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When I came back to America,
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I very much feltI was in the land of the conquered people.
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That it had been trashed.
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That it was not the same country I left.
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I was very upset
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and my familydidn't want to hear about it.
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I began dreaming of a sisterhoodthat could heal the people,
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heal the Valley.
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I was walking homefrom a meeting with local activists.
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A woman sees meand rushes across the street,
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she's crying and she says,"Sister, sister,
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I lost my job,I have a seven-year-old son.
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I'm an alcoholic,
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I was heading to the liquor store
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and you're a sign from God."
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She fell into my arms sobbing and crying.
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I looked up at the street lightlike it's God
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as I'm huggingthis woman and going,
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"Please forgive me."
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Then I sent her back and I said,
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"Have you ever tried the cannabis plant?"
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And she said,"Wait, what kind of nun are you?"
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Cannabis,
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we have an epidemic nationwide.
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Majority of people
do not like the idea of smoking pot.
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So as far as I'm concerned,
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anything that takes over your body
like that should be, erm,
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controlled.
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Who doesn't know someone
who smokes grass or uses grass?
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I could be talking to a judge,
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I could be talking to our head...
our district attorney.
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Who don't you know that doesn't smoke?
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Americans want marijuana
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and we are unmindful
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of the ugliness that is involved
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in getting it to us.
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I think most of us nowadaysdon't even call it a drug anymore.
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It's just weed.
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Even if we were to compare it to alcohol,
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kids our age still have a sour attitude
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towards alcohol versus weed.
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People say it's just marijuana...
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but the federal government
still treats marijuana
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as an illegal drug.
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So it's not just marijuana.
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On face value just looking at it,
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yeah, it is just marijuana.
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But there's so many dark things behind it.
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The Catholic and the Muslimsand the Church of Scientology
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and the Baptists will not stand up.
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We're gonna lose this battle
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of drug addiction
to Satan and the enemy himself.
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Growing plants is dangerous in many ways
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which is what scares me about my mom
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or anyone in my familybeing in the business.
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There's multiple instances where she was,
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I feel like, she was in danger.
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But I would always tell her,
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I don't want you to lose your lifeover this.
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But I'm still going with it,you know...
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because it's what pays the bills
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and Mom feels that the spirituality
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is what makes people listen.They wanna know what's going on.
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Merced County, the soil is so great
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and we expect to get like
eight to ten pound a plant.
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-Here's my card.
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We have nuns that are drug dealers.
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The sisterhoodwas delivering cannabis
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to dying people.
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It doesn't matterhow you dress up,
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if you are dealing illegally,
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then you are a drug dealer.
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We are on a sacred calling here.
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We need to stop all of it altogether.
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And this is the reason
why I'm on this mission.
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So much he doesn't understand.
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It's an age-old problem, drugs ruin lives.
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I will take their product
and I will take it to the dump
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and I will cite them into court.
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After all the betrayal in my life,
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after being left penniless and homeless
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by my own family,
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everyone needs to understand
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that I will do whatever it takes
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to protect what I have built.
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Oh, there's Chris in her nightgown.
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That's not her wedding dress.
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Chris, Chris, I've got you on camera.
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I know, Mother.
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I was born and raised in Wisconsin,
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educated in Wisconsin.
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I got my degree in business education.
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I was a corporate girl.
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I once voted for Ronald Reagan.
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I married my husband, Gary,when I was 28 years old.
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It's my privilege
to present to you,
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for the first time
formally and officially,
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as husband and wife, Gary and Christine.
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It was oneof the happiest days of my life.
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I was very much in love with him.
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We were happy togetherin those early years
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and I felt like I was livingthe American Dream.
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Within a year,I was pregnant with our first son.
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OK.
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This is it, one month pregnant.
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Five and a half weeks.
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Three years later, we had three children
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and we're living in a big suburban housein Kentucky.
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Hey, farmer Gary.
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What are you planting?
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Tomatoes.
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We had a great marriage.
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Everybody was jealous of us.
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We were happy.
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Thank me.
This is my wonderful wife.
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That's right.
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She's so sweet all the time.
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Tell me you love me.
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I don't.
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Come on, Christine.
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-OK, he loves me.
- Go next to your husband.
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-He loves me.
- Get over there.
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Now wave to the family.
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Tell the camera how much you love me.
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I had my business degreeand I was ambitious.
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As the children got a little older,
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he chose to stay home and be with them,
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while I choseto grow the consulting business.
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Oh, my goodness,
you think you got enough babies, Dad?
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I got my babies.
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Gary ended up staying at home,
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being the stay-at-home dad
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and he was just always a rock-solid guy.
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He wanted to be the stay-at-home mom.
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It was a lot of diapers he had to change
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and a lot of meals he had to fix
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and he was a very front-and-centre father.
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He was an excellent fatherwith my children.
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This is a tape. I'm reading--
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Bye, Mommy and Daddy.
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Bye, Alex.
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As far as I remember,he was a really good dad.
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Very attentive, he was there for me.
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He took me to soccer practice
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and he did what he was supposed to do,we spent quality time together.
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Hey, Alex.
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She was the breadwinner of the family.
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She was the CEO, she was the boss.
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She was the one, the,
"I'm not gonna take anyone's shit," lady.
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So growing up, that was definitelyan amazing role model for me.
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Chris was as corporate
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as you would expect in the banking world.
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There was no rebellious side of her
whatsoever.
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I worked as a consultantin telecommunications.
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And turned out I was really good at it.
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I used to say
I implement businessmen's fantasies.
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I made a lot of people a lot of money
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and I accepted the assignment
for an American company
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to live in Amsterdam, help them launch
their telecommunication services
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in six countries.
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Over the course of the ten years
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in the Netherlands,
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my consulting company
banked a million dollars.
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My husband, all about savings.
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We were all about savings.
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And he agreed that
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he had set aside $300,000
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for me to relaunchmy consulting company in America.
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OK, so that's a picture for me
in my office in Kentucky.
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So in our house in Kentucky.
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That's hard to find, isn't it?
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Oh, the one belows the freezer, Meg.
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They were getting themselvesestablished again.
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Is this the living room?
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So everything was set up
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for a happy family life.
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It's three monkeys!
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But I guess all of that's quite deceiving
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once you find out that other things
were actually going on.
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- It feels bigger, doesn't it?
- Yeah.
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What are you guys doing up there?
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After they had moved to Kentucky
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and owned their own home there,
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Gary decided to take the kids camping
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and it was his sister
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that had come overon the Saturday morning
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with some mail in his name
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but with different addresses.
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Hello, Mommy!
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I guess the curiositygot the better of her,
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she opened up one or moreof those envelopes
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and, low and behold,
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there was some financial statements.
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That was a bit of a shockbecause there are these accounts
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that she wasn't aware that they existed.
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I guess fortuitous
that the mail was handed to her
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and then she suddenly saw the truth.
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So the million dollars
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that had piled upinto our business account,
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he just seized.
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He said,
"You're poor, I'm rich, deal with it."
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I could hearher trembling over the phone line
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because it was excruciating, painful.
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This is him moving money.
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25,000 out of there and into there.
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He took all of the money,
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while he couldn't just
give us a little for food.
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He did some really horrible things.
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The first month we were in Holland,
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he opened a Swiss account
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and started funnelling moneyout of the business
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into a Swiss accountand then an Isle of Man account
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and then a South American account.
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Every which way
that he could handle the books
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and make the money go to his account
and make it look to me
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like the money was going
to the proper place, he did that.
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My attorney,when she looked at what happened,
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she actually said,
"I think he premeditated this divorce
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from the day he married you."
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The horror of a 17-year marriage
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with a man,
who I thought I was gonna be with
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for the rest of my life,
decided he hated me.
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And how did it make me feel?
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Like a cannon to the chest.
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Like, completely devastated,
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humiliated and stupid.
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You can't help.
You blame yourself for not seeing things.
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And that's how I felt.
I felt humiliated and stupid.
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I'm sure a psychologist
could have a heyday
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in terms of what that betrayal,
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what it put her through.
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That was the end of that relationship.
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Yeah, I got the brackets around here.
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They're ready to go.
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He didn't steal itbecause he wanted money
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or he even likes money.He stole it for control.
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The fight for the money is still going on.
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I mean, this was just
a litigation nightmare.
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It's been a ten-year battle.
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You know, evidence packages.
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The example
that he wasn't paying child support
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and bought a new car
right after the divorce,
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but he can't pay child support.
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And, anyway,
all these boxes are just loaded
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with all the evidence of everything
that happened since the day.
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And so, my attorney, she said,
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"I've got to tell you something
and it's gonna be a bit shocking."
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And I said, "Yes?"
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And she said,
"He never divorced the wife before you."
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I was horrified. I was totally horrified.
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I believed he was divorcedand married him.
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I haven't decided
if I'm gonna go after him
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about the bigamy thing.
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I had a Sophie's choiceright from the beginning.
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My attorney said,
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"You can fight for the moneyor you can fight for your children.
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Make up your mind." That was my milliondollars, he hadn't earned a cent of it.
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Those were my children,I gave birth to them.
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I had to say "I'll fight for the children
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and I'll go after the money later
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to get the children out."
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I simply leftand headed for family in California.
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I moved in with my uncle
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who was also going througha separation at the time
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and he was struggling as a single father,
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raising his two sons
and my mom was struggling raising us.
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My sister's my sister,
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I'll have her for the rest of my life.
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And her kids didn't have a dad.
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So it was kind of a good idea
for her to move out here.
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And that way I could kind of play
the dad role for her kids
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and she could play the mother role
for my kids.
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And there was none of this
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wearing a nun's costumeand all that stuff.
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There was none of that.
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That came about later on.
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And so I settled into a whole new life
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with my children in California.
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Of course, I had no idea
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that this was just the beginningof my nightmare.
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The great valley of Central California,
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a valley filled with deep, fertile soils.
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The farmers on this landharvest rich crops.
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Today, the Central Valley of California
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is a rich source of foodand wealth for the whole nation
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and provides employmentfor millions of people.
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In fact,a great many different kinds of crops
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are grown here on the rich soil.
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Medicinal marijuanahas been legal for a while.
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Our local ordinance says a person can grow
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up to 12 plants.
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And this is the food basket of the world
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and the number one cash crop in California
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has been marijuana
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and we have derived no benefit
from that whatsoever
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because it has made
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certain illicit growers
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wealthy beyond their wildest imaginations.
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My brotherstarted talking about cannabis laws
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and the changing in Californiaand how if we were smart,
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we would start a cannabis business.
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And I pretty much started
right from the beginning.
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She needed an income.
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Around here, really hard
to find a good income,
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even for a woman as smart as she is.
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The cannabis was a good income.
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After the financial crisis of 2008,
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the agriculture industryof the Central Valley
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has really suffered.
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Luckily, the cannabis laws in California
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changed in 1996
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and it became legal to grow cannabisfor medical purposes.
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The whole Central Valley grows weed.
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The whole Central Valley.
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From all the way up north California,
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all the way down south.
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Counties that have embraced cannabis
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have created an enormous amount of wealth
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through taxing it.
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While there's lotsof legal growing for medicine,
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there's still lots of cannabis
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growing for the black market.
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Nowadays,
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there's a lot of farmers growing cannabis.
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Everybody decided why go to the mountains
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when you can do it in your backyard?
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But it's the same way
that there's people that grow it,
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there's also big crews of people out there
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that are ready to steal it,
ready to catch you sleeping.
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If you don't watch what you're doing,
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you can get into a lot of trouble.
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We were settled in Californiafor only four months
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and I could see that I wouldn't be ableto work in my chosen profession
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without leaving my children for travel.
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I was excited.
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I had never really been involvedin anything like this before.
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I was a corporate girl.
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I was good at business
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and Gary and I used to growlots of produce in our backyard.
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So I knew we could do this.
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I essentially said,
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"OK, we'll grow weed,
we'll cure weed, we'll deliver weed,
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we will be the weed family."
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I agreed to get into the cannabis business
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under a number of conditions.
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It had to be legal,
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we would pay all taxes,
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we would only supply medicinal cannabisto sick people
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and there'd be no black market deals.
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Pretty soon we had our first crop
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and we reached outto local doctors for clients.
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I was just serving dying patients
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and very, very sick patients,
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cos they're the only onesthe doctors would send me.
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And the Central Valley is so poor.
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So we supplied them with cannabis
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whether they could pay or not.
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Just bad karma to let peoplego suffering to their death.
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But at this time, legalised cannabis
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was quite new in California.
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Our first deliveries were hysterical
because no one could believe
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that somebody was actually
delivering cannabis in this town.
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And so we would knock on the door.
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The person would answer the door,
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stick their head out and look around
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to see, like, if there were any cops
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hiding in the bushes or something
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before they would let us in.
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The year I moved in with my brother,
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this is the photo of the five kids.
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We had boys ages 14 to 22
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and my daughter, who's 13.
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They each responded differently
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to their mom's new career path.
375
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I just never invited my friends over.
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I was like, "They're not ready for this."
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And none of my friendswere allowed in my backyard
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cos I didn't want themto see all the plants.
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Where you going, babe?
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My mom didn't like the idea
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of us doing things black market
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because it attracted thieves.
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You guys are such troublemakers,
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such troublemakers.
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If you're going the legal route,
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which is much more expensive, obviously,
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you have to pay taxes,
you have to hire guards.
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Yes, come on, monkey.
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I'm gonna throw you
on the other bed, monkey.
390
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But it's the safe route.
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And then you don't have to worryabout those things.
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But I didn't know what to expect.
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I knew that it was highly likely
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that my kids, like my brother's kids,
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would smoke weedwhile they're in high school
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and I didn't try to fight that.
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I figured I'd just put 'em to work.
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Alex was so big and strong,
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I had him doing all sorts of jobs.
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He was like the man of the house.
401
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If you keep them too busy,
402
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they can't smoke that much.
403
00:21:18,208 --> 00:21:20,375
-They just found this out there
404
00:21:20,458 --> 00:21:22,208
while they were rototilling.
405
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It's a dinner bell.
406
00:21:28,250 --> 00:21:30,167
So when the weed farm kicked off,
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I had a lot of fun with that.
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00:21:32,833 --> 00:21:34,958
At the time, I wasn't allowed to smoke.
409
00:21:35,042 --> 00:21:36,667
So I was, erm,
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00:21:36,750 --> 00:21:39,000
actually stealing
my mom's roaches at the time.
411
00:21:39,833 --> 00:21:42,458
I showed up to dinnerone night really stoned
412
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and she didn't want to call me on it
413
00:21:44,500 --> 00:21:46,833
because she didn't knowhow to handle that situation.
414
00:21:50,375 --> 00:21:52,167
My uncle called me out on it
415
00:21:52,250 --> 00:21:54,292
and said,"Why are your eyes glazed over?"
416
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My response was,
417
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"Er, it's the cat."
Cos I'm allergic to cats.
418
00:22:01,208 --> 00:22:03,000
That was the only thing
I could come up with
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00:22:03,083 --> 00:22:05,167
and they knew it was bullshit
but they let it slide.
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Things were going really well.
421
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I'm sure all... many farmers
have the same pride.
422
00:22:16,375 --> 00:22:17,708
But I had rules.
423
00:22:17,792 --> 00:22:20,792
I ran this operation as a legit business.
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00:22:22,833 --> 00:22:26,042
Whoa, whoa, that's really strong.
425
00:22:26,542 --> 00:22:28,458
Everything had to be accounted for.
426
00:22:28,542 --> 00:22:32,167
No... All the weed had to go
from inventory to being booked
427
00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:34,750
and there could be no missing links.
428
00:22:37,333 --> 00:22:38,792
She's a good business woman.
429
00:22:38,875 --> 00:22:41,583
She's an extremely smart person.
430
00:22:41,667 --> 00:22:43,625
You know, she knows business.
431
00:22:44,375 --> 00:22:46,333
But nobody was becoming millionaires.
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Nobody was taking any vacation.
433
00:22:49,583 --> 00:22:50,708
With most homes,
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you have to have a two income.
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00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:54,167
You know, it was hard for me to afford
436
00:22:54,250 --> 00:22:56,875
the mortgage and everything on this
with just one income.
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00:22:58,083 --> 00:23:00,542
We'd been operatingfor about three years when
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00:23:00,625 --> 00:23:04,375
I walked in on a black market deal
being done by my brother.
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00:23:07,708 --> 00:23:08,667
And I exploded.
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My Irish temper exploded.
441
00:23:10,417 --> 00:23:12,417
I exploded because I blew up.
442
00:23:13,250 --> 00:23:14,875
That night he pretty much
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00:23:14,958 --> 00:23:17,833
physically threw me out the front door.
444
00:23:22,083 --> 00:23:25,458
I literally watched my unclegrab my mom by the neck
445
00:23:26,292 --> 00:23:28,292
and force her out of the house
446
00:23:29,833 --> 00:23:31,833
and I don't understand that.
447
00:23:36,042 --> 00:23:37,417
There was no violence between us.
448
00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:39,167
There was no, you know...
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We don't raise our hands to each other,
450
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we're not that kind of people.
451
00:23:43,667 --> 00:23:44,667
We're mouthy.
452
00:23:44,750 --> 00:23:47,708
My brother took a bat to my knees
453
00:23:47,792 --> 00:23:50,208
and my family graded my howls.
454
00:23:51,250 --> 00:23:53,708
I have my principles and I have my rules
455
00:23:53,792 --> 00:23:56,583
and she has her principles and her rules
and they were colliding.
456
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And... And I say tough, my house.
457
00:24:00,750 --> 00:24:02,917
I didn't think of it
as much of a disagreement.
458
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,708
I looked at it as these are my rules.
459
00:24:04,792 --> 00:24:05,958
My house, my rules.
460
00:24:06,042 --> 00:24:08,708
Live with it, you know, or don't.
461
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,667
Christine, she didn'tget the support from the family,
462
00:24:20,833 --> 00:24:23,792
you know, when we had our disagreement.
463
00:24:23,875 --> 00:24:25,292
And they all took my side.
464
00:24:26,792 --> 00:24:28,458
Now my family's telling me,
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"Leave your children, you'll be fine.It didn't work out."
466
00:24:31,667 --> 00:24:33,667
"It was the weed business.
467
00:24:33,750 --> 00:24:37,542
You should've known the weed businesswould not work out."
468
00:24:37,625 --> 00:24:39,458
I told her...
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She would be the witch, she usually is.
470
00:24:42,542 --> 00:24:44,375
- That's right.
-What a nice mother.
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Suddenly, I was homeless.
472
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Walking downtown Merced with no home
473
00:24:57,458 --> 00:24:58,833
and looking up at the buildings
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that are being air conditioned and heated
and the lights are on
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00:25:01,583 --> 00:25:04,333
and, seriously, I have no place to stay.
476
00:25:06,625 --> 00:25:09,208
It was a sudden realisation
477
00:25:09,292 --> 00:25:11,167
of what homeless people really deal with.
478
00:25:14,042 --> 00:25:15,417
It was a little rough going.
479
00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:17,625
It was rough going,
more for her than it was for me,
480
00:25:17,708 --> 00:25:19,625
cos I was still in the house.
481
00:25:19,708 --> 00:25:22,625
She was just living, basically,
almost on the street, kind of thing.
482
00:25:25,250 --> 00:25:27,333
My mom was going through depression
483
00:25:27,417 --> 00:25:30,750
and that's why I've learned
in the face of trouble,
484
00:25:30,833 --> 00:25:32,875
a lot of times the people closest to you
485
00:25:32,958 --> 00:25:34,542
are the ones that'll hurt you the most.
486
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The betrayal of a family.
487
00:25:40,375 --> 00:25:44,000
I realised that my whole thinking,
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how I thought about my family,
was built on a fallacy.
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00:25:48,875 --> 00:25:50,458
Those values I was raised with,
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they don't exist.
491
00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:54,167
They never really loved me.
492
00:25:54,250 --> 00:25:57,958
They loved the reflection
of themselves in my eyes.
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00:25:59,750 --> 00:26:01,083
Nobody had it in them
494
00:26:01,167 --> 00:26:03,667
to go see after that fight if she was OK,
495
00:26:03,750 --> 00:26:06,083
except for me.
496
00:26:07,750 --> 00:26:10,583
And at first it was all about
497
00:26:10,667 --> 00:26:14,417
trying to make sure
my mom was safe and stable
498
00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:17,417
because she always makes sure
that I'm safe and stable.
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00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:18,833
I can't do shit without her.
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00:26:22,917 --> 00:26:25,000
And during this time,we were trying to find out
501
00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:27,917
where our next meal was gonna come fromor where we were gonna sleep.
502
00:26:29,333 --> 00:26:30,708
I was hungry,
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00:26:30,792 --> 00:26:33,000
I was not thinking aboutgoing to class, obviously,
504
00:26:33,083 --> 00:26:35,375
because I need to get fed, I'm thirsty.
505
00:26:36,917 --> 00:26:40,333
We had a legitimate,
very serious discussion about suicide,
506
00:26:40,417 --> 00:26:41,458
the two of us.
507
00:26:43,083 --> 00:26:44,542
Betrayal is too huge.
508
00:26:44,625 --> 00:26:47,000
I absolutely thought
about suicide every day,
509
00:26:48,750 --> 00:26:51,583
that really I need
to go be with the angels where it's safe
510
00:26:51,667 --> 00:26:54,083
because this place
is just too freaking scary.
511
00:26:56,958 --> 00:27:00,208
We had discussions about
maybe we should do it with pills,
512
00:27:00,292 --> 00:27:03,042
cos, you know, pills...
Vicodin, it won't be painful.
513
00:27:03,125 --> 00:27:05,917
And then we're like, "We have no money.
514
00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:08,333
We can't even afford pills."
515
00:27:08,417 --> 00:27:10,375
And eventually I thought about it
516
00:27:10,458 --> 00:27:12,625
and I managed to
517
00:27:12,708 --> 00:27:14,542
sort of talk her out of the idea.
518
00:27:14,625 --> 00:27:16,917
Because at first, I was like,
"Fuck, yeah!"
519
00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:24,542
The only thingthat kept me from doing that
520
00:27:24,625 --> 00:27:27,125
is that the sense that they would've won.
521
00:27:27,208 --> 00:27:29,750
Then my children
were truly without their mother.
522
00:27:33,833 --> 00:27:35,958
After four months of homelessness,
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00:27:36,042 --> 00:27:38,667
my mother agreed to help me, finally.
524
00:27:38,750 --> 00:27:41,333
So she had to co-sign for me,
I had no job.
525
00:27:41,417 --> 00:27:43,167
I was 56 years old
526
00:27:43,250 --> 00:27:46,417
and being treated like a 17 year oldtrying to get a house.
527
00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:48,958
So I had to take my mother's help
528
00:27:49,042 --> 00:27:50,917
to get a house.
529
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,625
For $1,000 a month,
530
00:27:52,708 --> 00:27:55,000
I could rent a little house
by the railroad tracks.
531
00:28:02,208 --> 00:28:05,375
2015, at about two o'clock in the morning,
532
00:28:05,458 --> 00:28:07,417
I get a knock on my door
533
00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:09,667
and a young gentleman asked me for help.
534
00:28:10,625 --> 00:28:12,917
A home invasionrobbery in Merced County,
535
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,542
has left a man deadand two others wounded.
536
00:28:15,625 --> 00:28:18,167
Deputies said the intruderswanted marijuana
537
00:28:18,250 --> 00:28:20,708
but ended up in a gun battlewith the homeowners.
538
00:28:21,750 --> 00:28:24,500
Somebody that was out of my sight
ripped the door open
539
00:28:24,583 --> 00:28:26,333
and forced their way into my house.
540
00:28:27,667 --> 00:28:29,333
My son heard all the ruckus
541
00:28:29,417 --> 00:28:31,917
and he came out of his bedroom back there
542
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,833
with a .22 rifle that he has never shot,
543
00:28:34,917 --> 00:28:36,500
opened up fire on 'em.
544
00:28:36,583 --> 00:28:39,292
Killed the guy that I was fighting with,
put five rounds into him,
545
00:28:39,375 --> 00:28:43,000
but caught my finger in the...
gun shooting.
546
00:28:44,542 --> 00:28:47,708
Investigators believethe suspects picked this place
547
00:28:47,792 --> 00:28:51,250
because it's been knownfor medical marijuana dispensary
548
00:28:51,333 --> 00:28:53,583
which is prohibited in Merced County.
549
00:28:53,667 --> 00:28:55,333
Jeez, how much...?
550
00:28:55,417 --> 00:28:57,708
You know, I look at it as,
sometimes you have to take it
551
00:28:57,792 --> 00:28:59,167
as signs from the universe
552
00:28:59,250 --> 00:29:01,667
that you're doing something
that you shouldn't be doing.
553
00:29:16,792 --> 00:29:19,250
How many times have you heard,
554
00:29:19,333 --> 00:29:21,917
"I should be able to do
what I want to do with my body?"
555
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,417
I hear that all the time.
556
00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:25,500
Well, then go live in a cave,
557
00:29:25,583 --> 00:29:27,333
because when you become addicted,
558
00:29:28,042 --> 00:29:30,708
everybody in your family's affected.
559
00:29:31,750 --> 00:29:33,625
Your neighbour next door
560
00:29:33,708 --> 00:29:35,083
got to deal with your addiction
561
00:29:35,167 --> 00:29:36,875
and your whole community.
562
00:29:36,958 --> 00:29:39,375
When you become addicted to marijuana,
563
00:29:40,958 --> 00:29:42,958
you don't only ruin your life
564
00:29:43,833 --> 00:29:46,875
but you ruin the lives
of many other people
565
00:29:46,958 --> 00:29:48,667
at the same time.
566
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,083
In Merced County,
567
00:30:07,167 --> 00:30:09,458
you're not allowedto have a cannabis business.
568
00:30:09,542 --> 00:30:12,375
You are allowed to have 12 plants
569
00:30:12,458 --> 00:30:13,917
for personal use.
570
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,000
But they don't have a wayof permitting you
571
00:30:16,083 --> 00:30:18,125
or licensing you for doing a business.
572
00:30:21,625 --> 00:30:23,500
I took my 12 personal plants
573
00:30:23,583 --> 00:30:25,417
and started making oils and lotion
574
00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:27,208
and began selling them around the world,
575
00:30:27,292 --> 00:30:28,917
although I didn't have a licence
576
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,958
for doing business in my home.
577
00:30:33,750 --> 00:30:35,750
So I was dancing aroundthe cottage industry laws
578
00:30:35,833 --> 00:30:38,667
and the personal cannabis grow right laws,
579
00:30:38,750 --> 00:30:41,500
knowing that I was pushing boundaries.
580
00:30:42,458 --> 00:30:45,958
And it's the county sheriffwho sets those boundaries.
581
00:30:46,042 --> 00:30:48,500
I have to get stoned
if I'm gonna listen to him.
582
00:30:48,583 --> 00:30:50,500
From Merced County's Community.
583
00:30:53,583 --> 00:30:55,042
We are your voice,
584
00:30:55,125 --> 00:30:57,750
Merced County News Television.
585
00:30:57,833 --> 00:30:59,792
Now, here's Diana Perez
586
00:30:59,875 --> 00:31:02,667
with Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke.
587
00:31:04,917 --> 00:31:07,375
We've got gangsters
588
00:31:07,458 --> 00:31:10,000
that have married each other,
589
00:31:10,083 --> 00:31:12,125
that raised gangster kids
590
00:31:12,208 --> 00:31:14,542
and a lot of times
when we have the homicides,
591
00:31:14,625 --> 00:31:15,958
there's an outside influence,
592
00:31:16,042 --> 00:31:18,458
whether it be in gangs or substance abuse.
593
00:31:18,542 --> 00:31:21,125
And a lot of the substance
abuse is illegal narcotics.
594
00:31:21,208 --> 00:31:24,542
We are gonna be activelyand aggressively going after 'em.
595
00:31:24,625 --> 00:31:25,958
What we have to do
596
00:31:26,042 --> 00:31:28,667
is get into the livesof some of these people.
597
00:31:31,875 --> 00:31:33,708
Cannabis,
as far as I'm concerned,
598
00:31:33,792 --> 00:31:35,042
can be very dangerous.
599
00:31:35,125 --> 00:31:37,167
We have an epidemic nationwide.
600
00:31:37,250 --> 00:31:39,333
And it's people just wanting to get high
601
00:31:39,417 --> 00:31:40,542
and I don't understand it.
602
00:31:40,625 --> 00:31:41,875
They're non-productive,
603
00:31:41,958 --> 00:31:45,417
they're leeching off of society
604
00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:47,583
and the few people that
605
00:31:47,667 --> 00:31:49,625
aren't doing the drugs
606
00:31:49,708 --> 00:31:51,500
are the ones working
and holding down a job,
607
00:31:51,583 --> 00:31:52,875
and paying the taxes,
608
00:31:52,958 --> 00:31:55,625
to subsidise those drug users' lives.
609
00:31:55,708 --> 00:31:57,458
How would you like to have your surgeon
610
00:31:57,542 --> 00:31:59,333
just before you go on open heart surgery
611
00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:00,792
sitting outside the hospital
612
00:32:01,625 --> 00:32:03,917
grabbing a joint,
613
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,042
smoking it and saying,
"Yeah, I'm alright!"?
614
00:32:07,167 --> 00:32:09,000
But that's what people...
"Oh, it's alright."
615
00:32:09,083 --> 00:32:11,833
Well, really if it's that alright,
would you want that to happen?
616
00:32:11,917 --> 00:32:14,875
How would you like the two pilots
up in the 747
617
00:32:14,958 --> 00:32:16,667
as they're flying smoking the stuff?
618
00:32:16,750 --> 00:32:18,333
Well, if it's alright, then it's alright.
619
00:32:19,167 --> 00:32:21,750
How 'bout the copsshowing up at your house?
620
00:32:21,833 --> 00:32:23,875
How would you like themstoned out of their gourd
621
00:32:23,958 --> 00:32:25,750
while they're trying to enforce these laws
622
00:32:25,833 --> 00:32:27,875
and do the right thingand make the right decision?
623
00:32:27,958 --> 00:32:29,833
Anybody that's wanting to do something
624
00:32:29,917 --> 00:32:32,500
should be doing it legaland the government
625
00:32:32,583 --> 00:32:34,208
is here to protect citizens.
626
00:32:39,417 --> 00:32:41,708
But the bottom line is,the amount of gang marijuana
627
00:32:41,792 --> 00:32:43,792
that's growing, it's unreal.
628
00:32:46,167 --> 00:32:47,500
There's a county to our north
629
00:32:47,583 --> 00:32:49,750
that has actually declared
a state of emergency
630
00:32:49,833 --> 00:32:51,958
with regard to the epidemic.
631
00:32:52,792 --> 00:32:54,125
And if our numbers keep going up,
632
00:32:54,208 --> 00:32:56,000
that'll be one of my next moves too.
633
00:32:56,792 --> 00:32:58,667
Some officers take it upon themselves
634
00:32:58,750 --> 00:33:01,292
to come in on their days offto help eradicate this
635
00:33:01,375 --> 00:33:03,167
because they also knowthat it's a problem.
636
00:33:03,833 --> 00:33:06,708
So this place that we're going now,
637
00:33:06,792 --> 00:33:09,208
there's a gentleman
that's wanted on felony warrants.
638
00:33:09,292 --> 00:33:11,542
The last time that he was contacted
639
00:33:11,625 --> 00:33:13,417
here by his probation officer,
640
00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:17,083
they located several large
illegally grown marijuana plants.
641
00:33:17,750 --> 00:33:20,250
He's not very cooperative
with law enforcement.
642
00:33:23,333 --> 00:33:25,167
I'm afraid what the local growers
are gonna do
643
00:33:25,250 --> 00:33:27,417
is thinking they're being raided
by other bad guys.
644
00:33:28,667 --> 00:33:31,208
Make no mistake,the gangs will shoot at the cops.
645
00:33:33,042 --> 00:33:35,500
-OK, these are 12 plants here though?
- Yeah.
646
00:33:35,583 --> 00:33:37,917
Alright, you know that this
is one parcel of land, right?
647
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,250
- I know that.
-OK.
648
00:33:39,333 --> 00:33:42,375
-We've been doing it for about four years.
-OK, so what's gonna happen
649
00:33:42,458 --> 00:33:45,042
is between both grows,
we can only have 12.
650
00:33:45,125 --> 00:33:47,042
So you might have to go six and six.
651
00:33:47,667 --> 00:33:48,917
This is one parcel of land
652
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,250
and this is where we run into our problem.
653
00:33:51,333 --> 00:33:53,667
We have two different
peoples growing on one property.
654
00:33:53,750 --> 00:33:55,917
So it's only 12 plants per parcel.
655
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,750
So we have 12 plants being grown there
to maximise the limit
656
00:33:58,833 --> 00:34:01,875
and now I think
we have an illegal grow over here as well.
657
00:34:03,375 --> 00:34:05,917
-So this one over here is?
- I don't know whose that is.
658
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,500
We don't know whose grow over here?
659
00:34:07,583 --> 00:34:09,667
-I'm not sure.
-Do you know about how many plants--
660
00:34:09,750 --> 00:34:12,250
I don't know what's over there.
I don't go back there.
661
00:34:14,583 --> 00:34:15,750
Three years ago,
662
00:34:15,833 --> 00:34:18,417
this county was number one for population
663
00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:20,000
for the amount of homicides.
664
00:34:20,083 --> 00:34:22,042
It was a lot of gang-related homicides.
665
00:34:26,333 --> 00:34:29,000
There is a problem and it's horrible.
666
00:34:30,417 --> 00:34:31,875
Sheriff's department!
667
00:34:46,083 --> 00:34:47,333
Obviously, they're hiding it
668
00:34:47,417 --> 00:34:49,625
behind a bunch of boxes.
669
00:34:49,708 --> 00:34:52,250
So typically this is our,
670
00:34:52,333 --> 00:34:54,833
one of the small outdoor grows, 24 plants.
671
00:34:54,917 --> 00:34:57,167
But with the 12 there's 36.
672
00:34:58,958 --> 00:35:00,542
And we've hit grows before
673
00:35:00,625 --> 00:35:02,792
where people have put their life savings
674
00:35:02,875 --> 00:35:05,458
into growing marijuana
675
00:35:05,542 --> 00:35:08,875
and we've come out and done
what we're supposed to do,
676
00:35:08,958 --> 00:35:10,875
enforce the law,
677
00:35:10,958 --> 00:35:14,042
left them with 12 plants
and they've been literally in tears
678
00:35:14,125 --> 00:35:16,208
because they sunk their life savings
679
00:35:16,292 --> 00:35:18,458
into an endeavour that's really,
680
00:35:18,542 --> 00:35:20,500
there's a lot of grey area to it.
681
00:35:22,875 --> 00:35:24,250
The problem is, right,
682
00:35:24,333 --> 00:35:27,542
it's not just being used
for medicinal purposes.
683
00:35:27,625 --> 00:35:30,750
So when you are responsible
for an entire county
684
00:35:30,833 --> 00:35:33,125
and you have something in your county
685
00:35:33,208 --> 00:35:35,625
that spurs home invasion,
robberies, homicides,
686
00:35:35,708 --> 00:35:37,583
violence, gang activity,
687
00:35:37,667 --> 00:35:39,167
you almost have to be of the mindset
688
00:35:39,250 --> 00:35:41,750
that it's zero tolerance, I want it out.
689
00:35:45,208 --> 00:35:48,167
But we're doing everything we can
to help combat it
690
00:35:49,250 --> 00:35:50,958
and I will take their product
691
00:35:51,042 --> 00:35:52,333
and I will take it to the dump
692
00:35:52,417 --> 00:35:54,958
and I will cite them into court.
693
00:35:55,458 --> 00:35:56,833
By the end of the week,
694
00:35:56,917 --> 00:36:00,042
we're dumping
probably five to 8,000 pounds.
695
00:36:00,125 --> 00:36:03,167
So that's what goes to the landfill
every Friday.
696
00:36:03,250 --> 00:36:05,042
Sometimes, we'll hit a house that's so big
697
00:36:05,125 --> 00:36:06,875
we can't even fit it all in one trailer,
698
00:36:06,958 --> 00:36:08,167
we have to come back.
699
00:36:12,333 --> 00:36:15,750
Medicinal marijuanahas been legal in California for a while.
700
00:36:16,917 --> 00:36:18,167
To me, it's a rouse
701
00:36:18,250 --> 00:36:19,750
to get it to the final point
702
00:36:19,833 --> 00:36:22,667
where recreational marijuana useis gonna be there.
703
00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:30,833
And it came out to 1,180 pounds.
704
00:36:31,583 --> 00:36:32,833
That's how much we dumped.
705
00:36:34,125 --> 00:36:37,875
Multiply that by 1,000, $1.1 million.
706
00:36:50,167 --> 00:36:52,542
We take actionon anyone that breaks the law.
707
00:36:52,625 --> 00:36:55,542
If you're producingcriminal cannabis products,
708
00:36:55,625 --> 00:36:57,125
that's punishable by fine,
709
00:36:57,208 --> 00:36:59,500
erm, or local imprisonment.
710
00:37:02,083 --> 00:37:03,500
As we get nearer to fall,
711
00:37:03,583 --> 00:37:06,583
the cops are out and lookingand ripping the plants
712
00:37:06,667 --> 00:37:08,667
and even thoughwe don't sell on the black market
713
00:37:08,750 --> 00:37:11,042
and even though we have no THC,
714
00:37:11,125 --> 00:37:12,583
they could come rip our plants.
715
00:37:13,250 --> 00:37:14,708
Yeah, it was an illegal shop.
716
00:37:14,792 --> 00:37:16,417
You can't sell, period.
717
00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:18,167
Right now, I don't have a licence
718
00:37:18,250 --> 00:37:20,042
to grow more than 12 plants.
719
00:37:21,292 --> 00:37:22,792
So what makes it illegal
720
00:37:22,875 --> 00:37:24,042
is that we do not authorise
721
00:37:24,125 --> 00:37:26,750
any type of marijuana
722
00:37:26,833 --> 00:37:29,208
dispensaries in Merced County, period.
723
00:37:30,542 --> 00:37:32,417
Even though we're not a dispensary,
724
00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:34,750
we're always at risk of their showing up
725
00:37:34,833 --> 00:37:37,417
and ripping out thousands of dollarsof plants.
726
00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:39,792
Because we're on the route back
to the sheriff's dump,
727
00:37:39,875 --> 00:37:41,417
they like to stop in front of our house
728
00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:43,208
with truckloads of weed
729
00:37:43,292 --> 00:37:45,167
just to show us what they just ripped
730
00:37:45,250 --> 00:37:47,542
and to ask me
if I want to make a contribution.
731
00:37:49,542 --> 00:37:51,167
My crop will be under threat.
732
00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:53,958
You're gonna convince me
733
00:37:54,042 --> 00:37:56,042
that those 12 plants are for single use.
734
00:37:56,125 --> 00:37:59,208
You'd have to smoke that stuff
non-stop every day
735
00:37:59,292 --> 00:38:00,542
and you still couldn't.
736
00:38:04,750 --> 00:38:06,958
When they start getting intothese multiple plants,
737
00:38:07,042 --> 00:38:09,750
the only reason they're doing itis because they're selling it, OK?
738
00:38:09,833 --> 00:38:11,333
So the bottom line is,
739
00:38:11,417 --> 00:38:13,000
I've been tasked with a job
740
00:38:13,083 --> 00:38:15,000
and I take it very seriously.
741
00:38:17,208 --> 00:38:19,875
But we're just gonna grow itand take our chances.
742
00:38:23,542 --> 00:38:24,917
So are you guys OK
743
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,208
if we just plant 'em
randomly around the property
744
00:38:28,292 --> 00:38:30,625
where maybe the sheriffs
won't notice 'em?
745
00:38:30,708 --> 00:38:32,417
Yeah, I don't mind.
746
00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:36,458
We could plant one over there, over here.
747
00:38:36,542 --> 00:38:39,750
I mean, they won't be our great plants
but they'll be extra bonus plants.
748
00:38:39,833 --> 00:38:42,333
And the worst the sheriff's gonna do
is rip 'em out, right?
749
00:38:42,417 --> 00:38:44,333
So we just got to make sure
that if he counts 'em,
750
00:38:44,417 --> 00:38:47,083
that we're, like,
take that one and take that one.
751
00:38:47,833 --> 00:38:50,000
I mean, technically,
we could get a $1,000 fine.
752
00:38:50,917 --> 00:38:52,667
But if they don't notice all our plants,
753
00:38:52,750 --> 00:38:55,208
-one plant's worth what, three grand?
- Yeah.
754
00:38:55,292 --> 00:38:57,208
So I think it's a business risk
we should take.
755
00:38:57,292 --> 00:38:59,208
There's a seed
of being somewhere in here.
756
00:39:02,208 --> 00:39:05,042
Look at the sunlight right there
behind the gazebo.
757
00:39:05,125 --> 00:39:07,083
Is there somewhere back there
758
00:39:07,167 --> 00:39:08,542
that we could poke 'em?
759
00:39:08,625 --> 00:39:10,833
And then we'll hide some more.
We'll hide the babies.
760
00:39:10,917 --> 00:39:13,792
Like, find spots where the sun hits.
761
00:39:13,875 --> 00:39:16,167
I'm willing to risk it
if you guys are willing to risk it.
762
00:39:17,250 --> 00:39:19,583
OK, so we'll get these in the ground.
763
00:39:19,667 --> 00:39:22,250
-And I'm gonna get the abbey ready.
-Alright.
764
00:39:25,708 --> 00:39:28,250
At one point, conventional wisdom
765
00:39:28,333 --> 00:39:29,708
was that the Earth is flat.
766
00:39:30,875 --> 00:39:32,833
At one point, conventional wisdom
767
00:39:32,917 --> 00:39:36,000
was that women
had smaller brains than men.
768
00:39:41,292 --> 00:39:45,042
So conventional wisdomis that cannabis is bad.
769
00:39:46,917 --> 00:39:49,708
The whole issue is testing the nation.
770
00:39:55,375 --> 00:39:58,667
Our businessis testing the boundaries of the law.
771
00:39:58,750 --> 00:40:00,917
And our right to grow this medicine
772
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,542
and do what we're doing,support ourselves.
773
00:40:04,917 --> 00:40:07,708
Don't try and blow a smoke-screen up
774
00:40:07,792 --> 00:40:09,833
and tell me you've got
this wonderful product
775
00:40:09,917 --> 00:40:12,083
and you have to do
all these other things to sell it.
776
00:40:16,292 --> 00:40:17,667
Don't think for a minute
777
00:40:17,750 --> 00:40:20,167
a habit's gonna slow me downin prosecution
778
00:40:20,250 --> 00:40:22,542
cos that won't, so...
779
00:40:32,042 --> 00:40:34,792
Without the official licences,we won't be able to grow.
780
00:40:34,875 --> 00:40:36,083
We need a licence,
781
00:40:36,167 --> 00:40:37,917
we need to be fully legal
782
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,583
in order to grow the business.
783
00:40:41,333 --> 00:40:42,875
So your biggest obstacle is maybe
784
00:40:42,958 --> 00:40:45,167
right now
the way law enforcement looks at it
785
00:40:45,250 --> 00:40:47,542
and maybe
you're always looking over your shoulder
786
00:40:47,625 --> 00:40:50,500
-for that bust maybe coming down on you.
-Yes, yes, yes, we're scared.
787
00:40:50,583 --> 00:40:51,917
We've never been legitimised.
788
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,583
And so how can I say to an olive farmer,
789
00:40:54,667 --> 00:40:57,250
"Yes, it's perfectly safe to play with us
790
00:40:57,333 --> 00:40:59,542
and we'll make more jobs together,"
791
00:40:59,625 --> 00:41:01,583
when we don't have
our conditional use permit
792
00:41:01,667 --> 00:41:03,292
and it's been 18 months?
793
00:41:03,375 --> 00:41:04,833
Mm-hm.
794
00:41:04,917 --> 00:41:06,417
You're a defence attorney
795
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:07,750
so you've spent a lot of time
796
00:41:07,833 --> 00:41:10,417
keeping people out of jail
for cannabis in your career.
797
00:41:11,125 --> 00:41:13,958
Do you think they would
charge someone like me
798
00:41:14,042 --> 00:41:15,417
with selling?
799
00:41:16,292 --> 00:41:17,500
Do you think they would?
800
00:41:18,542 --> 00:41:20,625
Well... A-hem!
801
00:41:20,708 --> 00:41:22,792
If you were classified...
802
00:41:22,875 --> 00:41:25,125
They classify what you're selling
803
00:41:25,208 --> 00:41:28,875
as in that...
as a controlled substance.
804
00:41:28,958 --> 00:41:31,000
If they was to submit that classification,
805
00:41:31,083 --> 00:41:33,708
then, yeah, they wouldn't have a problem
charging you at all.
806
00:41:33,792 --> 00:41:36,083
Merced County really doesn't want it.
807
00:41:36,167 --> 00:41:39,333
Marijuana never had
really that legitimacy,
808
00:41:39,417 --> 00:41:41,167
certainly not in the 20th century.
809
00:41:41,250 --> 00:41:43,250
And it got caught upin the counter-culture
810
00:41:43,333 --> 00:41:47,042
and associated with oppositionto the Vietnam War.
811
00:41:47,125 --> 00:41:49,333
And so you couldn't get to a point
812
00:41:49,417 --> 00:41:50,750
where you could really debate,
813
00:41:50,833 --> 00:41:54,417
"Well, does this have
medical application?"
814
00:41:58,917 --> 00:42:01,417
Effectively,there are two well-known components
815
00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:02,708
in the cannabis plant,
816
00:42:02,792 --> 00:42:04,833
THC and CBD.
817
00:42:06,083 --> 00:42:08,875
The science behind itgets everyone confused.
818
00:42:11,625 --> 00:42:14,292
Hello, my name is Dr. David Allen.
819
00:42:14,375 --> 00:42:17,750
I'm a retired cardiac surgeon and member
820
00:42:17,833 --> 00:42:21,625
of the International Cannabinoid
Research Society, ICRS.
821
00:42:21,708 --> 00:42:24,458
That means I'm a cannabinoid
research scientist.
822
00:42:25,250 --> 00:42:27,250
The difference between THC and CBD
823
00:42:27,333 --> 00:42:29,083
is what they bind to.
824
00:42:29,167 --> 00:42:32,167
THC binds onto the receptors,
CB1 receptor,
825
00:42:32,250 --> 00:42:33,833
that actually gets you high.
826
00:42:33,917 --> 00:42:37,250
CBD works by different mechanisms
than THC.
827
00:42:38,250 --> 00:42:40,542
CBD binds on to CB2 receptors.
828
00:42:40,625 --> 00:42:44,333
It also binds on to opioid receptors,
829
00:42:44,417 --> 00:42:45,833
serotonin receptors
830
00:42:45,917 --> 00:42:47,333
and dopamine receptors.
831
00:42:47,958 --> 00:42:51,750
In the future,
cannabis will be used to stop cancers,
832
00:42:51,833 --> 00:42:55,208
it will be used to stop strokes
and heart attacks,
833
00:42:55,292 --> 00:42:56,750
to stop diabetes,
834
00:42:56,833 --> 00:42:58,833
to stop seizures
835
00:42:58,917 --> 00:43:01,750
and a multitude of other diseases.
836
00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:04,875
This is the model-T
837
00:43:04,958 --> 00:43:07,708
era of this science.
838
00:43:12,750 --> 00:43:15,458
I harvested my first CBD crop in April
839
00:43:15,542 --> 00:43:19,542
and I could see that already
this was gonna sell out.
840
00:43:19,625 --> 00:43:21,583
So I had to get a CBD crop.
841
00:43:21,667 --> 00:43:25,000
Things have changed so much
in the last three, four years,
842
00:43:25,083 --> 00:43:26,208
but three years ago,
843
00:43:26,292 --> 00:43:28,708
no one in California was growing CBD.
844
00:43:28,792 --> 00:43:31,250
I couldn't buy it from Oregon, CBD.
845
00:43:31,333 --> 00:43:34,125
There wasn't such a thing.
No one was doing CBD.
846
00:43:34,208 --> 00:43:35,833
So to get CBD,
847
00:43:35,917 --> 00:43:39,167
I got three men together who were growers,
848
00:43:39,250 --> 00:43:41,875
one a Mexican guy bought this land.
849
00:43:41,958 --> 00:43:44,292
This creepy, ghost ridden,
850
00:43:44,375 --> 00:43:47,083
abandoned fire house
851
00:43:47,167 --> 00:43:49,000
from ages gone by.
852
00:43:49,625 --> 00:43:51,917
You can see that the tweakers camped out
853
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,083
and shot up their needles
854
00:43:53,167 --> 00:43:55,667
like little heroin den parks
855
00:43:55,750 --> 00:43:57,417
within this property.
856
00:43:57,500 --> 00:43:58,583
I bought the gun
857
00:43:58,667 --> 00:44:00,083
and I was responsible
858
00:44:00,167 --> 00:44:02,167
for having the crop guarded.
859
00:44:06,417 --> 00:44:08,792
My son Alex wanted a car.
860
00:44:08,875 --> 00:44:12,000
So if he took his two nightsa week guarding the crop,
861
00:44:12,083 --> 00:44:13,875
at the end, he would get a car.
862
00:44:13,958 --> 00:44:15,583
Which... You did get a car, didn't you?
863
00:44:15,667 --> 00:44:17,458
-I did.
-So that part worked.
864
00:44:20,042 --> 00:44:22,208
But I knew Alex couldn't do it alone
865
00:44:22,292 --> 00:44:23,625
so that's when I asked Zane.
866
00:44:24,167 --> 00:44:26,125
I was just thinking like,
I'm just gonna hang out,
867
00:44:26,208 --> 00:44:27,958
watch some plants
and if people come by,
868
00:44:28,042 --> 00:44:30,958
they see somebody's gonna be
there and they're gonna leave, right?
869
00:44:31,042 --> 00:44:33,208
We had 60 plants at this point
870
00:44:33,292 --> 00:44:36,542
that were worth about $60,000.
871
00:44:36,625 --> 00:44:38,625
Another month would've taken that crop
872
00:44:38,708 --> 00:44:41,542
from being worth 60K to 240K.
873
00:44:41,625 --> 00:44:44,250
That last month is when you get
all of the grow and the volume.
874
00:44:44,333 --> 00:44:46,917
We were gonna get
a quarter million dollar crop.
875
00:44:48,708 --> 00:44:51,375
We were taking turns staying in the RV.
876
00:44:52,167 --> 00:44:54,208
One night at about five o'clock,
877
00:44:54,292 --> 00:44:56,417
-the dog started making noise.
878
00:44:56,500 --> 00:44:58,917
I hear the alarms go offand the dogs barking
879
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,958
and I get up and I go outand I see a guy with a mask
880
00:45:02,042 --> 00:45:03,708
and I yell at him, "Hey!"
881
00:45:04,583 --> 00:45:08,042
And he just looks up at me and then says,
"You're not supposed to be here."
882
00:45:08,125 --> 00:45:10,708
I was like, "No! Hey,get the fuck out of here." Right?
883
00:45:10,792 --> 00:45:13,125
And he just looks back up at me again
884
00:45:13,208 --> 00:45:15,417
and then goes down
to pulling the weed, right?
885
00:45:16,542 --> 00:45:17,750
Zane just picked up the gun
886
00:45:17,833 --> 00:45:20,625
and boom,
shot at right at where the guy was.
887
00:45:20,708 --> 00:45:22,792
-And he just moves over a couple of feet
888
00:45:22,875 --> 00:45:25,458
-and goes back down to pulling weed.
889
00:45:25,542 --> 00:45:26,750
So Zane shot in front of him.
890
00:45:26,833 --> 00:45:27,708
But this guy...
891
00:45:27,792 --> 00:45:28,917
Stopped and ran this way.
892
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,542
So Zane shot in back of him.
893
00:45:30,625 --> 00:45:33,333
I think I shot off like
three or four rounds
894
00:45:33,417 --> 00:45:34,708
before he's like, "Oh shit, OK,
895
00:45:34,792 --> 00:45:36,750
how do I get out of here?
How do I get out of here?"
896
00:45:36,833 --> 00:45:38,417
Zane pointed through the cactus.
897
00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:40,917
He gave him one route
and could hear him yelling.
898
00:45:41,458 --> 00:45:44,125
Then he hops off the fence
and takes off and leaves.
899
00:45:48,458 --> 00:45:51,125
So I got a hold of all the partners
involved in this deal and said,
900
00:45:51,208 --> 00:45:53,958
"Come on, we got to take the crop out,
someone's gonna get killed."
901
00:45:54,042 --> 00:45:56,583
-And they didn't want to.
-I don't know what we were thinking.
902
00:45:56,667 --> 00:45:58,500
We should've left immediately
but we don't.
903
00:45:58,583 --> 00:46:00,750
I would've left running out of there
904
00:46:00,833 --> 00:46:02,292
as soon as the first bullet rang.
905
00:46:02,375 --> 00:46:04,333
We just put up more cameras, more alarms,
906
00:46:04,417 --> 00:46:08,167
and some boards with nails in 'em.
907
00:46:08,250 --> 00:46:10,042
It's my turn to come out here that night
908
00:46:10,125 --> 00:46:11,958
at eleven o'clock and guard the place.
909
00:46:12,708 --> 00:46:13,958
I was afraid to go alone
910
00:46:14,042 --> 00:46:15,750
so I asked Zane to go back with me.
911
00:46:21,208 --> 00:46:23,458
It was like five o'clock in the morning,
912
00:46:23,542 --> 00:46:24,667
I hear the alarm go off.
913
00:46:24,750 --> 00:46:27,500
As soon as I heard the dogs rustling,
I said, it's show-time, Zane.
914
00:46:27,583 --> 00:46:29,167
Put my shoes on, grabbed the gun.
915
00:46:29,250 --> 00:46:32,125
Two bullets went under my bed.
916
00:46:32,208 --> 00:46:33,292
Bullets just start--
917
00:46:33,375 --> 00:46:34,208
Boom, boom, boom,
918
00:46:34,958 --> 00:46:36,667
Tried to put bullets in the propane tank.
919
00:46:36,750 --> 00:46:38,833
They were trying to just blow us up
in a few shots.
920
00:46:38,917 --> 00:46:40,542
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
921
00:46:40,625 --> 00:46:42,458
Glass shattering in all the vehicles,
922
00:46:42,542 --> 00:46:43,875
glass shattering in the RV.
923
00:46:44,667 --> 00:46:46,875
One bullet went right past my mom's head.
924
00:46:46,958 --> 00:46:49,292
They really intended to kill us.
925
00:46:51,833 --> 00:46:53,625
I got somebody unloading.
926
00:46:53,708 --> 00:46:55,083
Riddling our RV with bullets.
927
00:46:55,167 --> 00:46:57,125
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
928
00:46:57,208 --> 00:46:59,250
A bullet come through the RV
929
00:46:59,333 --> 00:47:00,958
and skimmed right past his nose.
930
00:47:01,042 --> 00:47:03,333
I'm out of bullets
because this fucking gun has only got
931
00:47:03,417 --> 00:47:06,000
five fucking bullets in it.
It's the worst fucking gun ever.
932
00:47:06,083 --> 00:47:08,292
I can't believe she bought
this piece of shit gun.
933
00:47:08,375 --> 00:47:09,333
It's pitch black.
934
00:47:09,417 --> 00:47:11,708
I got to load
these fucking bullets by hand.
935
00:47:12,458 --> 00:47:13,750
The gunmen shooting us
936
00:47:13,833 --> 00:47:16,542
were a cover for somebodyelse stealing the plants.
937
00:47:16,625 --> 00:47:18,750
I hear a bunch of noise rumbling.
938
00:47:18,833 --> 00:47:20,750
He shot towards the plants.
939
00:47:20,833 --> 00:47:23,500
I hate to shoot like this
cos I don't know where I'm shooting.
940
00:47:23,583 --> 00:47:26,583
The two scream,
"Call it off, we're gonna get killed!"
941
00:47:26,667 --> 00:47:28,167
The bullets stop shooting.
942
00:47:28,250 --> 00:47:31,500
"This is an emergency,
guns, it's bad!"
943
00:47:31,583 --> 00:47:34,000
Pretending she's on the phone with 911.
944
00:47:34,083 --> 00:47:36,208
"We need everybody here!"Give him the address, but...
945
00:47:36,292 --> 00:47:39,042
-I was talking into dead space.
-She's talking to freaking nobody.
946
00:47:39,125 --> 00:47:40,542
What Zane said is you can stop
947
00:47:40,625 --> 00:47:43,250
your Academy Award winning performance
948
00:47:43,333 --> 00:47:45,250
because they were gone
and I didn't know it.
949
00:47:46,333 --> 00:47:48,167
I called everybody I knew who had a gun
950
00:47:48,250 --> 00:47:51,625
and offering $100 to come help meget my crop out.
951
00:47:51,708 --> 00:47:53,500
We weren't about to leave empty-handed
952
00:47:53,583 --> 00:47:55,375
because we spent all summer growing those.
953
00:47:55,458 --> 00:47:56,750
Take the crop down
954
00:47:56,833 --> 00:47:58,750
for the course of the next six hours.
955
00:47:58,833 --> 00:48:00,583
They were absolutely gorgeous,
956
00:48:00,667 --> 00:48:01,750
they tasted delicious,
957
00:48:01,833 --> 00:48:03,792
they smelled beautiful, very potent.
958
00:48:04,292 --> 00:48:08,000
I hear the Nightgrower
hollering to the men,
959
00:48:08,083 --> 00:48:10,667
that it's all done, get in your vehicles,
we're going.
960
00:48:10,750 --> 00:48:13,250
He didn't wanna be there
any longer than he had to be.
961
00:48:13,333 --> 00:48:15,958
I had to say, "Hey,
if you want to collect your pay today
962
00:48:16,042 --> 00:48:17,208
those of you who work for me,
963
00:48:17,292 --> 00:48:18,583
you don't go anywhere
964
00:48:18,667 --> 00:48:22,583
until we collect every last leaf,
every last stick."
965
00:48:22,667 --> 00:48:25,708
I want them to be shocked like a rapture
966
00:48:25,792 --> 00:48:28,500
where everything goes up in the air,
I wanted it to be like that.
967
00:48:28,583 --> 00:48:30,458
We didn't leave them a single leaf.
968
00:48:30,542 --> 00:48:32,083
My daughter was the worst
969
00:48:32,167 --> 00:48:33,708
because she cried when she found out
970
00:48:33,792 --> 00:48:36,125
and she really tried to convince me
971
00:48:36,208 --> 00:48:38,125
that my rails have gone off the track,
972
00:48:38,208 --> 00:48:40,667
that when I'm in shoot-outs
in the cannabis business,
973
00:48:40,750 --> 00:48:42,333
it is time to retire.
974
00:48:42,417 --> 00:48:44,875
If you don't do
your homework at the get-go,
975
00:48:45,625 --> 00:48:47,458
shit like that, it's always gonna happen.
976
00:48:47,542 --> 00:48:49,917
The Nightgrower was so angry at me
977
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,958
and it took a few days
before I got to understand
978
00:48:52,042 --> 00:48:54,333
that he was all about our safety
979
00:48:54,417 --> 00:48:56,917
and I was all about my ridiculous rapture
980
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,333
and showing those thieves who's boss.
981
00:48:59,417 --> 00:49:02,583
What I would like is a better gun.
982
00:49:02,667 --> 00:49:05,208
Or some better security,
really some better security.
983
00:49:05,292 --> 00:49:06,583
Who needs the shoot-out?
984
00:49:06,667 --> 00:49:09,417
Even if you do shoot somebody
and get shot in the process,
985
00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:10,500
who needs all that?
986
00:49:10,583 --> 00:49:12,750
If guns got to honestly be involved,
987
00:49:12,833 --> 00:49:15,000
the way I see it is,basically, don't even do it.
988
00:49:15,083 --> 00:49:16,917
I've seen a lot of dumb shit
989
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,250
happen to people over the years,
basically.
990
00:49:19,333 --> 00:49:21,292
You can't just go to any place
to be thinking,
991
00:49:21,375 --> 00:49:22,875
"Ah, it's a good spot,"
992
00:49:22,958 --> 00:49:25,667
until you do your homework
completely on it, you know?
993
00:49:25,750 --> 00:49:27,500
You got to see who the neighbours are,
994
00:49:27,583 --> 00:49:30,500
see what the history of the place is,
first of all.
995
00:49:30,583 --> 00:49:32,458
If you don't do your homework right,
996
00:49:32,542 --> 00:49:34,458
you'll get murdered, yeah.
997
00:49:34,542 --> 00:49:36,375
We really needed the money
998
00:49:36,458 --> 00:49:38,375
but we decided to not ever do that again.
999
00:49:38,458 --> 00:49:41,833
Words cannot express
the amount of stress we went through.
1000
00:49:43,250 --> 00:49:44,792
Too many sleepless nights.
1001
00:49:46,875 --> 00:49:48,708
Obviously we never called the cops
1002
00:49:48,792 --> 00:49:51,625
but they began takingmuch more notice of us after that.
1003
00:50:13,167 --> 00:50:16,125
And now I assumewe are all under surveillance.
1004
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,917
Now I assumethat every one of my phone calls
1005
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,750
is being monitored.
1006
00:50:23,833 --> 00:50:25,167
-Hi. I'm Kate.
-Hi.
1007
00:50:25,250 --> 00:50:26,917
-Are you here because the gun?
-Yes.
1008
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:28,292
Please, come with me.
1009
00:50:28,375 --> 00:50:30,333
I assume that our emails are being read
1010
00:50:30,417 --> 00:50:32,083
and that we're even being followed.
1011
00:50:33,708 --> 00:50:35,042
That's my cell
1012
00:50:35,125 --> 00:50:37,833
and then if you want an alternate,
it's the same first six digits
1013
00:50:37,917 --> 00:50:39,458
and the end is 6003.
1014
00:50:40,083 --> 00:50:41,750
And that's our office main number here
1015
00:50:41,833 --> 00:50:44,292
if you're wanting to call me
on a cell phone or something.
1016
00:50:45,708 --> 00:50:48,250
Of course,they never find anything incriminating
1017
00:50:48,333 --> 00:50:49,917
but every time they do come,
1018
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:51,917
I have to wonder if this'll be the time
1019
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,833
that it all comes crashing down.
1020
00:50:55,083 --> 00:50:58,167
Marijuana, cannabis, pot,
1021
00:50:58,250 --> 00:51:00,500
it causes high paranoia.
1022
00:51:00,583 --> 00:51:02,250
You think people are chasing you,
1023
00:51:02,333 --> 00:51:04,750
you think people are watching you.
1024
00:51:04,833 --> 00:51:06,667
That's one of the effects of the drugs.
1025
00:51:06,750 --> 00:51:08,083
Why in the world
1026
00:51:08,167 --> 00:51:11,167
would anyone want to live under suspicion
1027
00:51:11,250 --> 00:51:13,667
that the cops
are watching you in the trees?
1028
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:30,292
I don't take any pills.
1029
00:51:30,375 --> 00:51:32,167
I believe in holistic medicine.
1030
00:51:32,250 --> 00:51:33,625
I work with the plant
1031
00:51:33,708 --> 00:51:36,750
and my daytime jobis a sacred calling to healing.
1032
00:51:39,292 --> 00:51:43,125
But the only doctors
that would refer cannabis patients
1033
00:51:43,208 --> 00:51:45,458
in this county,
because it was so conservative,
1034
00:51:45,542 --> 00:51:48,458
were dying patients, seizure patients,
1035
00:51:48,542 --> 00:51:49,833
bed-ridden patients.
1036
00:51:49,917 --> 00:51:53,083
They had to be, like, on the edge
before a doctor would recommend cannabis.
1037
00:51:53,167 --> 00:51:56,167
Not only did we end up delivering
cannabis to sick people
1038
00:51:56,250 --> 00:51:58,333
but their Medi-Cal wouldn't pay for it
1039
00:51:58,417 --> 00:52:00,750
and once you have a dying person
on your radar,
1040
00:52:00,833 --> 00:52:03,917
you don't make them suffer.
So we were delivering cannabis for free.
1041
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:05,583
And then if we didn't hear from them,
1042
00:52:05,667 --> 00:52:07,125
we would wonder, "Did they die?"
1043
00:52:07,208 --> 00:52:09,375
We'd call 'em,"No, but I don't have any money."
1044
00:52:09,458 --> 00:52:10,542
Well, that's ridiculous.
1045
00:52:10,625 --> 00:52:12,917
We're sending somebody over
right now with cannabis.
1046
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,750
Those were the years
that turned me into a sister.
1047
00:52:17,042 --> 00:52:18,875
Those years turned me into a nun.
1048
00:52:22,875 --> 00:52:24,042
But wearing the habit?
1049
00:52:24,750 --> 00:52:26,458
That started a few years earlier.
1050
00:52:29,125 --> 00:52:31,917
After we all got robbedin the financial crisis,
1051
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,792
along came the Occupy Movement,
1052
00:52:34,875 --> 00:52:36,917
standing up and saying we will not
1053
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:38,917
accept the status quo.
1054
00:52:40,292 --> 00:52:42,250
When the Occupy Movement broke out,
1055
00:52:42,333 --> 00:52:45,250
I was like, "Huh, I've found my family!
1056
00:52:45,333 --> 00:52:47,333
There's other Americans
that are pissed off."
1057
00:52:47,417 --> 00:52:49,833
I thought that was the coolest thing.
1058
00:52:49,917 --> 00:52:51,250
We decided.
1059
00:52:51,333 --> 00:52:52,667
We decided.
1060
00:52:52,750 --> 00:52:55,125
That we would continue the blockade.
1061
00:52:55,208 --> 00:52:57,667
That we would continue the blockade.
1062
00:52:57,750 --> 00:53:00,917
I turned to my children and said,
1063
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,333
"We need to join the Occupy Movement."
1064
00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:08,792
And all the kids said,"We'll go to occupy with you Saturday
1065
00:53:08,875 --> 00:53:10,083
if you go as a nun."
1066
00:53:10,167 --> 00:53:11,833
So it sort of started on a dare.
1067
00:53:14,917 --> 00:53:17,167
People would say,"Marching doesn't do any good."
1068
00:53:17,250 --> 00:53:19,042
They need to really read their history.
1069
00:53:19,125 --> 00:53:22,208
Susan B. Anthony,
the women's rights, the black rights,
1070
00:53:22,292 --> 00:53:24,458
Rosa Parks, nothing ever happened
1071
00:53:24,542 --> 00:53:27,083
until people got angry
and got out and started fighting back
1072
00:53:27,167 --> 00:53:30,000
and that's what I see what's happening,
we're defending ourselves.
1073
00:53:30,083 --> 00:53:32,667
So I went around for a whileas Sister Occupy
1074
00:53:32,750 --> 00:53:35,125
and because I had been so deeply betrayed
1075
00:53:35,208 --> 00:53:38,708
by the man of 17 years and my family,
1076
00:53:39,667 --> 00:53:42,417
the betrayal was so huge...
1077
00:53:42,500 --> 00:53:45,417
that it essentially gave me the courage
1078
00:53:45,500 --> 00:53:47,583
to do something I really wanted to do,
1079
00:53:47,667 --> 00:53:50,500
which was do something
completely radical and nuts
1080
00:53:50,583 --> 00:53:52,292
like form a real sisterhood.
1081
00:53:54,667 --> 00:53:57,167
That sort of made me go, "You know what?
1082
00:53:57,250 --> 00:54:00,083
You think I'm so badcos I'm in the weed business
1083
00:54:00,167 --> 00:54:01,583
that I deserve homelessness?
1084
00:54:01,667 --> 00:54:05,750
You know what? I'm done with you people.
I need to build my own family."
1085
00:54:18,500 --> 00:54:21,833
People would obviously ask me,"Are you a Catholic nun?"
1086
00:54:21,917 --> 00:54:24,542
"No, I'm not a Catholic nun."
"Well, what kind of nun are you?"
1087
00:54:24,625 --> 00:54:27,542
"I'm a self-declared, self-empowered,
1088
00:54:27,625 --> 00:54:29,375
anarchist, activist nun."
1089
00:54:31,833 --> 00:54:33,750
"Well, that's so cool, can I join you?"
1090
00:54:34,792 --> 00:54:38,792
"No, you don't get it. I'm not trying
to recruit. This is just my statement."
1091
00:54:38,875 --> 00:54:42,083
But they would say,
"Here's my number, I would join you."
1092
00:54:43,917 --> 00:54:47,250
So that was pretty much the responseI got everywhere I went.
1093
00:54:54,375 --> 00:54:55,875
Before long, I was surrounded
1094
00:54:55,958 --> 00:54:57,958
by these incredible like-minded women
1095
00:54:58,042 --> 00:55:00,667
who believe in rebellingagainst the system
1096
00:55:00,750 --> 00:55:02,417
and who believe in the healing powers
1097
00:55:02,500 --> 00:55:04,333
of the cannabis plant.
1098
00:55:14,917 --> 00:55:16,750
I feel like we've all been brought here
1099
00:55:16,833 --> 00:55:19,042
for a purpose, for a cause.
1100
00:55:21,667 --> 00:55:24,083
Most people, I think,
at least in my circle,
1101
00:55:24,167 --> 00:55:27,292
knew that there was some kind
of medicine to the plant.
1102
00:55:28,250 --> 00:55:31,500
It wasn't just like, "Let's smoke
this plant and get high," you know.
1103
00:55:37,250 --> 00:55:40,792
I think most peoplethat were coming through
1104
00:55:40,875 --> 00:55:42,208
have a hard life.
1105
00:55:42,292 --> 00:55:45,417
One thing I appreciate about Sister Kateis she wants to help those people.
1106
00:55:45,500 --> 00:55:47,958
She wants to find their gift
and help them.
1107
00:55:52,875 --> 00:55:54,583
Your family heals you.
1108
00:55:57,125 --> 00:55:59,292
And the cohesiveness of the family
1109
00:55:59,375 --> 00:56:02,208
and the choice of having your family
empowers you.
1110
00:56:03,042 --> 00:56:06,125
We just want to spreadour joy and what we've found
1111
00:56:06,208 --> 00:56:07,750
with everybody else, you know?
1112
00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:10,167
Sorry, I'm like...
1113
00:56:15,333 --> 00:56:17,500
Cannabis plant has done so much for me.
1114
00:56:19,167 --> 00:56:21,875
I became a nun about six months ago.
1115
00:56:21,958 --> 00:56:23,167
She's a great role model
1116
00:56:23,250 --> 00:56:25,333
and I like how spiritual she is
1117
00:56:25,417 --> 00:56:27,708
and I like what she has going here.
1118
00:56:27,792 --> 00:56:30,833
So I like her mission.
1119
00:56:30,917 --> 00:56:34,500
Growing up, I actually
developed an eating disorder
1120
00:56:34,583 --> 00:56:37,083
which led me to my use of cannabis.
1121
00:56:37,167 --> 00:56:41,125
So if I don't smoke cannabis,
I cannot eat.
1122
00:56:41,792 --> 00:56:43,375
I think it's when I found out
1123
00:56:43,458 --> 00:56:45,500
a bunch of bad thingswere happening in my family
1124
00:56:45,583 --> 00:56:46,958
that I wasn't told.
1125
00:56:47,042 --> 00:56:50,417
So I feel like I was kind oftaught to have this disorder
1126
00:56:50,500 --> 00:56:53,667
because we've all been
just thrown around by our families.
1127
00:56:53,750 --> 00:56:56,875
So the cannabis plant
has all brought us together.
1128
00:56:59,292 --> 00:57:01,625
All of the sisters are going to Mendocino
1129
00:57:01,708 --> 00:57:03,875
to see the weed grow operation.
1130
00:57:04,708 --> 00:57:06,042
We are serious women
1131
00:57:06,125 --> 00:57:07,750
on a serious mission.
1132
00:57:08,583 --> 00:57:12,583
My goal is that we actually
spread like the Catholic nuns
1133
00:57:12,667 --> 00:57:13,708
spread across the planet
1134
00:57:13,792 --> 00:57:16,292
but we have the weed nuns
spreading across the planet.
1135
00:57:16,375 --> 00:57:18,750
Wednesday night coffee ban.
1136
00:57:18,833 --> 00:57:20,917
That's Miss Laurie
to deal with the haters,
1137
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,958
Freya and Cassidy to deal with the product
1138
00:57:24,042 --> 00:57:26,333
and the basket and the sales.
1139
00:57:26,417 --> 00:57:28,417
Weed is like honey, local is best.
1140
00:57:28,500 --> 00:57:30,125
You should have locally grown weed
1141
00:57:30,208 --> 00:57:31,625
by the hands of local women.
1142
00:57:31,708 --> 00:57:33,625
From the people that hate us,
1143
00:57:33,708 --> 00:57:36,083
we want them to come out
and talk about it.
1144
00:57:36,167 --> 00:57:39,542
Plant-based medicine,
plant-based diet, Mother Earth.
1145
00:57:39,625 --> 00:57:41,208
This is what we are about.
1146
00:57:41,292 --> 00:57:42,500
This is our religion.
1147
00:57:42,583 --> 00:57:45,042
Our healing powers are our weapon.
1148
00:57:45,125 --> 00:57:48,750
There's a global cannabis awareness margin
1149
00:57:48,833 --> 00:57:50,375
and I would really love it
1150
00:57:50,458 --> 00:57:51,625
if you guys would figure out
1151
00:57:51,708 --> 00:57:53,500
what protest you want to go to that day
1152
00:57:53,583 --> 00:57:55,667
and then maybe Jamie you go with them.
1153
00:57:57,625 --> 00:57:59,625
I remember when she called me and said,
1154
00:57:59,708 --> 00:58:01,250
"OK, I know what I'm gonna call it,
1155
00:58:01,333 --> 00:58:03,083
I'm gonna call it Sisters of the Valley."
1156
00:58:03,167 --> 00:58:04,417
And she was so excited,
1157
00:58:04,500 --> 00:58:07,167
cos she went down to City Hall
or wherever you go
1158
00:58:07,250 --> 00:58:09,917
to actually make it official.
1159
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:11,458
I think it'll be fun.
1160
00:58:12,708 --> 00:58:14,208
It's like a second chance.
1161
00:58:14,292 --> 00:58:16,792
You've got a second chance at life.
1162
00:58:16,875 --> 00:58:19,000
This is exciting.
1163
00:58:22,333 --> 00:58:23,833
Most people are smoking
1164
00:58:23,917 --> 00:58:25,708
because they want to get high.
1165
00:58:25,792 --> 00:58:27,167
They're not smoking marijuana
1166
00:58:27,250 --> 00:58:28,667
because they're sick.
1167
00:58:28,750 --> 00:58:32,375
We have statistics
that tell us two percent,
1168
00:58:32,458 --> 00:58:34,875
only two percent of individuals
1169
00:58:34,958 --> 00:58:37,542
that have the medical marijuana card
really need them.
1170
00:58:37,625 --> 00:58:39,875
If you continue going down
1171
00:58:39,958 --> 00:58:42,500
this road of destruction,
1172
00:58:42,583 --> 00:58:44,750
it will cost you your very soul.
1173
00:58:52,750 --> 00:58:54,250
What we do is grow cannabis
1174
00:58:54,333 --> 00:58:56,125
that contains high levels of CBD
1175
00:58:56,208 --> 00:58:58,042
and very low levels of THC.
1176
00:58:58,833 --> 00:59:00,417
So, ladies, do you want to take these?
1177
00:59:00,500 --> 00:59:01,583
I'm gonna cut 'em.
1178
00:59:02,583 --> 00:59:04,958
After three to six months,we harvest the crops.
1179
00:59:06,917 --> 00:59:08,292
This one is gonna give THC
1180
00:59:08,375 --> 00:59:10,167
but we won't be able to cut it down.
1181
00:59:12,125 --> 00:59:13,875
Dry them out for a couple of weeks.
1182
00:59:15,042 --> 00:59:16,833
We bless the sacred kitchen space.
1183
00:59:25,375 --> 00:59:27,458
Bless these hands
that touch the oil,
1184
00:59:27,542 --> 00:59:30,000
bless these hands for they must toil.
1185
00:59:36,083 --> 00:59:38,125
Then we heat up the coconut oil.
1186
00:59:44,542 --> 00:59:46,375
Add the CBD cannabis.
1187
00:59:54,583 --> 00:59:56,667
Cook it for three to four hours.
1188
01:00:00,875 --> 01:00:01,958
Filter it.
1189
01:00:08,792 --> 01:00:10,375
Add essential oils.
1190
01:00:11,542 --> 01:00:13,750
Then bottle it, label it.
1191
01:00:14,667 --> 01:00:16,250
And when we get the orders online,
1192
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,542
we send it out in the post.
1193
01:00:27,500 --> 01:00:31,042
The cops don't seem to have an issuewith cannabis that's only CBD.
1194
01:00:31,125 --> 01:00:34,125
This makes a very healing tea, the sticks.
1195
01:00:34,208 --> 01:00:37,417
The problem is no onewould be able to tell the difference
1196
01:00:37,500 --> 01:00:39,875
between a CBD plant and a THC plant.
1197
01:00:39,958 --> 01:00:41,292
This, for example,
1198
01:00:41,375 --> 01:00:44,750
is five percent THC and 11% CBD.
1199
01:00:44,833 --> 01:00:46,375
So we can't sell this
1200
01:00:46,458 --> 01:00:47,875
because it's too high,
1201
01:00:47,958 --> 01:00:50,125
but if you smoke it, you'll like it.
1202
01:00:51,958 --> 01:00:53,667
The question I pose to you
1203
01:00:53,750 --> 01:00:57,167
is that she's trying to sell
a product as medicine.
1204
01:00:57,250 --> 01:00:58,917
What pharmaceutical background,
1205
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,083
what medical background does she have
1206
01:01:01,167 --> 01:01:04,125
that can actually saythat this heals anything?
1207
01:01:05,167 --> 01:01:07,750
I don't believe for a minutethat it heals anything.
1208
01:01:07,833 --> 01:01:09,208
They're drug dealers
1209
01:01:09,292 --> 01:01:11,167
and they're trying to saythat it's medicine.
1210
01:01:11,250 --> 01:01:12,583
You know they're lying.
1211
01:01:16,917 --> 01:01:19,208
If this is really that magical stuff,
1212
01:01:19,292 --> 01:01:20,542
I haven't seen any evidence
1213
01:01:20,625 --> 01:01:22,333
in our pharmaceuticals in this country.
1214
01:01:22,417 --> 01:01:23,792
Why aren't they harvesting this?
1215
01:01:23,875 --> 01:01:25,500
If it's really there,
1216
01:01:25,583 --> 01:01:27,333
why aren't they doing it?
1217
01:01:27,417 --> 01:01:28,875
They want to get high.
1218
01:01:28,958 --> 01:01:31,292
So why do they use any drug?
They want to get high.
1219
01:01:32,250 --> 01:01:34,708
There's multiple medical studies
1220
01:01:34,792 --> 01:01:37,417
about the efficacy of cannabidiol.
1221
01:01:37,500 --> 01:01:41,167
No one really knows
the full extent of what it does
1222
01:01:41,250 --> 01:01:44,792
because it acts on so many things,
it's maddening
1223
01:01:44,875 --> 01:01:47,125
and it's kind of the reason
1224
01:01:47,208 --> 01:01:48,458
why people don't understand
1225
01:01:48,542 --> 01:01:51,167
why does this one thing
1226
01:01:51,250 --> 01:01:53,542
work for all these diseases?
1227
01:01:53,625 --> 01:01:55,083
They got to be faking it.
1228
01:01:55,167 --> 01:01:56,500
But the truth is,
1229
01:01:56,583 --> 01:01:59,208
there's almost no diseasethat you can name
1230
01:01:59,292 --> 01:02:01,958
that isn't helped by cannabis.
1231
01:02:02,042 --> 01:02:03,708
I've had Bell's palsy.
1232
01:02:03,792 --> 01:02:05,167
Your face gets droopy,
1233
01:02:05,250 --> 01:02:06,583
you lose sensation of your eye,
1234
01:02:06,667 --> 01:02:08,083
you lose sensation of your face.
1235
01:02:08,167 --> 01:02:11,042
I did the CBD oil and the CBD salve.
1236
01:02:11,125 --> 01:02:12,917
In two weeks, I was almost back to normal.
1237
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,458
For me, it's a lifesaver.
1238
01:02:15,542 --> 01:02:17,750
Most of the cancer patients
I see smoking marijuana,
1239
01:02:17,833 --> 01:02:19,417
they end up dying eventually.
1240
01:02:21,125 --> 01:02:23,000
We are technically illegal here
1241
01:02:23,083 --> 01:02:26,125
because to run a business
on your property,
1242
01:02:26,208 --> 01:02:29,125
you have to have a conditional use permit
from the county.
1243
01:02:29,208 --> 01:02:32,667
We have never been issueda conditional use permit
1244
01:02:32,750 --> 01:02:34,083
by the county.
1245
01:02:37,542 --> 01:02:40,417
I was determinedto not let THC cannabis laws
1246
01:02:40,500 --> 01:02:42,667
stop me from distributing
1247
01:02:42,750 --> 01:02:44,583
non-THC products.
1248
01:02:47,458 --> 01:02:48,792
What do you want to do?
1249
01:02:48,875 --> 01:02:49,833
Let's just say,
1250
01:02:49,917 --> 01:02:52,625
you get some local corporation
dispensaries go up,
1251
01:02:52,708 --> 01:02:54,000
everything starts rolling.
1252
01:02:54,083 --> 01:02:56,417
What's your goal with this?
Where do you want to take it?
1253
01:02:56,500 --> 01:02:57,708
To me, we'll have made it
1254
01:02:57,792 --> 01:03:01,583
if we could create like 10,000
or 20,000 good jobs
1255
01:03:01,667 --> 01:03:04,000
-here in the Central Valley.
-Wouldn't that be nice?
1256
01:03:04,083 --> 01:03:05,583
We could use those, big time.
1257
01:03:05,667 --> 01:03:09,292
Do you know we're the most
depressed community in the state?
1258
01:03:11,417 --> 01:03:13,542
I think the Central Valley
1259
01:03:13,625 --> 01:03:15,500
should be the leading
1260
01:03:15,583 --> 01:03:17,667
CBD exporter in the world.
1261
01:03:17,750 --> 01:03:20,042
So there's probably no limit
1262
01:03:20,125 --> 01:03:22,500
to how Sisters of the Valley
1263
01:03:22,583 --> 01:03:25,792
could have a serious, serious industry
1264
01:03:25,875 --> 01:03:27,625
here in the Central Valley.
1265
01:03:29,417 --> 01:03:32,208
We have appliedfor a conditional use permit
1266
01:03:32,292 --> 01:03:33,833
from the county.
1267
01:03:41,875 --> 01:03:44,458
If Merced County could,
1268
01:03:44,542 --> 01:03:46,083
they would outlaw all cannabis,
1269
01:03:46,167 --> 01:03:47,708
all cannabis grow operations,
1270
01:03:47,792 --> 01:03:49,583
all cannabis deliveries,
1271
01:03:49,667 --> 01:03:52,000
because the old guard
1272
01:03:52,083 --> 01:03:54,417
is still making all the rules.
1273
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:57,250
Like most of America,
1274
01:03:57,333 --> 01:03:59,917
the state of California is very religious.
1275
01:04:01,208 --> 01:04:04,792
There are over 50 churchesin Merced County alone.
1276
01:04:09,333 --> 01:04:11,417
And it's so funny here
that everybody grows.
1277
01:04:11,500 --> 01:04:12,875
Cos the girl behind the desk...
1278
01:04:12,958 --> 01:04:14,583
I'm getting an extra room
1279
01:04:14,667 --> 01:04:16,500
and then she says, "Do you mind if I ask
1280
01:04:16,583 --> 01:04:18,292
what kind of nuns you are?" So I tell her.
1281
01:04:18,375 --> 01:04:21,583
And then she goes, "Oh, my God,
would you bless my pot crop?"
1282
01:04:23,292 --> 01:04:26,000
This is the receptionist behind the desk.
1283
01:04:30,333 --> 01:04:33,333
The public have gotten angry at us
1284
01:04:33,417 --> 01:04:35,375
when they thought we were Catholic nuns.
1285
01:04:35,458 --> 01:04:37,958
I kind of don't get whyanybody would be offended.
1286
01:04:38,875 --> 01:04:42,917
We're more Native American, in Beguine,
we have our Beguine m others
1287
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,625
and they're more Earth mothers
and plant mothers.
1288
01:04:45,708 --> 01:04:47,667
Not that we don't believe in a creator God
1289
01:04:47,750 --> 01:04:50,875
but we don't follow necessarily
the Christian principles.
1290
01:04:50,958 --> 01:04:54,250
-We're just worried about...
-Then how can you call yourself nuns?
1291
01:04:54,333 --> 01:04:55,917
We don't, we call ourselves sisters.
1292
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:57,708
Weed nuns was a handle
that was given to us.
1293
01:04:57,792 --> 01:05:00,000
-We're sisters.
-See you. God bless.
1294
01:05:00,083 --> 01:05:01,083
In our beliefs,
1295
01:05:01,167 --> 01:05:04,708
we've put our number one belief
1296
01:05:04,792 --> 01:05:06,250
is organising our lives
1297
01:05:06,333 --> 01:05:08,333
by the moon cycles
and the quarters of the year.
1298
01:05:08,417 --> 01:05:09,583
Our number two belief
1299
01:05:09,667 --> 01:05:12,208
is in being compassionate
with other people on the planet.
1300
01:05:21,250 --> 01:05:22,917
OK, but that's not our debate.
1301
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,958
So we totally respect your beliefs.
We would never--
1302
01:05:27,792 --> 01:05:30,000
Because the definition
of a sister, of a nun,
1303
01:05:30,083 --> 01:05:31,250
is they live together,
1304
01:05:31,333 --> 01:05:32,375
they work together,
1305
01:05:32,458 --> 01:05:34,500
they pray together and they take vows.
1306
01:05:34,583 --> 01:05:37,500
We live together,
we work together--
1307
01:05:37,583 --> 01:05:40,833
We pray together and we take vows.
That is not our discussion.
1308
01:05:43,833 --> 01:05:46,208
We will not have the discussion
about Jesus Christ.
1309
01:05:46,292 --> 01:05:47,833
But I mean...
1310
01:05:47,917 --> 01:05:49,167
We're not practising.
1311
01:05:49,250 --> 01:05:50,875
We're not walking the walk of Jesus.
1312
01:05:50,958 --> 01:05:53,333
So we don't want to have that debate.
1313
01:05:53,417 --> 01:05:55,833
That's your debate, that's your domain.
1314
01:05:55,917 --> 01:05:58,250
We're very humble farm women
who make medicine
1315
01:05:58,333 --> 01:05:59,417
and give it to the people.
1316
01:06:00,833 --> 01:06:02,417
Nice to meet you, pastor.
1317
01:06:33,792 --> 01:06:36,958
It is importantto have a spiritual element.
1318
01:06:37,042 --> 01:06:39,417
People's souls need it.
1319
01:06:39,500 --> 01:06:41,125
Even though I was raised Catholic,
1320
01:06:41,208 --> 01:06:44,875
I didn't really care what happenedat church on Sunday.
1321
01:06:44,958 --> 01:06:46,417
That was the least of it.
1322
01:06:47,333 --> 01:06:49,792
I've been practisingmy own spiritual practises
1323
01:06:49,875 --> 01:06:51,708
since I was like seven years old.
1324
01:06:51,792 --> 01:06:54,500
Our order follows the Beguines,
1325
01:06:54,583 --> 01:06:56,417
who were the first organised nurses
1326
01:06:56,500 --> 01:06:59,708
in the castles of Europein the Middle Ages.
1327
01:06:59,792 --> 01:07:02,292
Interestingly enough,there's a strong connection
1328
01:07:02,375 --> 01:07:04,917
between the beliefs of the Beguines
1329
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:08,167
and those of the Native Americansof this land.
1330
01:07:09,208 --> 01:07:12,083
Keep us humble and keep us strong.
1331
01:07:12,167 --> 01:07:14,125
We need structure, tradition
1332
01:07:14,208 --> 01:07:15,958
and we need service in our life.
1333
01:07:16,042 --> 01:07:17,333
Amen.
1334
01:07:17,417 --> 01:07:19,542
We overdid individual freedom.
1335
01:07:19,625 --> 01:07:21,500
We have to step back to a balance
1336
01:07:21,583 --> 01:07:23,750
and obligation to the tribe.
1337
01:07:24,750 --> 01:07:26,500
For Sister Kate,
1338
01:07:26,583 --> 01:07:28,125
I thank you for all that you do.
1339
01:07:28,208 --> 01:07:30,542
The Native Americans have been working
1340
01:07:30,625 --> 01:07:32,500
with the cannabis plant for centuries.
1341
01:07:33,500 --> 01:07:35,917
David the Eldercomes to our ceremonies.
1342
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:39,042
We have a special connectionbetween the sisters and the natives.
1343
01:07:39,125 --> 01:07:42,167
Share each other's talk
and share each other's words.
1344
01:07:42,250 --> 01:07:43,917
There is no differences.
1345
01:07:45,167 --> 01:07:47,333
We're all the same, we're all one people.
1346
01:07:52,917 --> 01:07:54,333
They're medicine people
1347
01:07:54,417 --> 01:07:56,875
and I come to visit the medicine people.
1348
01:07:56,958 --> 01:08:00,500
When I've got an "owich"
and I can't go to my medicine people,
1349
01:08:00,583 --> 01:08:03,500
then I'll go to the conventional place
called a hospital.
1350
01:08:04,917 --> 01:08:06,333
But this is my new hospital.
1351
01:08:08,042 --> 01:08:11,125
So this is a form of my drug store.
1352
01:08:29,708 --> 01:08:31,667
Merced County is really poor
1353
01:08:31,750 --> 01:08:35,167
which is why having a legitcannabis business here
1354
01:08:35,250 --> 01:08:36,917
is necessary and good
1355
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:39,000
because of the jobs we create.
1356
01:08:41,542 --> 01:08:43,167
But there's also a lot of crime here
1357
01:08:43,250 --> 01:08:45,417
and, of course,there's a lot of addicts here
1358
01:08:45,500 --> 01:08:48,583
using heroin and methand God knows what else.
1359
01:08:50,042 --> 01:08:51,625
I suppose it's not surprising
1360
01:08:51,708 --> 01:08:53,333
that it was only a matter of time
1361
01:08:53,417 --> 01:08:56,958
before these problems reachedour own family's doorstep.
1362
01:08:59,792 --> 01:09:02,125
After my mom finally got settled
1363
01:09:02,208 --> 01:09:04,875
and we finally
didn't really have to worry,
1364
01:09:04,958 --> 01:09:07,083
that's when my guard came down
1365
01:09:07,167 --> 01:09:08,750
and that's when I broke down
1366
01:09:08,833 --> 01:09:11,500
and started looking for an escape
1367
01:09:11,583 --> 01:09:13,500
and eventually turned to drugs.
1368
01:09:13,583 --> 01:09:15,583
Let me see it again.
1369
01:09:16,167 --> 01:09:17,625
Ooh.
1370
01:09:18,667 --> 01:09:20,833
I was messing aroundwith this white powder.
1371
01:09:20,917 --> 01:09:22,417
It was some white crystally stuff.
1372
01:09:22,500 --> 01:09:24,167
OK, here, Mommy's gonna do some.
1373
01:09:24,250 --> 01:09:26,333
And put 'em here and now I dry 'em off.
1374
01:09:26,417 --> 01:09:29,583
It didn't matter at the time.It was something that made me feel good.
1375
01:09:29,667 --> 01:09:32,542
Alex, you got to dry 'em off with
your towel and throw 'em on the pan.
1376
01:09:32,625 --> 01:09:35,042
When my mom did find outthat it was crystal meth,
1377
01:09:35,125 --> 01:09:36,333
she freaked.
1378
01:09:37,083 --> 01:09:39,208
Alex looked like a 14 year old.
1379
01:09:39,292 --> 01:09:42,000
He went from beinga big, buff, workout guy
1380
01:09:42,083 --> 01:09:46,208
to being a scrawny littlemeth-addicted nut-bag.
1381
01:09:46,292 --> 01:09:48,542
Alex, what you doing?
1382
01:09:49,208 --> 01:09:51,292
She asked meif I wanted to go off to rehab
1383
01:09:51,375 --> 01:09:53,792
and at first,
1384
01:09:53,875 --> 01:09:55,625
it freaked me out
1385
01:09:55,708 --> 01:09:58,875
because I knew at the time
it felt like I knew
1386
01:09:58,958 --> 01:10:00,583
I would never be happy again.
1387
01:10:01,125 --> 01:10:02,667
Have you been a good boy, Alex?
1388
01:10:02,750 --> 01:10:03,875
Yes.
1389
01:10:03,958 --> 01:10:05,208
When?
1390
01:10:05,292 --> 01:10:07,417
When were you good?
1391
01:10:07,500 --> 01:10:10,083
Say all the time, Dad.
1392
01:10:10,167 --> 01:10:12,625
A recovery clinic cost about
1393
01:10:12,708 --> 01:10:15,250
$15,000 for 30 days.
1394
01:10:16,583 --> 01:10:18,417
Hadn't talked to his father in years.
1395
01:10:18,500 --> 01:10:21,500
His father had health insuranceand I did not.
1396
01:10:22,333 --> 01:10:23,625
Show Mom.
1397
01:10:23,708 --> 01:10:26,750
- What'd you get?
-Show Mom. Hold it up so she can see.
1398
01:10:26,833 --> 01:10:28,875
And I remember I had to sit on the phone
1399
01:10:28,958 --> 01:10:31,083
with his father every night.
1400
01:10:31,750 --> 01:10:34,875
We'd been in battle all these decades
1401
01:10:34,958 --> 01:10:37,667
but I got him to agreeto pay for Alex's recovery.
1402
01:10:40,583 --> 01:10:42,542
Don't be a smart alec.
1403
01:10:42,625 --> 01:10:44,417
So like any good addict would do,
1404
01:10:44,500 --> 01:10:47,208
I went and bought a big bag of dope
1405
01:10:47,292 --> 01:10:48,792
the night before I had to go to rehab.
1406
01:10:48,875 --> 01:10:52,333
-Look, Dad! Look what I got.
- What you got?
1407
01:10:52,417 --> 01:10:54,125
And attempted to overdose.
1408
01:10:55,375 --> 01:10:58,333
And that night,
my heart was starting to shut down
1409
01:10:59,542 --> 01:11:02,417
and beat slower and slower
1410
01:11:04,250 --> 01:11:06,250
and I was starting to fall asleep
1411
01:11:07,333 --> 01:11:09,708
on a very high concentration of meth.
1412
01:11:12,208 --> 01:11:14,000
Which... You're just dying.
1413
01:11:20,083 --> 01:11:22,417
I could feel it happening,so I had to force myself
1414
01:11:22,500 --> 01:11:25,333
to stay up throughout the whole nightand the only way I could do that
1415
01:11:25,417 --> 01:11:27,833
was staying posted up against the wall.
1416
01:11:27,917 --> 01:11:29,917
Or else, cos if I was sitting right here,
1417
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:31,792
I would literally nod off.
1418
01:11:31,875 --> 01:11:35,167
Oh, are you getting sleepy?
1419
01:11:36,250 --> 01:11:37,833
It was scary.
1420
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,958
Say, "Give me my darn bottle.
I just want it."
1421
01:11:42,042 --> 01:11:44,167
Go to bed.
1422
01:11:44,250 --> 01:11:47,375
Eventually, ended up in rehab
and a halfway home.
1423
01:11:53,333 --> 01:11:56,667
Six days after I came back from rehab,I did relapse.
1424
01:11:56,750 --> 01:12:00,250
I had a kidwho was just in horrible shape.
1425
01:12:00,333 --> 01:12:04,083
Freya, she said, all of the programmes
1426
01:12:04,167 --> 01:12:06,667
with recovering meth addicts fail.
1427
01:12:06,750 --> 01:12:09,417
She said, you're an experimentalkind of woman,
1428
01:12:09,500 --> 01:12:11,083
experiment.
1429
01:12:11,167 --> 01:12:13,458
You're locked in jail, what'd you do?
1430
01:12:13,542 --> 01:12:17,458
And that's when she decidedto just take my cell phone,
1431
01:12:17,542 --> 01:12:19,458
take the keys to the van,
1432
01:12:19,542 --> 01:12:23,208
take everything and put me on house arrest
for an extended period of time.
1433
01:12:23,292 --> 01:12:25,667
The only thing I get is
1434
01:12:25,750 --> 01:12:27,542
food, gym and weed.
1435
01:12:29,583 --> 01:12:31,000
Unlimited weed.
1436
01:12:31,083 --> 01:12:32,667
What happened?
1437
01:12:33,708 --> 01:12:36,708
For six months, she did that
1438
01:12:36,792 --> 01:12:39,833
until she was confident enough
that I could go other places.
1439
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:53,792
When people hear "drug addict",they think junkie, user,
1440
01:12:53,875 --> 01:12:55,875
somebody who just
doesn't want to be clean,
1441
01:12:55,958 --> 01:12:58,458
but they don't understand a lot of us
1442
01:12:58,542 --> 01:13:01,333
really, really want it and just need help.
1443
01:13:01,417 --> 01:13:02,917
You love your kid?
1444
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:05,208
Give your kid a safe environment
1445
01:13:05,292 --> 01:13:08,250
and let him come out of his depression
on his own.
1446
01:13:08,333 --> 01:13:10,917
Upwards of 20 or $30,000
1447
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:13,042
for a month in rehab,
1448
01:13:13,125 --> 01:13:15,292
but I think it's worth it
because I'm now clean
1449
01:13:15,375 --> 01:13:17,583
and not spending that 30,000 on dope.
1450
01:13:19,958 --> 01:13:23,542
We're trying to walka more compassioned, enlightened line.
1451
01:13:23,625 --> 01:13:27,042
I think we're seeing really good resultswith Alex's recovery.
1452
01:13:27,125 --> 01:13:30,083
My mom definitely saved my life.
She was really the only one there for me
1453
01:13:30,167 --> 01:13:31,500
and willing to help me out.
1454
01:13:31,583 --> 01:13:33,000
I am so grateful
1455
01:13:33,083 --> 01:13:36,208
that I got to take
the compassionate route.
1456
01:13:46,667 --> 01:13:49,167
Just daysafter recreational marijuana sales
1457
01:13:49,250 --> 01:13:51,042
began in California,
1458
01:13:51,125 --> 01:13:52,625
the attorney general's decision
1459
01:13:52,708 --> 01:13:54,167
could dampen the spark
1460
01:13:54,250 --> 01:13:56,833
that ignited the potindustry's massive growth.
1461
01:13:57,667 --> 01:13:58,875
Today, Jeff Sessions
1462
01:13:58,958 --> 01:14:01,250
rescinded an Obama administration policy
1463
01:14:01,333 --> 01:14:03,958
which largely shielded legalised marijuana
1464
01:14:04,042 --> 01:14:05,750
from federal intervention
1465
01:14:05,833 --> 01:14:08,125
allowing prosecutorsto enforce federal law
1466
01:14:08,208 --> 01:14:10,333
that prohibits pot sales.
1467
01:14:10,833 --> 01:14:13,375
I have empowered our prosecutors
1468
01:14:13,458 --> 01:14:17,292
to charge and pursue
the most serious offence
1469
01:14:17,375 --> 01:14:19,625
as I believe the law requires.
1470
01:14:19,708 --> 01:14:21,292
These are drug dealers
1471
01:14:21,375 --> 01:14:24,417
and you drug dealers are going to prison.
1472
01:14:24,500 --> 01:14:26,667
I think it's pretty clear right now
1473
01:14:26,750 --> 01:14:29,000
that our federal government is a joke.
1474
01:14:30,042 --> 01:14:31,750
It matters to the point that we care,
1475
01:14:31,833 --> 01:14:34,125
cos we don't want them busting in
1476
01:14:34,208 --> 01:14:35,875
and taking away anything.
1477
01:14:35,958 --> 01:14:38,333
So we care in that we have to respect it.
1478
01:14:38,417 --> 01:14:41,458
If the federal governmentdecided to shut us down,
1479
01:14:41,542 --> 01:14:44,417
if they decided they were gonnashut down all hemp growers,
1480
01:14:44,500 --> 01:14:46,708
then, yes, that would be catastrophic.
1481
01:14:46,792 --> 01:14:49,250
It could be the endof the Sisters of the Valley.
1482
01:14:49,333 --> 01:14:51,292
According to the federal government,
1483
01:14:51,375 --> 01:14:53,250
heroin and methamphetamine
1484
01:14:53,333 --> 01:14:56,500
have certain medical applications.
1485
01:14:56,583 --> 01:14:59,208
So marijuana is perceived,
1486
01:14:59,292 --> 01:15:02,333
at least by the government,to be more harmful,
1487
01:15:02,417 --> 01:15:04,583
but the number of people who died
1488
01:15:04,667 --> 01:15:06,375
from marijuana overdose this year,
1489
01:15:06,458 --> 01:15:08,583
and it's zero,
and it always has been zero.
1490
01:15:08,667 --> 01:15:11,042
You're saying that heroinand methamphetamine
1491
01:15:11,125 --> 01:15:13,375
is OK and marijuana isn't.
1492
01:15:13,458 --> 01:15:15,458
Well, what is that based on?
1493
01:15:15,542 --> 01:15:19,208
A real analytical assessment of the harm?
1494
01:15:19,292 --> 01:15:20,625
Because it can't be.
1495
01:15:23,292 --> 01:15:24,667
I think, ironically,
1496
01:15:24,750 --> 01:15:28,667
we will do a better job
of policing marijuana in this state
1497
01:15:28,750 --> 01:15:32,542
once it's legal
than the failed effort over decades
1498
01:15:32,625 --> 01:15:36,042
to address it through the criminal courts.
1499
01:15:36,125 --> 01:15:37,875
...to serve the public search warrant.
1500
01:15:39,250 --> 01:15:41,750
So many people thinkthat they've got the answer.
1501
01:15:41,833 --> 01:15:44,917
If we just legalise it and...
plain and simple,
1502
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:46,167
we won't have the problems.
1503
01:15:46,250 --> 01:15:47,542
Yes, you will.
1504
01:15:47,625 --> 01:15:49,375
We're gonna have these problems.
1505
01:15:49,458 --> 01:15:51,292
It's just because
of the nature of the beast,
1506
01:15:51,375 --> 01:15:53,167
because it's so lucrative,
1507
01:15:53,250 --> 01:15:55,917
because the amount of money
invested in growing this stuff
1508
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:57,750
is really not that much.
1509
01:15:57,833 --> 01:16:00,042
And when you can go from seedling
1510
01:16:00,125 --> 01:16:02,708
to cultivation in 90 days,
1511
01:16:04,042 --> 01:16:05,708
that's a lot of product.
1512
01:16:05,792 --> 01:16:08,083
I'm kind of worried about all of us here.
1513
01:16:08,167 --> 01:16:11,542
This is the season where people
start creeping up on the property.
1514
01:16:11,625 --> 01:16:13,667
So right now we're pretty exposed.
1515
01:16:13,750 --> 01:16:15,333
At the end of the day,
1516
01:16:15,417 --> 01:16:17,333
you can either get robbed by thieves
1517
01:16:17,417 --> 01:16:19,917
or you're gonna get messed
with by the police.
1518
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:21,292
If they were to come for you
1519
01:16:21,375 --> 01:16:24,458
and they find out what your permit says,
you're in trouble.
1520
01:16:26,583 --> 01:16:27,708
I'm scared of the sheriff
1521
01:16:27,792 --> 01:16:29,292
and I'm scared of the police.
1522
01:16:29,375 --> 01:16:31,250
They come and they take your shit.
1523
01:16:43,042 --> 01:16:46,542
You just lostyour whole year that you did.
1524
01:16:46,625 --> 01:16:48,708
All that you worked on, gone.
1525
01:16:48,792 --> 01:16:50,042
Looks like nobody's here.
1526
01:16:50,125 --> 01:16:51,458
Probably they're in the middle of,
1527
01:16:51,542 --> 01:16:53,292
er, maybe a switch-out,
1528
01:16:53,375 --> 01:16:54,833
or somebody coming to check on it,
1529
01:16:54,917 --> 01:16:57,750
maybe they check on it every other day,
every couple of days.
1530
01:17:00,500 --> 01:17:02,917
And that's the finished product.
1531
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:04,000
Pretty good quality.
1532
01:17:04,083 --> 01:17:07,417
You can see the THC
on there in the crystal form,
1533
01:17:07,500 --> 01:17:11,042
the purple look that they like to it.
1534
01:17:13,417 --> 01:17:14,875
This house could probably turn out
1535
01:17:14,958 --> 01:17:17,125
about one and a half million
1536
01:17:17,208 --> 01:17:19,042
a year, illegally,
1537
01:17:19,125 --> 01:17:21,333
with two-stage grows every 60 days.
1538
01:17:24,458 --> 01:17:26,958
Do you think that that couldever happen to Sister Kate,
1539
01:17:27,042 --> 01:17:28,250
that she'll get raided?
1540
01:17:28,333 --> 01:17:31,792
Yeah, I absolutely I think
it could happen to her.
1541
01:17:31,875 --> 01:17:34,083
I don't know what would make
1542
01:17:34,167 --> 01:17:36,125
Sister Kate exempt from it.
1543
01:17:36,208 --> 01:17:39,667
It'll be an interesting case
if they do raid her.
1544
01:17:39,750 --> 01:17:41,625
Maybe that's what it will take
1545
01:17:41,708 --> 01:17:43,792
to bring this whole thing in the light
1546
01:17:43,875 --> 01:17:47,500
and start the action
1547
01:17:47,583 --> 01:17:49,042
on what it's gonna take
1548
01:17:49,125 --> 01:17:50,667
to legislate the difference
1549
01:17:51,333 --> 01:17:53,583
and make the distinction in the law.
1550
01:17:53,667 --> 01:17:56,417
Sheriff Warnke,
he keeps saying that we're bringing in
1551
01:17:56,500 --> 01:17:59,417
high THC into the county
and we're lying about it.
1552
01:17:59,500 --> 01:18:02,500
So I just wanted to show you
what we go through.
1553
01:18:02,583 --> 01:18:05,542
Underneath here are test
results from SC Labs.
1554
01:18:05,625 --> 01:18:07,917
If somebody was getting
high off of our products,
1555
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:11,250
we would've been shut down
at the federal level a long time ago.
1556
01:18:11,333 --> 01:18:14,542
And so these are what
somebody needs to know exist.
1557
01:18:14,625 --> 01:18:17,208
-I'm gonna make copies of these.
-Sure.
1558
01:18:18,042 --> 01:18:20,375
I'm gonna show these to Vern Warnke,
our sheriff.
1559
01:18:20,458 --> 01:18:23,458
Thank you.
I knew somebody would speak reason here.
1560
01:18:23,542 --> 01:18:26,500
He's one of the sceptics
that you're gonna have to deal with.
1561
01:18:28,500 --> 01:18:30,792
I was determined to getthe most amount of CBD
1562
01:18:30,875 --> 01:18:32,333
to the most amount of people.
1563
01:18:34,042 --> 01:18:37,208
So we sort of hired Will
and his company to go in
1564
01:18:37,292 --> 01:18:38,792
and deal with them to get our permit.
1565
01:18:43,542 --> 01:18:45,375
Sometimes you have to fight
fire with fire.
1566
01:18:45,458 --> 01:18:47,000
In this case, we hired lobbyists
1567
01:18:47,083 --> 01:18:49,000
because we don't want
to lose our business.
1568
01:18:49,083 --> 01:18:50,292
We have too much to lose now.
1569
01:18:50,375 --> 01:18:52,292
We've been dealing
with the local officials
1570
01:18:52,375 --> 01:18:54,333
and meeting with them on her behalf.
1571
01:18:54,417 --> 01:18:57,625
We'd like to have themaccept a pilot programme
1572
01:18:57,708 --> 01:19:00,542
that would only be for
1573
01:19:00,625 --> 01:19:03,458
non-psychoactive CBD cultivation.
1574
01:19:03,542 --> 01:19:06,292
We have learnedhow to cross-breed marijuana plants
1575
01:19:06,375 --> 01:19:08,375
to produce either high THC plants
1576
01:19:08,458 --> 01:19:11,042
or high CBD with very little THC,
1577
01:19:11,125 --> 01:19:13,375
stuff that wouldn't really
get anyone high.
1578
01:19:13,458 --> 01:19:16,208
It is non-psychoactive medicine
1579
01:19:16,292 --> 01:19:19,417
for people who have debilitating diseases.
1580
01:19:19,500 --> 01:19:20,667
So that's what we're doing,
1581
01:19:20,750 --> 01:19:23,792
we're talking to the five supervisors
trying to change the law.
1582
01:19:25,667 --> 01:19:27,500
Hiring suits to deal with the suits,
1583
01:19:27,583 --> 01:19:30,833
that's a little unorthodox
but that's what we did.
1584
01:19:42,833 --> 01:19:45,750
It's now time
for a public opportunity to speak.
1585
01:19:45,833 --> 01:19:48,542
Testimony is limited
to three minutes per person.
1586
01:19:48,625 --> 01:19:52,458
As you know, I appeared a few weeks ago
to represent the Sisters of the Valley
1587
01:19:52,542 --> 01:19:55,292
who produce non-psychoactive
products from marijuana.
1588
01:19:55,375 --> 01:19:57,958
And we think a pilot programme
would be a wonderful chance
1589
01:19:58,042 --> 01:20:00,917
for your staff to supervise
a community development agreement
1590
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:02,542
that would grant a conditional use.
1591
01:20:02,625 --> 01:20:03,917
We're an open book,
1592
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:05,750
please regulate us, please tax us
1593
01:20:05,833 --> 01:20:09,917
-and I thank you for your time.
1594
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:11,042
Next.
1595
01:20:17,458 --> 01:20:20,333
You're gonna talk and Freya's gonna talk.
1596
01:20:20,417 --> 01:20:23,500
Listen,
I had an old Native American man tell me
1597
01:20:23,583 --> 01:20:26,250
about four years ago when I started this,
1598
01:20:26,333 --> 01:20:29,167
you've already realised
your power with words
1599
01:20:29,250 --> 01:20:32,667
but you have not yet realised
your power of silence.
1600
01:20:32,750 --> 01:20:37,667
So I am planning to go there and be silent
and you're gonna be my one gun,
1601
01:20:37,750 --> 01:20:39,583
you're gonna be my legal, logical gun
1602
01:20:39,667 --> 01:20:42,333
and Freya's gonna be my heart,
compassionate, medicine gun
1603
01:20:42,417 --> 01:20:46,667
and I'm just gonna sit there
and try not to say anything for two hours.
1604
01:20:46,750 --> 01:20:50,083
-Please do.
-Which, by the way, is not easy for me.
1605
01:20:50,167 --> 01:20:52,250
The retail business
would probably be valued
1606
01:20:52,333 --> 01:20:54,708
at around five million dollars right now.
1607
01:20:54,792 --> 01:20:57,000
So there's five million dollars to lose.
1608
01:20:57,083 --> 01:20:58,458
And that's where we are right now.
1609
01:20:58,542 --> 01:21:00,833
We have something to lose,
so we care about the rules.
1610
01:21:00,917 --> 01:21:03,083
I don't believethat she'll be issued a permit
1611
01:21:03,167 --> 01:21:06,417
because that would open up a door
for other producers
1612
01:21:06,500 --> 01:21:08,667
to import marijuana to the community.
1613
01:21:08,750 --> 01:21:10,083
And as far as I'm concerned,
1614
01:21:10,167 --> 01:21:12,167
I don't believe that
she will be issued a permit.
1615
01:21:12,250 --> 01:21:15,708
If we got denied,
that would be really bad for us.
1616
01:21:15,792 --> 01:21:17,333
We'd have to quit.
1617
01:21:19,500 --> 01:21:21,542
It's a mess, it is a total mess.
1618
01:21:24,917 --> 01:21:27,750
We're going to tryto fight under state law
1619
01:21:27,833 --> 01:21:30,042
to get her the permit that she's due.
1620
01:21:30,125 --> 01:21:32,542
I think if we can get her that permit,
1621
01:21:32,625 --> 01:21:33,875
her future's bright.
1622
01:22:03,375 --> 01:22:04,958
It was good. I thought it was good.
1623
01:22:05,042 --> 01:22:06,333
I thought it was really good.
1624
01:22:06,417 --> 01:22:08,833
I thought they were
extremely civilised and, like...
1625
01:22:08,917 --> 01:22:11,542
-Yes, I could deal.
-You must be doing your job, dude,
1626
01:22:11,625 --> 01:22:13,417
because that was a real different meeting
1627
01:22:13,500 --> 01:22:15,750
than I was expecting.
Is it what you were expecting?
1628
01:22:15,833 --> 01:22:18,333
Wow, like, all the grown-ups
were assembled.
1629
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:24,500
They wanted to let us know
1630
01:22:24,583 --> 01:22:28,125
that they're gonna allowTHC delivery services in Merced.
1631
01:22:28,208 --> 01:22:29,792
What was surprising to me
1632
01:22:29,875 --> 01:22:31,708
is that they've all
come around to the idea
1633
01:22:31,792 --> 01:22:33,375
that we're in the hemp business, right?
1634
01:22:33,458 --> 01:22:36,750
And they've all come around to the idea
that we should be made legal here.
1635
01:22:36,833 --> 01:22:39,042
But it was really good
that I did very little talking.
1636
01:22:39,125 --> 01:22:41,083
I mean, I did talk.
I told you I was gonna talk.
1637
01:22:46,750 --> 01:22:48,500
Hold on to your habits, girls,
1638
01:22:48,583 --> 01:22:50,917
when I see Jamie hitting the gas.
1639
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:53,250
She's bought her home
and raised her kids here.
1640
01:22:53,333 --> 01:22:54,375
She wants to stay here
1641
01:22:54,458 --> 01:22:56,542
and give jobs to a struggling community,
1642
01:22:56,625 --> 01:22:58,583
the second poorest county in the state.
1643
01:22:58,667 --> 01:23:01,333
You know, the future
of cannabis for our state
1644
01:23:01,417 --> 01:23:03,250
is pretty bright, I think.
1645
01:23:09,500 --> 01:23:11,458
If we want to havea meaningful impact
1646
01:23:11,542 --> 01:23:13,000
on distribution,
1647
01:23:13,083 --> 01:23:16,000
we have to get our productsinto all the stores
1648
01:23:16,083 --> 01:23:18,250
and all the pharmacies around the planet.
1649
01:23:20,542 --> 01:23:23,292
There's interest
in the Sisters of the Valley globally.
1650
01:23:23,375 --> 01:23:25,708
The number of people
that want to talk to us
1651
01:23:25,792 --> 01:23:27,625
just never seems to stop.
1652
01:23:27,708 --> 01:23:29,708
Oh, I am freaking out right now.
1653
01:23:29,792 --> 01:23:32,542
I've been looking forward
to this for so long!
1654
01:23:32,625 --> 01:23:35,583
They call themselvesSisters of the Valley.
1655
01:23:35,667 --> 01:23:37,250
Sisters of the Valley.
1656
01:23:38,958 --> 01:23:40,125
They are in the business
1657
01:23:40,208 --> 01:23:41,667
of helping people in pain.
1658
01:23:41,750 --> 01:23:45,000
Our sisterhood
requires us to take the time
1659
01:23:45,083 --> 01:23:47,292
to teach the world about CBD and cannabis.
1660
01:23:47,375 --> 01:23:49,750
Bring outside money and outside jobs
1661
01:23:49,833 --> 01:23:51,042
from the rest of the world
1662
01:23:51,125 --> 01:23:53,042
to the poor people of the Central Valley.
1663
01:24:00,625 --> 01:24:04,250
Had I not been completely broken down,
1664
01:24:04,333 --> 01:24:07,292
ass against the wall, not a cent,
1665
01:24:07,375 --> 01:24:09,958
old life completely stripped of me,
1666
01:24:10,042 --> 01:24:12,083
I may not have had the courage.
1667
01:24:18,833 --> 01:24:21,875
When people have everything taken away,
1668
01:24:21,958 --> 01:24:23,917
you should be scared,
1669
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:26,042
cos they will do some radical shit.
1670
01:24:38,167 --> 01:24:39,792
It's an ancient tradition
1671
01:24:41,333 --> 01:24:43,792
that if you have a change in your lifethat's dramatic,
1672
01:24:43,875 --> 01:24:45,083
you take a new name.
1673
01:24:47,292 --> 01:24:50,292
Many of the sisterslike the idea that they choose
1674
01:24:50,375 --> 01:24:52,417
that new name for this new life.
1675
01:24:54,833 --> 01:24:57,875
Christine is a womanthat the family shit on.
1676
01:24:59,458 --> 01:25:01,500
Kate, don't shit on Kate.
1677
01:25:01,583 --> 01:25:04,375
♪ Hey fellas, I think you better listen ♪
1678
01:25:04,458 --> 01:25:07,958
♪ To what I've got to say ♪
1679
01:25:08,042 --> 01:25:11,583
♪ We ain't fooling, can't be losing ♪
1680
01:25:11,667 --> 01:25:14,417
♪ It's a different world today ♪
1681
01:25:14,500 --> 01:25:16,667
♪ So if you got a good girl ♪
1682
01:25:16,750 --> 01:25:18,917
♪ I say you'd better treat her right ♪
1683
01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:22,208
♪ Kiss her lips and hold her tight ♪
1684
01:25:22,292 --> 01:25:24,125
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1685
01:25:24,208 --> 01:25:25,708
♪ You better believe it ♪
1686
01:25:25,792 --> 01:25:28,625
♪ Cos it's a woman's world ♪
1687
01:25:29,917 --> 01:25:33,292
♪ Every guy, you'd better gather round ♪
1688
01:25:33,375 --> 01:25:36,833
♪ Cos here's to an end you know ♪
1689
01:25:36,917 --> 01:25:40,167
♪ No fear or fate now, Josephine ♪
1690
01:25:40,250 --> 01:25:44,000
♪ I said boys on top of the world ♪
1691
01:25:44,083 --> 01:25:45,708
♪ And ever since that day ♪
1692
01:25:45,792 --> 01:25:47,417
♪ You thought the world went your way ♪
1693
01:25:47,500 --> 01:25:50,875
♪ So come on, fellas, hear what I say ♪
1694
01:25:50,958 --> 01:25:52,708
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1695
01:25:52,792 --> 01:25:54,417
♪ You better believe it ♪
1696
01:25:54,500 --> 01:25:57,083
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1697
01:25:58,750 --> 01:26:01,542
♪ We can't be foolish ♪
1698
01:26:01,625 --> 01:26:05,750
♪ Hey girls, let's stick together ♪
1699
01:26:05,833 --> 01:26:08,750
♪ Boys can't be ruling ♪
1700
01:26:08,833 --> 01:26:12,875
♪ Oh yeah,I call him once, he close the door ♪
1701
01:26:12,958 --> 01:26:17,792
♪ But this time, this time let him know ♪
1702
01:26:17,875 --> 01:26:19,917
♪ That it's a woman's world ♪
1703
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:21,375
♪ Better believe it ♪
1704
01:26:21,458 --> 01:26:24,708
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1705
01:26:32,958 --> 01:26:36,208
♪ Hey fellas, I'll tell you something ♪
1706
01:26:36,292 --> 01:26:39,292
♪ Love is here to stay ♪
1707
01:26:39,375 --> 01:26:45,750
♪ Because we wrote the pagesto the Book of Love, 1768 ♪
1708
01:26:46,542 --> 01:26:48,167
♪ So if you've got a good girl ♪
1709
01:26:48,250 --> 01:26:50,667
♪ I say you'd better treat her right ♪
1710
01:26:50,750 --> 01:26:54,125
♪ Kiss her lips and hold her tight ♪
1711
01:26:54,208 --> 01:26:55,792
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1712
01:26:55,875 --> 01:26:57,417
♪ You better believe it ♪
1713
01:26:57,500 --> 01:27:00,208
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1714
01:27:04,792 --> 01:27:06,500
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1715
01:27:06,583 --> 01:27:08,167
♪ You better believe it ♪
1716
01:27:08,250 --> 01:27:10,083
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1717
01:27:10,167 --> 01:27:12,250
♪ What you see ♪
1718
01:27:12,333 --> 01:27:14,042
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1719
01:27:14,125 --> 01:27:15,417
♪ People regret it ♪
1720
01:27:15,500 --> 01:27:17,417
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1721
01:27:17,500 --> 01:27:19,292
♪ Change is coming ♪
1722
01:27:19,375 --> 01:27:20,792
♪ Woman's world ♪
1723
01:27:20,875 --> 01:27:22,375
♪ Whoo, yeah ♪
1724
01:27:22,458 --> 01:27:24,500
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1725
01:27:24,583 --> 01:27:26,000
♪ Whoo, yeah ♪
1726
01:27:26,083 --> 01:27:27,792
♪ It's a woman's world ♪
1727
01:27:27,875 --> 01:27:29,417
♪ Whoo, yeah ♪
1728
01:27:29,500 --> 01:27:32,917
♪ Cos it's a woman's world, whoo ♪
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