Sheriann Baker | Cancer & Cannabis, Social Media, The Power of Community | Noobie & Doobie OTS #29

On The Spot with Sheriann Baker.  Living with cancer, Sheriann is a content creator, cannabis advocate & spreader of positivity!

During our conversation with Sheriann we discussed her life with cancer & cannabis, managing social media as a content creator as well as the importance of collaboration & community building.

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Cannabis model Marijane Baker & non-consuming comedian Timmy Boyle have joined forces to explore the wonderful world of weed...from both sides.  Be sure to subscribe, turn on notifications, like, comment & share!  Thank you so much!

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ABOUT THE PODCAST:
He’s from the Church.  She’s from the garden...of Weeden.  They’re from different worlds with the same goal.  To engage & explore the cannabis culture...from both sides.  

Join medicinal user, model & advocate Marijane Baker and non-consumer, former youth pastor & current clean comedian Timmy Boyle for a unique, funny & educational look into the magical, controversial and, for some, forbidden world of weed.  

Timmy & Mj (a real life “mixed” couple) bring their cannabis pillow talk into the public domain as well as inviting guests, from inside & outside the weed community, to help educate, entertain & inspire the other noobies & doobies who are tuning in.

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[Music] this podcast is for adults only should

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not be used as a meal replacement and may contain nuts

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[Music] hey everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Newbie and the

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Doobie my name is Timmy I am the Newbie Mary Jane I am the Doobie we're very excited to have with us today on the

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spot Sherry Ann Baker who we have been wanting to have with us for uh quite some time

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um we've even entrusted her with our phone to take uh pictures at an event because that's how good she is around

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water online everybody needs to follow Sherry Ann Baker and if you're not

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please do that we'll give you more information about that later in the show but Sherry Anne thank you for joining us

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this morning thank you for having me I'm so excited you guys are awesome

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yes and if you're only uh listening to this on an audio format I say poo poo to

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you because you cannot see the amazingness and you'll hear the energy but you won't get to see the energy that

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is Sherry Ann Baker so those are so awesome that's why I love you yes it's it's actually one of my eyes I mentioned

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this to you at Lyft or sorry not at Lyft but at uh the kind Summer Festival but it is one of my favorite ways to start

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my morning is I go through my Instagram stories and your face is always smiling

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and cheerful and you're always doing your little dance with your doobie and I'm like what are you smoking today you

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know it's just it's a nice way to start the morning so yeah absolutely well today I'm smoking Saints so far one of

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the ones that's about my six or six so we're gonna get in we're gonna get into your cannabis journey and and

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everything that kind of you know impassions you throughout this I mean you're at so many events you do so much

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online yeah um but I'll I do want to hit before we even get

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to that I mean you are so incredibly active on social media oh yes we I mean

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it exhausted us and it's why we took some time off not your social media our social media

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yeah like and going to going to events and trying to enjoy the event but trying

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to document the event and then trying to make sure you're on top of all that posting stuff and I tell people all the

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time there's there's a reason why people pay people other people to just do

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social media for them because it's so much and do you get you look like though

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you just get energized by it and it's just it's just it's a passion of yours yeah I just I just love it it's just a

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way of networking with people that's how how I look at it right so so when I go to event I basically

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um I just you know say my hellos or whatever and sometimes it's can you just saying hello it's gonna be time

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consuming because so many people are there like with kind oh my gosh it takes you it took you almost like an hour just

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to walk around that small little venue because there were so many of us there and you just start talking and then you

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see somebody else and somebody else so yeah it's very time consuming so basically yeah I go in and I try to get

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um my hellos in really fast and then I try to do my videoing and you know focus

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more on doing my being more creating and and that sort of stuff and then and then

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if there's time after then I'll do more networking but I'll tell you it can take up easily eight hours easily and you

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still can't get all your videotaping and you still can't see everybody but you do

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you it's kind of important because you like you said um you know like I don't get paid for it this is kind of like my hobby this is

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kind of what I love to do but it is very time consuming it really is but I love

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doing it yeah it sounds like you must have some sort of plan though because even like we get

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confused sometime just trying to look at our files and go what have we posted what haven't we posted when are we gonna

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post this no no it starts even before like Sherry I was talking about it it starts at the event you can attest to

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this we made it we we started on the left hand side we walked

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20 steps and ran into somebody strictly hippie yeah then we walked another five

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steps and we ran into Chris Burns next thing you know we're halfway down the thing we're running into shatterizer

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team now we're all and like like you're saying now it's like 45 minutes and we've only made it around one small

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little L section and yeah I'm such the person that I'm in the moment and I'm having fun and I'm chatting and I'm oh

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my God and I'm like oh Timmy goes do you got your phone and I'm like oh yeah a photo a photo we need

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to get a photo right because if you don't take a photo it didn't happen exactly that's exactly and nowadays for

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sure and that's just at the event like Timmy said like and then you get out of the event

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and you have what do we have like 70 76 or something like that photo video

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things from yeah from kind yeah and I I I feel like an old person now I made

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fun of my dad when he told me he had to check emails at work and I probably shouldn't have done this because now I

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feel like it's coming back to haunt me yes because the files Go from my phone and I can't get them to upload to my

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drive because my phone is maxed out on battery and it keeps saying synchronization error oh that's the

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really stressful part of it and then if you do manage to get this they give you now this special piece with your phone

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that plugs in the bottom that you can plug USB like a whole memory stick in and then I take it to the computer and I

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plug it in the computer and I'm so excited to see them and now I'm like oh gotta put them in this this app to make

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it a video or to make it a photo and now I have like like like Timmy

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yeah then you've got to tag people are literally after kind after kind I

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would okay so the first night I was at kinda let me just first of all kind was I'm gonna say was the most absolutely

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amazing is the best event that I've been to in the last three years since of

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covid um was absolutely spectacular so I don't know if that's what took so long to get around it was because you just I mean

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you couldn't I was gonna say it took you that long to see see people my God I would just turn around and be like somebody else somebody else somebody

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yeah and because you could get away from people and but that was a great part of that right like it was just everybody

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was just so loving and hugging and it was like a big hippie Fest and I just loved it but the first night it

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literally took me and I was there for opening at three o'clock until nine o'clock the

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first day to actually be able to actually even relax and say hello to anybody because it was just so busy

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networking and taking videos and yeah it was just and then of course I was

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exhausted so then of course I I live right downtown so I I walk home and then

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of course you know I'm so excited I got this adrenaline going I'm like okay only one video and then of course you know I'm up there till four in the morning

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and then sometimes just tagging people tagging people takes hours right and

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then like you said and then if that's why it's whether your phone wants to upload or if Instagram wants to screw

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around with you and not dead it's a very time consuming so yeah I do I do have a

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plan and it eventually hopefully yeah it's just to get out there more and hopefully have more sponsors I need

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sponsors now it's been six years that I've been doing this and I've been doing this on my own with absolutely

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um no help from anybody and I I haven't asked for help because I didn't know how the heck this works but I see a lot of

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people that are doing really well on it and I need to figure it out and I'm going to because yeah like you know I

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love doing that it's funny it's funny that you say that because there's people like us who are looking at you going oh

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that person's figured it out we got to figure out what they're doing so it's encouraging to know that that even you

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haven't figured out what would though because as a as a comedian I'm prefer and a very poor marketer I must have

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performing professionally since 2009 I have always been on the stage doing my

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own marketing doing my own you know you know agent work all I everything's

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myself there's so many people in this industry too that are doing podcasts doing

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influencer work whatever it may be running a business and they're struggling I know you haven't figured it

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all out but I know we're not the only ones who think that you do a very very very well what would be a couple tips

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that you could share with everyone else is going how in the world do I do this better what were a couple things that

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you've learned that you're like this this this helped me a lot you just you just got a network that's really the

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biggest thing you got you got to be out there like you know I you know I I don't know though I mean it's you know it's

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funny you say that because the other day I was thinking about that and there are some influences that I see on social media that have a lot more followers on

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Instagram that I do but there are the events so I'm like what are we doing

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like what am I what am I not doing right like I don't get it right and but I'll

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tell you like when I'm at the events I am recognized like it's overwhelming like oopsie even when I was at kind

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um I like I had people and I at all the events coming up to me and it's the

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funniest thing because I don't know how celebrities do it but yeah people come up to me and they're like oh my gosh how

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are you so that first thing I'll do is I'm looking at them okay do I know them or do I not know them and then

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thankfully most of them will say you don't know me I follow you so then I'll be like if you otherwise like I have no

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idea who this person is right but they're so awesome like everybody is just so awesome and and and it makes me

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kind of feel funny like you know what I mean because I I don't think I'm any different than anybody else so now it

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doesn't matter I never will be like in in social media world I do got about I

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don't know about 15 000 followers and Twitter was actually my biggest platform Twitter that's one of the ones I got to

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say Twitter was my biggest platform um

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Twitter followers like at all um and then and then somebody introduced

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me to Instagram and then that's it I've been on Instagram like big time Facebook not so much but yeah I would just say

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yeah um just get out there do you networking talk to people um

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um you know I'm not gonna say like offer your free services but sometimes you got to do that in every sort of job even

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jobs that you get paid at you always gotta you gotta show that you're a team player and that you're you're willing to

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to learn every job and every Department to kind of get your nose in there but that's what I'm doing and I I find it

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starting to work because I kind of did actually have um two or three people that um came up to me and wanted to go

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further so things are starting finally after six years

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um yeah it's just patience right and it's also getting the recognition and I'm finally

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um yeah people are starting to take me more seriously so well I think money guys well I gotta figure out how

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to get the minutes I get lots of loot I have a whole table

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full of stuff right you're like now if I could just turn that into monetary yes

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right and you know and in all fairness to the cannabis companies out there we do know you have a marketing funds you

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have just like any company um you know you're you you you have this money so if us influencers are out there

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and as Comedians and us people are like going out of our way to promote your

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events and you see us at all the events and you see us there's a group of us we're always you need to start you need

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to start um recognizing us and you need to start

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um somehow what's the word I'm looking for guys compensated yes I think I think the

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real problem lies with him and I say this all the time Timmy can attest to it it's the rules and the regulations that

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need to be addressed around cannabis marketing right that way can allow for

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more like I don't know you mentioned Twitter and I was like was on Twitter because I just recently heard that

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Twitter has now changed their cannabis advertising policies to include not just

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brand awareness right because before like you could just say you know you know whatever cannabis Brand X cannabis

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brand I don't want to promote anybody because like you said no compensation right so X cannabis brand right um is is

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able to talk about uh their product now rather than just saying come and check

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out our store right right right so it's things are slowly changing Timmy says

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baby stuff apps and you know we're moving in the right direction that's frustrating though I agree with you we

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need to start pushing and we need to see you know we we deserve a space too and I think it's kind of count on the like

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kind list as well they're trying to do what what a lot of people sorry they're

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doing better what other people have tried to do for years and that brings illegal and the the Legacy together

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together yes and this and apparently well what I I you know what I'm I've I've seen a little bit of Separation not

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as much as others have but this the kind was great there was it was just like we were like this like there was so much

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love between everybody and I think that's the way it should be that's the way I've always felt like because I before I came to Ontario I didn't know

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about all the Legacy and all that how it worked because Alberta is totally completely different right and um so

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I've been learning but I when I first came here yeah I could definitely see it's like oh you buy it you buy the

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legal and then it's like what what I'm about cannabis I don't know what you guys are talking about so I had to like

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nobody gave me a book on how to learn all this I would go to the events and that's how I was slowly starting to

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learn and I'm very um I'm just kind of one of those girls I don't like to ask a lot of questions I don't like to look

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dumb so sometimes I do I'm dumb because I just kind of figure stuff out and I ask really stupid questions but that's

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how you learn right but that's how I've been noticing is in the last year for sure

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um for sure we've really started coming more together and I think now I've heard

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this a lot from us influencers and us people um who are out there supporting these um

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wonderful cannabis companies um that they're not feeling compensated there's a whole bunch of us

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um so I think they need to start compensating us or looking at us and changing the rules just to include us

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more and to compensate us because we are we do bring in a lot of people as they

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see like I know a lot of people go to the shows to see you guys and all honesty people go to the shows to see a

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lot of us and and a lot of us are starting to get discouraged so we just gotta it's a fine line though right

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because you when you continue to promote

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um on your own and you do it well then I'm not saying all companies do this but

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there's certainly some that would go well why would we compensate because you're already promoting for us well

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that's it so it's it's a it's a difficult line because we we want to be supportive we want to promote but we

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also need to kind of go wait a minute maybe I you know because we've actually done this with other people with like

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when you go to events right we support other companies podcasters influencers

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but when we go to events we want to wear our brand stuff because we're trying to

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promote us like for example you're wearing a shirt that is promoting a company right right and this is you're

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not getting compensated yeah no you're doing it the product yeah right they need to they

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need to recognize there is there is brand recognition and that you know hey this product is a great product I love

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um I'm like looking because I normally have one close by it's a it's a med Tanner it's a grinder yeah I'm sure

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you've seen them airtight waterproof storage container grinder on the bottom yeah um I have never earned a dollar not

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even a penny from that company yeah oh yeah we don't have pennies um but I

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love I love that company I love the product um I'll talk about it all day every day

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um but I have I'm also weary about taking on endorsements and stuff like

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that because especially when it comes to product testing um

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what if you're paying me to test a product what you're paying me for is

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the testing of the product what you're not paying me for is an unbiased opinion

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right because I'm going to give you my opinion my true 100 opinion absolutely

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whatever you're giving me because I don't believe in false advertisement I agree so that's where I'm like I would

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be willing to deal with with that sort of thing when it comes to like products whether it be Grinders or anything like

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even non-cannabis related it's still it's got to be you know it's going to be truthful

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absolutely absolutely I agree like you know like I find actually yeah I won't I won't do any sort of review or any sort

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of a product on a shitty product absolutely not no no way no way I've actually I've actually had people who

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have given me Rick Simpson Oil that I um didn't find was very good product or

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good quality and no I believe absolutely not because I'm not going to endure something that's a shitty product no I'm

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not putting away no because that puts your like honestly especially in the Cannabis industry when

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your career everything rides on your reputation it is not worth doing

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anything that is going to to affect that like I like to believe I'm a pretty

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decent person so I'm not going to go around looking around here oh MJ beat an animal or some crap like that because

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that's never gonna happen that's why people like you because they can trust you and they can believe in what you're talking about right and they yeah they

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they enjoy what you talk about right because what if you endorse that RSO and

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then next thing you know somebody gets really sick off of it yeah subpar product and you're just like I

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don't want to be responsible no it's so good for you also for taking that same absolutely not no no no for absolutely

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not I actually have to even block the guy I mean if I actually had people who

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have tried to attach their Richardson oil to my name and it's like first of all okay I've had one gram first of all

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I'm not even gonna know what one Graham's gonna do like I take one gram a day so like you know what I mean so so

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yeah no you and I know and you're not I'm not endorsing it I'm not putting my name on it so get my face and my name

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off of your product right like oh yeah I get it a lot I get that a lot I believe

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that because um I was like I don't want to get too much into I'll just say this I I believe

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that because of who you are and what you're advocating yeah

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but yeah but I'm like before we get into that story can I ask her the question well yeah I was gonna well you have

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something else first go ahead no I it leads into that so everything that we

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set up to this point just reveals um for you to to do what you've been

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doing clearly you are investing a lot of time clearly you are investing a lot of

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your heart um and energy into this which leads

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ultimately to the question of of why which ultimately leads to what MJ's

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question is because you are you are clearly wanting to talk about cannabis well yes oh I see the discussion on

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cannabis I don't know what her journey is well I don't know if this led to your journey so my my question always stems

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with or starts with uh your very very first time using cannabis this in any

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form so whether it's smoking eating whatever you're right downtown yeah

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I was 11. okay okay and my sister

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um me and my sister have never gone along and she thought that she'd [ __ ] me up and get me high and then I'd be

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all screwed up and do really stupid she's gonna be the older sister yeah she was yeah she's three years old and she

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did do it and she hooked me and I smoked the whole joint I loved it and I never thought and then you guys started you

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started getting along because you both were like Hey we're not talking no no no no she only did it to try and get me in

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trouble I think she thought my parents would figure it out that I was high at 11 but no they never figured it out but

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but but he was probably more pissed off about that and would you that's the way

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she was I think I think her and her friend like had one puff I think that was the whole plan was get sherian

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really screwed up get her in trouble and so you know my parents taught me not to waste right

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so I smoked the whole thing and we had five and a half acres and I still remember this a great memory and I still

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remember this I got on my little Honda 90 after that and drove around on my five acres all buzzed out thinking wow

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this is life like even at 11 years old I knew how great it was

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would you have gotten in a lot of trouble was your was your family against

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weed was it was it a anti yeah I was home you know I don't think

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not too sure my dad my parents were alcoholics so

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so yeah um I don't know you know I don't know my they were hippies I mean they had they

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were into Elton John and all that so you know there must be a spider

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busted those alarms this morning in your building it's a good it's a good thing cannabis is legal now because in the

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past you would have been running for cover going are they looking for me no I never did I never did I never ran

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but yeah no I I just I've always loved it and I've always I always had a lot of anxiety

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um even as a little girl and suffered from my drains as a little girl so I don't know if all about came into play

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and that's why I loved it so much and maybe having

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parents that um were alcoholics that maybe kind of took me away a little bit from that maybe

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I don't know do you feel we talk a lot about um uh consuming with purpose do you feel

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that even at a young age there was a sense that it was medicine for anxiety

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or was it simply a recreational enjoyment no absolutely let's put it this way I remember being

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1918 and I'd be all stressed out my mom would go Sherry Anne go smoke a joint to

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you know and she knew it because it would calm me down I've been allowed to smoke pot in my

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house since I was 13 14 in my mom's house not my dad's

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house my Dad would kick my ass my mom my mom anything went anything went my mom

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smoked car my mom knew oh yeah right yeah and yeah and so then as as you got

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older did you um did you narrow down at all the the

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intention behind it did you kind of go wait this is also helping with this and this and if I smoke this strain and this

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dose it will help me with this or like how did that process of growth happen well you know what no it was just had to

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be canis didn't matter if it was sativa Indica hybrid it just had to be cannabis

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it was that yeah you know it was the sativa the Indica doesn't I've never

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noticed a difference of the highs the lows the couch you know what I mean I just love the high

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you know as soon as I just it's just high it's I just love being in that

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place you know what I'm saying and I don't know maybe like I said having parents that were alcoholics and seeing how stupid they were and knowing that

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you could have so much fun but not be stupid and not feel like [ __ ] in that state and not

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remembering what you've done and you know what I mean and yeah I remember as

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a and I did this once I remember my mom I guess I was like 18 at the time and uh

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my mom was a my mom was a bad joke okay she was a mean job and uh

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yeah all my friends knew because she'd even show up in the bars in Toronto and oh my God anyway she was a mean girl

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this one night she was really mean so it was like okay well let's let's get talker into smoking a joy because we

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knew as soon as we could get her to smoke a joint it just took her down brought her boom right on the couch that

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was it nighty nights mommy money and that's what it was we just had to get her to have that possible and we did as

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soon as we got her to have that puff she would just mellow out and she would go to bed she wasn't a belligerent mean

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person so I saw it from a very young age um the effects and my auntie thanks my

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auntie Dar was a hippie um did she introduce me no my sister introduced me the clock but my auntie Darlene was very um you know she gave it

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to me as a young you know I was 17 or whatever and she'd give me bags of it and um and and she but she also knew

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that my parents were alcoholics and she also she wasn't so it's we kind of saw the different effects right like that's

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different highs between mean stupidity High all right drinking alcohol ruining

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your life because that's what it did to my parents like the alcohol was my parents life it's both of theirs and um

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and the weed you know I'm still here right like and yeah you don't make

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stupid decisions you don't go robbing up you don't go smoke a big fat drink of I think I'm gonna go rob a bank today you

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just don't do that right so yeah I wish I wish I wish my parents would have been

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more pot smokers and and would have got away from the alcoholism you know it's

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back then it's sad it's sad because I grew up you know we talk a lot about the fact of my background growing up in the

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church be pretty much being born in the Pew of an Evangelical Baptist Church and and not hearing much about cannabis but

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as I got older of course knowing that it was there and getting to a place where I was preaching against it because everything that you're saying there the

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stigma is still attached to that people don't people don't make that distinction no somebody really kind of sits down and

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go when was the last time that you saw you know you know people smoking weed you know beating up somebody in the park

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right compared to when was the last time you heard about somebody who was drunk causing some damage and so I just want

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to say a phrase my grandma used to say all the time and she said do you know how you can tell when alcoholic or a

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bunch of teenagers that drink hang out on the hill she says they leave all their garbage and [ __ ] lying around she says do you know what happens when a

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bunch of kids show up and smoke weed she says nothing they're quiet you might

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smell them that's it she says they leave nothing behind they like yeah they're paranoid so they're cleaning up after

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themselves they're good they don't want to get busted right that's the truth that's the honest to God too it really

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I've certainly I've certainly seen it now and it just it just baffles me that that that sort of yeah you've got to see

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it from the inside yeah it's like nobody even processed the difference to me

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drinking alcohol which I I was turned off by watching alcoholics do dumb things and I

28:34

didn't have a um another thing to go to I just enjoyed going out and being that person who

28:41

remembered everything that happened and right and I was the life of the party I always felt that was the life of the

28:46

party and could enjoy the moment I was never anxious in crowds I just became the center of the attention it energized

28:53

me so I didn't need anything to fuel that sort of either being able to be in

28:59

it or not but it's just um yeah it's just it's so weird to me because when you look back on it

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logically you just those connections aren't made and yet I grew up in an environment that is no different than a

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lot of environments that are still around today where people just equate heroin drug you know weeds

29:18

all the same and it's like it's it's not a drug first of all weed is not a drug

29:23

right it's a plant no it's not so don't even put it in that category we're a flower we're a medicine really that's

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and and thank God now it's finally it's starting to get out there more that we are in medicine and that we're helping

29:34

for the anxiety and depression and to help alcoholics get off of alcohol and

29:40

there is so many more benefits and if we're helping people with cancer like there's just so many more benefits to it

29:46

and people need to realize that it's not yeah it's great it's great to get high but there's just so many more benefits

29:53

to the plant right oh yeah yeah so I think you you touched on a very big one

29:59

right there as part of your journey like I feel like it's a perfect segue to lead into why

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um specifically you use RSO can you take us to the very beginning of like what

30:12

what happened because I've heard bits and pieces of the story but I want to hear it right from you uh can I just say

30:18

for the for the newbies um around what's RSO because she said Rick Simpson

30:25

technically if you don't know who Rick Simpson is yeah Rick Simpson who's Rick

30:30

Rick Simpson had skin cancer and he actually um came up with the formula which is now

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called Rick Simpson Oil which is cannabis oil um he came up with the formula with the

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ibuprofol and the cannabis oil it's a whole it's it's like a time consuming takes like eight hours to process it

30:51

boiling over a slow period of time because you got to boil all the alcohol out of there

30:56

um it's a dangerous process if you don't know what you're doing too absolutely yeah it's very it's very yeah it's it's

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I feel like I should add the warning for like yeah yeah I do it outside I go to Farms when

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I do do it I'm I'm thank god um I have donors who have been donating it to me for the last six years which is

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unbelievable um and they do it they they make them the Rick Simpson out at their Farms but the one time when I did do it I did it

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out on a farm um where we were all walking and walking around watching it boil for like eight

31:30

hours because it just it's so time consuming but it's worth it it is absolutely worth it I just I just want

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to interject and say if you don't know who Rick Simpson is and you want to know more information you could go and Google

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run from the cure for the Cure but from the Cure and I

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believe there's a number two as well that you can see but they're both there they're both free to watch go check that

31:55

out and then come back here or checking out after either way and he's fantastic actually he found me I guess it was

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about three or four years ago he found me on I think I don't know which whichever social media but yeah his

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people found me and uh he was really excited I saw I should have the book here but he's over there but yeah he

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sent me a signed copy of his book and told me how proud he was with me and he knows that I I tell people a little

32:21

different but then what his protocol is but that's you know I think it's different for every sort of cancer right

32:27

like he had skin cancer I had brain cancer so I think everyone you know you got experiment a little bit right but

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definitely I credit him to where I am today right but he also gotta so so what

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what basically happened is um I was at a parade in my hometown and um I was

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getting out from my parade and I felt out of this world that's the only way I

32:54

can describe it I can't say I felt High because I'm always high but I felt

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out of this world I almost felt like I was like looking down on myself I don't know it was just weird and then I

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remember like looking around kind of going okay that's kind of weird but didn't want to think of anything of it

33:10

and before you knew it we started walking away from the parade because the parade was over so as we were walking

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away um I put my left foot down had no issues took my right foot down and it was like

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there was no ground below me it was like water um and then I remember this like looking

33:28

down like okay did I just step off the sidewalk like why why did it feel that way but you're just walking so fast that

33:34

your mind just stops and you keep walking so then I walk back on my left foot again there's no issues go to my

33:40

right foot again again I couldn't like I couldn't find the solid ground and I'm like what the hell's going on and my

33:48

girlfriend just so happened to be a nurse and she's like what's going on and on like I don't know Laurie like she's like well should we go to the hospital

33:53

I'm like no no you know like no no no let's just let's just go to my car and we'll see how we how I feel when we get

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to my car how old are you at this point this was this was in um 2000 sorry

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2017. that's one of the prices that the brain um right memory and my numbers so yeah

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so it was 2017. so it was it was actually June 18 2017. so we start we keep walking we

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start walking again at this time my legs are fine and I didn't fall so I kind of

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knew in my mind just to kind of keep walking so my main goal was just to get to my car and then get to her house to

34:34

try to figure out what's going on so we get to my car but on the way to my car I can I I kind

34:40

of I'm losing myself more like I'm just like just yeah things are kind of like

34:46

sounding weird my surroundings are weird but so I'm just moving my goal is just

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to get to my car so we get to my car and I remember standing now at my my

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driver's side and just standing there and I'm waiting for my legs to sit me down in my car but

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my legs aren't doing anything and I'm sitting there kind of still waiting because like I'm cool right

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and I don't want to say anything to my girlfriend yet and I'm high and I'm like not [ __ ] sure what's going on and I'm

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a little bit panicking yeah so then she finally says what are you doing are you getting in the car and I went no Lori

35:27

I'm paralyzed I can't move and she's like what I'm like I can't move

35:33

so she jumps out of my car and she comes right over to where I'm standing and

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grabs me and has to like force me like literally walk me over to the passenger

35:45

side and then she's standing there waiting for me to sit down realizes I can't sit down because I can't move so

35:51

it's just literally pushed me into the seat lift my legs everything shut me in lock me in

35:57

drive me down to the hospital and I'm looking at her right and I have to even stand her like you know do you want to

36:03

speed up like it's funny because I knew she didn't want to speed in my car because I had a nice car but at this point I just want to just be that and we

36:10

were actually going to her at her house at this point we were on the way to the hospital so we we got to the hospital

36:16

thank God there was only one other person ahead of me um she let them know that they they

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didn't look more important than I did that I looked more important that I should be ahead of them and I'm like I'm

36:27

just like in my I just remember I'm in a shell right I'm just in my body and I'm thinking oh my God how embarrassing

36:34

and uh then she leaves and I'm sitting there and I remember a nurse came and

36:39

that was it that was it and then I woke up in the hospital and I had all these people around me and

36:48

yeah so it turns out I had a grand mal seizure for eight minutes

36:54

um at that point when I woke up they still didn't have an idea what was going on

36:59

with me they they figured I had had a stroke either just that day

37:05

when it happened or I had a stroke uh a couple years prior because they found a

37:10

lesion on my brain but they didn't have an MRI only as CAT scan so that's all

37:16

they they knew so they did know that of course when I woke up um I was only 16 and it's funny

37:23

because Cranbrook is where I grew up and I wasn't I wasn't living there when I was at the parade I was just visiting so

37:29

I kind of grew up where I left off 35 years ago so yeah it was bizarre I left

37:36

there when I was 16 I woke up in the same hospital with the same boyfriend that I went back to after 30 years

37:43

right so yeah so apparently I woke up I was 16 years old and then finally I

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guess after time right I came to and then I was back to being four I was 46.

37:53

so yeah so they for three days they're like yeah we think you had a stroke

37:59

nobody could tell me why it was in there they had a stroke so finally I said you know what can I like just go back to

38:04

Alberta and try to figure out what's going on with me because I knew I didn't have a stroke I just I knew it my art I

38:10

knew was not a stroke and it was funny guys because let me tell you an hour before I went to that parade I

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had to get something out of my car um and I went out to my car and as I was walking back to the house I smelled

38:26

burning toast yeah I stopped and I looked at the roof

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and I'm like like that commercial right and I'm like I thought it was burning tar on the roof

38:39

or something like um I literally stopped in my trap going what's what's that smell so I'm like okay to the roof or

38:47

whatever yeah and then an hour later I had a Grandma's seizure so yeah the

38:52

Grandma's seizure is very bad if you're not with anybody most times you die with the Grandma's seizure that that's right

38:58

you need to be with somebody so um yeah I was pretty fortunate that way um after three days like I said after

39:04

being in there from Saturday Sunday then Monday I said you know what like I don't know why I'm here just

39:11

laying in the bed I'd rather go to Alberta and figure out what's going on so that's when my journey started

39:17

um yeah and then I went back to Alberta and it took they're like oh okay yeah yeah we'll get you an MRI it's gonna

39:23

take two months so I had my grandma's seizure on June 18th and didn't even get

39:29

to get to see a neurologist until the beginning of August sat down with him in 10 minutes he goes

39:36

you have to bring cancer you have a brain tumor you didn't even have to do an MRI because you have a brain tumor

39:42

and I went I freaking knew that I knew I had cancer I knew it there's no way

39:48

everything that I've been through was just a stroke and I knew it and I knew that I was prepared after two months you

39:55

you do a lot of thinking and reflecting I'm very spiritual

40:01

um the night before actually I got my results um it was so funny we went out for

40:06

dinner and uh we had Chinese food and uh we got the cookies and my husband always

40:13

throws me his cookies and I always switch them so I made him read his first and then I read mine and mine says

40:20

expect the unexpected I said to him I looked at him I go you know I got cancer right he goes you

40:27

don't [ __ ] got cancer don't be dumb I go Scott I'm just telling you I got

40:33

cancer so because when you go to work tomorrow because you had to drive four hours back to BC to work I said when you

40:39

go back to work tomorrow I'm going to probably be calling you to let you know I got cancer he's like don't be stupid

40:44

blah blah blah so when I called him the next day yeah I had to consult even my

40:50

doctor you guys see this is a part of my I believe it was all kind of meant to be like this is now I know why I had the

40:57

migraines at five and six years old I this tumor it was the size of a golf ball you guys the size of a golf ball

41:03

that sucker has been ticking in my brain since I was six years old and not one doctor I've seen probably 35 doctors did

41:12

one ever do an MRI on my brain so what I suggest to anybody out there if you

41:17

really feel like it's that severe you go walking to the hospital and you scream and cry until they do an MRI don't just

41:23

go to your doctors they just fluff you off they just give you this they give you that they give you try this try that

41:28

that's I was just an experiment job as a guinea pig and it turns out it was it

41:33

was it was a it was a golf ball-sized tumor in my brain right and so that's

41:39

what I tell you and it's funny too because for the last like three or four years prior

41:45

I get like these Tremor things in my body and I thought it was just old age you

41:51

know how you see people in older ages that are kind of shaking and stuff I thought maybe I'm gonna get an old you know because I'm 54. so you know I was

41:58

46 at the time but you know people you see that so I just thought stuffed it off but now these are the signs these

42:07

are the signs for people if you ever like it's the migraines it's

42:12

the it's the blurry vision I mean I had such I would vomit like when I would drink after two or three drinks I would

42:19

bomb it for eight to nine hours the day after like so severely I would be in a fetal position my doctors knew I was

42:26

taking Tylenol with codeine probably 20 a day they prescribed me with they

42:31

diagnosed me with m I m I did medicine medicine induced headaches mih is what

42:37

it's called because I used to eat codeine so much because I would just be scared I was going to get a migraine but

42:45

it was a tumor I haven't taken even a an aspirin in six years

42:50

or anything so at that moment though because obviously you hear you got cancer it's freaky as anything everybody

42:58

you know is just like what am I doing the only thing that people drop in

43:05

general though is okay I guess it's chemo now yeah you said you were no way before like you you were prepared what

43:12

was the plan okay yeah obviously they're coming at you like Timmy says that okay

43:18

and they do oh my God they see dollar signs hey they oh money oh my gosh she's

43:25

gonna redecorate my living room and my bedroom I'm gonna get a new kitchen out of her that's how they think that I see

43:31

that in them right there's one specific doctor specifically I fired at princess

43:37

Margaret's got dollar signs all over anyway um yeah you know what I I knew I knew I

43:44

had cancer I really did um I have it in my family I lost my auntie Dar at 46 breast cancer I've lost my other Auntie

43:51

um everybody my both my grandfathers I I knew it I just didn't think I'm being the healthiest probably Baker ever in my

43:59

family seriously I've been out every day in the gym since 1993. I was the most

44:05

healthiest first so for me to get sick and I don't smoke the rest of my family all smoke cigarettes I don't smoke that

44:12

[ __ ] I only smoke [ __ ] and uh yeah I yeah it was really shocking so when I

44:18

got sick it was a shocker to everybody um but yeah so I was prepared mentally so like when I literally okay so when

44:25

the doctor told me he's like he's like okay sharian um that's up and he goes I'm gonna get full in the

44:31

hospital right now and I'm gonna get you in for that MRI because I still hadn't been able to get into the MRI just to

44:37

see him he's like I'll get you in tomorrow and he did he did he's on my

44:42

days off on Friday but I want you to be here because I want to go over the results with you on Friday so be here so

44:48

he was just absolutely amazing so I did that went to the hospital on Thursday just so you know when you're in the MRI

44:54

you got a little window and you can look and you can see your technician which I do watch them and you can see their

45:01

facial expressions and I knew right then and there that holy [ __ ] I had a monster in my brain because that technician was

45:08

like so yeah I knew I knew and um so yeah so

45:15

go back there on the Friday and he's like yeah yeah you have um a monster in

45:20

your brain he showed me it's literally the size of a golf ball and he said so first place you're gonna go right now is

45:26

you're gonna go to the drugstore and you're gonna fill your prescription for Capra so you don't have another Grandma

45:31

seizure on us because that sucker is still in your brain remember I'm walking around since June 18th with that in my

45:37

break and the doctor like they just fluffed me off and um so that's what he did and then he

45:44

said then I want you to go up to Foothills Hospital and I want you to go meet Dr Kelly he's going to be your neurosurgeon who's going to do your

45:49

brain surgery and he's going to do your brain surgery today and it didn't happen that day and that's when I started to

45:56

realize I needed to take my health into my own hands because I was just a guinea

46:02

pig and I was just a number I was literally up in the Calgary Foothill hospital for eight hours in a room I was

46:08

so bored I was like a child I had the heart monitors on my toes like we were sitting there my dogs were in the trucks

46:14

even the nurses were so great they're like can we go feed your dogs could we go like take your dogs for a walk like

46:20

we feel terrible that they sent you up here and you've been sitting here for eight hours and they're like [ __ ] you

46:26

around and they were I went I had three different doctors tell me three different diagnosis well we don't think

46:32

it's terminal well we don't think it's this and no we think it's terminal oh we think you only have this and it's like

46:38

can somebody just give me like a straight [ __ ] answer you know seriously so I end up going home that

46:44

day back to Lethbridge with the big old monster still in my brain but thank God to one doctor that listened to me and

46:51

gave me some you know pills to help me so that I wouldn't have another Grandma's seizure but that's basically

46:56

where my story started and um yeah and then I knew right away they

47:02

were gonna We want me to do chemo radiation and I just um got on the Android internet and I searched for

47:09

alternative ways to fake cancer and good old Rick Simpson came up nice and

47:15

um it just so happens that uh while the Cannabis world thank God to them really

47:21

I um I they're the ones that have saved me they're the ones I'm still here really the cannabis

47:26

industry our family is the reason

47:32

um they just started networking me with everybody and sending me here and there and here sure you try here's a here's a

47:38

syringe of Rick Simpson I'll try this try that try this and then it just so happens that somebody tells me a story

47:43

about a friend of mine Chris Chris Weitzel from Kimberly from um I grew up with him we went to the same high school

47:50

together he had lung cancer he got diagnosed about a year and a half maybe two years prior to me

47:56

Chris had lung cancer I had brain cancer Chris did the Rick Simpson Oil

48:01

Chris did end up passing away but when they did his autopsy he didn't die from

48:07

cancer he died from the stint that they had put in his in him had shifted

48:12

because he had lost so much weight and it punctured his lung and that's what killed him when they did his autopsy he

48:17

was cancer-free because of the Rick sense and all so that was it that was it for me I was like don't even doctors

48:25

trust me you can ask them they they didn't even mention chemo radiation because I would get so angry I would

48:31

literally sweat them like like they knew not to even talk about it absolutely not not do it wouldn't even discuss it yeah

48:38

absolutely out of the question no no this is what I was going to do so basically when I was diagnosed with I'm

48:45

going to try to say it all all agulo glomia stage two brain cancer

48:52

terminal I was told I had five to ten years to live if I do chemo in radiation

48:58

if I don't do chemo radiation I'll be lucky to see two years I said well

49:05

I ain't doing chemo radiation because to me this is my thinking why am I going to

49:10

do chemo and radiation first of all I don't care I don't want to lose my hair I don't care my doctor's like to feel me

49:17

hair I don't care this is my doctor he's bald okay first of all I'm a woman and I

49:23

don't care I I Don't Care Credit to those women that want to be both but I don't want to be bold no I have loved my

49:30

hair my entire life it's a part of me it is part of me so I would not leave my house puppy before a year if I did chemo

49:36

radiation and I'd be sick I would it kills you that's human radiation fries

49:41

you do people not watch movies do people not do research you know people do more

49:47

research on buying a car or a computer than they do on their own health right

49:52

away they just think okay the doctor's right gotta do this no no I think it's

49:58

it's fear right it's fear you know that in that moment in that office you're

50:03

terrified I I I didn't feel like I was dying I still

50:11

to this day I I still I'm not I'm not maybe it's because I'm not afraid to die but I don't I've never felt sick I it

50:18

hurt I had to have brain surgery to get that sucker removed now that hurt

50:23

um but even so like I've had migraines my whole life so other than that I never

50:28

really I feel bad for other people who have really have suffered with other types of brain cancer or brain cancer or

50:35

other cancers but I haven't suffered so to me like it was just like wow I have

50:40

to me it was almost like a shop and I did a bit of a denial but in the same

50:46

token it was like okay this is no different than joved yeah but it was no

50:53

different than anything let's take this on and that's how I looked at it I'm like you know what I ain't going

50:59

anywhere yet I'm still extremely healthy I still worked out every day in the gym you know what I mean like and so that's

51:06

what I I looked at it like [ __ ] you you don't know who you're [ __ ] messing with like you really don't and I and

51:13

seriously this is six years now I'm still extremely healthy but you got I start I changed my whole life that day I

51:20

changed my life I changed my diet no more sugars carbs fats flowers or red

51:25

meats basically I went home in our entire fridge got thrown out because if you go to health food store you look at

51:32

those boxes there's no such thing as healthy food in a healthy food store anything in a can or a box is not

51:38

healthy you have to basically you have to juice or your own food everything out of the ground is healthy you know I mean

51:44

they changed our for our food groups why do you think that well it's a shame that

51:49

most people um most people are do what you're what you said you do and it's just very human

51:56

right we respond to the problem if we all because we talk about healthy eating all the time here and

52:03

um that process of I'm about to at the time of this taping I'm a couple days

52:08

away from my 50th birthday and I've been on a journey the last five years to really

52:14

um change your lifestyle yeah change my lifestyle before I used to use the word decrepit I don't want to be the decrepit

52:21

one later on like and I might still be that person but

52:26

I don't want because by the time you wait for that moment sometimes times it's too late and absolutely that's the

52:32

problem is most people it is too late it hurts and they go oh what is this and now I can't do like half of my life

52:39

anymore you're preventing you're preventing yourself from getting sick you're preventing yourself from getting

52:45

old and people need to start doing that when they're in their 20s I've been working out since 1993. my

52:50

brother-in-law used to call me fat all the time and used to make me feel really shitty about myself where I was bulimic

52:56

and anorexic where I stuck my fingers down my throat and would barf and and then I realized like what the hell am I

53:03

doing and then I started working out and just learned about Fitness and eating right and that's the way to do it right

53:10

I just learned you know I didn't have the proper education as a young person right and um so yeah I just learned that

53:17

really that's what it is just eating right being healthy it it could change I mean even smoking like I quit smoking oh

53:23

gosh I can't remember oh God 25 years ago right but I smoked for 25 years you

53:29

know um and and then just one day it was Carol Burnett's daughter when she got diagnosed believe it or not diagnosed

53:36

with cancer I was like devastated I'm like oh my God she's got all the money in the world and

53:42

she still can't buy her health fat and she still can't live because of this and

53:47

so I don't know if maybe all those things came into play with my fight cancer all these years later but I'm

53:52

just like [ __ ] that [ __ ] that and I have the internet people get on the [ __ ] internet and do your research there is

53:59

[ __ ] life with cancer you don't need to go and nuke yourself and start [ __ ] doing chemo radiation listen to doctors and and funding them take care

54:06

of your body you can turn your life around whether it's cancer smoking cigarettes you can add life you can add

54:13

life back to your life by living a healthy lifestyle it's the government feeding us all this shitty Foods it's

54:20

what's killing us but you can stop that if you want to if you want to and I feel terrible because I I go into Princess

54:27

Margaret Hospital and I was really choked because I don't like to go in there [ __ ] I don't like to go in there I

54:32

usually um just read my MRIs online but apparently I had to go in there by law

54:37

the last time they said I had to go in by law because I really don't know we're like we have to actually physically see

54:43

you I'm like do you think somebody just like lie and say like you know I'm on the Uhl well like they're just full of

54:49

[ __ ] they obviously just make money that I had to come in there and they'd make a couple Grand on me going in there and they made me sit for 15 or sorry for 45

54:56

minutes waiting for them anyway I want to do that they said for another five years here's what I here's what I love

55:03

the most about everything you said in that story is at the end of the whole process the

55:10

person that I see not just here but the person over the last few years that we've come to just adore and and we we

55:15

really love the energy of is you've got a passionate happy

55:21

fulfilling life human being who

55:26

um whether or not you had two years to live five years to live ten years to live

55:32

um what's the point of crying about it you're just embraced you're embracing you're embracing now you're embracing

55:41

sorry no I know I see I see people like seriously I go

55:46

in the Princess Margaret it's so depressing like they're sitting there and they're [ __ ] eating chocolate bars like so first first of all it makes

55:53

me really annoyed Princess Margaret Osborne any other cancer hospital you don't have a bowl of candy at your

56:00

[ __ ] reception desk for for people that causes cancer so it really frustrates me and it'll like me when I

56:06

come in there because I'm very vocal like when I need like they don't like me in the waiting room because everybody always says they'll look at me right

56:12

I'll be in there and they'll be like um so what are you here for I'm not going I got brain cancer terminal brain cancer no like well why do you look so good

56:19

I'll go okay cannabis oil and they go what and then they'll ask about it and then I'll hear what I'll hear them in

56:26

the back after like they'll go in with the doctor and then I'll hear them leaving as they're walking out and I'll hear them asking the doctor about Rick

56:32

Simpson and then I could see the doctors all giving me the evil eye right but it's like you know what they ask they're

56:38

going to tell them I'm being honest with them and I just tell people you know what research it just go research it see

56:45

how many of us are still alive or how many of us have prolonged Our Lives um and how many like I mean come on it's

56:51

six years now six years they told me I'd be dead two years I'm still stable I've

56:56

done 17 going on 18 MRIs coming up in three more months you know and if I

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would have I you know I was told this one guy told me you know what if I was 12 today I was criminal I would go home

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and blow my head away cut off why would you do that why would you do that I

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guess that's how people put at least some people look at it like the end but you know what and you're right because

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you know what I've had people in my life too when they were when they found out they were sickness same sort of thing and it and

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me and my husband would look at each other and be like oh my God you know so it's just a matter of time but now I tell people no it's not true it's not

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true there is a life with cancer and cannabis and living a clean lifestyle

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and being positive and even you know I mean that's that's I mean that's just how I that's how I and and I I don't

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feel sick and I haven't felt set and that's what I do now I I talk to people all around the world I have people reach

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outing out to me all around the world and I just tell them what I do I tell them I'm not God I can't guarantee them

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anything but this is what I did and this is what's worked for me and I've had so

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many great people that have helped me supported me I had Chris Cornell um Vicki Cornell's um was first person that

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paid for my first dosage of Rick Simpson Oil so and to this day actually we're

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still friends I've had Peter Frampton reach out to me Jim Belushi reached out to me all cannabis people because they

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know we know and because we we know we all know somebody who's used it and

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where it's helped us and benefited us I helped one of my neighbors who's in a wheelchair I brought him

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um some cannabis pills and they're actually supposed to help for pain and I gave them to him yesterday and he said

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they actually right he goes I think they're really high on them I said well you're not supposed to get high on them they're more CBD than THC I go but did

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they help he goes absolutely I go well there you go and so that's what I do now I try to help other people around the

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world and give them some hope and I and I do I like I do I have people reach out to me all the time that tell me that I

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give them hope and that they are afraid and and when they listen to their doctors like they don't want to listen

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to the doctors and I give them the encouragement to actually tell their doctors nope that's not what I want to

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do I want to try alternative I this is what I've been reading about and that's what I tell people just talk to people

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talk to a lot of people like me talk to real people that do it and that will help you guide you whether this is for

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you or not for you but yeah I'm not ready to go are you kidding me

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well the car the conversation needs to be had and one of the reasons why we wanted to start doing interviews on the

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show is because I think one of the biggest things that can break down the stigma and one of the best teaching

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tools is hearing personal stories and like you said it's like your personal

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story it's not going to be the journey for everybody in fact we've talked a lot about the personalization of cannabis

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like not every strain not every dosage not every method works for every individual absolutely more stories you

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hear the more you have a chance to figure out where do I fit in this I'm like and I feel it exactly I need to

1:00:05

interject because this is where it gets tricky when talking about cannabis and

1:00:10

doing podcasting and this was one of my fears that I discussed in my early

1:00:15

season one of the podcast is that we make no medical claims because we are

1:00:22

not doctors and that goes I'm sure for Sherry for sure I just play one in the bedroom yep that is true true

1:00:29

um but it's one of those things that this is why Timmy said like yes we need

1:00:34

to do the podcast and he's 100 right because it's not that cannabis cures

1:00:41

cancer and uh sharian didn't even say that she said she used cannabis oil as a

1:00:47

tool in conjunction with healthy eating healthy exercise healthy lifestyle it

1:00:53

was just one of many tools that was used together and that cannabis should be an

1:00:59

option and I will say I'm pretty sure because I have a friend

1:01:04

just like you who was diagnosed with cancer and basically told his doctor [ __ ] off I'm not doing chemo or

1:01:11

radiation he told me that did you know that if a

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baby a diaper wearing baby has to endure chemo or radiation for any sort of

1:01:22

reason because they have cancer um you are given special instructions on

1:01:28

how to change how to launder this child because the secretions of the like the

1:01:36

the like like the babies pee and poo is actually toxic and can harm you yeah so

1:01:44

that doesn't say something yeah I'm sure it might work some people have

1:01:51

like there are people that have had success with chemo radiation it's about getting the education and and people

1:01:58

absolutely given people are talking about this as well have the discussion yes you know raise the bar have the

1:02:05

discussion and break the stigma against cannabis absolutely and when I had I had my brain surgery just so you know I did

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have my I had my brain surgery at Foothills Hospital in Calgary um I mean uh and of course I let all my

1:02:16

doctors make them very aware what was going on my family doctor on Lethbridge told me don't waste your money I said

1:02:23

just bother I'm not asking for you your advice I'm telling you as my physician this is what I'm doing so when I was

1:02:31

told when I after my brain surgery I had my brain surgery at the Flint Hills hospital they were able to remove 97 of

1:02:38

my tumor I did my follow-up three months later and that three percent was gone so

1:02:44

the RSO took that three percent or an alien Did But whichever you decide

1:02:50

they had told me when I went in there and told them I was doing the Rick Simpson on they worked with me there at

1:02:55

Foothills Hospital they were awesome they said they were excited to work with me because I was doing the Rick Simpson

1:03:01

Oil because they had seen so many positive stories coming through the Calgary hospital with people doing

1:03:08

cannabis oil fighting cancer so that even made me even more happier

1:03:13

um when I went in to have my surgery I told them look at when you go in if my tumor had shrunk a considerable amount I

1:03:22

don't even want the brain surgery to hold off on it so with I seen them start to do it a little tear roll demo but

1:03:28

then I was out but I did find out I found out after I had my brain surgery that my tumor when they did actually

1:03:35

went in on October um third 2017 that they had already

1:03:40

noticed that my tumor was already shivering um but you know of course being so big

1:03:46

they chose to go after it um and yeah and like I said I had an

1:03:51

amazing surgeon uh he was able to do my surgery took six and a half hours they cut my head open like this like a flap

1:03:58

and they opened it got her out um I do have um just so you know I do have a

1:04:03

short-term memory a little bit of short-term memory loss math skills so I lost them but it's for calculators

1:04:10

before I'm still alive Yahoo um so those those little side effects

1:04:15

were worth it I was out of the I woke up like you know shortly after surgery

1:04:21

um feeling great the only problem was my hands were like this so I had to took about three months before I could

1:04:26

actually work my hands to do this um but I was out of the hospital um they woke me up walked me around the

1:04:34

ward within like hours of waking me up they were like shocked they were like we have patience

1:04:41

in here for like minor surgeries that haven't been able to walk like you and you just had your surgery like this like

1:04:48

hours ago and then they made the decision that they kicked me out of the hospital in 26 hours because they needed

1:04:55

the beds for people who needed it and clearly I didn't need it so yeah they sent me home like 22 Staples in my brain

1:05:02

or on my head I should say um yeah and with Capra for the um food

1:05:07

so I didn't have another seizure and they and back then even they were already starting to control Tylenol so

1:05:13

basically I had to just take a couple Tylenols and just deal with the pain and

1:05:19

I didn't want to take any medicines but cannabis So within four or five days I totally weaned myself off of Keppra or

1:05:25

sorry not Capra um the um uh they gave me um sorry steroids for the pain the

1:05:31

the yeah terrible drug ABS where's drugs makes this feel awful that stop taking

1:05:37

it and I just suffered the pain and it was well worth it then feeling like crap but yeah and yeah I was in the gym in

1:05:46

two weeks I was driving my car probably in four weeks I got I left my husband

1:05:53

two weeks after brain surgery because we just things weren't working out and that's when yeah my life completely

1:05:59

changed for the better and um January 3rd I drove to Calgary and

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that's when I found out that my three percent was gone and I chose to move back to Toronto I packed up my two cats

1:06:12

and my dog and my car and I drove from Alberta to Toronto in three days and

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yeah you are the best six years of my life so there's the most amazing thing in

1:06:26

cannabis the most amazing thing about your story your story sherian is that if

1:06:32

you weren't going around being so vocal about your story and about how cannabis changed your life I wouldn't know that

1:06:39

you had brain uh what was it terminal stage yeah like like I would I would not

1:06:47

know that I know I've been I've even been called out people you know people calling me out like sometimes on the

1:06:52

Subways and stuff I sometimes need to sit you know and oh yeah I'll play the little disabled card once in a while on

1:06:58

there but people are sometimes right but they'll look at me like [ __ ] you you're not disabled [ __ ] you know what I mean

1:07:03

and yeah and then it sucks like I've actually had people at the very beginning of my journey actually because

1:07:09

I've talked about it right from the gecko because I think it's important like you know a lot of people are really embarrassed to talk about having cancer

1:07:15

because of the stigma of that we're looking for sympathy well this girl ain't looking for [ __ ] sympathy I'm

1:07:21

sorry to change mine I'm trying to educate people like you know this you know maybe

1:07:28

it's not for you but it's working for me man and if this is the way if you want if you're determined to keep living this

1:07:34

is what's working for me so and I know a lot of other people it's working for so you know read up on it and and give it

1:07:40

to John I mean I had nothing to lose right I was like a guinea pig I'm like okay well I got nothing to lose and I

1:07:46

don't feel sick so this is what I'm gonna do and I'm sure glad I took that chance because look at me now right and

1:07:51

now I'm helping so many other people who are doing this and and who are thriving and you know and

1:07:59

and yeah we're happy you took a chance and decided to do it because yeah yeah

1:08:04

you really are changing you're definitely you're you're helping others you're you know you're always a you know a bright light at the events we've been

1:08:10

to like MJ's even said she enjoys just you know starting her day off by seeing you know you out there just just yeah

1:08:19

that's so awesome Joy of and the joy of life is is evident um before we

1:08:25

close off here I just what I what I love

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um most about you know what I want you to start processing right now is um kind

1:08:35

of what would be your final words um but in the process of you talking about your

1:08:42

own journey and in the process of you wanting to um educate people and encourage people

1:08:48

and inspire people you're so involved in the uh giving back

1:08:56

as well like as you're telling your story these are the little things that impress me about certain people is that

1:09:01

you took the time to take our picture from Lyft and have it in there as a way

1:09:08

to promote and to show us well you're the one that we brought on to talk to

1:09:15

and that's what I love about you is because there are some people who just kind of you know they're just kind of

1:09:20

sell their Wares they're just trying to get their stuff out but but you do you do this

1:09:26

you give back and and we know that as much as we're trying to give you a platform here to promote you you do

1:09:33

those little things like oh wait a minute I got their their card back here I'm gonna have it up in the background in case anybody sees it and to me that

1:09:40

that's what makes you incredibly special and unique uh in an industry I think that needs more of you that more

1:09:47

collaboration and more of going you know what I also want to promote you and I think

1:09:52

that's what it's all supposed to be about that's what I struggle with when I see these people that are very selfish and they don't you know that's what it's

1:09:59

all about I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for a lot of you guys right and that's how I feel right so it's all

1:10:06

about giving back and and and you see those you see the ones that are popular right now and that but you know what

1:10:13

they're some of them are certain shallow and very self-centered and people might

1:10:18

not see that at the beginning but eventually they will and I'm just all about you know I like I said I've had

1:10:24

nothing but people wanting to help me for the last six years so why wouldn't I

1:10:31

give back and help these help these poor people who are sick with cancer like me but even though I don't feel sick so I

1:10:38

don't feel sorry for me right like don't right like I you know I I just want other people you

1:10:45

know like yeah I just I just don't get it like I think like for the Cannabis industry we're all in it together I

1:10:51

don't care what you do like it's like a company we should all learn each other's Department because we're all a family so

1:10:57

I so when I see these other people kind of being like I'm a little better than you I just like whatever I just kind of

1:11:04

fluff my way away from them because at the end of the day they're not team players and and I don't want to be

1:11:10

around those type of people I want to be around people like you guys and like the the the you know like the discipline

1:11:17

Stoners and and they're just loving and you guys have all embraced me and we're all like a family you you guys include

1:11:23

everybody and that's what I like you guys don't exclu you include you don't exclude and that's what I'm about and

1:11:29

that's what I've always been about ever since a little girl I was a tomboy

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um trust me I I I I I um um you know I I'm heterosexual but

1:11:39

I've always been that type of girl where I I was always included everybody and I never liked it

1:11:47

when people picked on the underdog I'm that person that will beat up the person that feeds up the underdog just like

1:11:54

we're all we're all here for a reason we all have a story and we should all celebrate individual stories and if like

1:12:01

we're in the Cannabis industry we should all just be grateful that we're in the industry and we should all celebrate each other and for what we do and not

1:12:08

push each other out and if you want to do that get the hell out you don't blow

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you know the wall that everybody's trying to climb up and get over yes um there there's different types of people

1:12:31

there yeah get down and help other people over the wall there were other

1:12:37

people that will say you know I'll get up to the top and they'll stand there and they'll pull other people up and

1:12:42

then there's there's the people that just they'll take advantage and climb over people and go over the wall and

1:12:47

then even worse those are the people I cannot stand the ones that go where's the stairs

1:12:53

right I'm like those other people I don't even want to be around the ones but it won't even yeah no to play the

1:12:59

game let's let's play the game and all get over the wall you know absolutely it's not what it's all I I

1:13:06

think about this world if the world that was to ever come to an end that's what scares me right now in this world is

1:13:11

everybody's so selfish and it's like what if that ever happened like we all need to [ __ ] be together we all need

1:13:17

to stick together and help each other this is what world's about we need more love and compassion and we need to be

1:13:25

more of a unit we need to stop fighting each other need a little bit more love a little bit more flower

1:13:32

I like it should we all just get a bong

1:13:37

[Applause] um look we we mentioned at the beginning that uh We've wanted you on here a long

1:13:44

time that was that was our error and not having you on sooner you are you are an incredible

1:13:50

um human being you bring so much light I've told people I plan on living to 140 I hope that you live that long if not

1:13:57

more so that we can you know I'll invite you to my 140th birthday and yeah who

1:14:02

will celebrate together I'll be a hundred that's a lot of Botox man

1:14:07

that's a lot of RSO mark it on the calendar everybody

1:14:12

um we can't we can't thank you enough for being on the show thank you very much thank you we can thank you we can

1:14:18

keep thanking you thank you thank you thank you but now we want to relate to you because

1:14:23

um you have lots of work to do you do you have way more people to to connect with and and to share your love and your

1:14:29

story with so we're gonna let you go do and enjoy life today living not dying from it living with cancer

1:14:37

that's what you want yes yes there is a life with cancer and cannabis

1:14:43

a good goddamn life too just saying love it uh sherian where um where can people

1:14:51

find you let's make sure that they uh they know how to connect with you I'm nice and easy I just go by my name sharian Baker so I'm on all social

1:14:58

platforms under Sherry and Baker the only one that you got to do the underscore on the end is good old

1:15:03

Instagram because they Shadow banned me but apparently you haven't made it unless you shot a band so thanks

1:15:09

Instagram I love that Sherry Ann Baker everybody like seriously she is a must follow and

1:15:16

here's the thing don't worry about your numbers growing because they will grow but what what's clear

1:15:21

um about you and we've even seen it in ours because sometimes we get discouraged about how low our numbers are but what we're finding is it's not

1:15:27

about the the quantity of numbers it's about the quality and your build that group of people that you have if it's a

1:15:35

quality group and they're not spammers and they're not just people who are linking on because they want to like increase their own thing

1:15:41

um it looks like what you've what you've done is you've built a community of quality followers that's what we want to

1:15:46

do is even if the number's small we want to have people that are engaged and actually want to be here and your

1:15:53

numbers will continue to grow because I think more and more people will want to be with you Sherry Ann thank you so much for being with us today thank you guys

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you guys are so awesome I can't wait to see you guys again soon

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