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00:00I love them to me.
00:01I ain't the nigga they gon' say bye to.
00:03I ain't the nigga you gotta lie to.
00:05I ain't the nigga that you can trust on speaker
00:07when you're with your people.
00:08Because you know the timing, I'm all I want.
00:11She and she and she.
00:13And they love them to me.
00:16I can't even speak to all of them.
00:19So I call her on the FaceTime.
00:21She gon' pick up on the Frisbee.
00:23Look, I gotta run the run by them fingers.
00:26I will never tell her so.
00:28Go on on, on, on.
00:31No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:35I can do it.
00:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39Yeah, yeah.
00:41Yeah.
00:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:45Yeah.
00:46Yeah, yeah.
00:47Oh, yeah.
00:48Yo, yo.
00:48What's up?
00:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:52I like that gonna happen.
00:55All you best.
00:57So, so, one minute, one minute, one minute, one minute.
01:15Alright, y'all, can you hear me? Can y'all hear me?
01:19Can you put a thumb up if you can hear me?
01:21If you can hear me, sit up like you look good.
01:23Sit up like you look good.
01:25Stop sitting all down.
01:27Stop sitting all down.
01:29Real quick, y'all, we have a really important announcement.
01:32Please stay out of the mental aisle.
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01:39and we don't want them to see the back of your head.
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01:45So, before we start and bring the panel out,
01:47I want you to sit up like you are and smile.
01:50Can I get some smiles? Can I get some smiles?
01:52I'm looking. There you go, beautiful smile.
01:54Who asked you to smile when you get mad?
01:57I asked you to smile.
01:58Come on, smile at me.
01:59Smile at me, smile at me.
02:00Smile at me, smile at me.
02:02Smile?
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02:07You been spending two or three weeks working on the same outfit.
02:09Now you don't want to smile.
02:11Same outfit.
02:12Now you don't want to smile.
02:13You look good.
02:14Show it up.
02:15Slow your walk down.
02:16Slow your walk down.
02:17All right.
02:18Like I do every group, I'm going to say, it's okay to feel.
02:22And y'all going to say, that's how you heal.
02:24Y'all ready?
02:26It's okay to feel.
02:28That's how you heal.
02:29Ooh.
02:30One more time.
02:31It's okay to feel.
02:32That's how you heal.
02:34Remember that, y'all?
02:35Some people go around their whole life just feeling.
02:38All they do is feel.
02:39They never heal.
02:41So it's okay to feel.
02:43It's how you heal.
02:44So we're about to bring up a very, very important special man.
02:48He's the entertainment editor for Essence Magazine.
02:51And they're going to have a very, very interesting panel.
02:54I'm going to let him tell you what they're going to talk about.
02:56So you got to listen.
02:57Come on up here.
02:58Come on.
02:59Start clapping for him now, y'all.
03:00Start clapping for him now, y'all.
03:01Come on.
03:02Don't do him like that.
03:03Look at the man.
03:04You got the mic.
03:05You got the mic.
03:06All right.
03:07Do your thing.
03:08What's going on again, y'all?
03:09My name is Oakley Jones, entertainment editor here at Essence,
03:12and I'll be here all day.
03:14This next conversation is going to be all about investing in the
03:17cannabis industry and what that really entails.
03:19So here with me on that topic, I want to welcome Najee Tyler,
03:23who is the head of marketing at Viola Brands, and Shice Bugs,
03:26who is the founder in Smokers Club and Perp Invaders as well, too.
03:30How you doing?
03:31What's going on today, fellas?
03:34Peace.
03:35What's up?
03:36What's up?
03:37What's up?
03:38What's up?
03:39What's up?
03:40All right.
03:41So for my first question, when did each you guys decide that you wanted to
03:47really take seriously the cannabis industry and when did you start investing?
03:50How you guys doing out there?
03:54My name is Shice Bugs.
03:55Nice to meet you.
03:56What's up?
03:57What's up?
03:58What's up?
03:59When did I think about that?
04:00It started a long time ago for me, honestly.
04:02It started like 20 years ago.
04:04Really longer than 23 years ago.
04:07I was in New York City.
04:08That's where I'm from, born and raised.
04:10And I had read an article that cannabis had legalized in California.
04:15And I was like, wow, I can't believe it.
04:17You know, I had a lot of weed arrests and stuff like that.
04:20So I was like, it's legal?
04:22Like, it was always talk of that.
04:24And once I heard that, I was like, I'm going to make it legal right now for myself.
04:29And that's when I first got motivated to get into the cannabis industry.
04:34What about you, my brother?
04:36Yeah, so for me, you know, my investment came into it more on a passion for it.
04:42You know, I joined Viola in 2019.
04:46And at the time, I just had a huge passion for it, especially fell in love with the story of Viola and really the purpose behind it.
04:54And then really just dove into it on a passion of really looking to change people's lives and seeing opportunities that was in the space in order to do that.
05:02So with that, I'm going to ask you the next question as well to my brother.
05:05What's something you would have known before getting started in the industry?
05:09Something I wish I would have known a little bit more.
05:14You know, I come from a space of knowing that, you know, quality and understanding quality.
05:19But, you know, it's easy in this space to get an easy dollar and, you know, veer off of that.
05:25Because of the lack of information that people have and it being so early in the space, it's still, you know, it's still various ways to like cut corners.
05:33But a lot of those companies that you see that haven't been able to stick around does that.
05:38They've been cutting corners and things of that sort.
05:41So I think the importance of quality.
05:43I think still stay in tune to it, making sure you know the importance of quality.
05:46I think that's the biggest thing that I wish that, you know, I definitely would have known beforehand and instead of hearing like other people like, hey, people don't really care about it.
05:54It's going into it.
05:55So definitely keeping the importance of quality.
05:58What about you, Chase?
05:59One of the things is that it's taken so long for cannabis to legalize like nationally.
06:06And we're still in that process that I wouldn't have thinking, I would have never thought it would have took that long in taking this long to actually get it right.
06:16Because it's still it's still are discrepancies with how the system is operating.
06:23You said it earlier too, man, you started with Iota Brands in 2019, correct?
06:28So what helped that company sustain a business for so long?
06:33And like, how did the pandemic affect the business if it did at all?
06:38I think what, you know, what to me, what has kept us being able to sustain, you know, through the ups and downs of the industry, especially like you mentioned the pandemic, you know, and some of the economic times that we're going through is definitely just staying true to the brand story.
06:55You know, we have a very organic story, you know, something that create that started with, you know, our founder's grandmother, Viola, and, you know, started with on a medical side of it.
07:08And then I think just staying true to that purpose and staying true to our story has made consumers really stay engaged with us and still support us through the rough time that it is.
07:18And, you know, staying loyal to the brand, I think that's what that's what the biggest thing is between storytelling and staying true to our purpose.
07:25So, Shice, in your business process, have you found it difficult to, like, secure small business loans, venture capital, or, like, other fundings to start businesses in your journey?
07:37I mean, in cannabis, yeah, that's almost impossible because it's not federal.
07:42So, those things are not actually on the table, you know what I'm saying?
07:47When it comes to trying to open a small business or get a loan or something like that, it's just like there's still inconsistencies with taking your money and moving it around.
07:57So, it's 100% been an issue, and it's an issue in every industry, I feel like, not just cannabis.
08:06Cannabis, we only make up 2% of the cannabis industry.
08:11So, you know, that's, yeah, that's the answer to me.
08:15It's like, no.
08:17So, speaking of that, that's good that you said that.
08:20So, what are some key things you think the cannabis industry gatekeepers don't want black investors to know about this business?
08:26I'm going to start with you on that, Shice.
08:29Well, one of the things that they don't want you to know is that they're the gatekeepers, you know what I'm saying?
08:34And it's about power, and no one is going to relinquish their power to anyone, no matter what race you are.
08:40You know what I'm saying?
08:41Who wants to be like, because you're a race, that I'm going to relinquish my power to you?
08:46So, they don't want you to really know how to get money in cannabis.
08:51They don't want to tell you that when you invest your money that things could change any day, any minute.
08:58You know, a lot of white cultivators who've been doing it for a long time because that's just how the story goes, they'll tell you.
09:06If you're really into it, they'll tell you anything that could go wrong will go wrong in cultivating.
09:12So, you know, it's a hard business for investors to play with, especially when you're black, you know?
09:21All right, now, same question, brother.
09:24I think the biggest thing that they don't want us to know is that they need us.
09:28They need us in the space.
09:29Like, the space doesn't move.
09:31As we know, culture doesn't move without us.
09:33So, I think that's one of the biggest things that I've seen is, like, it's just the gatekeeping of keeping that.
09:39It's the same way that he said, like, they're trying to, you know, not let us know that they're the gatekeepers.
09:43They also don't want to let us know how much power we got in the space.
09:46But they always come running to us, asking us, you know, what's the next thing?
09:50What's the next move to make?
09:52So, it comes around.
09:54But I think that's the biggest thing is just knowing that we are the culture and we push the culture forward.
09:59One more thing to elaborate on that is that, you know, like you said, they also won't tell you that, you know,
10:08they don't want you to get money.
10:10They want you to be under them.
10:12That's just simple and plain what it is.
10:15So, yeah, that's the point.
10:19So, a lot of times when people think and talk about cannabis investing, they think about, like, starting a business.
10:25But there are also stock market opportunities as well, too.
10:28Can you tell me a little about that, Najee?
10:30So, yeah, it's super early.
10:33It was funny.
10:34Me and Shites were just talking about it.
10:36It's super early in the space.
10:38There are opportunities on the stock market.
10:40But to your point, you know, people always start to think, like, you know, it's a way to start a business right away.
10:45There's also a lot of ways around, you know, just outside of the cannabis space or not even outside of it,
10:51but ways that you can invest as far as, like, packaging companies, you know, trucking companies.
10:57There's a bunch of ways outside of just actually growing the plant and being, you know, touching the actual plant that there's opportunities on that end.
11:04So, I think that's one of the things that, you know, like you mentioned, there are some different stock opportunities.
11:10And some people have invested into it and become successful.
11:13It's very volatile at the moment just because, to Shites' point, it's so up and down.
11:19Things always happen.
11:20You know, little change could drop it right away.
11:23But I think people should be aware that there are so many opportunities just around the space.
11:28And it's so early, you know, you could create something.
11:30That's the beautiful thing about campus is that you could create something that nobody's ever done before.
11:34You know, a lot of these other, you know, a lot of other kind of things that people get into, you know,
11:40people have done it before.
11:41You could do it differently.
11:42But, you know, in the cannabis space, there's a lot of opportunities to do something for the first time.
11:47So, Shites, we kind of was talking about it briefly a little bit in the back.
11:51But as an investor in the cannabis industry, what role are you able to play in supporting the decriminalization of marijuana,
11:58specifically, I'm sorry, in regards to ending the reversing the mass incarceration of black men because of, like, weed?
12:07Well, the ironic thing is that, you know, coming from New York City where it's been illegal for so long and now it's legal,
12:14it's like my role has changed in New York City.
12:17So now with my, you know, doing due diligence and going to OCM meetings and the mayor's office and firsthand going to get the information that I want,
12:28because I don't want information third party.
12:31I don't like that.
12:32I like to go to the meetings.
12:33I like to hear what's going on.
12:34I like to hear what's going on.
12:35I like to shake hands, you know, hear what's going on.
12:38And so what that's done is in conversation, it's allowed me to, you know, see what we're lacking in the community and kind of fill those blanks.
12:49You know what I'm saying?
12:50So it's like when I go speak to them, it's like, all right, how can we give back to the community?
12:55Don't just sell us weed.
12:57We want more than weed.
12:59We want our community back.
13:00We want to flourish.
13:02You know, cannabis is supposed to be a stepping stone to get equity, you know, for the war on drugs and being targeted for all these years.
13:10So we really shouldn't have to work that hard.
13:13You know, even though we work hard, but we're supposed to get some type of reparations for this.
13:17You know, no matter how it comes, like you said, there's opportunities in packaging, there's opportunities in garbage disposal.
13:24There's so many different vehicles that you could use in cannabis, you know, to make money and as well now voice your opinion.
13:33Because now I'm able to speak to community leaders and tell them my agenda and actually get it done now in the name of cannabis.
13:42Saying this is about weed.
13:43I want to do this program for the kids, teach them about growing, teach them about packaging, you know, and they're all for it, you know, and it's a good thing.
13:51And I feel like that's a trend that needs to keep on evolving and to the point where we're the gatekeepers, you know.
14:00How you feel about that, Naze?
14:01No, absolutely. He hit right on the head.
14:03You know, we do a bunch of things on our end as far as, you know, we've been, we were lobbying in New York the second week I was with Viola.
14:12That was my first trip. You know, it was, it threw me off. I thought we was going to be going to a grow the first week.
14:19And he was like, nah, we're going to go to Albany. We're going to meet with a couple of people.
14:22So I believe in that, like to Shite's point, like there's huge opportunities to speak directly to people that could really create some change in the space.
14:31It just takes time, effort. But yeah, we, I think between that is just making sure that we're speaking to the community leaders, creating those services for people who, you know, have been incarcerated in the past and still have some opportunities to be able to be in a space through our business.
14:48So it's almost like a piggyback question, but I'm going to start with you, Naze. What are your thoughts on the criticism that cannabis is an unhealthy obsession in the black community and that legalizing it has only made it worse?
14:59So, um, we talk about this often. It's, you know, of course the, the over consumption is, you know, that's, that's an issue when, when it comes to anything, you know, consuming too much of something is never too good.
15:12Um, but in the space that we have, I think, I think people, at least I could speak from, you know, where I come from, the, the fear has always been, you know, more so on the, on the side of us being demonized by police and, you know, how we've been, how cannabis has been policed in this space.
15:31Um, but I don't think, I think it's, I think that's an old fad of like, it really being like, you know, you, you smoke, you smoke cannabis and then you're going to end up like, you know, the crackhead that's in, you know, like, I think that's, I think we're way past that.
15:46You know, I think that right now, the more that we get legalization in the space, I think people are becoming more, more educated on consumption.
15:54Um, I actually think that legalization, you know, um, will give, will give a lot of opportunities for people to learn more about consumption, why they're consuming and, you know, the purpose of the plant for them.
16:05And I think that's something that people overlook a lot of times because when legalization comes in, you know, and I'm pretty sure it strives to speak to it.
16:12You know, it's a headache when it comes to some of the like regulations that you have to do, but being able to have the product tested, being able to make sure that it's clean.
16:21I think the legalization coming into some of these places is definitely, is going to make a better opportunity for us.
16:27And it's going to create some, some opportunities for our communities, for jobs, things that Shais mentioned as far as packaging, garbage disposal, delivery.
16:35There's so many other opportunities that could really help our communities and, um, in a beneficial way.
16:40How about you, Shais, you got anything to add to that?
16:43I feel the same way.
16:45I feel like there's a softer perspective that we have to have when it comes to talking about, you know,
16:50health values when it comes to overconsumption because, you know, white people like to use it to get off of opioids.
16:58So, what are we really talking about? Smoking weed or popping pills and smoking crack?
17:03Like, what are we really talking about?
17:05So, I feel like, you know, it's a way to look at overconsumption.
17:09That's with anything, you know, it's supposed to have balance in life.
17:13So, I think that's something that you've got to practice even when you're smoking.
17:16You know, for me, I smoke a lot.
17:19But I have an agenda behind it.
17:21You know, it helps my, uh, anxieties.
17:24It gives me creative aspirations.
17:26It makes me go into places where I'm, like, not in space, not, like, in, like, out-of-body experiences, just on some, like, a calm place.
17:36You know what I'm saying?
17:37So, like I said, it all depends.
17:39You have to have, uh, you have to look at it through different lenses when you talk about, is it bad for us to overconsume?
17:46When we're, when we're still only 2% of the game and manufacturing it.
17:51So, why are we the ones that the narrative is focused on?
17:55If we're only 2%, oh, because we're the majority?
17:59Because we're the ones who are consuming all the cannabis?
18:01Is that why?
18:02Like, so, with that being said, we have to think about how we can play on the other side and find that, that balance lane so where we can, you know, make money off this.
18:13Because if you make money off of it, you're gonna, you're gonna realize and be in touch with, with your product.
18:18It's like what he said about the brand, having loyalty to the brand.
18:21All of that comes with it.
18:22You know what I'm saying?
18:23It's like, oh, I'm not only the, the president, but I'm also a client.
18:26Those, these are the sell points that America's been buying up for years.
18:30So, we gotta start, you know, this is, this is cannabis.
18:33It's a new industry.
18:34So, everybody, I mean, black, white, Puerto Rican, and Asian, no one has really taken it all the way to the next level.
18:43Because it's still new.
18:45It's not even legal in this state.
18:48Imagine when it becomes legal here, then this is a whole nother playing field right here.
18:52You know what I'm saying?
18:53So, you know, we just have to be patient and find a place where we can, you know, function, basically.
19:02And do your due diligence in learning the laws of your state.
19:05Because that's one of the things that gatekeepers are not gonna tell you either.
19:08Not just your state, but learn all the states.
19:11That's what an MSO is, multi-state operator.
19:14You can go this state, that state.
19:16Viola's in a bunch of states.
19:18They MSO, you know what I'm saying?
19:21So, shout outs to Al Harrington and the Viola brand.
19:24Because they're one of the only black MSOs in the country.
19:30So, if you add up all the MSOs and you put their one company to it, you get where we stand in this.
19:36But we are the number one consumers of this product.
19:39So, it sounds like they're having fun over there.
19:43So, in your previous answer, you said, be patient.
19:46So, with that, what do you see for the future of the cannabis industry as an investor?
19:52The future of cannabis, hopefully, you know, we grow into our equity.
20:01And to having something out of this.
20:03But my number one thing is, you know, if you want to be in the cannabis industry, you know,
20:08it's just like any other industry.
20:10You have to have a love for it.
20:11You have to have a passion for it.
20:13You have to have some dedication.
20:15You have to have room for sacrifice.
20:17Because that comes with everything that you really want.
20:20And that's really the only way you're going to be successful in cannabis.
20:23That goes for anyone and anything, but especially this game.
20:27How about you, Nisei?
20:29Yeah, I think the future is bright.
20:31I think over time, I think a lot of the people that feel like they're gatekeeping,
20:37that they have that power now.
20:38I think they're going to get weeded out.
20:40I think there's going to be a lot more opportunities for our people in this space.
20:46Just because, you know, like Shai says, we're trying to create those opportunities every day.
20:50So, I think that there's a huge opportunity for it.
20:53And then on an investment front, like we keep print shit.
20:56It's like, you know, it's not just, you know, I want people to look at the cannabis space, you know,
21:01like a lot of these other ones where, you know, you don't have to be so plant touching if you don't want to be.
21:06There's a lot of opportunities outside of it.
21:09I encourage people to really, you know, invest their time into creating new things in the space.
21:14You know, even like on the tech side.
21:16Tech hasn't even touched the surface of cannabis the way that it could.
21:20So, I think that there's some huge opportunities on that front for sure.
21:24So, we got a little time.
21:26Do we have any questions from the audience that you want to ask,
21:28and Isaiah Shais, anything about the business?
21:30Investing? Anything?
21:32Yo.
21:34Hi, Shais.
21:36You made a really interesting point about this sort of being a form of reparations.
21:43About what?
21:44Being a form of reparations.
21:45Yes.
21:46And can you sort of expand on that, please?
21:48Well, the way I've been looking at it is that, coming from New York especially,
21:55they, before they rolled out, when they rolled out the cannabis activation,
21:59they basically rolled out social equity first.
22:02Because New York was definitely one of those places that was targeted on the war on drugs.
22:07So, you know, they try to be like, yo, everyone sign up, sign up.
22:11And it was so hard to get the community to sign up.
22:14Not knowing that, you know, just you getting a license or anything, even if, even if you weren't, you know, selling drugs or nothing,
22:23but you maybe went to the weed spot and you got arrested or your, or your son might have got locked up or whatever the case may be.
22:29You know, you deserve something.
22:32Whether you're able to get that license and sell it to somebody and get you some money for that, then that's what it is.
22:40And that's the reparation part of it.
22:42And, you know, cannabis is to, is, is provided by God.
22:46So, at the end of the day, it's just a fuel for anything you want to do.
22:49So, if you have a passion for something, you, when, when it comes legal here, make sure everybody, if they have a social equity program, sign up for that.
22:57I don't care though.
22:59Everybody, sign up for it.
23:01And get your license.
23:02If you don't know what to do with it, then you sell it and you get you some money and do something that you love to do.
23:07It's a kickstart and we deserve it and it belongs to us.
23:10We just got to stand up for it as a, as a whole.
23:13So we get it.
23:14Cause if we don't, and you see one, you see maybe 200 people get it and you're like, I ain't get it.
23:20I don't care.
23:21That's not how it works.
23:22You got to keep going.
23:23Cause there's going to be another round and another round and another round.
23:26If we want more rounds, then we stand up and we say, it's not enough.
23:29And we want more rounds and then we get more rounds.
23:32And that's just how it goes.
23:33But if we're not present, then we're not going to get that, that equity that's owed to us.
23:38And that's what I was, that's what I was trying to say about the reparations.
23:42We got brother in the back right there.
23:46How you doing?
23:51First of all, I'm an entrepreneur.
23:54I'm a businessman.
23:55I'm all about business.
23:57I want to know how to get into this.
24:02You got to speak up.
24:03I want to know how to get into the business.
24:07Oh, to the cannabis game.
24:08Yes.
24:09Well, like I said, you got to, you know, I don't, I don't know what the board is out here,
24:12but you got to go on to the state.org and you got to do due diligence and find out what's going on.
24:19Find out when the laws are passing, when they're having the meetings, go to the meetings.
24:24That's all I can say.
24:25I'm, I'm, you know, I'm from what they would say.
24:28Oh, he's from the hood or he's a street dude or whatever.
24:31But I made sure that when they said that it was time to do this, that I showed up.
24:37I wasn't really looking for a license.
24:40I was looking for information.
24:41So what I did with the information was I passed it on to my OGs.
24:45I passed it to my baby mother who did eight years in the federal penitentiary.
24:50And guess what?
24:51They all got licenses now.
24:53Most people that came to me, I told them, go to the office.
24:57I connected them to the people in the office and told them that they interested.
25:00They have a history.
25:02And guess what?
25:03They went, took some courses provided by the state for them.
25:07And guess what?
25:08They in the game.
25:09My, my, my OG have 47 weed arrests, 47.
25:13And he got a license.
25:16Talk about it.
25:20Anybody else?
25:21We got any other questions from the audience?
25:25Young lady right there.
25:26Okay.
25:27Najee, at the end, you kind of touched on tech and cannabis.
25:29Can you kind of elaborate on ways that you can foresee the tech industry and the cannabis industry kind of aligning with each other?
25:41So, you know, one of the things that I've seen, like I said, I wasn't in the cannabis space as long as Shice was.
25:47I came into it, you know, in 2019 when I was able to see, you know, the kind of the lack of structure that's been in this space.
25:55And I think that, you know, tech and we've seen like through AI and a lot of other things that, that's starting to develop, you know, tech could really help out, you know, this space is, you see a lot of companies either folding or a lot of companies downsizing a lot.
26:10You know, and I think the downsizing of them helps tech to come into the place and kind of, you know, take place of some of those people they, you know, where they had to let go because of certain financial things and things of that sort.
26:23So on the tech side, I'm just on a daily basis, especially on the marketing side, I'm constantly looking for different ways to simplify and also structure our business.
26:32So I think that there's a lot of ways that, you know, if you really look into it, you do your due diligence into the space, you could see a lot of the gaps that, that need, you know, some, some tech that, that could really, that some of the other, you know, industries have already been utilizing, you know, from the liquor industry to even tobacco industry.
26:51They're way far ahead when it comes to the tech that they use to simplify their business.
26:55Right behind you.
26:59How y'all doing?
27:06My question is for the cannabis company, because that's where I buy from.
27:12Based on their legal states, do they have a different tax bracket on how they tax the cannabis?
27:18Yeah, the tax, taxing in the cannabis industry is like the worst thing.
27:23It's, you know, just for instance, Cala, each, to your, to your question, each market has a different way that they do it.
27:29California is, is taxed super hard.
27:33Illinois is taxed super hard.
27:34So there's definitely different ones.
27:36But for the majority, they're all taxed super hard because they haven't figured out how to do it correctly.
27:41So they're trying new ways, new different ways.
27:44So for instance, you buy something, you go into a dispensary in California.
27:48It says that it's $40.
27:50You're spending $80 out the door just from the different taxes.
27:54They just throw in different taxes.
27:55Even different counties have different taxes depending on where you're at.
27:59So there's certain counties that they're able to tax you on the products.
28:02And then you have a state tax on top of that.
28:04Then you have a medical tax on top of that.
28:06So there's a lot of different ways.
28:08So yeah, to your point, like each market is different, but it's all taxed very hard.
28:16Well, fellas, I really appreciate y'all.
28:18Thank y'all for doing this conversation with me.
28:20But before we wrap up, let the people know where they can find you on social media.
28:24So you can find us at Viola, at Viola, V-I-O-L-A.
28:30That's our brands, Instagrams.
28:32You can definitely see any type of updates that we have, any new markets that we're going into, and any upcoming launches.
28:39You can find me at The Smokers Club and also at Shice Bubz, social media, all platforms.
28:48Alright, thank you fellas, I appreciate it. Y'all give it up for us.
28:54Yeah, yeah.
28:56Alright.
28:57Hey, yo, if anybody, if anybody want to take pictures or talk to him, meet him over there at the In His Own Experience picture.
29:04You can line up over there if you got something to say.
29:06Or you just want to say good job.
29:08You want to smile at him.
29:10Y'all need to sit up.
29:11Y'all finish eating?
29:12What's up?
29:13Sit up.
29:14Let's get this picture.
29:15Where my boy go?
29:24Yoru, come on.
29:25Yeah, yeah.
29:26I'm waiting and hey!
29:27This is the first time I haven't done anything else.
29:28Hey I remember all day.
29:29He heardações and a bit increase.
29:30Oh, we got coke you did.
29:32We got coke, this is the last time I wanted, I wanted to hear you.
29:34Yeah, man, he threw it.
29:35Okay, over here.
29:36Oh, shit.
29:37We got a coke, right?
29:45That's right, okay.
30:07Hello, find somebody you don't know and say hello, hey, what's up, y'all look good?
30:37What up?
30:38Oh, here's a party in the back.
30:39Here's a party right here.
30:41Here's a party right here.
30:43Find somebody you don't know and say hello, how are you?
30:49How y'all doing?
30:50Hey, find somebody you don't know and say hello.
30:52Say what up, what's up with you?
30:54How you doing?
30:55Hey, find somebody you don't know and say hello.
30:58Hey, what up?
31:01Yeah, find somebody you don't know and say hello.
31:06What's up with you? How you doing? What's up with you? You having a good day?
31:11No, no. It's too early. No, no. Good night night.
31:36You can miss me with that shit. You know I never been a bitch.
31:39Can we just stay in the car?
32:06Baby, you got this shit. I'm smashing. You can tell I really wish it.
32:09Fucked up. Ain't no porn right now. I took her to the home.
32:13Then I pulled up on the limb. Cause she a fan of Boonie Moe.
32:16I got the city on lock. Fuckin' up all the odds.
32:19I'll be around with three. I'm calling Jerry. I'm standing on off the block.
32:22This an anthem. Mm-mm-mm.
32:24Dropping the six in the family. Mm-mm. Black girl trouble.
32:26I always see her man. No shit, no panda.
32:29All of my cousin. She was a dancer. All of my brother. He was a scout.
32:32Sit on my lap. Cause I put on her tracks. And I fuck on the back.
32:34She called me Hassel. Yeah, yeah.
32:36I'm trying to put my head in every chair that I get.
32:40I'm the biggest watcher they got. I don't kill the chair of my wrist.
32:43All these hoes fuck on us all. I wish I would play in the bitch.
32:46It ain't hard when it ain't good. We got a lot from the states.
32:49So many days they say we can't call you. No, we run around the bitch.
32:52You can mix me with that shit. You know I live in the bitch.
32:55I don't know I live in the bitch. I don't know I live in the bitch.
32:58I don't know I live in the bitch. I don't know I live in the bitch.
33:01I don't know. I don't know. I don't know I live in the bitch.
33:02We the best shit on the stage.
33:04I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
33:06I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
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