From Special Forces to Sovereign Soil - with Preston McCormick

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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In this episode I sit down with ex-Special Forces officer turned entrepreneur, Preston McCormick. After bravely serving his country, Preston made a foray into the legal cannabis farming industry in California, setting up shop on Sovereign Indian Tribal Land. What should have been a peaceful entrepreneurial endeavor soon took a harrowing turn.

Preston recounts the shocking day when Riverside County Sheriff’s Office (RSO) raided his legal cannabis farm, despite his prior efforts to verify its legality. Hear about the traumatizing experiences of being held at gunpoint, the impact on his family, and the relentless destruction of his livelihood. This isn't just a story of a raid gone wrong - we dive deeper into the unsettling undercurrents of corruption, the questionable tactics of RSO, and Preston's relentless pursuit of justice against all odds.

This is more than a story of a veteran-turned-entrepreneur. It's a tale of resilience, determination, and standing up against systemic corruption.

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0:00.0	Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back. Today's episode is brought to you by Black
0:03.4	Rifle Coffee. And if you follow the podcast, you know that's the deal. They are a long-term
0:08.0	business partner mine. I'm an owner of the Black Rifle Coffee, or I should say half owner of
0:11.6	the Black Rifle Coffee up here in Kalaspo, Montana. And the brand is just kind of a part of who I am.
0:17.3	I love who it was founded by. I love what they do. I love that they give back to the veteran
0:20.8	community. And I really like their coffee. If you go to blackriflecoffee.com, I'm going to
0:24.8	start you off right at their rotating banner at the top. My suggestion is join the coffee club.
0:29.1	Because you can get whatever type of coffee you want, delivered wherever you want,
0:32.9	whenever you want to. I mean, I don't even know how it could be more convenient than that.
0:37.6	They have shirts, they have shorts, they have hoodies, they have hats, they have beanies,
0:42.7	and they have this goddamn bass cat boat giveaway, which I really want somebody to win and then
0:47.6	send me a video of them blowing it up. Not that I have anything against boats. Actually, that's a lie.
0:52.4	I don't like boats. I've had enough fun and small water craft. Blackwiflecoffee.com for all
0:58.9	your coffee needs. My guest today, Preston McCormick, military veteran, officer, special forces
1:08.1	background, and entrepreneur. I met him teaching Air Force personnel in Florida of all places.
1:15.3	Actually, I don't know why that would sound shocking. There's PJs and CCTV in Florida. So that's
1:20.3	where we were training them. I specifically was doing freefall instruction in Preston had a
1:24.9	software program that was allowing people to collect, aggregate, and then do real-time evaluations.
1:32.4	So that's where we cross paths. He reached out over email not too long ago, kind of transitioned
1:36.6	out of that world. He actually found his way into the legal marijuana growing world in California.
1:42.3	California has been both medicinal and recreational for quite some time. Of course, still federally
1:47.9	illegal, but imagine the frustration of going through all of the effort and all of the hoops needed
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