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All right, band mate,
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today is Tuesday, December 10th, tinfoil Tuesday.
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Chief is here.
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Chief, what's going on?
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What's going on?
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Happy to be on.
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Yeah, so this Sunday we are gonna be in Lombard.
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Buffalo Wild Wings.
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Buffalo Wild wings
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and we're gonna be watching the game, Green Bay, huge game.
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Monster game, monsters of the midway.
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Yes.
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We need ya out there.
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We need the people out there.
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It's gotta be a rally.
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We gotta turn that place into club dub,
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that's what we need to do.
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And we need everybody there to make that happen.
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Yep, so in 1975, Miller Light brewed the first light beer
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that didn't compromise on taste and it didn't over sense.
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Miller Light is the original light beer
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brewed to have more taste and only 96 calories.
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Don't forget about the slim cans, people.
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I love a good slim can.
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You gotta like it.
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Like we were saying last week in the post-game show,
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they just fit better, fits your hand,
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fits your pockets better.
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However you wanna transport it or however you wanna do it.
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You can't beat a, easy to pack the cooler
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if you're tailgating, boat for when it,
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boat season, will be here before you know it,
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thank goodness.
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And if you're goin' to the beach,
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if you're doin' anything you wanna have those slim cans.
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Yeah, so rally the people, come on out.
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207 East Roosevelt Road,
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that's 207 East Roosevelt Road in Lombard.
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It's at the Buffalo Wild Wings, come hang out,
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watch the game, drink some Miller Light, eat some wings.
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Simple as that.
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Great taste, less filling.
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Yep, so you listened yesterday, right?
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You heard the weed guys?
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Love the weed guys wearin' the dog walkers hat right now.
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There we go, you got the dog walkers hat,
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so it just turns out
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that we're staying on the topic of weed, is that right?
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It is and those guys were talkin' about legalization
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and where it is now.
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What we're gonna do today is talk about the history of it
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and how it became illegal in the first place.
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Fuckin' Chief, man.
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I'm like what do you wanna talk about today?
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He's like, well, I heard the weed,
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did you know this about weed then?
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How it became illegal?
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I was like, wait, you mean there's a conspiracy behind this?
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Oh buddy, of course there is.
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You better fuckin' believe it.
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Of course, of course you angled the way
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to find a weed conspiracy.
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So, yes.
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So, it's pretty interesting, too.
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Yeah, we oughta just start at the beginning.
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Marijuana hemp has a long, long history
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in the United States.
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Even before the United States, part of the colonies.
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So, way back when, hemp, the plant,
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was a major, major cash crop in the colonies
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in the early United States.
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'Cause that plant is just an incredible thing.
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The fibers are really strong.
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If you think of those old wooden ships,
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those big, British Navy ships, colonial war era.
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All of those ropes that are pullin' up the sails,
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tyin' into harbor, all made from hemp rope.
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'Cause the fiber is incredible.
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All schoolbooks, I read, were made from hemp or flax paper
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until the 1880s.
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Bibles, hemp, okay.
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It was just like hemp was in everything.
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Clothing, it was all over the colonies.
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Fucking George Washington cultivating hemp.
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He was a hemp farmer.
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Big hemp guy, huh?
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Huge hemp guy.
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Thomas Jefferson, it's in his journals
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about he was just obsessed with hemp
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because you cut it down every four months.
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If you're makin' trees or cotton, you have one harvest.
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Marijuana hemp is basically a weed.
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It just grows fast
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and it doesn't kill the soil, either.
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So, usually you have to turn over your soil,
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plant something different.
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You just keep plantin' hemp and it'll just grow forever
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'cause it is just a goddamn weed and it's a miracle plant.
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You can do everything with it.
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And you know what's probably my favorite hemp stat?
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'Cause there's a bunch of hemp stats
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about how popular this was in the article you sent me.
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Refusing to grow hemp in America during the 17th
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and 18th centuries was against the law.
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You could be jailed in Virginia
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for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769.
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Yeah, so if you're like, I wanna be exclusively
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a cotton farmer, tobacco farmer, which were the other ones,
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they'd be like, no, fuck you, you're growin' hemp.
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Insane.
Insane.
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And then one other stat on that, 80% of all fabrics
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until the 1820s, 80%.
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So, think of your sweatshirts, everything you're wearing,
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your pants, all made out of hemp fibers until the 1820s.
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Fuckin' wild, it was everywhere.
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That's crazy.
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So, what kinda happens here?
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So what kinda happens, so that was in the 1820s.
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In 1793, the cotton gin was invented.
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So, cotton gin is the early, one of the first machines
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that kick-started almost the Industrial Revolution.
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So, the cotton gin, because cotton and the fibers from hemp
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were always kind of competitive.
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The cotton gin made it way more economical and profitable
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to be a cotton farmer than a hemp farmer
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because now instead of,
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you still had the slaves picking the cotton,
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but they used to have all these fuckin' seeds
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and dirt and all this shit in those little,
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white cotton balls that had to be manually picked out
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before you could turn it into anything of use.
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And that took a long time.
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Cotton gin, you just throw it in this machine,
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it almost grinds it up and it kind of cleans it
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and pulls out all the shit, so now you can just take
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all your cotton and you can use it right away.
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Whereas hemp, if you take a raw hemp plant
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and try to get the fibers out manually,
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it's very laborious.
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It's a hard, fucking thing.
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So, now it's just because it was like,
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well, we can make cotton cheaper and better
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and it's comparable.
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And we can make it faster, bigger profits.
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So, hemp took a little bit of a back seat
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when the cotton gin became more popular
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just because hemp was so difficult
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to process and manufacture.
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Okay, so America essentially
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becomes in love with big cotton.
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Big cotton.
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So, any Civil War thing you've ever seen,
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they're all have the cotton plantations down there
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and it was because the cotton gin allowed them to do that.
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So it was cheaper so it was better profit margins,
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is that right?
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Better profit margins and you can turn it over quicker
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and you needed--
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Easier to get.
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Theoretically, less slave labor to make it.
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So, slaves were cheap.
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So, it was all economically driven.
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So, hemp, still very prominent, but it took a little bit
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of a back seat to cotton and then paper pulp, as well,
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was starting to be used more commonly
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because they developed a better system
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to make paper, as well.
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Okay, now obviously, competitions like this
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happen all the time.
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How did we get to a point where it's like,
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we need to get rid of this other method
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of making clothes and shit like that?
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Great fucking question.
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So, now you fast forward to the 1930s.
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So, you think about it's the Great Depression,
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everybody's struggling.
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This fucking guy,
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about 10 years before this actually happened,
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invented something called.
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I'm gonna struggle to pronounce it,
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but it's called a decortater.
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Decortater, sounded good to me.
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But I might have that a little bit wrong.
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Basically, you take that machine,
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it's got these two heavy wheels
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and it strips bark and it crushes the hemp plant.
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So, all that labor that it took to take hemp
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and get the fibers out, now,
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kinda similar to the cotton gin, bang, happens overnight.
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So, now it's like, well, now the processing
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is basically the same and the hemp fibers are a better,
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stronger, lighter, more durable fiber.
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People all the sudden were like, let's just go back to hemp.
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So, this is the 1930s and you had some issues.
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You ever heard of William Randolph Hearst?
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Sounds like a name I might've heard before.
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You ever heard of the movie, maybe you haven't seen it,
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but seen the movie Citizen Kane?
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I've never seen it,
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but I know it's a historical, famous movie.
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Yeah, they say it's one of the best movies of all time,
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but it came out a hundred years ago.
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The movie police will probably be on my ass for that.
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Right, exactly.
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(mumbles) is about the movie.
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But if you've seen this movie, it's from 90 years ago.
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So, if you haven't seen it, no big deal,
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but it was based on this guy, William Randolph Hearst.
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And he was a newspaper, media mogul.
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So, think of Rupert Murdoch of his day.
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Just like a super-wealthy,
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one of the richest men in America,
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and because he is in charge of the media
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through his newspaper empire.
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Papers all over the country, biggest cities,
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he just owned it.
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He was the guy.
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He was invested heavily in lumber,
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paper mills, paper product.
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And he, talk about the weed guys yesterday,
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vertically integrated.
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So, he had the newspaper business from the tree saplings
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all the way until it ended up on your front door.
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So, he owned every step of the process
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and invested heavily to do so.
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So, 1930s come around and it's like, holy fuck,
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I've invested millions in these paper mills,
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millions in the printing presses.
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Because it'd be a whole different system
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if you're gonna have hemp paper
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versus wood-based paper pulp.
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And all these lumber yards all over the country.
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He was like, this is a major, major threat to my business.
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So, he was like, oh fuck, we gotta get rid of hemp.
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At the same time, you've heard of the company DuPont?
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Yes, I've heard of DuPont.
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So, DuPont, at the same time in 1937,
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they processed patents for making plastics,
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like polymers, like nylon.
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Think of basketball nets and things like that.
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It's another fiber you don't really wear it
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for clothing that much, but maybe for jackets.
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And they had all kinds of these plastics
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that would in theory be in competition
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with hemp-based products.
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They were like, well, we can't fuckin' have that.
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So, you had DuPont and you had William Randolph Hearst
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like we said that meme, they're shaking hands
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like the two strong men, like we both fucking hate hemp.
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And they teamed up together.
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William Randolph Hearst started putting all these stories
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in his paper, this propaganda against marijuana.
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So, the word marijuana didn't even exist, they invented it.
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It used to be slang for wild Mexican tobacco,
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it was knotweed.
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They just took that word and applied it to weed
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and because they're Mexicans and African Americans
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are smokin' weed and they're gonna rape white women.
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So, they started this huge campaign
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of how evil this drug is.
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They actually funded three different movies
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that came out in the 1930s.
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The titles of these movies, Marijuana, Assassin of Youth,
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pretty hard line.
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There's one called Reefer Madness,
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where you have these teenagers and they're smoking weed
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and there's an attempted rape and all this stuff
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and they blame weed on everything.
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And then they have the third one
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was Marijuana, the Devil's Weed.
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So, it was out in popular culture on purpose
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trying to get people and moms and all these people.
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Think of my mom came on this show.
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Can you imagine if she saw this?
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She'd be like, oh my God,
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we gotta get this outta my kid's hands.
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She would hate it more than gluten.
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(laughs)
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More than Lyme disease, she would hate it.
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So, they had this huge, huge campaign
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and eventually got to the point where they put a law
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that they wrote themselves because they had donated
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to these different senators and house representatives
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to ban marijuana.
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They called it the Marijuana Tax law.
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And it wasn't ever really even debated.
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So, now we're up to 1937 in April.
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It wasn't even really debated
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in committee or on the House floor.
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They just put it through and then they had this senator,
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Robert Daughton or Doughton,
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he was chairman of the House Weighs and Means Committee.
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Took basically all of his campaign donations from DuPont,
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slid it through, they voted on it quickly, passed,
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marijuana is banned.
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Supposedly, a lot of the congressmen, because they're like,
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oh, this is this Mexican drug, yeah, it sounds bad.
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They didn't even know it came from the hemp plant.
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So, it was like, we're banning marijuana
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and then we're not even gonna really tell 'em
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that it's because of our concerns
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about the hemp manufacturing industry.
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But because it was all interwoven,
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they could sneak this in the backdoor.
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So, they basically outlawed hemp for the whole country
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in 1937 and nothing has ever changed federally even still.
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So, now states are going by little bit by little bit.
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Illinois going January one, Washington, Oregon, California,
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Massachusetts, there's a handful of them
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that have legalized it or at least decriminalized it.
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But this all stems from a business decision in the 1930s.
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So, it's fuckin' got a little water car conspiracy
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comin' back here,
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little San Francisco electric cars comin' back.
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Well, that's actually tied in, too.
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They were involved to a lesser degree
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because Henry Ford's first cars
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were meant to run on both gasoline and biofuels.
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So, these same types of people killed biofuels.
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Hemp would be an incredibly way to get methanol
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or ethanol because it grows so quickly.
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It was Rockefeller, right?
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Rockefeller was in on that, too.
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So, they had all the most powerful people in the country
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tag-teamed up on this to ram it through
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because it was against their financial interests.
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So, not necessarily.
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They knew it wasn't a danger to the public.
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They had a doctor, I think it was from the AMA,
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the American Medical Association, came out
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even when that was being debated
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and he was on the floor of the senate, I believe,
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being like, yeah, this is totally fine.
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It's helped with inflammation and all these other things.
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And they're like, yeah, no.
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Fuck this guy.
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So, they ignored doctor's evidence even back then.
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And then it was just something that they used
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all throughout time.
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In the 50s, when people started being like,
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why are we doing this?
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McCarthy, everyone knows that name from their history books
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where he was accusing people of everything left and right,
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and they were in the height of the Cold War, he was like,
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if we let this come into our country,
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it'll pacify our young men and they wont' wanna fight
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in the war and we'll get taken over by Russia.
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Oh my God.
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So, that was a prevailing thought.
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We can't have a pacified population.
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Then Nixon, he had a guy, because then it was the hippies
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and it was big in that culture, the anti-war movement,
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that they just said, all right, well we're gonna step up
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our war on drugs,
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but they knew it wasn't bad for the public,
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they just used it as a tool to round up,
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they called the militant African population,
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Civil Rights movement and then the anti-war movement.
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So, they just used it as a political tool
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to round up people who didn't agree with them.
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So, they would do these drug busts
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knowing it would be there,
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knowing that it wasn't a real problem for their health
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or endangering the public or anything.
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We just don't fucking like those guys,
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we're just gonna use this as an excuse.
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And it happened all the way up into the 90s with Clinton,
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they went hard-line on drugs and marijuana, as well.
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Lockin' people up, huge sentences.
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And that was, theoretically, again allegedly
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because they were getting so many donations from big pharma.
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So, it's like someone is always stepping in
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to push this anti-hemp, marijuana agenda
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and it's never John Q. Public.
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They don't know any different or better,
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but I feel like now, maybe just because the Internet
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has just become so much more popular
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and people aren't as afraid of it because there's no movies
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like Reefer fuckin' Madness out there anymore.
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Or the tide turned and the fuckin' rich guy
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now has stake in this and that's why it's back.
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Honestly, that's probably it, Ed.
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There it is.
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You cracked it.
I cracked it.
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Still not legal federally, it's still a Schedule one drug,
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which might as well be heroin.
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But like I said yesterday,
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it's like everyone's licking their chops
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to get in this shit.
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Belushi's got somethin' in Oregon.
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They've all got it.
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Le Shay was about to be a fuckin' big time millionaire.
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I've said this in the blog before,
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but if we didn't get this Barstool offer,
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I had a offer to move out to Oregon.
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And they were these oil and gas guys,
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so they had a billion dollar Hedge fund
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and they were gonna do this
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and they had invested millions of dollars
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out of this cannabis operation out in Oregon,
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and I was gonna go and run that facility.
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'Cause it's a really booming career path.
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So, I was gonna take it.
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I don't think I knew that,
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we'll have to get into that one day.
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Those offers came in at the exact same time.
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So, I just didn't wanna live in Oregon.
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(laughs)
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You don't wanna do that, no ducks?
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No ducks.
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Anywhere I move is gonna have to be very south of the ducks,
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four hours south in the fuckin' wilderness.
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By the beavers, or no?
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South of Corvallis, closer to maybe even Stanford.
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Wow, well that's a pretty dark way
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that marijuana got its name, I would say.
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Objectively racist.
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Let's make this sound Hispanic, yeah.
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I mean this is another conspiracy for another day,
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I think it might've been proven true,
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isn't there something where crack was planted
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in under-privileged or under-developed communities
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allegedly to get them hooked and--
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That's a Nixon thing, as well.
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Allegedly.
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Wow, this was crazy, man.
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Is there anything else we gotta get to
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before we wrap up here?
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I feel like that's probably it.
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Yeah, I think that's all I've got on this,
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I'm sure there's more.
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That was great by you.
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Like I says, you could've hung with Joe Rogan
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on this topic, Chief.
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Well, you would've been shakin' hands afterwards for sure.
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And I'm not a weed guy.
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Probably because of DARE classes and shit,
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I'm still residually a little bit afraid of it.
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You're not like an anti-guy.
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No, not an anti-guy at all, just maybe if they open up
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a Walgreens that has pre-rolls, I might partake.
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Interesting.
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Yeah, I don't know how it happened,
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but there you go, people.
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Two weed back-to-backs.
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Back-to-back.
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Camera guy, Matt, is a weed guy?
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No, he's not a weed guy, either.
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This is not propaganda, people.
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No, this is just how things work.
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It's going legal on the first.
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Yeah, and one more fact, too.
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Didn't they say, as well, that if hemp would've been legal
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it could've got them completely out of the Great Depression?
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That's what they speculate, because it would have been
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just such a booming industry even back then.
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You would've had hemp plastics,
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you would've had all this other manufacturing.
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It would've been, think of the Internet boom,
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it could've been equating to that
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where it's just like we have a brand-new technology
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and it opens up all these different things.
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Think about the oil extraction,
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all the things that they're doing now could've been,
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you could've had a Coca Cola with cannabis in it.
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Wow, how about that?
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Instead of cocaine, which was in there.
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(laughs)
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It was in there at one point.
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All right then, everybody.
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That's it, back-to-back weeds.
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Hopefully you learned some stuff, I know I did.
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Weed week.
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Yep, weed week.
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Tomorrow, actually, we're going to a laundromat.
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I got a guy who owns a laundromat on the show tomorrow,
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so a little bit of swerve.
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But I'm sure people have smoked weed
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in the laundromat before.
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Or at least walked in and stared at the fuckin' dryer
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over and over and over.
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Exactly, or the vending machine.
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All right, everybody, that's it for today.
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We will catch you tomorrow.
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(whooshes)