In the latest episode of Your Highness Podcast, hosts Diana and JR delve into the integration of cannabis in daily life and its impact on wellbeing. The episode kicks off with the "Fave Pot and Not Pot" segment, where Diana highlights Sprig, a Delta-9 THC beverage, and Vegamore's Grow Hair Serum, while JR praises Canncestra's joint relief lotion for alleviating his knee pain. Transitioning into a conversation about parenting and cannabis, they explore the complexities of online cannabis communities, emphasizing that while cannabis can enhance parenting by reducing anxiety, it's not the entire toolbox.
In the latest episode of "Your Highness Podcast," hosts Diana and JR delve into the multifaceted world of cannabis and its role in parenting. The episode begins with the hosts sharing their favorite products in the "Fave Pot and Not Pot" segment. Diana enthusiastically recommends Sprig, a Delta-9 THC beverage with a crisp citrus flavor, while JR highlights Canncestra's joint relief lotion for its impressive ability to alleviate knee pain. Diana also introduces Vegamour's Grow Hair Serum, praising its plant-based formula for boosting her hair growth.
The conversation then shifts to the complexities of online cannabis communities, particularly for parents. The hosts discuss how cannabis can be a beneficial tool for parenting by enhancing brain elasticity and reducing anxiety. However, they caution that cannabis is not a magic bullet for good parenting and emphasize the importance of avoiding defensive online posts that try to counteract societal stigma.
In the final segment, Diana and JR advocate for unity within wellness communities, stressing the importance of integrating both Eastern and Western medicine for optimal health. They discuss the misuse of antibiotics and the benefits of alternative remedies like CBD, kratom, and kava. The hosts call for mutual support and understanding among wellness enthusiasts, highlighting the need to focus on shared goals such as increasing access to plant-based treatments.
Throughout the episode, Diana and JR maintain a light-hearted and engaging tone, making complex topics accessible and relatable. Their candid discussions offer valuable insights into the intersections of cannabis, parenting, and holistic wellness, encouraging listeners to embrace a more inclusive and understanding approach to health practices.
00:16 - Diana (Host)
Welcome to your Highness Podcast. I'm your host, diana, and I'm your co-host, jr. That's not really that funny. I don't know why I'm your co-host, jr. That's not really that funny.
00:26 - JR (Co-host)
I don't know why I'm laughing so hard, but Well, it is to us because of what happened five seconds ago that they're not going to see.
00:33 - Diana (Host)
Okay so, anyway, again, welcome to your Highness Podcast, and we are going to start this episode, as we do every episode, with our fave pot, and fave not pot, and I'm going to start. So. My fave pot is a drink shocking called Sprig, and if you're able to see the video, you can see the can. I'm going to start with the can. I love the packaging. It's lightweight, easy to um throw away. It's not a lot of waste with the packaging. It's what I'm trying to say and, um, I like that. There are two servings per can. Um, it's Delta, nine THC, there are 10 milligrams per can, and it's made with natural cane sugar. The one I'm drinking right now is citrus flavored and I really like it. I really like this one and the Yuzo one. I even like the apple, the Honeycrisp apple and I'm not usually a fan.
01:39 - JR (Co-host)
I like the apple one that is such a solid jams for me.
01:42 - Diana (Host)
It really is like a fall kind of drink.
01:46
It is, it's like an apple cider, almost yes, and I like to mix mine with other things, and we'll do more about that later in another video. But my point is that I was skeptical at first because I'm not a huge fan of seltzers unless I can mix them with other things and um, this one is just really good on its own. It's nice and crisp and easy to drink and the effects are mild. So I'm I'm a big fan of it. Yeah, it's nice having that beverage option. Beverages are definitely a big thing right now.
02:18 - JR (Co-host)
Yep, that's. That's what it's all about all right mine ask me about what mine is.
02:24 - Diana (Host)
Yeah, what's your fave pot right now?
02:27 - JR (Co-host)
mine is um this cancestra is this joint relief lotion? See if you can see it. You might have to zoom in if you're watching this on video um, don't zoom in too close though, because we, we ate right we just ate bagels before this so we might have food on our faces Right Now.
02:46
I know because the last time we did this I was using a topical as my fave. I'm just realizing that now. But the thing is is that I'm old and my bones and my joints they ache a lot, and then recently what started happening was I wanted to try to start exercising and while that helped me on a mental level, it made me very sore, and this is something that I was able to put on my knees, in which I've already had a pre-existing knee injury from an accident and, oddly enough, it actually really worked really nice. I wasn't really expecting much out of it. I put some on my knees and that stiffness and that popping that was happening in my knees was pretty much eradicated within like 20 minutes. It really gave like a very loose quality to my joints.
03:42
So if you're like me and you know having any amount of movement movement seems to cause pain then I recommend uh going with a little bit of this jams. It is hemp derived CBD, uh, it is full spectrum and also has other moisturizing botanical agents in it, so it actually kind of helps moisturize as well, which is quite, quite nice and uh, overall I think it was. It was amazing. I wasn't expecting this. This came out of left field. You actually were like, hey, you want to try this, and I was like, sure, why not?
04:13 - Diana (Host)
it was formulated by a botanist and pharmacologist and an rn who's also a certified herbalist, who will be on our sister podcast Getting Personal Plant Medicine later this season to talk about the other botanicals that are in those products, as well as some other ones that I think we'll all enjoy hearing about.
04:35 - JR (Co-host)
I'll tell you what. I cannot wait to listen to that episode.
04:39 - Diana (Host)
I cannot wait I cannot wait for you to hear it. So my fave not pot right now Is that napkin. I have a napkin in my pocket Because talk about getting old. I'm just hitting lady status right there. Anyway, it is not a cannabis related thing, but it is plant based.
05:04 - JR (Co-host)
So I just want to make that clear. It's not pot. There's no pot in this right here For the segment.
05:10 - Diana (Host)
Yeah, that would be weird. It's a hair serum. I mean not to say that people don't put CBD in hair serums, but that's another conversation. So it's called Vegamore. I really hope I'm saying this right. The last time I wasn't sure and I didn't even check to see if I vegamore or vegamore I would say vegamore vegamore. Yeah, that makes more sense, doesn't?
05:33 - JR (Co-host)
it.
05:33 - Diana (Host)
There's no oh and we even watched commercials people talking about this did we or at least I did, and I still don't. I still don't know how they said it Vegemore.
05:42 - JR (Co-host)
I think it's.
05:43 - Diana (Host)
Vegemore. I'm obsessed with this line, okay, this Grow Hair Serum. Grow is what it's called, the Grow line, the hair serum. It made my hair grow a lot. I mean, I don't know if anyone who's listening can tell, but this is all new growth, so I highly recommend it. I'm a big fan of all the products that I've tried of theirs so far, and when I used to be a hairstylist, I would dream of the days that I could recommend quality products that had plants or botanicals in them that were actually effective. And now I have them, even though I'm not a hairstylist. So I'm excited to keep trying that line and telling you all about it.
06:28 - JR (Co-host)
Fantastic, I love it.
06:29 - Diana (Host)
What's your favorite pot right now?
06:31 - JR (Co-host)
My favorite pot is a movie. Surprise Um, spooky season is in the mix. This is a newer movie that just came available on digital release and it's called long legs. It is a movie that when I was first released it was very overhyped. People were like this is the greatest horror movie ever. Blah, blah, blah. Not everyone was saying that, but those were the flashes that you would see on the screen and it wasn't that it wasn't the greatest horror movie ever, but it was quite nice.
07:02
I'm a big fan of they go back to this retro styling of filming. It's very reminiscent of House of the Devil, which is filmed as if it was actually filmed in 1982. You have Late Night with the Devil, which is filmed as if it was like a 70s late night show, and this one has. It brings us back to that early 90s way of filming and there are certain scenes of it that are just absolutely breathtaking. There's just a simple scene of I'm not going to spoil anything, but it takes place at like a bus stop and just the score work behind it and the camera angles and just the filmography around it. It was just breathtaking. I was fully, just entranced. And then you have Nick Cage being just quintessential. Nick Cage, he's just amazing. In it he plays a serial killer. Spoiler alert what? This is what you know. You know this going into it. All right. And he this is what you know. You know this going into it.
08:04
All right and he just does a phenomenal job. So if you're looking for something to kind of soft launch you into in the spooky season, I recommend checking out Long Legs.
08:16 - Diana (Host)
Soft launch. I don't know about that. I feel like soft launching is like Halloween movies, the Halloween franchise. No because no, no, no no, no, because the Halloween franchise that's quintessential spooky season Halloween.
08:29 - JR (Co-host)
You know, by soft launch for one it's not superly horrific, but also it doesn't necessarily take place in that fall season to really bring you into that spookiness. You know this is something that could be watched year round. You know it's much more akin to say like Silence of the Lambs, you know where it's not strictly like a horror movie, though it does delve very much into into the supernatural. It's not that quintessential stereotypical horror movie that you would expect from spooky season, like the like the Halloween franchise which we just watched, halloween six last night. Yeah, yeah, paul Rudd, yeah, like the Halloween franchise which we just watched.
09:09
Halloween 6 last night yeah, we did. Yes, we did yeah With Paul Rudd. Yeah, you know Paul Rudd's earlier roles. Yeah, but this isn't a podcast about horror movies and Halloween, so I will digress to our You'll digress. I shall digress.
09:24 - Diana (Host)
You are digressing.
09:25 - JR (Co-host)
Yes.
09:28 - Diana (Host)
But you digress I digress are digressing yes, but you digress, I digress. So I yeah, there's no segue here, because I was going to try to take your earlier day thing and turn that into a segue into what we're talking about, but it's too late now.
09:39 - JR (Co-host)
So well, I can tell you, because we're talking about canna parents, and I can tell you one person that wasn't a canna parent and that is nick cage in the movie long legs so I don't, I don't understand the reference, so I'll just say oh, okay, yeah, um, so, yeah, we're talking about, uh, we're going to talk about hot topic today. Yeah, shocking um any hot topic, not the clothing story anyway.
10:09 - Diana (Host)
I mean, I don't know how hot it is, but we're about to turn it up. So, yeah, if you so, if you spend any time online and you're a cannabis consumer, you probably have come across the hashtag Canamon or you've probably seen some TikTok or type of video with a mom who has freshly gardened. That's the thing now saying that you just gardened instead of smoking pot, because all the social media overlords don't like that. So you have to get creative and you have to find people that say that they like to garden, that they're going to play with their kids after they just freshly gardened. And it changes all the time because the algorithms are always changing. So sometimes you might see somebody say they want to spork, a spoiker or whatever. I don't know. I've seen a lot of different Spork a spoink, yeah.
11:07
Somebody was saying've seen a lot of different sporka spoink. Yeah. Somebody was saying they're gonna splunk I'm saying it wrong like a. They're like let's go doink. A doinker is what they were saying.
11:16
That's not splunk or spark, but they were saying like doink a doinker yeah, I'm telling you, I've seen so many different versions of it gardening doink a doinker. Uh, what was the other one? I'm trying to think. Oh, just broccoli. That was the other one. Broccoli people smoking broccoli, people using broccoli instead of pictures of cannabis oh, yeah, yeah, I do know um, so there's a lot to unpack.
11:44
Um, in this episode we're going to unpack a lot, and I just want to say right off the bat these communities online are not inherently a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that at all. I've found some community through these hashtags, these groups, these online communities, whatever, in whatever form they may take. It's great to have community, especially when you're doing something that is widely considered to be outside of the box. You know, something that goes against what society deems to be the way to do things right. It's good to find those common traits in people You're like oh okay, so maybe you're cool. Those common common traits in people you're like oh okay, so maybe you're cool. Yeah, but as you and I have become very aware of in the last few years, the fact that someone uses cannabis does not automatically make you quote, unquote cool, and I'm saying cool by my standards, because you might be cool by someone else's standards, but just because you consume something that I consume does not mean that we see eye to eye on anything.
12:55 - JR (Co-host)
Really but especially parenting. You know where it's. A lot of times you'll think, especially in the early days with us, we're like, oh well, well, they consume to calm down their, their, their being active in their kid's life. You know, obviously they hold the same values as us and there's been times where that has really backfired on us.
13:19 - Diana (Host)
Absolutely yeah, and I've been quoted. Okay, let me just say this. I have been quoted in articles, in books, on other podcasts, telling people about how cannabis makes me a better parent, and a lot of ways it does. Okay, I want to make that very clear. It helps with my brain elasticity, so that I am a little bit more flexible with the way that I think, more flexible with the way that I think. It helps with my imagination, so I'm able to be a little bit more playful. It helps with my anxiety. I mean, it helps in so many ways. However, it is not the only tool in the tool belt, and I'm kind of going backwards here, but Well, no because also, it depends on why it's being used.
14:16 - JR (Co-host)
You know, if you're using it so that you can kind of alleviate some of that anxiety or some of that pain, to make you a better presence in your child's life and that's amazing, whether it is cannabis or something else, but much like cannabis or something else if you're using it to kind of pull away, to make yourself Disassociate yeah, disassociate, to become less present, then no matter what you're consuming, whether it is plant-derived or not, it's probably not the greatest thing.
14:45 - Diana (Host)
Yes, and I see a lot of people hosting videos where they're like look at all the things that I do in a day. And when I say people, it's mostly Canada moms. I don't think I've really seen any Canada dad and obviously there are a lot of reasons for that because as a society, we tend to disparage mothers more than fathers for so many reasons. Okay, patriarchy is just the patriarchy is patriarchy. So people are going to be like oh, you're not a good mom because you do this before they'll say oh, you're not a good dad.
15:20 - JR (Co-host)
Well, we were all raised watching television shows in which the the dad got off of work and went right to the bar. And that became so normalized for us as a society that we just assume like, oh yeah, the dad, they're allowed to go to the bar, they're allowed to overconsume, they're allowed to do this and that. And as a society we've started kind of gearing away from that, like, hey, maybe that's not such a good idea. It still became so normalized that it becomes a lot more quicker for us to disparage women than it is for us to disparage men for doing the same thing.
15:50 - Diana (Host)
Absolutely, and so what I see a lot of are these indefensive type of posts.
15:56 - JR (Co-host)
Like.
15:57 - Diana (Host)
I understand being defensive. No one wants to be called a bad parent for any reason. No one enjoys having their parenting put under a microscope. We all are doing our best, and even if other people don't think that that is the case, even if I don't think that is the case for my own parents half the time, they are doing their best with what they think that they have right, with the tools that they have. That's that they're doing their best Most of the time.
16:27
Anyway, I'm just joking. Um, I'm joking. My point is, though, when we do these videos where we show people like look at all the things I do today, look at, look at how well I take care of my children, look at me being a functioning member of society while I also garden. Let me take a hit of my whatever and do the dishes. Let me take a hit of my whatever and do the dishes. Let me take a hit of this. I understand what you're trying to do with that, but for me, it feels like we're just fueling the fire of the opponents, because, if they sit there and say, well, oh, you're just, you're a stoner, you don't care about your kids.
17:05 - JR (Co-host)
Okay, you can't do anything without consuming. First Think that, then who cares? Or you don't care about your kids okay.
17:08 - Diana (Host)
You can't do anything without consuming. First. Think that, then who cares? But when you bend over backwards to show people, oh look at what I am, not what you think I am, then you're showing that you do care what they think, and not only care. You're giving them more ammunition because they're like, oh so they definitely care that I'm calling them this, let me keep calling them this. And then you're going so far trying to prove them wrong that you wind up ultimately proving them right in some kind of a way, because you're spending so much time and energy trying to prove them wrong that you're not focusing on the thing that you wanted to focus on in the beginning, which is this plant is making your life better. That's all that matters. It's making your life better. That's all that matters. It's making your life better. That's all that should matter. I mean, obviously we want the kids to be okay.
17:57 - JR (Co-host)
We want to ask the kids you know the kids.
17:59 - Diana (Host)
The kids opinions matter the most in all of this. But maybe I'm not making the point that I'm trying to make.
18:05 - JR (Co-host)
But I'm saying I feel we want the focus to be on how the plan is making you better and how you're able to use that plan to be more present and there for your kids, if you do want to become like a kind of parent and not so much a a parody and a new version of of the wine mom, you know where it's, it's, becomes like a joke yeah, because all right, here's my other part of it.
18:31 - Diana (Host)
That gives it a little bit more context. I also see people saying in the same breath of oh look at all the things that I'm doing. I wouldn't be doing this if I was a wine mom. I wouldn't be doing this if I was a meth mom, or whatever.
18:47 - JR (Co-host)
I don't see meth mom but I mean, I don't think anyone hashtagging meth mom.
18:50 - Diana (Host)
Well, that's my point. We don't see people you know saying, oh, you're hashtag meth mom, You're hashtag Tylenol mom, You're hashtag homeopathic yeah, who cares? Who cares what you're consuming? I mean, I understand that you want to normalize it. I understand that you want to, you know, make people aware of how it is better for you. But when you sit there and say, oh well, at least I'm not drinking and I'm not doing this, then you're doing the same thing as the people who are calling you a stoner and saying that you don't care about your kids stoner and saying that you don't care about your kids.
19:29 - JR (Co-host)
Yeah, because I mean full transparency. Everything dependent on how you take it is going to be beneficial or counterproductive. So it really comes down to, a lot of times, personal preference of what helps you and you don't want to get into a situation where you're trying to pigeonholing or trying to spending so much time bringing another group of people down instead of uplifting people that are around you.
19:56
You know we need to steer away from this. Oh, I'm better by contrast. Yeah, you know, instead of just like we're the best that we can be and that's all that there really needs to be, you don't need to bring other people down to uplift yourself.
20:10 - Diana (Host)
Yeah, it's fine to say, oh okay, like, life is getting to you, let me give you, like, if you're asking what works for me, I'm going to tell you what works for me. Or, you know, having those kinds of conversations are productive. Like, let me just give you a little insight as to what I do every day. That's fine, that's cool, that's great, we want that right, yeah, but when you're sitting there and attacking the very people that are attacking you, then you're doing exactly what they want you to do. That is exactly playing into the hands of the people that are opponents, but also it's alienating people, because if someone is a wine mom or the soccer mom or whatever, whatever they identify as Personally, I wish we could just get rid of all of these monikers.
20:54 - JR (Co-host)
Just be mom and just be caretakers and parents.
20:58 - Diana (Host)
you know I mean, why does it have to be this mom? You know, hashtag blah blah blah mom. Hashtag blah blah blah dad. Like people wonder why there's such a divide in the comparisons of parents. And it's because we're like, well, the dad does this and the mom does this, and we're upholding these binaries that are just oppressive.
21:19 - JR (Co-host)
And it's the same, putting people on the shelves like they used to. I mean, just growing up, you were, you know, a metalhead or whatnot. You know in high school, or a preppy or a jock.
21:27 - Diana (Host)
Yeah, you know just like good music, yeah.
21:28 - JR (Co-host)
And then when we grew up, it's like we're like, we enjoyed being pigeonholed so much that we're like oh, I want to put a moniker next to what kind of parent I am, you know. It's instead of just I'm a parent just trying to do my best.
21:43 - Diana (Host)
And it does pigeonhole you in so many ways. So I'm going to get to the actual, the usage parts in a minute, because that's the way people use. It is another thing altogether, use it as another thing altogether. But there are people who say, oh, plants over pills, plants over wine. And then a little further down the line they start saying, well, actually I do enjoy wine sometimes and now you know what? And me, I'm one of the pills people because I started off going yeah plants over pills Woo.
22:14
But then I was like, wait a minute. A lot of my plants come in pill form, yeah, and not only that, there are times when I need pharmaceuticals to stay alive. So I'm not going to say plants over pills in, you know definitely.
22:28 - JR (Co-host)
No, and this is the merging Like there's this weird rift where it became like Eastern medicine versus Western medicine, when really we just need to kind of bring the two together, I mean generally speaking, our system is so broken.
22:40
Yeah, and we are over-medicated through Western medication. But, in the same vein, if we were only strictly to rely on homeopathic remedies, we would then be under-medicated. There are certain things that Western medicine has been able to eradicate that homeopathic medicine has not been able to, and we need those things. So it's not necessarily. It shouldn't be like I'm this versus this. It should be like I am gathering all the knowledge I have and all the ways to benefit to make me feel better, and I'm going to use them appropriately for what they are designed and needed for. I'm not going to use wine to help me with my depression I might have to use a pharmaceutical for that but I'm also not going to use antibiotics nonstop, which is just going to cause me to have a reliance on antibiotics in the future when I could be using more of a homeopathic remedy.
23:39
CBD to help remedy or kratom.
23:43 - Diana (Host)
Yeah, really great. There's amazing things for when you're sick.
23:45 - JR (Co-host)
It's really rich in antioxidants. Same with kava Kratom actually has more antioxidants than green tea. It can be very beneficial for you when you're sick and it keeps you from, you know, relying on antibiotics, which a lot of times are prescribed just so that patients leave the doctor alone because they'll have a viral infection and be given an antibiotic. I've seen it countless times.
24:11 - Diana (Host)
In your experience as a medical professional Exactly?
24:13 - JR (Co-host)
So you know, this is something that does happen, and then all that does is builds up a resilience against antibiotics, so they're not beneficial for you in the future, when you do actually need them. So instead of us thinking, oh, it's Eastern medicine versus Western medicine, we need to look at it as in these are all medicines. Let me take the appropriate one for what I need it for, right then and there, instead of thinking, oh, I'm better than the person that's taking this, or I'm better than the person that's taking that. Let's get rid of this competition and just make it of.
24:44 - Diana (Host)
Let's all just try to heal and become a better society and a better people and take what is what we have and we're lucky to live in a time to have for the appropriate reason and I just want to reiterate we find value in people sharing their stories about usage and how it helped them, because, I mean, that's the whole reason why we started this podcast and our other one getting personal plant medicine. You know, we, we know there's value in sharing stories and finding community, and that is not what we're saying. I want to make it clear that I think that that is very important. However, also within the community online, when you get a little bit more insular and insular is that the word I'm looking for, the word I'm looking for when you get more terminally online, as they say, and you're going in and having conversations with other people who call themselves canna moms or canna parents or whatever then we start getting into.
25:44
Well, you're not that great of a parent, though, because you consume around your kids, or you're not that great of an advocate because you don't consume in front of your kids. Or you get the people who are like oh, you're smoking flour and not using vapes, or you're using vapes. That's garbage. Or you're using hemp derived anything. What are you talking about? It can't just be. Hey, we want access to the plants, we want access to the plant. That is just a plant and we want it to be however you want it to be Like. That's the whole point. Whatever way you want to consume it, in whichever form you want to consume, it should be really the concentration in these groups when we're finding community, not shaming other people because they don't do what you think they should be doing.
26:40 - JR (Co-host)
Yeah, I mean, we went so long with just hoping that we could build a community in something like cannabis outwardly and have it not be like a secret that you just talk about when you're in your house. And we had that for all of maybe three years before infighting started happening, where those communities that we long waited for started turning on each other. And you know, now we have this section that thinks that they're better than this section of people and this section of people that are better than this section of people, not remembering that 10 years ago none of these conversations would even be able to happen out in the open. And this constant turning against each other, just so that you can feel kind of superior in any kind of way, instead of yet again uplifting to continue this movement. You know we're not still fully federally legal. I don't ever think it will happen personally but we're-.
27:42
An hour, a lifetime at least, yeah an hour a lifetime, but it's still not there. So there's still more things to fight for, for the access for everybody, which is so much more important than trying to make yourself feel better than someone else who is literally just trying to get by. You know, I tell this to my team all the time Most people wake up in the day and they're not thinking, oh, how can I bring this person down or bring this person down. Most people just wake up in the day and they spend their day just trying to get through it, trying to do their best, you know, trying to better themselves and be the best that they can, and just get through the day.
28:19
Life is exhausting, life is hard and they're just trying to get through it. So when we have an opportunity to actually come together about something that we see beneficial, and then you watch that same thing within a few years turn to something that's toxic, where people are just fighting each other due to superiority feelings, then it's it can become a little it's not constructive exactly, and it makes you want to stop fighting for the things that should be fought for yeah, because my whole thing just bringing it back to the reason why people do these videos and things like that and saying that they want it for normalization.
28:53 - Diana (Host)
Well, well, if that's the case, then you want people who have no idea about cannabis or who even just shut it down in their brains because of whatever they believe. You want them to come over to your side, correct? That's what I hear all the time. Well, if that's the case, I can guarantee you that the fastest way to turn them off is to start talking about things like it's actually called cultivars, strains instead of strains or terpenes, because I know this, because I did. I have done that and I have spoken to people who are not in the online community and have no idea what I'm talking about, even people who work in the cannabis industry talking about these fights that happen and they don't know what I'm talking about. So it's it's very strange, it's a strange dichotomy, but it's also something that we need to talk about, because as more States come online, as more people are starting to be accepting of it, become accepting of it, become accepting of it. We need to have a more cohesive community out, you know.
30:02 - JR (Co-host)
And it's an accessibility of knowledge. Our first three seasons of this show, almost every interview we did, that person said I actually didn't try cannabis until a lot later in life because I grew up in the dare generation.
30:13 - Diana (Host)
I edited that sentence so many times we should make a next episode. So many episodes.
30:19 - JR (Co-host)
For real. But that is the truth beyond where we're coming from, and those people still very actively exist. Just because a handful of them came on our, it doesn't mean that people still aren't afraid or stigmatizing the industry because they grew up during their generation of the 80s and the 90s. So we need to make this knowledge accessible and also meet them where they are, and coming at them with exact scientific terms and stuff like that and trying to show about your knowledge isn't going to get them to calm down and relax.
30:55 - Diana (Host)
Or criticizing the way they consume, Exactly Like oh, you're using that Making fun of what they are already taking at the time.
31:01 - JR (Co-host)
You know we're not building any bridges. You know we're walling ourselves off and acting like we're better than everyone else when that's not the case at all. So you know it's something that we really need to break down in our own communities to welcome other people in, because our community does need to grow. We are not this great community that's high standing. You know we need it to grow and we need to get people in it that are like-minded to help it grow, to steer it back into a positive direction, because it's not going in that way and without bringing people in, you know we're never going to get that way and we're not going to bring people in by making fun of how they themselves are just trying to get through the day. You know, instead of shaming them, how about you educate them on what cannabis and CBD can do?
31:50 - Diana (Host)
Or find out why they're using the thing that you think is so gross Exactly. You know there's a reason. You know people aren't just out there throwing whatever they can at the wall to see what sticks all the time. You know, yeah.
32:04 - JR (Co-host)
And it turns into like we don't want to be like this, we're too cool for school situation. When I was in South we're in South Florida, there was a lot of kava bars that were around. Some of the kava bars would hire people that had like this chip on their shoulder that they thought they were better than everyone else because they were working at a kava bar. They would dictate who would come into their kava bar and who couldn't. It was very toxic and it really stunted the growth of the community and we don't want to be that. We don't want to be too cool for school. It's like, oh, I'm the gatekeeper of this information. I'm going to tell you what it's called, I'm going to tell you how you're doing, I'm going to say whether or not you're allowed to consume it this way or that way. Like we need to stop because it is keeping the community from growing and it's just, it's not going to be good.
32:48 - Diana (Host)
We're not going towards normalization.
32:50 - JR (Co-host)
No.
32:51 - Diana (Host)
We're not in that direction. I feel At all. I mean, there's a lot more to say about it, but we'll keep that for another episode. But anyway, until next time, stay high and beautiful. I don't have a sign-off. This podcast has been a product of your Highness Media. Each episode is written, produced and edited by your Highness Media. Thank you for listening.