Name: Joe Rogan Experience #807 - Gino & AJ, from Speedweed
Uploaded: 2016-06-08T01:56:13.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #807 - Gino & AJ, from Speedweed' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-06-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #807 - Gino & AJ, from Speedweed

Some cool boss guy
Gino and AJ from LA Speedweed you are live. Are you tweeting? I was retweeting
your tweet
Joe just recorded a jingle for us. So yeah, that's your jingle. Let's pull that
That should be your new ringtone
first of all Gino has been my friend for a long time and he's basically
He's the guy that turned me on to this whole LA marijuana delivery scene that
is going on in LA, which was
amazing for
Comedians and for anybody who has a medical card where you could just call this
cool dude
And he would tell you what the great stuff is and you hang out with him and
talk with him and you could buy it
And it was all totally legal and above board. It was all good
But somewhere along the line
some fuckery ran afoot and they they came up with some new political rules that
keep marijuana delivery services
from operating busy
explain it because you essentially the way they've set it up is like you would
have to have had a
License to operate in each one of the houses that you're delivering to is that
how it works? Well
It used to be called the Wild West, you know out here in California for medical
marijuana
and it it very much was until they wanted to regulate it and
most of the people wanted it regulated because they wanted marijuana so yes,
let's take let's have marijuana yes
Let's regulate it. However hold on people think that marijuana is legal in
California, but it is it is not absolutely not what we have is
Protection from prosecution. That's what we have which means that law
enforcement can knock your door down
Take your stuff take your weed take your cash take whatever you got there, and
you can show them all the papers in the world
And they're like that's great. That's cool
We're glad you're legal bring it to the judge
And you'll be good to go and you'll get your stuff back in a year and you guys
will be fine and that's happened to us
So but do you get your stuff back because I've heard a lot of people that have
never gotten their stuff back?
We always have we so how long have they kept your stuff for?
Oh over a year here, so so if you have if you have weed over a year, they're
not they're not taking care of it
It's done. So that weeds useless. It's useless. So you lose how much money?
It was like that. Well, you don't have to say it is substantial substantial
amount of money of course, and so they give you the cash back
They'll give you it again. They actually cut you a check. Yes
I cut you a check for the cash from the district attorney's office
I have one hanging on AJ's wall in his office of them returning
thousands a few thousand dollars to us
Which because again when there was any sort of trouble it was all right
You have to go see a judge you go see the judge and judge looks at the
paperwork and in our first case the judge said
we've never seen a more compliant company in California and
Dismissed without prejudice and our lawyer asked instead of dismissing without
prejudice. We actually would like that entered in
To the record that you're calling LA speed we the most compliant marijuana
company you've ever ever dealt with so we had it entered into the end into the
Into the record didn't translate though. It didn't check I have a lawsuit on my
desk
That is I'm holding my hands 18 inches apart by the way that is that high I'm
just lawsuit from the city
It's just super unfortunate because it's obviously not the will of the people
You know whenever something's not the will of the people like it's it's clear
by all the gentlemen in this room
We're all grown adults and we all enjoy marijuana. We all have responsible
lives. We all do stuff
We all get things done and we all enjoy it. Yeah, and we're taxpayers. We're
normal people. We're not freaks
We're not like ne'er-do-wells or
Someone who's clinging off the system and and fucking up, you know
Social systems that we've set up for people that are trying to get by in this
world. No
We're just folks. We're just guys. Yeah, and let's talk about what you said
just before the will of the people
When they voted on this
This proposition D which is a zoning law. Hold on. Have any of you guys even
ever heard of zoning ordinance?
Measure D has anyone heard of that?
No, no, of course not of course not right has anyone heard of it, but hold on
we haven't heard of any zoning
That's that nobody does ever that's the thing is nobody pays attention to
zoning laws
So now speed weed and services like ours that are doing things the right way
are closed in the city
Because of a zoning ordinance that was passed because all these pot shops are
opening up
So they said they're opening near schools and churches gotta protect the
children
Isn't it hilarious that opening them near churches is an issue mm-hmm
It should be it's it's politics in church and state it's politics
Well, they they say that during the old days of the Catholic Church when they
would walk down the aisle with that incense thing
They would be burning marijuana
Like that's what they would be burning and they'd be wafting it through the
room as they walk by
You know, you know those things that they carry around those things had weed in
them
there's a pamphlet online about
That's probably one of them Todd McCormick quotes
But probably told me that I'm like, oh, that's a fact for sure. I'm not even
gonna bother looking that up
Sounds so good, but certainly cannabis has been part of the human record since
since the beginning, right?
It's a bizarre time we live in and it's
It's a long
Complicated explanation if someone who's never heard it before is like, well,
how did it get illegal?
Most of it got illegal because of William Randolph Hearst. Yes, which is
bananas that here we are in
2016 and this fucking crazy man from the 1930s who was running all these
newspapers
Running everything and the the man that Citizen Kane's based on the Orson Welles
movie
He was just a maniac and he decided to get marijuana
To make it illegal so that hemp would be illegal. Correct?
It was yeah the textiles. Cause he owned the newspapers, he owned the timber
industry
And you've had it is insane that the the propaganda that this guy created in
the 1930s
Even though we recognize it. Everyone knows it. It's a fact you can watch it.
Yep
You can watch reefer badness. You can see what's written down what they were
attempting to do to make it illegal
The fact that it still sticks in
2016 and you couldn't smoke that stuff that they that they have any no no
No, it's not psychoactive. Oh, well that is the craziest part like we add it on
it
We sell hemp, but we have to buy it from Canada
Yes buy it from Canada and bring it down to the United States because even
though it's legal and it's not psychoactive
These farmers they can't grow it major. They're starting to try to change those
laws, but as far as I know
I mean, I don't know of any large-scale hemp growing operations here in the
United States not yet
Not yet dangerous, but China's just just dedicated millions of acres
You won't your own you will have to worry about your own government
When you're growing a plant that you make clothes out of you make paper
That's all they're doing with it like let's be really clear on that that the
hemp that they're growing
You can't get high off of it. It's totally non-psychoactive ever yet. It's
federally
Illegal mm-hmm. There's a fucking plant that makes the best clothes
It makes way stronger fabric way stronger paper. You can eat it. It has all the
essential amino acids
It's like a full complete amino acid profile. It's like one of the very few
plants that's like that you can make bio fuel of it
You can make fucking livestock food you look at old Ironsides USS Constitution
the flag and that and the and the sales are made of hemp
And they're still those are the original things from hundreds of years ago
It's one of the best things that nature's ever created this fucking fiber. It
has this incredibly powerful fiber like um
Who the fuck was it one of my friends has an actual hemp stalk and I was over
his house
I picked it up, and I was like whoa this is like a fucking alien plant right
because it's hard as like a hardwood
Tensile strength stronger than steel when it's wound yeah, so it feels hard
like oak, but it's light like balsa wood yeah
It's really weird you can make spaceships out of the shit
It feels like it's light and strong and we're not using it because it's illegal
it's fucking crazy crazy parachutes used to be made out of it
I know George Bush senior jumped out of a plane in a with a hemp parachute
You know so so all canvases well all canvases the Mona Lisa was painted on
cannabis
It was made on hemp our founding fathers had hemp fields in their farms because
the hemp cleans
the fallow fields after wheat fucks up your fields and corn fucks up your
fields hemp goes in there cleans it all out it's so
It's it's such an identifier of how goofy people are here in 2016 that that's
an issue
Yeah, that we're dealing with this weird hemp thing because it's related to
marijuana
Like someone does anyone hear this though? I mean did people really with with
Trump and Hillary and Bernie
Do people really care that they do they don't know most people don't know most
people have no idea most people think there's some health
Related risks and that's reason why it was made illegal
That's why we're it's so for such a frustrating time for us because we start
talking about zoning ordinance D and people are like
I'm so bored can't we just get baked? What do you mean you're out of business?
Well, don't you feel like how long you guys in the business about six years six
years? Yeah
Um, how much has changed in six years so much since I've had a card I got my
card in
It was the 90s 90s. Yeah, so there was once there's just one state. Yeah here
Yeah, we got in the business. There's about five states that were legal now
There's 24 when Florida is gonna go that's gonna be 25 plus DC
It's half the country. That's crazy and CBD is if you conclude CBD there's only
like seven or eight states that are not participating
Like seven or eight states. I guess no I think about it. I guess it was more
like 2001
It's that's still way early, but my point was gonna be that it's way more
relaxed now. It's way more prevalent
I used to have to go to Englewood. I go to Englewood Wellness Center. Mm-hmm.
It is in the hoods. Yeah
Yeah, one of the gentlemen that worked there got shot and that's when I stopped
going
But that's how that's how it was when we started right when we started a ha
wasn't much of a smoker when I moved out here to, California
And you know he was condescending now you bring condescending
You guys fucking with each other
So so you know
We were working in technology for the government before I we started to be
together who you guys are CIA
I know it and I know it infiltrated you know, don't put me in Sturgill Simpsons
category
Let me tell you this story real quick Sturgill Simpson was on stage and some
dude yells out in the audience Sturgill
Please tell me you're not really a CIA assassin
And he just shrugged and went on the next song
Wheeler Walker jr. How funny is that dude? Oh my god, he's hilarious
So so AJ was
We were working in a stressful environment working for Congress
At the time and he was actually
Drinking to medicate himself as we were you know working doing technology
coding and things like that and he started playing with
Neurotropics to say you know what I'm not gonna drink anymore and I said
instead of neurotropics
Why don't you try cannabis, you know what I was that guy who had the shelves of
Modofinil and neuropeptin and all and you know
L-theanine all these different crazy things that you can get on or off the
market and Gino's like just smoke this
Just put all that shit away put the booze away and just smoke this
I'm like no it's gonna make me freak out
Well one thing that nootropics do help it helps me a maintain memory while
under the influence because it's one of the
Most slippery things about being under the infl