This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I had this conversation on the show, on the show show with the very first, the very first

black woman, I'm going to say global majority member member who owns a marijuana dispensary in Colorado.

Our name is Wanda James.

She's a CEO of Simply Pure Dispensory.

Welcome back.

Welcome to the hub. Thank you. I'm in the hub.

Thank you very much. Yes, yes, yes. So, you know, we just scratched the surface because you were running in and I tried to get everything in, but this is, this is worthy of a real deep dive again marijuana has never been my thing I grew up you know

believing that I have a I'm just shared a story why I feel this way that I do so one of my best friends

She's a brilliant brilliant human being. She was my best friend from college

When we were going to college I never smoked or drank or anything because I have a particular kind of

personality and I just felt like adding anything to it would just not be a good thing

right? I'm already unfilted I say anything I do anything I don't need any you. So she would say I'm not you know they passed a joint or

the coke or whatever and she'd go no thank you and they're like you're just

following after Karen so it became a thing for her to kind of liberate herself from like you know being a

follower and so she really started smoking a lot of weed and she smoked so much of

it that we she would call me like odd times, you know, and we'd have conversations where I didn't

know what she was talking about. And I'm like, you're smoking.

Like, where are you going with this? Right, you're smoking, I'm not with you. in my mind I feel like you know all things

are beneficial all things are permissible not all things are beneficial that some

of us don't have a stop and some of us need to know what moderation looks like and I think

any addiction anything that you can't stop doing you're addicted to so I'm never going to be for that

that said as a as a a thing, she got me into behold a pale horse and I'm like reading back then, you know, because she's from another place.

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