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joining us now i spent added up to a hold on his uh...
is that john doe joe you arty from this journalist in san francisco when he's
written the book that cannabis the explosive rise of the medical marijuana
industry and obviously here in the california prop nineteen on the ballot
to legalize marijuana
but uh... this uh... medical marijuana it has been an issue for
sometime john walker michelle fite roma
for everyone
um so uh...
the idea that uh... these are some quaint doctors and maybe some believers
that it helped and they thought they will get meryl medical marijuana fast
that's not our this was a this was a
big business
ut
g_o_p_ yet mostly i think the idea what a good part of coordinated through it
uh...
whim
spent reactor to operate in california earlier
shortly after the passage of proposition two fifteen in uh... nineteen ninety six
they would brutal they were mostly be run by activity
very involved involved in uh...
in the campaign
but over time
it it really grew into a very muscular
business i mean it's a it's an industry now that supported
party
doctors journeys
p_r_ people politicians
recover
so multi billion dollar industry it's become
but absolutely multibillion dollar mistreated reporting states where of
milkman one of legal
five fourteen states and we had more common right
bedroom eleven other states are on the verge boca raton some sort of uh...
broken drawer legislation
um...
yeah i i i was looking here that uh... last year eighty-percent of voters in
oakland and pass the land what you do what's described as a landmark marijuana
tax i don't know what that is what is that
that would mirror
info quinn has been on the forefront though a number of different uh...
legislation that regulate
milkman one industry with measure up kid
made opened the first city to levy a local tax
they'll marijuana so for every thousand dollars made by dispensary eighteen
uh... eighteen dollars
goes in the
the coffers and how much did is that uh... that serious cash for a city that
is obviously financial trouble opened
fairly serious characteristic city collected more than one point five
million last year and there is one of the returns
in oakland thug
harborside
did more than twenty-two million dollars a business
spot wow twenty-two that's unbelievable had and the idea that the other cities
make money from it i like the idea that uh... that republicans would fight
against that tax that they be
letting the small
all marijuana marijuana distributors because our small businesses they employ
people
so what is what would be a problem nineteen for which would legalize
marijuana in california what would that do to the medical marijuana industry
technically it won't do it during the medical marijuana industries amber but
wat ever created
that uh... under proposition two fifteen all would remain with
uh... there'd be bed no change our own whatsoever which
good at some confusion soon
for example you could
in one city adult
twenty one older would be able to use marijuana internation
of up to announce however if they have their a
medical marijuana card they could there be in possession of the great deal more
they would have loved me oblivion some cases peeled grow more in their homes
that sort of thing
um... the uh... actually you said that that technically there's no change do
you think they'll be ah... change that uh... that maybe we're not
for singing some summit change on the medical marijuana tree or not
no i don't
it one the law itself would stay completely different
there might people in the medical marijuana immature concern that
dispensers might take a hit that they might lose it
fairly large percentage of their business to competition
well it seems that seems obvious to me
uh... but they are
what uh...
so vote
this has become what i see it and what you ask wire magazine
that named marijuana lobbyist on its two thousand ten
new jobs for a ban list
yeah there could be a good thing about them
rwanda industry that's creating all sorts of
and for a job
and careers uh... worker
p_r_ do the huge part of the history because uh... marijuana often has
perception issue
to clean up com rwanda
there is uh... insurance
now involved in the industry one of the into one of the ensuring just because of
the businesses like against what they have spent a lot of problems with
stability deduct it one of the of
it's weird because it's written dropped with new but now there's
policies available for dispensary so you can uh... insure against equipment put
the failure
uh... robbery you can insure vehicle
that uh... ah that deliver marijuana
*** purification marijuana
and you can even insure your crops
against failure
and robbery sever the one thing you can't be sure
medical that everything the medical marijuana billed as the one thing you
can't share is uh... ah
federal ***
uh... lol that you brought up a couple of uh... interesting points here and
again we're talking to john joey ortiz a journalist in that sample cisco staff
writer sample weekly his book is cannabis explosive rise of the medical
marijuana
uh... industry two arguments against the passage of a prop nineteen one that it
will come into conflict conflict with federal law and attorney general holder
saying the bell and force the federal law vigorously and it seems that that
would uh... complicate matters obviously
once you address that point and the other one quickly that i read that i had
not follow before which would be the potential for
outsiders
to come in to california to get their supply and take it out which could
theoretically bring some criminal element and i read it elavil evite but i
thought i wasn't
yet
the evening out by eric holder that uh... that
the adult use of marijuana the filled with of recreational marijuana would be
vigorously
pursued by federal authorities
is almost identical to
what occurred in nineteen ninety six with the passage of proposition two
fifteen and it didn't happen
vote it could happen to degrees certainly
dispensary paraded
uh... by the d_a_'s hundreds of them were a lot of people in jail
uh... however it didn't stop the industry
industry is uh...
is uh... moving along like a free trade and considering the fact that uh... at
the federal government as we keep hearing in the last nine years
says that
barely even made a dent in investigating illegitimate stumbling organized crime
what is the word obsessed and i guess you one could argue rightly so with
terrorism
it seems tumi unlikely that we would see spend a lot of federal resources
hot to raided there and what is a touted committed to get into raids and
investigations of what is california law i don't i don't know that's just my own
off the cuff speculation deeply every week to be seen it's partly cloudy neat
no they did come down pretty heavy on malcolm rwanda spencer's early on by the
ninety-six that's not that's that is they are trading post nine eleven or
uh...
i'm probably connecting to things that are unlikely to happen it just struck me
as audit struck me as
likely posturing by eric holder and not really but you well i think i think it'd
posturing syracuse remain seem
uh... certainly doctor nine eleven of
uh... under george bush
george w_ bush
radon spent user increased really are packed
look at what a shock i don't know what i'm talking about
the and then lastly quickly uh... what about this notion that uh... outsiders
will command by a lot of way doesn't go sell it now that
uh... i don't know i
it's there's a lot of people who criticize hoopla with from a perspective
that uh...
if it happens in but new substance will be coming onto the shore of america that
known for any experience with
the fact that there was been here for a very very long time
and
there's trade route already well fed up and have been for more than forty years
ag i think helpful
california marijuana grown california's found its way
to all forty nine other states
right so that sounds like uh... that sounds like scare tactics
uh... lawrenceville
all right uh... john no john you are a thanks for joining us the book is ten of
us the explosive rise in the medical of marijuana industry it's incredibly
relevant now if we have moved vote dog prop nineteen on tuesday john f_ thanks
for all month explode apex traveler pritchett