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have all gone away but maybe we can help you be a little safer from China. And here's how you could do it. You could say we will protect you. Maybe not directly militarily because we wouldn't want to. I don't know that we'd want to have a military agreement that we protect the territory of North Korea with our military against China. That might be too much. But we could say there we'll protect yo…

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hen try something that's worked before. See if you can figure out what it was about that that worked and then duplicate it. But if you're not doing that, if you're not testing, you're not doing anything right. If the government, if our government can't tell us oh we've got three trials going on and we're testing various variables and seeing what works and what doesn't, if they're not telling you that then what they are telling you is we're not doing anything and we're not capable of doing anything. Because how hard would it be to test, right? It shouldn't be.

Prohibition is the cause of this problem. Well that's why we would test. So you can certainly take out the cartels by taking their money away but I suppose they would just turn to other forms of crime. It's Portugal. What could go wrong? Somebody says oh somebody wants me to do a how to smoke weed episode. I'm actually, I've got a lot of planning in that. I have thought about doing a Periscope on the topic of how to smoke marijuana if your doctor says that you should.

Now as you know I'm a big proponent of marijuana under certain circumstances. One of them and the most important one is that you're an adult. Marijuana and children, bad combination. Bad combination. Want to avoid that. Marijuana and some people who are adults, bad combination. The thing with marijuana, I'll give you a little preview of it now. The thing with marijuana is that there are lots of different types and they affect you in lots of different ways. And then there are also lots of different people with different personalities and different bodies and stuff and they all have a different reaction.

So it would be the height of let's say irresponsibility for anybody to say that you should smoke marijuana. That would be the most irresponsible thing anybody could ever say because I don'

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t know you're completely different than me and if you do it wrong it might not turn out well for you. Now in my case I have an actual legitimate, believe it or not, medical benefit and it's extreme in my case. The benefit is fairly extreme. So luckily it's an easy peasy thing. And I don't do it as a party drug. I've never enjoyed it as something to do with friends you know except in college but i…

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