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Hi Paul. Nice To Meet You
We are from Alchimiaweb.com and it’s a big pleasure for us to have you here.
Tell us a little thing. How are you feeling to be here in Expogrow? Are You Enjoying it ? Are you Happy with the experience?
Oh! Very Much! It’s very exciting. I ah… It’s my first trip to Spain and it’s good to come to celebrate the cannabis plant.
So it’s like a very well organized event, and it’s only the second year… It’s very large for just a second year, it’d built it up very quickly.
I think in the years will came it’ll grow dramatically.
So do you think that everything its going better and better. It’s positive, ok
It’s been a lot of positive events all across the world for cannabis law reform.
And I just came off a panel with one of the people that the movement “two for you, herb your way” to liberalize the laws about cannabis,
because in the United States we Have liberalized our laws, in two of our 50 states, and it’s very likely that we’ll see more in the next two years.
Ok so, you mean that the situation in the USA about Marihuana it’s changing a lot, and the most resulting examples are Washington and Colorado,
could you explain it a little bit more, and which are the main advantages for the cannabis users, being medical or not, in those states, please?
Sure, well… in Washington State and Colorado, now you can legally possess marihuana.
In the Colorado State you can grow up to 6 plants, as an adult over the age of 21,
and in the process of coming up with regulations and licensing stores,
in the state of Washington they say they’re going to allow up to 360 stores to sell marihuana to adults over the counter legally.
They will license the growers, they will license the processers, they will license the retailers, and they’re going to do the same thing in Colorado.
In other had been some moves backwards in number of smaller cities have curtailed or put a moratorium stopping immediate implementation of the stores,
for instance in Colorado, the city of Colorado Springs, were nearly not allow the stores opened in that city,
but they had the US Air force academy located there.
The Air Force Academy Threatened to move if they legalized the sale in the City of Colorado Springs.
So there’s very positive moves in all the west coast states, in the number of states across the country to legalize marihuana in United states.
I think the next five years will find marihuana being legal all across united states
because United States is spearheaded this war on drugs,
the war on cannabis users, the war on us, that a… we will… because USA
is changing the rest of the world won’t feel that’s policeman of the world.
I apologize that USA is the policeman of the world, but a … we’ll see that this becomes a… the norm here in Spain,
across Europe, and hopefully, the rest of the world, you know?
In Malaysia and other Asian countries you can actually be hung for possession of small amounts of cannabis.
Hung?
Hung, killed! For two hundred grams of cannabis, in Malaysia.
And so ah… those people need us to work for cannabis legalization, so we can free this most productive plant …
plant that I believe it’s the oldest cultivated crop.
So you think, you hope that the example of the change in the USA will spread all over the… Europe, and the world hopefully.
And how does it combines with the vision… of the mentality of the Obama’s administration and the DEA, for example?
Well, as we record this, the Obama administration said that they would not move to stop Washington and Colorado.
I never dreamed that would be the case, I’m very happy that the Obama administration has done that I supported and even I contributed a little bit of money to his campaigns…
but all opens the door for all the rest of the states, for not just adult marihuana use, but also for hemp, for fuel, fiber, food.
The whole plant
Yes exactly.
Ok, so talking about money and marihuana, do you think that marihuana industry is helpful for avoiding or solving economical crisis of the countries,
I mean, generating money, generating work places, what do you think?
Oh yeah! You know I have a series of clinics, where doctors work, in the USA, helping patients get medical marihuana permits.
So I benevolently use the money that my business has made to place initiatives on the ballot we go out and get voters to sign papers,
then we turn those in to the state, and then that becomes a vote.
So that’s how we changed the law and in Washington and Colorado,
we should see changes in the next two years in Oregon and Alaska, maybe in California, if not in 2014 in California definitely in 2016.
So in the number of other states considering full legalization,
As… as more governments such as Washington and Colorado started to rip the benefits of legalizing marihuana,
this other areas will want to quit spending and wasting money locking "asap".
And instead make money from taxing this. And I think we’ll also see top cost of marihuana drop, for consumers.
So will be able to buy less expensively, I think really marihuana is a small in comparison the hemp.
When they allow hemp for fuel, without regard for its THC level,
but with regard to which species of hemp produces the most seeds…
You know what they’ve done with hemp, here in Europe, they limit the THC to less than 1/3rd of 1%, But they do that by breeding out the flowers.
When they breed out the flowers, they breed out the seeds. By breeding out the seeds, they breed out the oil and protein.
So it’s really about not allowing hemp oil, and hemp fuel, to compete with petrochemicals.
I believe that marihuana prohibition is really about money and power, and the continue centralization of the economic and political control.
If we take marihuana out of the black market, we allow it to be cultivated for most productive species, without regard to it’s THC content,
then instead of our money going to big oil companies and the corrupt regimes, Swiss bank accounts,
it would go into the pockets of the farmers, who will use it to enrich their communities, and we’ll see well decentralized.
Marihuana prohibition is part of wealth centralization, and when we legalize marihuana,
and allow him for fuel, fiber, food and medicine, we’ll see decentralization, and really marihuana is … prohibition is an issue,
of social and economic justice, and I believe that will change our whole economic system.
So thank you for being here with us, It’s been a pleasure to be talking with you for a moment,
have a nice rest of Expogrow, and thank you so much. So thank you so much.