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Steve Robinson

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

At the time this website existed, you could 100 percent legal for $7,500, $8,000 by a kilo brick, looks just like hashish of 70H infused THC oil that could be manufactured into vape pens.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

You could sell those as a THC vape pen and someone could unknowingly be vaping an opioid product.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

And I learned about this later, but as a result of publishing the documentary with Tucker and doing some of the reporting on this topic, I have lots of parents and sources who are emailing me and asking me questions about things.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

And one family that came to me had a daughter who purchased a vape pen on Snapchat.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

Their daughter was like 17 and became hooked on the vape pen.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

And at the time I thought that that was really weird because they say marijuana is not supposed to be physically, uh, addictive.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

I don't know that that's 100% true of some of these 99% pure marijuana vapes.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

Uh,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

this young woman became hooked on her vape pen, eventually was found unconscious and had to be Narcan'd and brought back from a vape pen.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

And I don't know this for sure, the vape pen ended up getting thrown away, so I couldn't get it and have it tested, but I suspect that it could be

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

something like this, a combination of THC with 7-OH.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

So the people who are making gobs and gobs of money off this, they're not like Puritan about, no, it has to be THC or no, it has to be 7-OH or it has to be hemp or it has to be sativa or it has to be indica.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

They'll make money off of whatever people are willing to buy.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

to get high.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

And one of the, I guess, the pioneers of this 7OH industry is a guy named Vince Sanders, who has been written about extensively by, I think, the Kansas City Star.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

And he doesn't really make any bones about being an entrepreneur in this space.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

He claims that he started

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

He started a company called CBD American Shaman, which is one of the biggest companies selling CBD products and now 70H products.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

He claims he stumbled onto CBD because he was trying to help his uncle survive lung cancer and that he used homemade CBD to cure his uncle's lung cancer.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

And eventually that inspired him to start a CBD company.