Steve Robinson

And for whatever reason, the federal government, including Congress, and especially Republicans in Congress, are pretending that this isn't happening.

And they're protecting the hemp loophole.

And a huge part of this is there's an organization called the Hemp Roundtable

which is comprised of hemp business leaders and they have a political action committee and they make donations.

They're a political player.

And at the beginning of my kind of dive into the illicit Chinese cannabis world in Maine, really tried to stay away from the easy explanation that this was all about corrupt politicians and people were being bribed to look the other way.

It's getting harder and harder.

It's getting harder and harder to look at.

What would you like to see happen?

I've remained agnostic in terms of policy.

I mean, in the ideal world, Anthony Fauci develops a bioweapon that just wipes out the cannabis plant, and there's no downside.

There's no ill side effects.

The cannabis plant just disappears overnight.

That's not going to happen.

What's also not going to happen is a return to prohibition.

I don't think anybody wants to go back to a world where

you know, somebody spending 15 years in jail because they get caught with the amount of marijuana that, you know, I just gave to you.

Like, nobody wants to go back to that.

But I do think that there needs to be some kind of a national framework that recognizes the reality that we have.

Because under our... We almost have a system now that...