#807 - Gino & AJ, from Speedweed

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Some cool boss guy.

Gino and AJ from LA Speedweed, you are live. Are you tweeting?

Gino (0:09)

I was re-tweeting your tweet.

AJ (0:12)

Joe just recorded a jingle for us, so.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Yeah, that's your jingle.

AJ (0:15)

Let's pull that.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

That should be your new ringtone.

First of all, Gino has been my friend for a long time, and he's basically, he's the guy that turned me on to this whole LA marijuana delivery scene that is going on in LA which was amazing for comedians and for anybody who has a medical card, where you could just call this cool dude, and he would tell you what the great stuff is, and you hang out with him and talk with him, and you could buy it, and it was all totally legal and above board. It was all good. But somewhere along the line, some fuckery ran afoot, and they came up with some new political rules that keep marijuana delivery services from operating. Explain it, because essentially the way they've set it up is like you would have to have had a license to operate in each one of the houses that you're delivering to. Is that how it works?

Gino (1:10)

Well, it used to be called the Wild West, you know, out here in California for medical marijuana.

And it very much was until they wanted to regulate it. And most of the people wanted it regulated because they wanted marijuana. So, yes, let's take, let's have marijuana. Yes, let's regulate it. However...

AJ (1:31)

No, but hold on. People think that marijuana is legal in California, but it is not.

Gino (1:36)

Absolutely not.

AJ (1:36)

What we have is protection from prosecution. That's what we have. Which means that law enforcement can knock your door down, take your stuff, take your weed, take your cash, take whatever you got there. And you can show them all the papers in the world and they're like, that's great, that's cool, we're glad you're legal.

Bring it to the judge, and you'll be good to go, and you'll get your stuff back in a year, and you guys will be fine. And that's happened to us.

Joe Rogan (1:57)

But do you get your stuff back? Because I've heard there's a lot of people that have never gotten their stuff back.

AJ (2:02)

We always have.

Joe Rogan (2:03)

So how long have they kept your stuff for?

Gino (2:06)

Over a year. So if you have weed over a year, they're not taking care of it, it's done.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

So that weed's useless.

Gino (2:14)

It's useless.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

So you lose how much money in a bus like that? Well, you don't have to say.

It depends on how much money. Substantial amount of money.

Gino (2:22)

Yeah, of course.

Joe Rogan (2:22)

And so they give you the cash back?

Gino (2:26)

They'll give you it again.

AJ (2:28)

They actually cut you a check.

Gino (2:29)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

They cut you a check for the cash.

Gino (2:31)

From the district attorney's office, I have one hanging on AJ's wall in his office of them returning a few thousand dollars to us.

Which, cause again, when there was any sort of trouble, it was, all right, you have to go see a judge. You go see the judge, and the judge looks at the paperwork. And in our first case, the judge said, we've never seen a more compliant company in California, and dismissed without prejudice. And our lawyer asked, instead of dismissing without prejudice, we actually would like that entered in to the record that you're calling LA Speedweed the most compliant marijuana company you've ever dealt with. So we had it entered into the record.

AJ (3:16)

It didn't translate though. I have a lawsuit on my desk that is, I'm holding my hands 18 inches apart by the way, that is that high, this lawsuit from the city.

Joe Rogan (3:24)

It's just super unfortunate, because it's obviously not the will of the people. Whenever something's not the will of the people, it's clear by all the gentlemen in this room, we're all grown adults, and we all enjoy marijuana. We all have responsible lives, we all do stuff, we all get things done, and we all enjoy it. And we're taxpayers, we're normal people, we're not freaks.

We're not like ne'er-do-wells, or someone who's clinging off the system and fucking up social systems that we've set up for people that are trying to get by in this world.

SPEAKER_4 (4:00)

No, regular folks.

AJ (4:02)

We're just guys.

Gino (4:03)

Let's talk about what you said just before, the will of the people. When they voted on this proposition D, which is a zoning law.