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E132 - Road Stories #5 - 2024

VanHoot is now traveling the roads of northern British Columbia. While Michelle is off filling their cupboards and cooler, Kirk and River explore the resale cannabis market in those small communities they visit. Kirk records some of the discussions collecting cannabis stories to better understand cannabis from the budtenders’ perspective.  In this episode, we learn: how cannabis is marketed day-to-day, is a part time job for busy people, and is also positively affecting smaller community.  At one point Kirk sniffs resale cannabis from Mason Jars envisioning the future farmgate access.  When you listen to a Road Story episode, you are transported into the continuing adventures of VanHoot and its occupants.

Episode Transcript

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Trevor: Kirk, I'm back. So are you.

Kirk: Yeah. Road stories. This is 2024 road stories Number Two. So it'd be like, I don't know Road six in total, but yeah. 2024. We're still in VanHoot. We're, still, we're still traveling British Columbia. We have left Vancouver Island and we've taken an $800 ferry trip to Prince Rupert. 16 hours.

Trevor: Couldn't you like just rent a helicopter for $800.

Kirk: Not and take VanHoot along with me. No, no, no. VanHoot, the dog and Michelle and I are on a 16 hour ferry trip up the Inside Passage. And this trip that I'm doing is pretty much a Bucket List trip of a West Coast kid. It's sort of like, it's sort of like on this trip, I meet up a lot of Americans that are doing the Alaska Highway and that's their Bucket List. Well, this is my Bucket List. Take a boat from Port Hardy up to Prince Rupert with my family and gather cannabis stories as I'm as I'm doing it. But we were we were Prince Rupert.

Trevor: Sounds like a great way to spend the summer.

Kirk: So, I got to tell you this story now. This is this is how this all worked out, right? 16 stinking hours on a ferry boat with a prairie girl. My wife Michelle doesn't like water. I love the water. I mean, I'm a Pisces. I can be in water all day. We're on a boat. Dogs got to stay on the car decks. But every four hours we go out and we can take the dogs for a walk. So, I got River and Michelle's up top and she's sitting in the chair. I go down with River and I take them for a walk. And now we try to train our dogs not to poo and pee indoors. But we're now on this steel road and there's lots of other dogs. And every dog, you know, they've got the yappers, the sniffers and but it took at least eight hours for my dog to figure it out that he was allowed to pee or poo. But in the process I ended up meeting other dog owners and we were in Prince Rupert during the Stanley Cup final seventh game.

Trevor: Okay, cool.

Kirk: Yeah, we were there and we were there with a group of guy, a family that had had three huskies. And my dog is a Lab-Husky cross, and he learned how to howl with this group of people in Prince Rupert and a shout out to a couple of companies in Prince Rupert. A shout out to Bob's on the Rocks. Bob's on the Rocks is a place where you can get crab, fish, fresh fish, deep fried fish. You can find deep fried chips and fish. You've got fish here on the West Coast, right? You've done those kind of fishing trips.

Trevor: I have been lucky enough to do that, Yes.

Kirk: Yeah. Yeah. So this is a typical deep fried fish and chip shop. Well, we're traveling in VanHoot and we have we have a cooler. So I went into their shop and asked if we could take our water, frozen water and freeze it. So Bob's in the Rocks, froze our water not once, but twice. We were we were at four days in Prince Rupert. Really love the town. Beautiful, beautiful community. Michelle and I really we're wild camping. So I'm giving a little backstory here because it's also Entire Automotive. They fix the tire for us. We're our CAA, our CAA right, we got a flat tire in the middle of Prince Rupert and CAA doesn't respond to Prince Rupert. So we had to work our own deals to get ourselves to a tire shop, but shut out the Entire Automotive and Bob on the Rocks and we went to Five Corners Cannabis Shop is the first shop in this episode. The owner of this shop owns shops in Prince Rupert and he owns two shops in Prince Rupert. I went to three different shops in Prince Rupert and got one story and I got the one story from Kylie. 

Trevor: But I just like the fact, you know, we like people who chat a lot. And she does. I like she described this as her fun part time gig four days a week because she does have another full time job, which you will you will mention eventually. I won't tread on that part.

Kirk: Yeah. Yeah. So Little Mountain Lady. Nice, nice young lady. And I also posted her on Instagram back in the day. She directed us and this is pretty much the well, not the only tourist thing we did, but this is a huge tourist thing to do in Prince Rupert, the North Pacific cannery. Fascinating, fascinating site. We end up spending about six hours there. Fascinating, fascinating site. Everyone knows about the gold rush and British, but not everyone. Many people know about the gold rushes that occurred in the 1870s and 1880s in British Columbia, northern British Columbia and into the Klondike. The Klondike stories. Well, some people went to the Pacific North and they found their gold in salmon. And fascinating. So. So, yes, the little mountain lady led us there and we had a great day. But this is her story at the Five Corners Cannabis shop, and it's literally on the corner of five Road. So this is her story.

Kylie Okay. My name is Kylie and I work at Five Corners Cannabis. I've been working here.

Kirk: In Prince Rupert.

Kylie In Prince Rupert. Yes. I've been at this particular job for a month, but I've been in the cannabis industry for the last four years. I used to work at a shop down in Merritt for three years. I love the cannabis industry. I always say this is my just for fun job because I have another full time job that I work at. And then I'm here like four days a week and I just love it. I love the people that you get to meet. Everyone is just really happy and I love educating people as well.

Kirk: So four days a week sounds like almost a full time job.

Kylie I know, I'm a little crazy.

Kirk: What do you do when you're not working here?

Kylie I'm the assistant manager out at North Pacific Cannery, so it's a national historic site. Yeah. So we do tours and stuff like that.

Kirk: Cool. So you're very much a people person.

Kylie Exactly, yeah. I talk to people all day, every day.

Kirk: So tell me, what is the typical customer you have walks in the store?

Kylie The typical customer is just the average person looking for a way to end their day. A lot of people don't like to drink anymore, so a lot of people turn to cannabis, which is lovely because it doesn't give you all the shitty feelings that alcohol does.

Kirk: Very cool.

Kylie yeah.

Kirk: That's your five minute story.

Trevor: Okay. Since you mentioned the Stanley Cup in Prince Rupert, I have to throw in Eric story because, of course, is an Eric story. So my son Eric.

Kirk: I love Eric story.

Trevor: has been a year out of high school now. He is he's living in Winnipeg with a high school friend of his Jayman Phee. Jayman's uncle is Myles Fee. Myles Fee is an assistant coach for the Florida Panthers. So, a Dauphin kid, again is now involved in a Stanley Cup winning NHL team. And Eric actually got to go over to Jayman's parents place in Dauphin. During the summer. They were having a little backyard barbecue party with the Stanley Cup. So Eric's got his picture next to the Stanley Cup in Dauphin and that's pretty cool.

Kirk: Well, that's the second time the Stanley Cup has been here in the last five years.

Trevor: I was going to say that leads nicely into you were sort of involved with the Stanley Cup a few years ago.

Kirk: Yeah, I got the drink from the Stanley Cup and I also got to drink my mead, my fermented mead and possibly, possibly some other hooch.

Trevor: It was what Barry Trotz is also grew up and often was coaching. At that point, the Washington Capitals and the Stanley Cup came too often. The Cossacks got to sort of accompany the Stanley Cup down a parade in Dauphin. But yeah, something else you did a bunch this summer was Dauphin had the Manitoba Summer Games.

Kirk: Yes. We also did the Manitoba summer games. I was the co-chair, local representation, for the medical team and basically learned an awful lot about athletic therapists. And they're an unregulated profession that practices the wellness model for athletes and really, really learned a lot. Did lots of 12, 12 hour days. It was almost like working up north again. But just down my street, I was managing a polyclinic, which is a multiple clinic for the games. Our goal was to to keep athletes away from the emergency department as much as we could. And so I got to work with other local nurses and athletic therapists. So yeah, I've had a very busy summers, Trevor But hey, you know what? I digress. From our road trip. This is, this is Road Stories.

Trevor: Let's, let's go to Haida Gwaii.

Kirk: Yeah, I'm at Haida Gwaii, my friend. Queen Charlotte. So this is a Bucket List. This is something I've wanted to do since I was 15-years-old. I mentioned the Crosby's in the last episode. Brian and Colin Crosby were friends of mine and my brother. Friends of my brothers also. I mean, I kind of hung to those guys over the years. And their brother David lives in Haida Gwaii. And I got to go visit David in Haida Gwaii and I visited Cannabis Shops. So Michelle and I took VanHoot out there.  We're there for seven days and we traveled the highway. There's what, maybe 140km of paved road Haida Gwaii. There's one road. Everyone just takes the same road. And we went right to the north. We visited three cannabis shops and two of the cannabis shops. One of them gave. Two of the shops are from Frontier. They're called Frontier. And I got one story for one shop, and the other shop didn't give me a story. On Haida Gwaii are little cardboard or wooden plywood signs Haida Haze Open Haida Haze in Masset. Old Masset. So we come down from the northern part, the beaches and doing our hiking and hanging out with the dog and stuff and meeting up with David And I go into Haida Haze. I got a couple stories in Haida Haze, one of the stories I buried, and I will come back to later, probably a couple of months. I need to do some checking on it because there's some facts that the individual said. But this is a story I got from this gentleman, and this gentleman's name is.

Trevor: Danny Stewart.

Kirk: This, I took pictures of this and I took pictures of this on Instagram. This is what I think a cannabis store should be like. Essentially, you got Pickle Jars. You know those two, what is it, four quarts, one gallon Pickle Jars full of cannabis, and you're able to take the jar down, open the lid, breathe in and look at the bud. And no excise taxes. Nothing. It's. This is farm gate. This is this was incredible. So this is this is a story from Haida Haze. So I'm sitting in Haida Haze, a reserve dispensary, talking to.

Speaker 6Danny Stewart Junior: Danny Stewart Junior.

Kirk: Hi, Danny. I'm Kirk. Can you explain to your time so you've got you've got your cannabis in mason jars. And so what you're just saying.

Speaker 6Danny Stewart Junior: I was just saying that we're the only one of like, the dispensaries on island. There's three on island that I know of, but we're the only ones that are like this so far, but we just have the weed in the jars. So you can see them, you see what you're buying. You could actually see how it smells. The lowest we go is 3.5g.

Kirk: Okay. And you have like a top shelf. So is red dot Kush and blue dot Sativa. or Green dot hybrid. How does that work?

Danny Stewart Junior: We have a little sign up there. The red dots are Indica.

Kirk: Indica. Okay.

Danny Stewart Junior: The Blue is hybrid and green sativa.

Kirk: Okay. Can I have a smell of the strawberry, what is that Strawberry dairy?

Danny Stewart Junior: Something like that.  I don't know.

Kirk: Cool. oh man. That sounds lovely.

Danny Stewart Junior: Right.

Kirk: And so what, do you have it tested or do you know how much THC in that or what what the cannabinoids are?

Danny Stewart Junior: Generally, we just look it up online on Leafly.

Kirk: Okay.

Danny Stewart Junior: And then we just go off of that. So we just have a little range of THC.

Kirk: Okay.

Danny Stewart Junior: What we off of.

Kirk: All right. So people just know what they're buying. They know the growers.

Danny Stewart Junior: ya.

Kirk: Okay. Very cool. And so you, so people come here off your community and they come here for the medicine. Is it mostly medicinal people buy here, or recreation a big part of it.

Danny Stewart Junior: Yeah, recreation is a big part of it. We also have like I was saying the CBD products,.

Kirk: Right.

Danny Stewart Junior: And that's what our community buys most of.

Kirk: Yeah. You got tinctures and stuff?

Danny Stewart Junior: Yeah. We get a supply of this stuff in and then it's off the shelves. Right away once they hear that we got got this morning.

Kirk: Okay. And this is it. All looks like it's made. Is it all First Nations weed? Like people like the fireweed extracts. That looks like it's a First Nation illustration, but.

Danny Stewart Junior: Yeah, that's actually one of the owners. His company.

Kirk: Okay.

Danny Stewart Junior: Yeah.

Kirk: Very cool, man. So, you guys. Okay, so Holsem, Holsem thats cool.

Danny Stewart Junior: Holsem Botanics.

Kirk: Holsem h o l s e m botanics. That's very cool. And so you sell diamonds. So what's the big what's the big one this year? Last year, everyone was buying CBGs.  So what's what? What's the big product people are asking for this year. This summer?

Danny Stewart Junior: Well, firehouse pre-rolls are just like weed just stuffed into the cone.

Kirk: Okay.

Danny Stewart Junior: We get shipped here and just, like, a little Tupperware containers, and we sell them for $5 each. Or there's. We sell them in a five pack for $20, but we're all sold out at the moment. Because people are buying that. And we also got some edibles over there.

Kirk: Okay. And the edibles come from. ho Haida haze. Hey. You guys make your own edibles.

Danny Stewart Junior: Yeah. We made some of our own edibles. And then we also have some by Willow. And then a company called BuddhaBoys.

Kirk: Okay.

Danny Stewart Junior: And the Buddha Boys sell quick.

Kirk: Okay.

Danny Stewart Junior: There's four of thing as The pack is 4000mg for the whole pack, and there's four gummies inside of it. There's four dummies inside all of the BuddhaBoys.

Kirk: Thousand milligrams gummy.

Danny Stewart Junior: Yeah.

Kirk: oh Man.

Danny Stewart Junior: And we're all sold out of those ones. So we only have the 3000, 2000, 1 thousand.

Kirk: $65 for 3000 milligram jelly bean. So there will be, there'll be four jelly beans in there at 750 mls each. Wow. That's a lot of. That's a bit potent man.

Danny Stewart Junior: Yeah. They're just small little square gummies.

Kirk: Okay. Wow. That's a big punch.

Danny Stewart Junior: Then we also have freezes, too. That we sell.

Kirk: Freezes?

Danny Stewart Junior: Yeah.

Kirk: So infused.

Danny Stewart Junior: Yes.

Kirk: oh goodness. All sorts of ways. Well, thank you. This is a this is a good story.

Trevor: So, Kirk, like you said, it really sounds cool having these mason jars where you can see, touch and smell bud.

Kirk: Yeah, I think that's the way is the future of a cannabis store. I would love to walk into a cannabis store where you could buy cannabis so raw. So anyways, that was, that was our trip to Haida Gwaii. If anybody ever wants to stop me at a cannabis conference or for a beer, I have lots of stories about Haida Gwaii. I recommend everyone goes there. So from Haida Gwaii, we go back to Prince Rupert, spend a couple more days in Prince Rupert again shut out to Bob on the Rocks. They froze our ice again. We go to the Pacific Cannery Museum. And then we go off to a place called Terrace, B.C.. So as we're traveling, we're meeting people in campgrounds. And people are telling me that we should if we're going this route because I'm telling everybody that we're going we're going to Fort Saint John's into Alberta. So I got a number of people telling me, well, go up Highway 37, man. You know, if you're going to do that, just take an extra couple of days, go up Highway 37. And that's exactly what we did. We went to, from Prince Rupert, we went to Terrace. I went to a number of stores in Terrace. All within, gosh, within probably two blocks of each other, five stores. This is where I stumbled on to the very first British Columbia Cannabis store. Handing out posters. But I only got one story and I got it from the Hive. And this young lady, you have her name there?

Trevor: Rihanna.

Kirk: Yeah. She's brand new to the industry. And in the background, if you listen carefully, my dog River is getting scratches. But this young lady teaches me about how the Hive promotes and sells cannabis.

Trevor: Something called shatter days I hear.

Kirk: Shatter Days. Yes.

Rihanna: My name is Rihanna. I've been at the Hive for almost three weeks. We have almost daily sales price Wednesday. A lot of people are very interested in the edibles, the drinks. Everyone's super excited about the 10% off. They enjoy all the tasty flavors. And we have a lot of people coming in. I've had since people from Florida, someone recently from Manitoba, and they're all really nice.

Kirk: And you said you said you like have shatter Saturdays.

Rihanna: Yeah. There's shatter day for 10% off shatter. We have tasty Tuesdays for 10% off edibles. Thirsty Thursdays for drinks. And I have a couple other ones.

His name is River.

Customer: Hi River.

Rihanna: Got infused Fridays.

Kirk: Infused Fridays.

Rihanna: Infused Fridays. Self-care Sundays.

Kirk: For self care Sundays you can turn on to our podcast.

Rihanna: Yeah, it's all our, like bombs. Our Infused bath bombs. Any self-care products are 10% off and then Move it Mondays is any of our Sativa strain flower are 10% off as well?

Kirk: Okay, so we come out of the Hive. River got his scratches. I meet Michelle, she's been shopping for us and we're heading up Highway 37 and we're going through lots and lots of wilderness like this is B.C., northern B.C., lots of lakes, mountain lakes, Clear Clear lakes. We meet up with Jade City. I understand Jade, British Columbia, what is it? What was a statistic? 80%. 90% of the jade in the world comes from a place called Jade City on Highway 37, and we end up going through going through there.

Trevor: The Discovery Channel even has a reality show about Jade from B.C. Name of the reality show is currently escaping me. But you know, you know you've made it when there's a reality show about it.

Kirk: Yeah. So it took us two days to go through and several tanks of gas through Highway 37 and we end up in Watsons Lake, the Yukon. Again it's on my Bucket List. I would love to turned left and kept going to Whitehorse. Getting to Whitehorse is on my Bucket List and I will get there eventually. But we get to Watson Lake.

Trevor: Watson Lake it's on the Alaska Highway, correct?

Kirk: Correct. Yes. And as I said earlier, we met a lot of Americans traveling. And I asked each of them, what is it about the Alaska highway? Is this a Bucket List for you? And yes, it is. I would say 90% of the recreational vehicles on that highway were American.

Trevor: Yeah, I know. My parents did the Alaska Highway after they got rid of my sister and I and I think after retiring. But anyway, they really enjoyed their trip up the Alaska Highway as well.

Kirk: As did my mother and father. They did the same thing in their little fifth wheel trip. Lots of buffalo, lots of bear on this highway And yeah, it's it's worth the trip. So this is the Watson Lake story.

Sandy: So my name is Sandy and I am the operating manager of Happy Trails Cannabis here in the Watson Lake. I am the only retailer within at least 1000km. That's from Fort Nelson, B.C., up to Whitehorse. Watson Lake is a small community, a small town. It is traditionally a pitstop for travelers to and from Alaska. And people stop by and they're happy to see us because imagine traveling for a thousand km without cannabis. So yeah, it's quite a relief for all our cannabis users. And since the legalization of cannabis, we tried to get licensed here in Yukon. And yes, there is a licensing board that is designated by the Yukon Territory Government that gives out licenses to prospective retailers. It took me about, probably about two years to get the license initially because it's a tedious process and one of which is you would have to get some sort of consent or agreement with the community before establishing a cannabis resale store. And initially we had several objections. Primarily, I would contribute that to the education of the community when it comes to cannabis. That's why seeing your program here, it would help a lot to educate people about the benefits of cannabis. Economically we're dealing with the community here doing outreach programs and well, on the socio economic side, I'm glad to say that upon the legalization of cannabis and us being licensed, we have probably cut down the use of liquor as compared to cannabis which is much healthier. And in the past, the community has have somehow endured losses due to liquor. Well, diseases off of the use of liquors and. But now with cannabis, everyone's getting a bit healthier and everyone's getting happy.

Kirk: That's incredible. So is Watson Lake A, is it a reserve? Is it a community?

Sandy: No, sir. Watson Lake. Well, as for the dates in history, I couldn't attest to it. I've got limited information about it. But to my knowledge, Watson Lake started out as a town when they were establishing this Alaska highway.

Kirk: Okay.

Sandy: And a group of GIs were stationed here because of the road construction. And Watson Lake became famous because one of the soldiers started putting up signs as a marker for travelers. And it was then enacted upon through a bylaw establishing that, as we call it, a signpost forest, where anyone who passes by you could put up a sign that you were here. And yes, upon the awarding of the Alaska Highway from the U.S. government to the Canadian government, Watson Lake was established as a town. We do have a small airport. We do have the band office. And yes, that's mostly it.

Kirk: That's very cool. When you say that cannabis has helped the community, is that the RCMP, have they recognized that as well, that your contribution has calmed things down?

Sandy: I cannot, I cannot say definitely for anything with in reference to the RCMP.

Kirk: Right.

Sandy: But as a community member, yes, I've seen the changes. And that's what I would attest to. I've known customers who have been more into liquor rather than cannabis. And since the legalization and especially the regulations that are imposed, it cuts down mostly the liquor consumption. And most especially the illicit market has been subdued in a way. And especially with the recent events in the past year, that in the illicit market, you got no knowledge of what the products came from or how they were produced. And there there were instances that some of which were laced with fenitnal which brought that to especially the young people. So now even elder community members who know kids that are into cannabis, so as long as they're of legal age, they entice them to rather buy it from a licensed retailer such as ours.

Kirk: Right. So how long have you been open then?

Sandy: We opened in November of 2021, so this is my third year in the running.

Kirk: Okay.

Sandy: Come November, this that would be our third year.

Kirk: Yes. And you're right on the highway. So Happy trails, 

Sandy: Happy trails Cannabis.

Kirk: Thank you, sir. That was a lovely story. So we're now heading down the Alaska Highway and it is a remarkable highway. I'm a little surprised, though. I think when you travel America to the Continental Americas, one of the things that you'll recognize about the highways is that there's very few grades, more than 4 or 5%. And I think, I think now I read someplace that I don't quote me on it, but I read someplace that when America was building their highways east, west, west, east, they were doing it for military reasons.

Trevor: That's the story I heard too, is you know, the interstate was so, you know, you could quickly move tanks around and stuff like that.

Kirk: Exactly. Therefore, when you started getting into the Rockies and the hills, the grades became impressive. So they had to be very careful how the percentage a grade. Well, there were a few grades on the Alaska highway where we're VanHoot was in second gear, puttsing up the highway, you know 40km an hour or being passed by everybody. But that's the uniqueness of traveling in a 1983 GMC Rally Sport van. So so we get south, we're going down south, and we hit the weather when we were when we were in British Columbia, June and July. It was cold. We're wearing wool still. It wasn't. Summer hadn't hit. And my understanding is that Dauphin was full of rain. My understanding June and July was mostly rain because we came home.

Trevor: Very wet.

Kirk: We came home to a jungle. Our yard. It took me a week and a half to catch up on the yard work. But but we get the Fort St John and this is pretty much the last story. We hit the heat and we start traveling across the prairies, and we're in 30, 35 degree heat in VanHoot. And we quickly stripped the wools and put on the shorts. But this young man, this young man in Fort Saint John, again, it's remarkable the stories that get the people that tell me stories. And for every one story I get, I probably would get 4 or 5 rejections. But knowing full well that 50 posters are distributed throughout British Columbia. So if you're in British Columbia, look for the look for the Reefer Medness poster. And here's here's my buddy in Fort Saint John telling us about what he did in a parade.

Trevor: Daniel Reinhart in a Canada Day parade and a horse.

Kirk: Yeah.

Daniel Reinhart: Hi, my name is Daniel Reinhart. I work at Cannabis Corner here in Fort Saint John, B.C., and I was asked just to tell a little story about cannabis in our local area here, and I thought I'd bring up for our Canada Day Parade. Recently I had our store owner actually show up riding a horse down there, waving his Cannabis Corner flag around, which was fairly surreal to see here with, you know, legally legalization still being fairly recent and everything. It was extremely interesting for me to see that out in a parade in public.

Kirk: Yeah, Yeah.

Daniel Reinhart: It was extremely interesting.

Kirk: Tell me a little bit about the B.C. market Last year when I was touring around Rec. Shops. The big the big thing was CPG. Everyone wanted to CBGs. This year it seems everyone wants infusions.

Daniel Reinhart: Yeah, I definitely my biggest seller in the store is going to be the infused joints. A lot of people come in asking for those. The CBG is actually a little lesser known by a lot of people. Personally, I use CBG to help fight inflammation for back pain and I also recommend it to other people for that as it's supposed to help fight inflammation, but most people don't know about the additional cannabinoids. They know only about THC and CBD. So I do tend to have those conversations with people trying to help introduce them more to different cannabinoids and different things that might help with different types of pain relief and that sort of thing.

Kirk: Right? So when someone walks in here, do you have an inventory that says, you know, Broken Coast has this much this much like, do you think if I come in and say, I want a CBG, what would you recommend?

Daniel Reinhart: Well, with our store, we actually do carry the largest supply in B.C. for unique items. So it is a very large thing when people do come in and they ask me kind of what I have, I usually recommend that they check out our website to look at the menu and that sort of thing. For CBG, I would usually recommend something like a capsule or an oil because that's an easier way to intake it than it is to smoke. A lot of the people looking for cannabinoids and stuff are older folks who don't smoke cannabis, but they're okay with using a cannabinoid oil or substitute or a capsule or something like that.

Kirk: I've heard that before in other Rec shops, the older people, my generation, they come in for edibles.

Daniel Reinhart: Yes, quite frequently, edibles. And then I usually introduce them to the capsules and stuff like that, just due to the fact that you can save a lot of money going for the capsules as opposed to the edibles. Okay, $4 a gummy for ten milligrams versus $40 for 500mg, Right? Right. Yes.

Kirk: In capsule forms.

Daniel Reinhart: That's right. Yes, You do save a good amount of money when you when you're not chewing on candy.

Kirk: So. Okay. Now, you did say you guys have the largest inventory. Inventory of what?

Daniel Reinhart: The largest selection of unique items in B.C..

Kirk: What do you mean by you? What's a unique item.

Daniel Reinhart: Unique item like in terms of different pre-rolls, different oils, drinks, you know, ounces, half ounces, seven grams, eight.  Yeah. Just in terms of different unique items, I have a lot, a lot of different things and just about every way to intake cannabis a person could imagine.

Kirk: Okay.

Daniel Reinhart: One of the thing that we didn't order when it was available was the suppositories.

Kirk: Okay. And you can you guys get suppositories in a Rec shop?

Daniel Reinhart: They were available on the B.C. Liquor Board, which is where cannabis distributors in B.C. have to order their cannabis from. And they were available on the board there.

Kirk: Are they available now.

Daniel Reinhart: I believe so. I haven't looked at it too recently. I'm the assistant manager here. My manager does most of the ordering. But yeah, just, you know, Lot a lot a lot of different things these days is what's very interesting about it.

Kirk: Well, I find it interesting. Who would use a suppository for recreational cannabis?

Daniel Reinhart: Exactly right. But a lot of people will say, you know, I'll try anything once, okay, but I can't see myself ordering too many because it probably would be they try it once.

Kirk: Right, so in.

Daniel Reinhart: The puppy's back here don't worry.

Kirk: Yeah. My puppy River has gone behind the counter. So in obviously I guess in this Rec shop you do have a lot of people that come in for the medicinal cannabis.

Daniel Reinhart: Okay. Yeah. A lot of people are coming in looking for it for pain relief and that sort of thing. Some people are just coming in looking to get stoned, you know, of course. But sometimes people will come in and ask me for something that's very, very low on THC and higher in CBD.  As they still want to smoke it, they still want to get a slight buzz, but they don't want to be completely glazed over.

Kirk: All right. Well, thank you very much. That's exactly what I was looking for. So.

Trevor: So, Kirk, I'm. I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted. Just from hearing the stories about all your travels. How are you doing?

Kirk: I'm all right. You know, it's it was, again, I gather these stories and I come back to the van and Michelle may be shopping or she's doing something or she just maybe reading a book in the car waiting for me. Sometimes. Sometimes I say, You got to hear this story and I'll play it as we travel. But most of the time I gather it. I take a picture, I make some notes, I upload it to the cloud and I forget about it. Over the last couple of weeks here, actually, I shouldn't even say couple weeks because Monday the summer games were done and Tuesday I start to listen to these stories again and I always hear something new because, you know, when you're doing an interview, your mind is sometimes traveling to the next question. You're not always listening to what you hear, and then you listen to it afterwards. And yeah, there's some remarkable stories in here. And again, I want to thank I want to thank all the individuals for trusting me. For me, it's purely learning. I think it's important that if I want to study cannabis, I need to know what's going on in the Rec stores. And besides, it's just a nice way to go to a town and, you know, look for ice cream, a thrift shop, a cannabis shop, a brewery, a chocolatier, a bakery.

Trevor: Well, as usual, we've forgotten to the end. But I am Trevor Shewfelt. I'm the pharmacist.

Kirk: I am Kirk Nyquist. I'm the registered nurse. And let's carry on with the theme with Dead Bob. And let's go on to No tomorrow.

Trevor: Sounds excellent.

Kirk: And this is my buddy from high school, Dead Bob. All right, Trevor, take care man.

Trevor: There's another good one.