They would always say that I was greedy but I wasn't greedy, I was just really
curious about food.
I tried it as a teen. The feeling was... paranoia. I got into a serious
altercation with a friend of mine. I ended up in court, I was threatened with
a juvenile detention and I ended up doing like 200 hours of community
service.
That was my first career, teaching the gospel of 'just say no,'
'cannabis is the gateway drug,'
'you're gonna end up dead or in jail.'
Being here and being amongst cannabis consumers,
people that were progressive, productive, successful,
this was a very different to me.
I'm going to the doctors and they're prescribing me opioids and the like, and
I thought, well I'm never going to use those things.
For me, I know unequivocally that I have not experienced a level of pain that I was in.
I was literally on the floor for three days at one point.
I had clients that were intrigued and just interested to see what this new thing was, but I
also had clients that were experiencing pain themselves.
It got to a point where, at one point I could run eight miles a day, to a point where I couldn't walk
more than 40 feet. Andrea cooked a topical for me, that was
CBD infused, and literally by the end of the month of using it, my pain was completely gone.
So usually when we try and assess the potential therapeutic effects of a drug,
the drug undergoes several types of rigorous studies where that drug is
compared to placebo under blinded conditions. With respect to studies that
have been done with cannabidiol, there have actually been very few rigorous
placebo-controlled studies looking at cannabidiol's therapeutic effects.
The legal complexities are complex. It's all very complex. It's important for us
to be compliant. And it's the first of its kind, so things will change.
We'll be working with area restaurants. If you want pizza there's a pizzeria
across the street, if you want fine dining there's a fine dining restaurant next
door, if you want sushi there's sushi right behind us, so what we're able to do
is put items on our menu from there and then sell you infusions alongside those items.
It's all so new in terms of the manner and the level in which we are
engaging in, so it'll take time for some. Part of that is me talking about it.