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Hey.

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- This it?
- Yep.

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- Priscilla?
- Priscilla.

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- There's 50 of them?
- Fifty.

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And what's the number on this?

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3,000.

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Fifty.

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- All right. Thank you.
- I'll grab these.

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I'll grab this one
and come back for the rest.

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Voters legalize
the recreational use

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- of marijuana.
- History has been made here.

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The overwhelming passage
of California's proposition 64

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means adults over 21
can now legally smoke marijuana

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for recreational use.

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With these scissors,
I dub thee free.

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Prop 64
is a collaborative effort

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between bright industry minds
to put protections,

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restrictions,
and regulations in place.

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So, to anybody
who has a marijuana offense

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on their record
going back five, ten, 50 years,

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will be eligible
to have their record cleared.

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It's time for politicians
of all stripes

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to come out of the closet,
in this respect,

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and say what they think
on marijuana.

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And prop 64
does limit the real estate

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a grower can own
for the first five years

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to only one acre,

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and that's to allow
local farmers get a head start

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before the big guys move in.

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If investor capital

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comes in before
the established industry

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here in California
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then what happens
to the 50,000+ farmers

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across California?

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I am a second generation
cannabis farmer.

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Grew up in a back-to-the-land
hippy commune,

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5,600 acres of beautiful
mendocino county.

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My husband and myself have
a 40 acre piece of property,

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and we grow
10,000 square feet of cannabis

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on that property.

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Just need to get this big mama.

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- Oh, my gosh!
- It's just.

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In the 70s, where I grew up,

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everybody knew
what everybody else did,

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but was all kinda hush-hush.

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The helicopters would come over,
we'd all kind of hide,

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and we were very worried
about getting busted.

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My dad would say things
like, you know,

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"make sure
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you know, dad does.

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You don't want your dad
to go to jail," kind of thing.

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So, yeah, you have to be
a rebel at heart, really,

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to wanna follow through
with this.

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I think the main positives
that have come from legalization

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are that we really get
to step out of the shadows,

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we get to come out

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as relevant pieces
of this industry.

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We've all been here
for so long as farmers,

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you know, the time is now

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to, like, propel
this industry forward.

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We did that so good!

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We met in 1981
in the ceramics lab

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in missoula, Montana,
at the university.

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And we found we had
ceramics in common and...

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- Cannabis.
- In common.

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I bought a small farm in 2011.

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That's the farm
I've been living on since 1990.

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It's been a great adventure
getting a crew together

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and grow
all this beautiful cannabis.

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And Joyce would come
at trim season

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and then she moved up
and started doing some farming.

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We make pain relief salve.

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It's a medicine,
it's a beautiful plant.

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It's healing
to work with the plant

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because of
the medicinal reasons.

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All of our product is organic

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and we make the salve together.

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And I think, yeah,
you have to be aware

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that it's federally illegal.

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So, when people
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they've gotta realize:
Are you willing to go to jail

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and lose everything?

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And so, we've been willing
to do that for years,

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or we wouldn't be here.

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It is on my bucket list
never to go to jail...

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And I'm hoping that that,

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You know, stays that way.

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- Yeah. That'll be nice.
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That would be nice.

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This is the beginning
stages of our dispensary.

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It was an unused eyesore.

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We purchased it and we literally
had to have it gutted out.

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It's been quite an ordeal.

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This is
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where the patients will come in
and see the product,

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and they'll be greeted
by a whole host of people

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to help them as needed.

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And here will be,
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where I'll have my classes
which is where I educate seniors

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about the benefits
of medical cannabis.

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It's gonna work.

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Just to see the roof off

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and everything
just coming together,

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just fills my heart.

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A ten-year vision
is now in operation.

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It's been slow,
but all in divine timing.

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It's all coming together
the way it's supposed to.

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And even the bees wanna come.

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We'd like to begin
by just saying thank you

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for being a part
of this incredible journey

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of a lifetime.

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- It's a labor of love.
- Yes, it is.

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Our dispensary will be geared
to the needs of seniors.

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Most seniors that I work with

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are on from 15 to 26 pills
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and they're still not
getting any better.

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Cannabis can help
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that seniors have.

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There will be
seniors that's coming,

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seniors that's working there,
and they're wisdom keepers.

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That's who we are.

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If somebody had said to me
12 years ago

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I would be doing this work
in the cannabis industry,

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I would've said, "ooh,
you been smoking too much.

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Catholic school principal,
goodie-two-shoes sue?

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No way!"

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When you grow up in a system

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that's set up against you
from the beginning,

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you have to learn how to be bold
and stand up for yourself.

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Anybody can be an activist.

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Anybody who uses their voice

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and tries to elevate a cause
or an issue is an activist.

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And I don't also don't think
you choose to be an activist,

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it's kind of like,
"hey, that's messed up."

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So, you just start fighting
for it, you are an activist,

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because you've been activated
and your soul has been like,

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wait, enough.
That can't happen, that's wrong.

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I tool some cbd.

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And that cbd
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Like, wait, I don't have to take
valium and Xanax

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for the PTSD that I have?

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Wait, I can smoke a joint
and have a great night's sleep?

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And it just transformed

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how I looked at the experience
with the plant

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where I was just like,
wait a second,

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this is actually medicine.

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Love you.

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I am a fourth generation

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Mexican American,

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lgbt and cannabis advocate
and activist.

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What needs to happen
is that black and brown people

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who've been
disproportionately affected

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by the war on drugs,

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they don't have
the bank accounts,

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they don't have
the rich families

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or the rich friends
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to invest in the space.

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So, for me, it was just,
"how do I give back?"

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We thank you all
for joining us today.

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We're here
and we're not going anywhere.

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And we're ensuring

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that more faces
that look like ours

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not only have ownership,

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but get that piece
of the pie back

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that was robbed from us.

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After 23 years,

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my high school sweetheart
found me on the Internet.

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And what was he doing?

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He was farming cannabis
in humboldt county.

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I was just, you know,
I was shocked.

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And then I said, "you know,
my friends in New York

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would really like some of that
humboldt county pot."

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And I drove out to California

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and I drove back
with several pounds of pot.

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Then I had to get it
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to my friends
who wanted to buy pounds.

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So, I gathered up
all my designer shopping bags,

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And I would just
sling those Tiffany bags

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over my shoulders.
They were filled with pot,

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and I would just take them
round to the people that,

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you know,
wanted to buy these pounds.

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I, at that time,

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owned two restaurants
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I'd been
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for 12 years.

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I was tired.
I was looking to make a change.

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So, I decided
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and come out to humboldt.

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And I got here
and I was saying to Jeff,

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"does he grow? Does she grow?"
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"Everyone grows."
I went, "oh, okay."

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Everyone grew.

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The whole entire community,
everyone grew.

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In the early 70s,

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a great number of people
moved up to humboldt,

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they were called
"back-to-the-ianders."

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They wanted to farm organically,
live off the land,

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and just kind of escape
everything that was going on.

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We had the Vietnam war
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so everybody just kinda flocked
to communities like this.

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There was a lot of
back-to-the-land couples,

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and people were having babies
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I would say we were kind of
free-range children.

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That's what we called them.

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Romping around,
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climbing trees and stuff.

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And that was kind of the nature
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If you don't come home,

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your parents are gonna assume
that you're at someone's house

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and that you're not, like,
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with the bears
and the mountain lions.

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I guess I grew up, in a way,
like, being really fearless

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about a lot of stuff
and being really unique

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and standing out
in a lot of ways.

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And I think that pattern
has followed through.

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Jeff was such a master grower.

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They would
come to him for advice,

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like, you know,
"how do I do this?"

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And, "my leaves are yellow,
what do I do? What do I add?"

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People weren't growing
like they're growing now.

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They were having
to hide their crops

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and grow them in trees
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We tried to grow
in, like, BlackBerry brambles

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where no one could see it.

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Helicopters would fly
all around here for camp.

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Campaign
against marijuana planting.

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Camp lasted about ten years,
15 years,

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and it was to eradicate
the cannabis.

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They would fly over
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and take it out in helicopters,
big huge bags of cannabis.

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It was terrifying
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And of course, they had
on kmud, the radio station,

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they had helicopter alerts
every day. Like, at 11:00.

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"Helicopters are flying
over seely creek."

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"Helicopters are flying over
salmon creek."

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"Helicopters are flying
at China creek."

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It was pretty crazy.

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Jeff was a paranoid person
to begin with,

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and that contributed
way too much to his paranoia.

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Jeff died in 2009,
so I miss him so much.

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I miss him every day.

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After Jeff's death,

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you know,
you just have to keep going on.

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So, one of the things
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I literally inherited the farms.

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And that's what led me to

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my current situation
with cannabis.

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There are so many unknowns.

251
00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:18,107
It is scary, not just for me,
but for all of my colleagues.

252
00:14:18,191 --> 00:14:20,485
People just don't know
what's gonna happen.

253
00:14:21,069 --> 00:14:23,154
You know, that great
Eleanor Roosevelt quote,

254
00:14:23,237 --> 00:14:25,281
"do something
that scares you every day."

255
00:14:25,365 --> 00:14:27,950
Well, that is
the cannabis business right now.

256
00:14:28,034 --> 00:14:30,411
All right.

257
00:14:30,495 --> 00:14:33,164
And I'm gonna take
this opportunity to let you know

258
00:14:33,247 --> 00:14:34,749
that you've been listening to

259
00:14:34,832 --> 00:14:37,085
all about the music
this morning, and I am mumzer

260
00:14:37,168 --> 00:14:39,962
and I'm happy to be joining you
for your morning activities.

261
00:14:40,046 --> 00:14:42,173
And I wanna ask you
all a question, okay?

262
00:14:42,256 --> 00:14:43,758
Actually, a couple of questions.

263
00:14:43,841 --> 00:14:45,927
How are you feeling
about this legalization thing?

264
00:14:46,010 --> 00:14:47,595
How's it going for you
and your family?

265
00:14:47,678 --> 00:14:50,515
And what do you think
about the end of prohibition?

266
00:14:50,598 --> 00:14:52,809
Call in now
and let us know your opinion.

267
00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:54,185
I know you're out there.

268
00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,146
As of right now,
we 're in the safe zone.

269
00:14:57,230 --> 00:15:00,483
You know, we've got
this five-year window period

270
00:15:00,566 --> 00:15:02,819
to get it together
to start organizing.

271
00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:04,296
You're gonna have to grow

272
00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:05,780
the best that you can grow

273
00:15:05,863 --> 00:15:07,657
and brand yourself
and work in co-ops,

274
00:15:07,740 --> 00:15:10,827
and then you'll survive.
It's capitalism, after all.

275
00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:13,871
I voted for prop 64
because I, for one thing,

276
00:15:13,955 --> 00:15:16,541
thought if we got one person
out of prison

277
00:15:16,624 --> 00:15:19,001
whose family life was ruined
for being busted

278
00:15:19,085 --> 00:15:23,381
and sent to prison
for marijuana, then heck.

279
00:15:23,464 --> 00:15:24,464
You know?

280
00:15:25,049 --> 00:15:26,735
We knew we were gonna have
to keep fixing it for years,

281
00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:28,386
and we will keep fixing it
for years.

282
00:15:28,469 --> 00:15:30,054
I think it's really
gonna wipe out

283
00:15:30,138 --> 00:15:32,765
this mom and pop farmers.

284
00:15:33,474 --> 00:15:35,017
Because even now,

285
00:15:35,101 --> 00:15:37,478
now that people
are going for permits,

286
00:15:37,562 --> 00:15:40,314
when I see the size
of their greenhouses

287
00:15:40,398 --> 00:15:41,983
and how many of them...

288
00:15:42,984 --> 00:15:44,193
It scares me.

289
00:15:44,277 --> 00:15:45,736
I have a lot
of friends and family

290
00:15:45,820 --> 00:15:48,364
that are gonna have a hard time,
but you know what?

291
00:15:48,448 --> 00:15:49,824
The people
that have done it right,

292
00:15:49,907 --> 00:15:51,701
that have gone for
the legal permits,

293
00:15:51,784 --> 00:15:53,453
that are doing
a high-quality product,

294
00:15:53,536 --> 00:15:55,456
are gonna find that
as this legal market comes in

295
00:15:55,496 --> 00:15:59,250
and dispensaries have to buy it
from a legal permitted farm,

296
00:15:59,333 --> 00:16:01,270
they're gonna do quite well
over the next few years.

297
00:16:01,294 --> 00:16:02,294
Big business

298
00:16:02,670 --> 00:16:04,310
is barking all around
our heels right now.

299
00:16:04,380 --> 00:16:06,275
And they're more skilled
and they've got more money,

300
00:16:06,299 --> 00:16:07,508
and if we're not careful,

301
00:16:07,592 --> 00:16:09,051
we're actually
gonna lose control

302
00:16:09,135 --> 00:16:10,779
of the marijuana industry.
It's gonna be taken over

303
00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:13,681
by people who don't,
in fact, share our values,

304
00:16:13,764 --> 00:16:16,058
and maybe could care less
if we saved the environment

305
00:16:16,142 --> 00:16:17,810
and employ people
at livable wages.

306
00:16:17,894 --> 00:16:21,731
When people came to the table
to write prop 64,

307
00:16:21,814 --> 00:16:24,442
they didn't invite
any compassion programs.

308
00:16:24,525 --> 00:16:26,486
It was all
the big-business people.

309
00:16:26,569 --> 00:16:30,573
And prop 215 was written
as a compassionate care act

310
00:16:30,656 --> 00:16:32,909
to allow cannabis
to be put into the hands

311
00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:35,661
of people who really needed it
as medicine.

312
00:16:35,745 --> 00:16:38,372
So, as exciting
as January 1st is

313
00:16:38,456 --> 00:16:40,917
and this new explosion
into a brand new market,

314
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,920
we have to be cognizant
that we don't lose the history

315
00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:46,297
of why we're even able
to do this.

316
00:16:53,513 --> 00:16:56,474
I grew up in a home
that was conservative Christian.

317
00:16:56,557 --> 00:16:59,060
I knew I was queer
when I was really young

318
00:16:59,143 --> 00:17:00,478
and I just needed to get away

319
00:17:00,561 --> 00:17:02,772
to the most liberal place
I could find.

320
00:17:02,855 --> 00:17:06,275
Where was I going
to finally be able to be me?

321
00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:08,402
Everybody knows

322
00:17:08,486 --> 00:17:11,781
That San Francisco
is one of the queer havens

323
00:17:11,864 --> 00:17:12,949
in the world.

324
00:17:13,407 --> 00:17:15,302
So, for me, it was just easy.
It was one of those,

325
00:17:15,326 --> 00:17:16,953
wait, oh my gosh!

326
00:17:17,036 --> 00:17:18,454
Look at that couple
holding hands!

327
00:17:18,538 --> 00:17:20,790
And just, like, being like,
oh, I can't wait

328
00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:23,960
to have a girl
that I could hold her hand.

329
00:17:27,588 --> 00:17:30,007
People forget 1995,

330
00:17:30,091 --> 00:17:31,425
the leading cause of death

331
00:17:31,509 --> 00:17:35,179
for men between 22
and 44 was aids.

332
00:17:35,263 --> 00:17:36,806
This was the gay plague.

333
00:17:36,889 --> 00:17:39,559
It was literally called
"the gay plague."

334
00:17:39,642 --> 00:17:41,936
Cannabis helped them
with the nausea

335
00:17:42,019 --> 00:17:43,020
that they were having.

336
00:17:43,563 --> 00:17:44,915
It helped them with
some of the wasting syndromes

337
00:17:44,939 --> 00:17:46,107
that they were going through.

338
00:17:46,190 --> 00:17:47,733
Cannabis afforded many people

339
00:17:47,817 --> 00:17:49,235
the ability
to just be able to eat.

340
00:17:49,318 --> 00:17:51,487
This was a death sentence.

341
00:17:52,363 --> 00:17:55,283
I always tell people this was
a rite of passage for me.

342
00:17:55,366 --> 00:18:00,162
The first time
that I transported a bag of weed

343
00:18:00,246 --> 00:18:03,708
from point a to point b
in the bay area,

344
00:18:03,791 --> 00:18:06,294
my friend was HIV positive.

345
00:18:06,377 --> 00:18:07,878
These were my brothers.

346
00:18:07,962 --> 00:18:09,964
Like, what do you do
for your brother?

347
00:18:10,464 --> 00:18:11,966
You help them.

348
00:18:12,049 --> 00:18:15,094
There were a bunch of women

349
00:18:15,177 --> 00:18:18,472
who stepped into roles
as mothers and sisters

350
00:18:18,556 --> 00:18:20,474
and platonic wives,

351
00:18:20,558 --> 00:18:24,186
to just be able to help
our siblings during this crises.

352
00:18:24,270 --> 00:18:27,189
The lgbtq community
was instrumental

353
00:18:27,273 --> 00:18:30,860
in opening up this dialogue
about cannabis as medicine.

354
00:18:30,943 --> 00:18:34,488
And that continued with people
like Dennis peron,

355
00:18:34,572 --> 00:18:36,198
Scott imler,

356
00:18:36,282 --> 00:18:37,617
and brownie Mary,

357
00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:41,412
who made sure
that compassionate cannabis

358
00:18:41,495 --> 00:18:44,415
was a component
through prop 215,

359
00:18:44,498 --> 00:18:48,753
which afforded a patient
to be able to grow,

360
00:18:48,836 --> 00:18:51,881
consume, possess cannabis.

361
00:18:56,260 --> 00:18:57,678
He's real excited.

362
00:18:57,762 --> 00:18:59,364
And so,
he's gonna be doing the food?

363
00:18:59,388 --> 00:19:00,388
Hm-mmm.

364
00:19:00,681 --> 00:19:01,992
How many people
are coming to the wedding?

365
00:19:02,016 --> 00:19:04,101
- One fifty.
- About 150?

366
00:19:04,185 --> 00:19:05,185
Hm-mmm.

367
00:19:05,436 --> 00:19:06,729
Wait, more than that.

368
00:19:08,356 --> 00:19:12,151
Well, because I think
I had to go to 120 on my side.

369
00:19:12,234 --> 00:19:13,754
Wait a minute.
You didn't tell me that.

370
00:19:13,986 --> 00:19:17,615
'Cause that's not including,
you know, staff and all that.

371
00:19:17,698 --> 00:19:19,325
That's gonna take
some coordinating.

372
00:19:19,408 --> 00:19:24,246
My son, kwamin,
when he told us that he was gay,

373
00:19:24,330 --> 00:19:26,332
it didn't equate

374
00:19:26,415 --> 00:19:30,086
what I had been told
about people being gay!

375
00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:32,338
He didn't match!

376
00:19:33,881 --> 00:19:37,009
This is somebody I knew
that didn't fit what I was told.

377
00:19:37,093 --> 00:19:39,011
- Hello.
- Good to see you as well.

378
00:19:39,095 --> 00:19:40,763
- Hey, babe.
- Hey, babe!

379
00:19:44,141 --> 00:19:45,351
How was work?

380
00:19:45,434 --> 00:19:48,396
It was because of you being gay

381
00:19:48,479 --> 00:19:50,398
that changed me.

382
00:19:50,481 --> 00:19:52,316
It was him telling us that

383
00:19:53,067 --> 00:19:58,406
that really started me
to evolve into a real person

384
00:19:58,489 --> 00:20:01,450
and started questioning
how I saw life.

385
00:20:01,534 --> 00:20:04,286
What else
have I been lied to about?

386
00:20:04,787 --> 00:20:06,038
- You know?
- Hm-mmm.

387
00:20:06,122 --> 00:20:08,374
The cannabis stuff,
I say, well, shit.

388
00:20:08,457 --> 00:20:11,210
Maybe they lied to me
about that, you know?

389
00:20:11,293 --> 00:20:16,257
And so
it just kinda opened my mind

390
00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:18,134
into a broader perspective.

391
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:21,303
And look at the gift I get.
I get another son.

392
00:20:21,387 --> 00:20:23,723
I thought my party days
were over until you showed up.

393
00:20:23,806 --> 00:20:26,475
Oh, no way!

394
00:20:36,152 --> 00:20:38,612
Jamie and I met
on greenfield ranch,

395
00:20:38,696 --> 00:20:40,406
where we both lived.

396
00:20:40,489 --> 00:20:44,118
His dad owns property
just below our property

397
00:20:44,201 --> 00:20:47,455
and my father has land
out in the center of the ranch.

398
00:20:47,538 --> 00:20:49,707
Kinda have a similar history.

399
00:20:50,207 --> 00:20:51,876
Ireahylove working with plants.

400
00:20:51,959 --> 00:20:53,794
You know,
I'm pretty quiet, generally.

401
00:20:53,878 --> 00:20:56,672
And so I was really into botany
and marine biology

402
00:20:56,756 --> 00:20:57,965
and was working two jobs

403
00:20:58,048 --> 00:20:59,467
and growing
a little bit of cannabis

404
00:20:59,550 --> 00:21:01,302
and just started doing this
more and more,

405
00:21:01,385 --> 00:21:03,512
and I really enjoyed
the breeding aspect of it.

406
00:21:03,596 --> 00:21:05,765
Like, picking
a couple different plants

407
00:21:05,848 --> 00:21:07,016
with different attributes

408
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,411
and figuring out what I thought
might make a good combination,

409
00:21:09,435 --> 00:21:11,520
and it kinda blossomed
from there.

410
00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:14,774
It's a little easier
to manage small plants,

411
00:21:14,857 --> 00:21:17,902
but it's kinda fun to see
when they get really big

412
00:21:17,985 --> 00:21:20,237
and, you know, you're proud.

413
00:21:22,198 --> 00:21:24,617
Gardening was always
a huge part of my life.

414
00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:26,577
Through the winter,
I'd get really antsy.

415
00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:28,500
I just need to, like,
put my hands in the dirt.

416
00:21:28,579 --> 00:21:31,165
And then once I did that
a couple times,

417
00:21:31,248 --> 00:21:33,167
in springtime
I felt normal again.

418
00:21:53,979 --> 00:21:58,526
I'm mom of two boys.
One's 16 and one's almost ten.

419
00:21:59,527 --> 00:22:03,572
True is my sweet boy.
He's an animal lover, huh?

420
00:22:04,615 --> 00:22:06,534
A hyena is your favorite animal?

421
00:22:06,617 --> 00:22:08,744
- Yeah.
- First I've heard of that.

422
00:22:09,453 --> 00:22:10,871
All right.

423
00:22:10,955 --> 00:22:13,123
We're not getting one of those,
by the way.

424
00:22:13,916 --> 00:22:15,626
Our farm is named river txai,

425
00:22:15,709 --> 00:22:18,170
which is our older son's
two middle names.

426
00:22:18,254 --> 00:22:19,547
He goes by river

427
00:22:19,630 --> 00:22:21,316
and he's proud
that the farm's named after him.

428
00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:25,010
And then, you know,
we have some true kush crosses,

429
00:22:25,094 --> 00:22:26,595
the true berrymore,

430
00:22:26,679 --> 00:22:28,097
and he's kinda excited

431
00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:30,099
that his name
was all over things.

432
00:22:30,766 --> 00:22:34,061
They're so used to it
and they kinda forget sometimes

433
00:22:34,144 --> 00:22:37,022
when they're talking
to their friends or at school.

434
00:22:37,106 --> 00:22:39,275
It used to be
more of a challenge.

435
00:22:39,358 --> 00:22:40,943
We all have stories where, like,

436
00:22:41,026 --> 00:22:44,029
the teacher literally pulls
a bud off the kids' sweater

437
00:22:44,113 --> 00:22:45,614
and just puts it in the garbage

438
00:22:45,698 --> 00:22:48,325
because they know what
the kids' home life is like,

439
00:22:48,409 --> 00:22:50,661
and they're not gonna cause
a problem.

440
00:22:53,497 --> 00:22:55,791
It's been a little bit
of a challenge

441
00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:58,919
with the cannabis world
with our teenage son

442
00:22:59,003 --> 00:23:01,130
in that he's really
interested in cannabis.

443
00:23:01,213 --> 00:23:03,716
It's been a challenge
trying to educate him

444
00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:06,427
and, you know,
not be hypocrites ourselves.

445
00:23:10,055 --> 00:23:11,307
Did you eat?

446
00:23:12,516 --> 00:23:13,851
Uh-uh.

447
00:23:13,934 --> 00:23:15,537
I want him
to have a different life.

448
00:23:15,561 --> 00:23:18,314
I really don't want him
to just go from high school,

449
00:23:18,397 --> 00:23:21,150
being a teenager,
right into cultivating cannabis.

450
00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:23,485
Come, sit, sit, sit.
Sit. Sit. Sit, sit.

451
00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:29,217
So, I have something here
I need to interrupt,

452
00:23:29,241 --> 00:23:30,719
- because this is...
- Okay, interrupt.

453
00:23:30,743 --> 00:23:31,660
Stop. Just stop.

454
00:23:31,744 --> 00:23:33,037
This is like

455
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:34,920
- a historical moment...
- We're gonna listen.

456
00:23:34,955 --> 00:23:36,248
For the bud sisters.

457
00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:38,751
"Dear sir/ma'am,

458
00:23:39,793 --> 00:23:43,589
we have received approval
of your application

459
00:23:43,672 --> 00:23:45,966
for a humboldt county
business license."

460
00:23:47,676 --> 00:23:50,179
"You may receive your license
by remitting $12 for the year.

461
00:23:50,804 --> 00:23:52,306
Please send payable

462
00:23:52,389 --> 00:23:54,016
to the humboldt county
tax collector.

463
00:23:54,099 --> 00:23:57,019
An envelope
has been provided for you..."

464
00:23:57,102 --> 00:23:59,355
- Excellent.
- "...For your convenience."

465
00:23:59,438 --> 00:24:02,483
How many years have we been
trying to get a business license

466
00:24:02,566 --> 00:24:04,068
for the bud sisters?

467
00:24:04,610 --> 00:24:06,070
- Four?
- Foun

468
00:24:07,154 --> 00:24:08,530
this is the second... yeah.

469
00:24:08,906 --> 00:24:12,242
We made a mistake
and put on the application

470
00:24:12,326 --> 00:24:13,994
that we had cannabis
in our product.

471
00:24:14,078 --> 00:24:15,371
- We...
- We're being honest.

472
00:24:15,454 --> 00:24:17,456
No, we lied
and said it had cannabis,

473
00:24:17,539 --> 00:24:19,166
so now
we're gonna tell the truth

474
00:24:19,249 --> 00:24:20,626
and say
it doesn't have cannabis,

475
00:24:20,709 --> 00:24:22,169
it's just made out of hemp.

476
00:24:22,252 --> 00:24:24,046
So now
we can get a business license

477
00:24:24,129 --> 00:24:25,129
for our salve.

478
00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:26,966
Oh, we'll probably have to,
you know,

479
00:24:27,049 --> 00:24:28,944
- be on our taxes a little more.
- Put out more money.

480
00:24:28,968 --> 00:24:29,986
We're gonna have

481
00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:31,595
to pay taxes now.

482
00:24:31,679 --> 00:24:33,013
Better bookkeeping.

483
00:24:36,266 --> 00:24:38,477
- Oh, darn! Let's burn it.
- Oh, god.

484
00:24:39,979 --> 00:24:42,272
Welcome to
the 2017 golden tarp awards.

485
00:24:42,356 --> 00:24:44,274
And we're here
with the bud sisters,

486
00:24:44,358 --> 00:24:46,819
Pearl and Dr. Joyce.
Tell us a little about yourself.

487
00:24:46,902 --> 00:24:49,154
Right, I make all the awards
for the golden tarp.

488
00:24:49,238 --> 00:24:50,590
What's
your favorite part of today?

489
00:24:50,614 --> 00:24:51,740
Oh, judging, of course.

490
00:24:51,824 --> 00:24:53,134
We don't even have
our booth today

491
00:24:53,158 --> 00:24:54,558
because we just
wanted to be judges.

492
00:24:55,411 --> 00:24:56,805
This isn't mainstream cannabis,

493
00:24:56,829 --> 00:24:58,622
this is artisanal,
exquisite cannabis

494
00:24:58,706 --> 00:25:00,082
produced by people
who really care.

495
00:25:00,165 --> 00:25:01,542
What we're trying to do
is show you

496
00:25:01,625 --> 00:25:03,335
that these type
of production methodologies

497
00:25:03,419 --> 00:25:05,254
and this knowledge base
and these people

498
00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:07,297
have been existing
for 40 years here.

499
00:25:07,381 --> 00:25:08,381
The fear right now

500
00:25:08,757 --> 00:25:10,026
is that we're all
gonna get swept away,

501
00:25:10,050 --> 00:25:11,593
all of us craft producers.

502
00:25:11,677 --> 00:25:14,304
And the reality of it is
is that that's very possible.

503
00:25:14,388 --> 00:25:16,432
But if you try to be relevant

504
00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:18,350
by highlighting
what we do different,

505
00:25:18,434 --> 00:25:20,102
and how we do it differently,

506
00:25:20,185 --> 00:25:22,604
and make it accessible to the
population that purchases,

507
00:25:22,688 --> 00:25:24,568
then pretty soon,
they have knowledge and choice

508
00:25:24,606 --> 00:25:26,525
and that gives us a chance
to exist and survive.

509
00:25:26,608 --> 00:25:28,318
And so that's really
the mission of it.

510
00:25:28,819 --> 00:25:32,031
I've known Pearl and Dr. Joyce
for nine years now.

511
00:25:32,865 --> 00:25:36,952
Pearl is just really a symbol
of what humboldt county was.

512
00:25:37,036 --> 00:25:39,955
She is the small farmer.
She is the homesteader.

513
00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:41,039
She is the person

514
00:25:41,749 --> 00:25:44,144
who helped so many other people
understand cannabis cultivation,

515
00:25:44,168 --> 00:25:46,378
and many people
who are successful here now

516
00:25:46,462 --> 00:25:48,505
were trimmers for her
when they were younger.

517
00:25:48,881 --> 00:25:51,425
And Joyce
is a brilliant educator.

518
00:25:51,508 --> 00:25:54,636
She's able to take and use
that ability to help

519
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,847
a tremendous number
of people out using art.

520
00:25:57,347 --> 00:26:00,309
They're a spiritual thread,
cultural thread,

521
00:26:00,392 --> 00:26:01,992
but then a thread
that weaves it together

522
00:26:02,061 --> 00:26:03,771
and that's what makes
humboldt, humboldt,

523
00:26:03,854 --> 00:26:04,897
is people like this.

524
00:26:06,148 --> 00:26:09,318
We are live
at the golden tarp awards,

525
00:26:09,401 --> 00:26:11,320
first annual live broadcast.

526
00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:13,614
And we're actually
gonna head right back over

527
00:26:13,697 --> 00:26:15,657
to the judge's couch.
So, how's it going?

528
00:26:15,741 --> 00:26:17,159
What's happening
over at the couch?

529
00:26:19,495 --> 00:26:20,704
Very interesting.

530
00:26:23,248 --> 00:26:24,809
Very beautiful bud.
What do you guys think?

531
00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:26,553
Kinda more in the head
kinda high...

532
00:26:26,585 --> 00:26:27,836
How can you tell?

533
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,505
You've smoked,
like, ten joints already.

534
00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:32,549
Well, you know, being a judge

535
00:26:32,633 --> 00:26:35,177
in the emerald cup
for so many years,

536
00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:36,804
you really have to learn.

537
00:26:36,887 --> 00:26:40,265
And a lot of it, you know,
if you don't like how it smells,

538
00:26:40,349 --> 00:26:41,683
looks or tastes,

539
00:26:41,767 --> 00:26:43,685
you don't even
bother smoking it.

540
00:26:43,769 --> 00:26:45,270
And a lot of times
you light it up...

541
00:26:45,354 --> 00:26:47,064
Judging 101
from sisters right here.

542
00:26:47,147 --> 00:26:48,398
And you know right away.

543
00:26:48,482 --> 00:26:49,922
You light that up,
no, that's not it.

544
00:26:52,152 --> 00:26:55,531
The ganjier award
was something that we created

545
00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:57,616
basically as a tribute

546
00:26:57,699 --> 00:27:00,035
to somebody
who was unrecognized,

547
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:01,870
but absolutely deserving.

548
00:27:01,954 --> 00:27:05,624
And for this award year,
I wanted to thank someone

549
00:27:05,707 --> 00:27:08,043
who had been
a foundation in our community.

550
00:27:08,127 --> 00:27:11,463
The people that settled here
in the late 60s, early 70s,

551
00:27:11,547 --> 00:27:14,216
they were tough
and had a full pair of balls,

552
00:27:14,299 --> 00:27:16,009
which is what you needed
to live here.

553
00:27:16,385 --> 00:27:19,179
The person I think
that epitomizes that most,

554
00:27:19,263 --> 00:27:22,141
and she's about to get
her mind blown,

555
00:27:22,224 --> 00:27:23,225
is Pearl moon.

556
00:27:36,405 --> 00:27:39,074
Wow! I'm totally blown out

557
00:27:39,950 --> 00:27:42,744
and I'm really high...

558
00:27:42,828 --> 00:27:45,247
'Cause I smoked
some really good weed today.

559
00:27:45,330 --> 00:27:46,330
Yeah!

560
00:27:46,832 --> 00:27:48,917
Yes, and right now,
you're gonna find out whose.

561
00:27:52,754 --> 00:27:53,754
Pearl moon!

562
00:28:00,804 --> 00:28:02,556
All right. Well, greetings.

563
00:28:02,639 --> 00:28:03,682
Greetings out there,

564
00:28:04,183 --> 00:28:05,451
humboldt, mendocino,
and Trinity counties.

565
00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:06,494
All right, this is sunshine hee

566
00:28:06,518 --> 00:28:07,561
bringing you

567
00:28:08,020 --> 00:28:09,038
the Sunday afternoon
cannabis talk show

568
00:28:09,062 --> 00:28:10,522
here on the mud.

569
00:28:10,606 --> 00:28:12,357
Well, things are going on

570
00:28:12,441 --> 00:28:15,777
on the political
and legal fronts for cannabis,

571
00:28:15,861 --> 00:28:17,654
and we 're gonna be doing
an analysis,

572
00:28:17,738 --> 00:28:18,947
looking at the next two...

573
00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:20,365
Now, with legalization,

574
00:28:20,699 --> 00:28:23,243
I hope to open a dispensary
that's really gonna support

575
00:28:23,327 --> 00:28:25,287
the small growers
of this community.

576
00:28:26,205 --> 00:28:29,249
When we found this building,
we said, "oh my gosh,

577
00:28:29,333 --> 00:28:32,461
this is right in garberville,
it's properly zoned."

578
00:28:32,544 --> 00:28:34,504
And the minute
I walked into this front room

579
00:28:34,588 --> 00:28:38,008
I said, "this is
an unbelievable location

580
00:28:38,091 --> 00:28:39,551
for a dispensary."

581
00:28:40,052 --> 00:28:42,137
The primary manufacturing
space is here,

582
00:28:42,221 --> 00:28:43,861
and that's the overhead doors
in the back.

583
00:28:43,931 --> 00:28:45,825
We'll go take a look in a minute
and take a look at that.

584
00:28:45,849 --> 00:28:48,810
If the state allows us
to go for that licensing,

585
00:28:48,894 --> 00:28:51,855
we can do the further refining
and the lab work here

586
00:28:51,939 --> 00:28:54,816
and then have this for packaging
and some admin.

587
00:28:55,525 --> 00:28:58,362
Karyn's going through
four different permits right now

588
00:28:58,445 --> 00:28:59,445
with the county

589
00:28:59,863 --> 00:29:01,823
for everything from cultivation
to manufacturing

590
00:29:01,907 --> 00:29:04,284
to distribution
and dispensaries.

591
00:29:04,368 --> 00:29:08,664
I think Karyn's plan to bring
a revitalization project

592
00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:10,832
to garberville
on that scale is great.

593
00:29:10,916 --> 00:29:13,043
You know, a dispensary
and manufacturing facility

594
00:29:13,126 --> 00:29:14,378
that provides year-round jobs

595
00:29:14,461 --> 00:29:16,421
is a fabulous addition
to that area.

596
00:29:17,005 --> 00:29:19,508
As we move
into this new transition

597
00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:20,884
of legalization,

598
00:29:20,968 --> 00:29:23,762
it's very difficult for the ogs,

599
00:29:23,845 --> 00:29:27,766
or the original growers,
to make this transition.

600
00:29:27,849 --> 00:29:29,226
Now, just so you know,

601
00:29:29,309 --> 00:29:31,979
I put in the application
for the dispensary license

602
00:29:32,062 --> 00:29:36,942
that will allow us to be
a tourist-driven dispensary

603
00:29:37,025 --> 00:29:40,612
that celebrates
the culture and heritage

604
00:29:40,696 --> 00:29:44,366
of the small family famer
that goes back 40 years.

605
00:29:44,449 --> 00:29:47,035
And I'm really hoping
for a lot of community support

606
00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:50,038
so that I can get
that distribution license

607
00:29:50,122 --> 00:29:54,543
to be able to service southern
humboldt growers appropriately.

608
00:29:54,626 --> 00:29:57,921
You know, the effort
to regulate marijuana

609
00:29:58,005 --> 00:30:00,716
and to tax it is the effort...

610
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:02,968
- To recriminalize marijuana.
- Right.

611
00:30:03,051 --> 00:30:06,805
All through the years
that we saw state legislation,

612
00:30:06,888 --> 00:30:09,725
there was always
Mr. Big-money-man

613
00:30:09,808 --> 00:30:11,601
standing behind it thinking,

614
00:30:11,685 --> 00:30:14,896
"this is where I'm going to make
my many millions."

615
00:30:14,980 --> 00:30:15,980
Mm-hmm.

616
00:30:16,481 --> 00:30:18,084
And every one of them
was predicated on the idea

617
00:30:18,108 --> 00:30:20,652
of let's get rid of
those small farmers.

618
00:30:20,736 --> 00:30:23,196
- Hmm.
- Humboldt county cannot compete

619
00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:26,074
with the efficiencies
that'll be developed

620
00:30:26,158 --> 00:30:27,659
- in large farms.
- Course not.

621
00:30:27,743 --> 00:30:30,078
What I'm saying on this
I've been saying for years.

622
00:30:30,162 --> 00:30:32,039
Branding, branding,
branding, branding.

623
00:30:32,122 --> 00:30:36,376
I try to explain
this is your brand.

624
00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:39,421
Please become legal,
become compliant.

625
00:30:39,504 --> 00:30:40,839
I know it's a bitch
to begin with,

626
00:30:40,922 --> 00:30:42,799
it's hard,
it's a lot of paperwork,

627
00:30:42,883 --> 00:30:44,801
but once you do that

628
00:30:45,427 --> 00:30:49,097
you own the equivalent of

629
00:30:49,181 --> 00:30:50,849
a napa valley vineyard.

630
00:30:51,725 --> 00:30:53,435
Small pot farmers in California

631
00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:56,438
say the state is not standing
by its promise to protect them.

632
00:30:56,521 --> 00:30:58,190
Some say
they're being squeezed out

633
00:30:58,273 --> 00:30:59,816
by expensive new regulations

634
00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:03,070
and unfair competition
from big cannabis cultivators.

635
00:31:03,153 --> 00:31:04,571
Some farmers accused

636
00:31:04,946 --> 00:31:07,616
the California department
of food & agriculture, cdfa,

637
00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:09,326
of going back on its promise

638
00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:12,788
to temporarily limit
marijuana grows to one acre.

639
00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:14,373
The one acre cap

640
00:31:14,456 --> 00:31:16,458
was a provision
placed on prop 64

641
00:31:16,541 --> 00:31:19,461
that allowed for small farmers

642
00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:22,214
to still have a place
in the space

643
00:31:22,297 --> 00:31:23,632
before mega grows came in.

644
00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:25,842
This was something
that was in prop 64.

645
00:31:25,926 --> 00:31:27,344
It was guaranteed to us.

646
00:31:27,427 --> 00:31:30,889
The environmental impact report
said yes to it.

647
00:31:30,972 --> 00:31:33,058
It was just the reason why

648
00:31:33,141 --> 00:31:34,976
small family farmers
came forward

649
00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:36,686
and decided
to go into licensing.

650
00:31:36,770 --> 00:31:39,606
In order for us
to start issuing licenses

651
00:31:39,689 --> 00:31:40,941
on January 1st,

652
00:31:41,024 --> 00:31:43,819
we had to have
emergency regulations in place.

653
00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:45,862
So there was
a very short time window

654
00:31:45,946 --> 00:31:48,365
for people
to provide public comment.

655
00:31:48,448 --> 00:31:50,158
It was five days.

656
00:31:50,242 --> 00:31:52,994
Then the actual
emergency regs came out,

657
00:31:53,078 --> 00:31:55,080
the text
of the actual emergency regs,

658
00:31:55,163 --> 00:31:56,623
and in that text,

659
00:31:57,165 --> 00:31:59,000
the one acre cap
had been lifted.

660
00:31:59,668 --> 00:32:01,336
In less than 24 hours' time,

661
00:32:01,420 --> 00:32:04,131
it went from being in there
to being completely taken out.

662
00:32:04,214 --> 00:32:07,259
It's unjustifiable
that this policy was removed.

663
00:32:07,342 --> 00:32:11,096
There is no good reason
why we should have large grows

664
00:32:11,179 --> 00:32:12,222
sooner than five years.

665
00:32:12,722 --> 00:32:14,784
And frankly, I think we should
be having a conversation

666
00:32:14,808 --> 00:32:16,184
about whether
we need them at all.

667
00:32:16,268 --> 00:32:17,602
I had a panic attack.

668
00:32:17,936 --> 00:32:22,357
We had, like, a whole week
of everybody just flipping out.

669
00:32:22,441 --> 00:32:24,568
Well, the lifting
of the one acre cap

670
00:32:24,651 --> 00:32:26,236
was definitely special interest

671
00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:29,239
that paid some money
or donated to a campaign

672
00:32:29,322 --> 00:32:31,867
or blurred the lines
in some capacity

673
00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:33,160
to get their needs met.

674
00:32:33,243 --> 00:32:34,595
In the salinas valley,

675
00:32:34,619 --> 00:32:36,288
marijuana entrepreneur
Steve deange/o

676
00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:38,039
has been refurbishing
greenhouses

677
00:32:38,123 --> 00:32:39,124
to grow cannabis.

678
00:32:39,708 --> 00:32:41,710
He hopes by producing pot
on a massive scale

679
00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:44,004
he'll become
a brand name in weed.

680
00:32:44,087 --> 00:32:46,214
This place in the mojave desert

681
00:32:46,298 --> 00:32:49,885
is planning on becoming
California's cannabis capitol.

682
00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:53,722
This town has a huge number
of empty industrial buildings,

683
00:32:53,805 --> 00:32:56,099
basically cannabis factories
in waiting.

684
00:32:56,183 --> 00:32:59,227
A new gold rush, of sorts,
has kicked off in California.

685
00:32:59,311 --> 00:33:02,981
At medmen, they're hoping lines
multiple city blocks long

686
00:33:03,064 --> 00:33:04,274
will help them cash in on

687
00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:07,152
what researchers project
to be $5 billion

688
00:33:07,235 --> 00:33:08,695
in newly legal pot sales.

689
00:33:08,778 --> 00:33:10,447
Our more mature stores
in California

690
00:33:10,530 --> 00:33:12,290
are doing over $20 million
a year in revenue,

691
00:33:12,365 --> 00:33:14,534
and we currently
have licenses for 45 stores.

692
00:33:14,618 --> 00:33:15,911
So a lot of work to do,

693
00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:18,079
but yeah, I mean,
revenue is big for me.

694
00:33:18,163 --> 00:33:20,081
Former speaker of the house
John boehner,

695
00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:21,249
you're all in in cannabis.

696
00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:22,334
I'm all in.

697
00:33:22,751 --> 00:33:24,544
This is the time
to go all in on cannabis.

698
00:33:25,545 --> 00:33:26,588
I don't know

699
00:33:27,172 --> 00:33:28,816
how many people are gonna
make it through the county,

700
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,427
let alone the state stuff,
and have a viable farm.

701
00:33:32,511 --> 00:33:35,347
Many of the counties,
humboldt, mendocino county,

702
00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:37,891
they have a cap
of 10,000 square feet,

703
00:33:37,974 --> 00:33:41,478
so you're then capped
by your county,

704
00:33:41,561 --> 00:33:44,731
and yet the state
is allowing mega grows.

705
00:33:44,814 --> 00:33:47,317
Well, that means
the market's gonna be flooded

706
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,110
and nobody's
gonna be selling anything

707
00:33:49,194 --> 00:33:51,506
and the prices are gonna be
going down again and, you know,

708
00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:53,114
where does that leave
the farmers?

709
00:34:15,762 --> 00:34:18,306
If you wouldn't mind
coming to gather on the gravel

710
00:34:18,390 --> 00:34:20,058
or on the cement upfront.

711
00:34:20,141 --> 00:34:22,269
Thank you all for being here
so much.

712
00:34:22,352 --> 00:34:25,480
This is just really
a proud moment

713
00:34:25,564 --> 00:34:28,483
for all of us farmers
in mendocino generations.

714
00:34:29,693 --> 00:34:31,945
Mendocino generations
is a farm collective

715
00:34:32,028 --> 00:34:34,739
that we started in 2016.

716
00:34:34,823 --> 00:34:35,823
And basically,

717
00:34:36,408 --> 00:34:38,910
we started thinking, oh my gosh,
there's a Tsunami coming.

718
00:34:38,994 --> 00:34:40,453
Then what are we gonna do?

719
00:34:40,537 --> 00:34:43,164
How are we really gonna survive
this legalization?

720
00:34:43,748 --> 00:34:45,542
We have almost 60 farmers.

721
00:34:45,625 --> 00:34:47,419
We're all over mendocino county,

722
00:34:47,502 --> 00:34:49,879
from covelo to hopland

723
00:34:49,963 --> 00:34:51,673
and all the way
up to laytonville.

724
00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:55,510
About a year and a half ago,
I felt more passive.

725
00:34:55,594 --> 00:34:57,596
Like, "please come buy
my cannabis."

726
00:34:57,679 --> 00:34:59,055
But now I'm out there saying,

727
00:34:59,139 --> 00:35:01,516
"meet these farmers.
Look at this cannabis.

728
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,268
Isn't this beautiful?
Here's our brand.

729
00:35:03,351 --> 00:35:05,270
Look how far we've come."

730
00:35:05,353 --> 00:35:06,980
Just really wanna honor
all of you

731
00:35:07,063 --> 00:35:08,565
for sticking to it.

732
00:35:08,648 --> 00:35:12,027
I know it's been super,
super hard and challenging,

733
00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:14,195
and a lot of people
have been calling me saying,

734
00:35:14,279 --> 00:35:16,031
"I'm giving up.
I can't do this anymore."

735
00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:18,325
And I just want them
to feel encouraged

736
00:35:18,408 --> 00:35:19,534
that there is hope

737
00:35:19,993 --> 00:35:21,804
and there is, like, light
at the end of the tunnel.

738
00:35:21,828 --> 00:35:26,041
I feel like we're stepping on
the first stone of the path

739
00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:28,793
that we have been laying down
for the last couple of years,

740
00:35:28,877 --> 00:35:29,877
and here we are.

741
00:35:29,919 --> 00:35:31,046
This is our opportunity

742
00:35:31,129 --> 00:35:33,048
to really honestly show
the world

743
00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:35,216
who we are
and what we can do here

744
00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:36,384
in mendocino county.

745
00:35:37,010 --> 00:35:39,054
I can see
that chiah is a hard worker.

746
00:35:39,137 --> 00:35:42,390
When you meet her, you're like,
okay, this woman is busy.

747
00:35:42,474 --> 00:35:43,933
She has things to do.

748
00:35:44,017 --> 00:35:48,229
You are one of maybe 50 people
she's talking to today.

749
00:35:48,313 --> 00:35:49,898
And instead of
throwing her hands up

750
00:35:49,981 --> 00:35:51,566
and being like, "oh my god,

751
00:35:51,650 --> 00:35:53,902
legalization
is so hard and crazy

752
00:35:53,985 --> 00:35:55,278
and they're screwing us."

753
00:35:55,362 --> 00:35:58,406
She's like, "okay,
this is hard and crazy,

754
00:35:58,490 --> 00:36:00,075
but we're definitely
not gonna to do it

755
00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:01,743
without putting hard work in."

756
00:36:01,826 --> 00:36:03,986
She's really looking at it
from the bigger perspective,

757
00:36:04,037 --> 00:36:05,664
and also not just mendo gen,

758
00:36:05,747 --> 00:36:08,166
but then taking that
to the county level

759
00:36:08,249 --> 00:36:09,709
and then spreading it larger.

760
00:36:09,793 --> 00:36:12,420
So I feel really fortunate
to be a part of it.

761
00:36:12,504 --> 00:36:13,922
And it feels like a family.

762
00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:16,424
That's the boost
by the lake county tangelo.

763
00:36:16,508 --> 00:36:18,677
The boost
is a blueberry sweet tooth

764
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,095
by Morgan Wyatt.

765
00:36:20,178 --> 00:36:21,471
And so, you know,

766
00:36:21,554 --> 00:36:23,032
one thing
that we've been trying to do

767
00:36:23,056 --> 00:36:24,766
is talk to people
about organic cannabis

768
00:36:24,849 --> 00:36:27,185
and sun-grown cannabis
in a new way

769
00:36:27,268 --> 00:36:28,895
and help people understand

770
00:36:28,978 --> 00:36:30,814
that they've been shopping
at whole foods

771
00:36:30,897 --> 00:36:32,148
and buying organic,

772
00:36:32,232 --> 00:36:33,983
but they're walking
into a dispensary

773
00:36:34,067 --> 00:36:35,067
and buying cannabis

774
00:36:35,527 --> 00:36:37,088
that they don't even know
the origin of it.

775
00:36:37,112 --> 00:36:38,571
They don't know
where it came from.

776
00:36:38,655 --> 00:36:39,989
They don't understand
who grew it.

777
00:36:40,073 --> 00:36:41,491
They don't know
anything about it.

778
00:36:41,866 --> 00:36:44,285
And so what we're trying to do
is put that face to the farm

779
00:36:44,369 --> 00:36:46,204
that they're getting
their medicine from.

780
00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:52,460
J“ we got cannabis j“

781
00:36:52,544 --> 00:36:54,629
J' we got thc j“

782
00:36:54,713 --> 00:36:56,965
J' we got cbd j“

783
00:36:58,550 --> 00:36:59,990
J“ it's my medicine
don't you see? J“

784
00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:17,694
Love you, mama.

785
00:37:18,987 --> 00:37:21,865
We're bringing you guys
over an order of salve.

786
00:37:21,948 --> 00:37:22,948
Oh, good.

787
00:37:23,324 --> 00:37:24,510
And then, we want you to try...

788
00:37:24,534 --> 00:37:25,827
Our new aroma.

789
00:37:26,161 --> 00:37:28,139
- Okay. So this is our new salve.
- This is great. Oh, yeah.

790
00:37:28,163 --> 00:37:30,373
Put some on.
Put some on, it's different.

791
00:37:30,457 --> 00:37:32,333
It's different than the old.

792
00:37:32,417 --> 00:37:35,044
Okay. Well, I'm going to sit.
I'll put some on my knee.

793
00:37:35,128 --> 00:37:38,631
No problem
finding places for pain.

794
00:37:40,008 --> 00:37:41,509
Doesn't it feel good?

795
00:37:41,593 --> 00:37:45,430
It's so silky and I feel it
tingling on my knee.

796
00:37:45,513 --> 00:37:47,056
- Already?
- Yeah. Yeah.

797
00:37:47,932 --> 00:37:49,476
And I do like the new texture.

798
00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:51,227
- That's great.
- Hm-mmm.

799
00:37:51,311 --> 00:37:54,481
They're making everybody
produce their labels

800
00:37:54,564 --> 00:37:55,690
a certain way.

801
00:37:55,774 --> 00:37:57,692
And the laws
aren't really conducive

802
00:37:57,776 --> 00:38:00,153
for certain businesses anymore.

803
00:38:00,236 --> 00:38:01,446
So we're kinda just looking at

804
00:38:01,529 --> 00:38:03,364
how can we make
our business survive

805
00:38:03,448 --> 00:38:05,784
and still have
our product out there.

806
00:38:05,867 --> 00:38:08,286
Some of our clients
have gotten off their meds

807
00:38:08,369 --> 00:38:10,038
- with this salve.
- Yeah.

808
00:38:10,121 --> 00:38:11,748
And you know,
for me, that's exciting,

809
00:38:11,831 --> 00:38:13,708
but yet really serious.

810
00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:16,044
'Cause you wanna make sure
they don't run out ever.

811
00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:17,127
Right.

812
00:38:17,629 --> 00:38:18,939
We've run into that
a couple of times, you know,

813
00:38:18,963 --> 00:38:20,507
and had to really have,
you know,

814
00:38:20,590 --> 00:38:22,443
hurried up and made more
to get to some of these people

815
00:38:22,467 --> 00:38:24,636
- that really needed it.
- Hm-mmm. Yeah.

816
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,013
'Cause they didn't wanna
go back on the horrible meds

817
00:38:27,096 --> 00:38:28,848
they used to be on, you know?

818
00:38:28,932 --> 00:38:30,892
So it's a big responsibility.

819
00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:32,769
Well, like I said,

820
00:38:32,852 --> 00:38:34,813
I'm grateful
I can have my medicine.

821
00:38:35,396 --> 00:38:37,482
I don't know
what's gonna happen, you know?

822
00:38:37,565 --> 00:38:43,071
Luckily we're on the older end
of this whole change.

823
00:38:43,154 --> 00:38:44,405
Yes.

824
00:38:44,489 --> 00:38:46,157
You know,
we had 40-something good years.

825
00:38:47,659 --> 00:38:49,077
Yep. Hm-mmm.

826
00:38:53,414 --> 00:38:55,583
The challenges
I've been faced with

827
00:38:55,667 --> 00:38:57,544
in getting the dispensary going

828
00:38:57,627 --> 00:39:00,755
is the process
of the planning departments.

829
00:39:00,839 --> 00:39:02,757
We are losing money.

830
00:39:02,841 --> 00:39:04,676
Seniors are calling me
every day.

831
00:39:04,759 --> 00:39:07,011
"When are you gonna open?"

832
00:39:15,645 --> 00:39:17,605
Yeah, we're going
to the third floor

833
00:39:17,689 --> 00:39:19,232
instead of going up to planning,

834
00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:21,067
so we can just see if it's...

835
00:39:21,150 --> 00:39:23,194
Okay. That sounds good.

836
00:39:24,612 --> 00:39:26,614
David coordinated the plans.

837
00:39:26,698 --> 00:39:29,409
We're gonna have an answer
for him by this evening.

838
00:39:29,492 --> 00:39:31,327
He's gonna review it
after they do theirs,

839
00:39:31,411 --> 00:39:33,496
then he's gonna come back
to me tomorrow morning

840
00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:34,998
to give the answer to you.

841
00:39:35,081 --> 00:39:37,125
So, we'll see you
first thing in the morning.

842
00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:38,751
Thank you. We appreciate you.

843
00:39:38,835 --> 00:39:40,295
- Thank you.
- No problem.

844
00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:41,378
You're always so helpful.

845
00:39:41,421 --> 00:39:42,755
That's what I'm here for.

846
00:39:42,839 --> 00:39:44,441
- Thank you.
- You're welcome. Bye.

847
00:39:44,465 --> 00:39:47,302
The person
we were supposed to meet with

848
00:39:47,385 --> 00:39:49,012
was in a long meeting.

849
00:39:49,095 --> 00:39:51,973
What we were told
was that in the morning

850
00:39:52,056 --> 00:39:55,602
we will receive a permit
to start.

851
00:39:55,685 --> 00:39:57,186
If that doesn't happen,

852
00:39:57,270 --> 00:39:59,939
we'll be there to confront
whoever it is we need to.

853
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:06,863
Hello. Can I help you?

854
00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:08,591
- How are you?
- Good. How are you?

855
00:40:08,615 --> 00:40:10,783
Good. Have an appointment
with cardella.

856
00:40:10,867 --> 00:40:12,035
- Cardella? Okay.
- Yes.

857
00:40:12,118 --> 00:40:13,536
- And your name is?
- Sue Taylor.

858
00:40:13,620 --> 00:40:15,014
Sue Taylor.
I'll let her know you're here.

859
00:40:15,038 --> 00:40:16,497
- Thank you.
- Mm-mmm.

860
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:28,635
David's out today.

861
00:40:28,718 --> 00:40:30,887
However, I'm waiting
for Alex to get in,

862
00:40:30,970 --> 00:40:33,056
so he can give someone
some instructions

863
00:40:33,139 --> 00:40:34,766
so you can get your permit okay.

864
00:40:34,849 --> 00:40:36,434
Oh, good.
Then I'm going to wait.

865
00:40:36,517 --> 00:40:37,877
- Have a seat.
- Thank you so much.

866
00:40:37,936 --> 00:40:39,187
Do you need anything?

867
00:40:39,270 --> 00:40:41,147
- No.
- Okay. Let me know if you do.

868
00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:46,277
Yes, it's been
a long and arduous task

869
00:40:46,361 --> 00:40:48,655
in the process
of even getting the permit,

870
00:40:49,197 --> 00:40:54,077
but when you're dealing
with medical cannabis

871
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,371
and you're a person of color,

872
00:40:56,454 --> 00:40:58,164
you have to have it done
the right way.

873
00:40:58,247 --> 00:41:00,416
You have to have it
done legally.

874
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:03,378
You can't do
like everybody else.

875
00:41:03,461 --> 00:41:05,964
Everybody else just throwing up,
making a lot of money

876
00:41:06,047 --> 00:41:08,091
and get the hand slapped,

877
00:41:08,174 --> 00:41:10,051
close, and open up
some place else.

878
00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:13,596
They're working on it.
He intends to finish it today.

879
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,933
It may not be in time for you
to pick it up today, though.

880
00:41:17,809 --> 00:41:20,144
And we're closed tomorrow
because of furlough.

881
00:41:20,228 --> 00:41:21,228
I know, I know.

882
00:41:21,437 --> 00:41:23,648
This is not
a great process for you.

883
00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:25,525
However, they're working on it.

884
00:41:25,608 --> 00:41:27,026
Okay, I'll call you.

885
00:41:27,110 --> 00:41:28,910
I have your number
and I'll keep you informed.

886
00:41:29,445 --> 00:41:32,865
Doing this is really
making me test my beliefs.

887
00:41:32,949 --> 00:41:36,411
We spent all our money.
Our family loaned us money.

888
00:41:36,494 --> 00:41:38,287
They believed in us.
They believed in me.

889
00:41:38,371 --> 00:41:41,082
You have to pay
those people back at some point.

890
00:41:47,046 --> 00:41:49,007
Today is my hardest day,

891
00:41:49,090 --> 00:41:50,967
when I got
that disappointment...

892
00:41:57,682 --> 00:42:01,227
When you do all you could do
and you still get a no.

893
00:42:06,274 --> 00:42:07,859
I moved out to Los Angeles.

894
00:42:07,942 --> 00:42:10,737
So I went from moving,
wait for patients,

895
00:42:10,820 --> 00:42:14,574
to being a part of
the seedy part of cannabis

896
00:42:14,657 --> 00:42:16,075
in Los Angeles.

897
00:42:16,159 --> 00:42:19,287
I met some people
and they were not good people.

898
00:42:20,038 --> 00:42:22,999
During the late 1990s
and early 2000s,

899
00:42:23,082 --> 00:42:25,209
I was impacted
by the justice system,

900
00:42:25,293 --> 00:42:28,629
having been incarcerated
for a little over seven years.

901
00:42:30,173 --> 00:42:31,799
And of course,
being incarcerated,

902
00:42:31,883 --> 00:42:34,302
it changes everything about you.

903
00:42:34,761 --> 00:42:38,056
People don't really understand
the effects

904
00:42:38,139 --> 00:42:40,975
and the collateral consequences
of the war on drugs.

905
00:42:41,059 --> 00:42:45,480
It just set communities and
neighborhoods on a trajectory

906
00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:49,025
where lots of other crimes
were simultaneously committed.

907
00:42:49,108 --> 00:42:51,944
Today, the racist war on drugs
continues.

908
00:42:57,575 --> 00:42:59,243
We are in downtown Los Angeles

909
00:42:59,327 --> 00:43:02,497
for the bureau
of cannabis control's

910
00:43:02,580 --> 00:43:07,043
final listening session,
in terms of comments,

911
00:43:07,126 --> 00:43:09,170
before we finalize regulation.

912
00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:12,590
The conversation about equity
is so minimal.

913
00:43:12,673 --> 00:43:16,135
And what we're seeing now
is they've thrown the baby,

914
00:43:16,219 --> 00:43:18,763
the bath water,
the whole bathtub

915
00:43:18,846 --> 00:43:20,181
out of the conversation

916
00:43:20,515 --> 00:43:25,228
so that a select group of people
can profit off of this space.

917
00:43:25,311 --> 00:43:28,356
So, we're just doing
everything that we can

918
00:43:28,439 --> 00:43:32,443
to hold the state of California
and the industry accountable.

919
00:43:32,527 --> 00:43:33,528
So welcome,

920
00:43:33,903 --> 00:43:36,155
and thank you
for coming out here today

921
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,200
for our second
public regulation hearing

922
00:43:39,283 --> 00:43:41,035
on the proposed regulations.

923
00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:43,079
It's a little bit
of a different format

924
00:43:43,162 --> 00:43:45,540
than you're used to
with the bureau.

925
00:43:45,623 --> 00:43:49,127
We sit and we listen
and we have a court reporter

926
00:43:49,210 --> 00:43:50,920
that's taking down
all of the comments.

927
00:43:51,003 --> 00:43:52,421
We're taking notes.

928
00:43:52,505 --> 00:43:55,716
But we don't respond
to anything that you're saying.

929
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,176
So if you have a question,

930
00:43:57,260 --> 00:43:59,011
you gotta form it
into a comment,

931
00:43:59,095 --> 00:44:02,140
because we're not gonna be able
to respond to it.

932
00:44:02,223 --> 00:44:03,558
Speaker number two, please.

933
00:44:03,641 --> 00:44:05,143
Hi, I'm Felicia carbajal,

934
00:44:05,226 --> 00:44:08,729
a latinx community organizer,
patient and consumer

935
00:44:08,813 --> 00:44:13,401
pushing for equity, justice,
compassion and repair,

936
00:44:13,901 --> 00:44:16,904
compassionate cannabis 2.0.

937
00:44:17,572 --> 00:44:22,118
I, too, am disappointed
in the lack of equity

938
00:44:22,201 --> 00:44:24,996
being addressed
by the state of California.

939
00:44:25,663 --> 00:44:29,250
Doesn't the bureau care
about equity?

940
00:44:29,917 --> 00:44:34,088
Don't you care about the harms
that the war on drugs

941
00:44:34,172 --> 00:44:37,383
has done
to communities of color?

942
00:44:38,092 --> 00:44:40,928
We ask you to realize
and acknowledge

943
00:44:41,012 --> 00:44:44,932
that black and brown communities
are more than worthy

944
00:44:45,016 --> 00:44:47,018
of economic
and social investment

945
00:44:47,101 --> 00:44:48,769
with action.

946
00:44:48,853 --> 00:44:50,771
The world is watching.

947
00:44:51,272 --> 00:44:53,441
We hope you do the right thing.

948
00:44:56,027 --> 00:44:58,029
They already
made their decisions.

949
00:44:58,112 --> 00:44:59,530
They've been dismissive

950
00:44:59,614 --> 00:45:02,283
of lots of portions
of the conversation already.

951
00:45:02,366 --> 00:45:04,160
So the powers that be,

952
00:45:04,243 --> 00:45:06,913
to me, have already decided
the fate of cannabis

953
00:45:06,996 --> 00:45:08,831
in the state of California.

954
00:45:11,083 --> 00:45:14,086
Controlled chaos,
kca at the am. On 106.5

955
00:45:14,170 --> 00:45:16,380
on a 2.3 fm
in the inland empire,

956
00:45:16,464 --> 00:45:17,590
I'm Gary Garber.

957
00:45:17,673 --> 00:45:20,134
Here with me
is Felicia carbajal.

958
00:45:20,218 --> 00:45:21,636
She's wanting to be a delegate

959
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:23,679
for the California
Democratic party.

960
00:45:23,763 --> 00:45:26,265
- I sure am.
- Why?

961
00:45:26,349 --> 00:45:27,600
You wanna get into politics?

962
00:45:27,683 --> 00:45:29,393
Well, I'm doing it personally

963
00:45:29,477 --> 00:45:33,231
because there aren't people
who are cannabis advocates

964
00:45:33,314 --> 00:45:35,358
and who are pushing
certain conversations

965
00:45:35,441 --> 00:45:38,361
that are relevant
to our needs as a community.

966
00:45:38,444 --> 00:45:40,196
And right now,
in the state of California,

967
00:45:40,279 --> 00:45:43,491
people of color
own less businesses

968
00:45:43,574 --> 00:45:45,117
that are cannabis related.

969
00:45:45,201 --> 00:45:47,521
So we're just trying to do
is create an even playing field.

970
00:45:47,578 --> 00:45:50,248
So giving people of color,
people who have been impacted,

971
00:45:50,331 --> 00:45:52,875
people who don't have
those economic resources,

972
00:45:52,959 --> 00:45:54,335
an opportunity to participate.

973
00:45:55,378 --> 00:45:57,463
So how is your dispensary going?

974
00:45:57,546 --> 00:46:01,175
We've had a lot of challenges
with the building itself...

975
00:46:01,259 --> 00:46:02,259
Okay.

976
00:46:02,593 --> 00:46:04,112
Because it was
in such poor condition,

977
00:46:04,136 --> 00:46:06,889
and as well as
the lengthy process

978
00:46:06,973 --> 00:46:09,225
- of the building permits.
- Okay.

979
00:46:09,642 --> 00:46:11,936
Sometimes I get worn down

980
00:46:12,019 --> 00:46:15,481
because people that knows
I've been at it for so long,

981
00:46:15,564 --> 00:46:17,024
"when you gonna open?

982
00:46:17,108 --> 00:46:18,752
When you gonna start
making some money?" You know?

983
00:46:18,776 --> 00:46:20,444
To heck with these shoots
and stuff

984
00:46:20,528 --> 00:46:22,280
and magazine articles...

985
00:46:22,363 --> 00:46:23,781
And all of that.

986
00:46:23,864 --> 00:46:26,742
But the way I see it,
by the time we open up,

987
00:46:26,826 --> 00:46:29,704
all of those glitches
will have been all worked out.

988
00:46:32,123 --> 00:46:36,210
You are listening
to kzyx philo, 90.7 fm.

989
00:46:36,294 --> 00:46:38,587
So today, I think we have
a really great show.

990
00:46:38,671 --> 00:46:41,340
Our topic is
"jumping through the hoops:

991
00:46:41,424 --> 00:46:43,718
Is getting legal
getting harder?"

992
00:46:43,801 --> 00:46:46,304
And my guest is chiah rodrigues.

993
00:46:46,387 --> 00:46:47,763
What would you say

994
00:46:47,847 --> 00:46:50,850
have been some of
your biggest hurdles personally

995
00:46:50,933 --> 00:46:52,518
in this process?

996
00:46:53,477 --> 00:46:54,729
Well, there's been a lot.

997
00:46:54,812 --> 00:46:56,252
It's all the little things

998
00:46:56,314 --> 00:46:58,691
that come along
with the licensing

999
00:46:58,774 --> 00:47:01,027
and the permitting process.
They all add up, you know?

1000
00:47:01,110 --> 00:47:04,488
It's getting more
and more expensive to do this.

1001
00:47:04,572 --> 00:47:06,532
Well, what's the upside?

1002
00:47:06,615 --> 00:47:09,660
I mean, what...
I can see a lot of...

1003
00:47:09,744 --> 00:47:11,329
I know, there's
a lot of darkness here,

1004
00:47:11,412 --> 00:47:13,622
- it's not a lot of positivity.
- Why are you doing it?

1005
00:47:13,706 --> 00:47:17,960
It's a huge part of my life
and something that I believe in.

1006
00:47:18,044 --> 00:47:20,588
And my husband
is really dedicated

1007
00:47:20,671 --> 00:47:26,719
to growing amazing plants
and to farming sustainably.

1008
00:47:26,802 --> 00:47:28,304
And yeah, I mean,

1009
00:47:28,387 --> 00:47:31,557
we're just
really dedicated to this

1010
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,769
as a huge part of our lives
and seeing the community thrive

1011
00:47:34,852 --> 00:47:38,731
and seeing the farmers thrive.
That ultimately is our goal.

1012
00:47:38,814 --> 00:47:42,276
And we, obviously,
want to be selling our cannabis

1013
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,029
and having a thriving brand
and thriving company,

1014
00:47:45,112 --> 00:47:48,157
but it's not just
about making money in it.

1015
00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:49,240
It never was.

1016
00:47:49,575 --> 00:47:52,703
It's just
really about that relationship.

1017
00:47:55,831 --> 00:47:57,500
You know, I fell in love
with doing this,

1018
00:47:57,583 --> 00:47:58,959
and this is what I wanted to do.

1019
00:47:59,043 --> 00:48:01,712
So I wanted to not get
in trouble, you know,

1020
00:48:01,796 --> 00:48:03,130
and just
be able to keep on going

1021
00:48:03,214 --> 00:48:04,632
and doing what I loved.

1022
00:48:04,715 --> 00:48:07,468
And it's been a really nice way
to live our lives.

1023
00:48:08,135 --> 00:48:10,054
We wanna normalize it
for our children,

1024
00:48:10,137 --> 00:48:12,264
like, we've brought them
into the garden forever,

1025
00:48:12,348 --> 00:48:14,725
until the regulations
came down and said,

1026
00:48:14,809 --> 00:48:16,310
"now you have to have
a locked gate."

1027
00:48:16,394 --> 00:48:18,646
And yeah, that makes sense
on a certain level,

1028
00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:20,731
but it is really
a lifestyle choice.

1029
00:48:21,315 --> 00:48:23,734
I think it is about
having boundaries.

1030
00:48:23,818 --> 00:48:26,404
And that's hard,
especially now with a teenager.

1031
00:48:27,238 --> 00:48:29,031
It's nice that I work at home

1032
00:48:29,115 --> 00:48:30,658
and they see me all the time.

1033
00:48:30,741 --> 00:48:33,202
It can become challenging
for them sometimes,

1034
00:48:33,285 --> 00:48:35,746
'cause, like, true will,
like, come out and yell for me

1035
00:48:35,830 --> 00:48:37,289
and want me to be able to play.

1036
00:48:37,373 --> 00:48:39,142
'Cause they think
since I'm home, like, you know,

1037
00:48:39,166 --> 00:48:40,543
I can just stop what I'm doing.

1038
00:48:40,626 --> 00:48:42,503
And so that's
a little tough sometimes.

1039
00:48:42,586 --> 00:48:44,088
And same thing
for river, you know,

1040
00:48:44,171 --> 00:48:45,941
he'd see me around,
so they figure that I'm home

1041
00:48:45,965 --> 00:48:48,384
and I'm not really working,
but I am.

1042
00:48:48,467 --> 00:48:50,719
I don't leave to go to a job

1043
00:48:50,803 --> 00:48:52,363
and then come home
at the end of the day

1044
00:48:52,430 --> 00:48:53,722
and leave my work there.

1045
00:48:53,806 --> 00:48:55,891
Just having to learn
how to set office hours,

1046
00:48:55,975 --> 00:48:57,518
and plants
don't have office hours.

1047
00:48:57,601 --> 00:49:00,020
And so trying to find
a balance within that.

1048
00:49:00,729 --> 00:49:02,731
This, like, starting
a new business together

1049
00:49:02,815 --> 00:49:05,109
has been really hard.
Like, it brings up a lot,

1050
00:49:05,192 --> 00:49:07,987
but I feel like
we're stronger for it now.

1051
00:49:08,070 --> 00:49:09,196
And sometimes, I guess,

1052
00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:11,740
maybe it takes going through
some really hard stuff

1053
00:49:11,824 --> 00:49:15,161
to reinforce that foundation
and strengthen it.

1054
00:49:20,541 --> 00:49:21,959
I start my day this morning

1055
00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:26,380
really not knowing
what's going on

1056
00:49:26,464 --> 00:49:29,133
and having a night of...

1057
00:49:31,552 --> 00:49:32,970
Difficult nightmares.

1058
00:49:33,053 --> 00:49:34,573
There's no other way
to put this thing.

1059
00:49:34,638 --> 00:49:36,849
This is a nightmare.
This is just a nightmare.

1060
00:49:36,932 --> 00:49:40,478
Something that
you never thought would happen

1061
00:49:40,561 --> 00:49:43,981
because you're going forward
in legalization,

1062
00:49:44,064 --> 00:49:45,399
you're doing everything right.

1063
00:49:45,483 --> 00:49:47,109
You've got everything
ticked and tied,

1064
00:49:47,193 --> 00:49:50,029
and then
something like this happens

1065
00:49:50,112 --> 00:49:51,822
and you just...

1066
00:49:57,119 --> 00:50:00,080
I just wanna break down,
but I can't right now.

1067
00:50:00,164 --> 00:50:02,666
I have to stay strong
and keep moving forward.

1068
00:50:04,460 --> 00:50:05,628
On Thursday night,

1069
00:50:06,003 --> 00:50:10,758
we were to have received
a courier transfer of money.

1070
00:50:10,841 --> 00:50:15,513
So this is
a licensed, bonded courier

1071
00:50:16,305 --> 00:50:19,767
transporting cash
from la. Up to humboldt.

1072
00:50:19,850 --> 00:50:21,727
And it was
a significant amount of money

1073
00:50:21,810 --> 00:50:25,272
that we were owed and due
on that evening.

1074
00:50:25,356 --> 00:50:28,234
Well, a chb
had pulled over the car

1075
00:50:28,317 --> 00:50:31,987
for having
the incorrect mudflaps.

1076
00:50:32,071 --> 00:50:33,531
And we're just like, "what?"

1077
00:50:33,614 --> 00:50:36,283
And when they searched the car,
they found the cash.

1078
00:50:36,367 --> 00:50:39,495
So, we're nine months
into legalization

1079
00:50:39,578 --> 00:50:43,582
and we're still having
to conduct business in cash,

1080
00:50:43,666 --> 00:50:46,460
because banks
won't handle our cash

1081
00:50:46,544 --> 00:50:50,130
because it's still a federally
illegal proposition here.

1082
00:50:50,214 --> 00:50:54,802
So we're having to hire
courier services

1083
00:50:54,885 --> 00:50:56,554
to move cash around.

1084
00:50:56,637 --> 00:51:01,058
Now, it's not illegal
to transport cash,

1085
00:51:01,141 --> 00:51:02,851
but if the chb thinks

1086
00:51:02,935 --> 00:51:06,564
it's in further of anihegalact

1087
00:51:06,647 --> 00:51:09,733
which, on a federal level,
cannabis is,

1088
00:51:10,317 --> 00:51:14,655
then it does become
potentially "illegal."

1089
00:51:14,738 --> 00:51:16,907
And this is what happens.

1090
00:51:16,991 --> 00:51:19,410
The career services
stopped by the chb,

1091
00:51:19,493 --> 00:51:22,246
and the cash
is confiscated by the feds.

1092
00:51:22,329 --> 00:51:23,622
I'm dying to fight this

1093
00:51:23,706 --> 00:51:25,266
just because
it's the right thing to do.

1094
00:51:25,291 --> 00:51:26,333
I'm dying to fight this

1095
00:51:26,667 --> 00:51:28,377
just because of
the social injustice of it.

1096
00:51:28,460 --> 00:51:32,673
You know, it's not about...

1097
00:51:32,756 --> 00:51:35,467
Yes, the money is important,
okay, but it's also about

1098
00:51:35,551 --> 00:51:37,219
that this can't
keep happening us.

1099
00:51:37,761 --> 00:51:40,139
In order
to make this move forward,

1100
00:51:40,222 --> 00:51:41,390
we have to claim the money.

1101
00:51:41,473 --> 00:51:43,017
And once you claim the money,

1102
00:51:43,100 --> 00:51:44,602
then you have to
open yourself up

1103
00:51:44,685 --> 00:51:46,854
to showing all your receipts
for the money,

1104
00:51:46,937 --> 00:51:48,188
showing how you got the money,

1105
00:51:48,272 --> 00:51:50,399
and everybody
in our supply chain

1106
00:51:50,482 --> 00:51:51,609
then has to be on board.

1107
00:51:51,692 --> 00:51:54,278
Brass says
I can go ahead and hang?

1108
00:51:55,112 --> 00:51:56,363
Yeah.

1109
00:51:56,864 --> 00:51:58,425
They just feel that we did
what we were supposed to do.

1110
00:51:58,449 --> 00:51:59,908
We made payment, you know,

1111
00:51:59,992 --> 00:52:02,536
"it's not really my problem"
type thing.

1112
00:52:02,620 --> 00:52:03,871
Interesting.

1113
00:52:03,954 --> 00:52:07,124
Oh, yeah.
Not too happy about that.

1114
00:52:07,207 --> 00:52:08,667
Not too happy at all.

1115
00:52:08,751 --> 00:52:10,186
The phone call
I had with him was like,

1116
00:52:10,210 --> 00:52:11,712
"hey, you have our support.

1117
00:52:11,795 --> 00:52:13,555
That's totally not okay
that they did this."

1118
00:52:13,631 --> 00:52:15,966
But they weren't willing
to do anything to help settle.

1119
00:52:16,050 --> 00:52:18,090
Yeah. This is a big,
fucked up thing for me,

1120
00:52:18,135 --> 00:52:19,762
and I don't wanna
have to do it, right?

1121
00:52:19,845 --> 00:52:23,724
But they don't know me.
You know?

1122
00:52:23,807 --> 00:52:25,351
No, they don't know you.

1123
00:52:25,434 --> 00:52:26,745
They don't know
what you're willing to do.

1124
00:52:26,769 --> 00:52:27,829
- They don't know that.
- Right.

1125
00:52:27,853 --> 00:52:29,897
So, they're saying,

1126
00:52:29,980 --> 00:52:32,775
"hey, yeah. Go ahead, girlie.
Go ahead, try this.

1127
00:52:32,858 --> 00:52:34,735
Just go ahead and try it."
And I'm like...

1128
00:52:34,818 --> 00:52:36,296
Right. Put your neck out there.

1129
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,447
Yeah. Yeah.
And I'm like, you know what?

1130
00:52:38,530 --> 00:52:41,450
Don't dare me like that.
That you got those brass balls?

1131
00:52:41,533 --> 00:52:43,285
You think
you got brass balls? Yeah.

1132
00:52:43,369 --> 00:52:45,009
- Well, I'm, you know...
- Right.

1133
00:52:45,037 --> 00:52:46,413
Let's just check it out. Okay.

1134
00:52:46,497 --> 00:52:48,457
I've gotta make that...
I got to run now,

1135
00:52:48,540 --> 00:52:50,140
because I gotta make
that lawyer meeting.

1136
00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:52,419
Okay. I'll talk to you
after I talked to him.

1137
00:52:52,836 --> 00:52:54,672
- Okay. Thank you. Bye.
- Okay.

1138
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:58,676
That's what
it fucking comes down to.

1139
00:52:58,759 --> 00:53:01,053
They think I'll fold.

1140
00:53:10,979 --> 00:53:13,357
It's a hard business.
It's a very hard business.

1141
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,151
Sometimes I really wonder
why the hell I'm doing it.

1142
00:53:23,242 --> 00:53:26,245
There was no word
on any significant containment

1143
00:53:26,328 --> 00:53:28,539
and the problem was the wind.

1144
00:53:28,622 --> 00:53:31,250
Wind gusts of
up to 70 miles per hour.

1145
00:53:31,333 --> 00:53:35,295
You can imagine how fast
that moves these flames.

1146
00:53:36,213 --> 00:53:38,882
Basically, there was
a fire in Potter valley

1147
00:53:38,966 --> 00:53:40,467
and then the redwood valley.

1148
00:53:40,551 --> 00:53:43,804
And that jumped the freeway
towards us.

1149
00:53:43,887 --> 00:53:45,764
So now it's on Reeves canyon,

1150
00:53:45,848 --> 00:53:49,143
which is the Ridge
on the other side of our ranch.

1151
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,688
We got about ten phone calls
within five minutes.

1152
00:53:52,771 --> 00:53:54,982
And that was
about three in the morning.

1153
00:53:55,065 --> 00:53:57,317
So we got up
and, like, hustled hardcore,

1154
00:53:57,401 --> 00:54:00,112
like, packed as much as we coud
at that moment,

1155
00:54:00,195 --> 00:54:01,739
then we ended up leaving.

1156
00:54:01,822 --> 00:54:03,949
We've just been watching
all the news reports,

1157
00:54:04,032 --> 00:54:05,534
listening to the news.

1158
00:54:05,617 --> 00:54:08,537
Many of my friends' homes
have burned down.

1159
00:54:08,620 --> 00:54:10,831
It's just been
like a nightmare here.

1160
00:54:19,757 --> 00:54:22,843
There's a Ridge here
between us and the burned part.

1161
00:54:23,594 --> 00:54:26,805
So where you can see the grass,
right there, as the crow flies,

1162
00:54:26,889 --> 00:54:30,267
it's maybe like a half a mile,
but as the wind goes,

1163
00:54:30,350 --> 00:54:31,727
that's not very much time
at all.

1164
00:54:31,810 --> 00:54:36,440
That fire grew from 4,500 acres
the first night

1165
00:54:36,523 --> 00:54:38,525
to 32,000 acres in two days.

1166
00:54:38,609 --> 00:54:40,194
That's scary.

1167
00:54:40,277 --> 00:54:43,781
That's, like,
too close for comfort for me.

1168
00:55:02,925 --> 00:55:05,010
That was Ashley oldham.

1169
00:55:05,093 --> 00:55:07,846
She's one of my farmers
in mendo gen,

1170
00:55:07,930 --> 00:55:10,641
and her house burned down

1171
00:55:10,724 --> 00:55:13,018
and she's fighting
really hard right now

1172
00:55:13,101 --> 00:55:15,562
to be let back in
to her cannabis farm.

1173
00:55:16,522 --> 00:55:17,689
Hello. How are you?

1174
00:55:17,773 --> 00:55:19,173
Oldest truck
I've seen so far today.

1175
00:55:19,233 --> 00:55:21,068
- How are you?
- My name's Ashley oldham,

1176
00:55:21,151 --> 00:55:22,903
and I'm
a permitted cannabis farm

1177
00:55:22,986 --> 00:55:24,363
- in mendocino county.
- Okay.

1178
00:55:24,446 --> 00:55:26,114
And I would like to access my...

1179
00:55:26,198 --> 00:55:28,784
Okay. Have you gotten the permit
from the sheriff's office yet?

1180
00:55:28,867 --> 00:55:30,661
- I should be on the list.
- Okay.

1181
00:55:30,744 --> 00:55:32,329
Ma'am, how do you spell
your last name?

1182
00:55:32,412 --> 00:55:35,249
Oldham. O-I-d-h-a-m.

1183
00:55:37,125 --> 00:55:39,795
- And your first name?
- Ashley. A-s-h-I-e-y.

1184
00:55:39,878 --> 00:55:41,880
Okay. You're not here.
So you do have to go down

1185
00:55:41,964 --> 00:55:44,258
to the command post and check
with the sheriff's office.

1186
00:55:44,341 --> 00:55:45,819
If they're willing
to give you an escort

1187
00:55:45,843 --> 00:55:47,094
or give you your name to us,

1188
00:55:47,177 --> 00:55:48,679
we'd be happy
to let you through.

1189
00:55:54,184 --> 00:55:55,978
I'm a permitted cannabis farmer

1190
00:55:56,061 --> 00:55:57,229
in mendocino county.

1191
00:55:57,312 --> 00:55:58,689
I was told
that I'd be on a list.

1192
00:55:58,772 --> 00:56:00,607
I've been trying for two days
to get in.

1193
00:56:00,691 --> 00:56:02,651
Right now, we're not having

1194
00:56:02,734 --> 00:56:05,195
any type of escorts
at this point.

1195
00:56:05,279 --> 00:56:07,239
The update's gonna be
around one o'clock

1196
00:56:07,322 --> 00:56:10,284
to see if we can let anybody in
for any type of escorts.

1197
00:56:10,367 --> 00:56:11,647
I don't need an escort,

1198
00:56:11,827 --> 00:56:13,012
because the vineyards
are getting let in.

1199
00:56:13,036 --> 00:56:14,036
And I was promised

1200
00:56:14,538 --> 00:56:16,015
that I'd be treated
exactly the same as grapes

1201
00:56:16,039 --> 00:56:17,433
'cause I'm registered
with the county.

1202
00:56:17,457 --> 00:56:18,897
- Right here...
- At the fairgrounds,

1203
00:56:19,084 --> 00:56:22,713
and you need to have
your complaints issued there.

1204
00:56:22,796 --> 00:56:25,507
Okay? We haven't seen a list.
We don't have a list.

1205
00:56:25,591 --> 00:56:26,967
Okay.

1206
00:56:27,050 --> 00:56:29,761
Apparently they somehow had time
to file four pages

1207
00:56:29,845 --> 00:56:31,221
of grape farmers to get in,

1208
00:56:31,305 --> 00:56:33,223
but not the five
permitted cannabis farms.

1209
00:56:36,435 --> 00:56:38,562
We are in ukiah, California,

1210
00:56:38,645 --> 00:56:39,980
at the fairgrounds.

1211
00:56:40,063 --> 00:56:41,648
This is the evacuation.

1212
00:56:41,732 --> 00:56:44,985
There's a barn full of hens
and chickens and ducks and geese

1213
00:56:45,068 --> 00:56:46,320
and who knows what else.

1214
00:56:46,653 --> 00:56:48,906
There are a lot of horses here
that have been injured

1215
00:56:48,989 --> 00:56:51,199
and rescued, you know,
from out of the road

1216
00:56:51,283 --> 00:56:52,910
that got burns on them.

1217
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:57,915
I have a nursery
in Potter valley, California.

1218
00:56:57,998 --> 00:56:59,499
I also have a cannabis permit.

1219
00:56:59,583 --> 00:57:02,836
Yesterday, Potter valley
was completely shut down,

1220
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,005
but because I have
a nursery permit,

1221
00:57:05,088 --> 00:57:06,924
I was allowed entry,
front of the line,

1222
00:57:07,007 --> 00:57:09,259
to go in and check on my plants.

1223
00:57:09,343 --> 00:57:12,554
All of my other fellow farmers
with their cannabis permits

1224
00:57:12,638 --> 00:57:13,847
that have paid full fees

1225
00:57:13,931 --> 00:57:16,600
and are expected to pay
up to $5,000,

1226
00:57:16,683 --> 00:57:18,268
just in estimated fees,

1227
00:57:18,352 --> 00:57:22,189
were not allowed entrance
by sheriff allman.

1228
00:57:22,272 --> 00:57:24,816
The cannabis
has saved the economy

1229
00:57:24,900 --> 00:57:25,984
in this county.

1230
00:57:26,526 --> 00:57:28,254
- It would not be here like it...
- Our own sheriff said that.

1231
00:57:28,278 --> 00:57:32,908
He said if it wasn't for
the marijuana growers,

1232
00:57:32,991 --> 00:57:34,618
this town would be a ghost town.

1233
00:57:34,701 --> 00:57:35,494
Right!

1234
00:57:35,577 --> 00:57:36,912
And here we are trying,

1235
00:57:36,995 --> 00:57:38,789
trying to participate
in our communities,

1236
00:57:38,872 --> 00:57:40,624
which we already have
our communities.

1237
00:57:40,707 --> 00:57:42,417
We're reaching out
and opening up.

1238
00:57:42,501 --> 00:57:46,296
And to have the doors
shut in our face, it's wrong!

1239
00:57:56,014 --> 00:58:00,852
Yeah. Another great one
right here at kmud.

1240
00:58:00,936 --> 00:58:03,605
And we are in the middle
of our pledge drive,

1241
00:58:03,689 --> 00:58:06,358
so I encourage you
to call in now.

1242
00:58:06,441 --> 00:58:08,735
I know the money's not flowing
like it used to be.

1243
00:58:08,819 --> 00:58:12,280
The nonprofits, kmud,
the mateel, Healy senior center,

1244
00:58:12,364 --> 00:58:15,701
all these essential,
community-funded things

1245
00:58:16,660 --> 00:58:18,203
are scrambling for money.

1246
00:58:18,286 --> 00:58:19,955
Before, people dropped 500 bucks

1247
00:58:20,038 --> 00:58:21,331
and not think about it.

1248
00:58:21,415 --> 00:58:23,792
Now I know at kmud,
people give 20 bucks

1249
00:58:23,875 --> 00:58:25,293
or bring their change in.

1250
00:58:25,377 --> 00:58:28,797
And we have a pledge drive
going on, 95 brands.

1251
00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:31,550
It's like pulling teeth.

1252
00:58:31,633 --> 00:58:33,260
Idunno
if we're gonna make it or not.

1253
00:58:33,343 --> 00:58:37,597
So, how do I reach the ones
that don't come to mateel

1254
00:58:37,681 --> 00:58:38,681
and don't care?

1255
00:58:38,974 --> 00:58:40,243
They come in,
money, money, money,

1256
00:58:40,267 --> 00:58:42,936
and the people
that come and trim,

1257
00:58:43,020 --> 00:58:45,313
when they get paid,
they spend their money in town.

1258
00:58:48,191 --> 00:58:51,194
It was amazing
driving into town today

1259
00:58:51,278 --> 00:58:53,488
and hardly seen any cars.

1260
00:58:53,572 --> 00:58:55,574
Because usually
this time of year,

1261
00:58:55,657 --> 00:58:57,617
you can't find a place
to park in town.

1262
00:58:57,701 --> 00:58:59,411
Everybody's
up in the woods planting.

1263
00:58:59,494 --> 00:59:02,039
Oh, sorry. Not anymore.

1264
00:59:02,122 --> 00:59:04,207
It used to be like that,
but, you know...

1265
00:59:04,958 --> 00:59:07,961
Yeah. The fishing industry died,
the logging industry,

1266
00:59:08,045 --> 00:59:10,797
and that's what's kept
this area going,

1267
00:59:10,881 --> 00:59:12,257
is the cannabis industry.

1268
00:59:12,340 --> 00:59:13,818
Cannabis farmers
are doing the same thing

1269
00:59:13,842 --> 00:59:15,385
as everybody else.
They're buying cars,

1270
00:59:15,469 --> 00:59:17,554
they put their kids in school,
they buy groceries,

1271
00:59:17,637 --> 00:59:19,639
they do everything
that everybody else does.

1272
00:59:19,723 --> 00:59:22,642
And if that money
wasn't in the county

1273
00:59:22,726 --> 00:59:23,977
that we live in,

1274
00:59:24,061 --> 00:59:26,146
it's gonna severely affect
all businesses.

1275
00:59:26,229 --> 00:59:29,524
And what we're seeing now
is only the strong will survive.

1276
00:59:29,608 --> 00:59:31,193
Here, in humboldt county.

1277
00:59:31,276 --> 00:59:34,112
The small mom and pop grows,
I don't think are gonna survive.

1278
00:59:34,196 --> 00:59:36,990
I think the price per pound
has become so low

1279
00:59:37,074 --> 00:59:38,617
that it's not gonna
become profitable.

1280
00:59:38,700 --> 00:59:40,952
There's people
like whoopie goldberg

1281
00:59:41,036 --> 00:59:42,370
that has products out.

1282
00:59:42,454 --> 00:59:44,623
I mean, there's no way
that someone like us

1283
00:59:44,706 --> 00:59:47,959
could ever compete
with a business like that.

1284
00:59:48,043 --> 00:59:49,603
This big business that comes in,

1285
00:59:49,628 --> 00:59:51,296
you know,
they put up their big grows,

1286
00:59:51,379 --> 00:59:53,799
they put up
their big extraction facilities,

1287
00:59:53,882 --> 00:59:57,385
they buy the absolute most
state-of-the-art equipment,

1288
00:59:57,469 --> 00:59:59,012
and they have a burn rate

1289
00:59:59,096 --> 01:00:03,016
that can be months
and even years of losing money,

1290
01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:05,018
just generating cash flow,

1291
01:00:05,102 --> 01:00:07,395
so that then
they can sell that business

1292
01:00:07,479 --> 01:00:11,108
to some other,
big investment capital person

1293
01:00:11,191 --> 01:00:12,234
and make a profit.

1294
01:00:12,567 --> 01:00:15,070
But those of us
who actually have a business

1295
01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:18,698
that we're looking to at least
cover costs or make a profit,

1296
01:00:18,782 --> 01:00:21,493
we don't have those
millions of dollars behind us.

1297
01:00:21,576 --> 01:00:24,162
We don't have a long time
to lose money.

1298
01:00:24,246 --> 01:00:27,374
This grass lot will soon be
a marijuana greenhouse.

1299
01:00:27,457 --> 01:00:30,085
Cannabis investors
are seeing budding opportunity

1300
01:00:30,168 --> 01:00:31,211
in new towns.

1301
01:00:31,545 --> 01:00:33,380
Now, the California
growers association

1302
01:00:33,463 --> 01:00:34,965
is suing cdfa,

1303
01:00:35,048 --> 01:00:38,635
claiming it's letting big farms
squeeze out small growers.

1304
01:00:38,718 --> 01:00:41,805
We reviewed the permits
the state has granted so far

1305
01:00:41,888 --> 01:00:43,348
and found big cultivators

1306
01:00:43,431 --> 01:00:45,267
are flocking
to Santa Barbara county.

1307
01:00:45,350 --> 01:00:48,228
The land here is flat,
it's easy to build on,

1308
01:00:48,311 --> 01:00:50,480
and people have money to spend.

1309
01:00:57,946 --> 01:01:00,323
I definitely
went through my period of time

1310
01:01:00,407 --> 01:01:03,618
when my relationship
with cannabis wasn't good.

1311
01:01:05,162 --> 01:01:06,496
I wasn't respecting it.

1312
01:01:06,580 --> 01:01:09,082
I was just using it
purely recreationally

1313
01:01:09,166 --> 01:01:12,210
and started learning
more about spirituality

1314
01:01:12,294 --> 01:01:15,630
and different plant medicines
and teachers.

1315
01:01:15,714 --> 01:01:18,175
And that's my approach
to it now.

1316
01:01:18,258 --> 01:01:19,968
And so my older son,

1317
01:01:20,051 --> 01:01:23,180
I feel like his relationship
is not good with it.

1318
01:01:23,263 --> 01:01:27,350
We were kind of going through
some challenging family dynamics

1319
01:01:27,434 --> 01:01:29,936
for a while
between he and his brother

1320
01:01:30,020 --> 01:01:31,938
and he and chiah,
and, you know, and he and me,

1321
01:01:32,022 --> 01:01:34,649
and then
how that affected chiah and I.

1322
01:01:34,733 --> 01:01:40,280
And so we kinda had
one blowout too many

1323
01:01:40,363 --> 01:01:41,865
right before school got out,

1324
01:01:41,948 --> 01:01:44,242
and so he's actually
not living up here right now.

1325
01:01:44,618 --> 01:01:48,121
And I had tried to cut him off
from cannabis many times

1326
01:01:48,205 --> 01:01:49,205
and saying, you know,

1327
01:01:49,623 --> 01:01:51,917
that I don't want you
using cannabis again

1328
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,836
until you can really look at
your relationship with it.

1329
01:01:57,923 --> 01:02:02,010
A really good therapy
appointment last week, and...

1330
01:02:13,396 --> 01:02:15,482
Just want him to come home.

1331
01:02:19,569 --> 01:02:22,072
It's tough, you know,
like, he's almost 18,

1332
01:02:22,155 --> 01:02:23,782
and like, I feel like
I don't have

1333
01:02:23,865 --> 01:02:26,826
that much more time with him
before he's gonna be gone.

1334
01:02:26,910 --> 01:02:27,910
I just...

1335
01:02:28,536 --> 01:02:30,247
I really miss him.

1336
01:02:52,102 --> 01:02:54,062
I was okay
and then I walked out here,

1337
01:02:54,145 --> 01:02:56,022
and now it hurts.

1338
01:03:00,110 --> 01:03:00,986
Ah, fuck.

1339
01:03:01,069 --> 01:03:02,069
In February,

1340
01:03:02,445 --> 01:03:04,005
like, I couldn't sleep
on my right side,

1341
01:03:04,030 --> 01:03:06,199
and I could not lay on my back,
'cause it hurts.

1342
01:03:06,283 --> 01:03:07,951
Like, put some of
your pressure here.

1343
01:03:08,034 --> 01:03:11,037
It hurts so much,
for, like, five months.

1344
01:03:11,121 --> 01:03:13,161
It was just kinda getting worse
and worse and worse,

1345
01:03:13,206 --> 01:03:15,542
and then around the middle
of July, it was like,

1346
01:03:15,625 --> 01:03:20,297
I couldn't do really anything.
I couldn't walk. I couldn't sit.

1347
01:03:20,380 --> 01:03:21,881
It was just horrible.

1348
01:03:23,341 --> 01:03:25,093
You know,
it's a day-to-day stress.

1349
01:03:25,176 --> 01:03:28,138
So we live off,
like, trying to survive

1350
01:03:28,221 --> 01:03:29,501
and doing the math all the time.

1351
01:03:29,556 --> 01:03:31,099
Like, counting
our square footage,

1352
01:03:31,182 --> 01:03:34,060
figure out how much,
you know, money we're making.

1353
01:03:34,144 --> 01:03:36,396
At least just give
an honest answer. Don't say,

1354
01:03:36,479 --> 01:03:38,457
"I'm gonna pay you tomorrow.
I'm gonna pay you tomorrow."

1355
01:03:38,481 --> 01:03:40,358
And then four months go by

1356
01:03:40,442 --> 01:03:42,402
and you don't do anything,
you know?

1357
01:03:43,153 --> 01:03:45,280
Do what you say you're gonna do.

1358
01:03:45,822 --> 01:03:48,575
One distributor,
he promised the moon

1359
01:03:48,658 --> 01:03:50,285
and gave us a line of bullshit.

1360
01:03:50,368 --> 01:03:53,121
And now who knows
where our product is.

1361
01:03:53,496 --> 01:03:55,540
Plus, Jamie and I,
like, we work together,

1362
01:03:55,623 --> 01:03:56,791
we live together.

1363
01:03:57,125 --> 01:04:01,338
Everything in the whole package
has been stressed.

1364
01:04:01,421 --> 01:04:03,173
No, see,
you missed this whole thing.

1365
01:04:03,256 --> 01:04:05,675
See, that's what
I'm trying to...

1366
01:04:08,636 --> 01:04:10,013
Same with this.

1367
01:04:10,847 --> 01:04:12,658
- This is where I cut...
- I don't think that...

1368
01:04:12,682 --> 01:04:14,267
I think that
that's gonna dry just fine.

1369
01:04:14,351 --> 01:04:15,852
But if you wanna cut it up,
go ahead.

1370
01:04:15,935 --> 01:04:18,271
That's what
we've been doing in the past.

1371
01:04:18,355 --> 01:04:20,155
Gonna look at it
under the microscope.

1372
01:04:20,231 --> 01:04:21,775
Ifeelhke you're going to.

1373
01:04:21,858 --> 01:04:24,778
Well, I'm trying to be cautious.
Don't give me lip.

1374
01:04:25,195 --> 01:04:28,156
So we gotta just keep
things good between us

1375
01:04:28,239 --> 01:04:30,700
as much as possible
and keep going.

1376
01:04:41,336 --> 01:04:43,963
And it's not a busy end of tow.

1377
01:04:44,047 --> 01:04:45,965
- Right.
- All the businesses

1378
01:04:46,049 --> 01:04:49,219
on the same side of the street
as you have dedicated parking.

1379
01:04:49,302 --> 01:04:51,054
- So it's really...
- It's just...

1380
01:04:51,137 --> 01:04:52,305
And the thing is,

1381
01:04:52,639 --> 01:04:53,866
and I tried to put
in the talking points,

1382
01:04:53,890 --> 01:04:55,558
is that planning told them

1383
01:04:55,642 --> 01:04:58,311
exactly what they needed
for the parking exception.

1384
01:04:58,395 --> 01:05:00,647
- Right.
- They said, "do this."

1385
01:05:00,730 --> 01:05:01,730
Right.

1386
01:05:02,065 --> 01:05:03,626
We did exactly
what they asked us to.

1387
01:05:03,650 --> 01:05:06,111
You're right. Okay. All right.

1388
01:05:06,861 --> 01:05:08,530
All right.
I'll talk to you soon.

1389
01:05:08,613 --> 01:05:11,173
- All right. Take care. Bye-bye.
- Talk to you soon. Bye.

1390
01:05:14,661 --> 01:05:16,204
Even she can't imagine
why the hell

1391
01:05:16,287 --> 01:05:19,416
the county would hold up
this whole entire project

1392
01:05:19,499 --> 01:05:21,126
over parking spaces.

1393
01:05:21,209 --> 01:05:23,878
In a town that doesn't even have
a stoplight.

1394
01:05:28,925 --> 01:05:30,260
We've been held up

1395
01:05:30,343 --> 01:05:32,887
overreahy
ancient parking restrictions,

1396
01:05:32,971 --> 01:05:34,514
but we're heading
in there today,

1397
01:05:34,597 --> 01:05:37,809
and I'm sure
we're gonna get our license

1398
01:05:37,892 --> 01:05:39,310
because we've done
a parking study.

1399
01:05:39,394 --> 01:05:41,563
We've done everything
they asked for.

1400
01:05:41,646 --> 01:05:42,646
We got this!

1401
01:05:48,319 --> 01:05:50,196
One nation under god,

1402
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:53,491
indivisible, with Liberty
and justice for all.

1403
01:05:59,372 --> 01:06:03,042
The first
mc processing llc application

1404
01:06:03,126 --> 01:06:05,336
contains
a conditional use permit

1405
01:06:05,420 --> 01:06:06,421
for a dispensary.

1406
01:06:06,504 --> 01:06:08,298
And they are proposing retail

1407
01:06:08,381 --> 01:06:10,300
of medical
and adult use cannabis

1408
01:06:10,383 --> 01:06:11,801
and cannabis products.

1409
01:06:11,885 --> 01:06:14,637
A parking exception
would be required for these uses

1410
01:06:14,721 --> 01:06:15,889
on the site.

1411
01:06:20,268 --> 01:06:21,686
Robert sutherland,

1412
01:06:21,769 --> 01:06:24,731
humboldt mendocino
marijuana advocacy project.

1413
01:06:24,814 --> 01:06:26,900
The organization I represent

1414
01:06:26,983 --> 01:06:29,944
is an organization
of small producers

1415
01:06:30,028 --> 01:06:33,573
who will strongly depend
on this facility

1416
01:06:33,656 --> 01:06:38,828
at this time of fast-approaching
cnficaldeadfines

1417
01:06:38,912 --> 01:06:41,247
for this fledgling industry.

1418
01:06:41,623 --> 01:06:45,335
There is a poor parking problem
in garberville,

1419
01:06:45,418 --> 01:06:48,546
but bear creek road
is hardly a road at all,

1420
01:06:48,630 --> 01:06:49,797
and it dead ends

1421
01:06:49,881 --> 01:06:52,300
a few yards
past the project site.

1422
01:06:52,383 --> 01:06:55,386
It is basically
a little-used driveway.

1423
01:06:55,470 --> 01:06:58,598
Hi, my name is Sarah theeley,
I'm a neighbor.

1424
01:06:58,681 --> 01:07:00,058
And I am in support of approval.

1425
01:07:00,141 --> 01:07:01,893
I am also an employee.

1426
01:07:01,976 --> 01:07:04,145
Karyn prefers
to hire people local

1427
01:07:04,229 --> 01:07:05,772
within the garberville area.

1428
01:07:05,855 --> 01:07:08,125
I'm production manager
for processing.

1429
01:07:08,149 --> 01:07:12,028
It's been very hard for me
to feed my family of three,

1430
01:07:12,111 --> 01:07:13,363
not having this push through

1431
01:07:13,446 --> 01:07:15,114
and not having the hours
that I need.

1432
01:07:15,198 --> 01:07:16,950
I am one of the small growers.

1433
01:07:17,033 --> 01:07:20,787
My business plan is relying
on this going through.

1434
01:07:21,371 --> 01:07:23,623
You've heard
the economic difficulties

1435
01:07:23,706 --> 01:07:24,706
for growers.

1436
01:07:25,041 --> 01:07:27,043
Without my company,
a manufacturing company,

1437
01:07:27,126 --> 01:07:29,462
packaging and processing,

1438
01:07:29,546 --> 01:07:31,506
I can't pay growers.

1439
01:07:31,589 --> 01:07:32,715
I'm out of business.

1440
01:07:33,091 --> 01:07:35,093
If I can't pay them,
they can't pay their taxes.

1441
01:07:35,176 --> 01:07:37,470
It's heartbreaking.
It's absolutely heartbreaking.

1442
01:07:37,554 --> 01:07:41,140
And I wanted to keep my business
in southern humboldt.

1443
01:07:41,224 --> 01:07:44,602
My employees are there,
my growers are there,

1444
01:07:44,686 --> 01:07:46,312
my roots are there,
I live there.

1445
01:07:47,063 --> 01:07:49,649
So, just please let me know
what I can do.

1446
01:07:49,732 --> 01:07:53,403
I don't wanna be out of business
for another two months.

1447
01:07:53,486 --> 01:07:55,363
People are
really depending on me.

1448
01:07:56,281 --> 01:07:57,490
Thank you.

1449
01:07:57,574 --> 01:07:59,284
Thank you, speaker.

1450
01:07:59,367 --> 01:08:03,162
Well, I'm probably not gonna
make a lot of people happy,

1451
01:08:03,246 --> 01:08:06,958
but I gotta ask the question
that is just obvious.

1452
01:08:07,041 --> 01:08:08,543
Why is this even before us?

1453
01:08:08,626 --> 01:08:11,754
I happened to go back through
and look at the picture

1454
01:08:11,838 --> 01:08:13,006
that showed the zoning,

1455
01:08:13,089 --> 01:08:15,592
and the parking
needs to be on-site,

1456
01:08:15,675 --> 01:08:18,595
as we see in all projects.

1457
01:08:18,678 --> 01:08:21,472
Early on, on this project,

1458
01:08:21,556 --> 01:08:22,932
there should've been
a discussion

1459
01:08:23,016 --> 01:08:24,267
with regard to parking.

1460
01:08:24,350 --> 01:08:27,937
Is no possible way
that this site can work.

1461
01:08:28,021 --> 01:08:29,814
I don't even know
why we're seeing this one,

1462
01:08:29,897 --> 01:08:33,234
to be honest.
And it's very frustrating

1463
01:08:33,318 --> 01:08:36,529
seeing how things
are so different

1464
01:08:36,613 --> 01:08:38,197
for the cannabis industry

1465
01:08:38,281 --> 01:08:40,283
in comparison to,
what I will say,

1466
01:08:40,366 --> 01:08:42,285
more mainstream businesses.

1467
01:08:42,869 --> 01:08:47,832
I don't really support the idea
of a parking exception...

1468
01:09:01,763 --> 01:09:04,223
They might just
delay it a short time.

1469
01:09:04,307 --> 01:09:06,309
No! It's another month!

1470
01:09:06,392 --> 01:09:08,102
It's another month. Or more!

1471
01:09:36,005 --> 01:09:37,548
This is where
people are signing in

1472
01:09:37,632 --> 01:09:39,592
and we're engaging them, right?
When they walk up.

1473
01:09:39,676 --> 01:09:41,844
I mean, we already have them
in front of us.

1474
01:09:41,928 --> 01:09:44,972
So, like, we shouldn't
mince words over a table.

1475
01:09:46,307 --> 01:09:48,810
Voters are gonna be coming
probably from that direction

1476
01:09:48,893 --> 01:09:50,186
and that direction.

1477
01:09:50,269 --> 01:09:52,980
The first thing
that you say to the is "hi."

1478
01:09:54,315 --> 01:09:55,525
"Good morning."

1479
01:09:55,608 --> 01:09:57,110
The next thing
you're gonna ask them

1480
01:09:57,193 --> 01:09:58,903
is, "who are you supporting?"

1481
01:09:58,986 --> 01:10:00,706
And if they say
that they're only supporting

1482
01:10:00,780 --> 01:10:04,367
like, one person,
then you talk about Felicia.

1483
01:10:04,450 --> 01:10:06,119
Hi, my name's Felicia.

1484
01:10:06,202 --> 01:10:08,913
- Hi, I'm voting for you.
- Thank you. I appreciate it.

1485
01:10:08,996 --> 01:10:10,540
I work in cannabis.

1486
01:10:10,623 --> 01:10:14,127
I work at that intersection
of social, racial, gender

1487
01:10:14,210 --> 01:10:16,462
and economic justice,
so I'm pushing, like,

1488
01:10:16,546 --> 01:10:19,173
all of these issues
on a daily basis.

1489
01:10:19,257 --> 01:10:20,508
I'm already an organizer.

1490
01:10:20,591 --> 01:10:22,385
Tomorrow,
I'm gonna be back at work,

1491
01:10:22,468 --> 01:10:24,971
engaging people,
pushing city hall.

1492
01:10:25,054 --> 01:10:26,681
Ever since
we got married, really,

1493
01:10:26,764 --> 01:10:28,182
and proposition 8 passed,

1494
01:10:28,266 --> 01:10:30,768
we've been doing a lot of stuff
in the community.

1495
01:10:30,852 --> 01:10:32,311
Felicia's always taken the lead.

1496
01:10:32,395 --> 01:10:34,856
I'm sort of like the cheerleader
in the background.

1497
01:10:34,939 --> 01:10:38,192
She's been an activist,
like, as long as I've known her.

1498
01:10:38,276 --> 01:10:40,319
And I never really expected her
to actually, like,

1499
01:10:40,403 --> 01:10:43,156
run for something,
so this is really exciting.

1500
01:10:43,239 --> 01:10:47,201
I'm so proud
that she's been part of actually

1501
01:10:47,285 --> 01:10:50,621
making change in California
for cannabis users.

1502
01:10:50,705 --> 01:10:52,081
She puts herself out there.

1503
01:10:52,623 --> 01:10:54,459
Balloon flower, that's for you.

1504
01:10:54,542 --> 01:10:57,086
- Maybe my nephew might like it.
- Okay.

1505
01:11:03,926 --> 01:11:05,553
No more than four tomorrow.

1506
01:11:05,928 --> 01:11:07,680
- Okay.
- And one for the board.

1507
01:11:07,764 --> 01:11:09,515
- Inside.
- Okay, thank you.

1508
01:11:18,649 --> 01:11:21,152
Oh, I think
they're about halfway through.

1509
01:11:21,235 --> 01:11:23,362
And you know, you're always
looking at the top seven,

1510
01:11:23,446 --> 01:11:25,046
'cause that's who goes
to the convention.

1511
01:11:25,114 --> 01:11:27,325
The top seven men,
the top seven women.

1512
01:11:27,408 --> 01:11:30,745
And, you know, within that,
on most of the tables,

1513
01:11:30,828 --> 01:11:32,914
it doesn't look like
that big a spread.

1514
01:11:33,706 --> 01:11:36,334
So, it looks like
it's gonna be very tight.

1515
01:11:36,417 --> 01:11:38,127
That's what
I'm seeing right now.

1516
01:11:42,381 --> 01:11:46,052
Okay. I'm going
to list the top seven

1517
01:11:46,135 --> 01:11:49,722
and also the first and second
runner up in each category.

1518
01:11:51,224 --> 01:11:52,558
Number six.

1519
01:11:54,644 --> 01:11:57,855
Number seven is.

1520
01:11:57,939 --> 01:12:02,568
The first runner up is...
Carbajal.

1521
01:12:02,652 --> 01:12:04,237
- Carbajal.
- Carbajal.

1522
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:08,282
I'm the first runner up.
I'm the first runner up, right?

1523
01:12:14,705 --> 01:12:16,332
I'm just excited 340 people

1524
01:12:16,415 --> 01:12:17,625
that I don't really know

1525
01:12:17,708 --> 01:12:20,127
decided they'd come out
and vote for me.

1526
01:12:20,211 --> 01:12:22,797
'Cause I only knew
maybe 50 of them.

1527
01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:29,220
So, do you think
it was the balloons?

1528
01:12:29,303 --> 01:12:32,723
It was definitely the balloons.

1529
01:12:32,807 --> 01:12:35,393
- Definitely the balloons.
- Definitely.

1530
01:12:35,476 --> 01:12:37,895
- Next time...
- Next time, more balloons.

1531
01:12:37,979 --> 01:12:39,105
Next time,

1532
01:12:39,188 --> 01:12:40,508
we'll have
our own balloon person.

1533
01:12:47,738 --> 01:12:50,032
We never slowed down,
but that's okay.

1534
01:12:55,788 --> 01:12:58,207
Hey! We got it!

1535
01:13:02,253 --> 01:13:04,964
Hi! You may not be seeing us
so much anymore.

1536
01:13:05,047 --> 01:13:06,966
- Yeah, god darn.
- Thank you.

1537
01:13:07,049 --> 01:13:08,259
Thank you.

1538
01:13:11,012 --> 01:13:13,764
This particular permit
should've took about three weeks

1539
01:13:13,848 --> 01:13:16,058
and it took us six months.
It's been a lot.

1540
01:13:16,142 --> 01:13:18,019
So, we finally got
it issued today.

1541
01:13:18,102 --> 01:13:19,604
Construction will resume,

1542
01:13:19,687 --> 01:13:21,772
which means we're about
four months out from opening.

1543
01:13:21,856 --> 01:13:23,065
So it's monumental. It's huge.

1544
01:13:23,149 --> 01:13:25,985
We plan to open around June,

1545
01:13:26,068 --> 01:13:28,321
probably
the latter part of June.

1546
01:13:28,404 --> 01:13:30,698
And so we're excited about that.

1547
01:13:30,781 --> 01:13:32,074
- Absolutely.
- Yes!

1548
01:13:32,617 --> 01:13:36,996
It will be
a 12-year dream coming true.

1549
01:13:54,305 --> 01:13:56,515
So, we usually harvest
in the morning.

1550
01:13:56,599 --> 01:14:00,728
They say that it's better
for the terpenes, the plant,

1551
01:14:00,811 --> 01:14:03,272
to harvest it at its peak.

1552
01:14:05,983 --> 01:14:08,319
Looks like that thing
in the center going up this way

1553
01:14:08,402 --> 01:14:09,820
might have something on it.

1554
01:14:09,904 --> 01:14:11,948
And there's a couple
of lower things here.

1555
01:14:12,031 --> 01:14:14,158
I think harvest
is exciting for people,

1556
01:14:14,241 --> 01:14:15,534
but generally,

1557
01:14:15,618 --> 01:14:18,746
it's the most stressful time
of the year.

1558
01:14:19,705 --> 01:14:22,041
But it's nice to see,
you know, things finishing

1559
01:14:22,124 --> 01:14:25,753
and coming
into their full potential.

1560
01:14:26,879 --> 01:14:28,297
My biggest concern right now

1561
01:14:28,381 --> 01:14:31,258
is having enough money
to get through harvest.

1562
01:14:31,342 --> 01:14:34,720
This year is different,
financially, from last year.

1563
01:14:34,804 --> 01:14:38,140
Last year,
we had money going into harvest

1564
01:14:38,224 --> 01:14:40,393
to pay
for everything to get done.

1565
01:14:40,476 --> 01:14:43,270
This year, we're waiting on
a bunch of distributors

1566
01:14:43,354 --> 01:14:45,564
to pay us out
for what they owe us.

1567
01:14:45,648 --> 01:14:49,860
You know, it's close to $100,000
and people aren't paying.

1568
01:14:52,238 --> 01:14:55,533
River came home,
so I'm pretty happy.

1569
01:14:55,616 --> 01:14:57,576
And I'm being hopeful,
you know, trying to trust

1570
01:14:57,660 --> 01:14:59,120
that it's gonna shake out well.

1571
01:14:59,745 --> 01:15:02,081
Learning how to communicate
a little bit better

1572
01:15:02,164 --> 01:15:04,250
is a challenge
for both of us, I think,

1573
01:15:04,333 --> 01:15:05,751
but I think we're trying.

1574
01:15:06,085 --> 01:15:08,629
River, if you could
make yourself some breakfast,

1575
01:15:09,547 --> 01:15:10,673
that'll be awesome.

1576
01:15:20,808 --> 01:15:22,351
This is a beauty.

1577
01:15:23,602 --> 01:15:26,939
This has been
a really difficult time.

1578
01:15:27,023 --> 01:15:30,276
My dispensary was never approved
by the board of supervisors,

1579
01:15:30,359 --> 01:15:32,737
so I just had to walk away.

1580
01:15:33,362 --> 01:15:35,197
But through a lawsuit,

1581
01:15:35,281 --> 01:15:38,534
I was recently able to recoup
most of that cash

1582
01:15:38,617 --> 01:15:41,162
that was taken away from me
by the feds.

1583
01:15:41,871 --> 01:15:44,957
Right now, all we're doing
is trying to just stay alive

1584
01:15:45,041 --> 01:15:46,083
in the business.

1585
01:15:46,584 --> 01:15:48,311
We're just trying to get it done
within the regulations

1586
01:15:48,335 --> 01:15:51,630
so that we can survive,
so that we can go forward.

1587
01:15:51,714 --> 01:15:53,382
I try not to get
too depressed about it.

1588
01:15:53,466 --> 01:15:54,675
I try to just say, okay,

1589
01:15:54,759 --> 01:15:56,218
this is just
a bump in the road here.

1590
01:15:56,302 --> 01:15:58,137
And once we get through
this next hump,

1591
01:15:58,220 --> 01:16:00,139
we're gonna be able
to brand our product better

1592
01:16:00,222 --> 01:16:03,559
and brand our values better
to the consumer.

1593
01:16:03,642 --> 01:16:06,729
And I get discouraged
that that may never happen.

1594
01:16:07,480 --> 01:16:10,816
And it goes into then
the bigger conversation

1595
01:16:10,900 --> 01:16:13,986
about small business
versus big business

1596
01:16:14,070 --> 01:16:16,822
versus is there any hope
for any small business,

1597
01:16:16,906 --> 01:16:20,409
small farmer,
small anything in our country,

1598
01:16:20,493 --> 01:16:22,578
in our society,
in our capitalism.

1599
01:16:22,661 --> 01:16:26,123
Will the consumer recognize
the value in our values?

1600
01:16:26,207 --> 01:16:28,501
I always thought
that would be the case,

1601
01:16:28,584 --> 01:16:31,587
and it just doesn't seem to be
the case right now.

1602
01:16:38,177 --> 01:16:40,346
Part of
the whole permitting process

1603
01:16:40,429 --> 01:16:43,015
has just really hurt
the small farmer,

1604
01:16:43,099 --> 01:16:44,475
the true small farmer.

1605
01:16:44,558 --> 01:16:47,520
Foranybody
that doesn't have the wealth

1606
01:16:47,603 --> 01:16:48,896
or the wealth behind them

1607
01:16:48,979 --> 01:16:51,524
and they are
trying to be a small farmer,

1608
01:16:51,607 --> 01:16:55,986
the laws and regulations
are weeding that population out.

1609
01:16:56,070 --> 01:16:57,655
People are running out,

1610
01:16:57,738 --> 01:16:59,615
they're abandoning their land
and leaving.

1611
01:16:59,698 --> 01:17:01,700
You got to have hundreds
of thousands of dollars

1612
01:17:01,784 --> 01:17:02,952
to permit your peace.

1613
01:17:03,035 --> 01:17:04,703
Not a lot of us
have that anymore.

1614
01:17:09,583 --> 01:17:12,211
I just went in and said
I withdraw from my permit.

1615
01:17:12,294 --> 01:17:14,463
Gave them a written thing,
you know, and everything.

1616
01:17:14,547 --> 01:17:15,631
And they said, "oh, cool."

1617
01:17:15,714 --> 01:17:17,424
Stamped it, you know.

1618
01:17:17,508 --> 01:17:20,845
And so I don't have
a permit any longer,

1619
01:17:20,928 --> 01:17:23,556
which I'm glad of,
because now I don't owe them

1620
01:17:23,639 --> 01:17:26,684
many thousands of dollars
like they wanted.

1621
01:17:29,645 --> 01:17:31,939
So, no,
it's a very sad situation

1622
01:17:32,022 --> 01:17:33,399
in this whole thing.

1623
01:17:34,024 --> 01:17:35,317
It's been very sad.

1624
01:17:37,570 --> 01:17:39,029
I wish I was 30 years younger.

1625
01:17:39,113 --> 01:17:41,407
I could really start doing this
and have a farm again.

1626
01:17:41,490 --> 01:17:43,242
Hlhave a small medical garden,

1627
01:17:43,325 --> 01:17:45,911
but, you know,
nothing like I used to.

1628
01:17:51,959 --> 01:17:55,296
We're making progress.
Construction is moving forward.

1629
01:17:55,379 --> 01:17:57,798
But until that's done,

1630
01:17:57,882 --> 01:18:01,093
I've been continuously going
from city to city,

1631
01:18:01,177 --> 01:18:02,511
state to state.

1632
01:18:02,595 --> 01:18:05,431
What messages about marijuana
do you believe?

1633
01:18:05,514 --> 01:18:06,932
The second question:

1634
01:18:07,016 --> 01:18:10,186
The messages about marijuana
do you not believe?

1635
01:18:10,269 --> 01:18:13,272
Before I started working
in the cannabis industry,

1636
01:18:13,355 --> 01:18:15,357
I really didn't know who I was.

1637
01:18:15,441 --> 01:18:19,111
Doing the work
has really helped me to love me.

1638
01:18:19,737 --> 01:18:21,405
And I love the work that I do.

1639
01:18:21,488 --> 01:18:23,115
I'm passionate about it all

1640
01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:26,118
becausellove
the gratification I get

1641
01:18:26,202 --> 01:18:28,621
when I'm talking to seniors
and they said,

1642
01:18:28,704 --> 01:18:32,833
"the cannabis has helped me.
Because of you, I'm better.@

1643
01:18:33,876 --> 01:18:39,965
you ask me am I excited about
getting so close to opening.

1644
01:18:40,799 --> 01:18:41,799
We're at the point where

1645
01:18:42,468 --> 01:18:45,179
we're doling out money
for the projects,

1646
01:18:45,262 --> 01:18:47,598
and we're right at the edge
of opening.

1647
01:18:48,265 --> 01:18:50,768
I don't have
any income coming in

1648
01:18:50,851 --> 01:18:52,811
other than my social security,

1649
01:18:52,895 --> 01:18:55,814
because I used
my retirement money

1650
01:18:55,898 --> 01:18:57,566
to do this project.

1651
01:18:59,026 --> 01:19:03,489
If I focused on that every day,
I wouldn't get out of bed.

1652
01:19:03,948 --> 01:19:06,325
So I don't focus
on what's going wrong,

1653
01:19:06,408 --> 01:19:08,619
I focus on what's going right.

1654
01:19:08,702 --> 01:19:10,829
Me being here in Washington, DC,

1655
01:19:10,913 --> 01:19:12,331
and me making a difference.

1656
01:19:12,414 --> 01:19:15,209
I focus on
my grandkids are healthy.

1657
01:19:15,292 --> 01:19:17,628
Jamal and kiki are healthy.

1658
01:19:17,711 --> 01:19:19,713
Kwamin, Khalid are healthy.

1659
01:19:19,797 --> 01:19:21,382
Blake is healthy.

1660
01:19:23,050 --> 01:19:25,427
But I do fall, and I do cry.

1661
01:19:26,011 --> 01:19:30,057
And I can't get up sometimes,
but it changes.

1662
01:19:30,849 --> 01:19:32,226
It change...

1663
01:19:32,309 --> 01:19:33,852
I surround myself
with people like that

1664
01:19:33,936 --> 01:19:38,148
so they can remind me,
no, don't focus on what is.

1665
01:19:38,232 --> 01:19:40,734
Just focus
on what you wanna achieve.

1666
01:19:41,235 --> 01:19:43,279
Focus on
how you're gonna get the money.

1667
01:19:43,362 --> 01:19:44,989
Not if you're gonna get it,

1668
01:19:45,072 --> 01:19:47,241
when you're gonna get it
and how.

1669
01:19:47,324 --> 01:19:49,076
Put the energies there.

1670
01:19:49,910 --> 01:19:51,912
So let's drink to that.

1671
01:19:51,996 --> 01:19:53,664
Can you drink and film?

1672
01:19:55,165 --> 01:19:58,085
- So I can toast to you. Cheers.
- Cheers.

1673
01:20:03,132 --> 01:20:07,469
Never in a million years
would I ever have thought

1674
01:20:07,553 --> 01:20:10,723
I would be here
at the capitol building,

1675
01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:12,850
talking about cannabis.

1676
01:20:12,933 --> 01:20:15,853
How cool is that?

1677
01:20:21,108 --> 01:20:23,444
Changes women
have to go through.

1678
01:20:26,155 --> 01:20:27,614
All right. Let's roll.

1679
01:20:27,698 --> 01:20:31,660
One of the major accomplishments
I would feel

1680
01:20:31,744 --> 01:20:36,915
is when cannabis
is federally legal for all.

1681
01:20:36,999 --> 01:20:38,250
Thank you for coming.

1682
01:20:39,001 --> 01:20:43,005
I learned
what this cannabis plant can do,

1683
01:20:43,088 --> 01:20:44,757
especially for elders.

1684
01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:48,302
Most seniors
will not touch the plant,

1685
01:20:48,385 --> 01:20:49,928
will not touch it...

1686
01:20:51,221 --> 01:20:55,392
Because it's still illegal
by federal law.

1687
01:20:55,476 --> 01:20:57,269
Seniors don't break the rules.

1688
01:20:57,936 --> 01:21:01,065
Now, I've read a lot of research
on the cannabis.

1689
01:21:01,148 --> 01:21:02,316
You know what got me

1690
01:21:02,399 --> 01:21:04,610
was the people
that I worked with

1691
01:21:04,693 --> 01:21:06,945
leaving wheelchairs, walkers.

1692
01:21:07,738 --> 01:21:10,991
The healing that I witnessed
changed my mind.

1693
01:21:19,249 --> 01:21:21,293
The day of the delegate vote,

1694
01:21:21,377 --> 01:21:24,713
I received
approximately 348 votes.

1695
01:21:24,797 --> 01:21:27,132
I lost by 26 votes,

1696
01:21:27,216 --> 01:21:29,510
but the assembly leader
from that area

1697
01:21:29,593 --> 01:21:33,806
was allowed to appoint
specific delegates.

1698
01:21:33,889 --> 01:21:36,141
So, because I was
first runner up,

1699
01:21:36,225 --> 01:21:40,312
I was asked to be a delegate
for my assembly district,

1700
01:21:40,396 --> 01:21:41,939
all the same.

1701
01:21:42,022 --> 01:21:44,316
I'm still optimistic
that cannabis is

1702
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:46,443
and has the potential
to be a vehicle for change.

1703
01:21:46,527 --> 01:21:49,488
I still believe cannabis
affords you the opportunity

1704
01:21:49,571 --> 01:21:51,448
to be connected to one another.

1705
01:21:51,532 --> 01:21:53,784
So, I think
this plant's resilient.

1706
01:21:53,867 --> 01:21:56,286
She's survived millennias,

1707
01:21:56,370 --> 01:21:58,664
even though she's being
whored out currently,

1708
01:21:58,747 --> 01:21:59,832
she's gonna be fine.

1709
01:22:00,290 --> 01:22:02,334
She's lasted longer
than all of us on this planet.

1710
01:22:02,418 --> 01:22:03,544
She'll be fine.

1711
01:22:05,879 --> 01:22:09,216
And the thc
is the psychoactive effect,

1712
01:22:09,299 --> 01:22:11,343
and the cbd,
you don't get high on it,

1713
01:22:11,427 --> 01:22:13,679
but it really
helps your system to...

1714
01:22:13,762 --> 01:22:15,597
Reduces your swelling

1715
01:22:15,681 --> 01:22:18,225
and that really
improves your immune system.

1716
01:22:18,308 --> 01:22:20,018
Well, my job here,
I'm a bud tender.

1717
01:22:20,102 --> 01:22:22,312
And I sell the products
that we have,

1718
01:22:22,396 --> 01:22:24,481
products
that are in this dispensary

1719
01:22:24,565 --> 01:22:27,109
are all permitted
for humboldt county.

1720
01:22:27,192 --> 01:22:29,361
And are you guys experienced,
are you vapers,

1721
01:22:29,445 --> 01:22:31,363
- or do you do cannabis?
- No.

1722
01:22:31,447 --> 01:22:35,367
Last time I smoked
was, like, high school.

1723
01:22:35,451 --> 01:22:38,162
- Oh, okay. Oh, wow.
- Almost, like, 14 years ago.

1724
01:22:38,245 --> 01:22:40,014
How much are they?
What are their price range?

1725
01:22:40,038 --> 01:22:42,291
The large is 50
and the small is 30.

1726
01:22:42,374 --> 01:22:43,625
- Okay.
- Hm-mm.

1727
01:22:43,959 --> 01:22:45,728
A lot of this stuff,
I never understood it at all.

1728
01:22:45,752 --> 01:22:47,546
Like, the vape pens
and all the cartridges.

1729
01:22:47,629 --> 01:22:49,715
And now, of course,
I understand all of that stuff

1730
01:22:49,798 --> 01:22:51,300
and, you know,

1731
01:22:51,383 --> 01:22:53,469
which I've actually started
to vape myself a little.

1732
01:22:53,552 --> 01:22:55,071
Let me try this.
Just gimme a few grams.

1733
01:22:55,095 --> 01:22:56,388
Gimme a gram of the royal kush.

1734
01:22:56,472 --> 01:22:58,515
- Okay. Okay.
- And blue green.

1735
01:22:58,599 --> 01:23:00,034
I've always been my own boss,

1736
01:23:00,058 --> 01:23:01,661
so this has been
very interesting to have a boss,

1737
01:23:01,685 --> 01:23:04,062
and that's something
I'm learning at my old age.

1738
01:23:04,146 --> 01:23:06,231
That you have to kind
of kiss ass a little bit,

1739
01:23:06,315 --> 01:23:08,734
and that's okay.

1740
01:23:08,817 --> 01:23:10,569
'Cause I really appreciate
this job.

1741
01:23:10,652 --> 01:23:12,070
I love my time here.

1742
01:23:12,154 --> 01:23:13,697
- Yeah.
- I think the wonder wine,

1743
01:23:13,780 --> 01:23:16,617
'cause it still has a lot of cbd
in there and you'll...

1744
01:23:16,700 --> 01:23:18,202
I felt so good
about those people,

1745
01:23:18,285 --> 01:23:20,054
'cause I knew that
they were gonna walk out of here

1746
01:23:20,078 --> 01:23:23,248
and have a whole different life
once they try this medicine.

1747
01:23:23,749 --> 01:23:25,918
I've been pretty down
for a couple of years,

1748
01:23:26,001 --> 01:23:28,837
you know, the business ending
and everything like that,

1749
01:23:28,921 --> 01:23:30,672
but I can see
the other side now.

1750
01:23:30,756 --> 01:23:32,758
And it's kind of a step for me

1751
01:23:32,841 --> 01:23:35,677
into my next whatever
I decide I'm gonna do.

1752
01:23:46,230 --> 01:23:47,689
So, I'm reinventing myself.

1753
01:23:47,773 --> 01:23:50,108
I've come up
with my new product line.

1754
01:23:50,192 --> 01:23:52,110
Sexxpot launched this week.

1755
01:23:52,194 --> 01:23:54,112
I've gotta get it out there
in the marketplace.

1756
01:23:54,696 --> 01:23:56,740
I haven't made
one-on-one dispensary sales

1757
01:23:56,823 --> 01:23:58,200
in quite a long time.

1758
01:23:58,283 --> 01:24:00,953
And I'm taking a meeting
with medmen.

1759
01:24:01,870 --> 01:24:04,289
You know, medmen has been

1760
01:24:04,373 --> 01:24:06,250
kinda the bad boy
of cannabis, right?

1761
01:24:07,042 --> 01:24:08,627
They kind of epitomize

1762
01:24:08,710 --> 01:24:11,255
all the big money
that's come into the business

1763
01:24:11,338 --> 01:24:15,092
and has not given back,

1764
01:24:15,175 --> 01:24:18,637
not supported
small legacy farmers.

1765
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:21,390
So, it really will be
interesting to see

1766
01:24:21,473 --> 01:24:22,474
is this a group

1767
01:24:22,849 --> 01:24:26,562
that is gonna support
a legacy woman producer?

1768
01:24:28,188 --> 01:24:30,065
It'd be great
if they brought it on.

1769
01:24:30,148 --> 01:24:32,609
Have to make it work for me
and for my company, as well.

1770
01:24:33,193 --> 01:24:36,321
Never thought I'd be here,
doing this, a year ago.

1771
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:40,492
Excited. Terrified.
I don't know.

1772
01:24:40,576 --> 01:24:43,245
It's hard to tell
how I feel about it all.

1773
01:24:43,328 --> 01:24:45,539
Mostly, I feel really proud

1774
01:24:45,622 --> 01:24:48,083
and ready to take on
this next challenge.

1775
01:24:48,166 --> 01:24:50,085
That's for sure.
A challenge it is.

1776
01:25:08,770 --> 01:25:10,689
I was up in northern California

1777
01:25:10,772 --> 01:25:13,483
and regulations
started to happen

1778
01:25:13,567 --> 01:25:15,402
and we were uncertain
about the farm.

1779
01:25:15,485 --> 01:25:17,195
That's what
made me make changes,

1780
01:25:17,279 --> 01:25:19,865
was I didn't have the work
that I had

1781
01:25:19,948 --> 01:25:23,035
and wasn't able
to generate income.

1782
01:25:23,118 --> 01:25:25,746
So I had to, you know,

1783
01:25:25,829 --> 01:25:29,666
go back to other ways
of making a living.

1784
01:25:30,709 --> 01:25:33,378
And then I slowly just looked

1785
01:25:33,462 --> 01:25:35,881
for the perfect place
to make my heart sing.

1786
01:25:36,465 --> 01:25:38,842
And the ocean
just called me back.

1787
01:25:40,135 --> 01:25:42,888
Pearl's life has changed
because of the regulations.

1788
01:25:42,971 --> 01:25:46,642
Ever since I've known her,
she's grown cannabis.

1789
01:25:47,142 --> 01:25:48,185
This is the first year

1790
01:25:48,644 --> 01:25:50,729
that nobody has been doing
anything on the farm.

1791
01:25:51,647 --> 01:25:54,816
And I don't think
it's been easy for Pearl at all.

1792
01:25:55,525 --> 01:25:56,693
It's a big change

1793
01:25:57,069 --> 01:25:59,571
she didn't ever see
really happening in her life.

1794
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:01,280
Nor me.

1795
01:26:05,869 --> 01:26:08,497
I think we'll always
stay extremely good friends.

1796
01:26:09,581 --> 01:26:11,667
Well, there's just
a special kind of love

1797
01:26:11,750 --> 01:26:13,335
and bond that we have.

1798
01:26:13,418 --> 01:26:15,462
I mean, we laugh a lot
when we're together.

1799
01:26:16,171 --> 01:26:19,549
I think that's a big part
of our friendship,

1800
01:26:19,633 --> 01:26:23,011
is that we like to see
the lighter side of life.

1801
01:26:23,804 --> 01:26:25,847
We just have
a great time together.

1802
01:26:26,348 --> 01:26:28,350
You know,
she's my sister friend.

1803
01:26:53,709 --> 01:26:56,753
I kind of knew
that we were gonna need to make

1804
01:26:56,837 --> 01:26:58,547
some kind of changes

1805
01:26:58,630 --> 01:27:01,007
in order
to have the farm survive.

1806
01:27:02,134 --> 01:27:03,802
Basically,
we were getting to the point

1807
01:27:03,885 --> 01:27:08,140
where last year nothing sold
between January and July.

1808
01:27:08,223 --> 01:27:11,351
We had also got ripped off
by a distribution company

1809
01:27:11,435 --> 01:27:12,519
the winter before that.

1810
01:27:13,061 --> 01:27:14,997
And we were like, well shit,
how are we gonna survive?

1811
01:27:15,021 --> 01:27:17,649
We're just not gonna have
enough money to make it through.

1812
01:27:18,108 --> 01:27:19,985
I would have said
that you were crazy

1813
01:27:20,068 --> 01:27:21,361
if you would've told me

1814
01:27:21,445 --> 01:27:24,072
that I'd be working
a full-time job

1815
01:27:24,156 --> 01:27:25,365
for a distribution company.

1816
01:27:25,866 --> 01:27:28,066
I would have never saw myself
doing something like this.

1817
01:27:30,579 --> 01:27:32,080
Last time I had a real job

1818
01:27:32,164 --> 01:27:35,500
was when I was pregnant
with river.

1819
01:27:36,418 --> 01:27:39,713
Yeah. It was a big shift for me
to go to work every day

1820
01:27:39,796 --> 01:27:42,048
and, like, have a boss,

1821
01:27:42,132 --> 01:27:44,509
or actually have five bosses.

1822
01:27:44,593 --> 01:27:46,393
One of the things
I'm gonna be covering

1823
01:27:46,470 --> 01:27:49,014
is the entire week's growth,

1824
01:27:50,056 --> 01:27:52,934
sales calls and meetings
for the coming week.

1825
01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:56,646
Cannabis, flower.

1826
01:27:56,730 --> 01:27:58,982
So I'm going to delegate
this out.

1827
01:27:59,065 --> 01:28:01,735
Can you just
definitely send a report?

1828
01:28:01,818 --> 01:28:06,615
But this report has to be in
every Monday morning, right?

1829
01:28:06,698 --> 01:28:08,158
Need it by nine o'clock.

1830
01:28:08,617 --> 01:28:09,701
Okay.

1831
01:28:09,785 --> 01:28:11,053
I talked about this last week,

1832
01:28:11,077 --> 01:28:12,329
we have to stay connected.

1833
01:28:12,954 --> 01:28:16,291
[Need to know what we 're doin,
what's our strategy, you know.

1834
01:28:16,374 --> 01:28:20,003
I wanna have
more communication on that sid.

1835
01:28:20,086 --> 01:28:24,382
And then we need to really
start talking about technique.

1836
01:28:24,466 --> 01:28:27,177
So, how we can...

1837
01:28:55,330 --> 01:28:57,165
When I walked into the space...

1838
01:29:01,336 --> 01:29:03,046
It was amazing.

1839
01:29:04,339 --> 01:29:05,841
I am ecstatic,

1840
01:29:05,924 --> 01:29:08,552
but more importantly,
I am very grateful.

1841
01:29:12,264 --> 01:29:14,808
One of the reasons why
we haven't quit

1842
01:29:14,891 --> 01:29:19,312
in the 12 or 10 years
is because the passion is deep.

1843
01:29:20,647 --> 01:29:22,899
All these new people
coming in to it.

1844
01:29:22,983 --> 01:29:25,485
People who are just
coming in it for the money,

1845
01:29:25,569 --> 01:29:26,778
they won't last,

1846
01:29:26,862 --> 01:29:28,302
because they'll run through
obstacles

1847
01:29:28,363 --> 01:29:30,073
and they just quit
to another venture.

1848
01:29:30,156 --> 01:29:31,157
We didn't quit.

1849
01:29:31,241 --> 01:29:33,451
Our vision and mission is clear.

1850
01:29:34,244 --> 01:29:38,874
She's been at this for years,
and it finally came to pass.

1851
01:29:38,957 --> 01:29:40,834
I'm so proud of her.

1852
01:29:40,917 --> 01:29:44,629
How she lives her life
is how she also does business.

1853
01:29:44,713 --> 01:29:46,214
There's no separation.

1854
01:29:46,298 --> 01:29:50,218
I never thought I would live
to see this happening.

1855
01:29:50,302 --> 01:29:52,387
This is beautiful.

1856
01:29:52,470 --> 01:29:55,974
You see, most other races,
they give legacy.

1857
01:29:56,057 --> 01:29:58,184
They have legacies
for their family.

1858
01:29:58,268 --> 01:30:00,145
African-Americans really don't,

1859
01:30:00,228 --> 01:30:02,898
and this is an opportunity
to have a legacy.

1860
01:30:02,981 --> 01:30:06,192
And I wanna show them, too,
that don't give up.

1861
01:30:06,276 --> 01:30:07,819
I don't care
where you find yourself.

1862
01:30:07,903 --> 01:30:10,989
No obstacles, nothing.
You keep going.

1863
01:30:11,072 --> 01:30:14,910
If it's dear to your heart,
don't let anything stop you.

1864
01:30:15,410 --> 01:30:16,578
Nothing at all.

1865
01:30:17,162 --> 01:30:19,414
I feel really proud of us.

1866
01:30:19,497 --> 01:30:22,000
We have learned more
than we ever thought we would.

1867
01:30:22,083 --> 01:30:25,170
We did things
we never expected to do.

1868
01:30:25,253 --> 01:30:28,048
We pushed ourselves
to the full extent.

1869
01:30:28,131 --> 01:30:30,425
We 're freaking pioneers
at this point.

1870
01:30:30,508 --> 01:30:32,761
Like, we 're gonna
look back at this and laugh,

1871
01:30:32,844 --> 01:30:34,679
like, oh my god,
that was crazy then.

1872
01:30:35,096 --> 01:30:37,140
Could you imagine
we actually did that?

1873
01:30:37,223 --> 01:30:40,602
So that in itself,
it's a pretty epic tale.

1874
01:30:43,229 --> 01:30:44,940
Well, that's a wrap for me.

1875
01:30:45,023 --> 01:30:47,943
But before I go,
I wanna ask you all something.

1876
01:30:48,026 --> 01:30:49,527
Who is the winner here?

1877
01:30:49,861 --> 01:30:51,780
A lot of players are gone,

1878
01:30:51,863 --> 01:30:54,282
but we are still here standing.

1879
01:30:54,366 --> 01:30:56,534
Stay strong, people,

1880
01:30:56,618 --> 01:30:59,287
and make sure
you're on the right side.

1881
01:30:59,371 --> 01:31:03,083
And always remember,
pass that doobie to the left.

1882
01:31:03,166 --> 01:31:06,753
This is mum signing off
right here on kmud,

1883
01:31:07,212 --> 01:31:08,880
people powered radio.

1884
01:31:08,964 --> 01:31:10,131
Thanks for listening.

1885
01:35:47,242 --> 01:35:49,827
In the corners of the leaf

1886
01:35:49,911 --> 01:35:51,579
you can see this right there

1887
01:35:51,663 --> 01:35:53,098
starting to get little feathers
in there.

1888
01:35:53,122 --> 01:35:54,374
That's starting to sex out.

1889
01:35:54,457 --> 01:35:55,851
- Which means?
- A female.

1890
01:35:55,875 --> 01:35:58,670
It'll have a pod
if it was a male.

1891
01:35:58,753 --> 01:36:00,505
Is one more potent than another?

1892
01:36:00,588 --> 01:36:02,173
Female is much more potent
than male.

1893
01:36:02,257 --> 01:36:04,592
It's probably ten times
as potent as the male.