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

Our name is Wanda James. She's the CEO of Simply Pure Dispensary. Welcome back. 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 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's 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

because I'm already unfiltered I say anything, I do anything. I don't need any, you know, help. So she would say, I'm not, you know, they pass the joint or the Coke or whatever, and she 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. 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 conversation? Right. You're smoking. I'm not with you. Where are you going? So 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 thing, we actually, she got me into behold a pale horse.

And I'm like reading back then, you know, because she's from another place.

And it became, for me, a crusade about power because they're countries that would be liberated overnight if they could just grow hemp cannabis and make an industry out of it.

And I just knew the prohibition was around power and keeping people from power.

So I changed my view on it.

I never smoked in my entire life and I never will.

That's my personal choice.

But I will always crusade for people having the power to grow and sell and be a part of this.

This.

Cannabis.

Exactly.

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