Join us in this engaging episode of ‘A Guy’s Perspective’ as we dive deep into the evolving conversation around marijuana. From the basics of growing techniques to the stark differences between the marijuana of the past and today, our discussion covers a broad spectrum of issues surrounding this controversial plant. You’ll hear firsthand accounts of growing techniques, unique perspectives on the medicinal benefits of cannabis, and personal stories that highlight the potential impacts of legalization.
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So we’re about to talk about a topic. I think we’ve been wanting to talk about it for a while. Wish the janitor was here. He’s been wanting to talk about it for like the whole year. But Reno threw it out last week. So we’re going to talk about marijuana. Have you guys ever tried to grow marijuana? Let’s start there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Did you use lights or outside?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I use hydroponics and grow lights and a lot of reflective material.
SPEAKER 08 :
Tin foil?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
Can you actually use tinfoil?
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s reflective.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know. I’ve heard if you smoke enough that you could put tinfoil on your head.
SPEAKER 10 :
Plus the FBI will never find you because you put tinfoil on the windows too, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
What’s the reflective for? Why?
SPEAKER 07 :
To have sort of lights in one place and it’ll reflect all over.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Get underneath the tree, underneath the leaves and stuff like that.
SPEAKER 07 :
And then, you know, you have your periods of where you turn the lights off. So it’s a process that I learned about. But how many of us have smoked marijuana back in the day? I think all of us have tried it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, yeah. I was smoking for quite a few, maybe five, seven years or something like that. You smoked for seven years? Yeah. Yeah, in high school and out of high school there, man. Oh, wow. Yeah, first time I got high, man. I was like 13 years old, and somebody told me. So was I. Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 09 :
I never inhaled like what was it, Obama or Bush said. I can’t remember who said it. Well, see, that’s the funny thing, man, is I was offered like a cigarette. I tried to smoke that, and I choked. And then they offered me a Coca-Cola can where it was punched down and then punctured with these holes in a port on the side, and I could inhale that.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s some funny stuff, man. So do you think there’s a difference between the marijuana back then and the marijuana of today?
SPEAKER 09 :
Big time. That is a good question. I totally think there is.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, they’ve made it more, they’ve engineered it to be more… Potent?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, more potent. So today’s marijuana is a GMO. Genetically modified.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, that’s not natural. No.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, uh-uh. God didn’t make that one. Well, that’s the thing. A lot of people would say things like, you know, with booze you lose and with dope there’s hope and that it’s made by God and all that kind of stuff so they can kind of justify their fixation or their crutch.
SPEAKER 07 :
So I know there’s a difference between hemp and marijuana. But back in the day when it was made illegal, it affected hemp the same. So hemp has less THC. You’re not going to get high from hemp. And the stock is the valuable part. That’s what they make. paper out of. That’s what they make rope out of. The strongest natural rope known to man is made out of hemp. Bibles were written on hemp paper.
SPEAKER 10 :
They hung people on hemp ropes, right? Didn’t they hang them? Did they really? I don’t know anything about hanging. My answer? I’m just kidding.
SPEAKER 11 :
I got a question. How are you going to ask a black man that?
SPEAKER 09 :
your ancestry no i was gonna i was gonna ask reno man um so uh between uh what is it hemp and marijuana is one male one female or no um so i think it comes down to the thc of it right it’s the thc so the the hemp is um
SPEAKER 07 :
I can’t remember the exact amount, but it’s less than a certain .3 or .03 THC, and anything above that is considered marijuana. So they take CBDs from hemp. And it has no CBD oils and stuff like that. They don’t have any THC. THC has to be a certain level.
SPEAKER 10 :
None of that wacky tobacco.
SPEAKER 08 :
And you guys are right because real potent stuff is like between 25 to like 35 THC. It’s some strong stuff, man.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know who we’re missing, though, who’s a good advocate against weed? The plumber. Kids don’t do weed. Otherwise, you’ll still be living at home with mom and show up every once in a while.
SPEAKER 09 :
What’s the scale for measuring THC’s potency? Because it’s like the Richter scale for earthquakes and like the Scoville for heat.
SPEAKER 08 :
What’s the measure? That I didn’t look into, but I looked up the strongest strands of marijuana that they have currently today. Pineapple Chunk? No. So what is the most potent cannabis at the top of the list? We have the Godfather, the OG, the exact lineage of it and how it’s created is unknown. And you can look this stuff up online. So it’s mixed with Bubba Kush, L.A. Confidential. The Granddaddy Purple. With some people saying it’s a crossbreed between XXOG or Alpha OG. Other competitors are the Jelly Donut. Super Buff, Elyon Mint, Great Gas, Permanent Marker, Jealousy, Galado 41, Blueberry Crumble, and the Kush Burger. Have you ever seen Grandma’s Boy? Grandma’s Boy?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, no.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, wait. Wasn’t Grandma’s Boy? Do you remember that when you brought in the dude from Africa? But, I mean, so if you think about how marijuana has changed. Evolved. So a person can have two ounces now and not go to jail? Well, federally and state. Right, because now it’s legal in 37 states. What? Why isn’t it legal across the board? Federally.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
But you see what I’m saying? You can take alcohol and you can drive it across state lines.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because it’s federally legal.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, that’s what I’m saying. Why don’t they just make it federally legal? If there’s 37 states already making it legal, why wouldn’t you just, if it’s legal in Wyoming, you couldn’t just take it across the border?
SPEAKER 07 :
My opinion is it will be eventually because then they could tax it federally. Ah, okay. That’s my opinion though.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t see, I’m going to go all out. Like if you’re high right now, I’m going to go all out conspiracy theory and say it’s, it’s, it’s a program from the elites to dumb down the population, especially with the kids.
SPEAKER 09 :
So to make us like idiocracy again, exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, okay. Reno. So the, the, the legal so that the it’s delta 9 thc content okay and it’s um below three percent or greater than three percent thc um 15 to 30 and that’s um intoxicating makes it intoxicating right but below 0.3 percent is um
SPEAKER 08 :
considered non-intoxicated so so basically you can drive let’s say you roll up that joint if it’s below three percent you can drive and won’t actually get the dui or do you still get the dui i don’t think you even get high below three percent you’ll probably get a headache okay so hey that reminds me man i’ve smoked like weeds weeds and that gave me a headache like one time So, so if you, so, so if you have, if you have 15 to 30% of the THC, if you let, how would they know that? Cause you know how they say, if you, you smoke, even though it’s legal, you can get the DUI. So if, how did they know it wasn’t under 15% THC? Like how do, how do they know that?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t think that matters as far as what you have is, is what’s. And I’m not a hundred percent sure how they test. Okay. I haven’t been. Shoot, I haven’t been high in over 30 years.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, for sure. But you know how they can test your blood alcohol level? If you’re in a vehicle and you’re driving, you’ve been drinking and driving, they can test that. How do they figure out?
SPEAKER 09 :
I know how they test it. I know exactly how they test it. Once you roll down the window, how much smoke bellows out.
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Or if you’re stopped at a stop sign for like one hour and you’re waiting for it to change.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. So they have tests that they administer just like a drunk test. Road sobriety test. So when you blow into this, that’s what it is. They have a test. I just don’t know what it consists of. We all just watch way too much Cheech and Chong, man. I know what it is, man.
SPEAKER 09 :
So for alcohol, you’ve got to blow into something. And then for marijuana, they just start sucking on that same thing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wow, man, this is good stuff.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because I looked up the pros and cons to marijuana. Okay, and here’s the pros to it. Medical benefits of cannabis helps manage chronic pain, inflammation, reduces reliance on opioids for pain management, helps to treat glucoma, helps against seizures. It helps against cancer. Who would have thought that? And anxiety. And it even helps against nightmares, which I always have nightmares like that. That’s crazy. Does that mean you’re going to start smoking? No, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 07 :
But that’s the pros to it. So there, there was a lot of, uh, like before when it was legal, then they made it illegal and it had uses for nausea, um, pain, pain, all the stuff that you mentioned, but when aspirin came on the market, it could not compete with marijuana. So they made it, they made it illegal. the pharmaceutical companies lobbied to make it illegal, and then they could push aspirin.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m just kind of curious. Do you think for all the Christian listeners, I wonder if there’s a split between those that think, hey, man, this is something that God created.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, man, because that’s funny. I’ll say this right now. When my mom… was sick with cancer, I was totally like, especially knowing what I know now, you know, from college, like if that stuff can help against cancer, I do not believe for one moment my mom as a godly woman would have taken it. Number one, she wouldn’t have taken it, but if she would have, what would it have been wrong to help? Because what cancer does, that’s funny, because I saw it with my mom. What cancer does is like any other sickness, it suppresses your appetite so that you can’t eat. You’re not hungry. And so because you can’t feed yourself to get strength, you can’t work out you can’t do anything so that cancer’s killing you if if a person has cancer and they turn around and they smoke some marijuana so they get energy to want to eat is that a bad thing the munchies i don’t think that’s a bad thing you know for my son um you know before he passed okay they talked about giving him cancer for his spastic movements you know he had cerebral palsy and i’m not gonna lie we almost entertained it um just prior to his passing
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Wow.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Wow. Wasn’t there a girl that, like, there was a family that moved here because their daughter was having epileptic seizures. And when they moved here, because this was a state that allowed for marijuana use. Wow. Like, it healed her. It cured her.
SPEAKER 07 :
I do know of that story. Yeah, I remember hearing about that. What about the plant is helpful? Is it the THC?
SPEAKER 10 :
Or the CBD. What about the plan is helping people with nausea? They make a comparison.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right, because that’s what I want to ask you guys. Is it still considered a drug? Like cocaine’s a drug. Is marijuana still a drug if it’s got helping effect or healing effects?
SPEAKER 10 :
Think about opioids. Opioids is a drug, right? For sure. It really, it just is.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is. Let’s be real.
SPEAKER 10 :
When you think about it, it’s, I mean, how far away is marijuana? You know, either THC or CBD, you know, affects.
SPEAKER 07 :
This is good, man. So with the, like, codeine and different drugs, they’re administered without, like, side effects of being high, unless you take enough of it. Right. But is there a way to administer marijuana without getting high? Because back in the day they made teas out of it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that’s the CBD part of and they didn’t they didn’t get has no one taught no intoxication or high.
SPEAKER 08 :
So the CBD doesn’t get you higher intoxicated just to THC. Okay, so then I guess in listeners, if you know more, call 303-477-5600. Especially if somebody who smokes man call us up like, because how do we know is it to THC? What actually helps you?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and that’s the thing. It is CBD that is like the one that is found with medicinal properties, but it’s not always administered by smoking. It’s administered by topical. It’s administered by high concentrate. There is this one stuff that we tried to give to my stepfather who was dying of cancer. uh, beforehand and it was Rick Simpson oil. And so basically I paid $1,500 to my friend, man, to, to get some pineapple chunk, boil it there. He cooked it and boiled it down in the oven. And then, um, that, uh, uh, it turned into like this, like black tar molasses type stuff, man. And you’re supposed to take it little by little. Well, I gave that to my stepfather, but it didn’t work because it was too far gone. But then I had some of it left over and I tried it. Dude, this is about like six years ago, five years ago. I tried it myself and I was crying in the shower to Jesus, man. I was like, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
It was that potent, huh?
SPEAKER 09 :
Bro, it was like a grain of a rice, like a size of a grain of rice of this black tar Rick Simpson oil is what it’s called. Wow. Rick Simpson.
SPEAKER 08 :
So… Here’s the cons to it, okay? And all this is cited from the new health advisory. I don’t know. You know, times have changed, okay? So there’s a debate between is marijuana an actual drug or no longer a drug. So I guess the… The con to this is psychosis, fatigue, dizziness makes you anxious or paranoid, makes you depressed. It impairs your memory. In some cases, it can get you addicted. But the most important is most people who smoke all the time cannot get a job or hold a job.
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What are your thoughts? Remember how we were always told in school, and they still say it in school, this is a gateway drug. I don’t think it’s the drug. I think it’s the high that’s more the gateway because most of us know when you first smoke, that initial high is different than the rest of the time. As you go along, that’s why it was never my thing. But, you know, I kind of wonder how – I think there’s some truth in that because sometimes people who are – have an addictive personality, like our plumber, you know, he basically could get high on that and then move to, you know, just saying I’m taking a medical – prescription by the doctor that probably gives him a different type of high because he’s searching for that same high because something’s lacking now is that a problem spiritually speaking like where we need something that to get us out of our funk and you know i mean have we really lost is this something that works against what god has given us you know this given us the spirit of of not fear, of sound mind, et cetera. I mean, is this not a criminal act, but is it an act that is against the word of God and what he wants for us in our body?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know. I would agree in the vein of a coping mechanism or escapism or a crutch or any of those things. But, man, we have the same thing with beer or alcohol. We have the same thing with nicotine or caffeine. We have the same thing with sex addiction and all that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, what’s funny that you mentioned is it a gateway because I researched that and there’s a lot of people today, since it’s legal, does not believe it’s a gateway to other drugs or opioids where I don’t know. The reason why I don’t know if it could be a gateway, it’s because it’s got healing effects, too. They’ve done studies on this stuff.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, again, I think it’s based on that. I mean, addictive personality, I don’t know that I agree with that term. But to that effect, you know, there’s some people that are easily addicted once they try one thing.
SPEAKER 08 :
That is true.
SPEAKER 10 :
And then now they’re addicted to try something else. So it’s kind of I can see where they come up with that term addictive.
SPEAKER 01 :
Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Gateway drug. Right. Because once you get that one high, you’re probably going to look at, man, I wonder what this looks like. And that looks like.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, let me ask you guys, do you guys feel like you have an addictive personality? Because that that’s really what it comes down to when it comes down to marijuana is do you or do you not have an addictive personality arena?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t know if I have an addictive personality or not. I chose not to try certain things because I’ve seen people get addicted to certain things that… kind of scared me gotcha so i i didn’t try it because they they tried it once and they were addicted to this day really some of them are not even alive right now and wow you know i have family that that died of something and you know alcohol right um And they were told that if they stop drinking, their heart is not strong enough for the DTs. If they keep drinking, the alcohol will kill them. They’re stuck. I’ve had a family member overdose from cocaine. So there’s a lot of things that I’ve seen that deterred me from trying certain things.
SPEAKER 10 :
Nancy Reagan, just say no.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, here’s another question for you guys. How does somebody know if they have an addictive personality? Or are we going too deep down in psychology? Because you won’t know if you have it unless you actually try it, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
I was going to say there is no clinical term called addictive personality. That’s why I said I don’t really agree with that term. But that’s the problem is, like you said, you don’t know. Some people have impulsive attitudes that are more impulsive, or they actually say sensation-seeking, thrill-seeking, emotional dysregulation, low consciousness, and other things. Those are people that are more prone to that. But, you know, at least according to research. But as far as an addictive personality, you’re right, Brock. How do we know?
SPEAKER 09 :
Jesus said, hey, he who is without sin, like, let’s get stoned.
SPEAKER 03 :
What?
SPEAKER 08 :
Cast the first stone.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sorry about that.
SPEAKER 08 :
But, I mean, you guys see what I’m saying? Unless you hear about people’s mindsets the whole time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Some people might be doing certain things because they’re trying to escape, like an escape mechanism from pain or from things that have happened to them, like trauma. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
I think a lot of people try to use a cup mechanism. That’s why the church needs to be stronger and not really cry. Because I got mad. I’ve seen Christians that look so sad. And I’m like, my goodness, if you’re a representation of Jesus, then, you know, I’d probably rather get high.
SPEAKER 09 :
Maybe so. My dad calls it altitude adjustment. Yeah. Go ahead and light up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because I do think, like, athletes, you hear sports players being like, hey, why can’t I take marijuana? It eases my stress. It helps me. Well, it helps me after being hit all day, you know, on a football field. i have to agree with these guys man if there’s some way to take away like that brain trauma that people have like if you’re in the military and you’ve seen some crazy crap dude people blown up and it’s a way for you to ease your mind what what would be i just but again i don’t but but again therein lies the problem is that you are the individual is then using it as a crutch and a coping mechanism to escape
SPEAKER 09 :
addressing the real problem. How would that be escaping? It can, it can be just like you were talking earlier, but just like you were talking earlier, how like marijuana can be used to help somebody get off of opiates. Yes. That’s kind of like a step down instead of like a gateway to it’s stepping down from something more severe and more catastrophic.
SPEAKER 10 :
And it’s easier on your stomach, too, with opioids. You end up nauseous, et cetera, whereas it’s the opposite.
SPEAKER 09 :
But coping is coping, man. Hey, if every time I feel down, I grab a bite of food, man, then all of a sudden I’m going to have a gut that shows my coping mechanism. Exactly. Exactly.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, no, no, no, no, no. You guys, and I think you guys are right, but I guess it comes back and we got two minute people and give us a call on the other side. I guess it comes down to how does a person know what they can or can’t cope with if they’ve never tried it? I mean, you see what I’m saying?
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s the thing. Well, then I think that’s where wisdom comes in place because now you start to really ask questions like you’re asking, right? Isn’t that wisdom to be able to ask that and say, well, we’ve been taught this. Let’s just be real. According to the American Psychiatric Association. people that have the um type of chemicals chemical in their brain it might bring an early onset especially for teenagers and young adults to where if they’re you know about you know prone to uh manic depressive states or psychosis or anything to that it’ll it’ll onset it’s like light switch it’ll turn it right on and that’s proven so yeah that’s a choice but is it a choice you want to risk
SPEAKER 07 :
Reno. Quick question. Has anyone ever died from marijuana?
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s why we’re talking. I didn’t think about that, but that’s a good question.
SPEAKER 10 :
So I got a question. Would you want your, you know, like a… fire department coming in all high or the paramedics coming in all high or even a cop for that matter coming in all high trying to rescue you or trying to intervene in the situation. Think about it.
SPEAKER 09 :
I got a question along those lines for the other side of this show. It would be, do we know of people who are high performers that actually smoke marijuana and those that are low performers? That’s another good question. Right off the jump would be like Snoop Dogg, man.
SPEAKER 08 :
Dude, you’re asking a good question, man. Does anyone have Snoop’s number? We’ll talk about it on the other side.
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How’s everybody doing today? This is the second half of the Guy’s Perspective. You can call at 303-477-5600. We’re just going to dive right into it. It was a good first half. According to Psychology Today, the number one reason most people smoke marijuana is for stress relief.
SPEAKER 10 :
I believe it, man. Do you think we’re more, you know, we’ve seen more stress in this life of a faster pace, etc. I’ve seen people that are very… energetic and then it slows them down so that way they can actually focus, you know, like ADD type.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. I have a friend like that, that, uh, very hyper and he smokes weed. So it mellows him out. So he, he, it helps him concentrate. I think everyone’s going to be different. And I asked the question, has anyone, you know, died from or overdose from marijuana? Um, And, you know, based on current scientific evidence and reports from health organizations, it is considered nearly impossible to die from a direct overdose of smoking marijuana.
SPEAKER 10 :
What about that one guy that died just recently from eating too many edibles? You heard about that, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, but he probably choked to death. Did he choke? I’m not sure. I can’t remember.
SPEAKER 10 :
Do you remember that? I’m not sure. Maybe I was high on that.
SPEAKER 09 :
But those edibles are kind of like gummies, so it might have been the gelatin that got him.
SPEAKER 03 :
Sure is that.
SPEAKER 08 :
The most common names for marijuana are dope, weed, pot, or smoking the dank. This is laying for the most premium top-shelf marijuana. According to coloradocannabis.org, there are 947 cannabis stores in Colorado as of October 1st. 2025. So it’s a lucrative business. It’s making a lot of money. Over $200 million, dude, last year.
SPEAKER 09 :
It was called the Green Rush, man, when it hit.
SPEAKER 08 :
Really?
SPEAKER 09 :
It was Colorado, California. I think that was it, right? Maybe Seattle. Yeah, Seattle. Oregon or something like that.
SPEAKER 08 :
So it is a proven fact that it causes cognitive decline. That’s a proven fact. So if a parent is smoking marijuana 24-7 and their kid at the age of 14 or 15 or 16 starts smoking marijuana, won’t that affect their mental development?
SPEAKER 10 :
I totally think so. I mean, actually, I think there is science behind that too, right? Because it adjusts the THC part, not the CBD. The THC adjusts the chemical, you know, balance of your mind. I mean, we have a living example here, you know, when the plumber’s around. I mean, no, I’m just kidding. It’s just because he’s not here that we can… But, I mean, think about it, though. I mean… I think everyone knows the proverbial pothead, you know, and how they looked, you know, at high school or even, you know, as an adult.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, it’s a proven fact that people, because we all know that one person who they function perfect when they’re high. They function perfect when it seems like they’re functioning perfect when they’re drunk, the whole nine yards. And you’re like, how in the world? But in the big scheme of things, because I think it said that according to, as of 2025, there are, um, uh, one there’s a hundred and there’s 165 million people trying marijuana today. So there’s a lot, but I guess my question is, is out of all that number of people that are smoking marijuana, how many are youth?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think there’s quite a few, quite a bit. And, you know, the problem is, is there’s these stats that show that in the 1960s through 70s, the average THC content was one to three percent. And that was considered mild up until now, where it’s like 30 to 35 percent, even greater, four to 10 times the increase over the decades of THC levels. Now, think about it. And like you were saying, Reno, I mean, a lot of this stuff is GMO. I mean, it’s genetically modified to give you higher and higher strains. So what else is it affecting? You know, you’re kind of manipulating the DNA, if you will. And what are you introducing into a child’s formative mind? That’s the problem is that a lot of these kids are doing it in formative years.
SPEAKER 08 :
You’re right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and I know this doesn’t matter. People are going to do what they’re going to do no matter what age. But the legal age to… to purchase and consume recreational marijuana is 21. But of course, I started smoking when I was 13 and way back then it was illegal.
SPEAKER 08 :
But you asked a question on the first half. Is it different today? Is the strand different? Because it’s been modified. It’s definitely different. Because it’s kind of like the scientists who were taking the dire wolf. I mean, there’s a reason why that thing died off, what, 15,000 years ago. The strand is going to be different because you can mix it with something.
SPEAKER 09 :
Speaking of a wolf, you ever seen one high? No. Yeah, my dad raised wolves, and he’d get them high, but he wouldn’t blow in their nose, the marijuana, because he could mess up their olfactory system, being able to scent and smell like that, because that’s how they read the newspaper, by sniffing each other’s butts. So what he’d do is he’d lift open their ear, and he’d blow in their ear. And then they’d start getting real high, man, and having a good time. They’d get hungry and sleepy. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
are you serious yeah i’m absolutely serious man this ain’t no joke during uh the fourth of july i give my dog a cbd pill yeah medicinal yeah because if the strands have changed if it’s no longer just grown by mother nature but we’re now growing it in a lab won’t it have lasting effects i guess that’s the thing well and also the method of transportation right you know
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that comes back to the question of is it necessary medicinally to have that high of THC content? I mean, is that necessary? Is the THC affecting or is the CBD what? That’s a good question.
SPEAKER 08 :
And people call it 303-477-5600 because what’s the difference between hash and marijuana? Is it the same stuff?
SPEAKER 09 :
Hash is the… I think I’m not a hundred percent, but I think how she says like, I got to remember when you, remember when you would have like a smoke, a smokeless or a pipe or something like that. And you’d be smoking and then you get the resin, the resin that you create and you smoke the resin. The resin was hash.
SPEAKER 10 :
more potent because it was weeks of smoking yeah I mean it would be 100% like but I also think you know going along with what Reno said you know is that really affecting you know putting that much THC in a greater amount but what I said also is the method of how it’s being transported is I think also now that we have these vape cartridges, the availability of vape pens, vaping, I mean, there’s danger in that alone, right?
SPEAKER 01 :
Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
With the, you know, the puncture.
SPEAKER 01 :
Popcorn lung.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, popcorn lung, lung cancer, etc. You know, the high risk of heart disease, things like that. I mean, maybe it’s the delivery method. I don’t know. That’s something that’s going to be studied. There’s going to be an empirical study.
SPEAKER 08 :
There is because as of right now, because I cannot to save my life, figure out how it’s being legal. And here it is in Colorado. It’s legal. Wyoming, it’s legal. But I can only carry two ounces. But if I take four or five ounces or across state line, it’s a felony. Or if somebody back in the day was selling two or three ounces out of the back of the trunk of their car, how are they not?
SPEAKER 09 :
out of prison yet i don’t get it okay then that takes us back to the war on drugs and the reagan’s and uh the the ability to get people incarcerated um and then now when they make it you think it was an incarceration thing absolutely and racial too And here’s the thing, man, is now that it’s made legal, then what should happen, what truly should happen from a good judge standpoint is that those people should be released of those charges.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, Donald Trump did try doing that. Actually, he did. What? Yeah, in his first administration. That’s what’s funny about it is you don’t know because the only way you’d know about it is if you followed the things you did, but the media does not talk about it. I’m telling you, he released so many people from that Ronald Reagan era.
SPEAKER 08 :
And somebody call us at 303-477-5600 because that’s interesting because if you were selling drugs in the 90s when they considered marijuana a drug and you had two ounces. And all of a sudden you got a felony. Why shouldn’t everybody be released across the board now? I mean, you see it’s now legal in every state. And that’s garbage that they can’t be.
SPEAKER 10 :
What about nation? I mean, sorry, internationally. Like what? I forgot her name. The basketball player in Russia.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
SPEAKER 10 :
Remember in Russia? Brittany Greiner.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, Brittany Greiner.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, almost sentenced to you. I mean, it was an insane sentence.
SPEAKER 08 :
What was it, marijuana? It was marijuana. Well, you know what? That joker wouldn’t even stand for America, so they should have just kept her butt in prison over there. You know, Russia, you know what I’m saying? Like, I mean, think about it. You’re bashing America. Then all of a sudden, when you need our help, you’re sitting here telling, hey, man, help us out. And that was another one. I believe Trump actually brought her back. No, it was Biden. yeah it was biden yeah but but the point i’m making is if you if you were dealing marijuana then and now it’s you it’s legal how how are there people still being locked up for this like it it doesn’t make any kind of sense dude
SPEAKER 09 :
But even stranger than that is those that are successful in their walk of life while getting high all the time.
SPEAKER 10 :
Snoop Dogg’s won, dude! The crazy thing, too, is I don’t think it’s necessarily the marijuana. I think it’s the mere fact that Now there’s a combination of pills, et cetera, that they’re found with. I mean, I think most dopeheads probably eventually move. Sorry if that’s a derogatory term, but we used to call it that.
SPEAKER 08 :
I don’t think it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
There’s another danger with any type of drug because there’s the possibility, if you don’t know where it’s coming from,
SPEAKER 08 :
the possibility that it’s been laced fentanyl with even yes something as bad as that’s scary right there that is very scary you’re talking about something that that’s opening a whole new can of worms because he’s making a good point if you sit there and have a dispensary and you’re selling marijuana and you and that gets into the hands of of the wrong quote-unquote drug dealer and now they lace that stuff with fentanyl to make it because fentanyl will kill you man That stuff, like, your death rate is real high for people that are taking that stuff. And yet there’s people that are doing it, dude. And here’s the problem. When you make that stuff legal, when you make marijuana legal, and, like, listen, people, we’re not police officers. We don’t work for the FBI. We’re in oil and gas and own our own businesses. But at the end of the day, fentanyl will jack you up.
SPEAKER 09 :
But here’s my question, man.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s a PSA. Jack, you up. You sound like Pootie Tang. Pootie Tang. But no, he’s right. If you lace that stuff with that. Because that’s funny. Because I’m going to tell a story about my… No, I’m not going to tell a story about my… I’m sorry, man. I had to… Keep going. Tell us what you were saying.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I forgot. I forgot.
SPEAKER 08 :
But no, you’re 100% right because there’s people that lace stuff all the time. Like if you’re going out and buying illegal pills, they can lace that stuff.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s what it was. The point I was going to get at is then are we to believe that when something is legalized that it is more likely or less likely that people are going to get dosed wrong? I think when it’s legalized, it’s probably going to mitigate any of those wrong dosings because you’re not going to buy from the guy in the back alley now. You’re not going to get a dime from that guy. You’re going to go right down to cookies or whatever marijuana grow shop there is.
SPEAKER 07 :
What was that move? Sorry. I’d have to agree. It’s less likely, but. If you’re a youth and you can’t go into the shop and legally buy it and you want to use it, then you’re left with no other option but to get it how you can. And it could be just like leaving your edibles out. And they look just like candy, and your child picks it up and eats it.
SPEAKER 10 :
So check this out. So there is a correlation between people that smoke marijuana and also use other illicit drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, or hallucinogens, based on the U.S. data primarily from the NSDUH and CDC and IDA. They basically suggest that more people that do, you know, marijuana actually try different drugs because it’s the same mechanism that they’re looking at. They’re trying to get high. The thing about it, that first high you get is never the same as, you know, the other high. So, yeah, they’d end up moving on. 25.5% of people, 12 and plus. Oh, my goodness. That’s crazy.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is crazy. I would think it’s different with marijuana because… Like when people describe getting high on crack, they chase that high. But people getting high on marijuana, they’re not chasing a high. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Not necessarily. I mean, I’ll tell you what, that first high from marijuana really was a cool high. I ain’t going to lie. I mean, I sat there and laughed at a dining room table or something, a coffee table, and I just started laughing at my laugh. But then it never was the same again. But if I had that need to find something greater, which a lot of people do, then, yeah, they will start looking for other things, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
I guess what I want to know is who decided – After all these years of us growing up, seeing the commercial of the egg, this is your brain on drugs. Who decided marijuana wasn’t a drug? You see what I’m asking? Who decided finally to say, hey, you know what? People are going to do it regardless. Let’s make it legal and no longer call it a drug.
SPEAKER 07 :
Probably someone who saw that they could tax it and make money off of it. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. Tell us that we’re going to fix the streets and put the money in the schools, but I’m still dodging potholes. Exactly. That is crazy.
SPEAKER 10 :
Every time in school, they’re always sending something home to fundraise for the schools. Whatever happened to that money that Colorado was supposed to get for the schools? Who is the governor right now?
SPEAKER 08 :
Because weren’t we told it’s going to go for parks? It’s going to go for schools. It’s going to go like all these different things marijuana was going to do. But at the end of the day, unless these stats that I got are wrong, it grossed $255 million last year. I don’t think any of us have seen a part of that.
SPEAKER 10 :
It’s greater than that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, right. No, no, no. It may very well be, but at the end of the day, you’re not seeing… If there’s 900 dispensaries out there, what happened with the cartel? Before it was legalized…
SPEAKER 10 :
a cartel ran it so does the cartel now own all these dispensaries so my understanding now is the cartel does have a hand in it and when you think about it that’s kind of scary right yeah a lot of these companies um what are your thoughts reno i don’t i don’t know um
SPEAKER 07 :
Not too sure I want to incriminate myself. I would have to say that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because, I mean, the cartel is not just going to let a lucrative business go. I would have to imagine that their hands are in on this stuff. You know it. It’s proven. I guarantee you can prove it. And people, if you know more than us, 303-477-5600. Do you guys believe that anybody that’s incarcerated right now that got busted in the early 90s for selling marijuana should be released today?
SPEAKER 10 :
You know, I kind of do because I think that was very excessive for that type of crime because now you got rapists, you got child molesters, you got all these other murderers, et cetera, sitting with someone that had just, you know, more than the legal limit of, I mean, sorry, marijuana on them. I mean, that’s crazy. That’s insane. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
So, yeah, my answer is yes. Because when a person… Sorry about that, and I’ll go to you. Because when a person goes to prison, if you’re a felon, you’re lumped with all the felons, right? I don’t think they put you in a separate pod.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, felons are pretty much the only ones that go to prison.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, no, no. You can have a misdemeanor and go to prison, can’t you?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t think so. What I’m saying is… If you’re a murderer, you’re probably going to be with murderers. If you’re a pedophile, I don’t know if there’s protective custody for pedophiles anymore.
SPEAKER 08 :
But if you’re a drug dealer, you’re not going to be with murderers is what you’re saying. You might be. I think you are.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think all of that’s under criminal. And, yes, you’re going to be in the same squad, the same yard with them all.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I would imagine. I don’t know, though. I think you would be. I mean, I don’t think you’re going to. A drug dealer, whether they’re in there for marijuana or cocaine, you’re going to be in general population. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hmm. Well, herein lies the problem, though, is if somebody did go to the clink for for getting high, man, or distribute distribution, they’ve probably learned how to level up in the pen. And so they might not be worthy of being let out. Even though you get locked up for the one easy thing, you might have committed some more egregious acts while in. And get institutionalized.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because it makes you really wonder, right, if they put everybody in general population. Because I agree with Andre here. How in the world if in the 90s, if I sold marijuana, let’s say I sold two pounds to some dude down the street, why in the world am I now locked up today when it’s legal and I’m still in there with murderers and rapists and the whole nine yards? Like, it doesn’t make sense.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, think about this, too. What about the association of violence? I mean, most of the people that are incarcerated, I believe, was through alcohol. Alcohol. Really? That strongest direct link of intoxication increases aggression and impairs judgment. Cannabis, believe it or not, cannabis and opioids have a weak link.
SPEAKER 08 :
Really?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. But cocaine, crack, meth, stimulants, they have a high link of aggression and agitation.
SPEAKER 08 :
So that brings up the next point. Is marijuana an upper or a downer? Downer. like opioids could be a downer because the second you get depressed you you you start doing some opioids all of a sudden you’re completely depressed or alcohol if you’re super depressed can either make you depressed or bring you up is marijuana an upper or a downer how do you like it’s a downer depressant well which is funny because i gave you what the two sativa and uh indica
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Indicauch. Indicauch. Is that what that is? Yeah. That’s the one where you just kind of chill. Indica is the one that you can be high and work. And they claim it helps you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Yeah. For depression. But then also there’s a strong correlation that shows that people that have depression, it increases the depression. Really? So there’s your downer. Marijuana.
SPEAKER 08 :
Goodness. So what if a person is generally happy, upbeat, they take some marijuana just for the stress. Isn’t it going to make them more happy?
SPEAKER 09 :
You would think like. Again, what people are dealing with when they’re having this, and I call them coping mechanisms, is because you’re changing your chemistry. This is chemistry.
SPEAKER 10 :
Heath’s right because there’s shared risk factors. Most of it belongs to the genetics, 40% to 60% have a higher addiction risk, but most of it also comes from life trauma, mental health issues, anxiety, depression, ADHD, impulsivity, etc., So, yeah, you know, most of that’s not based on if you were to take like someone that’s happy-go-lucky and give them marijuana. What they’re basically saying is the person that’s had life trauma, when they take it, it becomes more of a downer to them and has the potential of becoming a gateway drug.
SPEAKER 08 :
Who is more influential? Is it the… The 14-, 15-year-old, the 21- to 30-year-old, or the 30- to 60-year-old? Who’s going to be the more influenced to do?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think that’s individual. It has nothing to do with age. It’s individual. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t know, man. I think there’s monkey see, monkey do when you’re a kid. Oh, that’s good, man. That’s just my thought.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’d say you’re a lot more susceptible to peer pressure. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 10 :
as an adolescent but you’re still it’s still individual you know the saddest part that as an adolescent is it’s become easier and easier I remember back in the day trying to pay some adult to get us alcohol and then they just go out the back door and just rob us right now kids can go and just get whatever they need anymore it seems like at whatever school district it is you know so
SPEAKER 07 :
Will marijuana help my OCD? It might help mine because I’m all over the place.
SPEAKER 09 :
Because if you think about, okay, sorry. Since we’ve all done marijuana here, what was any of your shadiest encounters with marijuana? I’ll go. Go ahead. I’ll go. One of the times, I think I was like 13, 14, we walked downtown and it was five points. Five points isn’t what it is, what it once was. It was bad, man. It’s gentrified now. Walk down there. We had something like $30, $40, $50. We give it to some guys. There’s these kids, man. We were young, and they were young. But they all had baseball bats and stuff like that. And they said, oh, yeah, yeah, we know Johnny. We’re going to go get the weed. Take the money. They took us for the money, man. And that led to a falling away of a bunch of stuff. My friend’s brother got jumped by this. Yeah, it was bananas. But we didn’t get high. But it was a shady experience.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s the truth.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I had a moment that I wanted to… get high my friend had some hash i got so high i couldn’t lift my eyelids i had to walk home lift my head tilt it back so i could see the sidewalk and i couldn’t stay on the sidewalk so that was that was the only time i tried it i tried hash and i never tried it again because i got i got too high
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, because there is a point to where you’re so high you don’t like it, dude. What about you, Brock? No, no, no. I’ll tell you guys. I know the one. Yeah, no, no, no, no. The worst experience I ever had with getting high, dude. I was at a party with a bunch of guys, man, and they’re passing everything around, and I had no idea it was laced with something. I still don’t know what it was. And there was…
SPEAKER 11 :
there was a trash can in front of me dude i was like 16 in this full just he starts puking in it right and i’m sitting here staring at it for whatever reason instead of sitting back and pukes going everywhere next thing i know it led you to puke oh it let me i don’t know what was inside this stuff too but when that dude started having at it it was funny at first it turned from funny to bad dude and i just went right
SPEAKER 08 :
right to the left of the guy next to me dude i was like all over him dude like so i think i don’t know that’s my worst worst worst worst experience because i didn’t really have like Yeah, because I tripped one time, dude, and it was bad, dude. It was real bad. Oh, was that when you saw Satan? Oh, man.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know he saw Satan.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, there’s some bad times. But that’s what I’m saying. Like, for me, I didn’t feel like I had an addictive personality, but I did feel like when I smoked marijuana, like, I wanted to do other things. Like, it impaired me in a way to where I didn’t. There are some.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know of a few people who like to get high and work out. Like, that makes no sense. It seems diametrically opposed to one another.
SPEAKER 08 :
That would be… Yeah, that would be strange. With marijuana?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, get high and work out. Weird. Weird, man.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, but that was my worst marijuana experience because I don’t think it was just the marijuana that did it to me. I think it was what was inside, what they put inside of it.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t really have one of those experiences because, you know, freakies, anybody who’s here in Colorado knows about freakies, but my dad, I would say, was the original head shop owner.
SPEAKER 01 :
Really?
SPEAKER 10 :
And, man, I would see some… crazy crack heads and things like that yeah i got a lot of stories you know but he was trying to do what he could to make money and it was legal so some of the zigzags and such but um well you have to call them water pipes not bones exactly yeah and they were cigarette holders but with that said watching the type of people come in man it taught me a lot and smelling what they smelled like i mean i could smell someone that’s been doing marijuana wow they have a different smell and About crack. It was kind of weird times. Yeah. The 90s. You got to love the 80s and 90s. Thanks, people, for listening, and we’ll see y’all next week.
SPEAKER 05 :
I can’t hide myself I don’t expect you to understand I just hope I can explain What it’s like to be a man It’s a lonely road And they don’t care about what you know
SPEAKER 04 :
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