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0:00ANice.
0:00BYeah, that’s pretty good.
0:01CI enjoy it. Now, do you want me to be looking at that or at you? Uh, it’s up to you, honestly.
0:06BOkay, well, I’m better at talking to people than --
0:09CYeah, so look at me.
0:09BThat’s cool. Yeah, what’s up?
0:11CSo what’s your name?
0:11BBrondo.
0:12CBrondo. And what brings you out here tonight, Brondo? Where are we at?
0:15BWe are at Purple Haze in Inglewood off of Brighton. I’m sorry, Broadway. Goodness, sorry, Broadway.
0:22CIt’s all good, it’s all good. And what brings you out here?
0:24BWe brought our flower up so that people could, uh, come up and try samples at the flower bar. We brought some Candy Cake, some Summertime Shootout, some Z Block Frosted Cheesecake, some Number One Stunner, and some Honey Pack.
0:42COkay, okay.
0:44BAnd, uh, people have been having samples and enjoying themselves. And, uh, the Honey Pack is the flower that people are racing on in the Fastest Gram competition that Bro is hosting over there.
0:57AAnd --
0:58BOkay. The Candy Cake strain right here is what they’re using in the blunt rolling competition behind you. So, um, and then the tall guy dressed in mostly purple over there was, uh, he was walking around with a 6-foot bong with people smoking this strain earlier.
1:21CYeah, I saw that 6-foot bong.
1:22BOh yeah, it’s impressive. It is. I’m like, oh wait. So we just, we just want to make sure that people have an opportunity to, you know, come to a party, a get-together like this, and smoke on some good flower and and just have a really good time.
1:37CHell yeah. So what do you think about the state of cannabis culture?
1:40BI have hope for it.
1:45AOkay.
1:46BI do.
1:46CYou have concerns about it?
1:48BWell, of course. I mean, you’d be a fool not to have concerns about it. There’s different levels of concerns that people have, and rightfully so, because, you know, you have these pushes to make everything into something that it doesn’t need to be, and it’s just really unfortunate. flower. It’s a plant. It’s meant to be grown.
2:10AIt’s not meant to be just mass-produced in these ways that it’s getting done. And it’s just --
2:18Bsomething gets lost along the way.
2:19CSo you have some concerns about Big Cannabis?
2:21BPrimarily, yes. Yeah. Um, I, I don’t think they have the right things in mind. And what I end up hearing from a lot of the people that come to these events is often the same thing. People that they end up buying this that comes in at like 35% THC and 40% THC. They smoke it and they have these freaking bad effects where they end up having panic attacks and stuff like that, and they can’t sleep. All of these different issues come up because what’s going on is they’re, they’re growing this flower for high THC purposes. They’re not giving it enough sulfur. They’re not giving it what it needs to really develop its terpenes. So you get this ridiculous amount of medicine