Gino and AJ Gentile from Speedweed expose California’s 2012 Proposition D, which bans compliant cannabis delivery services like theirs while favoring unregulated competitors, despite zero incidents in their 200,000 deliveries. Their 70% tax burden—including a new 15% sales tax—fuels the black market, while absurd laws like Proposition 65 force misleading warnings. Joe Rogan contrasts cannabis’s medical potential (e.g., treating seizures in autistic children) with AA’s rejection of Bill Wilson’s LSD research and arbitrary DUI laws, arguing prohibition stems from outdated control rather than science or public safety. Legalization’s slow progress, despite states like Florida and Pennsylvania moving forward, highlights systemic resistance to freedom of consciousness. [Automatically generated summary]
First of all, Gino's been my friend for a long time, and he's basically...
He's the guy that turned me on to this Whole LA marijuana delivery scene that is going on in LA which was amazing for comedians and for anybody who has a medical card where you could just call this cool dude and he would tell you what the great stuff is and you hang out with him and talk with him and you could buy it and it was all totally legal and above board.
It was all good.
But somewhere along the line, some fuckery ran afoot, and they came up with some new political rules that keep marijuana delivery services from operating.
Explain it, because essentially the way they've set it up is you would have to have had a license to operate in each one of the houses that you're delivering to.
Which means that law enforcement can knock your door down, take your stuff, take your weed, take your cash, take whatever you got there, and you can show them all the papers in the world and they're like, that's great, that's cool, we're glad you're legal.
Bring it to the judge and you'll be good to go.
And you'll get your stuff back in a year and you guys will be fine.
I have one hanging on AJ's wall in his office of them returning a few thousand dollars to us.
Because, again, when there was any sort of trouble, it was, alright, you have to go see a judge.
You go see the judge and the judge looks at the paperwork.
And in our first case, the judge said...
We've never seen a more compliant company in California dismissed without prejudice.
And our lawyer asked, instead of dismissing without prejudice, we actually would like that entered in to the record that you're calling LA Speedway the most compliant marijuana company you've ever dealt with.
Because it's obviously not the will of the people.
You know, whenever something's not the will of the people...
It's clear by all the gentlemen in this room...
We're all grown adults, and we all enjoy marijuana.
We all have responsible lives.
We all do stuff.
We all get things done, and we all enjoy it.
And we're taxpayers.
We're normal people.
We're not freaks.
We're not like ne'er-do-wells or someone who's clinging off the system and fucking up social systems that we've set up for people that are trying to get by in this world.
Well, they say that during the old days of the Catholic Church, when they would walk down the aisle with that incense thing, they would be burning marijuana.
That's what they would be burning.
And they'd be wafting it through the room as they walked by.
That the propaganda that this guy created in the 1930s, even though we recognize it, everyone knows it, it's a fact, you can watch it, you can watch Reefer Madness, you can see what's written down, what they were attempting to do to make it illegal, the fact that it still sticks in 2016. And you couldn't smoke that stuff that they, that, the hemp, anyway.
Buy it from Canada and bring it down to the United States, because even though it's legal and it's not psychoactive, these farmers, they can't grow it.
They're starting to try to change those laws, but as far as I know, I mean, I don't know of any large-scale hemp-growing operations here in the United States yet.
You look at old Ironsides, the USS Constitution, the flag and the sails are made of hemp, and those are the original things from hundreds of years ago.
Our founding fathers had hemp fields in their farms because hemp cleans the fallow fields after wheat fucks up your fields and corn fucks up your fields.
I was that guy who had the shelves of modafinil and neuropeptin and L-theanine, all these different crazy things that you can get on or off the market.
Well, it took almost a criminal element to be in business at that point, and that's why we're going back to these laws that say you had to be in business before 2007 in order to even be considered in these few that are allowed.
You know, that's important to talk about, that, you know, the Board of Equalization is kind of like the IRS for the state.
If you're a commercial business, you pay your taxes to the Board of Equalization.
Well, the Board of Equalization chose our company as the one retail company that they wanted to present to the legislature, to the people, we presented with the California State Troopers, the Highway Patrol, the Teamsters, the insurance company, and an app company, and us.
This has got to be a way, though, they think that a universal basic income, that giving people $13,000, though, like giving everybody, like some, Michael Shermer actually just tweeted this, who's that really intelligent skeptic guy, and they think giving people $13,000 a year, like giving it to everybody, Would reduce crime.
Would reduce poverty.
It would give people chances to pursue other things if they had universal basic income.
It's a really strange concept because it's one of those things that everybody has an e-jerk reaction to.
I definitely did.
I heard it and I was like, what?
Get out of here.
You can't just give people money.
People are too lazy.
But the more I read about it and the more I see people who...
People are quite a bit more educated than me on this subject.
They think that it's possible that doing something like that would actually cost less money in the long run because it would start a cascade of positive events that giving people enough money to get by on.
That that would start like A series of events in a lot of these people's lives where issues would be taken care of that are insurmountable otherwise.
And it'll start some momentum in a positive way and that you're going to deal with less crime and you're going to deal with less violence.
So you're going to deal with less need to deal with the problems and the financial repercussions of crime and violence.
And then when I realized that there were a lot of people bringing this up, I said, okay, well, let me put my knee down.
Okay.
I'm a knee-jerk.
Let me just open-mindedly look at this.
And I'm like, okay.
I'm looking at the point, like, if you give people money, they're just going to be lazy, and they're never going to get anything done, and you're going to deal with a bunch of lazy people.
They've had some interesting rulings about comedy up there, too.
There was one guy that got heckled by some women in a nightclub in Vancouver, and apparently they were really drunk, and things happen at comedy clubs.
People get crazy.
They yell things out.
You're serving people drinks.
They're going to get crazy.
They're going to yell things out.
So he was yelling things at them, and he said a bunch of rude stuff about them being lesbians, a bunch of homophobic stuff.
The problem with that is, man, once people start hurling insults at each other, like the women hurled insults at the comedian, the comedian hurled insults at the woman.
I don't know who started it off.
I think that would be imperative to find out who started it off.
But I know that the guy was on stage doing stand-up, so they're not supposed to be yelling.
This isn't a conversation.
If they're talking to him, I guarantee you, unless he's a crowd worker, I don't know if he's a guy that works crowds, but I guarantee you, most likely, he was getting interrupted.
So he was trying to do his act for all the people in the room, and he was getting interrupted, and then it got ugly.
Like, doing material on Canada in the future, if it gets heated with, like, you and Heckler, are you gonna be like, shit, this is Canada, I better step back a little before I call her this and that, or him this and that?
Because, I mean, that kind of opens the door for this to be able to, like, oh, now we're allowed to sue if the comedian isn't mean to me.
The joke was, it was something, I'm going to paraphrase it, I'm going to do a shitty job, but a lot of people donated money because this kid was dying, but then he lived for several years, and then the joke was, hey, he's not even sick, or something like that.
There's a bunch of comedians, you know, that really enjoy saying ridiculous shit that they don't really mean.
Because it's funny.
Because it's so shocking and ridiculous that it's funny.
There's a real danger in pretending that those guys are just speaking their absolute mind and giving affidavits in court, relaying incidents with cold, hard disengagement from the facts.
No.
These are comedians trying to say fucked up shit that they don't really mean.
And one of the reasons why it's funny is because you know they don't really mean it.
And he says it in this character and it's fucking hilarious.
But it's a landmine for anybody looking to point to a guy's performance on stage and try to pretend that somehow or another what he's doing is what he really means.
I maybe think that we're too close to it, honestly, because I think if someone didn't know, it might take them a few minutes.
Like, say if you're not a savvy comedy store regular type person or someone who enjoys comedy on a regular basis, you could go and watch Holtzman and go, what the fuck is going on here?
And that what the fuck is going on here might last 10 minutes before you catch on.
And it could offend people, you know, and if it does, to live in a punitive society that he can't be an artist and perform his art because he has to worry about being sued.
He's already not making enough money to be sued for.
When you reward that kind of behavior like this, like, you could say that you think that the comedian's not funny, you could say, don't ever go see him, you could cast judgment, you could do whatever the fuck you want, but to say he owes her $15,000, then it's like, okay, who is the retard in charge here?
Who the fuck said yes to this?
Is this a judge?
Is this a group of people?
Can I sit down with you fucks and talk to you and try to figure out what the fuck is going on in your mind?
That's Proposition 65. You have to label all marijuana products with this warning label that says this product is known to contain chemicals that may cause cancer.
On top of the sales tax, on top of the city tax, on top of the excise tax, and some of the cities and counties in California having another 10 or 15% on top of it.
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They're also taxing the growers now, also, I've heard.
So they're taxing anything that has anything to do with what you get as a final product.
So last year, Colorado takes in $40 million in tax revenue from cannabis.
California takes in $40 million in tax revenue from cannabis.
We have...
30 million people in this state compared to Colorado's got, what, five, six million?
We're not collecting the taxes here.
So if the companies are not following the rules as they stand, why are we throwing all these new rules at them and setting up these monopolies like here in LA with the monopoly, stifling good businesses?
This doesn't help us and it doesn't help the consumer either.
You know, that's an important stat, but it is because we are very thoughtful about how we go about making sure the person is who they are.
We do a Google search on every single patient.
We turn down as many patients as we would take, maybe even more, just to make sure they are who they say and that a easy background check doesn't pull up anything that says we shouldn't work with someone like that.
I don't think this should be available to everybody.
I think when you're young especially, like this kind of fucking pop they have here in LA, you imagine if you were a six-year-old kid in Detroit and you got a hold of this shit?
No.
Six-year-olds are not ready for this.
They're not.
You should definitely come of age.
I don't know what that age is.
I think we would have to decide as a society how old someone should be before they start drinking.
There's a lot of countries that let kids drink responsibly with their parents when they're much younger than 21. And they have less incidence per capita of alcoholism than some of the countries that are more restrictive about it.
I mean, when we start having the conversation when people say, let's compare weed to alcohol, I start licking my chops because when you compare it to alcohol, alcohol is poisonous.
So when you write something down on paper, this is how archaic our world is.
You write something down on paper that decrees power to these regular people.
So these regular people all of a sudden have the right to fucking shitstorm your house, kick open your door, shoot your dog, because you have a bag of pot hidden in your fucking bureau drawer.
What most of them do not realize is that the program's co-founder, Bill Wilson, credited the psychedelic drug LSD for alleviating his alcoholism and believed the drug could be used to treat others as well.
Holy shit.
So those friends of Bill, they didn't get all the information.
You're friends of Bill, if you're in the Alcoholics Anonymous, right?
That's what they call themselves?
Yeah.
Friends of Bill?
That's like the code?
Bill W. But they didn't get that experience.
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It's kind of like the mushrooms in Quitting Cigarettes.
Wilson first began experimenting with LSD in Los Angeles at the Veterans Administration back in 1956. But after taking his first hit of acid, he realized that it was not the aspect of terror that could help remedy alcoholism, but rather the insight one could attain from stepping into a world of simulated insanity.
Whoa.
Wilson believed that using the LSD could help the alcoholic discover a power greater than ourselves that in turn could restore us to sanity.
However, he was adamant that using acid to combat the demons of alcoholism was not something that one could expect from a single dose.
But this guy's a heavy-duty tripper as they're going further down.
He was tripping with Aldous Huxley.
This isn't one experience he had.
Interesting, there's documentation that indicates Wilson was involved with many supervised LSD trials, including some with psychologist Betty Eisner and Brave New World author Aldous Huxley, which led him to believe that the visions and insights given by LSD could create a large incentive, at least in a considerable number of people.
It says, unfortunately, LSD made its way into the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous simply because others in the hierarchy did not support it as a viable treatment.
In fact, a document published in 1984 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services in New York explained that the reason the program does not endorse the use of LSD As word of Bill's activity, this is all in quotes, as word of Bill's activities reached the fellowship, there were inevitable repercussions.
Most AAs were violently opposed to his experimenting with a mind-altering substance.
LSD was then totally unfamiliar, poorly researched, and entirely experimental, dot dot dot, and Bill was taking it, end quote.
Terence McKenna attributed this quote to Timothy Leary, but Timothy Leary said he never said it, so nobody knows exactly who said it, but that LSD causes violent reactions to people who have never tried it.
All these psychedelics, like the good experiences and the bad experiences, represent what's the state of mind when you go into them.
That's why the people that take it really seriously and they go through this all meditative ritual and they'll do yoga and they'll do breathing exercises and they'll set a tone to whatever they would like to go into this experience with.
Say that they're going into the experience open and humble and say all these things out loud, and then they enter into the psychedelic trip.
They do it that way because they want to set an intention.
If you just broke up with a girl and you take acid, you really think acid is going to fix anything because it didn't help me when I broke up my girl.
And like, no, I focused on cigarettes, and then the whole place melted, and then my hand turned into a bunch of snakes, so no, I still want cigarettes.
On a lesser level, do you feel like cannabis has changed your personality?
Because that is something you might not go into saying, alright, I broke up with something I'm going to smoke weed for, but throughout your lifetime, Has cannabis had an effect on you that you feel like it's changed your personality?
A lot of our celebrity patients that are working in comedy or music or television or the movies, they want sativas specifically so they're not down at all because sativas are more known for their creativity.
And things like that.
So we find people who are working in the creative field, they want to smoke sativas, you know, which is an important distinction between indicas and sativas.
A lot of people don't know that different types of marijuana can affect you differently, you know.
There are some people who are medicating for certain ailments.
Well, they should smoke something that specifically works for those ailments.
If you're smoking because you're looking for creativity, because you're looking for that You don't want to lay on the couch and go to sleep.
Then you should smoke sativas.
If you are looking for that, it's nighttime, I want to relax, time to go to bed, you should smoke Indica's because that's going to bring you down and give you that body high with the CBD chemical that's inside.
You know, one of the famous scientists, it wasn't Carl Sagan, it was some other famous scientist, it was one of those theoretical mathematician guys who writes all that crazy scribble shit.
That's why I was so against it at first, is because I thought one hit made you really fucked up.
Because that's how I saw Gino.
But it turned out Gino would say, you were such a dick to me when I smoked weed in your house that I'd have to go outside, smoke a whole joint in two minutes and come in and be a mess.
So that was what I was exposed to, is I don't want any of that.
I didn't realize you could just take one hit and just chill out and still work and still function.
I think to say that, what are the medical effects?
What are you treating yourself for?
It's almost silly to say because everyone else who's Not really treating themselves for cancer or something like that.
They are getting mood regulation out of it.
So even if you want to call it recreational smoking, you're still getting mood regulation out of it.
And those people who smoke it almost daily or on whatever schedule they smoke it on...
If they didn't, they might be on Percocet.
They might be on Wellbutrin.
They might be on a million other drugs.
So to say that recreational use is people just getting high, that's also not accepting that people are looking for mood regulation as a medical effect.
Speedweed shut down by Proposition D, which was written by a lawyer who represents a bunch of dispensaries that are protected by Proposition D. Those are some dots.
You can connect them.
So, an attorney writes a law that protects his clients and it gets passed.
How does that happen?
I don't know.
But, I know that career politicians don't make things better, you know, for us.
A business had to be in operation before 2007 in order to be considered now to be a viable business.
Well, if you were in operation in 2007, you were in that Wild West category.
So you were already skating that line.
Do you want the players that were bad players involved, or do you want good companies that want to put in standard operating procedures that are looking for best practices?
We just laid off 40 people that are now in unemployment.
40 good people that really can't get decent jobs anywhere, that were paid well above minimum wage, are now just laid off and going on the government dollar.
So excited about the future, working with the Board of Equalization.
We were in our largest expansion at the time.
We were going from the largest market, which was L.A., to expanding throughout all of California, which we're still doing, but we just now have to not include L.A., which was our main base.
But number two is our base, where our business is, is not in the city limits of L.A.
So by normal law for any other business, you follow the laws of the municipality you're in.
We just convey through the streets of L.A.
And there's a law on the California books that says you can't stop someone if your business is not in one municipality and you drive to another municipality to deliver something.
You can't stop that.
So we're not even in LA and we have to deal with this.
We're outside the city of L.A. Because the city of L.A. encompasses Hollywood and a lot of L.A. But there are places that people think are L.A. like Beverly Hills or West Hollywood.
But we're at a point now that if we don't do that, they're going to get pushed out anyway by bigger corporations that will come in and be able to pay millions of dollars for licensing and buildings and things like that.
And you know, along those lines, as we were cultivating for our own patient base, We follow the laws for California to cultivate.
Once local licensing started becoming possible for cultivation, it wasn't before the governor signed this bill last year.
Now it's becoming possible.
We went out and we're now participating with Desert Hot Springs for a legal cultivation.
So it's going to be a place where the police could come in, the government could come in, inspect it.
So we're moving forward with full legalization on cultivation as well.
Paying everything you got to pay for, making sure that when you build your building, it's built to the right specs.
Again, the government's involved in every part of it.
So again, we're moving forward with the regulations, even though it's going to cost us a lot of money.
The investment team that's behind it has already put $2 million in just to buy the property.
So it's going to cost a lot of money and you're not going to make the money, millions of dollars that you're hoping for, but at least you're doing it in a way that can be regulated and you can open up your doors and not hide.
Well, that's why we got sued, is because if you sue Speedweed, that gets your name in the paper.
You sue one of the other 400 delivery services that you can find operating right now today that are illegal.
That's not going to get your name in the paper in an election year.
Maybe it's a conspiracy theory, but all of the facts in our case are dated 2014. We got served in 2016. I don't know, is this a special year to politicians?
You know, I mean, you've introduced me to some, so certainly you know.
And they're...
Just as many that you would never suspect that that guy is an everyday smoker.
And they are.
And that's because there's still stigma.
And when you're living in a public life, you need privacy.
And that's one of the reasons you need delivery.
Because some of my patient bases, if they walked into a dispensary, they're going to lose endorsements and sponsor money because they're on family shows, things like that.
Because of social media, it's becoming to a point where you just can't deny it.
I thought we were already there.
We're very close to it.
And as politicians get older and pushed out and younger politicians get in, the toothpaste is out of the tube.
It's not going backwards.
So, you know, for L.A. to be behind the times of the rest of the state and for California, the most progressive state in the country, to be behind the times of states like Colorado and Alaska who are making tax money.
And hopefully it's going to be eventually pushed out.
But right now, you know, you have to deal with one of the most ridiculous examples of it, which is marijuana.
It's one of the most ridiculous examples of all sorts of problems that I'm sure all sorts of businesses run into all across the country that we don't consider because it doesn't play a part in our lives.
But this one does, and this one is really a nationwide freedom issue.
I mean, that's really what a lot of it's about.
It's a freedom of consciousness issue.
And people don't look at it like that.
They look at it like it's law enforcement, it's this, it's crime, it's this, it's children, it's this.
No, it's not what it is.
It's a freedom of social consciousness.
It's a freedom of being able to express yourself and a freedom of being able to intoxicate yourself with a natural plant and then what comes out of that.
And that's what everybody was worried about more than anything in like the 1970s.
What they were worried about in the 60s and the 70s is what was coming out of this.
They weren't worried about the consequences of taking this drug.
They were worried about what's coming out of this.
You're getting all these people that just won't tolerate all the usual standard shit because they're constantly resetting themselves and then reconsidering their environment.
And they're coming out with this whole new movement of people, like all the Haight-Ashbury shit in the 60s and all the music of the time.
So much of that had to do with pot and so much of that had to do with LSD. They were just terrified of that shit.
Well, now the new stuff has come out, I'm sure you've seen it, where they're saying that the Nixon administration purposely targeted marijuana because they were really going after the civil rights leaders and the people that were anti-war movement.
The Donald Tashkin study is one that I love, where that study was to find the connection between lung cancer and smoking cannabis, and it turned out he could find no connection and actually showed that there could be a protective effect of cannabis.
We were doing an interview with a magazine, and I had him there, and he showed, I take these 45 pills a day for what I have, or I could eat these three edibles.
And he's like, 45 pills a day, it's crazy just trying to swallow them.
But he said, these cost me thousands of dollars.
However, I don't pay for them.
Because it's paid by insurance.
These, I pay almost $45, $50 a day in edibles, and I could just eat those instead.
However, none of this is paid for, and I don't have the money to pay $50 a day for my medication.
So he's one of the patients that we help out with free product.
This fucking guy's living in an alternate dimension.
He's looking at us through a fucking aquarium window.
He's not even here.
If he's eating that much pot, you're talking about that many milligrams, and then it's getting processed, so you've got to think about it way stronger than just smoking it, right?
All our money was sunk into this, you know, all of four months' time to make it happen, and I was just defeated.
I was like, I can't believe it.
What are we going to do?
And so we had to fight it, to fight those spider mites.
We did everything we could, including buying 10,000 ladybugs, which eat these things, and releasing them in this tent a foot from where I'm sleeping on his couch.
Yeah, and they worked, but they didn't exactly work fast enough, and they were dying because we had CO2, and so we had to get predator mites, which were other little creepy-crawly things that we had to release right where I was sleeping.
Now, I've always wondered like this, when you use all those chemicals and you extract something from a plant, are those chemicals in any way, is there a residue on the extraction?
And when the pot really kicked in, like when he would get really, really high, that would be right when the mushrooms would come in like a giant tidal wave.
And he said he could see it coming.
He could see it coming.
You could feel it in the ground.
And it seemed like there's no way no one else is experiencing this.
It's just like this gigantic wave is coming and there's nothing you can do to stop it.
And that's how he would do it.
So he would use marijuana smoke to sort of instigate the mushroom experience.
Is it related in any way to expanding consciousness or attempting to expand consciousness through drugs?
Most likely not.
But he was really critical of the idea that marijuana was a cure for cancer because he was like, look, I am telling you, I have cancer and I smoke pot all day, constantly.
He's like, I am your poster boy because if it was something that cured cancer, I would not have cancer because you cannot smoke more pot than me.
Well, I think what's really supposed to be the most effective, and Gino, you helped my friend when his mom had an issue with this, and this is something about Gino, who'd never advertised himself, but he hooked my friend up with a lot of this cannabis oil, which is really expensive stuff, and you did it just to help his mom, or just to help his dad, rather.
And, you know, we were talking about stage 4 cancer at that point, so there wasn't much ever hope that it was going to turn around and cure it.
However, to ease the last few months of life was working and happening.
There was a lot more quality of life, which...
For the patient, that was great, number one.
The absolute utmost importance.
But also for our friend that we're talking about, it was great for him because he got the last few months of life together with his loved one in a better way, not in a comatose setting, which he was dealing with for a while before we got on the Rick Simpson oil regimen.
Well, it definitely needs to be investigated because there's so many people that have had beneficial effects from it.
It just seems insane to not have some large-scale scientific research being done right now.
Like, just humanity as a whole, we kind of owe it to each other.
You're not thinking about it right now because your loved ones don't have cancer, but if this turns out to be really legit, this could be another reason why we need to reconsider this whole ban on the legal sale federally of marijuana.
It's ridiculous.
If it can do this, If you're really taking this oil and you're reducing tumors, which has been reported in just a shitload of people, including friends of mine.
I know people that have had cancer and had their cancer reduced by taking cannabis oil.
And I know people whose parents had it and got their tumors reduced because of it.
And I've seen quite a few stories of that, of people that have children that had, you know, serious seizure issues.
And as soon as they got them on the medical marijuana, it just stopped.
And we have a lot of really bad prejudices about marijuana, you know, and we need to expose them as a society because they're holding a lot of people back.
I know they held me back.
They made me, until I was 30 years old, I thought pot was for idiots.
He took one hit and then he relaxed and he was smiling and laughing and we were having a good time.
And he went on this rant.
Oh my god, this epic rant.
Epic rant.
And I remember thinking like, wow, that had to be cannabis inspired because it was so like emotionally connected to him.
It was essentially like sort of validating his life work because he was really heavily criticized many, many times where people just completely ignored any of the potentially positive aspects of what he was saying.
Well, the big one being that civilizations have experienced many different eras and that what we're looking at when we look back thousands and thousands of years is the most latest of eras.
But there was potentially very advanced civilizations that had a different kind of advancement 10,000, 15,000 years, maybe even as many as 30,000 years ago.
And that there's evidence of this stuff.
There's evidence in the construction of the Old Kingdom in Egypt.
There's evidence when they start looking at certain erosion patterns on the Sphinx, the Sphinx compound.
They're talking about...
Something that was built 14,000 years ago plus so all these different new discoveries that they're having when they're having these new they find these new things that are like for they found evidence of North Americans in Native Americans in North America at 14,000 years ago which pushes it way back before they thought it was it found like woolly mammoth bones with cuts on them and yeah super recently so this stuff keeps happening over and over again and they keep discovering These structures,
and they find things underwater, they find sunken cities and shit.
Yeah, Von Daniken, who wrote Chariots of the Gods.
And, uh, Chariots of the Gods was like a movie.
They made a documentary movie about it that played in, like, the movie theaters.
I remember when I was a kid, it was playing in the movie theaters, and I was freaking out, like, and people would leave there, they'd go, oh my god, there's aliens, they visited us.
Like, that movie, if you watch that movie and you smoke pot and you're young, it will have you fucking convinced.
I feel like I was convinced, and it's a lot of Graham Hancock who unconvinced me, because a lot of people think he's part of the ancient aliens theorists, but he's not really.
He leaves the door open for that being a possibility, as do I, as I think everybody should.
A unique moment where an alien spacecraft came down and ran into 14th century Europeans and fucked with them and kidnapped a few and did some scientific experiments on some and erased their memories.
Of course that could happen.
I mean, if we can go to Mars, we can send a robot to zoom around on Mars and we watch it on our iPhone.
We can do that right now.
We're idiots.
We're idiots.
We can't even make pot legal.
We've got a robot moving around on Mars.
The idea that there's something out there, there's no way.
No one's smarter than us, dude.
It can't happen.
Of course there could be.
If we stay alive for a thousand years, our technology is going to be unrecognizable.
It's going to be so beyond anything we could possibly imagine today.
These things that we see, these things that everybody sees, these iconic gray creatures with the big black eyes, those could be drones.
A hundred percent.
I mean, those could be artificially intelligent creatures that some super advanced civilization has created to gather up information on people.
That's totally possible.
And that would make it so much easier for them to defy the laws of physics, defy the laws, not the laws of physics, but the laws of space travel, like with human beings being unable to withstand the kind of pressure that it would require to go light speed and shit like that.
If these things are some fucking weird robot creation that lives off of a lithium-ion battery it's got in its dick, that thing might be able to go forever.
Radiation might not bother it.
You might be able to shoot it into a fucking black hole and it comes out the other side.
I mean, who knows what the fuck they can do a million years from now.
What Graham Hancock is proposing is much more likely, because it's backed by actual science.
And now that he's joined efforts with that Randall Carlson guy, and Randall Carlson, who's an expert on asteroidal impacts, The history of them in North America, in the world.
I mean, he's a wizard when it comes to that stuff.
And he can just quote it off the top of his head, all these different impact sites that they found.
And you realize, like, oh, Jesus, we get hit all the time.
And not only do we get hit all the time, there's evidence of a massive meteor shower impacting Asia and Europe.
Well, not only that, the people who made that battery, they're pretty sure that was 2,500 BC. So that was way later than this impact they're talking about, this 11,000-whatever-it-was-year impact.
They think that there's been a series of these all throughout history.
And this is something that's supported by even mainstream science when they're talking about supervolcanoes.
There's this one supervolcano—we've looked this up three fucking times, and I can never remember this goddamn Gino L.A. Speedweed bullshit— But there's a supervolcano that erupted 70,000 years ago and killed almost everyone on the planet except for a couple thousand people.
And we all descend from those few thousand people that survived some massive supervolcano impact.
This is a really openly accepted theory in mainstream archaeology and anthropology.
They really believe that this is one of the possibly one of the big disaster extinction events that happened to human beings.
Well, what Graham Hancock is exposing is that when you're talking about enormous periods of time, like 10,000 years, 12,000 years, 30,000 years, people cannot recall those natural disasters.
They lose the ability to communicate.
Sometimes they're not even using the same languages anymore.
You're dealing with thousands and thousands and thousands of years.
I mean, just think about just a few thousand years ago, Latin was like a real language.
Go try finding someone who's going to talk Latin to you.
That shit doesn't exist.
It's a dead language.
That's only a couple thousand years.
When you're talking about 30,000 years and the possibility of all these different impacts and different things happening within those 30,000 years, Like, who knows?
So what he's showing is, or what he was showing back then, was that this alternative theory is not preposterous at all.
Like, there's real good evidence that this is not going to stay like this.
I mean, look, we're worried about stuff that we know about, like these spots where the earth could explode.
But there's fucking rocks in the sky that could kill everybody.
They hit all the time.
They hit every few thousand years.
So these spaces of civilization, like 10,000, 12,000 years, where they find these structures like Gobekli Tepe, and they're like, who the fuck...
Where did this?
Where's this coming from?
It's so likely that that's just a series of events.
It's like people build up, they figure out society, get things going really well, they start improving upon things, and boom!
Everybody's dead, rotting, bodies in the street, diseases, wolves, flee, head to the mountains, rebuild civilization, first fucking tribes don't make it, down to a few people, they slowly bond together, they rebuild...
One of the theories I heard on Gobekli Tepe is that since that's what happened, that there was some devastation at that point, that A theory is that they blamed it on whatever gods, and that's why Go Black to Tempe was just covered at that point.
If you were, like, a politician, you were trying to take over after the disaster, you'd be like, these motherfuckers and their statues ruined everything, and we're gonna fill it in with dirt!
Like, we really shouldn't have been fucking with it.
Because, like, if you could see what Julius Caesar did, like, if you could go back and see what Nero did, like, all the atrocities that he did, you wouldn't want to see a statue of him.
But imagine if someone came along and smashed a statue of him.
You wouldn't be able to look at it today.
Like, there's something about when you go to a museum and you look at something from ancient Rome...
And you go, wow, that crazy fucker.
What was Caligula's life like?
What was this guy's life like?
You know, these people were nuts.
They were out of their fucking minds.
They were living in a crazy, crazy time of taking over the world with swords and bows and arrows and shit.
But...
Is Saddam Hussein worse than them?
No.
No, not really.
They should have taken that shit and put it in a museum somewhere.
You know, another thing, I believe it's from Graham Hancock, but the Iraqi Museum had a lot of material that just got wiped out during these wars that we'll never be able to get back that had to do with Ancient societies and Egypt and things like that.
So during these wars, you know, the whole place was just looted.
You know, the museum was looted.
So they lost all of those, you know, ancient treasures.
Yeah, I know it was a different time period, but I was gonna ask, like that, is there something today that contains a bunch of, I don't know, history that could be destroyed and ruined?
The problem would be if the power went out for more than a couple of years, it's never coming back.
If the grid got destroyed, if something happened that was so big that it destroyed the power grid and we needed to reestablish a grid...
Good luck.
That's walking dead.
We lose 50% of the population in the impact and then, you know, when we were left with chaos and lawlessness and fucking people starving to death and no one knows what to do.
Yeah.
Good luck getting the power back on.
All it would take is one of those things.
It might take a hundred years for the power to come back on.
And even when they say solar cycle, they're measuring what they've been measuring over a period of, you know, whatever amount of decades they've been able to measure solar cycles.
But just think about how long the fucking sun's been around.
Yeah, the sun's like, oh, you expect me to behave like I've been behaving for the last 50 years?
Yeah, good luck with that, dude.
Because I got a fucking temper.
Sometimes I like to blow up a whole solar system.
Turned into a crisp.
I watched this crazy documentary on hypernovas and that they initially thought that they were witnessing, when they saw these gamma bursts in the sky, they thought they were witnessing war between alien races.
Like that was the initial reaction to measuring these gamma bursts in the sky.
And then they realized somewhere along the line That you're looking at like a hypernova, like an enormous burst, an explosion that's so great that if it was in a nearby cluster, it would kill us.
Yeah, and the thing was that it was happening all day, all throughout the sky.
They would be measuring this for the first time, and they would see Like all these different spots in the universe, we're experiencing these gamma bursts.
Have changed so that marijuana companies can be for-profit now.
They don't have to be not-for-profit, which is how it's been for the last 20 years here.
And so that has to go into effect by 2018. So that's something to consider also.
Once that happens, that changes things for a lot of cannabis businesses.
But that all said, every cannabis business that's in LA that's not a dispensary in that Whether they're making edibles or they're making vaporizers or anything.
And it's a thriving industry.
They're all illegal.
Every bit of it.
So regulation does need that to happen here in LA. And what we're asking for isn't, hey, just overturn this.
We're not saying that.
We're saying...
We know the city attorney does believe that safe access is important, but he feels he has to uphold this law that was put into effect before he was the city attorney.
So since he knows this is a bad law that he has to enforce, he could also affect change by helping go down the path of legalization for good businesses.
He's not an idiot.
He realizes what a bad law is.
He just knows his job is to enforce it.
So hopefully he'll join the fight to find a path towards legalization.
Okay, what can people do, the people that are listening, to wrap this all up, the people that are listening, what's a good way to follow this or a good way to help?
A good way to help, if you're in California, a good way to help is to join our collective, even if you don't buy anything, and we'll keep you in touch with the politicians, and we'll put pressure on them.
Joining our collective, like if you're a medical marijuana patient, join speedweed.com, and we are working actively with the city to try to solve this.
So we're fighting in court, yes, on one hand, but on the other hand, we are conversing with the city.
We need to buy a warehouse in California and a bunch of people use it as their mailing address and then get people from other states to become a part of your collective and they have like a fake mailing address and then we hook them up like, All right, we've got to talk more about that idea after this goes dark.
It's actually pretty scary getting pulled over with weed in California nowadays because the DUI rate has gone crazy.
My friend's a lawyer, a DUI lawyer, and half of his cases now are just from marijuana.
And they have a new test where they do the same kind of thing with your eye, but it goes left and right real fast if you're high or something like that.
And if they feel like they can smell weed, and if you fail this test, you're getting a DUI just like an alcohol DUI. When you say it goes left to right real quick, what?
Well, right, but it's sort of arbitrary, because what is intoxicating?
I mean, the swab test just did not pass in California, where they were trying to swab for THC molecules, and it's like, no, that's totally not going to work.
Because there's a significant issue with some people, but you're not even stopping those people from taking who knows what the fuck they're taking as far as antidepressants or psychoactive substances prescribed by their doctors.
How many people are on fucking Adderall, man?
That's meth.
They're taking meth.
They're driving around.
You know, I know a bunch of adults that take that shit on a daily basis.
Well, this is why we have to play this game of politics.
You know, we just want to run a business and a good business.
But we have to play this game of politics because if we don't, from the bottom, affect change to those people who are at the top and let them continue to create these laws, we could just go another 20 years with these bad laws when there's no reason for it.
I'm just hoping that what's going to go on is that, as you know, from the time that I first got my license to today, how much more open it's been, much more relaxed people are, much more accepting people are of it, and much more accepting amongst grown adults.
You just see the attitudes of people, they're changing, and people understanding how beneficial it is, especially for people who need it medically.
Cancer patients, things along those lines, kids with epilepsy, ADD, things along those lines.