#2031 - Luis J. Gomez

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.

Luis J. Gomez (0:12)

Are we on?

SPEAKER_2 (0:13)

Are we on?

Luis J. Gomez (0:15)

Yeah, all right, we're on. I didn't know if we were talking on the podcast or just being dudes.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

That's the beautiful thing about podcasts.

Luis J. Gomez (0:21)

It really is, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

It's kind of just hanging.

Luis J. Gomez (0:23)

Yeah, but yeah, I smoked weed since I was like 17, and it was illegal, and you just see all these like formative years spending my life being afraid that a cop was going to come and arrest me. I've been arrested for smoking weed like 10 times in New York City, because I'm an idiot, and I just, you know.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Right.

Luis J. Gomez (0:43)

And it's just a game of numbers. We would roll a blunt in the park, you smoke it, and every time for some reason, the cop would always take me. All my friends, they'd be like, you know what, you gotta take one of you, and I'm the only brown kid in the group. So every single time, they were like, we're gonna take you, and then they'd take you to Central Bookings for a day.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

And they would literally say I have to take one of you?

Oh my god. And none of your friends? Hey, you got Luis the last three times. Not once.

Luis J. Gomez (1:06)

Dave Smith. I was arrested three separate times, and Dave Smith watched me get put into the back of a car, and he was like, bye.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Oh god.

Luis J. Gomez (1:16)

But yeah, and then I remember I went to Amsterdam when I was 22, and it was the first time I ever smoked legal weed, and I just, I was like, this is, this is great. This is the way it should be. It was nuts. I was just like smoking in the street. I was talking to a cop. I was on mushrooms.

I was like, this is so peaceful and nice.

And then I came back, and I remember I was in a stairwell, smoking a blunt, like the day I got back, and I was like, this is fucking a wild thing. And then here we are years later in New York City, it's legal. There's literally, you could buy weed in just delis on every corner in New York City now. It's crazy.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

Yeah. I remember the switch in California because for a while I was medical.

So I used to have to go to a doctor, and the doctor would go, oh, you need weed. And then he writes some shit down on a piece of paper. Then you could buy weed.

Luis J. Gomez (1:58)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:59)

And I used to go to this place called the Englewood Wellness Center, which was in Englewood, and it's a shady area. And back then, I don't know if it was credit cards yet.

I think they might have been able to use credit cards, but I know they also had a lot of cash on them, and they got robbed, and the guy that I used to buy weed from got shot.

Luis J. Gomez (2:19)

Oh, shit.

Joe Rogan (2:19)

And I was like, all right, done with that spot, I'm going to have to find a new spot. But there wasn't that many spots. You would have to find these places, and they looked like shut down stores. Most of the places that were dispensaries, they were super low key. You had to know people.

And you would go in there, and there'd be some fucking doctor. Like one time we went to this doctor, and he had dreadlocks. And these dudes had like long dreads, and he had a volcano bag, you know, and volcano vaporizer bags. But it was like an extra long bag. And we walk into the dispenser, and he's like, man, you need medicine.

He just immediately goes, you need some medicine. I go, yes, sir, I do, thank you.

Luis J. Gomez (3:00)

I'm very sick.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

Yeah, I'm very sick. He took us to the grow room. I don't know if you've ever been in a grow room when you're high.

But they seem to be intelligent.

There's an odd feeling that you get when you're high on marijuana and you walk into a grow room filled with hundreds of plants. It was a big ass room with lights, hydroponic lights or whatever hanging from the sky, and it just has a weird feel to it. It has a weird feel, like not a regular room. It doesn't feel like you're walking into a room. It feels like you're walking into a room with beings.