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Spotlight: Cannabis - The Legal and The Laughter - Sarah Jean / Queen Bee

article image placeholderQueen Bee Cannabis Consulting
So thanks for just sort of a little Sarah Jean history, bio, whatever you'd like to let us know about you. So thank you so much for being here. We're all so excited to talk about this topic. It's the first time on Swell. I think we're talking about cannabis, and it should be a really great conversation. And we'll keep this as a panel for a few questions. And then we'll open it up to the community over time and see what happens

Let’s talk about compliance and the world of legalization of #weed #pleasure #medical https://www.queenbeecc.com/

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@SarahJean
Sarah Jean
@SarahJean · 2:29

About My Start in Cannabis

Hi, everyone. I'm Sarah Jean, and thank you for having me. The sound. I guess that brings me the most peace and pleasure is at night on our farm. It's really Queen Bee and the crickets at night. I love hearing them and just the quiet that would be my sound. As for the history of me and how I became a consultant in cannabis, I am originally from Canada. I've lived in the US for just about ten years now
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How did you prep for this expertise?

Well, the crickets and me welcome you to America. Only ten years is kind of new, so I hope it's been an interesting ride so far. I can't imagine it hasn't been. And Northern California, specifically, it's a great place to kind of hunker down and have a calmer life, I think, than maybe in some of the major cities in our country
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@SarahJean
Sarah Jean
@SarahJean · 2:32

How I learned compliance

So that's how I kind of got into it. And I just learned from our farm and then neighbors would call me and say, oh, I hear you're doing it with your firm. Can you just come help me? So that's kind of what I do. I just go and either train their staff or I even just go and do it for them. Once a week, I show up and kind of reconcile everything for them
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Who are these auditors? 😎

Anybody who comes to see your house, when you pull the permit and they look at it and they give you a Yea or nay, whether you can move forward like the people in the world of compliance. On the other side, we have such a perspective on who they are. Can you tell us a little bit about the people that you've met, who are kind of kicking the tires, seeing if people are compliant and who are they?
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Sarah Jean
@SarahJean · 2:14

Inspections and Audits

So the people that come to inspect there's a few sources that would come and inspect a property. A legal property CDFA is one that would be California Department of Food, Food and Agriculture. I believe that's the acronym for that. So they're the state entity that would come and they'll check and make sure that our canopy isn't going over what our license says. We have
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How does compliance impact the end product? So the user can understand...

Charity, the average person who knows that there's a compliant crop, and then there's a blacklist crop that's in their area and they're consumers of weed, for whatever reason, pleasure or medicinal, or both. They're making some choices about where do I get my stuff? And does it matter to us as a consumer end product wise, whether something was in the ecosystem of compliance or whether something was just grown in the black market?
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Sarah Jean
@SarahJean · 2:37

Legal quality vs illegal

That being said, though, that's not saying, like a small mom and pop farm that is down the road that's just like growing their few plants and selling them and that's how they survive. There's a lot of people who just do it like that and are organic or aren't using sprays. I just really think knowing where your product comes from, it's the same thing with your vegetables or things like that
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Stigma of the biz? And PANEL open for Swellcasters to connect!

And what do people feel about taking a hit of pot and what's that about and what generations are thinking about it differently from the people that are in their silver wave to the people that are in their 20s, and they're taking Mollies every day, like what's the stigma and what's going on. I know this is a bigger conversation, and maybe the rest of us can join in. But what's the attitude and where should it go?
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@SarahJean
Sarah Jean
@SarahJean · 1:55

🙏🏽

And just recently, he has just told his family what he does, and he's been doing it for 25, 30 years. They're more conservative. So that was a little more of a nerve wracking conversation. But I think it's becoming easier because it is in the news. It is more of a conversation with people now. But still, to this day, we've been kicked out of a few banks
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Revolution start with one voice joining with another 🙏🌱

And it's just a great example of what really makes revolutions happen. Revolutions of thought. Revolutions of change. It starts with single voices. And I'm so happy we're hearing your voice. And do you want to ask your husband to come in on here, get him an account and have them join. And I look forward to other growers out there to join. Swell. And let's talk about this. There's so much to learn
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Sarah Jean
@SarahJean · 0:42
I think there's a newer generation of growers, you know, children of growers and people who are getting into the industry who are more open to talking about it, which is nice. And, you know, there's that oldschool grower mentality where they just don't talk, talk. And it's kind of a secret society, which is also kind of cool and makes it exciting. That's kind of what I miss about the illegal market is the secrecy. I don't know
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Taylor J
@Taylor · 1:32

A question regarding legal states...

I wanted to ask you as a professional, what's your opinion on the way that States have been legalizing? It in terms of how that legalization is retroactively or not impacting people that have been incarcerated for nonviolent drug crimes, like marijuana possession. I know in the state of California, there were a lot of people arrested for marijuana possession, some with very little on their person
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Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 0:40

https://www.ohiomarijuanacard.com/post/the-history-of-cannabis-use-harry-an

This is a great swell right up my alley. I'm going to include this link about Harry S. Anslinger who was the first drugs are of this country. He's primarily the region. Why in this country anyway, why people have the stigma is attached to marijuana. It's really a silly stigma. But people still feel some sense of shame. Or it's maybe not so much anymore, because it's getting legal so many places
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Sarah Jean
@SarahJean · 1:03

Time for some reform and change 💪🏽

I'm glad you brought that up. I think that's something that definitely needs to be part of the conversation. I know a lot of people who have done some time for cannabis cultivation, mostly in possession, and it's still affecting their lives now. And like you said, there's stores on every corner selling it, and people can't continue like normal citizens because they have this record and there's still people in jail for it now for cannabis
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Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 2:51
Yeah, because what they need to do is number one, they need to take it off the schedule. One narcotics list. I mean, Mr. Anslinger, he talked a lot of s***. His name focus was that smoking weed makes black people. Well, let me use his words because his words are really silly. I don't want to paraphrase
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:04

@Mtwadamela @CaliGooner alcohol vs weed @SarahJean

I'm making judgments here about who people who drink and people who have weed. But let me just say overall, the contradictions, the hypocrisy between people's perception of weed and alcohol really still confound me for people on both sides of the argument. I wanted you guys to speak to the comparisons or lack of comparisons and why it's so inconsistent between the two recreational drugs and alcohol is usually not used for additional reasons
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Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 4:20
I've drank before, and I've gotten drunk before, but I don't like that feeling of being drunk and out of control. I've never liked it weed. It relaxes me. It calms me. I like the way it makes me feel. I love to listen to music, smoke some weed and listen to music. It just relaxes me totally. I like to watch movies and stuff like that. But, yeah, the effects of alcohol, you can't really drive drunk
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 3:27
What are the side effects of weed? You get hungry, you get h****, you get sleepy, you laugh. Okay. So those are the side effects. And I mean, some people there are those that will say, well, you know, some people get addicted to it and they just sit around and they don't do s***. They just sit around smoke weed. Okay. Well, that's their choice. A lot of people do that
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@Taylor
Taylor J
@Taylor · 2:16
People left after, right, left and right. It's deeply troubling. And I think that as cannabis becomes more legal on a widespread level, because it will. We know that it will the government's going to have to seriously figure out how to approach this in a way that is meaningful and prevents people from going to prison for nonviolent crimes like marijuana possession
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 3:26
You don't think these politicians ain't selling doctors ain't selling cops ain't selling while rocking your melon cop costs Mellon like Callie Blue train in New York. Brothers like, what do you mean? I mean, Swiss philosophy. Think of the economy, plants, Earth and roots and L like a gang trying to jump off prisons. They want to jump off because they're really prisons for the poor. It's about the money, not the drugs. That's what I'm getting headcount for
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Matt B
@barnskyandhutch · 1:57

Sarah Jean, is CA getting it wrong?

Sarah Jean, I wanted to get your thoughts on my statement that California and the county regulation scheme, as it exists today, plays a very large role in why we're seeing such a big black market. Obviously, the ability for farmers to sell to other States plays a part in that as well. So I'd love to get your thoughts on that. And then I'd like to ask you a follow up question, which is, do you see this changing?
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@SarahJean
Sarah Jean
@SarahJean · 2:40

@barnskyandhutch. #thestruggleisreal

Even that training I took through Colorado, they're like, really, every farmer should have a full time compliance person. Well, these small farmers can't afford that. And that's where I come in. That's why I could work for big corporate and go get a regular job. But I really want to help the small farmers
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:52

Medical research #cbd #thc Impact on red tape

Or do you think when science really is on our side and it shows the health benefits of CBD and THC products, it will help the growers because they'll be in multiple distribution chains, one being obviously a very above board medicinal chain. And I know that's happening now with all the CBD stuff. But how does that affect your vision of what's going and for growers who really want to be compliant and want to grow their business
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