This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger show.

So I'm in Denver, Colorado for a very special podcast, we're calling it the podcast.

So I have John McCaskill with me.

John, when you say Denver is pretty much the capital of legal marijuana in the US.

With all respect to Seattle, I think we are the Emerald City.

Why do you think?

Because now there's like 29 states where it's legal in one form or other.

We've always sort of spearheaded the change.

I mean, I know how long it's been medically available in California, but in terms of spearheading

industry standards, social consumption use, moving into the wreck space.

This was the first call out of the first state to be recreation.

Correct.

And what from your point did you see happen?

Once Colorado went from medical to recreational, if you believe the Naysayers, Colorado must

have fallen into total havoc and nobody went to work anymore and everyone was high all

the time.

Like what actually happened in Colorado once it became recreational?

Well, everyone's still high all the time, but because we're so high elevated, we really

helped spearhead the initiative that allowed all of these other states to say, hey, this

actually can work.

Not just from a revenue standpoint, but through the infrastructure.

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