Michael Regilio
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jul
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You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
It really happened. And actually, it gets worse because in 1975, the Supreme Court ruled it permissible to give out sentences for cannabis offenses. for up to 20 years in prison.
That is part of what Biden did to reclassify cannabis as Schedule 3, doing with the reclassification, relooking at a lot of people's sentence for cannabis over the years. So there might be some amelioration of that, but we'll see. But let me add this in as we're talking about these harsh sentences that existed.
African-Americans are arrested for violating cannabis possession laws at nearly four times the rates of whites. Yet both groups consume cannabis at roughly the same rates. And while I'm on it, even though cannabis is legal in many states, cannabis today is half of all drug arrests. Someone gets arrested for cannabis every 58 seconds in America.
This is despite the fact that the majority of Americans live in a state where cannabis is legal.
Yeah, look, it is rage inducing. In 1980, Reagan was elected and conservative values came back into vogue. And not like in a lovable Alex P. Keaton kind of way, but Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign, the DARE movement and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America became completely mainstream.
Law enforcement cracked down even harder on cannabis with the previously mentioned racist disproportionality. It's morning in America.
But it really was a new morning in America at that point because attitudes changed at that point. And they changed fast. I don't know if it was just the bad hairstyles of the 80s that people were running away from. But beginning in the 90s, a real pushback against these draconian cannabis laws began to... Flower and bloom? Exactly. And in 1996, California passed Proposition 215.
The first state to outlaw the cultivation of cannabis became the first state to re-legalize it, medically in this case.
Look, and we all know what happened next, because since then, 38 states allow medical cannabis, and of those, 23 allow recreational use.
OK, so actually, the more appropriate question is, what are we?
Why does cannabis interact with us the way it does?
I can dig it. Let's do it. OK, so the answer is the endocannabinoid system.
Right, exactly. It's a biological system in the body that helps regulate and balance key bodily functions like mood, energy, balance, and appetite. It runs completely through our brains and our bodies. So it's like the nervous system, receptors and all that stuff? Yeah. Yes, the endocannabinoid system regulates functions through naturally occurring cannabinoids produced inside the human body.
These natural cannabinoids interact with cannabinoid receptors, of which there are many. So I'm with you so far. So cannabinoids also exist in other places in nature, such as cacao, which is why dark chocolate makes us feel a certain way. It's interacting with our cannabinoid receptors. So is being a chocoholic kind of a real thing? Yes, it actually is.
In fact, I have my six month chip from Chocoholics Anonymous. Sadly, they made it out of chocolate and I ate it. So I'm back to my week one chip. Look, cacao isn't the only plant that produces cannabinoids. Yeah. Is it cannabis? Correct. Cannabis has over 100 different cannabinoids. But for our purposes today, we're just going to be talking about the big two, THC and CBD.
So I'm pretty sure everyone's heard of those.
That's interesting. And look, that's CBD, but I'm pretty sure that everyone knows what THC is. It's tetrahydrocannabinol. And everyone knows that THC or tetrahydrocannabinol is the one that gets you high. And CBD or cannabidiol is the one with purported health benefits.
Yeah, no, it's CBD is absolutely ubiquitous in California. You probably can get a happy meal with CBD in it, but it's probably actually those products you're talking about. They're probably not doing anything because you need 100 grams of CBD for your body to absorb any of it.
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