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Call it what you like.

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Why do we call it 420?

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And ask us
anything you want.

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Is weed really gonna
give me the munchies?

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Can I really get
a contact high?

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Everything you wanted
to know about weed.

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Is my weed safe to smoke?

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Why is vaping dangerous?

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- And then some.
- How do I grow it?

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- Will pot improve my sex life?
- So many questions.

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How many joints
can one dude smoke?

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Maybe you think you know.

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Maybe you have no idea.

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- But don't be paranoid.
- 'Cause we've got the answers.

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Sometimes it seems
like the whole world

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is going to pot.

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So why not kick back...

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...as we take you
through the high and low of it.

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You meet up with your friends
and they're getting stoned.

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One is taking hits from a bong.

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The others passing
around a joint.

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You say, "No, thanks."

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But they've been lighting up
for a while,

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and smoke fills the air

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in the room
where you're all hanging out.

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Is it possible that the smog
might be giving you

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a bit of the fog?

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Could you be experiencing a...

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That would almost
certainly be...

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It is only in the most
extreme circumstances,

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like packing tightly into
a small, unventilated space

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with numerous people
actively smoking lots of weed

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over an extended period,

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that you could maybe inhale
enough second-hand smoke

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to actually catch a buzz.

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Even if you do,

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it's highly unlikely
that you absorbed enough pot

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to fail that drug test
at work on Monday morning.

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The weight on a scale,

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the calendar date,

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or the time of day.

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Which inspired
one of the modern era's

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best known numerical references?

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420's origin story

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can be traced back
to San Rafael, California

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in the 1970s

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and a group
of high school friends--

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a posse of stoners
who called themselves...

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Every day after school,

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the Waldos met up to get stoned

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at exactly 4:20 p.m.,

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and thus a code name was born.

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420 was no longer just a number,

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no longer just
a stroke of a clock.

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420 was now shorthand for weed,

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at least amongst five friends
growing up and smoking up

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just across the bridge
from San Francisco.

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So how did the Waldos'
secret slang go global?

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It turns out
that at least one of the Waldos

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comingled with members
of the Grateful Dead

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at the band's rehearsal space
in San Rafael.

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It's assumed the Dead
and some of their fans

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picked up the term there

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before carrying it back
to the Haight

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where it spread
amongst the hippies

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who, in turn,
took it on the road with them

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as they followed the band
all over the map

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in the '70s and '80s.

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Eventually,
"High Times" magazine

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became hip to the term
and amplified it.

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Now a part
of the universal lexicon,

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420 has even inspired
an unofficial holiday,

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and we're guessing
you know what day that is.

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It's an age-old question
that many feel was settled

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when Bob Dylan introduced
the Beatles to marijuana

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in 1964.

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Paul McCartney has been quoted
as saying the inspiration

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behind the band's seminal
"Sgt. Pepper" album

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can be summed up
in one word--pot.

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So, does cannabis make people
more creative?

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Talk to any musician,
any artist,

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even the average person,
they'll say it does.

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The first time I used cannabis
was in college

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performing a lot
of classical and jazz music.

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And particularly with jazz,
the use of cannabis

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was a way for me
to get outside of my own head

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and really sort of explore
new ideas

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that I didn't even realize
were in there.

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Memphis-born singer,
songwriter Jozzy

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is responsible for turning
Billy Ray Cyrus all hip hop

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on the smash hit remix
to Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road."

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* Hat down, cross town,
livin' like a rock star *

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* Spent a lot of money
on my brand-new guitar *

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Jozzy, who cowrote the track,
credits her creative prowess

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on the record-setting
chart-topper

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to the power of pot.

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* Ridin' down Rodeo
in my Maserati sports car *

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The thing about Billy Ray
and the thing about his wife

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is that they're
avid weed smokers.

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That's one thing
I loved about Billy

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is he just was relaxed
and he let me just do me.

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"You're not gonna go country
on 'Old Time Road.'

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It's already country.
You gonna be a rapper."

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* Got no stress
I've been through all that *

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* I'm like a Marlboro Man
So I kick on back *

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That's all we did--
give him cool rap bars.

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He got in the booth,
took some puffs,

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and we made a banger.

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When I write songs, I do not
know what I'm gonna write about

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until I get in the booth,

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and I really think
that stems from weed.

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I love to freestyle.

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Everything just comes out,
thin air, from God. Smoke some.

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It will tap
into another dimension.

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It kinda wakes up
your third eye a little bit.

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Cannabis creates
non-linear thinking

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and feelings of sort

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of a non-ordinary
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and kind of allows you

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to get out of your
routinized thought patterns

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into something
that is more free flowing.

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So there is
what anecdotally people describe

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which is that yes,
weed makes you creative.

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But if you look
at the official studies,

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there's more complexity
and nuance to this question.

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You might take risks that you
wouldn't otherwise take--

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a creative risk.

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Like, you might try something
that you hadn't tried before

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because of decreased inhibition,

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and you might produce something
that's really good,

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or you might produce something
that's really wack.

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It's harder to demonstrate
a causation

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between cannabis and creativity

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certainly with our
current lab measures.

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But as with McCartney and Dylan,

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Snoop, Dre, and Wiz before her,

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Jozzy doesn't need a study
to tell her what she believes.

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She already knows.

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I feel like weed,
it relaxes you

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to kind of get
to your higher self.

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And the best music is made
when I really don't think

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and I just let it flow
from the heart.

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Like, let this go
and let this go.

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The bong.

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A sacred icon of stoner culture.

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A supremely efficient way
of getting far too stoned.

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Often made from glass,

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a bong is essentially a pipe

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that funnels smoke
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the liquid acting as a filter

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softening the harshness
of the smoke.

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[coughs] Ah, tastes so good.

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Scott Deppe is perhaps the most
revered bong maker in the world.

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Although bong-like
smoking devices

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date all the way back to ancient
Russia, Ethiopia, and China,

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the origin of the modern era
of high-end bongs begins

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just like the term 420--
with the Grateful Dead.

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From the 1970s through the '90s,

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Deadheads would set up shop
outside venues

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as they followed the band
from city to city, show to show.

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An homage to one of the Dead's
most classic songs,

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these makeshift marketplaces
were known as Shakedown Street.

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Deadhead life was
a counter-culture caravan

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of music, art, and often grass.

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One of those along for the ride
was Bob Snodgrass

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who is credited
with transforming pipes

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into works of art.

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He's the godfather
of the glass pipe industry.

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For decades, Bob's one-of-a kind
technicolor designs

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mesmerized the hippies
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one of whom just happened
to be Scott Deppe.

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My brother came back to camp
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that he had gotten
from Snodgrass.

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It was the coolest thing
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Start to finish,

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one bong can take Scott
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anywhere from one to six months
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Less than 20 years ago,

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Scott's profession was
generally conducted in secret.

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As recently as 2003,

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in a series of raids
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the DEA launched
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on bong manufacturers.

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There's another illegal industry

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that is integrally linked
to the drug trade.

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It's the drug
paraphernalia business.

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That was then. This is now.

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Today, artists like Scott

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no longer operate
in the shadows.

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Where weed is now legal,

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so, too, are the mechanisms
for smoking it.

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I knew it was
gonna happen someday.

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And business is booming.

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Hell, if you've
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this bong could be yours.

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Hi, and welcome to another
edition of "Drunk or Stoned."

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Thanks for joining.
Let's get this party started.

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Our first question tonight

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is you're acting
a bit clumsy right now,

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feeling more sloppy than spacey.

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Are you drunk or are you stoned?

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Drunk.

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- [bell dings]
- Drunk is right.

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The alcohol you've downed

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is messing with the part
of your brain

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that controls balance
and movement--the cerebellum--

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in a way that weed just doesn't.

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All right. Next up.

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If you're not careful
and practicing moderation,

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the substance
you're ingesting right now

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could kill you before morning.

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Are you getting drunk
or are you getting stoned?

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Stoned.

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- [buzzer]
- Wrong.

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The answer is drunk.

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Every day, six people die
from alcohol poisoning

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while there has never--
that's right, never--

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been a documented case

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of anyone dying
from an overdose of weed.

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So, you're not dead,
but you do feel like shit.

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The room is spinning.
You've got a headache,

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and you're feeling
slightly nauseous.

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Were you drunk last night
or were you stoned?

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Drunk.

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- [bell dings]
- Drunk is right.

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And you're hungover.

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Your buddy, on the other hand,
just texted you

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to say that he had amazing sex
last night.

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Was he drunk like you,

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or did he choose
to get stoned instead?

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Uh, given that I can't even
remember last night,

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I'm gonna say he was stoned.

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[bell dings]

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You are correct.

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While alcohol numbs the body,

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weed, as long as you
don't overdo it,

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enhances your sensations.

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More sensation
means more pleasure,

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and more pleasure
means better sex.

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Oh, and by the way,
you get a bonus point

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for answering our next question
before we even asked it.

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If you can't remember
last night,

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you're experiencing a blackout,

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and that means you were drunk
last night, not stoned.

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But remember, or maybe not,

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weed can have an impact
on your short-term memory.

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So we'll check back
in a little while

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to see if you remembered
that you just won

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this installment
of "Drunk or Stoned."

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[ applause ]

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***

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The cannabis plant
comes in all shapes and sizes,

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but it's what's inside
that counts.

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Each cannabis plant
might contain any combination

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of more than 100
chemical compounds,

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most of them concentrated
in the buds of the plant.

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Of those compounds,
you've probably heard of two--

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THC and CBD.

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But what sets
these two compounds apart?

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THC will get you high.

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CBD will not.

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THC speeds up your heart rate.

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CBD slows it down.

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Both compounds
have medicinal value

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with research suggesting
pain relief is best achieved

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when the two are taken together.

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There's just
one little problem...

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At least not everywhere.

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Still banned in most states

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where even medical marijuana
remains illegal.

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***

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Every day,
up to three times a day,

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here at
Washington State University,

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16 rats are placed

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inside specifically designed
cannabis vapor chambers.

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I think we can learn a lot

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about what cannabis
is doing to the brain

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by understanding
how it affects

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the development
of the rodent brain.

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It's organized
in a very similar fashion.

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Inside these plexiglass boxes
are two holes

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just big enough
for a rat to poke its nose.

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In the first hole, nothing.

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Just an open, empty space.

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But if the rat sticks its nose
into the other hole,

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it breaks a beam
of infrared light,

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triggering a reaction.

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Weed vapors released
into the chamber,

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and a smoke session begins.

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Rats are quick to learn
how the hotbox works.

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Some don't seem
to like the vapor

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and stopped triggering it.

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Others thoroughly enjoy
the experience,

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returning to the cannabis hole
again and again and again.

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For five years,
Dr. Ryan McLaughlin

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has been conducting studies
on rats,

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aimed at understanding
the effects of cannabis

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on human intelligence.

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Does weed make us dumber?

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Yeah, that's
an interesting question.

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What would I say is that weed
certainly changes your brain.

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It changes how synapses
are wired.

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In one study, Dr. McLaughlin

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found that adolescent rats,
teenage rats

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consuming more cannabis
in their youth

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had greater difficulty learning
new skills later in life,

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struggling with brain teasers

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like mazes
and other strategy games.

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The behavioral impairments that
we're seeing are very subtle,

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but they're,
nonetheless, apparent

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when we start
to actually challenge them

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with a little bit more
cognitively demanding tasks.

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These findings are consistent
with other research,

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showing that people
who smoke a lot of cannabis

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during their teenage years

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may risk losing
several I.Q. points

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compared to those who don't.

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And if you're under
the age of 25,

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there's a chance
that too much weed

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will have long-term effects
on your short-term memory.

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A drug like cannabis is not
necessarily all good or all bad.

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There are particular layers
to this

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that we need
to really understand

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at a very fine-grain level.

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Do you feel like your friends
are laughing at you?

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Convinced someone
is watching your every move?

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Wondering why Fido
is giving you the side eye?

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If you answered yes to any
or all the above questions,

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you might be stoned.

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You might
be experiencing anxiety.

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You might be paranoid.

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What the hell is going on, man?

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More likely than not,
the THC you ingested

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in that weed you just consumed

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is overstimulating
your amygdala.

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Sounds kind of hot, right?

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That part of your brain
that processes emotions

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is way too excited--

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your neural pathways
firing on all cylinders.

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We can't tell you exactly
why this is happening.

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Scientists aren't sure.

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Next time you might wanna smoke
a strain that's less potent

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or simply smoke less
of the one you've got.

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Lower dosage and lower potency

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should both diminish
your chances of freaking out.

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In the meantime,
do your best to chill,

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relax and ride the high.

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Back in the late '90s,

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Ricky Williams
was a star running back

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at the University of Texas,

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a Longhorn
on his way to earning

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college football's
highest honor.

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But at the age of 20,

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Ricky was also
just another student

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dealing with the typical
pressures of young adulthood.

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Fast-forward to my senior year
in college,

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and I was in the running
for the Heisman Trophy

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but at the same time going
through a really bad breakup.

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And my roommate was a smoker.

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He suggested that I try smoking
to help me,

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and after smoking, I actually
got a decent night's sleep.

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And so it was
my first experience

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of what we would now call
medicinal effects of cannabis.

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But at the time,
I just registered

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that it helped me feel better.

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The cannabis continued
to make Ricky feel better

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as he graduated from college
into the big leagues.

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As I went through the NFL
and started to experience

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both physical stress--injuries--
and mental stress,

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just being
a professional football player,

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I found that cannabis helped.

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You know, it helped me
let go of the day

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and wake up the next morning
ready to go at it again.

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When I talk
to former pro athletes

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or current pro athletes
who are using the plant,

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I think the most
important benefit

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of cannabis and exercise
is just healing the body.

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It's wonderful
for pain management.

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Recent studies have shown

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that cannabis
works particularly well

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for many
of the physical problems

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facing football players...

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...even with repairing the brain
after a concussion.

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So it made sense
that Ricky wanted to light up,

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but he was also playing
with fire.

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When I got traded to Miami,

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I came to work one day,
and a guy was right there

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and said,
"You're up for a piss test."

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About a week later,
I got a letter telling me

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that I failed the drug test

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and I was entering
the NFL's drug program

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which meant that I'd be tested
nine times a month

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and I'd have to talk
with a counselor

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for an hour each week.

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By the early 2000s
when Ricky tested positive,

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the NFL had the strictest
drug-testing policies

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of any professional sport.

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While most leagues recognized
that weed shouldn't incur

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as harsh a penalty
as coke or amphetamines,

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cannabis users
were always at a disadvantage

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when it comes
to peeing in a cup.

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Pot stays in your system
up to a month

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unlike most other drugs

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which would disappear
from your body

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after a few days.

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I just started to feel
like a criminal and an addict,

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and I didn't agree
that I had a problem.

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It didn't feel real or accurate.

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Somehow it leaked

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that I was
in the NFL drug program.

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That blow to my image was a lot,
and it got to the point

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where I was thinking
there's so many other things

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that I'd rather be doing
with my life right now.

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And so Ricky made
the extraordinary decision

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to walk away from the sport

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that had defined him

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from the time he was a child.

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The story that's told

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by the media is that I retired

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because I wanted to smoke pot.

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00:24:02,008 --> 00:24:03,510
That's partially true.

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But the moment I retired,

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I felt this huge weight
come off my shoulders,

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and I felt free.

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I felt this spirituality
rise up in me.

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The only thing I could think of
to help explain it was seasons.

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You know,
spring turns into summer,

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00:24:20,893 --> 00:24:23,262
and summer turns into fall,
and fall turns into winter,

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00:24:23,395 --> 00:24:25,665
and it doesn't seem like nature
really complains about it.

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It's just this natural shift.

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So I made sense of it,
thinking that maybe

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the season of football
has come to an end

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and it was time
for another season to start.

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And that new season
has kept Ricky a busy man.

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I founded a wellness
and herbal company.

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Founding an astrological
dating app.

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00:24:43,282 --> 00:24:45,685
I'm in two master's programs.

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There have been a lot of
improvements in the past decade

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as it relates
to how professional sports

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are treating the use of cannabis
for its athletes.

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00:24:53,893 --> 00:24:55,828
The sensible evolution
for the NFL

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00:24:55,962 --> 00:24:58,397
would be to do the same thing as
Major League Baseball is doing

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which is just to abolish
cannabis testing altogether.

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00:25:03,836 --> 00:25:06,906
Perhaps Ricky was a man
ahead of his time.

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In the summer of 2020,

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UT, Ricky's alma mater,

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renamed its football field
after him.

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I think that
was the first moment

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where I felt exonerated.

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You know, the fact
that I could have a history

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of being a druggie

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and giving up all the money
and all the controversy

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but still people were interested
in putting a statue of me

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up at the university
and honoring me was huge.

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It goes to show sometimes
doing what you know is right

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is more important
than following the rules.

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Like many other products
and activities,

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vaping carries a risk
and can be dangerous,

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00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,263
largely because many
of the vape pens

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00:26:04,396 --> 00:26:08,167
now flooding the market
are illegal and unregulated,

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00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:13,172
and it's nearly impossible to
determine which ones they are.

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00:26:13,305 --> 00:26:17,944
Illicit pen manufacturers
aren't playing by any rules,

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00:26:18,077 --> 00:26:20,146
and some take shortcuts,

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00:26:20,279 --> 00:26:22,148
employing dangerous methods

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00:26:22,281 --> 00:26:23,650
and materials,

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00:26:23,783 --> 00:26:25,584
like using lighter fluid

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00:26:25,718 --> 00:26:28,655
to extract cannabis oil
from the plant.

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00:26:30,156 --> 00:26:31,991
To increase profits,

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00:26:32,124 --> 00:26:34,794
they might dilute
that cannabis oil

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with chemicals not recommended
for human inhalation.

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00:26:39,766 --> 00:26:44,737
And then there's the pen itself,
often made from cheap hardware.

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00:26:44,871 --> 00:26:47,707
When using these
lower-quality pens,

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you may end up inhaling
tiny flecks of heavy metals

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into your lungs.

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***

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The heat of the pen

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can also turn otherwise
harmless chemicals into poison.

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00:27:03,823 --> 00:27:07,226
When, for example, myclobutanil,

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00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,196
a chemical common
is illicit weed oil,

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00:27:10,329 --> 00:27:13,700
reaches 396 degrees Fahrenheit,

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00:27:13,833 --> 00:27:16,669
it turns into hydrogen cyanide.

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00:27:16,803 --> 00:27:19,872
Most pens reach
500 degrees or more.

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00:27:20,006 --> 00:27:22,608
And did we mention cyanide?

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00:27:24,977 --> 00:27:28,247
Nearly 90%
of the serious lung injuries

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00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:30,349
believed to be caused by vaping

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00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:35,254
have been attributed to
these illegal, unregulated pens.

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00:27:35,387 --> 00:27:37,123
It should be noted, however,

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00:27:37,256 --> 00:27:39,491
that even the legal pens
have been around

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00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:41,593
for only about 10 years,

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00:27:41,728 --> 00:27:45,031
and little reliable data exists.

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00:27:45,164 --> 00:27:48,801
So whether you're
vaping nicotine or marijuana,

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00:27:48,935 --> 00:27:52,504
be wary of the long-term
health consequences

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00:27:52,638 --> 00:27:55,742
which remain largely unknown.

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00:28:02,648 --> 00:28:06,986
Hmm. "How will weed
affect my sperm?"

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00:28:13,726 --> 00:28:15,327
A recent Harvard study

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00:28:15,461 --> 00:28:17,964
found that cannabis
was actually associated

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00:28:18,097 --> 00:28:20,666
with increased sperm count.

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00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,302
But--You knew
where was a "but," right?

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00:28:23,435 --> 00:28:26,839
Research has also shown
that people who smoke weed

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00:28:26,973 --> 00:28:30,309
have more trouble
getting their partners pregnant.

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00:28:30,442 --> 00:28:35,948
So more sperm, but maybe they
have no sense of direction

509
00:28:36,082 --> 00:28:39,919
and count quite find
the egg they're looking for?

510
00:28:40,052 --> 00:28:44,123
Most fertility doctors will tell
both members of a couple

511
00:28:44,256 --> 00:28:47,659
to lay off the weed
if they're trying to conceive.

512
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,836
***

513
00:28:56,969 --> 00:29:00,606
Here in the American heartland
lies one state

514
00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:04,243
where marijuana
remains totally illegal.

515
00:29:04,376 --> 00:29:06,078
In Wisconsin,

516
00:29:06,212 --> 00:29:09,448
getting caught
with even a single bud of weed

517
00:29:09,581 --> 00:29:13,319
could land you in jail
for more than three years.

518
00:29:13,452 --> 00:29:15,387
In 2018,

519
00:29:15,521 --> 00:29:20,559
authorities in Wisconsin
made more than 17,000 arrests

520
00:29:20,692 --> 00:29:22,995
for possession of marijuana.

521
00:29:24,463 --> 00:29:27,066
As is the case
around the country,

522
00:29:27,199 --> 00:29:29,701
many Wisconsinites
are using cannabis

523
00:29:29,836 --> 00:29:31,904
not recreationally,

524
00:29:32,038 --> 00:29:34,040
but for medicinal purposes.

525
00:29:34,173 --> 00:29:37,743
Only here, they're still
breaking the law by doing so.

526
00:29:41,213 --> 00:29:45,017
My life is
so overwhelming that...

527
00:29:45,151 --> 00:29:48,487
I just feel like
I can't slow down. I can't stop.

528
00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:52,058
This is Patrick Delooze.

529
00:29:52,191 --> 00:29:57,563
Patrick served in the U.S. Army
for over a decade,

530
00:29:57,696 --> 00:29:59,565
doing two tours of duty in Iraq

531
00:29:59,698 --> 00:30:04,470
in 2006 and 2008.

532
00:30:05,237 --> 00:30:08,207
Like hundreds of thousands
of soldiers

533
00:30:08,340 --> 00:30:12,144
now back from the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan,

534
00:30:12,278 --> 00:30:15,781
Patrick suffers from
post-traumatic stress disorder.

535
00:30:17,249 --> 00:30:20,219
Returning soldiers
are often haunted

536
00:30:20,352 --> 00:30:22,354
by memories
of death and destruction...

537
00:30:23,890 --> 00:30:26,758
triggered by seemingly
innocuous events

538
00:30:26,893 --> 00:30:28,928
like a sudden loud noise.

539
00:30:29,061 --> 00:30:32,164
- [explosions]
- [man shouts]

540
00:30:33,632 --> 00:30:37,269
Came back from Iraq, and--

541
00:30:37,403 --> 00:30:39,371
and it was a wild ride,

542
00:30:39,505 --> 00:30:42,508
a long, really hard struggle,

543
00:30:42,641 --> 00:30:45,511
financially, emotionally,

544
00:30:45,644 --> 00:30:47,446
physically.

545
00:30:47,579 --> 00:30:50,749
Patrick now leads
the Wisconsin chapter

546
00:30:50,883 --> 00:30:55,221
of a group called
Weed for Warriors.

547
00:30:55,354 --> 00:30:57,823
I put a nug
in a little pipe that I had,

548
00:30:57,957 --> 00:30:59,926
and I felt a lot better.
I felt more relaxed.

549
00:31:00,826 --> 00:31:02,361
Weed for Warriors

550
00:31:02,494 --> 00:31:06,132
helps veterans around
the country access cannabis

551
00:31:06,265 --> 00:31:09,902
for the purposes of treating the
lingering effects of injuries,

552
00:31:10,036 --> 00:31:13,772
both physical and psychological.

553
00:31:14,706 --> 00:31:16,808
I mean, it's rough,

554
00:31:16,943 --> 00:31:18,644
but, you know,

555
00:31:18,777 --> 00:31:20,913
this slows--

556
00:31:21,047 --> 00:31:23,782
Like, it gives me peace.
It lets me sleep.

557
00:31:26,552 --> 00:31:30,222
The dreams were so gripping.
Scary as...

558
00:31:30,356 --> 00:31:32,424
You got that whole damp spot
in the bed,

559
00:31:32,558 --> 00:31:34,026
wondering what the hell,
who poured water on you.

560
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,028
- Yes.
- That shit's crazy.

561
00:31:36,162 --> 00:31:39,265
A recent study
out of Israel showed

562
00:31:39,398 --> 00:31:43,135
that because cannabis suppresses
one's ability to dream,

563
00:31:43,269 --> 00:31:47,239
it helps PTSD patients
keep nightmares at bay

564
00:31:47,373 --> 00:31:51,043
and allows them to sleep more
peacefully through the night.

565
00:31:51,177 --> 00:31:53,479
I leave a loaded pipe
right next to my bed,

566
00:31:53,612 --> 00:31:56,949
and I'll roll over
at 2:00 in the morning.

567
00:31:58,550 --> 00:32:02,421
That's the hard part.
It's just maintaining a supply.

568
00:32:02,554 --> 00:32:04,790
And it's extremely difficult
to come by.

569
00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:06,258
It's so much easier
to get a pack of smokes

570
00:32:06,392 --> 00:32:08,394
- than it is to get some weed.
- Yeah.

571
00:32:08,527 --> 00:32:12,131
We have to almost force to go
through some high school kids

572
00:32:12,264 --> 00:32:15,067
or something sometimes,
you know. It's ridiculous.

573
00:32:15,201 --> 00:32:18,004
Or deal with the drug dealer
around the corner.

574
00:32:18,137 --> 00:32:19,671
I wish I lived in California

575
00:32:19,805 --> 00:32:22,975
or Colorado or Washington
right now.

576
00:32:23,109 --> 00:32:26,145
In places where legal cannabis
is available,

577
00:32:26,278 --> 00:32:29,048
studies have shown
a significant decrease

578
00:32:29,181 --> 00:32:31,883
in opioid-related deaths

579
00:32:32,018 --> 00:32:33,519
which may suggest

580
00:32:33,652 --> 00:32:36,422
that many of those suffering
from chronic pain

581
00:32:36,555 --> 00:32:39,825
are replacing their pills
with pot.

582
00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:42,128
They should just
be legal nationwide,

583
00:32:42,261 --> 00:32:43,395
- recreationally, and done.
- Yeah.

584
00:32:43,529 --> 00:32:45,064
Let the people decide.

585
00:32:57,609 --> 00:33:00,012
***

586
00:33:00,146 --> 00:33:02,181
Call it a crazy quilt,

587
00:33:02,314 --> 00:33:04,316
the patchwork of state laws

588
00:33:04,450 --> 00:33:07,986
that determine whether weed
is legal and to what extent,

589
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,589
wherever it is that you live.

590
00:33:10,722 --> 00:33:15,194
Though weed is still prohibited
in 15 states

591
00:33:15,327 --> 00:33:18,930
against the law in any form
and under any condition...

592
00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:24,736
As of 2021,

593
00:33:24,870 --> 00:33:28,807
35 states now allow the use
of medical marijuana.

594
00:33:28,940 --> 00:33:30,742
And of those 35,

595
00:33:30,876 --> 00:33:35,447
16 now also allow
the recreational use of weed.

596
00:33:36,282 --> 00:33:39,418
Oh. And don't forget
about Washington, D.C.

597
00:33:39,551 --> 00:33:43,722
They've joined
the recreational party as well.

598
00:33:43,855 --> 00:33:47,793
So, wondering about the legal
status of weed where you are?

599
00:33:47,926 --> 00:33:49,928
Here's the roll call.

600
00:33:50,062 --> 00:33:53,499
[classical music playing]

601
00:34:24,029 --> 00:34:28,367
[music continues ]

602
00:34:42,114 --> 00:34:43,282
[music ends]

603
00:34:57,563 --> 00:35:00,732
In the eyes
of the U.S. federal government,

604
00:35:00,866 --> 00:35:05,504
heroin and weed are considered
equally dangerous drugs,

605
00:35:05,637 --> 00:35:10,142
both designated
Schedule 1 drugs.

606
00:35:10,276 --> 00:35:12,411
Schedule 1 drug
is defined as a drug

607
00:35:12,544 --> 00:35:15,181
that has a very high potential
for abuse

608
00:35:15,314 --> 00:35:17,549
but no medical use whatsoever.

609
00:35:18,917 --> 00:35:21,052
Defining cannabis that way

610
00:35:21,187 --> 00:35:24,223
defies much
of what we now know about weed,

611
00:35:24,356 --> 00:35:27,459
though that knowledge
is largely the result

612
00:35:27,593 --> 00:35:31,797
of research coming
from beyond America's borders.

613
00:35:32,631 --> 00:35:36,335
Israel, the Netherlands,
the U.K., and Canada

614
00:35:36,468 --> 00:35:40,005
are leading the way
in cannabis research.

615
00:35:40,138 --> 00:35:41,873
It was actually in Israel,

616
00:35:42,007 --> 00:35:43,309
and it was
about half a century ago

617
00:35:43,442 --> 00:35:45,877
that they first isolated
and discovered THC.

618
00:35:46,011 --> 00:35:48,347
It was in the UK

619
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,717
that the only FDA-approved
drug derived from cannabis

620
00:35:51,850 --> 00:35:53,585
was developed.

621
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,456
Epidiolex is now used worldwide

622
00:35:57,589 --> 00:36:01,460
to treat patients
suffering from seizures.

623
00:36:04,896 --> 00:36:08,634
U.S. research on cannabis
lags far behind,

624
00:36:08,767 --> 00:36:13,505
complicated by weed's continued
Schedule 1 classification

625
00:36:13,639 --> 00:36:16,442
which discourages scientists
from studying it.

626
00:36:16,575 --> 00:36:20,579
America's Public Enemy Number 1
is drug abuse.

627
00:36:22,113 --> 00:36:26,252
The weed-fueled counter-culture
revolution of the 1960s

628
00:36:26,385 --> 00:36:28,687
prompted the government
to accept

629
00:36:28,820 --> 00:36:33,158
that at least some research on
this increasingly popular drug

630
00:36:33,292 --> 00:36:35,394
might be necessary.

631
00:36:36,528 --> 00:36:38,830
And so the School of Pharmacy

632
00:36:38,964 --> 00:36:42,268
at the University
of Mississippi, Ole Miss,

633
00:36:42,401 --> 00:36:45,671
was granted a contract
to provide standardized cannabis

634
00:36:45,804 --> 00:36:49,074
to researchers
around the country.

635
00:36:49,207 --> 00:36:51,377
More than 50 years later,

636
00:36:51,510 --> 00:36:54,913
it remains the only source
of federally legal weed

637
00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:57,182
anywhere in the U.S.

638
00:36:58,950 --> 00:37:02,020
Most of the research
using weed grown here

639
00:37:02,153 --> 00:37:04,790
is conducted on animals

640
00:37:04,923 --> 00:37:08,760
like Dr. McLaughlin's rats
up in Washington.

641
00:37:10,061 --> 00:37:12,564
Human studies are rare.

642
00:37:13,465 --> 00:37:16,702
There are, however,
a select few individuals

643
00:37:16,835 --> 00:37:21,039
who do receive pot directly
from the Mississippi farm.

644
00:37:25,977 --> 00:37:27,646
In this house

645
00:37:27,779 --> 00:37:32,183
in this suburban neighborhood
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

646
00:37:32,318 --> 00:37:35,020
lives a 67-year-old stockbroker

647
00:37:35,153 --> 00:37:37,889
who also happens
to smoke a lot of weed.

648
00:37:38,023 --> 00:37:40,091
Like, a lot.

649
00:37:40,225 --> 00:37:41,760
- You all ready?
- Yeah. We got you.

650
00:37:41,893 --> 00:37:43,729
I'm gonna light up to do it.

651
00:37:46,532 --> 00:37:51,169
Like clockwork, every month
for the past 38 years,

652
00:37:51,303 --> 00:37:54,506
Irvin Rosenfeld
has been receiving shipments

653
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,676
of marijuana free of charge

654
00:37:57,809 --> 00:38:00,245
in courtesy
of the U.S. government.

655
00:38:00,379 --> 00:38:02,648
I will smoke a joint
one after another

656
00:38:02,781 --> 00:38:04,883
as long as I can
until I decide to go to bed.

657
00:38:05,016 --> 00:38:07,686
Neatly packed into metal tins,

658
00:38:07,819 --> 00:38:10,656
each delivery
postmarked "Mississippi"

659
00:38:10,789 --> 00:38:12,824
contains 300 joints

660
00:38:12,958 --> 00:38:15,160
which raises the question...

661
00:38:22,133 --> 00:38:24,536
Well, as of the year 2020,

662
00:38:24,670 --> 00:38:27,272
Irvin has received and smoked

663
00:38:27,406 --> 00:38:32,010
more than 136,000
government-issued J's.

664
00:38:32,143 --> 00:38:36,047
This is how I've been getting
my medicine for over 38 years.

665
00:38:36,181 --> 00:38:38,517
I believe it's kept me alive,
and it's kept the tumors,

666
00:38:38,650 --> 00:38:40,686
over 200 of them in my body,
from growing.

667
00:38:42,888 --> 00:38:45,424
When Irvin
was just 10 years old,

668
00:38:45,557 --> 00:38:48,860
doctors found bone tumors
ravaging his entire body.

669
00:38:53,965 --> 00:38:57,168
Irvin was told
the condition was incurable

670
00:38:57,302 --> 00:38:59,705
and the tumors would
only multiply as he got older.

671
00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:03,542
The pain was
at times excruciating.

672
00:39:03,675 --> 00:39:06,277
By the time Irvin
was a teenager,

673
00:39:06,412 --> 00:39:08,113
he'd endured numerous surgeries

674
00:39:08,246 --> 00:39:11,983
and was hostage to an
endless regimen of painkillers.

675
00:39:12,117 --> 00:39:14,386
But then Irvin went to college.

676
00:39:15,954 --> 00:39:17,322
It was the '70s,

677
00:39:17,456 --> 00:39:20,992
and he tried marijuana
for the first time.

678
00:39:21,126 --> 00:39:22,528
Irvin quickly realized

679
00:39:22,661 --> 00:39:25,363
that cannabis relieved
the pain in his bones

680
00:39:25,497 --> 00:39:27,999
more so than any medicine
he'd ever taken

681
00:39:28,133 --> 00:39:29,801
or any procedure he'd ever done.

682
00:39:29,935 --> 00:39:33,805
I said, "Gee. I haven't taken
a pill in five to six hours."

683
00:39:33,939 --> 00:39:37,108
And just then the person
to my left handed me the joint,

684
00:39:37,242 --> 00:39:38,577
and I looked at it and said,

685
00:39:38,710 --> 00:39:41,413
"This is the only thing
I've done differently."

686
00:39:41,547 --> 00:39:43,381
Around the same time
that Irvin was having

687
00:39:43,515 --> 00:39:45,717
his own revelations about weed,

688
00:39:45,851 --> 00:39:48,854
researchers at UCLA
were discovering

689
00:39:48,987 --> 00:39:52,658
that cannabis could also help
treat patients with glaucoma,

690
00:39:52,791 --> 00:39:56,261
an eye condition
that can lead to blindness.

691
00:39:57,796 --> 00:40:02,968
In 1978, Robert Randall,
a patient associated with UCLA,

692
00:40:03,101 --> 00:40:04,770
sued the federal government

693
00:40:04,903 --> 00:40:07,873
for the right to legally
use cannabis as medicine.

694
00:40:08,006 --> 00:40:10,542
This led to the establishment
of the...

695
00:40:13,479 --> 00:40:15,447
Which is a long way of saying

696
00:40:15,581 --> 00:40:17,616
the government started
providing Randall

697
00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:19,985
with specially delivered
pre-rolled joints.

698
00:40:20,118 --> 00:40:22,654
Bob Randall, the first American

699
00:40:22,788 --> 00:40:25,290
ever to gain
legal access to marijuana

700
00:40:25,423 --> 00:40:27,358
because of his
glaucoma condition.

701
00:40:27,493 --> 00:40:29,194
He became the first person
in the United States

702
00:40:29,327 --> 00:40:31,196
to receive medical cannabis
from the federal government.

703
00:40:31,329 --> 00:40:36,134
Within a few years,
Irvin and a few other patients

704
00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:40,972
joined Randall in that
experimental government program.

705
00:40:41,106 --> 00:40:43,174
And they just delivered
eight ounces of marijuana

706
00:40:43,308 --> 00:40:45,677
to my doctor that day.
[laughs]

707
00:40:45,811 --> 00:40:48,814
Marijuana--pot, grass,
whatever you wanna call it--

708
00:40:48,947 --> 00:40:52,818
is probably the most dangerous
drug in the United States,

709
00:40:52,951 --> 00:40:56,955
and we haven't begun to find out
all of the ill effects...

710
00:40:57,088 --> 00:41:01,092
In the 1980s, as Reagan
stepped up the war on drugs,

711
00:41:01,226 --> 00:41:05,030
the government kept
its weed program on the downlow,

712
00:41:05,163 --> 00:41:08,066
never enrolling more than
a few dozen people.

713
00:41:08,199 --> 00:41:11,269
[woman chanting, indistinct]

714
00:41:11,402 --> 00:41:12,838
But by the early '90s,

715
00:41:12,971 --> 00:41:15,040
the program
was attracting more attention

716
00:41:15,173 --> 00:41:16,742
when a surge of applicants,

717
00:41:16,875 --> 00:41:18,544
many of them suffering
from AIDS,

718
00:41:18,677 --> 00:41:20,612
sought medicinal relief.

719
00:41:24,583 --> 00:41:26,718
Conservative backlash ensued,

720
00:41:26,852 --> 00:41:30,088
and the government only hardened
its stance on weed.

721
00:41:30,221 --> 00:41:32,390
No medical study has indicated

722
00:41:32,524 --> 00:41:34,526
marijuana is
significantly effective

723
00:41:34,660 --> 00:41:36,862
in controlling
nausea and vomiting.

724
00:41:36,995 --> 00:41:38,396
We were ostracized.

725
00:41:38,530 --> 00:41:39,965
We would argue
for medical marijuana,

726
00:41:40,098 --> 00:41:43,869
and people were against us,
but we knew we were right.

727
00:41:44,002 --> 00:41:47,472
Many in the medical community
believed Irvin was right,

728
00:41:47,606 --> 00:41:49,741
but the government did not,

729
00:41:49,875 --> 00:41:54,245
ultimately closing the program
to new applicants in 1991.

730
00:41:54,379 --> 00:41:56,715
Pain's got a little better.

731
00:41:58,249 --> 00:42:00,586
Though nobody new
would be allowed to join,

732
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,253
those already in the program

733
00:42:02,387 --> 00:42:05,423
would continue to receive
government-supplied weed.

734
00:42:05,557 --> 00:42:09,127
Only two members
of that program survived,

735
00:42:09,260 --> 00:42:11,630
and Irvin is one of them.

736
00:42:12,564 --> 00:42:16,001
Despite establishing the program
for the purposes of research,

737
00:42:16,134 --> 00:42:18,837
the government has never
published any scientific data

738
00:42:18,970 --> 00:42:21,072
on the outcome
of Irvin's weed use

739
00:42:21,206 --> 00:42:23,008
or that of any other patient.

740
00:42:23,141 --> 00:42:26,411
But an independent study
published in 2002

741
00:42:26,544 --> 00:42:29,447
found that several decades
of smoking government pot

742
00:42:29,581 --> 00:42:33,451
had quite positive effects,
with all patients doing well

743
00:42:33,585 --> 00:42:36,421
and taking fewer pharmaceuticals
than before.

744
00:42:36,554 --> 00:42:39,925
When I die, if I can help
someone else live longer,

745
00:42:40,058 --> 00:42:43,128
because of learning more
about my disorder through me,

746
00:42:43,261 --> 00:42:44,462
then it makes me feel good.

747
00:42:44,596 --> 00:42:46,331
I mean,
that's been the whole point

748
00:42:46,464 --> 00:42:48,667
of teaching people
about medical marijuana.

749
00:43:09,354 --> 00:43:11,022
If you said seniors,

750
00:43:11,156 --> 00:43:13,391
65 and overs,

751
00:43:13,524 --> 00:43:16,728
give yourself a tie-dye star.

752
00:43:16,862 --> 00:43:19,765
That's right.
The same generation responsible

753
00:43:19,898 --> 00:43:22,634
for popularizing weed
in the '60s,

754
00:43:22,768 --> 00:43:27,505
is now flocking to dispensaries
in their 60s and 70s

755
00:43:27,639 --> 00:43:29,908
and sometimes older.

756
00:43:30,041 --> 00:43:33,578
Most boomers are consuming
medical marijuana,

757
00:43:33,712 --> 00:43:36,214
eager to relieve
the aches and pains of aging

758
00:43:36,347 --> 00:43:38,817
or looking
for a better night's sleep.

759
00:43:38,950 --> 00:43:42,654
At least that's
what they tell the grandkids.

760
00:43:55,566 --> 00:43:57,769
As of 2019,

761
00:43:57,903 --> 00:44:00,939
travelers are free to enter LAX

762
00:44:01,072 --> 00:44:05,443
carrying up
to 28 1/2 grams of weed.

763
00:44:05,576 --> 00:44:07,212
But...

764
00:44:07,345 --> 00:44:09,580
Once you reach TSA,

765
00:44:09,715 --> 00:44:12,183
you may be SOL.

766
00:44:14,619 --> 00:44:17,622
The TSA is a federal agency,

767
00:44:17,756 --> 00:44:21,760
and weed remains illegal
at the federal level

768
00:44:21,893 --> 00:44:25,630
regardless of what state law
might be in the city

769
00:44:25,764 --> 00:44:27,733
where you're boarding.

770
00:44:27,866 --> 00:44:31,870
So while they're not necessarily
looking to bust you

771
00:44:32,003 --> 00:44:34,405
for that dime bag
in your carry-on,

772
00:44:34,539 --> 00:44:37,709
they just might
if they find it.

773
00:44:37,843 --> 00:44:41,212
If they don't,
it's worth considering

774
00:44:41,346 --> 00:44:44,415
what might happen
when you reach your destination.

775
00:44:44,549 --> 00:44:46,117
Just because weed is legal

776
00:44:46,251 --> 00:44:48,619
in the place
from which you're taking off,

777
00:44:48,754 --> 00:44:51,389
doesn't mean it will be
where you land.

778
00:44:51,522 --> 00:44:57,095
Besides, the plane itself is
also under federal jurisdiction.

779
00:44:57,228 --> 00:45:01,132
So you best not tamper
with that smoke detector

780
00:45:01,266 --> 00:45:02,734
in the lavatory,

781
00:45:02,868 --> 00:45:06,637
and you best be careful
if you're hiding that hash.

782
00:45:16,447 --> 00:45:19,150
***

783
00:45:19,284 --> 00:45:21,753
As recently as 2016,

784
00:45:21,887 --> 00:45:24,122
a study of cannabis sold
at medical dispensaries

785
00:45:24,255 --> 00:45:25,623
in California

786
00:45:25,757 --> 00:45:28,393
found harmful pathogens
in every single sample

787
00:45:28,526 --> 00:45:30,295
that was tested.

788
00:45:30,428 --> 00:45:34,165
Cannabis kind of straddles a lot
of different product categories,

789
00:45:34,299 --> 00:45:36,667
so regulating cannabis
was difficult.

790
00:45:38,336 --> 00:45:39,838
Two years later,

791
00:45:39,971 --> 00:45:44,075
California enacted some of
the nation's strictest controls.

792
00:45:44,209 --> 00:45:46,044
Now...

793
00:45:46,177 --> 00:45:49,781
Cannabis in California
is actually regulated

794
00:45:49,915 --> 00:45:52,017
to a level
that's more stringent

795
00:45:52,150 --> 00:45:53,684
than most
of the consumer products

796
00:45:53,819 --> 00:45:56,354
that we're gonna come across.

797
00:45:56,487 --> 00:45:57,789
So when you purchase cannabis

798
00:45:57,923 --> 00:46:00,058
in a licensed retail dispensary
in California,

799
00:46:00,191 --> 00:46:01,993
you're getting one of
the cleanest consumer products

800
00:46:02,127 --> 00:46:03,428
you can get.

801
00:46:03,561 --> 00:46:06,264
And that's because
of testing protocols

802
00:46:06,397 --> 00:46:09,367
that have been implemented
in state-license labs

803
00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:11,036
all across California.

804
00:46:12,938 --> 00:46:15,173
Like this one here
in Santa Cruz.

805
00:46:15,306 --> 00:46:17,608
First we're testing
for potency or dosage,

806
00:46:17,742 --> 00:46:19,510
and that's testing
for the cannabinoids

807
00:46:19,644 --> 00:46:21,212
that can have
intoxicating effects.

808
00:46:21,346 --> 00:46:24,850
Then we also test
for potential contaminants.

809
00:46:26,617 --> 00:46:31,422
Things like pesticides,
heavy metals, residual solvents.

810
00:46:31,556 --> 00:46:35,660
Among other tests used to sniff
out some of those contaminants,

811
00:46:35,793 --> 00:46:38,263
the lab performs
a technique called...

812
00:46:43,168 --> 00:46:47,038
...which sounds pretty
complicated because it is.

813
00:46:47,172 --> 00:46:49,674
Let's just say
that this process

814
00:46:49,807 --> 00:46:52,543
entices the bad stuff
to reveal itself

815
00:46:52,677 --> 00:46:55,046
by emitting a fluorescent glow.

816
00:46:57,082 --> 00:46:59,150
We also look
for microbiological pathogens

817
00:46:59,284 --> 00:47:02,520
like E.coli, salmonella,
things that make you food sick,

818
00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:05,023
as well as pathogens
like aspergillus

819
00:47:05,156 --> 00:47:06,992
that can be especially dangerous
when inhaled

820
00:47:07,125 --> 00:47:09,861
especially
for compromised patients.

821
00:47:12,197 --> 00:47:14,265
Controlling the THC levels

822
00:47:14,399 --> 00:47:17,602
determines the dosage
of a cannabis product.

823
00:47:18,436 --> 00:47:21,239
It's similar to the way
we know the amount of alcohol

824
00:47:21,372 --> 00:47:24,575
contained in any given shot
of vodka.

825
00:47:25,576 --> 00:47:27,913
So those are the standard tests
that are performed

826
00:47:28,046 --> 00:47:30,381
on every batch of cannabis
sold in California.

827
00:47:30,515 --> 00:47:34,052
But those tests
aren't happening everywhere.

828
00:47:34,185 --> 00:47:37,122
Even in some states
that have legalized,

829
00:47:37,255 --> 00:47:40,191
dirty weed is still for sale.

830
00:47:40,325 --> 00:47:44,195
Because of its continued illegal
status at the federal level,

831
00:47:44,329 --> 00:47:48,033
national safety standards
are unlikely any time soon.

832
00:47:48,166 --> 00:47:50,501
So regulating weed
remains a free-for-all,

833
00:47:50,635 --> 00:47:55,240
whether it's the stuff you smoke
or the stuff you eat.

834
00:48:03,648 --> 00:48:07,285
***

835
00:48:07,418 --> 00:48:09,320
Still haunted
by that pot brownie incident

836
00:48:09,454 --> 00:48:11,822
back in high school?

837
00:48:11,957 --> 00:48:13,391
We get it.

838
00:48:13,524 --> 00:48:15,693
Without those fancy
testing machines at labs

839
00:48:15,826 --> 00:48:17,128
like the one in Santa Cruz,

840
00:48:17,262 --> 00:48:19,430
it would be impossible
to predict

841
00:48:19,564 --> 00:48:24,369
just how big that batch your
friend baked was gonna get you.

842
00:48:24,502 --> 00:48:28,373
Today, though, as the demand
for non-smoke weed grows,

843
00:48:28,506 --> 00:48:31,576
the art of controlling the high
you get from edibles

844
00:48:31,709 --> 00:48:34,412
is actually
an increasingly exact science.

845
00:48:38,583 --> 00:48:40,986
That science starts here,

846
00:48:41,119 --> 00:48:43,488
step one in converting
the cannabis plant

847
00:48:43,621 --> 00:48:45,290
into stoner delicacies.

848
00:48:47,358 --> 00:48:51,997
These are custom-built
cannabinoid extraction machines.

849
00:48:52,964 --> 00:48:55,000
Cannabis plants are dropped
in the top

850
00:48:55,133 --> 00:48:58,003
before super critical
carbon dioxide is deployed

851
00:48:58,136 --> 00:49:01,973
with enough pressure
to crush a human skull.

852
00:49:04,942 --> 00:49:06,577
Over a 10-hour course,

853
00:49:06,711 --> 00:49:11,316
the CO2 strips away most of
the unnecessary plant material

854
00:49:11,449 --> 00:49:16,287
and leaves behind
a thick, foamy yellow goo.

855
00:49:17,855 --> 00:49:23,494
Inside the extracts
are fats, waxes, and THC,

856
00:49:23,628 --> 00:49:26,231
the stuff
that actually gets you high.

857
00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:32,103
The yellow goo
is run through another machine.

858
00:49:32,237 --> 00:49:34,305
This one called a....

859
00:49:35,140 --> 00:49:37,808
The rotovap's
gentle spinning motion

860
00:49:37,942 --> 00:49:39,510
acts like a vacuum,

861
00:49:39,644 --> 00:49:43,581
further stripping away
excess water, wax, and fat.

862
00:49:43,714 --> 00:49:46,917
What's finally left behind
is an oil

863
00:49:47,052 --> 00:49:51,522
made up almost entirely now
of nothing but cannabinoids.

864
00:49:52,957 --> 00:49:54,492
And yet, a swig of this oil

865
00:49:54,625 --> 00:49:56,527
wouldn't actually
get you stoned,

866
00:49:56,661 --> 00:49:58,929
at least not yet.

867
00:50:01,566 --> 00:50:04,402
To activate the THC
in the cannabinoids,

868
00:50:04,535 --> 00:50:06,671
you need to add heat.

869
00:50:06,804 --> 00:50:08,473
And once you do,

870
00:50:08,606 --> 00:50:12,877
the result
is an ultra-potent oil.

871
00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:15,380
Now, if you drink a cup of this,

872
00:50:15,513 --> 00:50:19,217
it will in fact
get you very, very high.

873
00:50:20,751 --> 00:50:22,587
Luckily, once in this form,

874
00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:25,190
potency can be
carefully controlled,

875
00:50:25,323 --> 00:50:28,759
allowing processors to determine
precisely and consistently

876
00:50:28,893 --> 00:50:31,562
the exact strength
of each of their products.

877
00:50:33,698 --> 00:50:35,266
But consume with caution.

878
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,069
The effects may vary widely
from person to person

879
00:50:38,203 --> 00:50:42,473
even if you're chowing down
on the same dosage.

880
00:50:46,177 --> 00:50:49,247
FEMALE SINGERS:
* Bye-bye, blues *

881
00:50:49,380 --> 00:50:52,950
* Bye-bye, blues *

882
00:50:53,084 --> 00:50:56,321
* Don't cry
Don't sigh *

883
00:50:56,454 --> 00:51:00,691
* The sun is shining
No more pining *

884
00:51:00,825 --> 00:51:05,330
***

885
00:51:16,073 --> 00:51:17,508
* Ohh *

886
00:51:17,642 --> 00:51:20,211
* Bye-bye
Bye-bye, blues *

887
00:51:20,345 --> 00:51:23,514
So, who's got the munchies?

888
00:51:23,648 --> 00:51:27,051
Munchies?
Did someone say munchies?

889
00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:32,157
[crunching]

890
00:51:33,291 --> 00:51:36,627
Nachos. Pop-Tarts.

891
00:51:36,761 --> 00:51:40,798
A double chili cheeseburger
with bacon.

892
00:51:40,931 --> 00:51:43,067
How about a pepperoni pizza

893
00:51:43,201 --> 00:51:46,237
with Spicy Ranch
to wash it down?

894
00:51:46,371 --> 00:51:52,343
Long a cliché of stoner culture,
the munchies are actually...

895
00:51:52,477 --> 00:51:56,547
Like an actual
scientific thing.

896
00:51:56,681 --> 00:52:01,319
Blame it on the THC which flips
a switch in your brain,

897
00:52:01,452 --> 00:52:03,554
triggering the release
of a hormone

898
00:52:03,688 --> 00:52:06,056
that tells your body
it's starving

899
00:52:06,191 --> 00:52:08,259
even when it's not.

900
00:52:08,393 --> 00:52:10,161
While that might do little more

901
00:52:10,295 --> 00:52:13,631
than inspire
a midnight snack or two for you,

902
00:52:13,764 --> 00:52:17,202
THC is providing
real medical benefit

903
00:52:17,335 --> 00:52:20,238
to those who are sick,
restoring the will to eat

904
00:52:20,371 --> 00:52:22,640
in patients
undergoing chemotherapy,

905
00:52:22,773 --> 00:52:25,142
suffering from AIDS
or other conditions

906
00:52:25,276 --> 00:52:28,313
that cause loss of appetite.

907
00:52:28,446 --> 00:52:31,816
THC is helping them
find strength

908
00:52:31,949 --> 00:52:36,354
at a time when they need
all the strength they can get.

909
00:52:45,062 --> 00:52:47,265
Worth over $40 billion,

910
00:52:47,398 --> 00:52:50,968
weed is the second most
valuable crop in the country,

911
00:52:51,101 --> 00:52:53,137
topped only by corn.

912
00:52:53,271 --> 00:52:56,874
And as its legitimacy grows,

913
00:52:57,007 --> 00:52:59,410
thousands are now eager to join

914
00:52:59,544 --> 00:53:03,248
one of America's
fastest growing industries.

915
00:53:03,381 --> 00:53:06,016
- Good morning, Oaksterdam.
- Good morning!

916
00:53:06,150 --> 00:53:09,254
Ah, wonderful to have you
this morning.

917
00:53:09,387 --> 00:53:12,557
In Oakland, California
sits Oaksterdam University,

918
00:53:12,690 --> 00:53:15,660
America's first
cannabis college,

919
00:53:15,793 --> 00:53:18,729
attracting students
from around the world

920
00:53:18,863 --> 00:53:22,032
with a wide-ranging
cannabis curriculum,

921
00:53:22,166 --> 00:53:24,335
offering classes on everything

922
00:53:24,469 --> 00:53:26,704
from cultivation
to business administration.

923
00:53:26,837 --> 00:53:29,206
I didn't really pay attention
in school.

924
00:53:29,340 --> 00:53:30,775
I didn't really care
about grades.

925
00:53:30,908 --> 00:53:32,443
But when it to cannabis,

926
00:53:32,577 --> 00:53:35,112
I was always just researching
and constantly learning more.

927
00:53:35,246 --> 00:53:36,447
When I was studying
in university,

928
00:53:36,581 --> 00:53:37,948
every time the class
would get boring,

929
00:53:38,082 --> 00:53:41,018
I would take out my cellphone
and check weed business.

930
00:53:41,151 --> 00:53:42,753
I was like,
"Why am I not starting this?

931
00:53:42,887 --> 00:53:43,988
There has to be something."

932
00:53:44,121 --> 00:53:45,523
I searched it up,
and I ended up here.

933
00:53:46,624 --> 00:53:49,427
Oaksterdam was founded in 2007

934
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,697
and counted 20 students
among its first class,

935
00:53:52,830 --> 00:53:56,701
long before recreational weed
was legal.

936
00:53:56,834 --> 00:53:59,670
But now that it is,
the school has transformed

937
00:53:59,804 --> 00:54:02,273
into a thriving,
job-training center

938
00:54:02,407 --> 00:54:04,709
where enrollment
continues to grow.

939
00:54:04,842 --> 00:54:07,612
I'm almost done. I'm in week 12.

940
00:54:07,745 --> 00:54:08,979
I've been learning a lot,

941
00:54:09,113 --> 00:54:11,949
and I hope to own
a cultivation facility.

942
00:54:12,082 --> 00:54:14,452
My future goal for the industry

943
00:54:14,585 --> 00:54:17,822
is to cultivate
specific strains for patients.

944
00:54:17,955 --> 00:54:19,390
Education advocacy.

945
00:54:19,524 --> 00:54:21,091
I want to own a dispensary.

946
00:54:21,225 --> 00:54:23,160
Packaging and transportation
company.

947
00:54:25,430 --> 00:54:29,166
Knowledge is power for sure,
but so is money,

948
00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:30,835
and you're gonna need
that, too,

949
00:54:30,968 --> 00:54:33,438
if you plan on starting
your own weed business.

950
00:54:33,571 --> 00:54:36,206
That requires obtaining
a special license

951
00:54:36,341 --> 00:54:38,876
usually from either the city
or the state.

952
00:54:39,009 --> 00:54:41,446
But only so many licenses
are issued,

953
00:54:41,579 --> 00:54:44,749
and along with huge fees
and complicated restrictions,

954
00:54:44,882 --> 00:54:48,185
competition for the few that are
drives up the costs.

955
00:54:48,319 --> 00:54:50,321
On average in California,

956
00:54:50,455 --> 00:54:52,457
there are reports
on the retail level

957
00:54:52,590 --> 00:54:55,526
of people purchasing
dispensary licenses

958
00:54:55,660 --> 00:54:58,663
for about $2 million
to $10 million,

959
00:54:58,796 --> 00:55:00,230
but it fluctuates.

960
00:55:02,467 --> 00:55:04,835
If you do manage
to clear that financial hurdle,

961
00:55:04,969 --> 00:55:08,506
your criminal record
better be clean.

962
00:55:08,639 --> 00:55:11,876
Most cities and states bar those
with drug-related offenses

963
00:55:12,009 --> 00:55:14,879
from entering the industry.

964
00:55:15,012 --> 00:55:17,448
And as a result, some have been

965
00:55:17,582 --> 00:55:19,717
disproportionately
denied opportunities.

966
00:55:19,850 --> 00:55:21,386
If you have a felony,

967
00:55:21,519 --> 00:55:23,988
you're much more likely
to be Black or Brown

968
00:55:24,121 --> 00:55:25,523
because of racial disparities.

969
00:55:25,656 --> 00:55:28,258
It became very clear
how unfair that is

970
00:55:28,393 --> 00:55:31,261
and how that excludes
communities of color.

971
00:55:31,396 --> 00:55:32,763
We wanna make sure

972
00:55:32,897 --> 00:55:35,833
that we're not excluding people
based on felonies.

973
00:55:39,704 --> 00:55:41,038
Here in Oakland,

974
00:55:41,171 --> 00:55:43,908
they've established
a social equity program.

975
00:55:44,041 --> 00:55:46,411
Those with cannabis-related
criminal records

976
00:55:46,544 --> 00:55:48,413
pre-dating legalization

977
00:55:48,546 --> 00:55:50,948
or those that grew up
in overpoliced communities

978
00:55:51,081 --> 00:55:52,917
during that same time

979
00:55:53,050 --> 00:55:55,953
are move toward
the front of the license line.

980
00:55:56,086 --> 00:55:59,256
It's essentially reparations
for the war on drugs.

981
00:55:59,390 --> 00:56:03,127
Having an element
of restorative justice

982
00:56:03,260 --> 00:56:06,063
where we put back
into the communities

983
00:56:06,196 --> 00:56:08,733
that were so abused,

984
00:56:08,866 --> 00:56:10,200
it's simple justice.

985
00:56:10,334 --> 00:56:12,703
It will make a big difference.

986
00:56:12,837 --> 00:56:17,542
And people of color,
particularly young Black men,

987
00:56:17,675 --> 00:56:20,611
see they are no longer
going to be marginalized,

988
00:56:20,745 --> 00:56:23,948
that they're going to have
a little piece of this action.

989
00:56:24,081 --> 00:56:27,585
I think it will have
a very profound effect.

990
00:56:38,896 --> 00:56:42,433
[siren blaring]

991
00:56:42,567 --> 00:56:44,401
Believe it or not,

992
00:56:44,535 --> 00:56:46,937
despite being legal
in 35 states,

993
00:56:47,071 --> 00:56:49,474
more people
in the United States

994
00:56:49,607 --> 00:56:52,109
are still arrested
for marijuana violations

995
00:56:52,242 --> 00:56:54,344
than for any other reason.

996
00:56:54,479 --> 00:56:58,716
More than 650,000 people
busted every year,

997
00:56:58,849 --> 00:57:02,620
but very few
will actually land in prison.

998
00:57:02,753 --> 00:57:06,791
And if they do, chances are
their stay won't be long.

999
00:57:06,924 --> 00:57:08,358
These days,

1000
00:57:08,493 --> 00:57:11,261
the multi-decade sentences
of the war on drugs

1001
00:57:11,395 --> 00:57:14,098
are mostly a thing of the past.

1002
00:57:14,231 --> 00:57:16,467
But being arrested for weed

1003
00:57:16,601 --> 00:57:19,470
can still totally mess up
your life.

1004
00:57:19,604 --> 00:57:21,105
Posting bail.

1005
00:57:21,238 --> 00:57:23,240
Hiring a lawyer.

1006
00:57:23,373 --> 00:57:24,875
Court fees.

1007
00:57:25,009 --> 00:57:27,545
A single joint
could end up costing you

1008
00:57:27,678 --> 00:57:30,581
tens of thousands of dollars.

1009
00:57:30,715 --> 00:57:33,383
Race continues to be a factor

1010
00:57:33,518 --> 00:57:35,085
as the disparities

1011
00:57:35,219 --> 00:57:38,589
in the enforcement
of drug laws persist.

1012
00:57:39,790 --> 00:57:42,192
While studies consistently show

1013
00:57:42,326 --> 00:57:46,030
that are races use and sell
cannabis in equal measure,

1014
00:57:46,163 --> 00:57:50,034
Black and Brown people are still
disproportionally arrested

1015
00:57:50,167 --> 00:57:51,802
for weed-related crimes

1016
00:57:51,936 --> 00:57:55,105
and are more likely to draw
longer sentences if convicted.

1017
00:57:55,239 --> 00:57:58,909
So the consequences
of getting busted for pot

1018
00:57:59,043 --> 00:58:02,412
can still be costly
and far-reaching.

1019
00:58:02,547 --> 00:58:04,749
Want that student loan?

1020
00:58:04,882 --> 00:58:06,383
That job?

1021
00:58:06,517 --> 00:58:08,553
Even your right to vote?

1022
00:58:08,686 --> 00:58:11,255
All of those things
you might want tomorrow

1023
00:58:11,388 --> 00:58:15,059
could be affected by the rest
that happens today.

1024
00:58:15,192 --> 00:58:17,595
Just ask Johnny Burress.

1025
00:58:17,728 --> 00:58:21,031
2010. I'm 25 years old.

1026
00:58:21,165 --> 00:58:23,634
I come home to Michigan.

1027
00:58:23,768 --> 00:58:25,603
We have a little get-together.

1028
00:58:25,736 --> 00:58:28,072
There was no more
than 10 people.

1029
00:58:28,205 --> 00:58:31,909
I fall asleep, and I wake up
to loud knocks at the door.

1030
00:58:32,042 --> 00:58:33,443
[pounding]

1031
00:58:33,578 --> 00:58:36,681
Which were the Grand Rapids
Police Department.

1032
00:58:37,648 --> 00:58:40,818
They found marijuana.
It wasn't even on my person.

1033
00:58:40,951 --> 00:58:42,386
But it was my house,

1034
00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:44,388
so I was the one
that took the fall,

1035
00:58:44,521 --> 00:58:45,890
and I went to jail for it.

1036
00:58:47,357 --> 00:58:50,127
Johnny spent
just three days behind bars,

1037
00:58:50,260 --> 00:58:54,431
but a decade on has been unable
to put that arrest behind him.

1038
00:58:54,565 --> 00:58:57,501
Still haunts me on my record
to this day.

1039
00:58:57,635 --> 00:58:59,804
Everything that I do
that I have to put my name on

1040
00:58:59,937 --> 00:59:01,438
or I have to get
a background check,

1041
00:59:01,572 --> 00:59:03,107
this pops up.

1042
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:08,445
2017, I applied for seven or
eight different places to live,

1043
00:59:08,579 --> 00:59:10,815
and all of 'em
said the same thing.

1044
00:59:10,948 --> 00:59:12,917
They told me
that I have this on my record.

1045
00:59:13,050 --> 00:59:14,184
They turned me down.

1046
00:59:15,052 --> 00:59:17,688
Eventually,
Johnny managed to land a job

1047
00:59:17,822 --> 00:59:19,456
coaching high school football

1048
00:59:19,590 --> 00:59:21,525
and working
with special needs students.

1049
00:59:21,659 --> 00:59:24,161
When I got the job, I was
handed some papers as well.

1050
00:59:24,294 --> 00:59:27,832
And the papers stated to me
that there's a zero-tolerance

1051
00:59:27,965 --> 00:59:30,534
for me to have
any police activity

1052
00:59:30,668 --> 00:59:33,003
just because of my record.

1053
00:59:33,137 --> 00:59:35,539
It was kind of scary
because I'm a Black man,

1054
00:59:35,673 --> 00:59:38,175
and if I get pulled over,
I lose my job.

1055
00:59:38,308 --> 00:59:40,811
And I'm like, "I'm a major
factor in these kids' life."

1056
00:59:40,945 --> 00:59:42,947
I'm one of two Black staff
in the school.

1057
00:59:44,715 --> 00:59:46,717
I was hoping
that everything on my record

1058
00:59:46,851 --> 00:59:49,854
was gonna get expunged,
but that was not the case,

1059
00:59:49,987 --> 00:59:52,623
and it's stopping me from being
able to live a productive life.

1060
00:59:53,658 --> 00:59:55,192
Out of the 16 states

1061
00:59:55,325 --> 00:59:58,663
that have legalized
even recreational use of weed,

1062
00:59:58,796 --> 01:00:00,898
Michigan and Alaska
are the only two

1063
01:00:01,031 --> 01:00:02,633
that have failed
to clear the way

1064
01:00:02,767 --> 01:00:05,235
for residents to expunge
their pot-related records.

1065
01:00:05,369 --> 01:00:08,005
I was stopped in my tracks

1066
01:00:08,138 --> 01:00:11,475
just because of this case
that happened in 2010.

1067
01:00:11,608 --> 01:00:13,010
It's 2020.

1068
01:00:13,143 --> 01:00:15,212
They will definitely take
everything you worked for

1069
01:00:15,345 --> 01:00:17,481
and make you feel
like a criminal.

1070
01:00:26,190 --> 01:00:28,859
[record crackling]

1071
01:00:28,993 --> 01:00:33,030
[jazz playing]

1072
01:01:12,002 --> 01:01:15,172
Nestled along the Southern
California coastline

1073
01:01:15,305 --> 01:01:19,944
is the picture-perfect city
of Santa Barbara,

1074
01:01:20,077 --> 01:01:22,246
home to one
of the most hospitable climates

1075
01:01:22,379 --> 01:01:25,850
in the United States
for growing weed,

1076
01:01:25,983 --> 01:01:27,284
home to about a third

1077
01:01:27,417 --> 01:01:30,487
of California's
legal marijuana farmland,

1078
01:01:30,620 --> 01:01:35,092
harvesting product for the
state's $3 billion legal market.

1079
01:01:38,195 --> 01:01:39,730
Oh, yeah.

1080
01:01:39,864 --> 01:01:44,234
This is industrial
cannabis agriculture--

1081
01:01:44,368 --> 01:01:49,039
greenhouses cultivating half
a million square feet of weed.

1082
01:01:50,274 --> 01:01:51,575
This is just so awesome.

1083
01:01:51,708 --> 01:01:53,944
It's like--It looks like
it's dipped in sugar.

1084
01:01:56,113 --> 01:01:59,784
Graham Farrar learned how
to grow weed back in college,

1085
01:01:59,917 --> 01:02:02,920
nurturing six plants at a time
in his closet.

1086
01:02:03,053 --> 01:02:06,123
It's such a cool plant. It's
just so much you can do with it.

1087
01:02:07,224 --> 01:02:10,828
Today, Graham is president
of Glass House Farms,

1088
01:02:10,961 --> 01:02:13,663
the company that owns
this sprawling operation.

1089
01:02:14,899 --> 01:02:16,233
The trichome is basically

1090
01:02:16,366 --> 01:02:18,068
the fruit and body
of the cannabis plant.

1091
01:02:18,202 --> 01:02:21,872
In those trichomes
are THC and CBD.

1092
01:02:23,874 --> 01:02:26,777
Industrial-scale cannabis farms
like this one

1093
01:02:26,911 --> 01:02:29,847
require an enormous amount
of light.

1094
01:02:29,980 --> 01:02:33,984
Here in Santa Barbara,
sunshine is free.

1095
01:02:34,118 --> 01:02:37,687
When legalization happened
in California,

1096
01:02:37,822 --> 01:02:40,490
Graham teamed up with Kyle Kazan

1097
01:02:40,624 --> 01:02:44,161
whose previous line of work
made him an interesting

1098
01:02:44,294 --> 01:02:47,731
but not unusual choice
in partner.

1099
01:02:47,865 --> 01:02:49,566
Before I got into all this,

1100
01:02:49,699 --> 01:02:52,036
some years ago
I was a police officer,

1101
01:02:52,169 --> 01:02:54,538
and so I was actively engaged
in the drug war

1102
01:02:54,671 --> 01:02:59,376
which is take people to jail
for growing, using, selling.

1103
01:02:59,509 --> 01:03:01,711
In other words,

1104
01:03:01,846 --> 01:03:03,480
Kyle used to arrest people
for crimes

1105
01:03:03,613 --> 01:03:07,517
like those Graham was guilty
of committing back in college.

1106
01:03:07,651 --> 01:03:11,221
These kinds of partnerships
are actually pretty common

1107
01:03:11,355 --> 01:03:12,923
in big weed.

1108
01:03:13,057 --> 01:03:16,927
Guys like Graham who broke
the law and never got caught

1109
01:03:17,061 --> 01:03:20,164
partnering with former enforcers
like Kyle.

1110
01:03:22,900 --> 01:03:24,801
The greenhouse
is doing its thing

1111
01:03:24,935 --> 01:03:27,838
24 hours a day,
seven days a week.

1112
01:03:29,206 --> 01:03:30,975
When those lights come on
after the sun sets,

1113
01:03:31,108 --> 01:03:32,376
to keep the plants growing,

1114
01:03:32,509 --> 01:03:34,178
these blackout curtains
automatically close

1115
01:03:34,311 --> 01:03:35,745
so that for our neighbors

1116
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,715
we're not a second moon
out there lighting up the sky.

1117
01:03:38,849 --> 01:03:41,118
The humidity goes up,
it raises the temperature.

1118
01:03:41,251 --> 01:03:43,687
It burps the vents
to let the humidity out

1119
01:03:43,820 --> 01:03:45,389
and then close 'em back down
to keep it warm.

1120
01:03:45,522 --> 01:03:48,225
And all these things
are always happening in concert,

1121
01:03:48,358 --> 01:03:49,626
and it's pretty cool.

1122
01:03:49,759 --> 01:03:52,662
I'm a geek,
so I like this kind of stuff.

1123
01:03:52,796 --> 01:03:56,266
When the cannabis Graham grows
is ready for harvest,

1124
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:57,834
the plants are cut,

1125
01:03:57,968 --> 01:04:00,504
then hung upside down
to dry for two weeks

1126
01:04:00,637 --> 01:04:02,539
at room temperature.

1127
01:04:02,672 --> 01:04:04,408
It really allows
all those chlorophylls

1128
01:04:04,541 --> 01:04:06,410
and everything to turn
into carbohydrates and sugars

1129
01:04:06,543 --> 01:04:08,078
and give it a nice, sweet taste.

1130
01:04:11,982 --> 01:04:14,351
In average, we're processing
about 45 pounds of flour,

1131
01:04:14,484 --> 01:04:16,921
and our good days,
we're doing about 60,

1132
01:04:17,054 --> 01:04:19,189
which is really, really good.

1133
01:04:19,323 --> 01:04:22,927
Many of those buds
are then packaged in bulk

1134
01:04:23,060 --> 01:04:26,130
and distributed to dispensaries
around the state.

1135
01:04:26,263 --> 01:04:32,702
In 2019, Glass House Farms
produced 15,000 pounds of weed.

1136
01:04:33,503 --> 01:04:38,943
By the end of 2020, they expect
that number to top 50,000.

1137
01:04:44,014 --> 01:04:46,683
So what if I wanted
to grow my own weed?

1138
01:04:46,816 --> 01:04:48,752
How would I do it?

1139
01:04:48,885 --> 01:04:53,623
***

1140
01:04:53,757 --> 01:04:55,993
Okay. Get comfortable

1141
01:04:56,126 --> 01:05:00,830
'cause growing weed is not
as easy as growing basil.

1142
01:05:00,965 --> 01:05:03,900
But if it's legal
in your state to do so,

1143
01:05:04,034 --> 01:05:07,804
here's the rather detailed
blow by blow.

1144
01:05:10,941 --> 01:05:13,143
We recommend starting
with a clone.

1145
01:05:13,277 --> 01:05:17,514
A clone is a small seedling
cut from another cannabis plant.

1146
01:05:17,647 --> 01:05:20,951
You can find one
at a weed nursery or dispensary

1147
01:05:21,085 --> 01:05:23,988
in most legal states.

1148
01:05:24,121 --> 01:05:27,391
Keep your potted clone
somewhere relatively humid,

1149
01:05:27,524 --> 01:05:29,526
away from direct sunlight,

1150
01:05:29,659 --> 01:05:34,431
at a temperature
of 75 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit.

1151
01:05:34,564 --> 01:05:38,535
Spray the soil once
or twice a day to keep it moist

1152
01:05:38,668 --> 01:05:40,470
but not soaked.

1153
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:46,810
When your plant starts
to sprout fan leaves,

1154
01:05:46,943 --> 01:05:49,279
your plant is entering the...

1155
01:05:51,181 --> 01:05:55,185
It is now ready to be
transferred to a larger pot.

1156
01:05:55,319 --> 01:06:00,857
This phase can last
anywhere from three to 11 weeks.

1157
01:06:00,991 --> 01:06:03,860
Be sure your plant
gets plenty of light...

1158
01:06:08,332 --> 01:06:12,402
When you start to see buds
and start to smell an aroma,

1159
01:06:12,536 --> 01:06:14,938
you have reached the...

1160
01:06:15,072 --> 01:06:17,307
For the next two
or three months,

1161
01:06:17,441 --> 01:06:20,944
you want to expose the plant
to 12 hours of light

1162
01:06:21,078 --> 01:06:24,148
and 12 hours of darkness
every day.

1163
01:06:24,281 --> 01:06:27,684
You'll know it's time to harvest
when the fan leaves turn yellow

1164
01:06:27,817 --> 01:06:30,254
and at least half
the plant's hairy pistils

1165
01:06:30,387 --> 01:06:33,190
have turned from white to red.

1166
01:06:35,092 --> 01:06:36,826
Cutting at the stem.

1167
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:39,629
Remove each branch
from the plant.

1168
01:06:39,763 --> 01:06:42,032
Snip off the larger fan leaves.

1169
01:06:42,166 --> 01:06:44,934
Then hang the branches
upside down

1170
01:06:45,069 --> 01:06:48,772
in a dark, cool room.

1171
01:06:48,905 --> 01:06:50,674
After five to 10 days

1172
01:06:50,807 --> 01:06:55,612
when the thinner stems
are dry enough to snap,

1173
01:06:55,745 --> 01:07:00,217
trim away
the excess leaves and stems.

1174
01:07:00,350 --> 01:07:03,820
Collect the buds
and place them in a jar.

1175
01:07:06,156 --> 01:07:10,460
Fill each glass jar
about 75% with buds.

1176
01:07:10,594 --> 01:07:12,062
For the first week,

1177
01:07:12,196 --> 01:07:15,232
open and close the jars
for a few minutes each day--

1178
01:07:15,365 --> 01:07:18,001
a process called burping.

1179
01:07:18,135 --> 01:07:19,903
After the first seven days,

1180
01:07:20,036 --> 01:07:24,541
you only need to burp the jars
once or twice a week.

1181
01:07:24,674 --> 01:07:26,210
After a month or so,

1182
01:07:26,343 --> 01:07:28,612
the cannabis
should be ready to smoke,

1183
01:07:28,745 --> 01:07:31,848
though some strains
are like fine wine

1184
01:07:31,981 --> 01:07:34,751
that get better with age.

1185
01:07:34,884 --> 01:07:39,189
Give those two or three,
sometimes even six months

1186
01:07:39,323 --> 01:07:42,126
to reach maximum potency.

1187
01:07:42,259 --> 01:07:45,829
Hopefully, the smoke
is worth the wait.

1188
01:07:53,537 --> 01:07:57,174
***

1189
01:08:04,281 --> 01:08:07,951
She calls herself
a rap priestess

1190
01:08:08,084 --> 01:08:09,653
and a medicine woman.

1191
01:08:09,786 --> 01:08:13,056
Let me ask you this.
Can I burn a little sage?

1192
01:08:13,190 --> 01:08:16,193
Okay, you got
to bless the space.

1193
01:08:18,162 --> 01:08:22,065
Lizzy Jeff
has been described by others

1194
01:08:22,199 --> 01:08:24,468
as a cannabis creative.

1195
01:08:24,601 --> 01:08:28,938
What I like to do is break down
the herb with my fingers.

1196
01:08:29,072 --> 01:08:30,574
There is something very special

1197
01:08:30,707 --> 01:08:35,078
about feeling the medicine
in between your fingers.

1198
01:08:35,212 --> 01:08:36,780
Lizzy is the visionary

1199
01:08:36,913 --> 01:08:43,119
behind L.A.'s cannabis and
CBD-themed Zen & Kush events

1200
01:08:43,253 --> 01:08:45,789
where the faithful,
mostly women,

1201
01:08:45,922 --> 01:08:52,396
gather to socialize, celebrate,
and partake in the plant.

1202
01:08:52,529 --> 01:08:54,298
What I like to do

1203
01:08:54,431 --> 01:08:57,601
is add a little bit
of organic rose petal.

1204
01:08:59,803 --> 01:09:02,672
Roses in ancient
Egyptian beliefs

1205
01:09:02,806 --> 01:09:07,611
are said to be
the flower of the goddess.

1206
01:09:07,744 --> 01:09:12,316
So rose and cannabis do make
a really powerful union.

1207
01:09:12,449 --> 01:09:15,219
Weed isn't necessarily
for everyone.

1208
01:09:15,352 --> 01:09:17,454
It may not be for you,

1209
01:09:17,587 --> 01:09:20,590
but if it is,
you might learn a thing or two

1210
01:09:20,724 --> 01:09:23,327
and perhaps even derive
some pleasure

1211
01:09:23,460 --> 01:09:26,162
from following Lizzy's
very personal

1212
01:09:26,296 --> 01:09:28,898
and spiritual approach
to preparation.

1213
01:09:29,032 --> 01:09:30,434
I got my papers,

1214
01:09:30,567 --> 01:09:33,270
and they're very thin,
organic paper.

1215
01:09:35,239 --> 01:09:38,308
Once you break down the herb,

1216
01:09:38,442 --> 01:09:41,478
you just pack it on
in the paper.

1217
01:09:41,611 --> 01:09:43,380
I get it real tight.

1218
01:09:43,513 --> 01:09:45,915
You wanna kind of roll it over.

1219
01:09:46,049 --> 01:09:48,151
Kind of like
you're wrapping a burrito.

1220
01:09:48,285 --> 01:09:49,953
Then you get to the part,

1221
01:09:50,086 --> 01:09:53,423
especially if it's
your personal J--

1222
01:09:53,557 --> 01:09:56,960
You just give it a nice lick.

1223
01:09:57,093 --> 01:09:59,296
Just take your time.

1224
01:10:00,564 --> 01:10:01,965
Practice.

1225
01:10:02,098 --> 01:10:04,234
Practice makes perfect.

1226
01:10:06,303 --> 01:10:09,306
And then you pinch the bottom.

1227
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:16,480
And then you got
a cute, little skinny.

1228
01:10:16,613 --> 01:10:19,749
[laughs]
And that's the thing about it.

1229
01:10:19,883 --> 01:10:21,651
It doesn't have to be perfect.

1230
01:10:21,785 --> 01:10:24,821
This is for you
for your personal ritual.

1231
01:10:24,954 --> 01:10:27,657
It's not about how it looks.

1232
01:10:39,969 --> 01:10:42,339
Our relationship with cannabis

1233
01:10:42,472 --> 01:10:48,278
can be as powerful and spiritual
as we want it to be,

1234
01:10:48,412 --> 01:10:52,115
allowing the medicine
to elevate your consciousness

1235
01:10:52,248 --> 01:10:54,618
in a way
where you feel empowered.

1236
01:10:54,751 --> 01:10:56,286
You feel ignited.

1237
01:10:56,420 --> 01:11:01,425
You feel inspired to contribute
to these evolutionary times.

1238
01:11:08,131 --> 01:11:10,700
So thank you for being here.

1239
01:11:10,834 --> 01:11:14,404
You being here
tuned into this frequency

1240
01:11:14,538 --> 01:11:17,607
is a confirmation that you
have officially stepped

1241
01:11:17,741 --> 01:11:19,809
into the next chapter
of your greatness.

1242
01:11:21,010 --> 01:11:22,111
Blessings.

1243
01:11:47,637 --> 01:11:51,608
***

1244
01:11:59,516 --> 01:12:02,386
* Hittin' that weed
in the mornin' *

1245
01:12:02,519 --> 01:12:03,420
* Hittin' that weed *

1246
01:12:03,553 --> 01:12:05,389
* In the evenin' *

1247
01:12:05,522 --> 01:12:08,358
* Hittin' that weed
at midnight *

1248
01:12:08,492 --> 01:12:11,361
* Hittin' that weed
at all night *

1249
01:12:11,495 --> 01:12:14,263
* Hittin' that weed
on a Monday *

1250
01:12:14,398 --> 01:12:17,233
* Hittin' that weed
on a Tuesday *

1251
01:12:17,367 --> 01:12:20,169
* Hittin' that weed
on a Wednesday *

1252
01:12:20,303 --> 01:12:23,072
* What comes after Wednesday? *

1253
01:12:23,206 --> 01:12:28,945
* Na-na, na-na, na-na
Na-na, na-na, na-na *

1254
01:12:29,078 --> 01:12:34,418
* Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na
Na-na, na-na *