getting medical cannabis has been trying to steer this entire thing i hope they're listening organic medical cannabis patient care and system and advisory there's a lot there are about one hundred thousand jobs the state of washington and maybe a few million in the washington united states area we need to look at this need to think about it we need to understand that we have to rebuild our economy and we also need to get healthy children here from dawn here in just a second thank you for watching all the life this week amory stitcher you just saw mark emery is a canadian citizen who was born in england and never stepped foot in the united states of america until four years ago when he was transferred from british columbia to the city of seattle where he was taken into custody by federal agents and was sent to a federal prison he's now at ya's a city federal corrections institution which is a federal prison in mississippi he was arrested because when george w bush was president of united states he had an attorney general name john ashcroft john ashcroft had a number of agendas and one of his agenda this was to to get a lot of power and i want to backtrack just a little bit in terms of the reason that cannabis is illegal in the united states and throughout the world because of the united states is because of racism envisioned and read and nothing has changed and john ashcroft was a very ambitious man one of the make a name for himself never mind messing up people's lives so he reached into a sovereign foreign country candidate our sister country and abducted and indicted actually a when it was just in indicting more theory and his staff and his wife on undrugged trafficking charges because marc emery amongst many of his endeavors he was the founder of cannabis culture magazine an excellent magazine that came out of british columbia he also was the store in provider in distributor of many many many strains excellent strains of  is all of us involved in the cannabis a medical field even really old mark emory a debt for his preserving so many strains and making them available his was at that time certainly the only ba in the world the only seen bank in the world that you could actually absolutely depend on getting exactly what you paid for and the quality that you expected he actually was not indicted imprisoned for his selling seeds that was the excuse the reason that he was indicted and imprisoned in our country was because he was donating millions of dollars to fight our draconian drug laws specifically about can that's what got him into trouble you know it's kind of like they say in any beer credit we're place if you really want to get somebody you always can't there's we're human there's always some little thing and some little regulation and that's what emery he is now about four years into a five year sentence he copped a plea he excepting five years with no possibility of parole to protect the women in his life to protect his wife to protect his office manager to protect the people working on his magazine and his story to him via you know he essentially threw himself on the sword for everybody else's protection and that deserves an awful lot of respect  so what has happened now is while he's been in prison to occupy himself he has been learning to play the bass bass guitar he and and several other prisoners formed a little band and if will if you can turn the camera you can see a picture here on the television hopefully it comes out well of their band there are five of them plain they asked permission from the people at the at the prison to make it to have a film of their their production here of their music they were given permission from three different sources every source they needed to have they used the prison camera the film was developed at the prison by prison guards and now that film is being used to say oh they must have had a sick illegal smartphone if they made this film knowing full well that it was the prison camera that had the film was totally in the custody of law enforcement the entire time it was be filmed produced shown whatever it's certainly said i'm not a conspiracy theorist but it certainly smells like a set up to me i am very very disappointed with my country's in ministration in dealing with this this topic of cannabis particularly medical can it's so beyond trying to move on to utilize this miracle plant for all for all of its wonderful miracles that it brings to us to use it for research to learn more we know so little about it and yet what we do know is so exciting and so hopeful for so many diseases and maladies that we have in the world i truly believe that we have an incredibly symbiotic relationship with this plant that we developed us it responds to us like no other plant has it it is so smart he can figure out what we need n do its very best to provide that for us this is a miracle this man should not be in prison he should not be imprisoned in the united states there's been a movement going for the last four years to try to get him to be able to do is send him back to his family  something about solitary confinement solitary confinement sort of began as a way to deal with the most violent insane and dangerous criminals that were inc is turned into a punishment the kind of thing where we discovered i guess a lot in world war two that certainly was used as a punishment as many of our views from germany can tell you one of the things with solitary confinement we are social beings humans need contact with other humans physically emotionally and verbally they say that we actually need good big hugs a day just to maintain our health level marc emery has been incarcerated for twenty three hours a day no human contact with out just normal immunities he had begun begun beg his wife begging to lay finally let him have occasion to shave it's this is got to stop we you know we talk you see you hear on the news and you read in the newspapers over the years about china and how they they violate human rights and about other countries and how they violate human rights and my kind of stance on this is how dare we this is the pot calling the kettle black we have more political prisoners in this country right now in the entire world has prisoners in total every cannabis person person has been incarcerated for having a small amount of cannabis for helping other patients with with medicine with cannabis is a political prisoner and i do believe we still have pleaded guilty here in prison we have to stop having political prisoners in this country we do not have any right to wear the white hat to take the moral high road as the former president of mexico said after we approved five o two in colorado approve their cannabis legalization measure the united states no longer has any right to work to right to be the moral authority of the world that we really need to clean up our own problems right now before we go casting spun and throwing stones at other countries in the way they treat their citizens when we treat our own citizens so poorly i want to take off the subject just a moment speaking of how we treat our citizens there is a paraplegic young man who is living on the street at a bus stop right now community realize that this is a rural right here this is eighty fifth and tim is in a wheelchair homeless to see guys know that see him when you're ready to reinterview let me know at a bus stop right near his roommate and not pay his share of the wound and his landlord instead of working with him simply threw him out on the street a society is only as good as the way it treats its most infirm and its neediest our society i'm sorry to say is failing dismally there is no reason in the world that we should have one of our citizens who was a paraplegic sleeping in a wheelchair under umbrellas at a bus stop he is not crazy he is not violent he is not aggressive he threw it he had poses absolutely no threat to anyone and i am just appalled that this is happening and it's not just happening on my corner it might bus stop it is all over our state it is all over our country but this is where we need to do something about it now so i just had to throw that in in terms of the way we are treating our citizens this is not this is not the way we're meant to do you know for all of those of you who go about your own life and we all need to think about ourselves and take care of ourselves but the reality is service to others is the rent we need to pay for our being on this earth we're only renters here we don't own anything we're renters we're squatters and the rent we need to pay is to help other people and we need to help this young man in the wheelchair and we need to help all the other people that our society is letting go by the wayside and kicking who i have been so proud of for so many years in some many ways and i am so ashamed of this this whole marc emery situation i am ashamed that we had the audacity do the first place make the  make world make cannabis illegal to meet our needs of greed and admission and racism and those are the same three things that are going on right now at this very minute nothing is changed except the names of a few of the players and the addition of private prisons of course because private prisons are thriving on most private prisons or who would think they need to all be closed immediately let's get rid of all the the marijuana prisoners and we can certainly close all the rooms here we need to educate people not incarcerate them if we start when they're little and we provide proper education and i'll tell you something else and i have to tell you that education i state is very poor it is dismal i moved here twenty years ago i'm a refugee from southern california and one of the things that i was able to have in my lifetime as a young person was an excellent education both primary and secondary and postgraduate that all that all began to crumble of course when we got ronald reagan as governor and crumble to help the country when he became president this is just backwards way of doing things you educate the support you have productive members of society if you do not educate you in depth with prisons all the people you in the pretty violent she endured with lives disrupted there are people who then many many ways are very good who have done one kind of bad act because if they had had the proper support an education that never would have happened we need to educate we need to support we need to love each other  really excited with the potential if if the feds will leave us alone and thanks to the research that some of us have been working on not only in washington but california oregon colorado and many other places  there is huge potential of cannabis being able to use be used to eradicate contamination from nucular waste and resilience in this in getting in the soil or getting out of the soil getting it to maybe fabrics that we can actually use as protective clothing when we're having issues there are so many so i just get so excited about the potential of what we have here with this absolute miracle plant for so many things if i truly believe that with the work of people like matthew gordon and what he has developed and learned in the last seven years with his development of  able to have in very short order strains that are geared specifically genetically with out chemical manipulation no nonsense no no frankenfish here we're talking about good old fashioned singles strain development the way burpee developed the cherry tomato really good healthy for those traits that we're looking for like maybe one strain that one little h or one little capsule and in ten minutes you're going to go to sleep one strain that if you take every day as many medications have to be taken you have no pain from your arthritis one strain that that you can take on a regular basis and we will have no more asthma that it will eliminate the symptoms this is the value this plan has i truly believe that first surely everything that human beings suffer from can be helped with cannabis when we learn not today but when we learn many of the things that we are need still need to be learning about how this interacts with us how it affects our individual body chemistry how how different strains with the different european so we don't even know what they all are we're struggling to try to find out to try to get adequate testing but we are learning more and more all the time and i'm by step we're all growing and we're all getting there and learning more and please stop in to choice one less at eighty six hundred who are in seattle who are open from eleven to eight monday through saturday and from one to five one sunday we have many educational materials we are more than happy to give to patients and we're more than happy to help you maybe find strains that might be more helpful than what you've been stumbling across in our in our sort of trial and error method that we've been using for so long to find the best thing for us but we'll help you work with that or if you're even just wondering i don't even know if cannabis would be good for me or i've never smoked i'm never going to smoke you don't need to smoke we're finding that really the best medical treatment isn't small fee smoking can be medically helpful in certain situations and conditions but there are many many people who are finding many of the other modell of these and we talk with people about that we share that information here's something that might be helpful to hear something you can do at home they can be incredibly helpful to you it's not going to cost you anything how about that so drop in and see us our phone numbers to zero six six eight two three zero one five eighty six or eighty six hundred or avenue north were if to get off the freeway i e just get off at eighty fifth and head west it's a very easy thing asked way to go turn right at concentrates choice one list does not carry products with poison jerry slowness does not carry products that have been processed with poison because you never get all the chemicals out everything is organic it's all about another strain that we're doing research on right now is with diabetes helping the healing diabetes there are so many people suffering from that incent three seen in our society one of the big reasons folks as i think to scorn serve if they put it near we think it's addictive it rots your brain quite frankly and makes you fact it makes you eat more and that's why they put it in everything so try to find products that do not have  syrup more and more markets are carrying larger and larger organic lines and many of the more kids will have a number of things on sale that organic so with careful shopping you can actually eat at a lower expense than if you just to do call first of all look look up his name on the internet soon get as much information as possible call your legislators and trip leader on the press on them to send him back to canada you know we just send out they will keep him in prison for another year but he'll be in his own country it'll be at their expense but we need to send him back and we need to send you back now i was i don't know if i finish telling my thing about what i know about solitary confinement does to a person it makes a person insane and that's why they're doing it they're trying to make him crazy you cannot isolate a social being like a person and have him remain sane you know he can look we can look at look at the unabomber mom or you know who was quite insane ending and quite isolated did not have just heard any human contact insanity breeds in that kind of environment and i'm not saying that he has a propensity towards insanity i'm saying any of us who in that situation could lose our mental that we are now able to utilize in that this new manners that's what we all owe him a debt and that's why his pictures on the wall in my office and who made on the wall in my office maybe to the end of time but certainly removing nuclear contamination of the human body or do you think they're trying to stop us from four year old i think they're trying to stop us from finding out why there is just as there is  there's a lot of money in keeping people sick there's a lot of money in getting people sick we have a monstrous obscene industry in this country that's based on keeping people sick oh we call it health insurance we call it private hospitals we probably call it private care clinics all already signed not to make people well but to keep people sick this we can change this we need to change this we must change there are number of doctors nurses and other health care professionals who seriously want to change this back to an industry where lives are saved and people be cured and people get well but unfortunately because of the greed in addition that some people have there if there is still this tremendous push in market to keep it the way it is our system does not work we have a failed hill system the compromises that were made with the affordable health care or be on the fortunate we should not have private health insurance companies no other industrialized company country dance their illegal because the they make money on killing people that is their premise that is their job their job is not to give you all the hill for fear he their job is to me not to help feeling you need because their job is simply to make profit and they make profit when you don't get health care or they get profit when you die instead of spending two hundred thousand dollars on taking care of what needed to be taken care of that's why we need single payer in this country  but as long as we are burdened with these horrible horrible things called private insurance companies we need to all be pushy to our legislators and i look to the officials to make it to get cannabis office schedule  and to make it so that health insurance companies have to pay for it unless they want to treat it like any over they can subsidize like tylenol or apps apps as for and cannabis is so far safer than either are have their organs ruined and die from tylenol and training and that kind of stuff that you can buy right over the can all the time were p t s d cannabis now there are some strains of cannabis that will make people anxious there are some people strains of cannabis that will make people paranoid there are some strains of cannabis that make people incredibly eight so surely awkward there are some that will accentuate p anxiety this is where the medicine comes in all cannabis is not the same and many of the people making the rules and regulations to them is hot marijuana is marijuana will actually it is not  marijuana mayor hahn i was aware the word started actually was never a term applied to a plant it was a derogatory term applied to mexicans who are coming across the border into in the states slightly more polite than wetback that's one of the reasons i absolutely prefer to call the plant by its name cannabis that is its legal technical name is cannabis so what is call her cannabis and get rid of the thesis remember problems at hanford i mean maybe i don't know i am really not a scientist i don't really know all the money what killer configurations and i don't know all the dynamics but boy i'd sure like somebody to look at it in terms of if it  cannabis and it's not in here because we know cannabis can come into my body and cannabis can mix and cancer cells fly out the window of my body and make them just go away and disappear and that's been going on with me  happening right as we speak then what makes us think that it can do the same thing with nuclear contamination i mean it's a possibility let's check it out let it lie yeah let's get some scientists working on this and let's get some real practical things ok maybe if we pour concentrated cannabis was sugar it'll make it go away on the other hand maybe we have to put vinegar in with the cannabis and that'll make it go away there's what we need scientists i don't know i'm being facetious it's not going to be sugar vinegar in all my life i heard oh my god if somebody could come up with a cure for cancer want to pay something here there are and over and cures for cancer they've been hidden from us they've been buried they've been burned because of profit in greed  i've been researching i have several that i've been able to come up with that don't even involve cannabis that are of virtually no cost whatsoever just practically nothing that are natural and cure cancer so let's get the word out there let's let people know there is an alternative and western medicine certainly has its place and western doctor certainly have their place and can do a tremendous amount of good they can also do tremendous amount of harm and greed and profit be a part of the well they share you're probably not enough fast enough to make me happy but then i'm kind of an impatient person i want to hold up fast i'm i'm not happy about the fact that we have cancer care alliance we have fred had cancer here we have best care and none of them are really doing anything about cannabis best year made a little bit of noise did a little bit of steady not even really good follow through with that so i'm very disappointed with our community here i am really hoping that our governor inslee will somehow make it possible for the university of washington to do research again we've done in the past we were able to do it in the past and other states are picking up on that and are getting that kind of approval i don't know how far we want to be left in the desk but let's not be left handed us we have an excellent research facility let's be utilizing it and find out a lot of these things answered every time i learn something new about cannabis it opens fifty new questions so we need to start answering some of them before my mind explodes you are done if there's too much of a question we both it could be that  it's been suppressed because it does work for the year old absolutely absolutely although i think there are things we're finding out that nobody even dreamed of in the past we are we are finding out some really exciting things now there's a getting what they need but for those of us that are looking into the science and the element of this it provides this a wonderful opportunity to meet together to share and to work collaboratively together to provide better care for patients  so look for more research absolutely always absolutely they're growing and your methods of growing were researching different methods different different ways of dealing with water  that cannabis culture used to be a hard print magazine now it is still a magazine on the internet and jodie emery his wife has been keeping this going into a tremendous amount of political work and so you can look up the cannabis culture on the internet it's an excellent magazine a lot of good information on that and if you happen to ever find yourself in b c there is a cannabis culture store and they have all kinds of wonderful things t shirts and bumper stickers and all kinds of things i don't know what happened to my i used to have a comedian and we're going to the british wonder he's from brand to the british columbia he does he's a neighbor and we would like to have him not in list get on with the program that needs to be to employ a couple hundred thousand people watching this story right absolutely that the employment and job potential in this industry is just incredible you know you need some good young people coming along and as they get the education and so much more they will be able to do so much better than any what he's doing right now we desist learning and growing and learning and growing you're seeing it results with patients here they're getting oh well i am ok so we can start with me absolutely we are seeing tremendous help and we did have one patient who did pass away with that pain and no pain you know she very pleasant young man and he's in a wheelchair and all he needs is a key his only needs is a key there are there's nails in units in deep all over the city there are housing programs all over the city and i'm sorry i just have trouble understanding how any able bodied person could have precedence for housing over somebody who's a paraplegic in a wheelchair it's amazing  and there were raids are going going stronger you know people we've got the wild west going on in seattle it's because of the holes in our laws because the contradictions in our law but we're we're it's a delusion and i think everybody who thinks that everything is going on around here is is ok is delusional the feds are here they have never left it's still a federal crime to do anything with cannabis and anybody who thinks it's otherwise is missed missed a page out of a book someplace it shouldn't be illegal there's a big difference between is and should what we have it's just a constant thing we're trying to disloyal qualities but at the same time having to fight the establishment the government from drug dealers the pharmaceutical companies the private prisons that petrochemical compan on and on and on and so it's very difficult it's like all we want is just to be able to let us take a deep breath and do the good work that we're doing because we are doing incredibly good at finding results and finding you know we're already we've got this thing kind of going with the recreational cannabis and everybody's all colorado's the capital colorado this now why we passed our law the same day at the same time what we need to do though although they've been a little more effective in rapidly implementing many aspects of they are we need we can be we can be the star pupil there's no reason we have to be number t because here's the thing if you want poison in your cannabis if you want to come through my clinic i'll give you your money back and singe up the street to bar tales because they have rooms full of poison you get all the poison you want the people who come see us are too smart for plant and it's not just the environment if all you're talking about is soil and air and water it's its interaction with us it's interaction with us if you planted a cannabis plant someplace and it consists kind of keep seeding itself and keep itself going for generations all by itself with no interaction with us it would not be cannabis plant probably in tin years it be something else it would be something that would help the trees it be something that helped the moss it would develop into something that would help the birds or the bugs or something but it wouldn't be ours anymore we're connected we are absolutely connected it connects us and it can access today in los angeles now there's no way for us to know whether they were raids are good players or bad probably just like in the pacific northwest the majority of them are bad players not there for patients they just sly and found an opportunity to sell sell drugs to sell marijuana to sell cannabis to sell and many of them unfortunately are so on a lot of things they shouldn't be out of the back door aso so  it will take a little while to find out who the six were there were raided but one thing about a raid a raid is not an arrest if they are going to come in and arrest people they come in with big guns and handcuffs and they arrest them and that's the end of it what they do when they're doing a raid is searching for information so they try to get somebody who perhaps is naive to talk out of school or to make a statement that can be twisted around later or together physical evidence by by product by physical paper records or whatever to get in to get evidence so they can make a case against them so raid is not an arrest and a lot of people don't understand that they think that when there's a raid that people have actually come in with guns and arrested everybody and drive them out you know in ten minutes or twenty minutes in handcuffs that's not what a ra raid really is a seeking of information so the best think that somebody can do when there's a raid is keep their mouths shut right but if they are for real and they're trying to actually help create medical communities for real people that need right right you know what i mean the people need it if they want records of it it is a federal offense to do anything with cannabis it doesn't matter whether you are in a state it has medical marijuana or not federally even him a state that has medical marijuana approval it's still illegal it is a federal crime and because we've got the wild west going on around here especially in the pacific northwest and we've certainly had the wild west going on in california i haven't been as aware of it being as wild west if you will in oregon but it's been suffering lately too with a lot of a lot of raids and a lot of letters and there the federal government is very active and there's a lot of people who think that everything's just fair game here and in seattle and in the pacific northwest and it's not we we need we need for the people who are not doing a good job and who are not there for patients to be out of this business hopefully i was asked last week i was i was interviewer visited for some people from biotech which is one of the part of the group that has been contracted with by the state of washington to set the ground rules and to establish five o two implementation and one of the questions that i was asked was how many of the medical marijuana access points did i think do i think seventy five percent of them would apply for five o two a certification for retail sales my response was i certainly hope so i hope it's higher than seventy five percent i hope that all of those who are using medical marijuana as an excuse to do less than legal  activities i hope that they do go to the recreational side because that's where they belong they do harm to patients when somebody with hip see comes in to get a pre rolled cannabis cigarette and somebody with crones is doing that and the patient has have see it could cost them their life this is the danger of what's happening out there with been the lack of regulations we have certainly been trying to be a role model and to drag this industry out of the stone or age into the true medical age and i think in many ways we have more people are starting to grow organically many more patients are into stand in the importance of having their medicine be organic but there's just an awful lot going out there that stewing a lot of harm and so hopefully with five o two maybe this can shake out a little bit but i hope that medical facility the real medical facilities can be left alone enough to do the kind of service we need to do and that means that we do not get our products from the large commercial growers that we get them grown by patients with well that's what the legislature intended in one thousand nine hundred eighty that's what the legislature has indicated they intend to for us to do ever since nothing has changed on that aspect it's just gone kind of crazy because of the holes in our law right now but we need to get that rectified and get it straightened out for the make some efforts to making it better for patients and some people who make a show of being better for patients and then there are those who really make it better for patients and there's a big difference in between that it's a difference between really one of our goals is to have choice wellness centers across the nation for returning veterans to have a place i was talking to a better on last night who has a multitude of issues which is understandable and one of her big her big biggest issues was they won't give me the proper pain medication they just say oh go to the drug store and buy some tylenol or these are it war injuries this is not the way we should be treating our veterans not equal and that's where the testing that's where the research and that's where the expertise comes in is to help guide patients to the proper kinds of things so somebody who's already got p t s d the last thing in the world they need is the strain of cannabis that makes a person anxious if what they need is a strain and there are strains that reducing society that help people just because and function in a very productive way with without all the detrimental effects of pharmaceuticals not you know doesn't kill your organs doesn't doesn't cause all kinds of other so called side effects by the way there is no such thing as a side effect drugs do what drugs do now maybe a drug does one thing we like and twenty things we don't like so we call those twenty things side effects but they are not side effects it's what the drug debts with cannabis we are learning more and name becoming increasingly able to hone in on having a strain do simply what the strain does if if we are if the feds let us continue with good research with in a very short period of time three to four five years we will have probably in two years to actually move be able to have a cannabis capsule not a synthetic one not one that's been but the entire plant encapsulated so a person with horrible insomnia can take a capsule make themselves comfortable because in ten minutes they will be asleep we will have a capsule and a strain for people that have diabetes to alleviate that so they don't get diabetes anymore we will have a strain for people with asthma so they don't separate as many more now they may have to take a dose every day but there how many people are on how many pharmaceuticals daily i take a pharmaceutical every day and will for the rest of my life it's not a big deal takes a second a day but we can do this with cannabis in ways that the pharmaceutical companies can't and very huge opposition to us they're huge body against all of us who are cannabis activists and changing the laws about cannabis is because they just want to consume continue to sell their crummy drugs quite frankly are pharmaceuticals that kill people they don't design anything to cure anything they design drugs to maintain into you die and generally in worse shape than you were when you started taking the if you want to talk to me call first and make an appointment i'm in and out a lot and i my my plate is very very full but we absolutely want to help you and i will tell you that everybody but me that works there is really good about returning  i want i want i'm very concerned about the incredible pull of for ration of concentrates and how many of them are being made with poison as a solvent you never get rid of all the solvent and it's doing horrible damage to these youngsters that are like the plague it cause it kills brain cells and it's causing epilepsy and we don't know what else is yet to come and they need to be aware that most of this industry is not smoking ninety percent of it's not  well it has been because of the recreational use but the medical use is more and more into it to capsules beverages food stink shares mom slow sions dreams extract and as i say though the extracts need to be done organically they're not with poison awesome down here and i appreciate you doing all that you've done i hope the state appreciates what you're doing i hope that sharon foster in the  cannabis control board starts to listen to what you're saying it's a lot more than just what they think well i think sharon is that is listening because she knows me my my face and name she certainly knows me and she made it very clear in the last time we spoke that she does know me and my message is consistent and i do truly believed here's it how much power one person even the chair of the board has i'm not sure i and i think most of the power li behind the scenes but the message is there and it's coming from a number of directions so you know that they've this is a group of people who just had something unknown thrown in their lap and i have tremendous respect for the work that they're doing that they have been mandated to do by the taxpayers of the state of washington i think they spend a lot of time being confused because it's totally new topic most of the people even in the can confused most of the time because it's a totally new topic and because we know so little and it's