or you guys think you're immune from the felonies you're committing you know it's like a regulating a schedule one drug you know and i asked here in colorado i asked the state department of health and environment and in the state the senate judiciary committee offices you know where does your immunity lie when you guys are regulating a schedule one drug under your own state schedule that you guys adopted and i understand he adopted a federal schedule and you haven't changed it so marijuana is the same legally as heroin or denims to get cannabis and added to that which then you know i mean who's to say you can't do that i've mentioned it to him too many times on record no one seems to listen when i wrong about that though it's i mean is that i don't want to hear that kind of crap you know yeah that would make sense yeah it would when it hits all the life and i really appreciate being there watching i hope my army is this kind of what it is so i think you can a bit some people right there are running around town doing this stuff if it sounds crazy but it might be true you know there's a lot of people here and a lot of people that are here today that are working hard behind the scenes the difference to make a change fighting for the rights of patients and providers and that's a little bit about what we're all doing here today yeah i guess the guest list is just so what is it when we're just all gathering here as friends and family to carry on what we all have started to help progress the movement in a positive direction you know case into the public and conscious awareness to the community and you know it's all the alive it's well pete wilson we're going to hear from the group that we were just about to hear from and we are now about two and this is the only light show this is mainly me two thousand and fourteen and i'm waiting to be part of the audience so thank you and all of us for being able to be in the audience  but it's going to go on for a couple centuries right th yeah and what we are doing is educating the public to make a difference to be positive to be informative and and innovative and creative enough to help establish an progressive movement in the right direction you can't be upset if you're not part of that steering committee if you're going to stand on the sidelines and watch it go by you have no right to complain so those of us that feel that complaining is a waste of time we figure we mines well put our energy to good use hit the streets you know do a little bit know yeah great system bathrooms down a west like park which in the past there wasn't so things are stepping up you know sound awesome t shirts which are going to go on sale here pretty soon help get the prisoners the same money in in jail so that they can the ones that have been imprisoned for cannabis use are what we're targeting yes so we're trying to get some money for them and the people here in our own state that are being being prosecuted now for cannabis here really twenty want to know are already and these people a family it's horrible but i'm sure that you'll hear about it later with chris once and i emailed him and and then all of it was with all the other parks departments they're all coinciding because i want to make sure we went on broadway because in the past we did yeah yeah so yeah it was really important for us to go down so we're doing with our tours here out we're going to meet is normal and recreational marketeer personally i think the medicine is so important so when all of our tours we talk about using harm reduction how this can help people with their arthritis or their sleep apnea or their hunger issues because i support recreational absolutely but right now in our state the fact that they're trying to eliminate medical is crazy it's unbelievable we can be so far ahead in some ways but so far behind and others so it's important for our tours here to educate people not only on the medicinal benefits of marijuana but just looking at how this is providing an economic opportunity for seattle we've been running tours since about february visiting everything from we do cooking classes and glassblowing classes we've passed them and ration is concentrates science and chemistry based things we have just this incredible network of cannabis entrepreneurs and professionals who've been in the industry for a very long time very knowledgeable people and what we're doing for the first time is providing access for the average jane if you want to learn more about cannabis using it as medicine or are actually getting into the culture which is growing quite fast now we've got this incredible support network that's just on the verge of coming out in public we're going to have we've got canada speakeasies right now but given another two months and we're going to have lot of gray area right now so it's important if you're visiting from out of state to have a guide to say hey there are these delivery services i've heard about there out there when your life co op or downtown dead for example and what's happening with these guys well nothing is happening you can get a delivery straight to your door is there any risk i know there's there's really not the seattle police department said that's not on their priority list and it really shouldn't be considering how much work we have to do to get this retail market up and going so i would encourage if you're if you're looking to do something fun skip the winery and brewery tour for right now right now cannabis is exciting we were taking part in breaking new ground and something that's never before been done everything that that each person here on this panel is doing is happening for the very first time you know say so we had the words canvas approved on words that's never happened before you know we've got insurance policies that's never happened before every single thing that we're doing partnering with hotels has never happened before in history so i definitely take my hat off who's working in the industry because it's a tough thing it takes three times as long to accomplish anything but but the upside is tremendous not only for our businesses not only for our society for the medicine but for a city and state and it's impossible to ignore that fun got to see some life glassblowing got to you know about one hundred the doors are about one hundred fifty dollars a very we like to do private tours for you know if you have a couple and you want to get out of the city and doing something special with your husband or wife we do that something actually really exciting that we haven't announced publicly so this is kind of a sneak peek is we are opening an organic farm door in vancouver washington so if there's anybody who plans on going down the portland or if you have friends in portland some cooking demonstrations and it was just it was a super super great time got to get to see the best of seattle and the best of the cannabis industry that's going on there is building out every day so really exciting to watch what kush is doing i didn't know no to read those unfortunately i was kind but i if you want to see that you know come out to him fest police that was way too popular for them not to continue doing that so  staffing and recruiting and h r specialist and has been for over fourteen years now starting with microsoft you know we saw that you know this is a very serious industry it's going to be very large industry  not only the medicinal side but also the quote unquote recreational or consumer side if you will and then of course industrial hemp which you know if you look at the figures is likely to dwarf everything else you know it's a very large industry it's deep and wide and we've been getting to know it well and we've noticed that you know that there was nobody really bringing that serious h staffing help to the industry and you know if you look at the a lot of the existing medical in various parts of the country they've been playing kind of fast and loose with their h r policies and you and we've noticed we've swe saw that and we we know that that's not going to serve the long term in this interest of this industry as a legitimate accepted you know industry that people are going to admire  we got into this for the sake of you know giving that that professional h r assistance to the industry as well as helping connects talent with the industry right you've got a lot of people who have growing experience but they most of them i think almost all of them really have had to do it on the down low but now that this is becoming a legitimate business or at least a legal business if you will those people need to be connected up with the business people who are building out operations and you know the business people need that talent as well also we're seeing a lot of that in place in a lot of growers and people who understand you know agriculture on that level we've been helping them with their placements as well engineers welders you name it anyway staffing are not really the most exciting topic to most people but if if you happen to know someone who is you know looking to lend their skills to the industry we are a good place to start exactly or if you have a business that's that people are stealing other people from other is in the communities so it's becoming like one of these grab things yeah exactly  becoming a white hot competitive market and there are every every single major industry needs and uses h r and staffing talent whether internally or ext so if your business is looking to be competitive looking to be one of the ones that actually is still here you know two three years from now it's very much one of those look to your left look to your right one of these people isn't going to be here a year from now that count on it there's going to be a lot of blood on the floor yeah but there's also going to be a lot of stunning success stories so you know nothing is really more critical to the success of this industry in general and the individual businesses within it whether they be directly in the  business or in service to or in some other way about it you know nothing is going to determine their success or failure more than the quality and experience of their team and if your particular business does not have that skill set does not know how to acquire and retain the best talent that you need and that's what we're here for and we want to see everyone succeed so now and also there are a lot of businesses out there that are ahead of  we need to hire a staff member because we've got such a big boom with all the tourists coming in how do how do we find someone who has the experience who is cannabis tolerant and i think that there are going to be a lot of this is you know if you want to  folks just don't like the smell regardless and hopefully you considered about those folks but that's awesome that you guys haven't actually hey you know get off the bus go talk to that business guy over there this one too they got something to say oh absolutely i mean that's that's the way you really break down these  social stigmas and say oh let's go talk to the business owner yeah once you start talking and you see how passionate they are and how hard they're working to build this industry i mean there's nothing criminal about that you can't you literally cannot go there and demonize it there's no way you  getting bent out of shape because yeah this used to be a big cash cow for the illegal market just as alcohol drove a whole lot of organized crime in this country for decades you know and now it's now it's going into to the mom and pops people working for you of the problems in washington with people like the kettle five i mean that that literally is your mom and pop that is the family if you keep trying to do everything right you should see the problems that exist between the state and federal law you know obviously in our state it's legal they're dad who think their seventy's some really nice guy invented get this the green battery i've heard check it out i'm not saying it's for sure but i think i did hear right that he and he invented this battery using green product that has an extended life period and and then interesting lee fast forward in time he they are a family of growers who are growing the display for themselves sale never for sale they had legitimate qualifying conditions that allowed them to get an authorization from their doctor because they're in pain they have medical conditions and they were growing on their larger farm in eastern washington and they were courteous enough that they actually signed put a big green cross in their yard so that everybody knew they were growing and that is slowly and then fast forward in time they get raided the state said hey and they came in and then the the feds came in later even though the state of washington said we know you're doing this and we're not you know prosecute and yet the federal government came in and said we're going to prosecute you federally and all five of them are facing some of them  i've heard sixty years and the reason is because in eastern washington you need a rifle they're there on a big piece of land so there's cougars and bears and coyote's on their property and they had some hunting deer and that was enough  when you're in criminal with possession of marijuana in the federal system if you've got it weapons or guns or even rifles for shooting is an upgrade in time and so they face a lot of prison time and and they're taking it to trial and it's very important that the citizens support them in their stand against the federal government and let the prosecutor in eastern washington the governor washington the senators of washington let them know that we want our elected officials to stand up to the federal level to say no this is not ok to be prosecuting washingtonians who were within compliance of washington medical marijuana laws that are on the books right now so they were toeing the line doing exactly what they needed to do to be consistent with washington law and the feds are saying nope we don't know why is that the green battery is it that we're changing now we're moving to recreational and they want to put a chilling image in front of all the medical marijuana collective gardens is that a word that they're trying to shape where washington washingtonians go with their medical marijuana we don't know those facts but it's certainly curious and as a citizen and a patient you actually have your rights at stake because what happens in this case can fall and happen in your community and maybe your collective garden will be the next one that's did everything that they should be doing all of us do similar things no one's doing anything different when you do it legitimately but if they want to make an example out of people or make an example out of a family i think this is the wrong fairly to attack and try to make an example out of if the obama administration talks about publicly not dragging sick people in the court and that's such a low priority on the totem pole than what's going on in george washington state where we do grow hemp or we've started the ac b g and other groups now you know what's going on are we talking about medicine and patients and providers are we talking about something else you know so the truth needs to be evil scourge as it was before it is now becoming more socially acceptable and we have recreational growers growing within probably a few dozen miles or a county two thousand plants and these people five of them were below forty five point count limit so that's actually somewhat ridiculous that this prosecutor is continuing to move forward with the case and and the family is actually scared they're like we don't want to mess up our case we don't in here in a respectful way i mean with what i know the family was worried about is to be their media spokesperson so they can hook you up with getting the right because messaging what we don't want or what their freedom is kooky people will do crazy things and then all of a sudden they will be held in a bad light i actually think kooky things get st gal he's married to there should be worried about having grandchildren for the family not putting mom and dad who are in grandparent age into jail i mean come on come on come on you know you have t type of efforts basically leaving states and with that have significant legal operations whether be you know medicinal or recreational to basically make sure that there is no federal funding going to this type of nonsense so call your local representative in congress and let them know that you want them to support the war bachar far amendment of this we're going to take a quick yeah well you know it's always been nationwide it's over two hundred cities i can't remember the number at all but there's a lot of cities nationwide that get together the first weekend of may or the second weekend of may in our case is the second we're going to may because of all the may chaos that seattle goes through sometime this past year was really really good i know right but we choose the second weekend of may and it's a nationwide so and it's started because we wanted to make cannabis legal in not let make people go to jail and for families to be broken up and in children to be stripped from their homes mothers to go to jail for a plan you just plant the seed in the ground so it just didn't make sense to me so i r i d i a n staffing dot com and we could certainly help you i didn't mention but it's worth noting although we are headquartered here in seattle we serve businesses nationwide  whether you're looking for you know a permanent employee a temporary placement a contractor a consultant or just h r khans consulting again a lot of the businesses in this sector are very new to this they've got a lot of things to contend with given you know the the laws and they're given states navigating washington's five o two is not been easy for a lot of businesses or colorado for that matter so usually the last thing they need to worry about on top of everything else is how do i stand top of all these requirements that i have as an employer and they are daunting and so even if you just have a couple questions around that we're certainly happy to  help in that regard we you know we're also very committed to not only just the success of the industry but that that this industry does create a lot of high paying jobs  e staffing recruiting industry in general markups tend to be about thirty percent thirty to forty percent normally that's the cut the agency gets for for the person who's doing the actual work tech industry where my my business partner comes out of the markups are as high as seventy five percent which you know you could argue is nearly criminal we keep ours is thin as humanly possible operating between usually ten and twenty as low as we possibly can so we could pass most of that savings on to the employer as well to the employee so we can see as many people gainfully employed in this industry as possible  the only other thing i would say is if you are a business owner and you're looking to you know look for this type of health help whether it's through us or someone else or someone you know who happens to have experience in this regard just make sure that you at least take the time to vet that person these are the people are going to be vetting the people are going to be working for you it's definitely worth taking the extra time to dig into their background and what qualifies them to advise you about h r what what it qualifies them as a recruiter we have just seen a cottage industry open up both in washington and colorado and elsewhere people holding themselves out as h r and staffing professionals who have absolutely no experience in that area which i frankly consider deceptive so just make sure you check that out before you know make sure you're getting better with the right people push towards requip sure absolutely you can you know anyone who's in seattle if you're looking for something fun new and exciting that's the world of cannabis right now we'd like to guide you through that experience it's a really personal and intimate tour we're going to learn a lot to not only do we want to see our twenty and thirty year olds come out there my favorite clients are baby boomers because the medicine there is really a political if you're on a lot of meds you should learn about cannabis to help with your pain and other problems that you're having but you know we like to focus on fun hands on  experiences personally for me out of all the people who come to love out of state people take somebody on a tour this is unique and one of a kind you know you could give up a president money or a fine bottle of wine and which are they going to remember they're definitely remember the tour and take home take something home with them but  i also like to speak out to the city officials and the representatives from our state in the people with the liquor control board if you don't know what's happening right now in cannabis in our city you should really come out on the tour and meet these you should meet these business business owners it's  actually a really important thing for you to be involved in the growth of our city because if we're not all working together here where you were potentially years behind colorado right now we're hurting everybody so we need to take advantage yeah yeah it's true medicinal is under fire right now but the opportunity we have with recreational is is gigantic so i'd encourage you to come out and learn more about what's actually happening and cannabis and that's that's an experience i would provide as well so come out have a good time let's blow some glass do some cooking classes learn about growing you will not regret it so it's fun maybe even bring out your bachelorette party or bachelor party that's one we haven't done yet but i would love to do graduation parties as long as you're over when you talk about whatever mainly drugs i see the people i see the effects before and after i've had folks that have come into the store one way purchase something again something different it's pretty good that it's progress but it's definitely changed mobiles have heard no idea what's going to happen yes have no idea what's going to happen but it will happen that's the cool part is even if you don't do shit it's still going to happen  but which direction you want to go you can you can build dams you can change water flow changing minds that's a little harder there's some things that are ingrained from birth almost for someone starts to tell you that you are good or you are bad or the drugs you are doing is should be this and not that or even if it's not drugs there's a cultural mindset that is set in on you focus on that folks  again you don't have to do anything that's that's the fun part of no judging i so glass i saw that's it saw glass all pipes how you choose to use these those are what dictates whether it's illegal or not it's like if you buy a high heel you stab someone with it that doesn't make it a weapon doesn't make it a knife it's just used differently well again we sell glass now there's different glass for different people again that's par for the best for us all to be the same the d no point if we're all the same so i get to it again capitol hill it's an interesting little neighborhood i get to see folks from all different social backgrounds and lifestyles and one of the harder things for me to do is to see a person having our down and ask mumbling under their breath for something that they don't see any maybe they do see a reason wrong with it but they're there you can't deny that they're there and someone has told them from what i know what reason to lie that that's wrong or it's bad  fighting it's a good fight it really is stand up stand for something for something or die for get a go ahead arc is more you're going to bring up a subject what's happening coming up in the events of things like miss festival and it's held the same spot where they have a border fair in the fall and then there's the rainbow nationals coming up i believe in utah this year first week of joy a lot of  tribal families gather there for a week long celebration and national forest and camped out and really fun and of course there's oregon country fair and burning man coming up and confessed and all people here today together and it is extending out its arm to reach out into the community to do positive things to bring groups together to bring conscious awareness to the community and give us some unity  and five or two people and what not differences some of it's creative differences some with political differences you know what have you but we realize that hey there's a lot more that unites this community than divides it and what better thing to rally around but the plant and its cultivation itself and so that's that among all sorts of other you know wonderful ideas and reasons and intentions was what what kind of was at the heart intention to do one home meeting every every month here in the greater seattle area and then also one in some other far from long part of the state whether it be northern wa eastern washington south sound olympiad to come out what have you so i highly recommend anyone who's interested in supporting not only this industry with this community in this movement to come to our meetings whether you are grower or not and where we're open to everyone from you know the person who just might want to grow a single plant in his or her closet just for the hell of it or to someone who's actually you know creating a huge grow operation for business purposes we don't we don't discriminate and you don't even have to be actively cultivating the plant to to come out a lot of people have enjoyed our our meetings where we're definitely moving more and more in terms of you know providing education so to to people about like the benefits of the plant how to cultivate it you know on hands on demonstrations we had a really great pancake breakfast yes that like i was instrumental in putting together where we actually had some some live demonstrations people got to get their hands dirty and people had a lot of good time so we're good times to go yeah you may want to unpack little more but that's well that's of basics right we're doing great things you know we're trying and we're changing things and we're not complaining we're you know one big happy family and happy families are perfect so we have our own artistic differences that we have to work through but every great group and all great leaders to  am feel like that's what we that's what i do this for you know i love it and appreciate other people i can get along with that share that same common interest like everybody here everybody out there to but money aspect is the part that's going to fuck it all up it's going to make it really damn hard when someone has a different idea of greed is just that a different idea of more to them it's reasonable you go frost on one side and the dollar on another they're not the same thing the western philosophy and the idea every other philosophy seems to be really different if you're if you're driving on money well we're going to find different commodity you know you want to deal in dollars well good luck spending your dollar in the desert you can want something different when it comes down to it i'd like to say it's sort of about that too actually because it's a big part of what i'm doing and what about why i'm involved invested in the community and reach projects in different programs and groups because i think and i do believe that people that it's ok to treat this as a business and commodities being exchanged on markets happens all over the world this is called international trading so there's no reason why we can't have a business or make a business out of it i don't think that people in patients should be treated as a business or as a dollar sign or as a number so i think mark is right that what could really be critical what's a significant influence and what we're doing could hurt us in the long run we're trying to make it something that it hasn't been we're trying to create a free market we're trying to trade it exchange it have it buy it sell it we're marking upon something new that people have tried to do for quite some time but i believe that any idea is just an idea it's all in the timing so the hard part will be running in operating your businesses and making money and they can end this and not forgetting that we're dealing with patients and designated providers and medicine so you know in my mind recreational medicinal are separate there's no reason why we can't keeping them separate keeping the public educated on the subject is important and we can know what we're talking about and it being a business and we've been traded as a commodity you know i've talked about this before and i'll talk about it again because i see a need for like light coin or bitcoin blood pooling greed green coin a different type of exchange market i've been trading it for clothes at nordstrom for as long as i've been alive i don't need money and so for me it's interesting that we'd makes the world go round in my family we joke we talk about this because it is a joke because a lot of people in my life have said things like money doesn't grow on trees we grow medicine and we take care of ourselves and each other but it is there's something to be said for taking a seed and growing a money tree from just one seed so there is money to be made it is a viable market it is a great resource that shouldn't be exploited but it's a resource and there's a market so it is a business any way you look at it marcos right you know letting giving up that power could ruin things so we have to protect the free enterprise that we've all helped create so that there's going to be a difficult part in making money managing that money and getting along as one big happy family really realising and remembering we're still dealing with cannabis which is a weed plant which basically grows on its own if  extracting you know wealth and have from the from the bottom up to the very tippy tippy top and so i'm not i'm really hoping that this industry has the wherewithal and the consciousness to marking the planting might not want to stop that you know who knows right but i mean by having smaller businesses in these layers through colorado in california and oregon and washington succeeding and having any of those of hey if you are putting a lot of effort and time into this company or that company be it because tourism or what have you that you know the benefits of your hard work are like the more likely to accrue to you than if you had to go out and try to make a living right now in corporate america which is as we all know is getting increasingly tough so i know is my hope that this new industry which again is going to be huge it's not only  people definitely see the connection or the the the analogy if you will to alcohol and that certainly makes sense or coffee right as the consumer commodity is this at that that it is but  you know it's also going to you know replace a lot of what's currently in lumber and what's currently in cotton and you know if they're making planes and spacecraft parts out of where all of this stuff now yeah create so it's a it's a very large industry and it does have the power if we set the right intentions from the get go it has the power to help restore a middle class in this country and that's certainly part of the mission that veri actually it's really important we're not out of the woods yet you know it's still federally illegal and it's still a schedule one that means like the worst like poison you can put in your body the sale of it is illegal but what about what about  or they're scared and big business big agriculture big pharma big go big alcohol don't want to big words yeah they don't want to change the culture because they're actually