uh event where they were debuting this wine and it tastes

00:29:14.240 like skunky crap so it doesn't taste good there's no reason for them to be together and the buzzes

00:29:19.520 don't complement each other they're both depressants right like they're both bring they bring you down 0.97

00:29:23.280 you don't want that right but so we'll crack down some more numbers so 2024 5.39 billion ontario was 2.1

00:29:32.480 billion of that alone so it seems to be the majority of people that are smoking in canada happen to be on

00:29:37.920 ontario great good right you're seeing a lot of that and it there's 3 000 stores that are registered

00:29:45.280 there's about another 15 to 2 000 that are unregistered which are considered either gray

00:29:49.280 market or sovereign shops we get about 5 000 stores in canada right now and why yeah and the biggest

00:29:55.360 factors of these the things like increasing the thc up to 30 percent in flower increasing the concentrates

00:30:02.640 up to to 90 percent we're seeing a massive rise reported last year of thc strength leading to

00:30:10.400 anxiety anxiety seems to be the number one problem here this this site right yeah paranoia can be

00:30:17.920 caught like yeah the anxiety is the is the tipping point and everything after that seems to be genetic

00:30:23.600 every brain matters is all all stories about mothers telling about the impacts on their sons and

00:30:29.520 daughters in jail uh their sons and daughters who do these crazy acts all of a sudden out of nowhere

00:30:36.160 this is coming from me they're running down the street with no clothes on they're they're fighting

00:30:40.320 with the police stabbing them martin lawrence years ago story after story after story martin lawrence years

00:30:46.320 ago was on the side of the street naked with a gun and a joint in his hand saying they're going to kill

00:30:51.440 me one of the most successful comedians at the peak of his career was just literally i'm not saying

00:30:56.000 it's the cannabis that did it but the anxiety is a really nasty thing and it seems to be somewhat

00:31:02.000 new like you're saying not a lot of people live with depression well i never even heard of anxiety

00:31:06.160 until the mid 90s 2000s like i was a child actor and the very first thing i ever did was broadway so i

00:31:12.800 had to do seven shows a week in front of 5 000 people right so you do that and when you're a kid and

00:31:19.200 it's overwhelming the one of the things that directors and all these people used to tell us is

00:31:22.480 that there's no such thing as anxiety it's just adrenaline there's no such thing as stage fright

00:31:28.000 it's just adrenaline that that you wanting to throw up before you go out there so i think we've

00:31:32.880 we've almost uh we've confused what anxiety is right so if we automatically think every time our

00:31:40.240 chest is getting tight that we're having a panic attack and having anxiety you're driving yourself

00:31:44.320 insane so if you're one of those people and now you're smoking or you're eating cannabis yeah you

00:31:49.680 could be just staring off into the sky while a nice gentleman behind you is trying to make a 0.97

00:31:54.480 ice rink for the local community exactly it i your friend whoever it is confronting someone and telling

00:32:02.000 them they have a problem is never the easiest thing to do right right and also confronting someone saying

00:32:06.160 hey whatever you enjoy doing in your life i don't think it's good for you can you may never talk to

00:32:11.440 them again it all could also send them down a nasty spiral right exactly but it does sound like from

00:32:17.360 what you're telling me this gentleman probably shouldn't be using cannabis or maybe take a break

00:32:20.960 from it yeah yeah right but you know when you look at this you look at this site right yeah put him

00:32:26.480 aside from it like again it's all these it seems to be the wrong when you you know every brain matters

00:32:34.640 it seems to be all these people who are way too young yeah we shouldn't be using cannabis before

00:32:40.240 you're 25 and the medicine medical research shows that right yeah so but it's it's not and the cannabis

00:32:46.400 they seem to be getting which i find it's interesting the cannabis they're getting their

00:32:49.600 hands on now is worse than the cannabis we had yeah like the chemical that you know whatever

00:32:54.880 chemicals they're using which is causing them to pesticides yeah to vomit and do all this weird stuff

00:33:00.000 i don't know i don't i'm sure there were stories in my day of it um you know i just don't remember

00:33:04.800 it i don't remember everyone telling it wasn't frequently as used it wasn't there wasn't 5 000

00:33:09.440 dealers on the side of the street that's selling cannabis yeah right so like you know

00:33:16.560 when you when you when you break down cannabis as a whole but why are there can i ask you something

00:33:21.840 so here's another question it's a full other question before we get off it yeah why are there

00:33:26.640 these bootleg cannabis shops now so the interesting is this just for is just is this just for minors

00:33:32.480 like this is my curiosity now because they're not getting it they're probably not getting it at legal

00:33:37.120 cannabis shops no they're not right so they're getting a lot of yeah there's regulations and everything

00:33:42.080 i know they have tons of regulations tenders are really good at certain like checking id they're

00:33:46.080 better than the liquor store for it exactly so so they're really good at it so like it's these

00:33:51.840 bootlegs they're getting it from their local grow they're growing it at home a lot of it is coming

00:33:57.600 out of the and this is allegedly as far as i know a lot of this is coming from some of the legal grows

00:34:03.120 there's overstock you know the government really hasn't i have a friend who has a shop in branford

00:34:07.840 i'm not gonna have them yeah they haven't seen bylaw in a year and a half oh yeah that doesn't

00:34:12.880 surprise me there's a lot of shops now right they're not paying attention to this stuff so

00:34:16.560 when you have a grower who's a licensed grower and out the back door they're allowed to sell them

00:34:19.840 out to patients what's saying that five of those boxes doesn't fall off the truck right there's too

00:34:25.120 much cannabis the other problem too paul and this is where i disagree with the government when they

00:34:29.520 legalized it i don't think it was a very smart idea to let everybody grow four plants at whatever size

00:34:34.880 they want instead of they're docile that means if you've got a six plex and you got 15 people

00:34:40.880 living in a place they're all out of ground with four plants well now you're running into drug yielding

00:34:45.520 oh yeah yeah this is too much cannabis nobody needs that much cannabis so you can smoke all day long

00:34:49.760 you're never going to smoke pounds and pounds of weed a month it's not going to happen i went to see

00:34:54.160 a buddy of mine in oshawa uh last summer his whole backyard whole backyard his whole backyard i'm like i'm

00:35:00.320 like dude your neighbors oh no i nobody cares i give it to my neighbors yeah nobody cares it's

00:35:04.880 like what do you mean give it to your neighbors what are you doing i remember the days of being

00:35:08.800 a kid where you had to jump in backyards hoping to god you could find something and now it's in

00:35:12.800 everyone's backyard yeah no it's interesting so i had uh that was that was in oshawa in etobicoke

00:35:19.840 i'm in etobicoke i'm building this house you know because before covet i the like to build houses

00:35:25.360 and i'm building this house and every few days uh it was it was really weird the police would show up

00:35:32.480 to the my neighbor's place this one beside me the what i was building beside and knock on the door

00:35:38.640 the neighbor two doors down kept calling the police because his backyard was full

00:35:45.440 and police didn't do anything they just told them they told they eventually just said to him

00:35:48.560 they said you gotta just take you know chop it up use it you gotta yes we can't keep coming back

00:35:54.080 yeah your neighbors are pissed yeah your neighbors are pissed and so he went back and you know took

00:35:58.240 it out used it and then i was like okay great but you know it he did have like a very large smelly

00:36:06.720 patch yeah growing in his backyard which you know now think if one of every three houses has that

00:36:12.560 then yes there's lots of cannabis for the sovereign shops there's gonna be lots of cannabis available for

00:36:16.960 the gray markets but those guys are using pesticides to keep it sometimes well not so much keep it

00:36:22.960 but they do it to cure it and they do it while it's happening so they don't get mites uh mites is

00:36:27.200 a number one killer of cannabis plants so it's these little tiny tiny spiders what they do is they

00:36:32.800 they almost are like bed bugs they're that invasive they can take out a whole yield a whole crop so

00:36:36.880 back before when you were spending thousands and thousands of dollars trying to hide a room

00:36:40.960 you could show up one day and the entire room is brown right right it just could happen overnight

00:36:45.440 that's why they do it and that's why they do it in these uh almost hermetically sealed rooms and yeah

00:36:51.440 yeah they build the legal places out in the farms right i've seen them yeah yeah and the reason why

00:36:56.720 they do that is because like i said they can completely destroy an entire yield so when you

00:37:03.120 see cheap pesticides used on cannabis a lot of them are carcinogen right the carcinogen based and then

00:37:09.120 your lighter that you're lighting that canvas with is a benzene based lighter fluid mixing them

00:37:15.040 together and even the ocs had a problem with this in their first year of launching you have benzene mixed

00:37:20.640 with this pesticide that is kind of causing carcinogen properties inside of your lungs so people

00:37:25.280 are bleeding yeah right they've they've had the the ocs and and candidates federally have cleaned

00:37:30.880 that up but that doesn't mean that the guys that have been doing it since the 90s with this fish

00:37:34.320 food you know crappy process of growing are still not doing it they're doing it yeah and this is

00:37:40.880 where you're seeing actual like lung problems mold ocs can be blamed a little bit for that too with

00:37:45.760 the mold the shelf life on some of the plants are too long but brady this just this doesn't sound

00:37:50.400 like something i want to do you don't want to do it no no but i mean like no i get it this sounds

00:37:55.280 complicated you know i don't do this honestly and maybe i'm busy so and i have to be clear-headed all

00:38:00.720 the time for business but but you know i can see like this sounds very complicated it is extremely

00:38:05.360 complicated and it's also this is why i wanted to do shows on the network about cannabis not just

00:38:09.680 because i like it but the education is not here it's not being pushed out enough yet yeah people

00:38:15.680 think that you can just walk in a store buy a joint smoke it have a little buzz go home and watch some

00:38:20.480 netflix and eat chocolate fudge sundae yeah nine times out of ten you probably can't yeah but the

00:38:25.360 tenth but the tenth one yeah you might be running down the street with your clothes off you might yeah

00:38:30.000 you might be like the police officers in the states who busted that illegal dispensary and they ate all

00:38:34.400 the edibles and they found them all in the trees the cats are chasing me right like yeah forget it

00:38:42.320 i don't know your thoughts on edibles i would never even think about an edible the last edible i ate was

00:38:47.280 1500 milligrams which is 1500 times more than they're illegally allowed to sell in the ocs and i'm not

00:38:54.640 talking about my tolerance i just really enjoy edibles yeah yeah but i sleep for 12 hours oh is that

00:39:00.720 what it does to you that just makes it knocks me out i only use cannabis now but does it knock

00:39:05.280 everyone out oh no no no everybody's different that's what i mean so your body is different and

00:39:11.200 the plant is powerful so great power comes great responsibility you need to be responsible for

00:39:15.760 yourself like anything but is but shouldn't there be okay so then like what i'm hearing so this is

00:39:20.880 interesting because it's it's changing so much differently than when i was a kid yeah right so

00:39:26.480 shouldn't there be kind of a almost an onboarding program to see where you end up here like like

00:39:32.800 isn't there isn't there it's wouldn't be a bad idea i want to do it yeah say i want to get into it and i

00:39:38.480 want to you know start to partake in it on a weekly basis shouldn't there be an onboarding program

00:39:46.160 like to say okay try you know try it at this strength first and make sure you're good this

00:39:50.560 strength well that's what the bud tender is supposed to do when you walk into a cannabis store let's say it's

00:39:54.800 your first time walking in yeah and you talk to the and not everybody behind the counter is going

00:39:58.560 to be responsible exactly and this is why i liked when the gray market was in control 0.64

00:40:02.640 because of the 120 stores that were in ontario every single person behind that counter was there

00:40:08.080 taking a risk and they knew what they were doing and they weren't there for the money yeah and they

00:40:11.760 weren't gonna they were there to educate well and they're also weren't they didn't want you

00:40:15.520 flipping off your lid and the store would be shut down yeah exactly and telling having someone

00:40:20.320 uh sober up and say that's where i got it i've told many i had a lady come was it more responsible 0.99

00:40:26.320 before it was responsible i had a lady come in that was in four stage cancer she had never tried 1.00

00:40:30.560 cannabis ever and she knew that she was on her way out and she just wanted a little bit of like

00:40:34.880 relaxation so she could eat and sleep while she's going through chemo yeah and they wanted edibles and

00:40:40.080 i'm listening to this guy tell her you need edibles you need edibles and i'm like do not do this to her

00:40:45.200 she's already having a bad time laying down yeah right she can barely she can't even eat and when 1.00

00:40:50.400 you get chemo i don't know if you know anybody that's been on chemo yes it's it's the worst thing

00:40:55.600 ever your body feels like it's been exactly what it is newt oh yeah yeah so giving someone an edible

00:41:01.040 and telling them hey you're going to get a good sleep is not a good idea right right education is

00:41:07.920 the number one thing with cannabis especially as it's constantly changing it's constantly getting

00:41:12.240 stronger if you're a cannabis user you need to be educating yourself and if you're somebody that

00:41:16.480 is dealing with someone who is trying to become a cannabis user you need to be the actual point of

00:41:22.560 education for them right well you can't just send them out it seems like all these moms where you know

00:41:28.560 god bless them you know they're now reporting unfortunately after the fact right had these kids

00:41:33.920 you know most of them under 20 from from what i can see from the site right who started experimenting with

00:41:40.960 it and and wigged it right they did they they just didn't balance well they committed they did all

00:41:47.040 these things so they they didn't make it in there would have they can would have would they have

00:41:51.200 committed anyway and that's the real question right yeah i'm with you you know i think again that

00:41:59.040 the whole psychosis piece but but wouldn't it have been wouldn't have been nice if quite frankly if

00:42:04.400 it's legalized it's out there now wouldn't it be great to kind of do an onboarding program

00:42:10.160 and now it's interesting so this is an interesting dichotomy between uh alcohol and weed now right

00:42:17.760 so and marijuana it really is interesting because now we're telling people not to drink

00:42:24.880 right we're saying hey it's bad for you oh it's awful right let's be serious it's it is like spirits

00:42:30.800 my goodness they're poison yeah you might as well just it you know it was used for medicine right

00:42:35.040 we all know that now with cannabis yeah yeah we get it cocaine as well too paul yeah no no i'm with

00:42:40.400 you but now we're but but now now we're now we're saying okay legalize it let's expand it so we've

00:42:46.560 rapidly expanded on small localized basis across 500 whatever the number is yeah so stores that have

00:42:53.680 gone everywhere but there's there's really no process to onboard people to say try it and if it works

00:43:00.560 like you know when's your off board and when's your onboard i just i you know how responsible is

00:43:05.840 that and quite frankly it's not now we've seen the test case for like this this site is only one site

00:43:11.520 that's out there quite frankly there's a ton more but i glommed on it because i started reading the

00:43:15.760 stories and the stories are well written the person who put the site together it's it's a it is a very

00:43:20.240 strong site and if you are trying to educate yourself on you know if you have kids that are using

00:43:24.240 cannabis it is definitely a good place to go check out yeah right they're trying to understand 1.00

00:43:28.880 now put yourself in the place of these some of these mothers and fathers so i have a kid who wants

00:43:33.360 he's on canvas you know right away i know they have uh psychological problems so i gotta off board

00:43:38.640 them yeah right because i know that's you know i know that's gonna happen so i gotta get figure that

00:43:43.120 out i have a kid who's lazy right you know i know you know i've been there so i have a kid who's lazy right

00:43:51.600 last thing i want him doing is smoking yeah yeah it's not he's not he doesn't have psychosis he's

00:43:58.800 just not a go-getter right the cannabis doesn't make you not go to work what it does is it makes

00:44:03.040 you when you smoke it you're like yeah i won't get fired yeah yeah it's so it's not that it's

00:44:06.960 stopping you from going you're just like you know they called it the peace and love drug for a reason

00:44:12.720 right yeah people that smoke cannabis and that that aren't freaking out from it that are just enjoying

00:44:17.040 the buzz usually are pretty easy going oh yeah yeah but it's great that they're easy going but 0.99

00:44:23.200 you know i need them off get their assholes but yeah you know the the expression you know as i always 0.98

00:44:28.880 told my you know my sons i said listen you got to work hard when you're young there's no point in 0.99

00:44:33.040 waiting until you're old and turning it on it's not something you're going to turn on at 50 right

00:44:37.920 you know you're not gonna you're not gonna become a go-getter at some you know unless you're

00:44:41.360 colonel sanders quite frankly there's very few test cases where people got rich after a certain age

00:44:46.320 right it's almost it doesn't exist it doesn't exist so you it's the training ground so you got

00:44:51.040 to kind of turn it on earlier so if you have some kid who's like you said playing video games and

00:44:55.600 smoking weed you know obviously you didn't get in the on the onboarding program at some point there

00:45:01.280 should have been a check mark that said oh we got to get off now right yeah i got to get focused here

00:45:06.080 or even or i got to do it only on the weekend but the onboarding program saturday could be even just

00:45:11.440 the conversation that we're having here right and you you you back it up by paperwork and fax

00:45:16.320 and if you walk into a cannabis store there should be an option to say tell me everything

00:45:22.080 yeah but do you have a consultant here that i can talk to about this because we used to have those

00:45:27.760 there used to be a desk or a doctor or someone around that you could you could walk into a great

00:45:33.200 cannabis store no i thought there were a lot of the good ones did how about a checklist checklist

00:45:38.160 how about an avatar that asks you a set of four questions and if you i'm no i'm not kidding no i'm

00:45:43.920 you're right it's so easy let's have an ai avatar that just comes down and says hey but you know

00:45:49.280 my name's you know gene and by the way you know if if you're hearing voices or you're lazy or whatever

00:45:55.760 you know what i mean like i'm gene good strain yeah and i'm there no no but but isn't are we

00:46:01.200 technologically able to do that now like it just it seems negligent that we're just kind of going and

00:46:05.760 like the sites like this are popping up kids are dying and we're we're seeing they're going well you

00:46:10.560 know it's good for you and by the way you know we started this and it's healthy and we did it at 12

00:46:17.520 but oops now it's 90 and now we've concentrated it we have delta 8 we have all these things now

00:46:25.120 we have this black market weed that floats around that's full of pesticides because we let you have 0.99

00:46:30.080 four plants i don't know how any of this is good anymore and and now i got this kid in the corner who

00:46:36.960 is one day going to be providing medical advice and but i got to tell him to pick up a shovel

00:46:46.960 you know what i mean that's it i quit

00:46:50.800 but there's got to be a balancing act here right you're right sorry i'm frustrated no no and you know

00:46:55.360 i just don't see the i i just don't see how this got to this point right and you you were justified in

00:47:01.440 your frustrations because even a guy on and i'm not on the other side i'm yeah but a guy that was

00:47:06.880 in that world for a very long time i do feel like the government effed up right i don't think it was a

00:47:13.200 good idea to have even as simple as smoking on the side of the street this isn't a cigarette if some

00:47:19.440 kid walks by and gets a mouthful of this in their lungs they are now buzz for the rest of the day and

00:47:24.160 they don't know why have you ever gone to a raptor game lady yes yes line up with your kid at the raptor

00:47:29.280 game so my youngest one i did last year i didn't go this year because quite frankly uh we had great

00:47:35.280 seats thank you uh for my buddy who gave us great seats right great seats we go to the game we get

00:47:42.320 there like half hour early we're lined up everyone in the line is smoking weed yep jurassic park is just

00:47:48.960 a freaking hot box now yeah before every game and it has been that way for a couple years until we sit

00:47:53.200 down and like he she says this is like my 15 year old times 16 now he says to me said let's go get

00:47:59.520 some popcorn of course he did because he picked up a second hand high we didn't even realize of course

00:48:04.960 he was a little high i was a little high i was a little high i could feel it i was buzzing there's

00:48:09.520 dangers from secondhand smoke but they're not like the the dangers of secondhand cannabis right and if

00:48:15.040 you're standing in line let's say you got a call and you had to rush to the hospital now you got to get

00:48:20.160 in your car and drive to the hospital all ganked out because you're waiting in line to go to a

00:48:24.160 raptors game i yeah for a half hour inhaling inhaling a lot of weed these rules that the

00:48:29.520 government laid out are horrible and then they have things like limitations on edibles which i

00:48:33.920 guess sounds like a great idea but it's 10 milligrams the average person can't even get a

00:48:38.320 buzz off of 12 or 10 milligrams you need about 25 to 50. yeah so they're compounding whatever and

00:48:44.400 then now what's self-medicating is the shops figured out a loophole now they just sell 100

00:48:48.480 packs of tents oh yeah yeah it makes sense right yeah right don't quote me on the 100 but they're

00:48:54.480 selling these massive boxes right and then uh the argument other the other argument with this too is

00:48:59.600 that why can't why is cannabis still so expensive so cannabis is that since it's retail it's actually

00:49:04.720 dropped about two to five percent in sales so the stronger it's getting the better the quality

00:49:08.960 it's getting the price points are coming down that's great but you're limited on buying your

00:49:14.720 purchase power is limited to an ounce or two ounces per store depending on the store so you're

00:49:18.640 only allowed to get let's say four hundred dollars worth of cannabis right yeah some people

00:49:22.160 want to go in there and they want to stock up they get a big payday they want to stock up their

00:49:25.040 freezer and not have to worry about buying cannabis again for a year and they think that 0.99

00:49:28.080 that's a problem that they're not allowed to buy more well idiot if you went to costco and 0.99

00:49:33.440 buy five thousand dollars worth of tomato soup they're not going to chase you home 0.99

00:49:37.520 but they might if they because there's cannabis gray market still there's still a way to to sell

00:49:42.000 this as a drug oh yeah so people will follow you home there needs to be limits so things like

00:49:46.320 making a limit on purchasing great idea making it the ability to smoke in public anywhere you want

00:49:52.400 and grow four plants things like that bad ideas do i think that there needs to be a step back on

00:49:57.280 regulation and some readjustments 100 i also think that the bills of saying stuff like they originally

00:50:04.960 told these guys that they had to blackout their stores so you had if you had oh yeah that is so

00:50:09.840 dangerous what happens if somebody's robbing the store most stores only have one to two bud tenders

00:50:15.120 in there to begin with and no security yeah and they're supposed to be secured by the cameras that

00:50:18.960 the ocs is paying attention to they don't pay attention to anything nobody is secured no so it's

00:50:23.440 nice to see that they're making changes with that pull the stuff off the windows things like that you're

00:50:27.920 not allowed to advertise sales you're not allowed to entice anybody into your building for whatever

00:50:32.080 reason you can't give them into a draw if they purchase something so you're limited you've made 0.61

00:50:37.600 really dumb rules for the benefits of making money and you made really dumb rules for how people consume

00:50:44.400 it there needs to be a bit of a step back somebody needs to come in and make a bit of a change and 0.87

00:50:49.520 this you know just this is what got me going on and you know and i'm glad it did sometimes the live

00:50:55.280 examples on cannabis yeah and then and watching you know uh what i consider a brilliant mind

00:51:01.280 turn into mush by midnight and so yeah thank you and just to close it out um if anyone you know

00:51:09.920 or anyone that you have in your life or even you yourself if you're struggling with any sort

00:51:14.560 of cannabis addiction or cannabis misuse please get a hold of the canadian uh dry rehab services at 1-877-254-3348

00:51:24.800 the number again is 1-877-254-3348 i've been brady wedham this is tpl media thank you very much paul for

00:51:33.520 sitting in on a topic that i know that you might not be comfortable with but i'm very very appreciative

00:51:37.920 that you did please download the app or visit tplmedia.ca stay safe my friends

True Patriot Love - March 02, 2026

The Side Effects Of Retail Cannabis

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