INTRODUCTION

 

Matt:

Hi, I’m Matt,

 

Dee Dee:

And I’m Dee Dee. We are the hilarious outcome of opposing brains, sharing a mutual desire to share knowledge and positive thinking about him and cannabis.

 

WELCOME

 

Matt:

We are here to tear down the walls built by big pharma and other big companies that seek to keep the human race and fear and divided.

 

Dee Dee:

We are here to shatter the myths about hemp and cannabis and change the stigma of this amazing plant. Welcome to Hempin’ Happiness with Hemp Queen

 

Matt:

And Emperor Podcast.

 

Dee Dee:

Join us as we enter into this misunderstood and the unknown. Hey, happy hempsters. Thank you so much for turning into us and, uh, listening to mine and Matt spiel on whatever it may be. Today will be fun actually. Well, sort of, it was for me, that’s what matters.

 

Moms For Medical Cannabis

 

Matt:

Wait, today was fun. No, yesterday

 

Dee Dee:

We’re gonna talk about was fun. What we’re gonna talk about I think is pretty cool, but it’s been, I hope you guys have had a great holiday season. Um, probably when this airs, it’ll be end of the new year. Whoop whoop. 23 is gonna be pretty incredible. I mean, if you don’t know, you know, now we opened our 812 Hemp store, that’s where we are coming at ya with our podcast, which is super awesome. So it is such a great space and great location. I love it here. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. I love the, I really love the space here. Like it is beauty full. Like it’s exactly what I wanted, which is always a good thing to keep me happy that way.

 

Matt:

I also like the community business community as well as the personal or the, the community itself. Super friendly. Yes. Super nice. Love it. I love, and that is exactly the type of vibe that Yeah. I enjoy. Right. You know, like, I don’t mind tough people. I was raised in an environment with very tough people, but it’s nice when people are nice,

 

Dee Dee:

You know? It is nice <laugh>. 

 

Matt:

It’s a, it’s a good warm feeling when people aren’t assholes.

 

Dee Dee:

I agree. I agree. So it’s, it’s a, it’s a, I mean, not that all of everybody in our other places, I mean, that sounds bad.

 

Matt:

I’m not saying No, I’m not saying people in other places, not our other places are assholes. Right. I did just come from a place full of assholes. 

 

Dee Dee:

Well, you were in another country.

 

Matt:

Another country. Yes. Which actually brings me, brings one thing up that I wanted to discuss before we dive into this podcast. Okay. So, apparently when I was gone, there was some trolling going on regarding a comment I made about bath salts. 

 

Dee Dee:

Did you, did you actually read the, what people said?

 

Matt:

So, uh, so here’s the thing, and I can say this not because, not cuz I’m hiding anything, but I know full well that the people that wrote that in, in there won’t hear this because they don’t listen to the podcast. Mm-hmm. They, they listened to a clip of the podcast and went while deducing their own bullshit from a, from a incomplete clip. Okay. So first I, it, it kind of agitated me and I considered responding, but then I realized, have I ever done that voice inside my head? And the voice inside my head said, yes, you have.

 

Dee Dee:

Yes you have,

 

Matt:

You have prejudged things without looking at the whole picture mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, and without looking the whole thing. So I’m as guilty as, uh, no. Do I come public wise like that and, you know, keyboard, commando, some shitty comment. No. Because I don’t, I try very hard not to put that energy into the world. However, to say that I don’t pr do that practice of incomplete mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, or non completion and just do deduction from an incomplete thought or an incomplete theory or an incomplete statement would be wrong.

 

Dee Dee:

Right. I think we all do it.

 

Matt:

Yes. So, you know, the lesson is

 

Dee Dee:

Before you

 

Matt:

Judge, don’t, don’t draw judgment from a

 

Matt:

Fucking excerpt podcast <laugh>. Okay. If, if you’re gonna pass judgment, listen to the entirety.

 

Dee Dee:

Yeah.

 

Matt:

Maybe do a, maybe don’t We’ll do a little research maybe.

 

Dee Dee:

And don’t get us wrong, we want your feedback. Yes, we do.

 

Matt:

Yes. I want your shitty feedback <laugh>. I I actually do not

 

Dee Dee:

Just shitty. Well,

 

Matt:

Cuz here’s

 

Dee Dee:

Thing all your feedback.

 

Matt:

Well, here’s the thing. Your haters will tell you things that your friends won’t. That

 

Dee Dee:

Is so true. True.

 

Matt:

So even though I,

 

Dee Dee:

I’ve got good friends, they kind of tell me

 

Matt:

I pay so little mine to haters. You don’t wanna completely discredit haters because they’ll give you something that other people’s people won’t Now do I hang onto their comments and say, oh, I’m gonna quit. I’m gonna post a retraction. Fuck that. <laugh>. Okay. No. Not how I live.

 

Dee Dee:

Well, I stopped responding. I was just like, you gotta listen to the whole podcast.

 

Matt:

So, so what I will say, um, you wanna break out your metaphysical toolbox, you wanna listen to the entirety of, of what’s being said or written or mm-hmm. <affirmative>,

 

Dee Dee:

Whatever. And that one really was clicked,

 

Matt:

Internalized.

 

Dee Dee:

This little piece was attached to that little piece. Yes. So I understood what they, I mean, I understood why they thought that, but,

 

Matt:

And, and then perhaps agreed ought offer some criticism or a statement or an opinion. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, which, you know, what people say about opinions, but I’m always interested in listening to a rep, uh, an opinion based in research. Mm-hmm. And I’m not talking about canceled culture research, I’m talking about empirical research. So if you have something to offer, please do <laugh>. If you’re, if that’s gonna be based on a clip that you saw and didn’t bother to do anything, but fire off a shitty comment, you can keep that shit to yourself.

 

Dee Dee:

<laugh>. Okay. You heard it from Matt <laugh>. Um, moving on for sure. Um, cuz we wanna keep this hemp and happiness, right? Yeah.

 

Matt:

I’ll, I’m happy for sure. And I’m happy for them. I

 

Dee Dee:

Know, I’m

 

Matt:

Happy. I know, I’m happy.

 

Dee Dee:

I thought it was funny.

 

Matt:

It was funny and it was amusing. Yeah.

 

Dee Dee:

So I don’t even know how to like, to express the experience I had yesterday.

 

Matt:

All right, well let’s take a step back. Okay. Tell the audience about what all went down yesterday and your experience

 

Dee Dee:

There. Uh, yesterday was absolutely historical and monumental at the Capitol building. If you follow me on social media, especially my Facebook page, because that’s only the only place I’ve had a chance to freaking post anything. My personal page, which is Dee Dee Taylor. I ain’t gonna say I’m gonna friend y’all, uh, but you can follow me <laugh> and see what was going on. Um, I was, I was blessed to be able to go to the, um, state capital in Kentucky and help this organization that has been tirelessly working their asses off, um, to create this incredible experience for our reg legislators to see and feel. And I’m gonna explain more obviously, but I just wanna give a huge shout out to the Kentucky Moms for Medical Cannabis. I wanna give a shout out to Kentucky Normal and NORML and also to other advocacy groups that helped get yesterday to where it was.

The Kentucky Moms for Medical Cannabis have been collecting patients photographs. Um, and yes, my husband was included, also my father-in-law, even though he doesn’t know that yet, I still need to warn him <laugh>, but they have been collecting people’s photographs of people that have that need, medical cannabis here in this state and telling their stories. And yesterday Kristen told a story, her name’s Kristen Wilcox and Julie Cantwell. They’re the two head moms. And they made me an honorary, um, board member as well. They said, I am a board member, so I guess I can say that they met this one lady, young lady, stage four cancer. She went to a dispensary to get product and to bring it back and use it because she’s literally dying of cancer. And she got pulled over in a shitty ass county and the poor girl died the day she was go, supposed to go to her court appearance. And all she needed was some medical cannabis to maybe help with that pain from the cancer that she was dying of. And yet those police officers still confiscated that from her. And she literally died on her court day.

 

Matt:

But she, the, the, the medical cannabis wouldn’t have saved her life. No. 

 

Dee Dee:

It just would’ve . It would’ve made her more comfortable. Yeah. Agree. Just wanted to clarify that. Yes. Sorry. We don’t make claims that it’s gonna cure anything, but it definitely would’ve helped her in so many different reasons. We, I mean, so many different ways we talk. Talked about how cannabis helps agree. Yeah. Um, so that was such a moving story and that’s just one of them that I got to hear yesterday while we were there. But what they did and what we helped with, we literally set up there is a, it’s called the Tunnel down at the Capitol. And there is a, um, tunnel that the legislators use to go back and forth, like to the cafeteria or go up to where the sessions are, where their offices are. 

 

Matt:

Anyway, you just about everybody walks through this tunnel, which, which by the way, it’s a bit sobering, uh, when you go there and realize that our capital, uh, our capital buildings are essentially a series of Quonset huts

 

Dee Dee:

<laugh> kind

 

Matt:

Of, I mean, I’ve lived all over this country and when I go to the Capitol buildings, there’s usually some grandiose structure.

 

Dee Dee:

Oh, I wouldn’t say that. It’s not though.

 

Matt:

It’s a series of FEMA looking buildings. <laugh>, there’s,

 

Dee Dee:

There’s some grandiose in the front and the governor’s mansions gorgeous.

 

Matt:

Oh, okay. Well that’s the governor’s mansions. It’s gorgeous. That’s where all of our tax money goes. No.

 

Dee Dee:

Whatever.

 

Matt:

They, it doesn’t go into those.

 

Dee Dee:

They already paid for that shit a long time ago. Shut up. We ain’t talking about that. Cuz I like Governor Andy. He’s awesome. Okay. Anyway. Disagree. My

 

Matt:

Opinion. Continue.

 

Dee Dee:

Yeah. My opinion, whatever.

 

Matt:

Continue with your conversation.

 

Dee Dee:

Yeah. Shut up. So we literally lined the hallways with all of these patients, um, photographs. And Kentucky Normal has a whole bunch of, um, posters that they put up of theirs too that had all the statistics on, you know, what medical cannabis was good for, what it’s helped the stats on whether, um, it’s safer than alcohol consumption. I mean, just a whole bunch of plethora of facts. It was, it was amazing to see this all lined up. And of course there was already a few legislators that were walking by and coming in. And one of ’em, Kristen kind of talked to and he said he absolutely will not support it. I don’t remember what county he was from, but he said he absolutely will not support it. And she’s like, how can you not? I have a 17 year old daughter who has had seizures.

She’s like, you should support this. Like this will help children that need it too. And which is, I mean, you know, they always worried about the children. Right. It’s all about the children. It’s what I’ve always heard ever since I’ve been here. It’s always about the safety of the children. Well what about the children that could benefit from it? Something needs to change there. I mean, something really does. Her daughter has seizures. Julie’s son has seizures. That’s why those two moms have fought so freaking hard to get medical cannabis here. And they are working with other advocacy groups too in this state.

 

Matt:

But the, the CBD is, is really more towards the seizure part, right? Or with current research.

 

Dee Dee:

T no, THC actually helps more with the convulsions and the seizures. CBD helps to try to try to keep their bodies from, um, getting out of whack of the homeostasis side. But the THC actually helps with the convulsions. That’s why my husband’s regimen is very much it. He still does the CBD products in a high milligram and he also does other products as well. So no, there needs to be higher milligrams when it comes to that kind of stuff. More of, to me even I think more of a one-to-one. And you can’t get that here. Hmm. Not legally. Um, and that’s why a lot of medical patients need these products, want these products here in Kentucky.

 

Matt:

I’d be interested to see some empirical evidence on

 

Dee Dee:

That. Yeah, it’s definitely out there. You still are on the risk of obviously giving it to a child and you gotta deal with, you know, unsupport doctors and things like that. But I do believe that, um, those ladies are doing a good thing for the state of Kentucky. And what was really cool about it too, there were freaking pill bottles lined up all the way on the other side. They have like a shelf. And when ya, you’re walking pill bottles unsaid people over profit. Now I can almost guarantee you that, that those are gonna get shut down and they’re gonna have to have those removed because Oh my gosh. What would we be saying about that? Talk about a statement. What

 

Matt:

Does that mean,

 

Dee Dee:

<laugh>? Well, I know what it means in my neck of the woods. Um,

 

Matt:

Then, then say it.

 

Dee Dee:

I mean, it, it means that we gotta stop letting pharmacy and big pharma fucking rule our entire country in indefinitely. Our state. They’re, we have such an opiate addiction here in Kentucky and that is because of big pharma. They are the ones that have pushed that addiction. And it absolutely infuriates me that people can’t choose a plant to self-medicate or they go to jail. And it absolutely infuriates me that we’ve, we’ve had to come so close and yet, so we’re still so far away and we’re so behind the rest of the country. And the fact that it’s not already federally legalized is absolutely insane. We just have to keep pushing and moving forward. And that’s why I know you don’t like Andy, but I still think that he did a really good job with that executive order. He’s trying to force their hands to vote on it.

Um, he actually came down to the capitol or to the tunnel yesterday to see everything. And I know he is a politician, I understand that. But the man was actually moved and you could tell, and you could feel it. And he actually took the time and cared. He, there’s a huge banner down there that is set up and it’s suppo. Every, all of this is supposed to be set up and on display for the entire legislative session. Now are there gonna be opposition to that? Fuck yeah, there is. Are they gonna have people wanting them to take that down? Of course. It’s already started. So I need to ask my people to make sure that you go in there and sign it. There is a, I mean, it’s a huge banner. Governor Bashir signed it. I signed it. Everybody that was there helping yesterday, we all signed it. You know, we’re all for medical cannabis here in Kentucky. And for those that bitch about not,

 

Matt:

We’re all here, we’re all for cannabis in

 

Dee Dee:

Kentucky. We are cannabis, what’d I say?

 

Matt:

Medical cannabis.

 

Dee Dee:

Well, we’re all for cannabis, period. <laugh>, I’m for cannabis. Period. Right. Whether it’s because it’s all used medicinally anyway, right. Whether it’s rec or whether it’s medical, it’s right. It’s all used. Right. Cuz your body uses it medicinally. I don’t care if people are getting high with it, your body’s still using it medicinally. It, it was just so moving and such an incredible honor to be able to help them get this stuff displayed up. Beth, our employee, she came and helped d donated, volunteered her time to come help us. Um, it was just, it was incredible. Uh, you know, I got my picture with the governor. I showed him who my people are that is up on the wall. And I mean, I’m not gonna lie, I’ve got my own fucking PTSD from my husband’s seizures. Morgan has PTSD from watching her daddy flop on the floor.

I mean, things like that, it affects so much more than just one person, whatever it is. Like, yes, he has seizures, but it also affects Morgan and I and it, it just does. Um, now am I working on my p t? Of course I am. But there are mornings that I, if he makes a loud noise, my anxiety level just goes through the roof. Cuz I’m like, oh God, does he have another seizure? And and I worry about him. I worry about him every day if he’s going to fucking die from sudep. And that is a very real thing with people with seizures and me trying. Now I, granted I know I can’t care more than my husband does and he’s working on things too, but you know, there’s things that trigger seizures that we’ve worked on together. There’s things that, um, he can do for himself to help himself, not hopefully have a seizure, but sometimes they ain’t shit you can do and you just have one.

They just happen. It doesn’t matter. They just, once you have seizures, you will probably forever have them. It’s just trying to be proactive using a plant that has helped him immensely and fighting and helping for others that are in the same boat. And I think that truly is what I am meant to do. Obviously it has started with hemp. It will continue with our hemp products because it’s the same plant people. That’s the one thing that we have reiterated. I don’t know how many times it’s the same cannabis plant. The government’s the one that labeled it hemp or labeled it marijuana, but it’s the same plant. So our products can help people just need to know how to use those products and finding that right dose for them. Anyway, as I digress and talk about our products, I don’t mean to, but No,

 

Matt:

I, I think that that’s, I I think that that’s perfectly legitimate to talk about our products because people still don’t understand that they get so pumped about the cannabis thing and the cannabis thing’s super important. But you can get a shitload of THC and a shitload of CBD out of hemp. Yes. Which we sell. Which you don’t have to put up with any bullshit

 

Dee Dee:

For. Yes. Granted, there’s a limit, right, the 0.3%. But this made perfect sense. You can get up to three milligrams per gram. So that’s three milligrams of THC per gummy gram. Right. So most of these guys are like three grams, five grams. So you multiply that, you can get enough THC people, I promise you don’t have to drive to other states. Take it in hemp form.

 

Matt:

We, we ha we have 20 milligram gummies. That is,

 

Dee Dee:

That they’re

 

Matt:

Huge <laugh>. So, so just to kind of put that into perspective, um, my stepdaughter just came into town and her Christmas present to me was some THC edibles from California. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, guess what milligram they were 10. 10 milligrams.

 

Dee Dee:

Uhhuh. <affirmative>.

 

Matt:

Okay. Yeah.

 

Dee Dee:

10 milligrams. Why I I guess that one.

 

Matt:

Thanks for the 10 milligram gummies. And you know what, her and I almost choked her out. Do you know what her statement was? Well, I wanted you to, you know, have some of the real stuff and I was like, I will murder

 

Dee Dee:

You. Oh my. Yeah. Because we are both like what the Yeah. People Yeah, yeah. The whole real stuff.

 

Matt:

I, I sat her ass down. And did

 

Dee Dee:

You, did you, did you educate her? I said I hope

 

Matt:

So. I said, I said You can keep your 10 milligram shitty gummies from California. I’ve got some 20 milligram cal gummies that came right from right here in Kentucky That

 

Dee Dee:

Yeah. And their hemp. Yeah. Oh my gosh. That’s not the real stuff.

 

Matt:

Right. Let’s do the Pepsi challenge on you. My 20 milligram gummy against your shitty 10 milligram gumm from California.

 

Dee Dee:

Or even two of those. I mean, if you’re gonna do milligrams, milligrams, yes. Right. It’s the same fucking thing. Yes. So listen, see, we’ve been all about the fuck word today, so I apologize for that. 

 

Matt:

I don’t <laugh>. I know you, you can don’t. Alright. But, but, but we do need to switch back to Moms on

 

Dee Dee:

Marijuana, moms Kentucky, mom’s fir Medical cannabis. Oh,

 

Matt:

Okay. I like Moms on marijuana. Better

 

Dee Dee:

Mom’s on marijuana, you

 

Matt:

Know, better. And you know what I like the best?

 

Dee Dee:

Way better than Alcohol

 

Matt:

MILFs with marijuana <laugh>. That needs to be a group. That is a group I would participate in.

 

Dee Dee:

Hmm. No. Anyway. Um, and I can think of so many

 

Matt:

Hope that I I hope that makes it on a clip.

 

Dee Dee:

Oh yeah, no, I’m just gonna leave it at that. I hope that doesn’t make it on a clip, man. <laugh>, you’re crazy. Um, but anyway, I think the most important part that everybody needs to realize is that we have got to start supporting these local advocacy advocacy groups and we’ve got to spread the word that they, nobody needs to drive to Illinois or to medical states. We have products available Now. Am I a little bit concerned that federally, the 2023 Farm Bill will in that I am, am I concerned that Big Canna is getting in on that because they’re pissed off that they know we can sell these products legally, hemp wise? Yes, they

 

Matt:

Already are. That’s already happened.

 

Dee Dee:

It is. And because they actually know, they know that hemp people can sell these products and we are, and it pisses them off because we don’t have all that government regulation like they do. We don’t have all the, uh, you know, license and fees and shit like that, that we shouldn’t have. Anyway. Just be prepared. Just be prepared for that. We’ll, we’ll definitely keep you posted on what we know about the 2023 Farm Bill and what’s going on with it as we get further into the new year, obviously. But again, support your local advocacies. If you go to Frankfurt, I believe there’s a, there’s rally days coming up. January 3rd is one of the first ones. Then they’ve got them in February and later in January too, I’ll, we’ll post the dates in our notes and I can let you all know when the moms for medical cannabis will be there. Yeah. Go in there and sign that fricking banner. Put your name right under me. Put your name anywhere on that banner if you are for cannabis in Kentucky, period. Cannabis. Cannabis.

 

Matt:

Cannabis. Well, and you bring up a good point because we’re at a tipping point mm-hmm. <affirmative> where things can tip one way or the other. Yeah. Anyone’s gonna make a difference. Is, is you the people listening to this podcast Absolutely. And deciding whether or not you’re gonna participate and make a difference whether politicians listen to you or not. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, it will make an impact. I mean, it will make a statement or are you just gonna, you know, blindly allow these things to happen without saying or doing anything about it.

 

Dee Dee:

Well, and the thing about Kentucky folks, legislators, they are supposed to vote how you want them to, but they don’t know how you want them to vote if you’re not calling in and emailing them and telling them to vote for something or against something. If not, they just vote their own opinion. And let me tell you, after some of the things I have

 

Matt:

Their own lobbied opinion.

 

Dee Dee:

Exactly. And after seeing some of the, um, interviews with a couple of these senators, it makes perfect sense what’s going on in the state of Kentucky. Yeah. And

 

Matt:

They any state really.

 

Dee Dee:

Yes. Yes.

 

Matt:

I’m not gonna limit that to Kentucky. No.

 

Dee Dee:

Because now we’re also in Indiana as well. But it does make perfect sense why things are the way they are in Kentucky in general. Be mindful of that. Call your legislators. Call your representatives. We’ll put that number down there for you as well. And join the advocacy groups. Join Kentucky, Kentucky NORML. Um, follow us on Facebook. Follow Kentucky Moms for Medical Cannabis on Facebook. Follow KY for MM on Facebook. Follow KC FC on Facebook. And all these people are on Instagram and TikTok as well, I believe. But these are the groups that are getting things done. And if I missed anybody, I apologize. It’s hard to keep track. And obviously, you know, we, we have our own hemp association as well.

 

Matt:

Or start a group.

 

Dee Dee:

You know, I’m, you know, I will <laugh>,

 

Matt:

I wanna see him with marijuana. We’re not, I wanna see

 

Dee Dee:

That, but thanks Matt.

 

Matt:

If you’re a mil with marijuana, thanks. Start a group and so I can join. I want, I want a part of that. Think of the calendar.

 

Dee Dee:

It would be amazing. 

 

Matt:

Oh my God, you could probably make enough money from that calendar to fund whatever cannabis, you know what that you would want. 

 

Dee Dee:

I would buy it. All right, ladies, if you’re listening, uh, reach out to me personally. Maybe won’t get,

 

Matt:

And it’s not a, it’s not a’s not a objectification. Okay. It’s not

 

Dee Dee:

Oh yeah. I like, I’m just giving him the evil eye y’all cuz I don’t, it’s all good. I don’t know what to think about him sometimes.

 

Matt:

Hey, you know, I’d recommend a D calendar, but I don’t <laugh> I don’t know. I dunno, I don’t know if that would sell as well.

 

Dee Dee:

I think it would. <laugh>.

 

Matt:

Okay, well let <laugh>, hang on. Let me get the baby oil <laugh>.

 

Dee Dee:

Oh, we’re not right. We are not right on so many levels and we’re okay with it. Um, but anyway, please, please, please support these organizations and sign and call your legislators. I think that’s the most important thing about today’s podcast. And I’m hoping that we can get maybe a little video added to what this wall looks like because it e even if you can’t get to Frankfurt to see it, it is just simply breathtaking. Um, all of these pictures just, just out for display and everybody has their own story as to why they need these products. And these moms have been supporting these patients for years now trying to get this changed. And when Governor Beshear came down and talked to us, I mean, he actually seems to care and is at least trying to move things forward in Kentucky and that I will always give him credit for.

I think that is awesome that he has, is going out of his way to try and help make this happen. So definitely, you know, you got questions, reach out to us. I’m happy to answer anything you have. Um, and even if I can’t get anything answered, I can connect you to Julie and Kristen who can. So just keep that in mind. And, um, we love you ladies. Uh, Julie and Christed <laugh>, they were gonna be with us today, but they are just ex they are exhausted. And I was like, I totally understand. No worries. I can speak for all of us, which was nice since they made me a board member. You’ll be moved by these, some of them even have like a little sticker and loving memory of and it just about breaks your heart. Yeah. Knowing that people could have maybe used something different. It’s so that that’s, yeah. Yeah. So, all right. That was about all I had for everybody. Um, yeah. Good stuff. Yeah. Good stuff, right? Yeah. All right. Peace out everybody. Thank you for listening. As always. Bye bye. Thanks for joining us for another episode of Hemp and Happiness with the hemp Queen and emperor. Keep your mind over open and expanding. Like, subscribe, review, follow us, all the good stuff and keep it hemp out there.