Well, hello there, lovely power trip after party listener. It's Chris Hockey. This is a solo interview with me and Dr. Rachel Knox MD certified cannabinoid medical specialist and co founder of the American cannabinoid clinics. She is a genius and she's pushing everywhere for people to understand more about healthy things they can do for their body specifically involving cannabis, but it's not just about marijuana use and making it legal. It's about medical marijuana. It's a

about the endocannabinoid system that should be working well in your body that for thousands and thousands of years, we've been naturally and legally helping sustain that we've been ignoring for a hundred years now in this country and beyond because of the demonization of a plant. Again, I want to say this, I say it far too often, but I think it really does matter finding CBD helped me so very much. This is not a commercial for cultivated CBD CBD. It's

not just for myself has been a miracle for me, but I've never taken marijuana. I've never smoked marijuana. I don't even know how to say it correctly. So it's not about that for me. It's about the medicinal aspects of this natural product and our dependency on prescription drugs and how we're poisoning ourselves and how it's hurting our children. It's hurting ourselves and it's hurting our loved ones. So I'm here to just help spread the word and this lady, this lady's a genius once we legalize medical marijuana in Minnesota and you know,

we get a good handle on legalization of marijuana locally and nationally period just legalization. We're going to find out so many benefits that we've been withholding from ourselves for a very, very long time. The only thing I can do is help spread the word CBD is working for me. I can't explain it. Dr. Rachel Knox can. So let me introduce you to her. Thanks for listening. I really appreciate it. I think you're going to enjoy this and I think it's going to help you. Dr. Rachel Knox, let me give you a little information about myself just to set up the entire interview.

I started taking CBD about a about a year ago after I had my knee replaced. I just I got lucky. I met Anthony. They came in. I do a radio morning show. They introduced me to the product. He said, take this for a month. Don't talk to me before that. If it doesn't work for you, we don't have to work together. I get I want somebody who can be passionate about it. And I got to tell you since then, I've just I've been standing on every soap box I could to talk to people about CBD. I've traveled with Anthony now to South Dakota to talk to people about trying to make marijuana legal over there in cannabis legal in South Dakota.

Which sadly didn't work out for us. But now we're focusing on Minneapolis and Minnesota because this just seems like a no brainer. And I can't imagine that it's not going to happen. It needs to happen as soon as possible.

Some further information. I've never even held a joint in my life. CBD was my first delve into anything like this. And I feel so silly that I hadn't tried anything beforehand. And I feel like I've been ripped off my whole life, which leads me to my first question. Okay.

In your Ted talk, you talk about Jill, the Parkinson patient who you showed the video of her taking the cannabis oil. My father in law is so afflicted with Parkinson's. He can't hardly stand up anymore.

Why in the world hasn't my father in law been given cannabis oil as a remedy for his Parkinson's. I want to start there. Simply put, the war on drugs. Right. And prior to that.

The, the result of ideologues and, you know, big industry and their relentless greed, right to suppress via oppression, the knowledge around cannabis broadly. When I say cannabis, I mean both hemp and marijuana. Right. Those are just two non scientific, you know, desic regulatory designations for this cannabis plant.

And, you know, on, on one end of the spectrum. This is a plant that has true industrial prowess. Right. I mean, the innovations. I think we're up to 50,000 and counting there are 50,000 and counting innovations, derivations or uses for this cannabis plant.

In an industry alone, we have the ability to remediate soil, right, clean our soil and reintroduce nutrients, much needed nutrients into that soil to grow more nutritious foods. We can create construction materials. We can, we can convert bio fuel that can be, that can be used to fuel machinery. We can clothe ourselves, right, we can eat it.

And then we have the medical potential. Right. Cannabis is inherently medicinal. It has phytochemicals in it. That science has demonstrated has true and pretty varied medical potential therapeutic potential in one plant.

Chris and one plant and one sustainable crop. We have nearly endless root solutions to what I call the medical and socio ecological problems plaguing our society today. That is the root cause of our increasing, you know, morbidity and mortality in this country.

That's really powerful in one plant. This one plant can serve plants, industries from big farma to big food, right, to big CPG. And that's really, that's really funny.

And so this plant was driven out of favor.

And there are there are many tools used to do so, but one of the tools was the marijuana tax act.

And this marijuana tax act of 1937 required anybody who used this plant to first get a tax stamp from the federal government. So that included medical doctors, pharmacists, cultivators, processors, manufacturers, retailers, anybody, anybody who touched that plant had to get a tax stamp first.

None were awarded.

As a matter of fact, doctors who didn't know that marijuana was cannabis, right, cannabis was on the American formula, the American form of papia up until 1942.

Doctors did not know that the cannabis they were prescribing was the marijuana being demonized.

So they continue to use it and continue to prescribe it. And in New York state, doctors were getting prosecuted for using cannabis as medicine.

...