The nickname Steve Jobs of Cannabis came
from honestly having our hands involved in
so many different spokes of the industry.
Before they were like, "Josh uses cannabis for his epilepsy, I don't know about
that. It sounds like, you know, some kind of home
remedy that's not going to work. And, you know, he needs
to be on his medication. This is not right."
And now full circle, a whole decade later, they're saying,
"Buddy, we're sorry ever doubted you."
If you had an average garden that had, let's say,
one light in it, that one light for all the other
gardens I would see would produce anywhere from at the
time at the early stages like a half pound of cannabis.
As the years went on, it was more like a pound of cannabis
and then a pound and a half of cannabis. Throughout that whole time, I was busy
growing three pounds of cannabis per light.
First of all, no one believed it.
They were like, "No chance. You're not doing that."
Unless I showed them. And when I showed them and
they'd be like, "How are you doing this?"
And they said, "Hey, you know what? We don't believe that
you guys had three pounds of light." And I said, "Schedule a tour.
How much time you got?
You want to come see the spot? I'll show you any day."
These girls are getting ready to go to war.
Looking good, though.
Their officers came through and they were like, "Josh, we've never seen anything like this.
How soon can we start discussions around an acquisition here?"
And I said, "I'm all ears, guys."
The age of 14 years old, I had a seizure at the breakfast table just before school.
I woke up in an ambulance and that same day found out I do have epilepsy.
I had to take an incredible amount of medication and then continually daily take an
incredible amount of medication. My seizures were going away, but the side
effects were coming in heavily. It started with weight gain, hair loss.
When I was about 22 years old, I stepped into
realizing that I can no longer continue running into these side effects,
especially with the list that
was coming from liver failure to other things that you just don't want to deal with in life.
CBDs have played an instrumental role in me not taking my medications.
I would not be comfortable not taking my medications without CBDs.
So I don't want to give it 100 percent, but I would absolutely give it 90 percent. My neurologists,
they completely disagreed with me and said, "You should not be doing that, Josh."
But at the same time, here I am eight years later, feeling incredibly healthy.
My liver works great.
I'm very seizure free.
And furthermore, everybody's
really excited for what's to come. Because I feel as though federal
legalization is the next step that needs to happen and how
our businesses can play a
role in that and how quickly we can achieve the revenues
that we're shooting for is going to be a very exciting challenge.
