Western Standard - LIVE CHAT： Cannabis is not just for potheads

00:00:00.000 good morning i'm melanie risden with the western standard thanks for joining us

00:00:28.080 on a Friday and just heading into the weekend soon. Looking forward to it. It is a great day

00:00:37.020 to talk about cannabis. We're going to find out that cannabis is not just for potheads. We're

00:00:44.320 going to dive into the topic of actually how medicinal cannabis is and some of the great

00:00:51.160 properties that come from the use of cannabis and the different types and whatnot. So

00:00:57.980 if you are kind of one of those people like I was who really didn't know much about it other than

00:01:04.980 the option to smoke pot, let's stick around because we're going to give you a good

00:01:12.120 cannabis 101 today. But first we're going to check in with our newsroom and our news editor

00:01:18.260 Dave Naylor is standing by to update us on some of the stories we've been working on this morning.

00:01:23.440 good morning dave good morning mel happy friday to you yeah you too yeah we've got some interesting

00:01:30.320 stories up already and some more stuff we're working on for uh for a lovely friday afternoon

00:01:35.920 here in calgary it's actually a story you did mel that's uh topping the site at the moment about

00:01:41.600 a taberman who got some stuck in some chaos in toronto's pearson airport and he said they his

00:01:49.120 flight and hundreds of others were herded like cattle into a small room where they were basically

00:01:54.800 standing shoulder to shoulder while they did some some rapid testing so he's less than pleased and 0.94

00:02:00.720 it does sound like a a very disturbing uh incident our energy uh expert uh eva sundick she's got a

00:02:10.720 a story on CAP, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, very bullish on the Alberta 0.89

00:02:17.800 and Saskatchewan oil markets for the upcoming year. They're saying that there's going to be

00:02:23.940 billions and billions more investment into the patch this year. So with oil trading now in the

00:02:31.000 higher 80s markets, it's good news for all of Alberta. A couple of stories out of Ottawa that

00:02:38.360 we've touched on this morning one is a report on the uh the covet death rate in the first nations

00:02:45.160 hamlets across the country that are under federal control uh some disturbing uh statistics dug up

00:02:52.280 there where shows the birth the death rate excuse me is actually higher than that's that of botswana

00:02:58.440 and kazakhstan and other glamorous places uh like that uh you're gonna have to help me on this next

00:03:05.640 story, Mel, because you know how to pronounce it. But we all remember when Trump was going crazy

00:03:10.060 over that malaria drug called hydroxychloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine. When he was tweeting about it,

00:03:17.680 federal government officials in Canada took notice and they rushed out to buy a whole bunch of it.

00:03:24.480 So interesting type story because you think most Canadian politicians wouldn't have anything to do

00:03:30.580 with Trump, but apparently the bureaucrats are certainly listening to what he's saying.

00:03:35.640 So that's up on Seamus O'Reagan. He's the Labour Minister that brought in the paid sick leave bill

00:03:46.060 while allowing workers to take 10 days of paid sick leave. Well, someone in his office doesn't

00:03:51.300 have a very high regard for the truckers on Canadian roads because they said the truckers

00:03:57.380 we're likely going to be scofflaws in it and take advantage of it.

00:04:01.980 So that's up there on the site and also lots of good stuff to chew over on a Friday afternoon.

00:04:09.340 And I know that we're also working on some stories.

00:04:13.320 What else is coming?

00:04:15.400 Anything in the shoots?

00:04:18.720 Well, our new Edmonton reporter, Amber Gosling,

00:04:22.360 has got an interesting story coming out on what I think is a wacky idea

00:04:27.300 by an Edmonton councillor, he wants to license landlords.

00:04:31.320 So if you've got a tenant living in your basement,

00:04:34.120 you're going to have to go down to City Hall

00:04:36.480 and apply for a licence and obviously have, you know,

00:04:39.580 I'm sure they'll be free to go along with it too.

00:04:42.040 So just another case of, you know,

00:04:45.420 bureaucracy gone wild in my opinion,

00:04:47.300 but Amber's going to have that story this afternoon.

00:04:50.980 And then to be honest, Mel,

00:04:52.260 whatever else you produce when you're done your TV duties.

00:04:54.380 Yes, I do have a couple of things that I'm working on, including one, just looking at just double checking here, just looking into where things are at with the Fed's promise to shield employers from employees fighting back against the mandate. So we're going to get some details as to where that's at right now.

00:05:21.180 Sounds good, Mel. Have a good show.

00:05:22.960 Thanks, Dave. We'll check back with you in the newsroom shortly. Thanks.

00:05:30.220 All right. So we are going to dive into the topic of cannabis. We're going to learn a little bit

00:05:37.820 about cannabis and the use of it. You know, there's all sorts of medicinal properties that

00:05:43.860 I'm sure people have heard about. And joining me right now is Morgan Dakin from High Ground.

00:05:49.800 She's a manager with High Ground, which is a cannabis producer, and they're going to be growing cannabis here locally for for bulk sale.

00:06:01.540 Yeah, it's not. High Ground is not one of the distributors that you can go to and and buy from.

00:06:07.180 Not right now. Not right now. But but will be.

00:06:10.080 So so Morgan is going to chat with us today a bit about the background of marijuana in in general.

00:06:19.800 and we're going to just learn a little bit.

00:06:22.740 I know I had a lot of questions for her,

00:06:25.700 and I'm sure there's a lot of people who do.

00:06:28.140 I mean, this is fairly new to a lot of people.

00:06:32.920 You know, I think there's still a stigma around it for a lot of people

00:06:36.300 that it is a drug that you get high on.

00:06:39.640 And really, there is so many different forms of it,

00:06:43.440 so many different uses for it that, you know,

00:06:46.120 I think it's definitely worth diving into,

00:06:48.200 especially when you find out how beneficial it can be for certain ailments and illnesses anxiety

00:06:55.480 depression sleep issues things like that so uh morgan thanks for joining us today thank you so

00:07:01.320 much for having me i really appreciate it yeah so let's start out with a little bit of background

00:07:08.200 on marijuana in general cannabis in general yeah well i mean where to begin we're talking about a

00:07:14.680 plant that has been used for medicinal purposes for millennia through all sorts of different

00:07:21.080 cultures. We find evidence constantly through archaeology of it being used for medical purposes,

00:07:26.920 for spiritual purposes as well. This is something that's been around for a very, very long time,

00:07:32.360 and it's only around 1937 or so that the United States and other Western nations began imposing

00:07:39.880 stricter prohibitions against it and you can get into the reasons why they did that there are many

00:07:47.160 different ones certainly a lot of support from the pharmaceutical industry and the pulp and paper

00:07:53.160 industry to keep cannabis and hemp and things within that family down that's they were very

00:08:01.080 supportive of that but to give you an idea of how constant it been back it was back in colonial

00:08:06.360 America, the Spanish mentions, many of them made it a requirement for farmers to grow hemp. We're

00:08:12.840 talking here in the early 1600s, places like Virginia, Massachusetts, it was the way it was.

00:08:19.160 And then it's only in the last century that we saw it get pushed down. So hemp is the plant.

00:08:25.720 Yeah. There's the cannabis plant and hemp and marijuana are sort of within that family.

00:08:31.560 right okay yeah so hemp is the it so okay yeah break break down the plant if you can oh lord

00:08:39.240 yeah the plant can i say the part of what makes cannabis so amazing is the fact that it is so

00:08:45.720 complex the amount of that of study that we have to do to even begin to understand it is extensive

00:08:54.520 and we've lost a lot of time in the last hundred years that we could have spent studying it

00:08:59.800 unfortunately uh hemp uh the biggest thing with that is that it lacks the thc aspect of

00:09:09.240 cannabis that people relate to the high right so the thc is the is the chemical that creates the

00:09:16.600 the feeling of a body high right exactly and it itself is broken down to several things uh you

00:09:22.520 might have heard of things like delta 9 delta 8 thca thcb there's different kinds of it within

00:09:29.320 the plant and in addition to that it has many things called terpenes flavonoids there's so

00:09:35.080 many degrees of complexities to it now hemp lacks a lot of those extra complexities

00:09:42.200 and it's those things that make medicinal marijuana so effective something called the

00:09:47.080 entourage effect when you have for example just cbd a lot of people have heard about cbd the fact

00:09:53.560 that it is without the body high and the mental high but it's found medicinally that when cbd is

00:10:01.000 used in conjunction with bits of thc and other flavonoids we find far greater impact and effect

00:10:08.760 from it medicinally okay towards what people need to do these it it's all working together to create

00:10:16.760 this effect and that's something that we're just constantly trying to study and try to understand

00:10:21.400 better right so with the with the difference between the CBD and the THC my understanding is

00:10:28.720 that you can get products from the dispensaries that have say higher CBD lower THC or vice versa

00:10:38.080 higher THC so so again the the CBD tends to contain more of the medicinal properties that I would say

00:10:46.960 is something that is a common misconception that cbd is like this miracle element within cannabis

00:10:54.000 and the rest of it is just sort of extras not true at all every aspect of it is medicinal in

00:11:00.480 different ways okay thc for example binds with the receptors and it's a huge impact around things

00:11:06.240 like pain mood uh it's been a huge help with things like multiple sclerosis parkins nausea glaucoma

00:11:14.640 all of that comes down to the thc element now cbd is the element it helps a lot with anxiety

00:11:20.400 chronic pain and particularly neuropathic pain that's the kind of pain that we see a lot more

00:11:26.080 effect on the cbd whereas muscle-based pain and pains like that seem to respond better to the thc

00:11:34.320 so it's it is complex and because there's such a variety of conditions and situations

00:11:40.720 and different things within the plant that you would be able to use for different things.

00:11:45.020 We're trying to figure it out to make it easier for people, particularly patients,

00:11:50.180 to better dose and choose the cannabis of both the method of ingestion as well as the specific strains

00:11:57.840 that they need that will be most effective for them because it does change from strain to strain.

00:12:03.120 Mm hmm. So so for a person to be sort of educated, what's best for them for for, you know, whether you're dealing with an anxiety issue, whether you're dealing with insomnia, sleep issue, whether you're dealing with pain or something neurological, where do you go to get, you know, a good advice?

00:12:25.080 I mean you you had mentioned you can't necessarily go to the dispensaries and ask them for their

00:12:32.040 opinion or what what you should be taking what's the best yes um now obviously for purposes of

00:12:39.080 regulations things like that here in Canada when you go to a recreational dispensary there are

00:12:43.800 certain rules that they have to follow they are not licensed clinicians they're not doctors so

00:12:48.680 they are not in a position to have you go in and go hey I can't sleep what is it that I can take

00:12:53.800 that would be good they might at most be like well people tend to take an indica to fall asleep

00:13:00.280 so something along those lines regulations are very strict regarding what they can and cannot

00:13:05.080 say okay which is why i always suggest your best bet is to go to a cannabis clinician

00:13:10.360 there are many different kinds around that you can get recommended to you can even especially

00:13:16.520 with covid they've made them accessible via online meetings and things like that okay they'll be able

00:13:22.440 to give you an idea of what to get but i will say that particularly for medical cannabis as it stands

00:13:29.480 right now in the way the system is it's very much a personal journey it really is it's a lot of

00:13:36.360 working with people talking to people who have experienced taking the plant talking to people

00:13:42.920 who either on social media or doing a lot of your own research a lot of your own trying different

00:13:49.320 things a lot of experimenting and as a result it can be a little bit more a little bit more

00:13:55.320 a bit more of a process okay in order to find the medicinal cannabis that really hits it home for

00:14:01.240 you but it also is what makes cannabis such a personal medication it is truly something that

00:14:08.920 you end up tailoring to you and you end up discovering and going through that journey on

00:14:13.720 your own it's something that everyone's journey is unique a little bit different yeah and everyone

00:14:19.240 you know does respond to any kind of medicinal in their own personal way

00:14:24.320 right and and speaking of that I mean cannabis has been used medicinally for a

00:14:29.140 very long time you know it was it was sort of very regulated and I mean it's

00:14:34.800 been prescribed for cancer people who are undergoing cancer issues you know

00:14:40.960 chemo to to deal with the pain the the illness the sickness that comes from it

00:14:48.700 So the medicinal use of cannabis is not new, it's just that now we have access to it as a general population without needing to have it prescribed, right?

00:15:01.980 Because a lot of issues may not necessarily be, you know, life-altering, but people are struggling.

00:15:10.640 I know for me personally, I struggle with insomnia often.

00:15:15.500 So, so getting some, some help with sleeping and, and, you know, I, I don't really want to have to

00:15:22.160 rely on sleeping pills. So, so things like that, but there's so many different ways to take it as

00:15:29.160 well. Like there's, there's, there's edibles. I mean, again, just talking to the general public

00:15:34.600 who hasn't really experienced much when it comes to cannabis use. I think a lot of people picture

00:15:42.280 just somebody smoking and, you know, kind of looking like a peace dude. Yeah. Right. I mean,

00:15:48.720 I think a lot of people, and that's the stigma that's, that's, uh, still surrounding it is that

00:15:53.720 it's, it's a bunch of potheads sitting around smoking up. Right. So, so, um, yeah, like let's

00:15:59.240 talk a little bit about getting around that stigma and, um, ways that people can, can access it,

00:16:06.440 use it consume it absolutely uh well to start with in terms of how people consume it this is

00:16:13.800 something that i'm really glad you brought up because i find a lot of people especially when

00:16:17.240 they're first trying cannabis their instinct is to go to the edible okay because i think

00:16:23.000 more and more people don't want to inhale smoke they want to avoid that aspect of it particularly

00:16:28.440 when you have health problems the idea of smoking might be something that's intimidating to you

00:16:33.720 also if you're younger and you're looking to start for the first time especially or it's just more

00:16:39.160 appealing to eat a chocolate or a gummy and have an effect from that but i will say that the effect

00:16:45.320 you get from edible is very different from the effect that you are going to get when you smoke

00:16:51.880 it takes longer for it to kick in it lasts way longer it's harder to dose it's far easier to end

00:16:58.920 up taking more thc then is probably advisable and this is the thing is that you're not going to

00:17:06.920 overdose on cannabis you're you're not at all but especially when it comes to edibles you can have

00:17:13.240 something called greening out where you have too much thc in your body and your mind just sort of

00:17:19.080 it has a bit of a panic and the best thing way to get through that is to sleep and that's why with

00:17:24.600 edibles you want to and with all cannabis start low go slow that is your best bet especially when

00:17:32.840 you're starting out start low go slow it might feel strange to just take a little puff or even

00:17:38.920 eat half of a gummy and you might be sitting there going that's supposed to do something

00:17:43.800 especially when you're starting out and learning it that is the best way to do it other options

00:17:50.600 from edibles and smoking i know there are a few others i know that um there are some some sprays

00:17:57.880 oh yeah we have uh tinctures uh which are oils and those are put in a lot of different ways

00:18:02.920 a very common way is under the tongue another common way is like you said a spray or another

00:18:08.600 more popular way that is gaining traction is i don't know if you've seen those thin mint strips

00:18:13.880 for freshening your breath it's basically that but it's cannabis okay and you put on your tongue

00:18:19.240 in itself uh the oil is a way that they're definitely looking at more and more medicinally

00:18:25.640 because oil seems like something that's easier to uh prescribe to someone than saying you know

00:18:34.440 dry flour right you know take three hoots and see me in the morning right yeah it's a little

00:18:40.280 bit harder to describe how you should take it whereas with oil you can say certain percentages

00:18:45.800 and then tell them certain milliliters and it keeps it a little more controlled so that is a

00:18:51.240 way that definitely cannabis clinicians seem to lean towards and like i said they have different

00:18:58.600 amounts of time things like oil things like edibles can take anywhere from 30 minutes to

00:19:03.080 two hours to kick in whereas with the smoke it's minutes and the other thing is the length of time

00:19:10.760 an oil and edible you're looking at six to eight hours and afterwards not a hangover but you still

00:19:18.040 have a bit of lingering feeling whereas with smoking you're looking at a few hours at most

00:19:23.400 before you come back down which allows a lot of people to have sort of greater control

00:19:27.880 of especially when you have pain issues you're able to greater control that yeah and and you're

00:19:33.560 able to yeah make it more specific to particular time things like that okay now coming from

00:19:41.720 somebody who doesn't smoke so I would I would likely be not interested in in the smoke side

00:19:51.080 of things now what about do I do I understand correctly that it can be used with vaping like

00:19:57.560 vape absolutely yeah so yeah no vape is popular and if there's even been some times where perhaps

00:20:03.620 you've heard some warnings about uh vape problems with cannabis so far all of the research and

00:20:12.100 everything that's been done into that has shown that those were vape cartridges that were bought

00:20:16.380 from the illicit market so far there have not been issues with the legal market and vaping and dry

00:20:23.560 product and things like that that and that is very important to point out it's a big reason

00:20:28.760 why moving cannabis over to a legal market is so important there are no regulations in the illicit

00:20:35.720 market and you might trust a dealer you might trust someone who gets you that but there is

00:20:42.040 that oversight is what allows for greater consistency and that is so key especially with

00:20:49.080 medical cannabis you don't want a situation like for example with pharmaceuticals when i get a

00:20:55.000 bottle of pills i know the next bottle of pills i get we'll have the same strength we'll have the

00:20:59.160 same results we'll all that with cannabis from one bud to the next it's a little more

00:21:07.640 unsure which is why consistency is such a milestone within the production world for

00:21:15.480 cannabis it's and it's why high ground which is the cannabis production company that i'm working

00:21:20.600 with is focusing on growing product uh via aeroponics which is a far more controlled medium

00:21:28.360 over say outdoor growing or soil and pot growing okay so why don't we like talk just a little bit

00:21:34.520 about the difference between the the sort of underground um gray market the gray market

00:21:41.720 and uh and then the the legal dispensers um is there a big price difference like fill me in a

00:21:50.120 little bit on the difference between the two certainly from the beginning price was the bigger

00:21:55.080 uh issue as was supply when the first when the uh and by that i mean the legal markets supply

00:22:02.040 and everything that was a problem at first but we're finding as the years go by as the kinks

00:22:07.720 are ironed out and we get used to it we're seeing that go down more and more now while prices

00:22:13.160 remain slightly higher for sort of the highest quality and the lowest quality cannabis

00:22:19.640 it remains slightly higher in the legal market than in the illicit we've now seen a move from

00:22:24.280 the mid market which is by far the largest one to be less expensive domestically and in the legal

00:22:31.400 market than it is in the gray and illicit market that is a huge move because mid mid-level is where

00:22:39.360 the vast bulk of people are that's what does that mean mid-level uh like mid-level in terms of

00:22:45.200 quality you have uh different companies great again this is something that the cannabis industry

00:22:51.580 is trying to sort out which is how are we going to grade it how are we going to measure quality

00:22:56.660 things like that right now they're using a system that was sort of used in the past in the illicit

00:23:03.140 market which is a double a triple a quadruple a okay the more a's the better the better quality

00:23:09.300 it is the better uh usually the larger the bud um it has more what's called trichomes those are the

00:23:16.420 things that you want uh in order to get the effects that you're looking for uh you don't want

00:23:22.180 a product that's overly dried out there's so many different factors to cannabis that would get

00:23:27.940 considered and with the higher quality quadruple a and the lowest quality 1a they're about

00:23:35.940 comparable maybe slightly more for the uh legal market but the main difference there uh to me

00:23:45.380 is that the legal market also has consistency yeah and it also has a reliability there

00:23:52.420 that's not to say that there haven't been issues with the legal market and some bad actors

00:23:58.020 unfortunately find me an industry that you're not going to deal with that um but what's been amazing

00:24:03.940 about the cannabis industry is how dedicated so many people are to the actual product to what it

00:24:13.540 it can do all of its potential they love it and they admire and respect it and those are the

00:24:20.800 people in the industry who we're seeing doing better and better and rise up and that's what

00:24:25.680 we want we're and it's what the customers want to there are a lot of reasons people take cannabis

00:24:34.960 and the THC and the CBD and you know all of it there are a lot of different things that it treats

00:24:41.580 um a lot of different reasons let's um let's talk about some of that let's go into the

00:24:46.300 absolutely for sure there are some conditions more than others that are leading the pack

00:24:52.860 in terms of cannabis's ability to treat them and as i pointed out earlier when we were talking

00:25:01.500 it's been used for medicine for millennia and usually for the same stuff trouble sleeping

00:25:06.620 stomach problems nausea things like ms parkinson's chronic pain neuropathic pain cannabis has been

00:25:16.860 prescribed and used by people for centuries and centuries and now the studies that they're

00:25:24.540 actually doing now that they legally can because it's important to remember that cannabis was next

00:25:30.860 to heroin as the only two drugs that were classified together in terms of danger by the

00:25:37.620 CDC in the United States. The idea for anyone, I think, who's tried cannabis that those two would

00:25:45.360 be compared to each other, let alone be grouped together, is absolutely ridiculous. You see the 0.58

00:25:51.380 benefits of, and we're seeing now that it's not just, you know, in people's minds. There is

00:25:58.400 legitimately improvements. Very recently, for example, with cancer, it's more than just how

00:26:05.800 it helps with nausea and with the pain of cancer. They're finding that CBD in particular seems to

00:26:12.960 actually affect the cancer cells. Recently in Petri dish, focusing on breast cancer cells,

00:26:20.820 it directly shrunk them and affected them in a positive way where it was able to that is huge

00:26:29.300 and it's something that um to to be a little personal here uh both of my parents had cancer

00:26:36.840 and both of them used cannabis uh this is before it was legal here and so i guess i'm outing them

00:26:44.500 but um i will say that i saw them get pumped full of every kind of pharmaceutical you can imagine

00:26:51.940 and the only thing that made them able to eat that made them able to sleep was marijuana of

00:26:57.860 evolved a plant that grows in there's places like bhutan china where it's a weed it grows so

00:27:03.380 commonly on the side of the road right you're constantly feeding it to cows and trying to get

00:27:08.180 rid of it this is a plant that's just out there and available and the fact that it's been there

00:27:13.700 and available for so long for so many different conditions is it's frustrating we're doing better

00:27:21.700 now but everything is pointing towards it being a big help a big thing especially is epilepsy

00:27:31.060 and particularly with cbd it's cbd has now been recognized by who and by other international

00:27:38.180 entities as a non it doesn't mess with your head not like thc so it's not an intoxicating thing

00:27:45.780 cbd is the one that really seems to hit hard with epilepsy and it's the one you might have

00:27:52.380 seen stories about say on cnn uh dr gupta has been doing an ongoing series called weed which

00:27:58.780 i do recommend checking out and he visited with a lovely very young girl named charlotte

00:28:04.320 who had a very specific strain of cannabis made for her it's called charlotte's web and it was

00:28:11.280 very high in cbd your pick your typical cbd content in cannabis is usually like one percent

00:28:17.840 okay it's low to get high and most people aren't as interested in it because it doesn't give you

00:28:23.500 the high right so why would you want to be on it this is why this is why you want to be on it and

00:28:29.300 very tragically, she actually passed very early in the COVID epidemic from COVID, she caught it.

00:28:35.040 And she was just a child. But her legacy is the fact that she the videos of just these children

00:28:43.460 getting a couple of drops of CBD oil, they're shaking uncontrollably in so much pain. And it

00:28:49.780 just melts away. It's a miracle to watch. It's amazing to watch their videos, I cannot recommend

00:28:56.120 them enough just because to see it it feels surreal that this is just here and how it can be

00:29:02.760 illegal when it's obviously showing these great moves forward for these conditions

00:29:10.200 and the other thing i think it's truly going to be helping more and more with is seniors and women

00:29:16.680 okay the fact that thc and cbd working together in particular are huge helps to things like

00:29:22.360 endometriosis, which is a big problem for a lot of women. It is being found not just through

00:29:29.320 studies and clinically, but also of course, through many, many people's personal experiences,

00:29:34.120 just how incredibly effective it is at helping things like endometriosis, like chronic pain,

00:29:40.520 which women are, in terms of patients, it's something like three and four for chronic pain

00:29:45.880 sufferers are women it's far more common for women and it is a huge helper in those fields it's and

00:29:53.560 it's a medication that i think a lot of people like you said have sort of the yo dude that's the

00:30:00.360 sort of thing that they imagine yeah we all went to high school we all had the stoners in the class

00:30:06.200 and that's what we have in our heads right i will say for myself i didn't smart uh smart start

00:30:11.400 smoking cannabis until i was in my mid-20s i didn't even try it before then i wasn't interested

00:30:16.520 and didn't start using it regularly for my own medical purposes until my mid-30s and

00:30:23.320 i have been on every pharmaceutical under the sun in good old oxy

00:30:28.680 off all of them off all of them and the fact that i am that i am functional is just a miracle and

00:30:35.720 it's something that for women more and more i think we're going to see them coming to this

00:30:40.440 because it's a plant that it's a medication that allows you to continue to function and i know

00:30:46.600 this sounds sort of hippie-ish but it helps you find yourself it manages to both silence your mind

00:30:54.360 and engage your mind at the same time and that's why i think a lot of people also have such a

00:30:59.640 personal relationship with marijuana once they start using it regularly and and find out what

00:31:04.680 works exactly for them so do you mind sharing what how it helped you like what for sure um i suffer

00:31:11.160 from uh several pain conditions i have chronic pain uh caused by nerve issues from a trauma and

00:31:17.400 i also have scoliosis which is a fun condition where your spine twists and turns and makes it

00:31:25.640 difficult to function it's painful and uh even just a few years ago i was so bad that i was

00:31:33.400 essentially bedridden. I couldn't move. I had friends who were concerned that I was going to

00:31:40.920 be going all the way downhill. And on top of that, with that constant physical pain,

00:31:45.480 as anyone who has chronic pain can tell you, comes the emotional and mental issues that go

00:31:51.400 so hand in hand with it. And so you end up, it just snowballs and snowballs. And the doctors

00:31:57.320 were piling medication at me, doing everything they can. I turned to medical cannabis because it

00:32:02.200 was just sort of it was legalizing it was becoming new it was becoming promoted and the first few

00:32:09.000 times i tried it for that i will admit that it more just put me to sleep than anything else which

00:32:15.160 i think is a very common thing with cannabis again it's the start low go slow if you take too much

00:32:20.200 more most likely you're just gonna sleep right pass out exactly which is why it's good for sleep

00:32:25.240 well yeah i was gonna say which might be uh very attractive to quite a few people watching

00:32:29.320 it's why some people do it there's a lot of people who have sleep issues absolutely cannabis for

00:32:34.440 sleep and uh here's a little trick by the way because some people talk about indica versus

00:32:38.680 sativa which one is the relaxing one where yeah let's which one let's talk about that let's yeah

00:32:43.320 yeah so what are the two things you just named there indica and sativa they're sort of the two

00:32:49.560 families of marijuana the types of plant that you can get they look slightly different the biggest

00:32:55.560 thing is that sativa tends to be more energizing and indica tends to be more soothing now as time

00:33:01.560 goes by and people do what people do which is genetically mixed things that's becoming it's

00:33:08.120 becoming less and less of a thing it's becoming more and more hybrid okay pretty much all the way

00:33:12.360 across the board the way i i have a little trick to remember it is indica puts you in bed because

00:33:18.520 it knocks you out and then sativa is just the other one that's sort of how i recall it okay

00:33:24.520 So you will basically have a different experience, whichever one you're taking.

00:33:32.880 Most likely. 0.94

00:33:34.220 But as I mentioned, hybrids are becoming more and more common where it's sort of both.

00:33:38.080 The thing that you're going to start hearing more and more and more about with cannabis,

00:33:42.100 get used to this word, is terpenes.

00:33:44.500 Terpenes, okay.

00:33:45.680 Terpenes or terps for those of us in the industry.

00:33:48.600 Okay.

00:33:48.900 So what are terps?

00:33:50.540 Terpenes.

00:33:51.100 These are the things that give cannabis its taste, its smell, and it's also, the more we study, seem to be the elements of it that when it works, they work in conjunction with the THC and CBD elements, are what specifically help certain things.

00:34:09.320 For example, I'll give you an example of one. I'm just trying to think of a popular one,

00:34:19.220 myercene. Okay. Probably a more popular one. It's very sweet. Myercene is a terpene you find,

00:34:25.260 and terpenes are found in all plants, by the way, not just cannabis. Okay. You'll find myercene in

00:34:29.480 mangoes, for example. But it very specifically seems to help with inflammation. And then you

00:34:36.580 have something like carefully, that's spicy, peppery, you'll find that in things like cloves

00:34:41.980 and oregano. When that's a heavy terpene, things like colitis, diabetes, anxiety, liver function,

00:34:49.600 for some reason seems to be greater affected, more greatly affected by that specific terpene.

00:34:56.100 Okay. So the end when I sit like terpenes, I'd love to list them for you. But so far,

00:35:01.940 we've identified over 150 of them okay so there's a lot there's a lot I don't

00:35:07.760 think anyone needs to go through that but now now you were saying that when

00:35:11.760 you go to the the dispensaries they will have an idea of these different things

00:35:20.200 but they can't they can't recommend recommend medically but will somebody be

00:35:26.100 there to discuss with you like absolutely they'll talk to you their

00:35:30.400 best thing that they can do with you is share with you the experiences of the other customers.

00:35:36.400 And this is if you go to a dispensary that's specifically recreational. A medical dispensary

00:35:42.260 is in a different situation. They can give you more specific. And I always, always recommend

00:35:47.580 before you start any kind of medical therapy or treatment program, always talk to your doctor

00:35:52.760 first. Get an idea because especially if you're going to be mixing this with other medications,

00:35:58.060 you want to know what you're getting into, and you want to make sure you're not going to have

00:36:01.300 any sort of negative side effects that are going to impact your experience and impact the cannabis's

00:36:07.840 ability to do what it has to do for you. But I'd be curious to ask you, though,

00:36:13.740 the average family doctor, what is their opinion going to be? Again, I think that, you know,

00:36:20.200 like, it's kind of this, yeah, right? Like, I'm thinking about my family doctor. I've never

00:36:25.740 discussed this with him before, but I'm wondering, are people going to have doctors that are going

00:36:31.800 to say, no, no, no, stay away from that. That's, that's not good for you. Like, because I know,

00:36:37.020 you know, there are a lot of doctors who are still very, very much part of the pharmaceutical

00:36:43.840 as the remedy, the pharmaceutical companies. It's what they know. It's what they've been

00:36:50.920 trained on right so so i mean are you what what we're getting better we're getting there um a big

00:36:59.240 thing with cannabis as it becomes legalized is ongoing education and that's going to come from

00:37:05.640 people in the industry from activists from people who use it it's going to take all that because we

00:37:10.840 are dealing with a century of propaganda and misinformation that we are trying to tear down

00:37:16.840 and rip off and get to the seeds of the actual truth. Now, a lot of doctors, particularly if

00:37:22.600 you have, if your medical professional works with a more holistic thing, and by that, I don't mean

00:37:28.600 like, you know, holy stuff. I mean, as in the whole body, mental health, different people.

00:37:35.740 Like acupuncture. Exactly. They're more holistic. They see the benefits of that. I've been very

00:37:42.220 lucky that, for example, my doctor, when I told him I was looking at medical cannabis, his reaction

00:37:47.540 was great. Go for it. Do your thing. Keep me updated. Other people, they're going to have

00:37:52.860 people, they might have a doctor who does not feel the same way. And there are still doctors

00:37:57.140 out there who feel very strongly about it. And we are getting there and we're getting better and

00:38:01.640 better. The other thing is a lot of doctors, they don't feel comfortable recommending something

00:38:05.980 unless the science proves it like there is scientific hard evidence right now with cannabis

00:38:12.700 they haven't been studying it long enough to have what they would decree a comprehensive enough

00:38:19.940 study and solid answer to feel comfortable that that's why a cannabis clinician is different that

00:38:27.540 is someone who is a doctor but they specialize in cannabis they understand what it is they know what

00:38:33.340 it is. And strangely, we talked before about the illicit market. A lot of the people in the

00:38:40.060 industry are coming from that world, of course, because they were activists. They supported it.

00:38:45.720 These are the people who knew what this plant was capable of before the rest of us got on the

00:38:51.520 trolley, right? So they have a lot of knowledge and information. I usually recommend as well,

00:38:58.660 there are some online sources, for example, Leafly, L-E-A-F-L-Y, and they do a fantastic job

00:39:06.780 in terms of educating, providing really readable and understandable resources for people to get

00:39:14.800 to better know the plant and understand it a little more before they say, go off and start

00:39:21.460 using it. So Leafly is a website that people can go to. And yeah, like I would, I would suggest

00:39:28.400 even just for me if I if I were going to be trying something I would let my doctor know

00:39:34.480 just so that they know what you are sort of diving into whether they agree with it or not

00:39:40.500 or recommend it or not but also do the research right there I think that um do your research I

00:39:47.220 know I was always I was just uh reading an article today about um you know a new uh formulation that

00:39:55.100 has been put together. And people from the shark tank have invested in with this doctor who's come

00:40:01.760 up with a new formulation that's supposed to be incredible for for chronic pain and whatnot. So

00:40:07.020 yeah, I would say there's there's probably a lot of resources that people can dive into to get some

00:40:13.760 some more information because I, you know, the more I hear about it, and and I know a lot of

00:40:20.320 people who are, who have suffered chronic pain. I know a lot of people who deal with insomnia

00:40:26.520 and, and neurological issues more and more. It just seems to be affecting so many people nowadays.

00:40:34.520 And I have spoken with people who have really benefited from, from, you know, going off of

00:40:42.860 the pharmaceuticals that they were taking to try to just bandaid the issue, right? Just try to,

00:40:48.260 try to numb the pain rather than than dealing with it a little bit more holistically and and

00:40:54.640 have had great success so so I find it quite an interest for me to dig into it and I know there's

00:41:02.340 a lot of other people that are you know but but I'm gonna be like I'll tell you my experience I

00:41:07.200 I felt really strange because I went into a dispensary I think this was a couple of months

00:41:12.880 ago uh again just more so looking for something to help me sleep right um you know just for those

00:41:20.880 times where you just can't shut it down and and you need help with sleeping and it was interesting

00:41:26.640 when i went in because i kind of felt like uh well at first strangely i felt like i was doing

00:41:33.280 something wrong i felt like i sort of had to explain oh i'm only here because i have sleep

00:41:37.120 you know, sleep issues, right? And I think nothing wrong with using cannabis just for fun, by the

00:41:42.660 way. Right, right. Well, and it is, it is, is legal, but I mean, for somebody who's, who's never

00:41:47.880 really dove into it, uh, in, in any way, uh, you know, and then, so I was asking the dispenser,

00:41:57.040 um, quite a few questions about, you know, what he suggested and, and I felt like I had to keep

00:42:01.760 saying, I'm, I don't, I don't want to get high. I'm not here to get high. You know, I felt like

00:42:06.380 you know and this is a reflection of me really but um but it was interesting and he was very

00:42:12.800 informative um very helpful very friendly I didn't feel like yeah you know by the end by the time I

00:42:20.620 left I felt like I had been well advised um I felt like you know I didn't feel the need to need to

00:42:28.100 explain my intentions or my the reasons I was there and yeah I so you know I

00:42:36.980 guess I just want to say that for people who are also hearing of these great

00:42:42.260 benefits but but really feeling like there's still that big divider between

00:42:47.600 them and actually you know stepping into this world to get more information well

00:42:54.860 think about it since since we were children we've been hearing pot is bad pot is that you smoke pot

00:43:00.860 you're gonna become a terrorist and a heroin addict and yeah is it like and and it's a gateway drug

00:43:06.940 it's a gateway drug and so like my whole life yeah i'm a good girl i wanted to i didn't do 0.75

00:43:13.740 marijuana because it's illegal it's against the law like you can't do that it's bad it's evil

00:43:18.860 and to get over that it's been grilled into our brains and it's very hard to push it back but

00:43:28.220 it's only once you're using it and it's one of those things more and more the more and more i

00:43:32.620 talk to people about it the more and more you realize how many people are doing it and plus

00:43:38.140 have been using it for a very long time on the down low quietly to help these things sort of

00:43:45.820 almost like ashamed. And that is so sad for me that I've often said that you don't need to be

00:43:53.300 dying to lose your life. And chronic conditions, particularly chronic pain conditions, anything

00:44:01.740 that's neurodegenerative, those things rob you of your life while you're living. And that is

00:44:10.240 an incredibly difficult thing to exist with in a lot of different ways. And the fact that cannabis,

00:44:18.260 not just through so far all the studies that we've seen, but anecdotally, overwhelmingly

00:44:24.520 shows results is a huge thing. And that's why I think that it should be promoted,

00:44:31.820 not just for individual humans to get their lives back, but the amount of people who are on

00:44:36.360 workers compensation who are off work who are older and suffering because of having these chronic

00:44:43.560 conditions is absolutely massive and if cannabis can bring that number down that is a huge saving

00:44:50.040 to the government it's a huge saving to insurance and that is a winner for everyone right now in

00:44:55.720 canada despite the fact that cannabis is legal it's still not covered by insurance companies

00:45:01.720 and so it's coming out of people's pockets it's not the most expensive medication you could get

00:45:08.200 but it's also not the cheapest and accessibility for cannabis goes beyond just legalization it goes

00:45:15.840 to your ability to actually get it it goes to your ability to afford it and it being an actually

00:45:21.960 accessible medication for you and so whenever you regulate cannabis unfortunately what they've done

00:45:28.320 here, which is just go, okay, it's legal. And they, they didn't put a lot of the things that

00:45:34.580 the education and the stuff they needed in line in order to sort of helpfully roll it out. And

00:45:39.780 we're sort of slowly starting to make progress there. Canada's really being watched by the world

00:45:44.820 to go, what happens? What doesn't? What can we do moving forward? Certainly Europe, particularly

00:45:51.000 Germany and countries like that are looking at legalization and watching Canada very closely

00:45:56.300 to see what we're doing right and wrong. Right. And I think a lot of people felt that way too

00:46:01.400 when this was being debated, you know, whether we should legalize it or not. A lot of people

00:46:06.580 thought, well, our country's just going to run downhill. As soon as people have access to this

00:46:12.520 legally, we're just going to go downhill as a society. And, you know, again, that comes from

00:46:19.860 the narrative and the stigma that's been around it for a long time. But, you know, we're even

00:46:23.900 talking about like like talking about debilitating issues you know we talk chronic pain we talk

00:46:30.480 physical but let's talk like mental i mean i mean we've just we've just come through two years of a

00:46:35.740 pandemic the the amount of um mental stress and anxiety that people have been dealing with over

00:46:43.260 this pandemic absolutely has i mean it's it's grown the mental health uh issue mental health

00:46:50.760 struggles exponentially. So, you know, and, and from the research I've done, cannabis helps with

00:47:00.920 anxiety against sleep issues, right? Of course, we've talked about that, but, but, but the

00:47:05.800 potential for it to be helping with depression, anxiety, mood disorders, issues there. I mean,

00:47:12.340 we're talking, we're talking about, you know, again, just getting people back to a normal

00:47:17.160 where they can be functioning they can be contributing in society i mean that to me sounds

00:47:24.520 beneficial absolutely and there's also huge movements particularly in veterans affairs

00:47:31.480 to legalize cannabis for ptsd the fact that it is not legal in the united states when you say

00:47:38.440 legalize it for ptsd are you talking about um actually in that case i was talking about america

00:47:42.760 because in america it is still federally illegal right um but also in in canada they're talking

00:47:49.720 about how can we provide this like they don't have to pay for it it's given to them because of how

00:47:56.600 effective it has shown to be with ptsd and anxiety by far the most common mental health struggle that

00:48:05.480 people uh deal with there are so many different elements of the cannabis plant that seem to help

00:48:11.160 with anxiety that it's absolutely that there's they're struggling to figure out which ones are

00:48:16.600 the best because all of them seem to be working in tandem to have this fantastic effect on uh

00:48:24.200 relaxing anxiety and i i won't act like if you don't smoke the wrong strain you can't get

00:48:29.320 a little more actually anxious yeah again it comes down to proper strains and knowing what

00:48:34.840 you're taking in when to take it but mental health in general we're seeing it get more and more

00:48:42.440 attention good as time goes by it's something that we're going to be working with and this is

00:48:47.800 why cannabis is such an extraordinary thing because this is something that's not only showing

00:48:53.400 that it makes significant improvement to your physical health but to your mental health your

00:48:58.920 emotional health and strangely your spiritual health i have yet to meet the person from the

00:49:05.400 heart like i've known people who are the biggest you know ah spiritual nonsense stuff like that

00:49:12.840 even they have that experience it's almost like you can't not have

00:49:19.560 a profound experience the more you consume cannabis and the more that you adapt to it and

00:49:25.240 And it's something that it's very hard to describe

00:49:31.440 an individual relationship with it.

00:49:33.920 And it sounds so strange, I know, to put it that way,

00:49:38.560 but people who use it know what I'm talking about right now.

00:49:42.900 They know exactly what I'm talking about.

00:49:45.260 And the fact, people talk about the addictive nature of it,

00:49:50.460 is it addictive, is it not?

00:49:52.420 Relative to other medications,

00:49:53.860 not what i find more than anything is i just miss it when it's gone when it's not when i'm not i

00:50:00.180 just miss it and wish it were with me right so yeah like do you find i mean i think that's an

00:50:07.860 important piece to this as well uh people being afraid that they will become addicted so so when

00:50:15.060 you say you miss it when it's gone to what extent i mean are you anxious when it's gone like so

00:50:21.460 So I miss it the way you miss a friend, where you're sitting there, life's going on as normal,

00:50:27.580 all of a sudden it pops in your head, and I miss it. Back to normal. Like, it's just sort of,

00:50:34.700 at least for me, that's what I find. And addictive, this is something, can it be habit-forming?

00:50:42.000 Yes, it can. Anything that involves process, anything that involves a mental or emotional

00:50:50.580 repetition can be habit forming and the more you do it the more habit forming it can become

00:50:57.780 the thing that's good about cannabis is if i were to say go tomorrow if i go cold turkey off say

00:51:04.260 oxycontin or something like that the physical ramifications of that the sweats the shakes the

00:51:10.820 way your body tries to get it out of its system it doesn't do that with cannabis your body doesn't

00:51:17.380 go through the sort of DTs the shakes the problems and some people will find if they cut it out of

00:51:23.620 their system entirely for an extended period of time they might have that a little at the beginning

00:51:28.500 but taking breaks from cannabis is actually not just common but recommended to all users which

00:51:36.420 is to take several weeks off of it dry periods to keep the effect of it up like anything the

00:51:42.660 more you take it the more your body adapts to it and the less effective it becomes okay so taking

00:51:47.940 these dry periods is recommended and i can't think of any other drug in the world that you would be

00:51:53.780 able to go oh i just don't do it for two weeks and then like you're like what how is that possible

00:52:00.900 it is with cannabis yeah and it's it's it's interesting to look at it that way because

00:52:06.020 you know again a lot of people are like well that's you know that's why i don't want to take

00:52:09.940 it because I'm I'm gonna get hooked and I'm gonna need to rely on it but if you

00:52:14.980 think about the other medications that you may be taking it's like how is that

00:52:19.700 different from being hooked on oxy or painkillers of any or whether it's

00:52:24.400 Advil or right a sleeping medication exactly so so you know it you can look

00:52:29.860 at it like it's something that you're taking when you need it or if you're

00:52:35.500 you're struggling with with chronic pain then something that you are relying on

00:52:39.500 and and perhaps it's perhaps it's doing less harm in the long run by relying on

00:52:47.240 that than say a pharmaceutical that comes with you know 50 seconds of

00:52:51.980 adverse a description at the end of the commercial right yeah exactly so I mean

00:52:56.900 something to consider there I think and and inquire about with a medical

00:53:02.640 professional or as you said I consider habit forming the way maybe a cane is

00:53:08.120 is habit forming right it's like a little bit of a yes does it it's it helps it helps so that's why

00:53:14.280 it's there and being without it is it's not like people look at you with a cane and go oh so weak

00:53:20.600 they can't have right no that's ridiculous and it's the same with cannabis this is something

00:53:25.640 that's going to help you it's like people taking the same reason that people eat healthy or exercise

00:53:32.600 or add these little extras to their life it makes living easier more enjoyable and that's all any of

00:53:40.520 us i think are trying to get to is to that point where life is not life is such a difficult thing

00:53:46.360 why make it harder than it has to be right right now one of the things i also read about uh about

00:53:52.360 the uses that it's being studied for right now and perhaps you can speak to it or can't but um

00:53:57.320 I've been hearing about its use for ADHD, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity

00:54:04.440 disorder in children to certain degrees. Have you read much on that?

00:54:10.760 Anything regarding cannabis in children, obviously there's a lot of people who are

00:54:15.400 iffy on giving cannabis to children and I completely understand that. And so that's why

00:54:21.480 things that are CBD heavy are very exciting for people because it doesn't have that high effect

00:54:27.080 that you right obviously you want to avoid giving that to your children if you can um as i mentioned

00:54:32.680 thc working in conjunction with cbd seems to provide better results and when it comes to

00:54:38.440 children's mental cognitive abilities again this comes down to strain and this is where it becomes

00:54:44.520 difficult because certain strains will take adhd and send it off the charts okay some strains will

00:54:52.280 completely quiet and calm them and this is where it's going to come down to understanding and the

00:54:57.640 more and more that science is investing in it being able to take any individual plant and go

00:55:05.720 it has 15% limonane it has 10% myocene and being able to break it down to those elements will make

00:55:15.480 it so much easier to like funnel it into different treatment exactly it'll be able to be like okay

00:55:23.080 cannabis with these specific terpenes are the ones you want with adhd so when you go to either

00:55:29.160 a recreational facility or you go to buy something online then hopefully where we're getting to as an

00:55:36.120 industry is a point where listed on the plant isn't just the thc percentage but also the terpene

00:55:42.600 content right and that will be the stuff that you look at and you're like okay i need myersine for

00:55:47.140 these conditions okay these have different amounts in it that's what i go with and i over the next

00:55:52.160 few years in the world of cannabis we're going to hear those more and more for sure well and i think

00:55:56.900 what would be helpful too and and hopefully this is also coming is not only will it list those

00:56:01.540 things but it might describe what it's best used for so if you are if you are trying to deal with

00:56:08.740 an ADHD person, you know, adult, child, whatever. This is the product you use. If you are dealing

00:56:18.080 with chronic pain, this is the product you use. If you are, yeah, if you're dealing with sleep

00:56:21.920 issues, this is the product you use. Once we have those final studies, which again, like every year

00:56:27.180 it's hundreds and hundreds of studies are being done. Like they're going hard now because they

00:56:31.940 see the benefits here. And a lot of people say, well, the pharmaceutical industry doesn't care

00:56:36.620 about cannabis because they can't copyright a plant, right?

00:56:40.160 You can't own the rights to a plant.

00:56:42.660 That's right.

00:56:43.500 What you can own the rights to though,

00:56:44.760 is the means of extraction, the means of study of the plant

00:56:49.400 and the means of breaking it down into basic elements.

00:56:53.900 That's a process you can have rights over.

00:56:57.420 So that's where they're going right now

00:56:59.320 is trying to find out what are the best processes

00:57:02.280 to narrow it down.

00:57:04.320 And once we have studies done, then we'll be able to more specifically say this does this.

00:57:11.220 This does help ADHD as it stands right now.

00:57:14.620 Without those studies, all we can say are that studies suggest it, that anecdotally people have good results because we don't have final peer-reviewed studies yet.

00:57:25.640 They just don't exist.

00:57:26.820 And the fact is they're not going to exist for several more years because it's a process.

00:57:31.560 Science is a process.

00:57:32.580 We've seen that with COVID, right?

00:57:33.960 like studies take time unfortunately and they can change regarding what you're looking at and

00:57:40.440 what you think works what you think doesn't but so far the studies that are coming out it's all

00:57:46.600 good it's all positive and it's all supporting very much the anecdotal things we've been hearing

00:57:52.520 for years from people who have been partaking right okay uh and for someone who's a little green

00:57:58.360 Mm-hmm. No pun intended. Oh my, the cannabis puns, let me tell you. I was trying to be very punny. Always. Every, I don't think people can do a cannabis headline without involving a pun. I don't think you can. No, that's true. That's true. So yes, for someone who doesn't know a ton about how it's been legalized, can you grow it? Can you personally grow an amount for yourself? You can. In Canada. In Canada. And this is, I can't stress this enough. 0.70

00:58:26.440 everywhere you go be check the rules check the rules and for the love of god do not take cannabis

00:58:32.720 with you to another country yeah don't travel you can't do that canada we are a lone island in the

00:58:39.500 world of legalization there are certain states in the u.s where it's legal again the u.s is not

00:58:44.800 federally legal you cannot take cannabis across borders you cannot stress this enough be very

00:58:50.160 careful with how you transport it um uh but but are there limits to how much you can grow

00:58:56.060 Yeah, there are. There are usually limits on numbers of plants, and it'll change from place to place. You can find that information fairly easily. That's one of the biggest things that for people who do use medical cannabis, the ability to grow your own is huge.

00:59:16.340 being able to have fresh plant right off the right off the stem trichome full like just and it it

00:59:26.580 hasn't been sitting on a shelf for months it's ready to go that fresh plant that it's so much

00:59:31.540 power over your own health and so a lot of people engage in it and like it's taking that very

00:59:38.900 personal relationship you kind of end up with with cannabis to the next level right where you're

00:59:43.780 actually growing it and funding it and i will say though cannabis is a picky picky plant she's tough

00:59:51.780 she ever tried to grow it oh i would not i kill cacti i am not going to i i'm not a plant murderer

01:00:00.060 i love it too much to kill it yeah well i love plants i don't know if i would dive into trying

01:00:04.640 to grow a marijuana plant maybe just as an experiment to see if i could yeah and it is

01:00:09.540 definitely doable uh it it there's different ways of growing it and again a lot of experimentation

01:00:16.440 but cannabis has been around for so long the information is out there people who know how

01:00:23.740 to do this stuff the communities they form very much online uh twitter has a great uh cannabis

01:00:29.960 community linkedin particularly for cannabis industry fantastic place to go to find the

01:00:37.360 latest on scientific studies, on industry changes, on regulations. There are great sources like MG Biz

01:00:45.260 Daily. They are an excellent journalistic source for all news cannabis internationally, and they

01:00:53.320 have some fantastic people around the world doing great work there as well. The information is there

01:00:59.000 and the best thing I think about people who love cannabis, they love it so much they love to talk

01:01:04.880 about it if you go up to someone who loves pod and say hey tell me more about it you're going to

01:01:10.440 get what you got which is me basically babbling endlessly about it because it's just you love it

01:01:16.520 so much and you want more people to understand it better to be better educated about it to have a

01:01:23.400 fuller understanding of what it actually is you want to support people and you want to give them

01:01:29.480 that information and a lot of people in the community feel the same way I think yeah and

01:01:33.440 and to get past the stigma oh so much so much and there's definitely a lot of people in the

01:01:39.600 community who live that stereotype this donor stereotype you know and i love them they're

01:01:45.920 they're the sweetest people they're so freaking nice like i you'd always hear about how toxic

01:01:51.520 twitter is not cannabis twitter cannabis twitter is as chill as you can be so these people to reach

01:01:59.280 out to them if you're curious go anywhere finding them reach out go hey i'm interested in getting

01:02:04.560 involved you'll be off to the races they want to talk to you they want to kill that stigma they

01:02:10.720 want you to see it for what it really is and the more people use it the less and less that will be

01:02:16.000 the stigma like i don't think i really come across as uh no peace love type but i use cannabis quite

01:02:23.520 chronically for both medical reasons but also for recreational i like i don't have a glass of wine

01:02:30.000 i have a joint and it's well it's interesting that you say that because i feel like

01:02:36.960 saying that it you know even just hearing it there's still stigma right like i have a joint

01:02:42.320 sounds it's different but i'm gonna go home on a friday and have half a bottle of wine most people

01:02:48.880 would be like hallelujah yeah and people will tell you uh like they drink they get in fights

01:02:54.880 they get in arguments they make bad decisions the worst thing i do when i smoke pot is eat too many

01:02:59.840 cookies this like you're the anger the negative effects that alcohol has on your body on your

01:03:07.520 mind on everything like it's not even comparable the like the idea to me that cannabis is illegal

01:03:16.160 while alcohol is not just legal encouraged fetishized enjoyed like i like alcohol too

01:03:23.360 but they're so night and day and in terms of the damage they would cause it's naughty cannabis is

01:03:30.320 just miles ahead in terms of that and yet no one thinks twice about being like yeah i go home and

01:03:36.320 have a six pack right that's a lot of beer but i say i have a joint and people sort of oh really

01:03:43.120 weird it's like yeah and then i watch a movie like it's nothing that exciting or crazy or

01:03:52.920 out it's just it's enough to help me get where i need to be mentally emotionally and physically

01:03:58.840 and it's allowed me to get my life back and i cannot stress enough to you what that means

01:04:05.880 okay and so i'll i'll be talking this planet probably till till the day i head out for sure

01:04:11.840 Right. Well, thank you. Thanks for sharing. It's, again, just interesting to see the other side of the coin and to be a little bit more educated. Ask questions. Leafly, Morgan suggested that, is a good website to check out with all sorts of information.

01:04:27.880 but if you really want to check out a great site check out our website yeah high-ground.ca

01:04:35.600 um high ground medica is the company and there's several pages there uh we made them as simple as

01:04:42.800 uh could be very cannabis 101 a little bit about the plants themselves a little bit about the

01:04:49.340 different elements like i have been talking about here really great some graphics on terpenes the

01:04:54.340 different kinds, flavors, things like that, so you can better identify them. Our website's there,

01:04:59.740 and we're also on all the social medias on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. We cannot

01:05:06.860 encourage you enough. Reach out to us. We love to hear it. Add High Ground Can on Twitter,

01:05:12.100 High Ground Medica on LinkedIn and Facebook. Reach out to us, send us messages, comment on our posts,

01:05:17.140 follow us. We keep up on everything, and if you have questions, we would love to help you where

01:05:22.200 we can or at least get you steered in the right direction because it's we're going to do this by

01:05:27.340 all of us working together yeah and educating it's right educate educate educate morgan daikin

01:05:33.000 with high ground uh you can google it uh but uh yeah it's uh it's resource rich and you can get

01:05:40.260 all sorts of information and again uh you can contact high ground if you have any more questions

01:05:44.800 thanks so much for updating us today so much for having me i've had so much fun and thanks for

01:05:50.320 joining us. Thank you.

Western Standard - January 22, 2022

LIVE CHAT： Cannabis is not just for potheads

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