OUTSMOKEN

🛑🛑 "...the only way you can do that is if you start commerce before its legal and NOT GET CAUGHT, yknow? The law is only "broken" when you get caught doing it. People jaywalk all the time, but how many tickets have you gotten for jaywalking in your life? It's about what you're willing to put pressure on, and how bad do you want it? 🤸🏾🤸🏾

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Today's episode has @elijah__avery and @donttawktome hypothesizing and philosophizing about how some of the biggest 🌿🌿 brands achieve market penetration in states that haven't fully legalized 🌿🌿 yet. Do some brands keep a black market arm to do the dirty work? Are there consequences for trying to jump the line in a society fundamentally based around the dollar? Is there a better tasting strain out rnow than @thecurecompany PGMO? Find out, on today's OUTSMOKEN! 🙏🏿🙏🏿

😨😨 "Have you heard of Stockholm Syndrome? When the abuser.... No let's talk about this! When the abused starts to love and sympathize with the abuse?! No No No let me rock, let me rock! You're in the 🌿🌿 mecca! We're in Los Angeles. The only place you could possibly get better is if you go to the Bay. You've had some of the best... you seen the 🌿 I just showed you outside?! We went to the LA farmers, four floors! You've smoked the Pink Acai from STIIIZY, and then you go to a shop... and get an experience unlike any other, and NOT in a good way. AND YOU SPEND MORE THERE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE?! And you still refuse to believe.... Stockholm Syndrome!" 🍪🍪

The trauma ran, deep y'all. @eljah__avery and @donttawktome refuse to let this subject die as they wonder on whether or not their complaints reached the ears of @cookiesmaywood. Roll up, Tune in, and enjoy the latest episode of Outsmoken! 🙏🏿🙏🏿

Maybe it was the Daringer beats we were banging in the car on the way home from the Cookies store. Maybe it was the adrenaline from being so viscerally disappointed with what was supposed to be the premiere experience in 🌿🌿. Whatever the reason, when @elijah__avery and @donttawktome got into the podcast booth this time, they had to channel their inner Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh.

Roll up and tune in as dem boyz keep it lite, and let us know in the comments below when the last time you kicked a high freestyle in a cipher!

📻📻 "Just comparing what I have, the differences are clear. But now I want to know so much more! What is the moisture content on all my favorite 🌿🌿! I want access to COAs and more QR codes. The Pacific Stone wedding cake, a strain I smoke very often, I’m willing to bet tests pretty consistently between 10.5 and 11.5. Understanding moisture content also opens up the opportunity to know when you're being taken advantage of. If brands are selling me under-cured 🌿🌿that is more water weight, who is to say that that 3.5 I’m paying for wont shrink down to 3.3 in a month if left untouched, or that 28 gram oz bag evaporates off a gram because it was rushed. There’s a lot to think about with that." 💡💡

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On the latest episode of Outsmoken, @elijah__avery talks about some really hard to burn 🌿🌿 he picked up, what it's like digging into the QR codes, and the implications of the moisture content % found on the package! Roll up, tune in, and let us know what you think in the comments below! 🙏🏿🙏🏿

🤐🤐 "Understanding that now, this is where it all falls apart for me. Here in Los Angeles, home of some of the dankest bud the world has ever known, what Cookies has to offer just… isn't… that ….special. There are so many high-level players out here that quality is in HIGH supply. And you have to have the sharpest blade out there to be considered truly the best. Going up against trap growers, or people who are relatively new to the 🌿🌿 market, you are going to stand out like a giraffe amongst horses. But when the consumer has so many high quality choices to choose from and NOT just high-quality 🌿🌿, but high-quality customer service, fast wait times, premium packaging, and an air of authenticity, it makes the cookies sheen crumble a little bit."

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You don't want to miss this episode! @elijah__avery reflects on his experience at @cookiesmaywood, and how it has transformed his perspective on the cannabis industry! Roll up, tune in, and catch the latest Outsmoken! 🙏🏿🙏🏿

😕😕 There are many factors to a great 🌿🌿 shopping experience: accessibility, quality of product, and knowledge of the purveyors are just a few worth mentioning. Today on Outsmoken, @elijah__avery and @donttawktome discuss these differences across the range of municipalities they've shopped at, remarking on regional differences and trying to discover what makes the best experiences so compelling!

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You don't want to miss this one! Roll up, tune in, and let us know what you think in the comments below! Where have you had the best 🌿🌿 shopping experiences? 📝📝

"PSA: Marketing is not quality. I gotta make that clear." ⚠️⚠️

💲💲 Marketing builds expectation. it draws customers into trying something out for the first time. but it's important to recognize that a successful marketing campaign does NOT equate to great product. This is true in all industries, but on today's Outsmoken, @elijah__avery and @donttawktome take a closer look at how marketing in 🌿🌿 affects consumer experience.

This is a very vital conversation you don't wanna miss out on. How has marketing skewed your view of the 🌿🌿 world? Have you ever been misled by rumors or a pretty package? Let us know in the comments below! 📝📝

🤔🤔 "What happened to all the competition, man? I wanna see some growers trying to outdo each other, head to head. Who's behind Tyson Ranch? Get THAT man, put him up against homie who grows Green Dragon’s flower. Let them duke it out in 2020 and let the community decide! Y’all don’t wanna see Ivan’s proteges go up against @capulator?  I feel like we’ve lost our central hubs that were integral in pushing the culture forward. Those 🌿🌿 cups!" 🏆🏆

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If y'all liked seshes, you're going to LOVE this episode. Today on Outsmoken, @elijah__avery talks about how important 🌿🌿 cups were to the previous generation of consumers, and whether or not we can bring back what those kinds of seshes did for the community. Roll up, Tune in, and Let us know what you think in the comments below!🙏🏿🙏🏿

"The history of 🌿🌿 prohibition is extremely ugly, with selfish players, racialized violence, and economic incentives meant to disenfranchise the many to benefit a select few. Do y’all know who William Randolph Hearst is? If you don’t here’s a little primer. Homie was EXTREMELY INFLUENTIAL in the prohibition of 🌿🌿. And not cause he didn’t get high. He was the most prominent journalist/businessman in America with a monopoly on paper." 📝📝

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🎙️🎙️ You don't wanna miss today's episode. With a little help from the biggest podcast on earth, @elijah__avery  discusses the ugly start of cannabis prohibition and how Hearst was a major factor in the cannabis landscape we see today. Roll up, tune in, and enjoy the latest episode of OUTSMOKEN! 🙏🏿🙏🏿

"But at the same time, seeing how close the future of 🌿🌿 was with what many prominent brands were doing circa 2017 under less restrictive guidelines and comparing that to the game now makes me feel like we’ve left SO MUCH on the table.... Now I’m sure a lot of these things are on the horizon, even in the legal market. I mean, shit, Lowell farm got a 🌿🌿 cafe up and running pretty smoothly, but it’s just a pain to know that three years ago, in some aspects the market was farther ahead, and now there are two markets with different principles." 🙏🏿🙏🏿

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🎙️🎙️ You don't want to miss this latest episode of Outsmoken. Today, @elijah__avery riffs on how the industry has changed since 2017, an era when you could still feel up your buds in the jar and dab bars were an actual thing. Have we progressed, or has legalization hemmed up the game too crazy?! Roll up, Tune in, and let us know what you think in the comments below! 📻📻