Kristen Abelon

Well, so the only reason why I ended up telling him was because it was on the ballot for Florida.

And my brothers were like, you need to tell dad you need to tell him because he's about to vote no.

And I was like, crap, like this is going to be a hard conversation to have.

So I told him, he's like, wow, holy crap, that's going to be like the new oil industry.

I was like, are you happy now?

Like, so awesome.

But what he brought to my attention is he's like, so like, how does this work?

And I said, well, he goes, do you just smoke it?

And I said, well, yes, at the time, because we were still evolving and making products.

He goes, okay, well, here's a prescription pad.

Tell me how you would prescribe this to somebody.

Wow.

And I was like, well, crap, like there's different percentages and then everybody's different.

Like it doesn't matter.

And so when I started to think about that, I was like, we need to regulate.

If people are truly using it for medicinal purposes, we need to regulate how they're using it, how much they're using it.

So that way they could still be functional.

Because I think a lot of people overuse sometimes, which is fine, you know, like we can overindulge.

But if you're going to use it for medicinal purposes, let's find that right milligram content that works best for you.

You know, I am a firm believer when I was actually growing it that you don't get high on your own supply.