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We talk about all things cannabis from dispensaries, cultivations, current news & entrepreneurship along with some lifestyle topics to intrigue, inspire and flat out make you laugh! During this series we'll have interviews with some game changers showing you a different perspective discussing the state of Cannabis. Friendly for newbies, vets and people who curious. It's funny, it's blunt, it's real... Sativa Talk Podcast.
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Hey, hi, and hello.
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Welcome back to another episode of Satiba Talk Podcast where we have blunt conversations. We like to talk about cannabis, of course, whether you are a vet, newbie, or just curious, we got you covered. And we will get into some lifestyle and entrepreneurship as well. Now today we have a very special guest. I want to bring them in first before we get into the episode number. Today's guest is Mr. Rob G. Njakees. Now you ask me where do they come from? Who are these people? They are actually the owners of the Cannabis Cash Coin, which is in the works of the Crypto Currency. Did I read that correctly? Cryptocurrency. It's on the website. It says Crypto Currency. I don't know if that was trying to be cute or whatnot. That's different. Oh, you're gonna run me my money. I'll use that. We had to coin that. I like that. All right. For buying and selling cannabis. So we'll get a little a little bit more into the details. I did want to bring you guys in and say welcome to the show. Thank you for having us. Absolutely. Today we are celebrating episode number 18. Now the numerology meaning of number 18 has a few different meanings. It is a symbol of success. The angels are trying to tell you that you are on the right path and to keep going. Second, the number 18 is a reminder that you are surrounded by love and light and you are never alone and the angels are always with you. Finally, the number 18 is a sign of abundance. The angels want you to know that you are being supported and that all of your needs will be met. So in traditional Sativa Talk podcast form in the intro I like to ask my guest when was the last time you felt like you know what guy thank you
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for that one you got me you heard me and you got me. When this app first released on April 20th you know it was just I've been working we went both been working on it for over a year and a half, cannabis mobile and getting everything together so you know we had some trials and errors on the way so I just thank God every day.
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Absolutely and it just all panned out for you. It all panned out. All right.
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What's up Rob G? When was the last time? Waking up every morning. Yeah. You know that's a blessing. You know you don't take that for granted because you know a lot of people just don't show up, you know. They just so caught up in being, what happened yesterday, what's going to happen tomorrow, nobody showing up just for being right here now. And I'm just grateful for just, you know, being here right now, you know, and watching
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the blessings unfold on a daily basis.
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All right. I heard that. I celebrate that and I celebrate the small wins. For me, it was when yesterday when the plans I really didn't have time for, they canceled. And so that is wonderful when you get that little piece of time back. So I was like, thank you, Lord.
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Time is something you can't get more of. Time is the most valuable thing.
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Yes, no doubt.
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Absolutely. Now, real quick, I do got to give a shout out to my sponsors, the Business Entertainment West. They are in the business of providing entertainment on the West Coast. You can find them on Instagram at bizent underscore Vegas and tell them thank you for bringing AGT back to the airwaves. Now let's get back into this cannabis cash coin that you guys started up now on the website Jacquees it was kind of speaking to you having an interest in cryptocurrency and it just evolving into this idea so let's kind of get into that. Well I started
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investing in cryptocurrency back in 2015 and I started here and there you know buying a couple of shares here and there but I didn't really start buying thousands and millions of shares until like 2020 19 2020 like when it really hit up there and I have basically told my brother like man you need to get into cryptocurrency it's it's the new wave you know it's not going anywhere and my brother had asked me the question basically like how does this work you know could you start your own currency and could you could you so I broke down the details to him and he came up with one day he just called me early morning like he came up with cannabis cash coin and he's like what you think about that name and I was like man that's that's that's incredible man and from there that's how we got started put together a team and we just got started from there.
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So Rob G, how apprehensive were you when he first brought this idea to you?
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Well, you got to understand something. There's a generation gap between us.
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Exactly.
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He's my little brother. I'm his older brother. Like baby brother. He's my baby brother. So the whole thing was, for me, I got like 30 years of sales and marketing behind me. So I looked at something and I wanna pull it apart and say, well, how does it work? Cause as a kid, I used to have take all my toys and I pull them apart just to find out, you know, hey, how does this robot work? How does this work? So I'm always the kind of kid that will pull stuff apart just to try to figure out how to put it back together again. Cause that's how my mind works. So when he brought this cryptocurrency to me, I was like, well, well, you know, okay, that's great. So how does it make its money? He said, oh, well, it makes money by people buying it. And so they buy it, then what? Well, it gains value. Okay, then what? Then they trade it and they buy stuff with it, and this and that. Okay, but what's backing it up? Nothing. I said, well, let me get this straight. Ain't nothing backing this up. They making it themselves. And, you know, people jump in the game like that I said oh okay bet so um I just you know in my mind I just ponder on and this and that the other so in the middle of the night I wake up and uh you know because I'm a juicer I'm a vegan I do juicing I do fasting and stuff like that these long-standing fasts so when you when you get your body clean and you spiritually grounded you get all these downloads so here I am just sleeping and then all of a sudden I wake up in a cold sweat and boom right in my mind is cannabis cash going cannabis Cash going first thing I do go on Go daddy. The name is available. This is crazy, right? Then I said, okay, I want to do with this. So I bring it to my little brother saying man What do you think about this? And the first thing on my mind was you know, I It just came out of nowhere. But then I looked at the fact that the cannabis industry can only do cash. They can't. You know, the banks hate the cannabis industry. And so in my mind, I said, well, what better thing that there's two things that the bank hate. They hate cannabis and they hate crypto. And I said, well, why don't you just marry these two together and, you know, and let's make some happen. So I brought in my brother. He thought it was a good idea. And we put together a team and we started working on it. And two and a half years later, well, yeah, two and a half years later now we were here. But the whole plan was I just didn't want to create a token that, you know, was just people buy into it and they had to build up the value. I wanted a functioning token that actually did something. We didn't want to just put something out there and just wait for people to buy it and have it gain its value. So we wanted to create something that had its own mechanism to build a value. So we said, well, let's build an app for the token so that the app can generate funds and revenue so it can be a functioning token we'd be the first to market so now we just rolled out on the 20th cannabis mobile cannabis mobile so that's our app now the app service the dispensaries so that dispensaries have can display all their products we give them the dispensary to back in they can put all their products in, they can also generate a QR code or they can generate a discount code, promotional code, so that the user or whoever signs up for the app, the customer, can get a discount on their cannabis products and it shows them all the products that they purchased at a discount and they get a special receipt that goes to the dispensary. The dispensary sees it, feel the orders, they come in, they pay the dispensaries. Pick up their order. And they pick up their order. So it's a way to drive traffic into the dispensaries. So that was our first wave. And so our second wave is actually building a... Blockchain. A blockchain so that now we can support the app with the actual cash tokens on that and the point is that will be right there on the app and now people can you know the dispensaries because we see the future of the dispensaries where they doing home deliveries they're doing curbside they doing all this stuff outside of the dispensary itself the dispensary is just a hub but everything is going to be pretty much online. We've seen from the COVID thing that a lot of people love the direct home delivery aspect of it and this is the evolution of where the cannabis industry is going and we're the first to market with that piece. So now we brought a tool that the dispensary can use that is a no cost to them and we get paid when they get paid. So you know we do it 3% back end but it's a way for them to generate more foot traffic into different cannabis dispensaries around the nation. And the great thing about our app is as I said the user dispensaries that's on our affiliation the user gets discounted for their cannabis you know so whatever the dispensary wants for like certain products, like what's a 10, 20% off, 30%, 50%, the user, it's so simple because they'll see the dispensary within their state, wherever they at, that's on our affiliation. They'll be able to click on that dispensary, see all their products, add it to their cart. It automatically puts the promotional code in for them. So they don't gotta do that. Only thing they gotta do, they see everything that they want, see how much it costs, place, they order, they'll get an email receipt, on dispensary gets their order through email, they get their order ready, let them know that the order is ready to go to the dispensary, pay pick up. But as we as the app continues to evolve, we're going to add more things to the app, you know, so Facebook then start off with all the features and stuff they have now. So we're going to continue to grow. The app is only available on the Apple Store. It's called Cannabis Space Mobile. It's not available for Google Play because Google doesn't allow any cannabis apps at all. So the only one that has cannabis apps on there is Apple unfortunately, but hopefully Google change their policies and stuff because we would love to have cannabis mobile for our Android users
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Okay, so this is kind of a two-phase situation so first phase is the cannabis mobile where you Align with dispensaries and clients can place their order and pick it up with ease
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Yeah, we want to make it easy for the point of sale right the point of sale
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Okay, and you get a discount from ordering it from their website and then the second phase would be the coin. So for someone who's not really familiar with it, and that's why I resonated with you, because it's like, and then what's back in this? Like let's start at the grassroots. Oh nothing's there. Okay. So how would this work? Let's say I wanted to get a 3.5, right? 3.5 for $20. So I would, how, dollar for dollar, what
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does that look like when buying a cannabis? When you use it as a cannabis cash coin? Yeah. Well, you got to understand something. Once we build the audience with the cannabis mobile app, then that will, and we build a blockchain, that will allow us to put a value on the coin itself because now people can buy direct from us because we have our own exchange. So the value is
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The value of the coin is built on the app itself and the traffic that it gets? Am I understanding that?
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It's built on the revenue that the, because remember we can't get paid until the dispensaries are getting paid. So now the app will be generating revenue as we drive traffic into the dispensaries. So we get a 3%. We would get 3% for each
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transaction
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So that's a that's a revenue source plus We you know we do ancillary products like merchandising and and and the smoke shops and everybody else can join in on it So it's not just dispensaries so the value of this currency
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Cannabis currency has not yet been determined. Not yet
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Not yet. Okay. We're building up to that right now with the cannabis mobile app so we're building up the audience. And so the dispensaries will essentially have to, they will cash out with you then, right?
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If they're buying it on your app with your currency.
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Yeah that's to a future update, that's the future stuff. But right now, the way the app is built out now is for the dispensaries to, for the customer to go to the dispensary and make their point of sale at the point of sale so we just help place the order for the dispensaries basically yeah that's you know that's as far as we're going
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right now yeah yeah that's phase one I was speaking in regards to phase two like I'm trying to wrap my head around it so yeah maybe we'll visit that when
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you guys hit phase two well that's a good question though, but here's the thing though. Once we get the dispensaries on board, phase two is building out the actual blockchain. So now the dispensaries will be able to have a push and pull relationship with us as far as transaction wise because now it'll be a digital currency that we can place a value at it You know 50 cent or a dollar whatever But as people continue to buy down our circulation It's a it's a supply and demand type of thing. It'll be it'd cost to go up. So people buying into the coin early Just like people that brought into Bitcoin early Now they're multi billionaires because they brought it up when it was one cent or two cent or five cent or whatever. The value will keep going up so those early adapters will be the ones that really will
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get the most out of it.
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They got to see the vision and they'll get the benefit at the end.
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If you look at our coin, our coin is the bitcoin of cannabis. So that's the whole goal of the coin, it would be the bitcoin of cannabis.
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So, and now we just, we are working on building out the blockchain and stuff like that. Okay. So how has the response been in regards to the dispensaries for your mobile pickup?
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Has it been a lot of pushback, any pushback, hesitancy? Well here's the thing. We are gearing towards some of the traditional dispensaries are slow to act, but we, this
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whole.
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What does that mean, traditional dispensary the ones
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that that's been around for a long time okay and I want to just I'm meant to
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mention this earlier you guys are in Chicago you're in right we're from
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Chicago market okay so the dispensaries that's been along for been been around since day one of the rollout of dispensaries they're the ones that's kind of more like well you know you know we good or we they slow to act. But the new dispensaries, the newer, smaller dispensaries that's just getting started, they're jumping all over this because they're trying to catch up with the larger dispensaries because they have more of a market share. So the ones that we're geared towards helping out the younger, smaller dispensaries to have a competitive edge with the larger dispensaries so that that kind of levels the playing field and that gives them a way to catch us market shares because now they can advertise on our mobile app for free. They can have a push and pull relationship with the end user. They can use their mailing list and send out all this to their clients. They can create flash sales. They can drive and track where we have geo-tracking on our app so that now the dispensary that's a part of our affiliation is seen on our app and they can direct the customer straight to that dispensary no matter how remote and what remote area that is. So it's a competitive edge that the younger dispensaries will probably jump on more or less than the older dispensaries. Yeah and another thing I want to add on to that a lot of young people love this app. They love everything about it and what we're doing. So I Will go out and just talk to people like you know, what you think about this app? What you think about this like man like when I wear the cannabis mobile T-shirts or hoodies I get people asking me like man like where you get this from, you know, I want this I'm where you get this from. They're not even knowing that, you know, I'm a co-founder of it, but I'm like man you know we got you know I have some more coming through you know I just you know so we're building up the inventory because we want to be able to give it dispensaries that's on our affiliation the hoodies and t-shirts and maybe we can start like some type of reward program or something with the dispensaries the more people on order off our app I'll make a bill of some type of reward points with the dispensary so they can be able to get a cannabis mobile hoodie or t-shirt
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so okay what okay that makes sense yeah yeah by so many orders you can get a free can get a lot of people already I love me a good rewards program yeah we
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definitely roll out of the board program yes so we're gonna make sure every dispenser that's on an affiliation has cannabis mobile hoodies and t-shirts they come in on forest green and black so with that coin symbol and black like people was just going crazy over it. So we can call it a reward symbol the rewards I programmed the Angie T give it to me. So when we come out I'm gonna make sure I send you out a hoodie and a t-shirt. Yeah you definitely got something. You want it forest green or black. I'm all for the cannabis where that's actually kind of how we met. Cannabis Mobile.
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We were at, I got to give a shout out to Mariposa Taco Tuesday.
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Yeah.
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They saw the cannabis earrings and didn't know I'm with OG in this thing. You know what I'm saying?
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She was representing. We said, Hey look, she had on some stop signs saying, Hey look. I was like, I like those cannabis.
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I was like, Oh man, that's real nice.
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Yeah, but I do like the idea that you guys have came up with, especially with the currency part, the cryptocurrency, because that is something that's evolving. A lot of people have made a lot of money, and it's about time that we get our little piece of something. And so to headline and stream this ahead of the curve, I have to commend you on that. So as of right now, you're competing with other mobile cannabis companies. Do you see you expanding that? Will you add a delivery option on there will it be those types of things added to the phase one yeah we're
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looking to add that but we're looking to get more dispensaries on with us so we're looking to add all that stuff to a feature update so the app is the way the app is now it's great but we're gonna constantly get feedback with people your everyday people that use the app or dispensaries about what they want or what they need. So I always got my ear to those type of things. So we'll be adding more updates in the future. So we just take it step by step.
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Absolutely. I think, I mean, I'm pretty sure with this marketing guru, you already have that, but what I see in Vegas, and I'm sure the markets are different, but here, a lot of times, the people that come from out of town, they're the ones that want to buy the
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shirts and you know I'm saying they're more eager to. We cannot keep those cannabis mobile hoodies and t-shirts in stock. In stock yeah. Oh my god. That's a good problem to have. It is like I'm trying to meet the demand I guess I'm wearing in by the end of June. Okay. So I have the black and forest green I have more in stock but I'll make sure I see you yeah so since we are on
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the cannabis podcast let's talk a little about it okay do you guys partake in the
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flower well you know I don't because I'm a little older let me get this right now I went through high school smoking marijuana throughout my whole high school so I was just like you know I'm just a little I'm more metal one mellow but he's been doing the edibles and what I did the edible so we went to a cannabis event. Hold on, Rob G, don't deflect to Jaquitza. I'm still talking to you. So when you was, you was a paper smoker? I was at the highest level Cheek and Charm man look I don't even remember I don't even remember graduating.
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I did? I was surprised.
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And wait a minute, I got an academic scholarship too?
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What the hell?
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For real? You got to be joking me. You kidding me? For real?
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But yeah, it was a great time. And you know, because I'm more in the health and wellness right now because I have a juice and business called the Pure Juice Joint. It's the purejuicejoint.com so if you ever want
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to get cold pressed juice at the highest level I'm your goose, choose goat. So I'm just in
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a different space right now. I mean I understand the smoking element of it. Smoke is not good for our lungs and that's great. But there's still other ways. I have done some edibles. Okay thank you. I was about to say come on now Raffi, keep it real now.
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I'm going to keep it real. Every blue moon I might drop out of it.
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What kind? You like brownies, you like gummies, you like oils?
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The gummies.
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The gummies. I'm a gummy guy.
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And I hate the gummies. I'm okay, let me not use the word hate. I don't like that. Least favorite.
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Yeah, I'm, you know, it's just, you know, but my wife, she did a cookie and boy she was tripping. And she ate the whole thing, one of the sprinkle cookies. I'm like, why would you do that?
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Cause she snuck into it. And she was just tripping all night.
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And then she's like, oh, she's all over me.
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It's definitely a different type of high from the smoking it to the edibles and that type of thing. No doubt. It's kind of hard to gauge when you do eat it because
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It'll sneak up on you.
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It does. It lasts way longer. Like you go to sleep and wake up and you're like, oh man, it's still here.
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I woke up dehydrated. Yeah. I was like damn I'm thirsty. All right so Jykees what are you what's your preference? Um the gummy worms I tried it for the first time um about like three weeks ago I didn't know like I was just stuffing I was just eating it eating it. I was like damn my body feel heavy
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Right. See something about somebody putting it in the food. This is a whole different trip. You know what I mean?
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Yeah, I called him cuz he was like it he was at a church service I think yo somebody right with me bro. Like I don't know what's going on. It was like, okay, you know I'm a little busy. I'm like man. I fell asleep. I thought I can sleep it off nine nine hours later I'm sorry nine hours later. Um, I still had it in me.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's a different, it's a different.
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And that's why I'm old school. Give me my papers, let me just do what I do, and I can control it. Okay, I got about two hours before I got something else. You know what I'm saying? Eat and we're good. Edibles, you can't eat it off. You can't, well, you know, there's things you can do.
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That's if you're going to chill at the house. Like, you ain't got nothing to do all day.
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Yeah, well, I mean, I do want to mention, you know I always talk about this because it's just as important to know if you are in the case where you feel like you've consumed too much or you are quote unquote too high, you can consume CBD that kind of like brings you down, peppercorn that also works as well. So that's like things, yeah, there's things that you can kind of do to kind of offset, kind of cool you off, because a lot of times like I said people try it, they think it's fun, but it's really a medicine you're really like self-diagnosing and just experimenting like people who already have a high energy like a natural like you're already here you don't need a smoke sativa. Sativa is gonna take you to the root now you have anxiety and now you're blowing everybody's high like it's not fun so I'm not I'm totally against people trying to experiment with it at home and people just just grabbing some edibles and just going for it because it kind of deters people because you used it the wrong way but I'm always for the creams like you know inflammation you know that's something get the poppin oh yeah now listen cream on
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there now that's not not we just got some cream yesterday we was that was a body to the hemp and today yeah to a hemp event and I did get some cream muscle. That stuff is the bomb. Magical. Magical. I was like, look, I'm going to be into that deeply. I fell off my moped and it made my pain kind of go away because I kind of stretched my hand a little bit.
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Real live example happening right here.
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Yeah, I kind of hurt myself.
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You was trying to be cool, pop willies and stuff.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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I actually fell.
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Oh man.
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Well, I'm glad you got up and was able to still make it.
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Yeah, I'm still alive.
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Okay, yeah, okay, see that's another example of God looking out.
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God looking out.
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That's what I told him yesterday.
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I said, hey man, you ain't in a wheelchair, you best be grateful.
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Yeah, absolutely. So, I know the podcast is on 30 minutes, the conversation kind of goes, and I appreciate you guys for sticking around and doing this interview as you're on your trip so before I let you go is there anything you want to want to say
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any nuggets you want to drop or you want to give your Instagram or just say your app one more time you can follow our app cannabis mobile app on Instagram altogether cannabis mobile app if you want to follow me personally it is That is spelled J-F-E-L-D-E-R-2-9. That's on Instagram. As I said, our Instagram for the app is Cannabis Mobile App. And if you go to the Apple Store, if you got an iPhone, just make sure you download Cannabis Space Mobile and that'll get you the app and if you want to go to our website for the Cannabis Cash Coin, just read about us, read our white papers, you go to info on our website. Scroll down on info and you will see our white papers. Just go to www.cannabiscashcoin.com and you can see the vision because at the end of the day we want to make sure that we have one place to purchase and one place to have all the money. So we heard that. Phase three is the crypto
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credit union. Yeah I mean you guys have a game plan. I always talk about ancillary businesses inside of the cannabis realm because a lot of times people think that they can't get into it but you can't own a dispensary when you can in fact you can sell the papers you can sell the lighters you can sell the the grinders you can sell the there's like grunt trimming machines that people need who for the people who grow it to save them costs on having to pay people to physically have to trim it like there's so many different ways to get into this industry without having to physically touch the flower so like I said I appreciate you guys for coming in and I do wish you guys much success because this is awesome. I'm proud of you for just taking that step considering that you're not even really like real weed heads and such. And I like that because you don't have to. You know what I'm saying? But a shout out to my potheads. Anyway, before I get out of here, I got to thank you again to the Business Entertainment West for the sponsorship. If anyone would like a mention or sponsorship, you can reach me at ngt.onair at gmail.com. I want to give a shout out to Wesley in the sound room.
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Hey Wesley.
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Thank you.
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I appreciate you Wesley.
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I appreciate you.
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Now if you would like to run this episode back or if you missed any previous episodes, you can search Sativa Talk Podcast on Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music, Audible, Podcast Addict, and of course UNLV's website. Just search for the podcast. My Instagram is AngieT underscore on air or Facebook is Angie Thompson. I want to send my love and My Instagram is AngieT underscore on air or Facebook is Angie Thompson. I want to send my love and appreciation out to you guys for tuning in and I'll see you next week.
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