Toke Talk 4/25/23

Toke Talk 4/25/23
Toke Talk

 

 

Howie:

K l t 93 9. The lake You are live. Is this the Cody?

Cody:

This is the Cody. I got caught up on a conversation and looked down in the, it’s 8 45.

Howie:

Know it. Look, it happens sometimes. Hey, congratulations man. It was nice. Thanks for taking a little bit of your busy schedule, letting me get to tour the facilities, man. The expansion mode and 14 years. Congratulations all on four 20.

Cody:

Yeah, right on man. It was, it was a magical it was a magical day, magical weekend. Hey man, springtime every day is longer. Little bit brighter. Good time of year

Howie:

For sure. Man. You know what? And it was fun. After we finished, I wandered over to Glazed and Confused and some of the other places that were over there on that side. And all I kept thinking was, man, what a great place to be. It’s like the perfect neighborhood. You’ve got great neighbors. I mean, you’re a really good neighbor. Your place is there, your business is there. Your clients that go there, they’re ultimately at some point in their life gonna wander over to Glazed and confused just for the after effects of all that fine green weed.

Cody:

Ah, that’s right. Definitely. No, we do, we have such a great, you know, the biju, they, they call it a, the Biju is a small gym Oh, yeah. In French. And it, and it’s and that’s what it is. I mean, this is this is the heart of South Lake Tahoe and the Biju is a great, it’s a great place. We got tacos, Indian food, donuts. Oh wow. All the cannabis you could ever have the best in the world. And you know, we, we got everything you need here. The longest pier on the lake. It’s it’s a great place to be.

Howie:

I like the fact that I forgot what bank was it that used to be there that you expanded into? was that a, that wasn’t a El Dorado Savings Bank, was it?

Cody:

It, it was, it was the savings bank. Oh. Was, and and, and before that it was the Wells Fargo bank. And it’s kind of funny, you know, whatever it is. And, and I’m not even saying anything wrong about El Rose Savings Bank. They, they were following the federal mandates, but they did open my account for, oh, I think about two days until they got a call from the head office and said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, you, not only can you not open his account, but any of his employees accounts need to be closed. What? Anybody that has any affiliation with that business, their account must be closed. I, and so, you know, and, and, and then there was a, there was a whole, like a whole time of where, I mean, I literally, like, I, I sent flowers to the tellers Wow. Because of the cannabis smell. I said, oh, they, they kept complaining the smell of cannabis. And I said, well, look at this. I’m gonna have trans come by. Right. And we’re gonna put flesh, like fresh flowers right at the teller station. Like what’s the problem with that? So for about a year, I bought them all fresh flowers and we went, we, we went through that time. But it’s, it’s pretty ironic that Yeah. Now we’re, we’re just in the bank.

Cody:

How weird is, that’s a weird, I thought at first the, I thought it, well, it’s kind of tough. They wouldn’t let, I mean, I could see maybe the business account, but all your employees couldn’t open an account. Maybe they were afraid that their tellers were gonna get high and they’d quit El Dorado savings.

Howie:

I see. And that may big part of it. Yeah, definitely. You know, we wanna work with that guy, man. You know, if, if all your money came from gold, maybe green makes you scared, you know, I guess so.

Cody:

I dunno. But hey, I just remember the old days when I used to take the comics over to do Lake Tahoe television and cuz they were on the other side of the building. And I remember Pete, the GM would say, where’s Howie? I’d go, he’s still in the bathroom because the bathroom shared the same wall as your dispensary. And I, I just didn’t wanna leave the bathroom because it was like a kind of a cool place to be with all that cool surrounding scent, you know?

Howie:

Well, yeah. And then you could smoke a joint and Pete didn’t even know what you were doing <laugh>. Exactly. Playing off the dispensary.

Cody:

And trust me, you had to smoke a joint before you went on that show.

<laugh>. <laugh>, absolutely. <laugh>.

Howie:

So are you, Pete’s gonna hear this from somebody cuz it’s a small town and like he’s probably gonna chew me out. I don’t care anymore. And so I wanna know if you’re gonna be offering some type of a expansion you know, deal or something like that for those to celebrate your 14th year in business.

Cody:

So, you know, we are, we, we’ve done it well. So because it was four 20, we had deals like all through the weekend. We had amazing deals. But what we’re actually, so when we open the consumption lounge, which I’m hoping is like two months, maybe three months, we’re gonna do an actual real grand opening where we have an event, really invite everybody and do a full, you know, grand opening. Because technically until we get consumption, the whole project is not complete. Right. So we, we have a little, little ways to go, but this next phase is is much more yeah. It’s, it’s much simpler. We’ll be able to complete it hopefully within the next two to three months. We do need some political will. the last time this was voted on, it was a two two vote. Oh. So that, that, that’s the other site. Onsite consumption does take approval from from the city. Ooh. So,

Howie:

Okay, here’s Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Here’s a, there might be a conundrum cuz I don’t know her her feelings, but she is the mayor and I think it’s part of her obligation for Christie. when you do the official re grand opening, you have the blue ribbon and everything, or maybe a green ribbon and then a scratches sniff ribbon would be even better. And then you have the giant scissors, and then that would be you next to Christie, the mayor slash city council member to cut to make it official for the re grande opening of TWC.

Cody:

Absolutely. No, and, and I, you know, again, I think yeah, we’re, you know, as we move at in times, you know, I think everybody, everybody can gain new perspective. Yeah. As we do. That’s how we learn. That’s how we gain more knowledge. And, and our mayor is awesome. Christie is such a great, she really is. She’s a I’ve gotten to know her. I didn’t know her before. You know, she ran to be on council and she’s just such a, she really is. She’s such a good person. And oh, she’s good. Good energy. And so yeah, I’ll be so happy to have her there. Yeah. When she was with us, when she was a

Howie:

When she was a candidate running, of course I had all the candidates down here. and she was a great force and she’s a, I think she’s a great asset to the city and also as a city council member. Oh, <laugh>. Oh, we got cut off. Is that, I got cut off. What happened was, is Christie there?

Cody:

<laugh>? God. Nice. You’re right. That

Howie:

Was Tammy

Cody:

Jumped right in <laugh> <laugh>, yes.

Howie:

Oh, that was, that was really terrific, man. Here I’m talking about what a great asset Christie is to the city and she’s been a very good visible mayor. And, and, and I think it was great what the city did with having, they had a a, a students, remember you had the youngest mayor for a day thing. I thought it was a great thing to do and they must have got a real kick out of that. And all of a sudden I started hearing beep beep beep <laugh>.

Cody:

Right. Yeah, yeah. No, she’s amazing. She definitely, she’s does a lot for the youth and just a great person. Good

Howie:

Stuff there. I, you know, what you would be kind of fun to do is I, I always, Wendy Li is a great comedian and she’s always been telling me, you have to, if people are really mean or haters, you have to, you have to fight them, kill ’em with kindness. She would say, she said, you gotta kill ’em with kindness. That’s her mantra. And my mantra was always, can I just kill ’em? Do I have to do the second part? But I, over time I learned to be more tolerant. And so I’m thinking Yeah, the, those who are naysayers for your weed could you put their name on? Like, Hey, try the Tammy Tomo weed. This’ll really mellow you out. You know, something like that. If someone might not be for the actual dispensary, but if you named some type of pot after them, maybe they’d come around or either that or sue you. I don’t know.

Cody:

<laugh>. Right. No, that’s great. We’ll just make a strain for make a, for the, for the certain politician. Like dial in the strain to the politician. I think it’d be perfect. Yeah, exactly. But we gotta figure out how, like how do we make them take the hit? Oh, that’s the hard part.

Howie:

Yeah.

Cody:

That’s a, you gotta, like what do we do? Well, how do you get them to, to take the hit,

Howie:

Right? That’s Well, I could, I could think of a lot of ways we could discuss it off the air, but I I’ll come up with

Cody:

A, I heard money does everything <laugh>? No, <laugh>.

Howie:

I just snorted. Sorry. Hey, so it happens on occasion. I just had, it’s my nostrils. Hey, so let me ask you this. now 14 years, had you envisioned, when you first started it was it gonna be for just x amount of years and then you’d move on? Or was it something you thought, you know, all this time later, wow, I could see another 14 years happening right here in this community of T W C.

Cody:

You know, I mean actually looking back, like when we, you know, when we began this journey with TWC, with Cannabis Fires Club of Berkeley, all of the, the journey of the movement of cannabis, you definitely did not see where we stand today. Yeah. It was, it was more of a it was an activist movement. It was about changing the law in the now. Right. And people were in jail and people, you know, there was patience. People in wheelchairs that were literally like in the need of real medicine, which is what we provide. And so it was a movement. It was much different than thinking of a, of, of a successful business, I guess you could say. Right. But it has now transitioned into something that is, is an industry and, and you can’t even really call it success at this point because as I’ve said many different times on this show, we’re still fighting the federal government.

Yeah. We’re still considered criminals. I mean, I’m still, it’s so weird today by the federal government and the irs. I’m a drug traffick, I’m a criminal. Geez. I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s absurd. That is really word, but either which way, I mean, that’s the thing, what’s awesome is that I, I continue to say this is a civil right. It’s a human right. And it’s amazing that we have a society that we’ve built that we can write the wrongs of, you know, all of our civil rights. Right. And, and when we have something that’s wrong, we can write it in this society. And, and cannabis is approving fact of that as well as so many other civil rights that, that the society has proven to be. Right. Yeah.

Howie:

And even when it was at, at first, just for medicinal purposes, only before it was of I guess voted statewide for, you know, recreational reasons, but I know a lot of people, I know three very close friends personally that they had different, you know, debilitating diseases that had it not been for, we’re talking just the basic, just, just just, you know, a joint to help relieve them. They’d still be in so much pain because they would go through their medication, the prescription, and they would run up and, and apparently, I guess you’re not allowed to refill it right away. so I, I just gave them joints to, to help ease the, you know, and then they did eventually when it was okay to get medicinal weed for their ailment, and they just said it helped ’em all along. And these were people that weren’t regular recreational pot smokers. They just did it strictly to ease their suffering from whatever diseases that they had.

Cody:

No, absolutely. I mean, it’s, it’s, you know, what’s interesting with cannabis is like all of our medicine really does come from plants and biology and, you know, the, the, the idea that we took one of those plants out of all of that research, right? And especially one of the most useful plants that we know for, you know, the medicinal healing properties of the plant. If you think about the kind of like what that leaves out of modern day medicine, then it’s, it’s, it’s very, that’s why you see these things where, wow, we’ve never seen somebody be, you know, have this kind of reaction to this disease and wow, this is actually working. Like we’ve never seen it before. Well that’s because it was never actually researched over the net since 1973, since the passage of the Controlled Substance Act. And so we’re, we’re, we’re in a place now of like, we’re gonna discover some amazing great things as we move forward in, in the, you know, medicinal and the, in the world of science. Right. as we allow this plant to, to be free. I’m

Howie:

Just hoping that

Cody:

More it’s, it’s a

Howie:

Blessing. I’m just hoping that more more folks in the you know, medical profession see the, the positiveness from, you know, I’m not saying all of the drugs. Well, let’s say a a, a good percentage of ones that they’ve actually, that the science has proven that then it’ll help shift those that were maybe you know, maybe they were reluctant to come on board, but just to see it from a doctor’s or a physician’s point of view to sign off on it, that would make it more credible.

Cody:

Absolutely. Well, I think, you know, one thing in our country and, and there’s some issues that are pressing on this right now. Politicians are not the experts of medicine No. Or science. And they need to get out of the way. The fact that politicians and, and people with agendas have made policy that is tying the hands of our scientists and our, and our researchers and our doctors is, is so wrong at a core level of just human beings. It is so, so, so wrong. Yeah. That we have these policies that have been put in place by people that are ill-informed that they don’t, not even, not even informed they’re ignorant to the subject that they’re even making a policy about. Right. And it’s happening in the modern day right now. Look at what we’re dealing with today. Yeah. You know, we have politicians trying to step in the realm of medicine. You, you’re a politician. You don’t even understand medicine from any bit of it. And so why would you try to use your position if, if you’re not the expert of, of that subject, it’s unbelievable to see, but in any which way I think that, you know, this is what’s also, again, writing or wrong. Like we, we absolutely can, can make this right. Yeah. And and it’s, and it’s within our, it’s within our law in our society’s rights. We just gotta keep pushing forward.

Howie:

I I’m gonna propose a bill run up by the city and cuz they’re, they wanna make another roundabout Caltrans over on Pioneer in 50 <laugh>. I wanna just start naming all the roundabouts after certain politicians cuz they just go in circles with no end in sight. That, that’s gonna be the next, the next movement that I shoot for

Cody:

<laugh>. I like it. Well, you’ve gotta also work for like the whatever the statue, the thing that goes in the middle of that thing. I, that would be, you know, I’m gonna actually get really active about this because I’m telling you, if you go to Tahoe City Yeah. Third roundabouts have like these beautiful, like to Tahoe City. Yeah. Did you see the one in Myers? It was like a log <laugh>. Did you see they put like a log on a rock.

Howie:

Yeah.

Cody:

Hope. Hopefully it’s not Trump. I don’t know company.

Howie:

Hey man, I love what you get riled up. I love riling up my guests, but thanks for not, you know, swearing. Hey happy 14th anniversary man. And I’ll be dropping down there again because I love all your coworkers. They’re such mellow, nice people.

Cody:

Anytime Al please come by. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta come by today actually. We’re we’re really alright. Yeah. Come. Okay. Come see us as we’re, as we’re open and operating. You, Need to!

Howie:

You need to come out with a, you don’t have to put a name on it. Just call like, hey, try the city manager bong. results, results are contingent on how much substance is put within, you know, just like our city manager, something like that.

Cody:

Nice. I like it. That’ll come with the consumption lounge. It’ll be good.

Howie:

Hey, alright man. Hey, be well and always you always make my Tuesdays, man. You’ll, you always set it off to a good mood. Thanks.

Cody:

Yeah man, you too, Howie definitely starts my week. Alright

Howie:

Buddy. Love you Cody. See ya. All right,

Cody:

Love you too.

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