The Rich Terpene Show - Episode 06 - Fields Of Weed

1:12 - Tuning In
2:30 - Fuck The OCS
3:20 - Access
3:42 - "I'm a geneticist"
4:15 - Product quality is better on the black market
4:53 - Bankers and business men don't give a shit
5:13 - "Basically growing extract material"
5:35 - 2019 a really big year for the hemp farmers
6:00 - Grow a thousand acres
6:38 - "I come from a farming community" (Canola)
7:25 - Cannabis: A significant new cash crop
8:20 - Greenhouse growers getting squeezed out in WA and OR.
8:30 - Greenhouse economics in Canada vs Colombia/Jamaica
9:20 - Supply Shortages
10:01 - Black Market growers; 2-3 years to cash out
10:20 - $5 eighths in Oregon
11:00 - Smokin shitty bush weed; the true Jamaican experience.
11:40 - The Electric Lettuce Plant in Lethbridge
12:40 - Revenue vs overhead :S
13:07 - Hemp Juice - "amazing, good tasting varieties"
13:28 - Industrial Hemp Regulations (IHR) - exporting
13:47 - Farmgate Sales
14:22 - Industrial Hemp Regulations up until now
14:49 - Hemp strains - silly names
15:25 - Breeding industrial hemp
15:54 - "Flowering time is very important in Canada" (90days vs 120)
16:07 - CBD farming vs farming for seed-oil
16:55 - Farmers "breakin' the law"
17:41 - Ramping up seed stock; very lucrative; $50k per pound
18:08 - Hemp Breeders License & Cannabis R&D License
18:38 - "X-59" breeding partnership with Terramax Seeds
18:52 - Essential oils will be worth more than the Cannabinoids
19:37 - Lavender as an example
20:03 - Isolating terpenes
20:41 - Steam distillation vs hydro-distillation
21:02 - "CO₂ distilled terpenes are beautiful"
21:16 - "I should be able to sell the essential oils from my hemp."
21:48 - "I would buy OG Kush soap"
22:03 - Terpenes have medical properties
22:20 - Growing weed internationally, Colombia, Haiti, Jamaica
23:06 - "Farming is hard; every crop is different"
23:39 - Get revenue positive, THEN do a raise and expand
23:46 - "Everybody's gotta be the biggest, the best, [...] the first"
24:15 - "Farmers aren't the multi-billionaires but they're happy"
24:27 - Guys all over CA; been making $2-3MM/year for 20 years
25:02 - If you grow 50 acres of dogshit "you're done."
26:18 - "The hemp farmer can't process anything"
26:50 - Some farmers will extract it and get charged
27:07 - High CBD hemp as a registered seed variety
27:32 - The biggest step in the whole profit-chain is extraction
28:25 - Packaging hemp in cigarettes tubes to add value & export
29:24 - First nations opportunity through treaty & sovereign rights
30:45 - Touchy situation re: intoxicants in first nations communities
31:11 - Break time - Rolling a joint with Jonathan Hirsh
32:09 - Laser engraved edibles in Colorado
33:41 - Can Of Bliss (AKA the dumbest idea I've ever heard)
35:09 - Why can't we have big bins of pick-your-own-bud?
35:41 - Pivoting to psychedelics
35:59 - "Mushrooms are next..."
36:37 - Psychedelics curing depression
37:12 - Most of our drugs come from a plant or a fungus
37:38 - The coca leaf as an effective stimulant
38:16 - Ephedra (Mormon tea)
38:45 - Salvia (Rich's favourite...not Darryl's)
39:05 - Psychedelics for PTSD
39:29 - DMT & traditions of healing
39:53 - "What have we really been missing?"
40:30 - Alexander Graham Bell - the invention of the X-Ray
41:00 - Pharmaceutical companies: curing vs treating disease
41:39 - We'll look back on this time, as a dark time for humanity
42:34 - Countries want to work with China
43:00 - More balance; less capitalism
43:17 - Money doesn't mean as much when you feel connections
43:26 - Happiness redefined for a lot of people, through psychedelics
43:33 - Robots taking jobs; universal basic income
43:58 - The Stoned Ape Theory
44:16 - What we put in our bodies influences our evolution
44:30 - Opiates numb the pain...they also numb your emotions.
44:44 - Mushrooms for headaches - why isn't that a thing?
44:58 - Aspirin came from willow bark
45:07 - LSD for Cluster headaches, Psilocybin for nerve pain
45:13 - Alison Myrden (first canadian ATP for psilocybin)
45:36 - Building a legal team to get medical mushrooms passed
46:58 - "First step is to decriminalize all drugs"
47:20 - Switzerland, Portugal
47:44 - "All these arguments about safety are bullshit."
48:12 - Traditional native american drugs on the schedule.
48:19 - "Nobody's gonna be smoking datura if you made it legal"
48:34 - Kratom
49:02 - Darryl's hopes for the future:
49:30 - "They didn't free the plant"
49:43 - "It's your backyard, the government shouldn't give a shit."
49:55 - "We should all be conscious of our neighbours"
50:14 - "We've lost respect for one another"
50:53 - "If you wanna pick a mushroom that you found in the forest and and eat it, you should be able to do that too...If you wanna bring that mushroom home and grow it because it has pharmaceutical value, you should be able to do that too."

51:20 - Outro (How ya like me now Bruce?)



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