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The Legend of 420 (2017) is a documentary that explores the cultural shift surrounding cannabis. The film looks at its history, its role in modern society, and how it is shaping business, art, and lifestyle. With humor and insight, it provides a fresh perspective on a subject that has sparked conversation across generations.
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00:00:30As the Allied armies advance, Hitler's generals devise a master plan to counter the Allied attack.
00:00:48With the German army ready to defend itself to the end, Germany's high command visit Hitler at his mountaintop retreat at Berkhof.
00:00:57However, once there, they are rebuffed by the Führer himself, who tells them he has more important matters at hand.
00:01:06His birthday celebration.
00:01:07On 4-20-1944, Hitler celebrates his birthday while his armies are decimated in Western Europe.
00:01:17His generals conclude that the Führer's recent pacifism, paranoia, and indecisiveness are due to his recent hashish habit that he acquired while invading Morocco.
00:01:31Without a clear plan and heavy losses, the Germans hastily retreat, leaving the Allies victorious.
00:01:41The men who fought this bloody campaign will never forget.
00:01:46A date that will live forever in history.
00:01:49The Legend of 4-20.
00:01:51Wait, that's not the Legend of 4-20.
00:01:55This is the Legend of 4-20.
00:01:57How often do I transport cannabis?
00:02:16Every time that I get a large enough order.
00:02:19It could be anywhere from 50 to a few hundred pounds.
00:02:23It could be anywhere from 50 to a few hundred pounds.
00:02:53Why is it that there's this attraction to being in an altered state?
00:03:14Because that's the source of the problem.
00:03:16Anyone here never been high before?
00:03:19Wow.
00:03:19All right.
00:03:20I'm the last guy.
00:03:22I do stand-up comedy.
00:03:23I've never smoked weed.
00:03:24And when you tell comics that, you blow their minds.
00:03:27Right?
00:03:27Basically, you get a couple of responses.
00:03:29They'll be like, dude, just try it, man.
00:03:31It's going to open up your mind.
00:03:33You're going to be so much funnier.
00:03:34Like, next level stuff, bro.
00:03:36Or they're like, dude, stay away from that stuff.
00:03:39You don't need it.
00:03:40It's going to ruin your life.
00:03:41And what's scary is, it's the same guy telling me both those things.
00:03:44I was a kid in the 70s.
00:03:46When it was outlawed, it was the devil's weed.
00:03:55It was good for you.
00:03:56So therefore, I always felt it was legal.
00:03:58I was really tired of going to shops and seeing a lot of crappy meds.
00:04:05So I thought, fuck it.
00:04:06I'll grow my own.
00:04:07People are purchasing legal marijuana that's quality controlled, and they know what they're
00:04:15getting in legal shops in the United States.
00:04:21Nobody that anybody can ever show has ever died of marijuana.
00:04:28I don't think cannabis is a problem.
00:04:31I think the ignorance is the problem.
00:04:32The war on drugs has been a war on young people, people with addiction issues, people
00:04:40of color, and people from the lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
00:04:47There's been voluminous studies on the topic that have completely debunked that marijuana
00:04:52is a gateway drug.
00:04:55There's a lot of money in this, and now business is starting to come in and say, oh, I'm going
00:04:59to take this shit over.
00:05:02The mindset that I was brought up with was, yes, that marijuana and cocaine and acid and
00:05:08all those hippie drugs, that they're all the same.
00:05:16The time is long overdue for us to remove the federal prohibition on marijuana.
00:05:24We have got to stop imprisoning people who use marijuana.
00:05:29The marijuana thing is such a big, such a big thing.
00:05:33I really believe you should leave it up to the states.
00:05:35I like where it is now.
00:05:37If the state wants to try it, they can.
00:05:39I think California is going to vote to legalize it in November, and I think that's really going
00:05:43to be the tipping point.
00:05:44Yeah, if we remember to vote.
00:05:45California is just weeks away from a pivotal vote on the future of pot.
00:05:53It is one of the most controversial measures on California's ballot this November.
00:05:57Voters approved medical marijuana use 20 years ago.
00:06:00Now, Prop 64 would legalize and tax the recreational use of marijuana.
00:06:05Potentially, those taxes could bring in a billion dollars in revenue.
00:06:09Supporters say Prop 64 could end the drug war and safely regulate the widely used drug.
00:06:17Prop 64 is the Adult Use of Marijuana Act.
00:06:20Essentially what it does is it establishes a licensing structure for recreational use.
00:06:27You as a private citizen over 21 years of age can have an ounce of marijuana in your pocket,
00:06:31and you can grow six plants in your house and keep what you produce from those six plants.
00:06:36An officer could pull you over, and if you have an ounce of marijuana and you're not
00:06:41under the influence, he'll hand your cannabis back to you, have a nice day, no crying.
00:06:46By January 2018, they'll have the structure in place where people can actually apply for
00:06:51licenses and go into business to sell marijuana recreationally.
00:06:56Today, California voters cast their ballots on Prop 64, which will legalize recreational use
00:07:02of marijuana.
00:07:03Advocates for marijuana.
00:07:04I voted.
00:07:05I voted yes.
00:07:06I voted yes.
00:07:07I voted for Proposition 64.
00:07:10I'm tired of Colorado being the coolest state in the nation.
00:07:12The legalization of marijuana passing 56% to 44%.
00:07:16Marijuana is now legal.
00:07:19This moves it from the cooperatives and the small and the clinical sales of it to full-scale
00:07:31recreational use.
00:07:33A number of states have decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
00:07:39Seven states and the District of Columbia have adopted the most expansive laws legalizing
00:07:43marijuana to recreational use.
00:07:45My buddies are all potheads.
00:07:52It's always funny, too.
00:07:54You know, we're always sick.
00:07:56Always have, like, flu or something.
00:07:58He's always smoking a joint.
00:07:59You're like, no way, you have a cold?
00:08:00I just got over one last week.
00:08:02It's fucking weird.
00:08:03There you go.
00:08:06Mono flu cold.
00:08:08Hey, thanks, man.
00:08:08I'm just as dumbfounded as you, Larry.
00:08:11I was the youngest player for Australia at 18 in the World Championships.
00:08:18I played in two Olympics.
00:08:19I became a playing coach in Australia.
00:08:25Won every national championship that could be won in my entire career.
00:08:31When I got into trouble in 86 for smoking marijuana with my team at the end of a season, the old
00:08:39hell broke loose.
00:08:40But that was the first time that I can ever, ever know of in any top-level sport in the
00:08:45United States or Australia or anywhere, where they fired the coach a week before the finals with
00:08:51the best record in the history of the league, which still stands today, 30 years later.
00:08:57The team refused to play until they reinstated me.
00:09:00The whole city was incredibly supportive.
00:09:04And the committee had to back down and reinstate me.
00:09:06Any sport that is a contact sport that develops pain, if the athletes can get some marijuana, I
00:09:15believe it would be an absolute blessing for top-level sporting people.
00:09:21I use a substantial amount for my cancer on an everyday basis.
00:09:26And as far as I know at this stage, it's the only reason that I'm still alive.
00:09:31I'm born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, where there used to be 50,000-plus manufacturing
00:09:40jobs in the city alone.
00:09:42When GM went bankrupt and I lost my job, it was like cannabis was there.
00:09:47I took my severance pay and I built the Crow Room in Michigan.
00:09:50And since then, I've been in the caregiver network in the medical marijuana industry in Michigan.
00:09:55Marijuana does 400 different things, helps with 400 different maladies.
00:10:01When you take all of that into account, why would you deny a medical use?
00:10:05You have Pfizer and all the other big pharma companies that can produce medicines for us
00:10:11at very high cost.
00:10:12Or you could have marijuana that you can grow in your own backyard that will treat a myriad
00:10:17of symptoms.
00:10:18It's a folk remedy that's been used for 3,000 years.
00:10:21It's only the last 75 years that it's been demonized in the United States and the rest
00:10:26of the world.
00:10:29There is an increasing body of evidence that the active ingredients in cannabis, cannabidiol
00:10:35or CBD, are showing benefit in children with difficult-to-control seizures.
00:10:42My husband Jason and I relocated from Oklahoma as cannabis refugees first in Austin.
00:10:48Austin's condition is known as Dravet syndrome.
00:10:50It's the catastrophic form of epilepsy.
00:10:53They are full-body convulsions where you stop breathing.
00:10:58He would have dozens to hundreds every single day.
00:11:03He has cognitive and physical decline, similar to Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.
00:11:10Any legally prescribed pharmaceutical for epilepsy, our son has tried.
00:11:16He would have significant weight gain or weight loss, rage, anger, sadness, and none of them
00:11:24stopped the seizures.
00:11:26None of them.
00:11:27Over 14 years.
00:11:28When I returned to the University of Oklahoma to do some studies on neurology and our son's
00:11:35condition, I stumbled across the U.S. patent number 6630507, which in that particular patent
00:11:42proves that cannabinoids are neuroprotectants.
00:11:44There was 40 years of post-World War II modern era research that supported not only the plant
00:11:52as medicinal, but as non-toxic and non-lethal.
00:11:56We knew that cannabis was never going to be an option with Austin and Oklahoma.
00:12:01The doctors said that there was nothing more that they could do for our son.
00:12:04The pharmaceuticals were shutting down his organs and basically to take him home.
00:12:07So in a way we did, we took him to Colorado.
00:12:17When you watch your son dying and the doctors tell you there's nothing else that they can
00:12:24do, and then this little plant stops his seizures.
00:12:30It's like we could live again.
00:12:37We had hope again.
00:12:39We knew.
00:12:42We knew that we were going to have Austin a little longer.
00:12:44Now that he's on cannabis, I mean, he tells us that he loves us.
00:12:57He will come over and just hug us to give us a kiss.
00:13:03Oh, thank you, baby.
00:13:08He can talk to his little brothers.
00:13:10He can play with his little brothers.
00:13:11He can comprehend and understand things.
00:13:14He's happy now.
00:13:15You know, we used to think that cannabis was bad, too.
00:13:18I used to think it was the devil's lettuce and that it caused people to do crazy things.
00:13:23Now I've learned that's not the case at all.
00:13:27Moving to Colorado saved our son's life.
00:13:29He saved our life.
00:13:30If you're telling me that a family has to leave a state to get something to make their
00:13:40kid feel a little better, are you kidding me?
00:13:43People have to leave their state to alleviate their children's pain?
00:13:46That is outrageous and worth, you know, breaking down the barricades of injustice.
00:13:51In 2004, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
00:13:56I quickly saw what the chemotherapy was going to do to me, and I understood that these cures,
00:14:02these medicines that they were giving us were terribly destructive to the body.
00:14:07I couldn't imagine someone going through chemotherapy without this for appetite, for depression,
00:14:14for pain, for sleep.
00:14:16And after I'd gone through that experience, I realized that I felt very passionate about
00:14:22cannabis, and I really wanted people to know that it was a big part of my recovery.
00:14:27Instead of writing prescriptions for five or six different medicines, I can recommend that
00:14:33they try one medicine, and that's cannabis.
00:14:35It's from the earth.
00:14:37That's why I fuck with it.
00:14:38If I get a headache, I don't go to the fucking aspirin bush and pick an aspirin.
00:14:44No, I roll a joint.
00:14:47Some good haze or some good old cheese, S-F-E-O-G.
00:14:51Something good and heavy.
00:14:53Just something to make me sit my ass down and think.
00:15:03Yeah.
00:15:04Yeah.
00:15:05Yeah.
00:15:25Yeah.
00:15:26Mm-hmm.
00:15:27Yeah.
00:15:31Mm-hmm.
00:15:32Mm-hmm.
00:15:32Mm-hmm.
00:15:33I smoked before I go to this Rolling Stone show, I was out of my gourd high, and I remember
00:15:49walking over there thinking, oh shit, you just spent a thousand fucking dollars on tickets.
00:15:53I hope you remember the show, you idiot.
00:15:55The experimentation of drugs is an essential rite of passage for any artist.
00:16:09What they do is they amplify who you really think you are, and want to be.
00:16:16The first time I tried it, it was cosmic, I mean, very cosmic.
00:16:21It was enough to make me feel like I was part of a bigger intelligent system, and I just
00:16:37thought that was totally beautiful.
00:16:42There's a reason we call it getting high.
00:16:45It lifts you up, it takes you to a place that an artist is not so afraid of.
00:16:49Everything from Awakening On was completely written and produced and created with the
00:16:57influence of cannabis.
00:16:58I definitely think some of the best things that Pod gave me were perspectives that I wouldn't
00:17:03normally see when I was sober.
00:17:06I'm an artist, a creator.
00:17:17My art is definitely cannabis inspired.
00:17:21Cannabis allows me to kind of melt away all the distractions, to get in the zone quicker,
00:17:27to be in the zone longer, and to focus on what I love doing, my passion.
00:17:35I'm big on painting what I feel.
00:17:37I'm big on expressing emotion in a visual aspect.
00:17:47People will pick up a piece, they'll buy it, come to the counter, they'll explain what it
00:17:51means.
00:17:52And they'll be amazed that that's exactly what they were feeling at the moment.
00:17:58This is the climb.
00:18:00This represents kind of in life when you're trying to achieve your goal, all the obstacles
00:18:04and everything that you have to overcome to get to the top, to be right over here in this
00:18:09little spot.
00:18:10And this is the guy that's trying to get to the top.
00:18:12So it's like how you have to balance things in life, you have to carry a bunch of stuff
00:18:16on your back.
00:18:19And this is the guy that's trying to get to the top, to be right over here in the corner.
00:18:32Everyone who looks at this art smiles.
00:18:33I feel like it's the happy wavelength.
00:18:35When it hits your eyes, you just feel happy.
00:18:39The biggest support I get is from the cannabis community.
00:18:42The cannabis art community.
00:18:43It's huge.
00:18:49If you smoke weed, you enjoy visual art, it's just that they go hand in hand.
00:19:08Dunkey's art in the cannabis community is definitely highly, highly rated, definitely
00:19:12one of the top artists for sure.
00:19:14This stuff is really cutting edge.
00:19:18It allows exposure to people that normally don't get close to the vendors that really
00:19:22get to see top quality medicine up close and personal.
00:19:25As the day go by, let me tell you what I see.
00:19:28I see the fear in the heart, and they deem me in the eye.
00:19:33Hate on Heaven's Earth, keep the truth on the edge you fear.
00:19:39That's why today, we all pray, the ease are fit.
00:19:43If not, we'll close the eyes of Eli.
00:19:44I had a guy here when I moved here.
00:19:50One comic, he goes, you want to buy some weed?
00:19:51I go, yeah, fuck sure, I'll try yours out.
00:19:52He goes, how much do you want to buy?
00:19:53I go, I don't know, maybe an eighth?
00:19:54Dude looks at me with a straight face and goes, sorry man, I just have half quarters.
00:19:57Wow, well, I really wanted an eighth.
00:20:04I guess your half quarter will have to do.
00:20:07He goes, how much do you want to buy?
00:20:08I go, I don't know, maybe an eighth?
00:20:09Dude looks me with a straight face and goes, sorry man, I just have half quarters.
00:20:14Wow, well I really wanted an eighth.
00:20:19I guess your half quarter will have to do.
00:20:22I'm not paying eighth prices.
00:20:24How's a drug dealer not no fractions?
00:20:37Three rules of transport, have a buyer, have a supplier, don't get popped.
00:20:50You could have all the weed in the world, but if you don't have a buyer, you just got weed.
00:20:55The selling of it here is usually handled before it's even brought here.
00:20:59And then the purchase of it is handled on the phone before you go up there.
00:21:02So it's really, there's no nervousness about it.
00:21:11The worst part is the transport.
00:21:13That's the only place you're going to get caught up.
00:21:16So stay low key.
00:21:18Don't stand out.
00:21:20Don't be flashy.
00:21:26My car is a Subaru, man, just like everybody in Humboldt has.
00:21:32Black limo tint around it.
00:21:34It's a long trunk.
00:21:35So when I go there, it looks like I'm from town.
00:21:43I've got a sticker on the back for like the local college radio station.
00:21:47So like when I'm in Humboldt, I look like I'm really supposed to be there.
00:21:50You got to blend in.
00:21:51Because they're bored.
00:21:53Humboldt cops are bored.
00:21:55They'll pop you on the way out of town.
00:21:56That's what they do.
00:21:57They just sit there and wait.
00:21:58Don't speed.
00:21:59Like when you're leaving Humboldt County, just keep it chill.
00:22:03Just drive the speed limit.
00:22:05Because that's where they're at.
00:22:06That's where they're chilling.
00:22:12Driving's not hard enough as it is.
00:22:14Why don't you put a blow torch and point it at your lap.
00:22:20And then plan on having your eyes closed in a coughing fit for 35 seconds straight at 80 miles an hour.
00:22:27Record homicide rates, mass graves, mass incarceration, kidnappings, corruption, drugs, guns, violence, and money.
00:22:33These are all words that best describe the last 45 years of the war on drugs.
00:22:37The war on drugs is a war on people.
00:22:39We've succeeded in putting a whole bunch of people in jail, non-violent drug users.
00:22:43We're filling up our jails with those people.
00:22:45Parents are sick of their kids getting arrested and thrown in a prison where they could get raped, murdered.
00:22:51And they get turned on to heroin.
00:22:53They get turned on to crystal meth.
00:22:55And they become institutionalized and criminalized.
00:22:57And when they get out, they've got criminal records so they can't get jobs.
00:23:01Lost human potential.
00:23:03People going without members of their family for years on end.
00:23:06And the massive cost of incarceration.
00:23:08A lot of people I know did time because of drugs.
00:23:12And in my mind, they're not criminals.
00:23:15They just got caught up in what became a money-making industry.
00:23:19One of the worst crimes ever perpetrated by the American government on the American people.
00:23:25Pelican Bay is one of the most secure prisons in the entire country.
00:23:28It's where we put the worst of the worst of the worst.
00:23:31That prison has an opiate overdose rate.
00:23:34Several times that of what exists on the street.
00:23:36If you can't keep drugs out of Pelican Bay, you can't keep drugs out of your local high school.
00:23:41We would rather demonize drugs.
00:23:44We would rather make drugs mysterious.
00:23:48We would rather give these moral qualities to drugs than simply recognize the fact that these are chemical compounds that have psychotropic effects on the human body.
00:24:00You know, we've taken this out of the back alleys.
00:24:02We've taken it out of the shadows.
00:24:04We've created an environment where people can go, just like you go to a liquor store, and get something that is regulated.
00:24:10You know what you're putting in your body.
00:24:12So we've taken money out of the pockets of our cartels.
00:24:15We've actually seen some decline in crime.
00:24:17We haven't seen teen use of marijuana go up.
00:24:20We've taken in about $135 million in state taxes.
00:24:24They're gonna legalize pot so they can mend the fucking potholes.
00:24:29Am I wrong?
00:24:32Am I wrong?
00:24:34You, you legislators, am I wrong?
00:24:37Are you gonna take the money?
00:24:39Well, if you don't, it'd be a remarkable change in politics, wouldn't it?
00:24:54So if we can write the rules and create an industry and create a culture that is good for working people, that's good for the environment, that's a huge opportunity and it's something that is developing right along with legalization.
00:25:21Normal did a congressional scorecard where we graded every member of Congress based on their statements and their voting record with regard to marijuana policy.
00:25:36Five percent of the members of Congress were graded an A, which meant that they had backed publicly the legalization of marijuana.
00:25:46That's a public policy that is now supported by 60 percent of America, but only five percent of lawmakers in Congress embraced that policy.
00:25:57We did a governor's scorecard, all 50 governors.
00:26:00We found exactly the same results.
00:26:03Only two governors out of 50 were on record supporting the regulation of marijuana.
00:26:10Again, at the political level, we simply don't see the support we see among the public.
00:26:19The Democrats and the Republicans all have to take a certain amount of responsibility for these racist laws.
00:26:26So in terms of this administration, it defies common sense.
00:26:29Conservatives tend to uphold the ideal of states' rights.
00:26:33So I'm hoping that Donald Trump adheres to that, but I have no fucking idea.
00:26:38This drug is dangerous.
00:26:40You cannot play with it.
00:26:41It's not funny.
00:26:42It's not something to laugh about.
00:26:44And trying to send that message with clarity that good people don't smoke marijuana.
00:26:50Good people don't smoke marijuana.
00:26:53In that voice, that sounds like it was spawned from like 12 generations of moonshiners.
00:26:58Like Keebler just opened a still.
00:27:05That breaks my heart that I won't be invited to Jeff Sessions' good people party.
00:27:11Here it's very formal.
00:27:13Whitehood only.
00:27:15And if we go back into this path, we're going to regret it.
00:27:21On a federal level, because it's still schedule one, this despot is going to stand up there
00:27:25and he's going to say, look, this is what the law is, and I'm going to go after you,
00:27:30even though in your state you've all agreed that this is what you want to do.
00:27:35How mad can the reefer madness get?
00:27:37You've got a president that's worried about terrorism, and he wants to spend money and time
00:27:41going after law-abiding cannabis users.
00:27:44But we have some bad hombres here, and we're going to get them out.
00:27:48Could troops be coming in here?
00:27:49Could the National Guard be deployed?
00:27:51If they want to come in and pull the rug out from under the state of Colorado,
00:27:55and we're doing successfully economically, socially,
00:27:59and even providing new resources for people struggling with drug addiction,
00:28:03if they want to pull that rug out from under us, I'm ready for a fight.
00:28:06Hey, look at this!
00:28:07Donald Trump!
00:28:08Donald Trump!
00:28:09Donald Trump!
00:28:10Donald Trump!
00:28:11Oh my God!
00:28:12Oh my God!
00:28:13The hostile takeover of Donald Trump!
00:28:15I'm okay with legalization, as long as a few things happen.
00:28:19Number one, you get that person off of our healthcare system.
00:28:22Number two, you take away their driver's license.
00:28:24Number three, you take away their kids, and you isolate them.
00:28:27If they sell or smoke weed, they should take away their healthcare,
00:28:31they should take away their children, and they should take away their fucking citizenship.
00:28:35I'm like, dude, that's not a weed smoker.
00:28:37That's a Mexican.
00:28:38That's what that is.
00:28:39I was arrested seven times for having weed.
00:28:42A small amount for a blunt.
00:28:44If your skin happens to be a little darker, you have a 50% to 75% more of a chance of going to jail for the same crime.
00:28:54How we solve the problem, getting minorities into the legal market and getting them to be able to participate just as much as anyone else.
00:29:02People with less means, whether that's economic or educational, person of color, or a woman.
00:29:08There's these barriers to entry into the legal market that, in some ways, have been set up just by the regulations that we put forward as lawmakers.
00:29:17In many states, you're not allowed to work in the industry if you have a conviction.
00:29:21And those that are convicted, especially on marijuana crimes, these are our experts.
00:29:26So it's kind of ironic that the very people that got us started are now being excommunicated from participating in a legal market.
00:29:34And it's not fair because it's the people of color that went to prison for this plant.
00:29:37Now you have, you know, all the suits making billions of dollars, and they're trying to cut everybody out.
00:29:43That's not okay.
00:29:45They came to my house at 5 in the morning with a SWAT team, fully armed, with riot gear, and masks, and helmets, and automatic weapons.
00:30:00These guys are looking like they're in downtown Mosul, a special forces team type of deal, and they're just decked out head to toe.
00:30:07That militarization of our police force has gotten a little bit out of control.
00:30:11It's SWAT style raids, and I have clients that have PTSD as a result of these raids.
00:30:20My name is Gary Levine. For the past 35 years, I've been preparing kids and adults for tests to get them into the next phase of their education.
00:30:30Over the years, I've helped people get into college and grad school and medical school that they probably wouldn't have been able to do were it not for our work together.
00:30:43About 14 years ago, I bought this property that had an avocado farm on it.
00:30:48About six years ago, they did away with agricultural water for my district, and my monthly water bill went from about $1,000 a month to about $3,000 a month.
00:31:00So I told everybody that we're going to get out of the avocado business.
00:31:07One day, a guy knocks on my door, and he said, a group of disabled veterans, and we would like to rent that space to grow.
00:31:15When I started doing it, I had visions that, you know, I was going to make some money.
00:31:20And isn't it going to be ironic that Gary is making money in the pot business when Gary is the guy who's never smoked pot?
00:31:27The second day of trimming, the police raided us.
00:31:32And it was the police, it was the sheriff's department, it was the DEA, it was some federal agencies.
00:31:39There were probably 40 or 50 police with at least one helicopter overhead the whole time.
00:31:45All had their guns pointed at different people. They threatened us with prison. They took me to jail.
00:31:52They enjoy intimidating and hurting people.
00:31:56They sent me to strip naked and to put on their jail clothes, all the while knowing that my bail had been posted.
00:32:04They were trying to make an example out of us and anybody else who might grow weed.
00:32:09Because I used the word sell instead of the word donate, they came down really hard on me.
00:32:18You see people that have given their body and their soul to fighting for our country and to fighting for our way of life.
00:32:26And they come back and in many cases they're ignored.
00:32:29And there aren't a lot of treatments out there for PTSD.
00:32:32And we're starting to see that marijuana is one of the most effective treatments.
00:32:36In many cases these people end up being arrested and prosecuted for cultivating for themselves or providing it to other vets.
00:32:43And it is an emotional experience. It's very difficult to see these people prosecuted.
00:32:49I would like to share my story about me facing five years in prison for six cannabis plants.
00:32:56I'm a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. I served for ten years. I did three tours.
00:33:00They were treating conditions associated with PTSD. So it was meds for anxiety, depression, paranoid.
00:33:07As well as a large amount of opiate based meds to include Vicodin and then actually pure Oxycontin.
00:33:15Roughly a year ago I was on over 13 pills a day. And as of March of 2016 I am pharmaceutical free living only a cannabis lifestyle.
00:33:27Within a day I'm actually playing with my newborn son at the time.
00:33:31So it was a dramatic difference. Cannabis has literally changed my life.
00:33:36My kids understand why daddy needs the medicine he does and they truly love me on cannabis.
00:33:42I'm a happier dad. I'm a better person to be around. I live a better life.
00:33:46This is not just for me. It is for veterans everywhere.
00:33:49The drug trafficking business has always been one that generates a ton of cash.
00:33:57The attorney general's office says that it's estimated that drug trafficking profits in the US are about 65 billion dollars a year.
00:34:05As soon as you made it illegal the price of it shot up on the black market.
00:34:09Now when the price shoots up on the black market what happens?
00:34:13It's basically economic supply and demand.
00:34:17I am Mr. Purple. I distribute cannabis products through the darknet.
00:34:22People go on there. They make a selection.
00:34:25The buyer's money which is in Bitcoin goes into an escrow in the darknet market until we send the package and is received by the buyer.
00:34:36The protocol usually consists of gloves, no fingerprints, no handwriting, no hair.
00:34:43There is no smell coming from the package in any way.
00:34:48That's one of the primary ways that packages are confiscated is by poor packing.
00:34:54From there you then do a little bit of extra security by putting anything that you ship into mylar.
00:35:00The mylar is completely unexrayable and it's impermeable to scent.
00:35:08A lot of it goes to the east coast.
00:35:11Very seldomly does it head west.
00:35:14It's not as gangster as people think it is.
00:35:18It is the sellers in the black market that want cannabis to be illegal
00:35:26because that keeps the price high and it keeps their profits rolling.
00:35:30If you look at statistics on the number of marijuana seizures that are happening at the border right now,
00:35:35they are down significantly from previous years.
00:35:38They don't need to buy the black market marijuana that in many cases has chemicals, pesticides.
00:35:45They don't know what they're getting and that money is going to fuel organized crime.
00:35:49What do you think they won't buy a black market?
00:35:53They do not deserve that.
00:35:54Fisting the black market will be left.
00:35:55They'll get their wealth under the border right now,
00:35:57they will also be left with the black market.
00:35:58The white market will hopefully spend their wealth.
00:35:59It will also be left with the white market.
00:36:01When we've got them on, they've got their full楚.
00:36:02That's right.
00:36:03They are the white market now.
00:36:06I am playing in front of the border now.
00:36:08A game that will be right.
00:36:09In front of the border, I guess the two parts of the border.
00:36:12What about the border?
00:36:13Did you try to see the black market?
00:36:14I am playing in front of the border?
00:36:15I am playing in front of the border.
00:36:16I am playing with black market.
00:36:17We're told we don't know enough about cannabis.
00:36:22We're told it hasn't been adequately studied.
00:36:25Again, the reality is that we have ample evidence with regard to cannabis.
00:36:33We have more than 25,000 peer-reviewed studies in the scientific literature that reference
00:36:40the marijuana plant.
00:36:42That's more than the total volume of literature we have for Tylenol or for ibuprofen.
00:36:50When it comes to cannabis, there is so much for people to learn.
00:37:04What is Oaksterdam University?
00:37:05For those that might not know, it's America's first cannabis college.
00:37:12I focus on curriculum and making sure that what we offer the students matches what they'll
00:37:25need once they get out on their own.
00:37:32And just removing the leaf, and we want to remove the leaf, remember this is called the
00:37:36petiole, that's the stem of the leaf.
00:37:38We want to remove the leaf at the base of the petiole.
00:37:45They're learning everything from starting with seeds and seed germination, to transplanting,
00:38:02to what's called vegetative growth, all the way through the reproductive and flowering
00:38:06stages of the plant, through to harvest, and how to design their own grow room from scratch,
00:38:12fill it with the lighting and all kinds of ventilation equipment.
00:38:15You're going to sit in probably the most diverse classroom setting you're ever going to be in
00:38:21in your life.
00:38:22You're going to have high school graduates sitting next to neurosurgeons, next to grandmothers
00:38:26sitting next to policymakers and city council members.
00:38:28We have nine academic departments, of which our legal department is our largest.
00:38:33Before we teach you anything, we teach you the law, so you understand what you shouldn't
00:38:37be doing, and how to operate safely and responsibly.
00:38:41In this industry, when you talk to somebody about cannabis, 99% of the time, you know what
00:38:45they're giving you?
00:38:46Their opinion.
00:38:47And there's a difference between being opinionated versus being educated, and that's why we have
00:38:50Oaksterdam University.
00:38:51We've graduated over 30,000 students from over 30 countries.
00:38:56When you graduate from Oaksterdam, it's just the beginning.
00:39:03They should be teaching this to kids.
00:39:06Yeah, fuck that avocado with the toothpicks in the jar.
00:39:09Get that out of here.
00:39:11Let's get Timmy and Scotty to cutting some clones.
00:39:14How about that?
00:39:15Yeah, we're going to crack seeds today, kids.
00:39:19Hey, what are you working with, Kyle?
00:39:22Well, I have a hybrid.
00:39:25Really?
00:39:26Did you crossbreed?
00:39:27Yes.
00:39:28My senior year in high school, I was in honors English.
00:39:32My teacher hated me.
00:39:33She just did not like me at all.
00:39:36And just to piss her off, I wrote a paper on the legalization of marijuana.
00:39:40The paper was well-written, so she had to give me a high grade.
00:39:43High grade.
00:39:47Kids are learning in high school that marijuana is just as bad as heroin, cocaine, LSD.
00:39:54And as a result, when they try it and realize it's not that bad, then maybe they think, you
00:39:59know what, maybe heroin, LSD, and cocaine, maybe they're lying to me about that as well.
00:40:04Marijuana is a gateway drug.
00:40:05It's the number one drug people say they started with before they got on to harder drugs.
00:40:10The notion that it's a gateway to heroin is like saying sugar is a gateway to, you know,
00:40:16suicide.
00:40:17I mean, it's such a pedantic, pedestrian, immature, irrelevant,
00:40:23unliterate, stupid fucking thing to say.
00:40:26If you're going to make cannabis or marijuana a schedule one control substance right there
00:40:31with ecstasy, heroin, and LSD, then let's put alcohol in there too.
00:40:38I never quite understood why there was such a taboo and consequence around the use of cannabis,
00:40:47whereas alcohol was free range if you're 21 and up.
00:40:50There are statistics that suggest that there might be a two-fold increased risk of a driving accident
00:40:56compared to an eight-fold risk with alcohol, but in states that have approved cannabis
00:41:01and made it legal there appears to be decrease in fatal traffic accidents.
00:41:06People that drink alcohol tend to drive faster, take more chances,
00:41:10and they're less aware of their intoxication.
00:41:15Marijuana, on the other hand, people are driving slower, following distance are greater,
00:41:19the risk-taking behaviors are less, and the awareness of the level of intoxication is much higher.
00:41:26I'm not saying smoke a joint and drive, but I'm just saying
00:41:30sometimes when you smoke joints you've got to go places.
00:41:33Don't get me wrong, I drink, I have a few drinks, I hang out with Mr. Alcohol, that's my boy,
00:41:38but I'm just saying it's a big difference.
00:41:40All right, here's hanging out with Mr. Alcohol.
00:41:43Oh, Mr. Alcohol, what you want to do?
00:41:47I don't know, man, let's get on the freeway.
00:41:50Okay, Mr. Alcohol, let's go!
00:41:53Then you and Mr. Alcohol will be on the freeway.
00:41:56What now? Speed up!
00:41:58All right, Mr. Alcohol!
00:42:00Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
00:42:02Oh, shit!
00:42:03Mr. Alcohol!
00:42:04It's the police!
00:42:05What the fuck should I do?
00:42:07Go faster!
00:42:08Okay, Mr. Alcohol!
00:42:09Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
00:42:10What next?
00:42:11I don't know!
00:42:12Pull over!
00:42:13Tell him to suck your dick!
00:42:14That's a great idea, Mr. Alcohol!
00:42:16All right.
00:42:17All right, here they come, here they come.
00:42:19Suck my dick!
00:42:21Huh?
00:42:22Oh, hold on, I gotta roll down the window, huh?
00:42:25Suck my dick, bitch!
00:42:27Oh, Mr. Alcohol!
00:42:28They whooped my ass!
00:42:29And Mr. Alcohol will say,
00:42:30I didn't say, say, bitch!
00:42:32But that's how he'll do you.
00:42:34You see, hang out with Mr. Weed,
00:42:35it's totally different.
00:42:36Hang out with Mr. Weed,
00:42:37ain't Mr. Weed.
00:42:38What you want to do?
00:42:39I don't know.
00:42:40I think we're hungry, though.
00:42:41Right again, Mr. Weed.
00:42:43I don't know.
00:42:44I think we're hungry, though.
00:42:46Right again, Mr. Weed.
00:42:48I don't know.
00:42:49I don't know.
00:42:50I don't know.
00:42:51I think we're hungry, though.
00:42:53Right again, Mr. Weed.
00:42:56Well, let's go to the store.
00:42:58You think we should drive?
00:43:00Hey, man, we're not gonna go fast.
00:43:04Besides, you've driven a thousand times.
00:43:07This is true.
00:43:09And there you'll be, driving Mr. Weed.
00:43:12Oh, yeah, you become a precision driver
00:43:16when you're high.
00:43:18Let me take this one.
00:43:20You like that turn there, Mr. Weed.
00:43:25I think you should've leaned into it more.
00:43:28Yeah, all right, Mr. Weed.
00:43:31What now?
00:43:32Let's get on the freeway.
00:43:33Go to that McDonald's.
00:43:34All right.
00:43:35They do got the hot nuggets down there.
00:43:39Check the mirror.
00:43:40Check the side.
00:43:41Check the side.
00:43:42Check the mirror.
00:43:43We are so good at this, man.
00:43:46Oh, yeah.
00:43:47Woo-woo!
00:43:48Oh, shit!
00:43:49Oh, shit, Mr. Weed.
00:43:51Hey, hey, motherfucker.
00:43:53What's this panicky shit?
00:43:55You're not a rookie.
00:43:57That's right.
00:43:58That's right.
00:43:59I don't get paranoid anymore.
00:44:01I know what to say, right, Mr. Weed?
00:44:04That's right.
00:44:05Compliment him on the uniform first off the bat.
00:44:07Well, hello, officer.
00:44:11My, are they tailor-fitting you guys now, man?
00:44:17What now?
00:44:18Relax.
00:44:19Not that much.
00:44:22Give him the paperwork.
00:44:28What now?
00:44:29Just relax.
00:44:3010 o'clock, 2 o'clock.
00:44:32All right.
00:44:34Don't say anything else.
00:44:35There was always a differentiation between the hard drugs and the psychedelic drugs, and
00:44:57I knew, and especially having, you know, Jerry be a heroin addict and watching, you know,
00:45:04how that can devastate good people, that there's a huge difference.
00:45:08If you're using marijuana, particularly as a young person, you are definitely playing Russian roulette.
00:45:14I don't care whether it's marijuana, heroin, crack, cocaine, they're all the same.
00:45:18See, the thing about pot is it deserves its own category among everything.
00:45:21Like, among all the intoxicants, it stands up favorably.
00:45:26Except for, like, happiness, you know, shit like that.
00:45:29But, you know, people compare it to coke.
00:45:33I've seen people compare it to heroin, comparing pot to heroin, which tells me, one, you've never tried either.
00:45:39And, B, you've never even seen a movie.
00:45:44Like, fucking watch Trainspotting and a Seth Rogen movie and then come back and talk to me.
00:45:50I don't consider marijuana and pot use as gateway drug.
00:45:54I consider it up to par with heroin and the opioids and the other drugs.
00:46:00Some people are talking about how, like, weed is kind of like crack, like it's just as dangerous.
00:46:06I think that's ridiculous because I feel like no one's so addicted to weed that they're just blowing people for it.
00:46:15When you have an opioid crisis, to trivialize that by comparing it to cannabis,
00:46:21which hasn't caused a single death in the history of the United States,
00:46:25I mean, it's just irresponsible and it's disrespectful to the people who struggle with opiate addiction.
00:46:32And it's disrespectful to that entire issue.
00:46:35It is ludicrous, absurd, crazy to have marijuana in the same level as heroin.
00:46:43Ask the late Philip Seymour Hoffman if you could.
00:46:46Nobody dies from marijuana.
00:46:48And every death, including Mr. Hoffman's,
00:46:52is partly the responsibility of the federal government's drug priorities
00:46:56and heroin and meth is where all of your priorities should be.
00:47:00The myth of cannabis being a gateway drug has been dispelled multiple times now
00:47:05by multiple multinational investigations.
00:47:10In fact, cannabis is actually an exit strategy to many of those dependence problems on other drugs.
00:47:16But then when opiates got too hardcore on my stomach
00:47:21And my skin started breaking down
00:47:23And I lost all my money
00:47:25And I showed up late for things
00:47:28Wow, this is getting pretty serious, yeah.
00:47:30But my life was falling apart
00:47:32So I locked myself in a room
00:47:35And I smoked a bunch of weed
00:47:37Because I wanted the wood dry to go away
00:47:41For me, pot was a gateway to sobriety.
00:47:44I mean, I use pot to get off the other drugs.
00:47:47I'm a clinical social worker by training
00:47:49And I work in chemical dependencies.
00:47:51High sobriety is what it's called
00:47:53And it's the first of its kind that we're aware of anyway
00:47:57That includes cannabis as part of a medication protocol to help people with their addictions.
00:48:02Which sounds nuts, but it's not.
00:48:05Lots of drugs, specifically amphetamines, make people crazy.
00:48:10There's 88,000 people a year drink themselves to death with lethal dose of alcohol.
00:48:15There's 115 people who drop dead every day using opiates.
00:48:19Heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, all of those drugs have a dose where people will just drop dead.
00:48:25Nobody finds any recovery at all if they drop dead.
00:48:29There's no known lethal dose of cannabis.
00:48:32People have that ability to replace their drugs with cannabis.
00:48:37That creates room for change.
00:48:39You can have a conversation with a chronic cannabis user.
00:48:42That's how we believe that cannabis is used as an exit drug.
00:48:46As an off-ramp from these other drugs.
00:48:49And it can give people a softer landing in the abstinence.
00:48:52This is in my nature, I think, as a collector.
00:49:02And collecting the herb just seemed like something fun to do.
00:49:06And everybody I'd show it to was always impressed and enjoyed the whole experience.
00:49:15Got over a thousand different pieces of beautiful herb from 1972 to the present day.
00:49:21Little piece of Hawaiian from 1985.
00:49:25Columbian red, and it's from 1978.
00:49:30This is, I think, everybody's favorite.
00:49:32It's Thai stick from 1978.
00:49:35You'll notice the stick.
00:49:37And then it's wound with this little bit of, like, hemp string.
00:49:40Like, really fine.
00:49:42And they generally went for $10 a stick, sometimes up to $15 or $20.
00:49:46Black indica from 1979.
00:49:49That's a stupendous part of the collection, because that was the best.
00:49:54Nobody could beat it.
00:49:56Acapulco gold, that's badass weed.
00:50:01It's a one-of-a-kind collection.
00:50:03A beautiful herb, and maybe someday it can help by getting the genetics out of it, the DNA.
00:50:08I don't think you can resurrect it like Jurassic Park, but it's possible.
00:50:11Who knows?
00:50:12Hawaiian punch.
00:50:19You just look for that smell, and you know what it is.
00:50:24And you can only imagine tropical vibes, sea breezes.
00:50:30It kind of makes you feel, like, euphoric and elevated feeling of everything's going to be okay.
00:50:39It's the Hawaiian punch.
00:50:42We have this lemon OG.
00:50:45And I picked it out because lemon being back crossed with an OG is something I would enjoy.
00:50:57Very limey and fuel-y and gassy and full-bodied.
00:51:03And, you know, some people like their herb grown under the sun.
00:51:08It's natural.
00:51:10It's definitely more eco-friendly.
00:51:15OG means ocean grown originally.
00:51:18Definitely my favorite strain is OG Kush.
00:51:23One that has a very lemony punch to it.
00:51:28The 19-year-old at the store who sells me my pot seems like more of a scientist than the doctor.
00:51:37You know, he's the one who's like, yes, it's like a 4 to 1 turpin ratio.
00:51:43Here, if you look with a magnifying glass, gah!
00:51:47This is our weed pantry.
00:51:48What we've got is, like, lots of flowers, different types of concentrates,
00:51:53a bunch of ingredients that are already infused with cannabis.
00:51:57A lot of people ask me, do you just walk into that pantry and, like,
00:52:01stick your nose in a jar and pick a nug every morning?
00:52:04Yes, that's exactly what I do.
00:52:09This rosin press is a solvent-free way to extract the resins from cannabis.
00:52:16Inside a piece of parchment paper, there's some cannabis flowers.
00:52:20What's gonna happen is that this machine is going to press it down.
00:52:25It's gonna go to about 200 degrees.
00:52:29Just for a few seconds, it's gonna compress it at that temperature.
00:52:33And what that's gonna do is, it's gonna cause the resins inside the cannabis,
00:52:37the oil, to just sort of shoot out the sides.
00:52:40This is an increasingly popular way to make cannabis concentrates.
00:52:43So we're gonna open it up, and you're gonna see there's a bunch of wax there.
00:52:50Wow, that shit is gooey as fuck!
00:52:55Each one is like a chalk outline of the nug that, you know...
00:52:58That you destroyed.
00:52:59Yeah, that once came from it, you know, like...
00:53:03Like, in memory of this guy.
00:53:07Alright, let's go do some dabs.
00:53:08I was in Michigan. I don't know if you guys have ever flown into Michigan with weed.
00:53:17Yeah, not the smartest thing.
00:53:18I saw a cop with a dog, and then the dog jumps up onto the carousel.
00:53:20He's smelling everybody's luggage. My heart's beating.
00:53:21Right?
00:53:22He smelled my luggage, quickly moved onto the next bag.
00:53:23That's when I started to panic. I'm like, fuck, did I even bring it?
00:53:24I was in Michigan. I don't know if you guys have ever flown into Michigan with weed.
00:53:30Yeah. Not the smartest thing.
00:53:32I saw a cop with a dog, and then the dog jumps up onto the carousel.
00:53:35He's smelling everybody's luggage. My heart's beating.
00:53:37Right?
00:53:38He smelled my luggage, quickly moved onto the next bag.
00:53:41That's when I started to panic. I'm like, fuck, did I even bring it?
00:54:24It comes down to if you can get a 10-hour drive down in one day without getting pulled over.
00:54:36I came to Los Angeles for weed.
00:54:39If you get arrested for weed in the South, I mean, you just treat it like any other criminal.
00:54:44The way I look right now is what thugs look like in the South.
00:54:47I get pulled over every day.
00:54:54I think that's a cop behind you.
00:55:04I've been pulled over with a joint in my lips here in Los Angeles, California.
00:55:21And the cop asks me, what do you think you're doing?
00:55:25Medicating.
00:55:29She's a green reality.
00:55:39Looked at my license and everything and let me go.
00:55:41That would have never happened in the South.
00:55:44I'd have gone to jail.
00:55:47They don't even care here.
00:55:49That's the reason I'm here.
00:55:50Because there's too many close calls and run-ins with the police in my home state.
00:55:53The whole mentality is completely opposite of the people and the culture around it.
00:56:03And I think it's because, honestly, here, a lot of rich people smoke weed.
00:56:08And they're like, I don't want to go to jail for smoking weed.
00:56:09So rich people paid to have the laws changed.
00:56:11If you don't love cannabis and you're not passionate about cannabis, it's going to be hard to grow really great cannabis.
00:56:19Any idiot can grow a pot.
00:56:21It's a fucking plant.
00:56:22You water it, it'll grow.
00:56:23But there's those of us that spend the time doing the research.
00:56:25We go and we find the masters and we learn from them.
00:56:28Cannabis cultivation is part science and part art.
00:56:32And certainly, I think, part luck.
00:56:37Welcome to Dank by Paint Gardens.
00:56:39This is our awesome propagation room.
00:56:41I'm going to tell you this is one of the most important rooms in our entire garden.
00:56:45When you come down here, you'll see all of our teen plants that just came out of the cloner.
00:56:49These have been grown for about two weeks.
00:56:51So they're really starting to rip.
00:56:56This is an aeroponic cloner.
00:56:58And I want to show you underneath if you want to take a quick look.
00:57:00You can see all the roots inside of it, which are really fun.
00:57:04We've turned this off.
00:57:05Normally, we have water spraying out of every red head.
00:57:08And that basically creates the perfect environment for hormones to build on the cambian layer of these cuts
00:57:13and really shoot out the huge root systems that we want.
00:57:18This is, to me, is the original OG Kush.
00:57:22It's called Ghost OG.
00:57:24We grow in a medium right here of cocoa.
00:57:27This is organic cocoa from inland in Sri Lanka.
00:57:29So we have it shipped in in containers.
00:57:32And it comes in bricks.
00:57:34And we basically put those bricks in water and let them sit overnight.
00:57:37And then we break the bricks up and it comes into a nice, fine medium.
00:57:41You want to see.
00:57:42It's, like, really nice.
00:57:43And the reason everyone is really into this cocoa craze right now
00:57:47is cocoa holds about six times its weight in water.
00:57:51And it also has very high, like, fibers.
00:57:53So when you feed cocoa, it's really easy for the nutrients to adhere to the cocoa fibers.
00:57:58We've actually won the Cannabis Cup with the plants all back through here a bunch of times.
00:58:02This is a strain called Don Shula, which is just a winning strain.
00:58:07It's ironic that we call it the Don Shula because, I mean, he's the only, you know,
00:58:11coach that ever won a full season of football in the Super Bowl.
00:58:15I bought marijuana seeds when I moved here.
00:58:17Why wouldn't you?
00:58:18You can legally buy pot seeds now.
00:58:20Right?
00:58:21I don't even grow them.
00:58:22I just like to walk around my neighborhood and sprinkle them into people's yards.
00:58:25Hey, fuck, you called the cops on me.
00:58:28Looks like someone's growing within 100 feet of a school.
00:58:31You're a church.
00:58:32You should know better.
00:58:33The DEA, U.S. Marshal Service, and IRS are raiding Oaksterdam University
00:58:42as a school shooting is taking place in nearby East Oakland.
00:58:47It was surreal.
00:58:48What I remember most about the day of the raid is a line of local law enforcement,
00:58:54our Oakland Police Department, trying to stand between a crowd of hundreds shouting shame at the DEA
00:59:01and a hundred or so agents raiding five different properties.
00:59:08We know you don't want to be out here on this assignment.
00:59:11We know that in your heart you think that this assignment is good for you.
00:59:14We found out that a tragedy was going on a mile away.
00:59:19There was a school shooting.
00:59:20It's unknown if the gunman is still inside or if the gunman fled before police arrival.
00:59:26Our law enforcement couldn't walk away because they were busy protecting the DEA
00:59:31while they raided a plant that's never killed anyone.
00:59:36The idea of that school shooting happening
00:59:38and our police not being able to reply to it in a timely manner
00:59:43and the looks on the faces of the cops that were pissed off at having to be there in the first place
00:59:48because our local law enforcement actually supports our local medical cannabis industry
00:59:52and nobody told them that there was going to be a raid that morning.
00:59:55It's not easy. It's not easy at all.
00:59:57The city changes its regulations or the county or the state or the government
01:00:02or the president changes or whatever it is that's going to affect this business.
01:00:07It's a very competitive market and we reject 90% of the cannabis that comes through our doors.
01:00:13Picture a family with an 18-year-old child who comes to them and says,
01:00:18I want to grow a pot that isn't probably a very easy thing for a parent to deal with.
01:00:24So it came to a lot of pushing and pulling, a lot of fighting.
01:00:28After the first crop when they saw, oh shit, you know,
01:00:31kids know what he's doing can actually make money on this,
01:00:34that kind of started easing into more of an acceptance.
01:00:38When you're growing indoors, we're literally trying to play God.
01:00:50We're bringing the sun from outside.
01:00:52We're putting it indoors.
01:00:53We tried doing outdoors and the bugs came.
01:00:57So I said, fuck it.
01:00:58Build a grow room and I'm going to try and play God.
01:01:00Inside of the grow room, there's a center box
01:01:28and when it goes below a certain point, there's a pump in here that'll kick on
01:01:32and it literally just pumps the water, you know,
01:01:35underneath my grow room, up through the floor and into that center box.
01:01:44Cannabis to me has kind of been a world of opening new friendships
01:01:47and it's not a drug to me.
01:01:53It's not either like a morning coffee or a sipping wine.
01:01:56It's a whole culture.
01:01:58It's a whole thing that's embraced me as who I am.
01:02:04I don't know.
01:02:05It's special.
01:02:06And I get all the free pot I want.
01:02:09And my friends, of course.
01:02:16You want to piss a farmer off?
01:02:18Tell him how much weed sells for.
01:02:21Like how much per bushel?
01:02:23Holy shit.
01:02:23My buddy makes more in his closet.
01:02:26One light and two plants.
01:02:29Good luck with your acreage.
01:02:31Everybody's wondering whether industrial hemp's going to make a comeback.
01:02:34I remember finding out that my grandparents actually grew hemp
01:02:37back before it was made illegal.
01:02:40It was used, of course, for rope and cloth and a myriad of things.
01:02:43My wife and I, we drink hemp milk.
01:02:45We use hemp soaps.
01:02:47We have hemp clothing.
01:02:49It's not marijuana.
01:02:50It's hemp.
01:02:51It's used as fiber.
01:02:52It's used for paper.
01:02:54It's used even in some plastics.
01:02:56This is actually a resource that doesn't take intensive quantities of water in a dry,
01:03:02semi-arid state.
01:03:04Something like hemp could be the new cash crop to really answer some of the economic woes
01:03:10that we have in our rural parts of our state.
01:03:12I think industrial hemp is going to play a very important role in saving the planet Earth.
01:03:18You'll notice we have a hemp museum downstairs, and you can see everything that we can produce
01:03:22just from hemp.
01:03:22So a lot of countries are moving forward with it.
01:03:24There's a reason why cannabis is a Schedule 1 substance.
01:03:27The moment it changes, there's a lot of big businesses.
01:03:29I'm talking about billion-dollar international corporations, and they're going to lose tens
01:03:33of billions of dollars.
01:03:35So they will do everything they can to stop that from happening.
01:03:38We were in Skagway, Alaska.
01:03:41I was doing a movie with Woody Harrelson.
01:03:43Of course, you can hang out with Woody.
01:03:44You smoke with Woody.
01:03:45He had just recently gotten arrested.
01:03:47He had gone to Kentucky because he's all about hemp activism and the multiple usages of hemp.
01:03:52He's telling me the story.
01:03:53So having a guitar nearby, I made up this song on the spot, the ballad of Woody and his seed.
01:04:01It is written on the back of a set of sides, the lines, a scene that we had filmed that day.
01:04:09From Hollywood, he came feeling lucky.
01:04:16He came to plant his sweet seed in Kentucky.
01:04:21To draw attention to farm policy abatement.
01:04:26He flew to the bluegrass to make a policy statement.
01:04:30This is the ballad of Woody and his seed.
01:04:36Hemp, you see, can fulfill every need.
01:04:42Natural fibers, no need to fake it.
01:04:47Whatever you need, hemp can make it.
01:04:51Something like that.
01:04:56You can make those connections happen where maybe you do have some business people that have those skills,
01:05:02that can partner with the growers that have those skills,
01:05:05and build successful small to medium business models.
01:05:11We were kind of looking for something in downtown LA that was a warehouse that had a little bit of edge to it.
01:05:16There was a vibe.
01:05:17The dinner didn't start when you sat down and ate your first bite.
01:05:20The dinner started when you got out of your car.
01:05:21You walked to this parking lot into a building.
01:05:26And then you were transformed the whole thing, playing visuals on the wall.
01:05:30We wanted a whole experience.
01:05:32Because to me, that's what dining is.
01:05:34It's all-encompassing.
01:05:35It's not just the food.
01:05:37It's not just the service.
01:05:39It's a good feeling because my thought was, with doing this,
01:05:42I kind of destigmatized the idea of edible cannabis.
01:05:50As I started working with some of the farmers, and whatever it might be that they brought to the table,
01:05:55we treated it as an ingredient.
01:05:57First and foremost, in the style of cooking that I do,
01:06:00it's using ingredients that are fresh and seasonal,
01:06:02and to take that with the different strains of cannabis that paired best with those.
01:06:06As cannabis comes further into legalization,
01:06:12I 100% think that this is the future of cuisine in general.
01:06:16I want people to eat and enjoy, and not be wrecked.
01:06:22Something like this, we were doing fine dining and elevated food.
01:06:25I think now, as we can kind of dip our toe into bringing it to the masses.
01:06:28The more and more people play with this,
01:06:39the more you can find the right magic small dose per item,
01:06:44so you can enjoy the food,
01:06:45and you can also get that, you know, elated experience as well,
01:06:50and the satisfaction from it,
01:06:52without being curled up in a fetal position.
01:06:55Hi, my name is Chef Nico,
01:06:58and I'm going to show you how my cannabis recipes
01:07:01will spice up more than your palate.
01:07:03My food will not only taste better,
01:07:04but will make you feel better,
01:07:06and you will never look at food the same way again.
01:07:11I have four kids,
01:07:12so when I'm ready to go to an event,
01:07:14they always tell me, like,
01:07:15oh, are you going to go and cook for people that need it,
01:07:19or are they really sick?
01:07:21And I always tell them, you know, like,
01:07:23some of them are sick, some of them are not.
01:07:28Here we have some nice Kobe beef,
01:07:31and we're going to make three patties,
01:07:33and you can just press it with your hands,
01:07:35like if you're caressing a woman.
01:07:37Nice, thick, juicy.
01:07:39Next, we're going to add some herb butter
01:07:41to the pan in the back.
01:07:44We can put down our burgers.
01:07:45You take the extract.
01:07:58I would take about that much.
01:08:00I mean, it's literally that much
01:08:02that would medicate three people.
01:08:05Once all of it has melted into it,
01:08:08two quail eggs.
01:08:10Next, we're going to fry our buns.
01:08:12Once you've got them to soak up all the oil,
01:08:16they should look nice and toasted like that.
01:08:30This is my take on the most expensive cannabis burger,
01:08:34and I hope you guys enjoy it.
01:08:36Everyone here that checks into my place
01:09:06is cannabis-friendly,
01:09:08is passionate about cannabis,
01:09:09and love cannabis.
01:09:10What they have never experienced
01:09:11is the ability to smoke freely.
01:09:17When we created this place,
01:09:18I said to Joel,
01:09:19if we're doing this,
01:09:20we're doing over-the-top hospitality.
01:09:23A secure, warm, comfortable place
01:09:27for people to smoke.
01:09:28Cooking and entertaining
01:09:36has always been my love and my passion.
01:09:41We want every guest to feel like
01:09:43they're the only guest here,
01:09:44but the beauty of the place
01:09:45is that they're not,
01:09:47and people love to smoke cannabis
01:09:49with other people.
01:09:51And our guests come in,
01:09:53and within 10 to 15 minutes,
01:09:55they've known each other forever.
01:10:03On any given night,
01:10:04there'll be 12 people
01:10:05playing board games
01:10:06and passing joints all night long.
01:10:08The guest that we have here
01:10:26varies from 21-year-olds
01:10:28to 81-year-olds.
01:10:31We get people from all over the world,
01:10:33doctors, lawyers, veterans,
01:10:38ex-military, principals, teachers,
01:10:41you name it, across the board.
01:10:45Our guests walk down in the morning,
01:10:48and the first thing they hear is,
01:10:49oh, how'd you sleep?
01:10:50Would you like a mimosa?
01:10:52They cannot believe
01:10:53that they can sit
01:10:54in a beautiful living room,
01:10:55a beautiful dining room,
01:10:56a beautiful patio, and smoke.
01:10:59So their appetite is wonderful
01:11:01for our great breakfast.
01:11:02We have a full paraphernalia bar,
01:11:08so they don't need to purchase anything
01:11:10to smoke their cannabis with.
01:11:12Some people just like
01:11:13to stay here all day and relax.
01:11:15Other people,
01:11:16we have the Botanic Gardens right here,
01:11:18we have the Denver Zoo,
01:11:19the Museum, downtown Denver.
01:11:22And then they all come back
01:11:23and gather together
01:11:24for 420 Happy Hour.
01:11:32420 is a happy time.
01:11:45It's the best happy hour there is.
01:11:46I'm the president of Strava Craft Coffee.
01:12:03We're a local specialty coffee roaster.
01:12:05We've been in business
01:12:06for a year and a half.
01:12:07We chose to celebrate
01:12:08the infusion of cannabis
01:12:10into some really fantastic coffee.
01:12:12The really great thing about Denver
01:12:15is that it's a community
01:12:16of innovators, of makers,
01:12:18of specialty foods,
01:12:20specialty experiences.
01:12:21And as we've moved
01:12:22into the cannabis community
01:12:23with our hemp-infused coffee,
01:12:25we've connected with members
01:12:27of this community
01:12:27that are extremely supportive.
01:12:29They believe in our vision,
01:12:30and they help connect us
01:12:31with resources.
01:12:32We're using a hemp-derived CBD oil
01:12:35to infuse into the beans,
01:12:37and it produces some really
01:12:38fantastic results for consumers.
01:12:40You can enjoy a couple cups of coffee
01:12:42and not worry about coffee jitters,
01:12:43and it's fantastic
01:12:44for alleviating anxiety as well.
01:12:48We roast all of our coffees
01:12:50here in Denver, Colorado.
01:12:51We do the infusions here as well,
01:12:53and then package up
01:12:54in 12-ounce bags
01:12:55of whole bean coffee.
01:12:56And we sell those
01:12:57at a couple cafes locally in town,
01:12:59and we do sell those online,
01:13:00and they can order right there
01:13:01and will ship directly to their house.
01:13:03You can prepare it
01:13:04by a French press or Aero press,
01:13:06however you like to prepare
01:13:07your coffee at home.
01:13:10High-end transportation
01:13:17is a luxury vehicle company
01:13:19that caters to the 420 community.
01:13:22We are veteran-owned,
01:13:25women-owned,
01:13:26and just 100% diversified
01:13:28in our company.
01:13:31We create experiences
01:13:33for people who like
01:13:34to indulge in the journey.
01:13:35We'll pick you up from the airport
01:13:39on one of our luxury vehicles.
01:13:43We'll take you to a dispensary
01:13:44where you can load up
01:13:45and get your first joint on.
01:13:50You get all your drivers
01:13:51fingerprinted,
01:13:52you know, background checks,
01:13:53physicals,
01:13:54make sure they're safe
01:13:55to drive on the road.
01:13:56Once they're all limoed up
01:14:00and our cars are licensed
01:14:01and they have all their numbers on there,
01:14:03you can go in there
01:14:04and hotbox with your friends
01:14:05and do whatever you want,
01:14:06you know, 15 passengers or more.
01:14:08Have a good time
01:14:08and it won't affect our driver.
01:14:11But definitely,
01:14:11our service is meant
01:14:12to give you a safe place
01:14:14to consume
01:14:14while you enjoy the sights
01:14:16of Denver, Colorado.
01:14:17I love weed.
01:14:21I love it.
01:14:22I love it.
01:14:23I don't like it.
01:14:24I love it.
01:14:27And you know why I love it.
01:14:29Well, maybe you don't,
01:14:29but I'll tell you
01:14:30because I'm not ashamed.
01:14:31I'm not ashamed.
01:14:33But you forget.
01:14:34Don't you forget
01:14:36who made marijuana.
01:14:40That's right.
01:14:40It wasn't me.
01:14:42It was none of you either.
01:14:47That's right.
01:14:50Our father.
01:14:52He made it for us.
01:14:54He made it for us
01:14:56because he wants us
01:14:57to smoke that shit in it
01:15:00and eat muffins and shit.
01:15:04My name's Julie Berliner.
01:15:05I own Sweetgrass Kitchen.
01:15:07We make can of butter-based edibles.
01:15:14So this is Sweetgrass's
01:15:16cultivation.
01:15:18We grow everything in-house
01:15:19because we want to make sure
01:15:21that every time you have
01:15:22an edible,
01:15:23whether it's a brownie
01:15:24or a cookie
01:15:24or you're eating it today
01:15:26or six months from now,
01:15:27that you're getting
01:15:28the same experience.
01:15:31It's not required by regulation
01:15:33to grow our own product.
01:15:35We really want to be sure
01:15:37that we're seeing everything
01:15:39from a five-inch tall plant
01:15:40to the cookie
01:15:41that comes out at the end.
01:15:43Every room in the facility
01:15:46has its purpose.
01:15:48So this is where we do
01:15:49all of our scaling and mixing.
01:15:51Everything from the harvest
01:15:52comes into here.
01:15:53We process it.
01:15:57You can actually see
01:15:58Brittany here scooping
01:16:00some of our can of butter
01:16:02into the mixer there.
01:16:03So the tub that she has
01:16:05in her hand
01:16:05can make about 20,000 cookies.
01:16:07That's 200,000 milligrams
01:16:10of THC in one bucket.
01:16:12So you get pretty high
01:16:14if you ate the whole thing.
01:16:20It's a sativa-dominant hybrid.
01:16:23The experience
01:16:24or the effects
01:16:25that you'll get from that
01:16:25is more of an energetic effect.
01:16:28All edibles companies
01:16:47now have to stamp
01:16:48their product in some way
01:16:50in order to make sure
01:16:51that consumers know
01:16:52exactly what's in the product.
01:16:55This machine laser engraves
01:16:57every single product
01:16:58that we have.
01:16:59So it's a pretty clean way
01:17:01of staying in compliance
01:17:03with these regulatory changes
01:17:05while making sure
01:17:06that consumers are safe
01:17:07in their consumption.
01:17:17I'm happy knowing
01:17:18that Sweetgrass
01:17:20and everyone involved with it
01:17:21is participating
01:17:22in this incredible piece
01:17:23of history.
01:17:24That my best hope
01:17:25for the future,
01:17:26my dream is
01:17:27to make it into
01:17:28a national
01:17:29and international company.
01:17:35Originally,
01:17:37I came out to California
01:17:38working in the music industry.
01:17:41Being in shops
01:17:42and seeing where trends
01:17:43were going,
01:17:44I actually saw
01:17:45the first vape pen.
01:17:48At that time,
01:17:49it was such a new technology.
01:17:51I just remember that moment
01:17:52of being in a shop,
01:17:53hitting it,
01:17:54being like,
01:17:54this is the future.
01:17:57You just unscrew the top.
01:17:59You just load.
01:18:00You concentrate in the top here.
01:18:02Press the button five times.
01:18:08That's it.
01:18:11This is currently
01:18:13our top-selling product
01:18:14with this being exclusively
01:18:16for herb.
01:18:17It heats up
01:18:18in under 30 seconds.
01:18:20We don't touch the plant.
01:18:22What's amazing about it
01:18:25as a product,
01:18:26all you have to do
01:18:27is screw it on
01:18:28and hit a button.
01:18:29The difference of having
01:18:30to actually take weed,
01:18:31put your hands on it,
01:18:32break it up,
01:18:33it eliminates so much of that.
01:18:35And I think that
01:18:36that's the attraction.
01:18:36While I was a veterinarian,
01:18:53we prescribed a lot
01:18:54of different medications.
01:18:56A lot of times,
01:18:56they were for very common causes.
01:18:58For example,
01:18:59a lot of pets
01:19:00will get arthritis.
01:19:01The medications
01:19:03that we use
01:19:04for arthritis
01:19:05can have negative effects
01:19:07on the kidney
01:19:07or the liver,
01:19:08for example.
01:19:09And so,
01:19:10looking at cannabis,
01:19:12we found that
01:19:12CBD and other cannabinoids
01:19:14can be very effective
01:19:15for arthritis,
01:19:16pain,
01:19:17nausea,
01:19:17vomiting,
01:19:18separation anxiety
01:19:19or noise anxiety.
01:19:21We wanted to make sure
01:19:22that we had something
01:19:23that was not only safe
01:19:24for them to consume,
01:19:25but that was tailor-made
01:19:27for them.
01:19:27Oh, yeah.
01:19:34Good boy.
01:19:35What do you think?
01:19:35There you go.
01:19:36Good boy.
01:19:46A lot of people
01:19:47are concerned about cannabis
01:19:48and the high effect.
01:19:52The product that we've created,
01:19:54there is no high.
01:19:57It's a ratio
01:19:59of about 20 to 1
01:20:00CBD to THC.
01:20:02There's a small amount
01:20:02of THC in there,
01:20:03but that THC
01:20:04is medicinally effective.
01:20:06It doesn't cause a high
01:20:07because we have
01:20:08a lot more CBD
01:20:08to counteract that.
01:20:10So, owners
01:20:11don't have to worry you.
01:20:15The most rewarding thing
01:20:17is hearing the feedback.
01:20:19All pet owners
01:20:19should be able
01:20:20to have access
01:20:21to medicine like this,
01:20:23you know,
01:20:23especially for their pets.
01:20:27Where I'm from,
01:20:32it's really hard
01:20:33to find good product
01:20:34and when you do find it,
01:20:36it's going to be expensive.
01:20:45In Los Angeles,
01:20:46the marijuana scene
01:20:47is a lot more vibrant.
01:20:48There's growers,
01:21:02there's people
01:21:02in competitions
01:21:03with each other
01:21:03to create product
01:21:04and have a place
01:21:05on a shelf
01:21:06in hundreds and hundreds
01:21:07of stores
01:21:08across the state.
01:21:08when I first came here,
01:21:19I just wanted to be able
01:21:20to have a boring-ass job
01:21:21and smoke a bowl
01:21:22and not go to jail.
01:21:23Then I realized
01:21:24the potential
01:21:25and now I'm here
01:21:26to make money
01:21:26and succeed.
01:21:27let us dream
01:21:31about a federal government
01:21:33that has legalized it,
01:21:36regulated it,
01:21:36and it's this great industry.
01:21:41Ignition.
01:21:43Liftoff.
01:21:45Liftoff.
01:21:46Legends are stories
01:21:48that help us
01:21:49to understand the future.
01:21:51I hope the legend
01:21:52of 420
01:21:53is about bringing cannabis
01:21:56out of the Dark Ages.
01:21:57Out of the Dark Ages.
01:22:26When this is legalized,
01:22:54we are going to see
01:22:58a renaissance
01:22:59of incredible beauty.
01:23:01The Dark Ages.
01:23:12Um, what's your philosophy on smoking weed?
01:23:37I don't really got no philosophy on smoking weed.
01:23:40I just fucking fucked up.
01:23:42I just fucking fucked up.
01:24:12I'm a gunja son.
01:24:14Got it from my father and my aunts.
01:24:15Used to pinch a split till I was 18.
01:24:17With bricks, they vip and it for it.
01:24:19Penny a time was always less than a nine.
01:24:21But that's just petty crime.
01:24:22They set my wrist of it.
01:24:23Legalize the ting.
01:24:24The feds trying to take the piss with it.
01:24:26Criminalizing the youth.
01:24:27I'm only speaking the truth.
01:24:28It's just a plant.
01:24:29We bun zoots to get in touch with our roots.
01:24:31Or would you rather us roaming the streets with nothing to do?
01:24:33So pasta wee, pasta wee, pasta wee.
01:24:43Yeah.
01:24:44Fast the wee, pasta wee, pasta wee.
01:24:47Yeah.
01:24:47Shit, that's all I need, all I need, all I need
01:24:52Shit, to open up my senses
01:24:54My sentences will leave you far from censor
01:24:56So fuck the census, what I'm saying could not be censored
01:24:59Why don't you ask about the marijuana laws in censor
01:25:01Suck so much shit, like I'm doing a test for Mensa
01:25:04Smoking a sense of media from hours in placenta
01:25:06What an adventure, I was born eyes so I never cried
01:25:09I'm playing but I smoke from aim to aim
01:25:11You know what I'm saying, I'm probably getting high when you're praying
01:25:14I'm going to class, I'm smoking a bath
01:25:16Driving my car, writing bars before my exams was lighting up hard
01:25:19Should've been in hell, high with red and meth getting charged
01:25:21You know my essence is large, I know the weapon is ours
01:25:24And I'ma use it, cause people getting higher for my music
01:25:27Don't abuse it, cause naturally the body soon refuse it
01:25:29You confuse it, I always got a point and I'ma prove it
01:25:32I just elevate my mind, I'll never lose it
01:25:34Yeah, so pass the weed, pass the weed, pass the weed
01:25:38Yeah, pass the weed, pass the weed, pass the weed
01:25:43Yeah, pass the weed, pass the weed, pass the weed
01:25:48Yeah, that's all I need, all I need, all I need
01:25:53Yeah, that's all I need, all I need
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