 Alright everybody, how are we? What is going on? Welcome back to another video. In today's video we are finishing off the series we've done today. I've really enjoyed myself. I hope you guys have too. This content won't suit everybody but it does suit me because god I've had a lot of experience with weed. I really have a lot more than anyone would know or expect probably. I've kept it quiet because I've had this feeling ever since I started smoking, being that it is illegal. I felt deep down that smoking weed made you a bad person and it doesn't. Smoking weed does not make you a bad person. And so I've convinced myself of that now so I'm going to speak about it pretty openly. I have had a lot of experience and you guys will probably hear about that in future videos. But for today we're going to continue in this series and we're going to watch... oh shit! Fuck, there's a spider on me. It's called Carving on Cannabis with a Snowboard Gold Medalist and I'm assuming it's going to cover a top level athlete. Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ross Reba Gliati embraces his infamous past and embarks on a new venture. Ross was once embroiled in uncharted controversy at the 98 Olympics where he won gold and then tested positive for cannabis in their first ever snowboarding giant slalom event. In the end there was no infraction of the rules and his gold medal was reinstated. Interesting. 1998 they hadn't caught on, they hadn't made rules yet. Fast forward to today where cannabis culture and legislation has drastically changed. Ross is now the go-to guy for cannabis in athletics. He openly helms a thriving cannabis company which is a direct nod to his past, Ross's gold. Ross whisks us around Whistler showing us how he's fully embraced and integrated cannabis into his life and diet. Consuming cannabis helps to fuel his body by increasing his appetite, essentially giving him the munchies which is what this series is called and enabling him to consume the calories he needs to actively perform and function as a faster and stronger athlete. If you do have cannabis, make sure you do have food nearby because you're going to feel hungry. And that is a quote directly from our gold medallist, Ross Rabbi Gliati. Okay so this series is actually about food and so this fella has to eat a lot of food to keep up with the demands of his physical activity being a snowball gold medallist and to help with that he uses cannabis. Call it medicinal, call it recreational, we're going to watch it. But first I actually want to roll up my own, recreational unfortunately even though we doesn't make you a bad person. Joint. We've gone through two, this is the third and I'll leave it up to you to decide whether it's affected my motor skills or speech in a negative fashion. It may have, but I feel pretty damn good. So let's get this going. Should I start it? Alright. Look at that view. We're going to have a little safety meeting in the trees over there. What? They're having a safety meeting in the trees eh? So they're at the top of the mountain with a little cone in their pocket about to hit it and go snowboarding down the mountain. Can you imagine anything more fun than that? I simply can't. A little ski chair. The fuck? Let's get it off. What are they doing? I don't even know, I don't know what that is. Is that a vaporizer? Or like a dab? That's a really tiny dab thing. Vaporizer. Good luck rolling a joint that fast in the woods. Yeah I know. Fucking hell. Tell me about it. Look at the shit that I'm dealing with. Not quite as convenient as just being able to vaporize it like the way we do. Give us a bit of that. Okay. If you are going to use cannabis make sure you have some food nearby. Because you're going to feel hungry. Cannabis is definitely a performance and answer. People who do anything, any sport, any activity, any hobby can be using cannabis. And do use cannabis. So everybody has their choice to do the things that make them feel... That is very interesting. So he's just gone straight out and said cannabis is a performance and answer. Which basically means that I guess it should be disallowed in sports. Because for those who don't decide to use it. Or maybe, no, no, no. Because if it's legal then it's just like, I guess caffeine. It's just like, I don't know. What's another supplement? What's another very weak form of drug that's still allowed? Like paracetamol, ibuprofen. It's going to be on the same level as that. So if you want to use it you can. If you need to use it for whatever reason you can. But not everyone will. So I guess it's okay. It's all good and for me and for millions of people, cannabis is one of those choices. My name is Ross Trebleati and I'm the 1998 gold medalist for Giant Slalom in snowboarding. How sick, eh? I am a gold medalist. 1998 gold medalist. Well, I am kind of like a silver medalist. Got 100,000 subs, it's not too bad. First time snowboarding was at the Olympics. I'm just going to plug in this as well. That is cool though. It's the first time snowboarding was at the Olympics. You guys probably just heard that and I had to repeat it for whatever reason. Cannabis has been a way to increase my appetite and give me the munchies as they say. That's been a good thing for me because sometimes I could go the whole day without even eating. And then wake up in the morning with super low blood sugar and in a bad mood. That looks delicious. Cannabis had a lot to do with my... I can guarantee that this blender is going to be far too small to mix it up. Or maybe he's got a NutriBullet. Training in my eating habits and being able to continue doing it on a daily basis. It's a damn full cup. In a lot of ways cannabis is my fuel. I consume mostly edibles. I love the shakes because I just can't imagine in my head having to eat something that I had to chew. Just want to get it in me. I'm not making a big production out of the fact that I'm eating something. I just want to get fuel into my body the fastest way I can. He's got an eating disorder. He doesn't like eating. Look at him. He's fucking lean, isn't he? I tested positive for cannabis in the 98 Olympics in Nagano after I won the gold medal in the Giant Slalom event for snowboarding. I ended up in the Japanese police station being interrogated for the good part of the day. That caused a media frenzy and it was a pretty crazy time. We appealed the decision and lost two times and then it went to a court of arbitration where those officials just basically discovered that cannabis actually wasn't on the list of banned substances and so I was actually allowed to keep my medal. There was a lot of attention on me for all the wrong reasons and it really wore me out. By the time I got back to Canada I lost like 15 or 20 pounds or something like that. It was a stressful event and the whole cannabis thing took a long time for it to manifest to where it is today. Oh man, he would have seen the whole thing. Being embroiled in that in 1998, and here we are 20 years later, he has seen the entire shift. How interesting. This is just from one of my friend's daughters who was probably about 7 or 8 at the time after Nagano in 98. And so she drew this picture of me and got it to me and here it says, I hope my dad grows up to be like you. It just was motivation for me to like keep going. Since 98 I've had problems getting into the United States. Okay, well the first paragraph is pretty easy to figure out. Rebliati can go to Salt Lake City to see the Winter Olympics next week if he shows up at the US border with a note from his doctor saying he is drug free. That seems kind of crazy. That's fucked up. It was crazy in it. So it was like that. Snowboarding was kind of the outlaw sport back in the day and cannabis was definitely outlawed. For me to inadvertently test positive for cannabis after winning a cold medal in the sport of snowboarding that was a major controversy, I had huge anxiety over it. I didn't know if I was even going to use cannabis anymore. Look at the glasses. What I got was overwhelming and it was great but there still was a lot of people that weren't supporters. I mean it was definitely a case of politics. It was just a lot of stress and not anything that I was ready for. You know I prepared myself to win and that was about it. And it prepared myself for the day after. Yeah man, that was... jeez. Imagine that going from winning to getting your fucking medal taken off you because you get caught with some weed. God. Oh yeah in Salt Lake City was 2002 wasn't it? So that was the next one. That was what that article was about. Right now it's probably close to six in the morning. I usually wake up sometime before five even though I enjoy waking up. Medicating is part of the reason why I enjoy waking up early. It just kind of takes the edge off. If I'm stiff or anything... I don't know what that is. ...you can right away start feeling more like your muscles are loosening up and you're starting to become more flexible. I'm 43 now so it's kind of like you notice that you're not 23. These vapes are pretty much 99% of how I medicate. He's ready to go now. I use cannabis infused medicated honey for my sweetener in the coffee. I'm going to put about half a teaspoon. You get the good qualities of the coffee. That was about a teaspoon buddy. The caffeine is waking you up and getting your circulation going. The caffeine actually acts as a delivery system for the CBDs. It's been really exciting to learn how... I quite enjoy myself using both substances caffeine and cannabis together. Cannabis works with the human body because we have so many receptors in our body naturally for cannabinoids. And so when you consume cannabinoids it evens you out because you have a deficiency and so if you consume it you can top it up. They're like plugs with nothing in it. I'm not sure about that. Take that with a grain of salt but continue. So you're just playing... No sorry he's got his own business too of course. Ross is gold. Sorry. We saw it in the previous video with the NBA. They've always got a company involved. And I'm thinking I should fucking start one. Oh the plugs on your brain. Your body is made for cannabinoids. That might be a controversial one. Although I have seen YouTube channels that have been weed related, that have been terminated just this past year in the last few months. So I think YouTube is changing. I feel like the freedom of speech factor is reducing. Or at least... Well yeah, I mean most videos if you do mention something you're not supposed to it's just not monetized. But now if they're actually deleting videos and deleting channels then you've really got to look out. But let's continue. The thing to say but... It's the truth. Ross is gold. We wanted to use my name and we wanted to associate it with my Olympic performance. But my last name was just too long for everybody to recognize or be able to pronounce. And so it just turned out that Ross is gold was the name we chose. Right now we're just sticking to glass and we do have... Look at him. He's talking out to a fucking photo shoot. Yeah! Holding up a bong man. I don't know about that. I don't know. It's glorifying it. It really is. I don't know if I agree with that. I just... I don't know. Mmm... Someone's always going to be making money but... Uh, hemp products coming out in the United States. We're licensing and... I don't know if you should be standing there with a bong like that. Everything from cannabis products and... See I've never had any wax or any dabs or anything. I'd really like like a nice pure hit just to see what that's like. You know the edibles in general are... Edibles I've experimented with very very few. I'd love to try different ones. Coming down the line is what the future of the industry looks like. We're using cannabis with sports. If you're not used to the idea of using cannabis doesn't seem like the right thing to do. But once you learn about how it works... What's this? And you realize that it's definitely a good idea. So he's had his morning coffee, his morning dose and now he's in the gym. That sounds absolutely fantastic. I'm not going to lie. I got on for the cup tour and that's when I realized it was going to be a different story. I was competing against guys that were 100 pounds heavier than I was. There was no weight class. And the heavier you are the faster you can go. I had to go from like 170 to 190. I mean some people can't stop eating. I'm not like that. I can barely get food into me. Just don't feel like eating. For me the cannabis really helps. I increase the appetite and get me into the gym. Get that motivation. So he uses... This show is actually about eating isn't it? So he uses it as munchies. It'll be alright. Depending if you dose yourself properly. You don't want to have too much too early in the day. In fact I never have it in the morning because... You know... Nah, it's too early. Keep the motivation going for years on end. You know you go from high level with people cheering for you. You get that rush of being on TV and then you're done. I think a lot of athletes can get a depression. Because regular life is not the same. We're almost like soldiers in a way where what we did was so not like reality. That when you get back to reality it's just tough. So I found that I just kept working out. It's my way to kind of stay into it. Cannabis is definitely a performance enhancer. And it definitely did help me. By the time I arrived at the Olympics, years and years later, I was stronger and faster. I think that the gym is the main catalyst in staying in shape and eating. And cannabis can be a part of that healthy lifestyle. Good workout guys. That's pretty much like day 100 in a row. Doesn't look like he has too many responsibilities though. I mean that's the thing. Like you've got to be realistic. You can't be smoking weed all day just enjoying yourself all the time. You've got to knuckle down and do some serious stuff. Although if you're a professional snowboarder and that's what you do for a job and you spend your time on the mountains, there'd be nothing better than smoking weed all day. That'd be absolutely incredible. I'm actually just starting to feel the effects of the coffees that I had earlier today. When you eat something it usually takes about a half an hour to 45 minutes to start feeling it. Which is probably about as much time as we've been gone from the house right now. How long was your workout? Did you work out for like 20 minutes? What are you talking about? Look at his house though. How cool does that look? That looks awesome. For an athlete, the cause of most pain is inflammation of your joints and your muscles after a workout. You can reduce that pain and sometimes completely kill it all together through an anti-inflammatory. And if you can get that through a natural source like cannabis for example which actually has one of the strongest anti-inflammatories that have ever been found I just figured that's got to be a better source than taking an Advil for example. Okay let's go. Okay so we're heading into the main parking lot for Whistler Blackout. We're going to go park over beside Rebliardi Park. What was his name? Ross Rebligardi. What did he say? I was waiting to hear how you said it. Rebliardi okay. Rebliardi okay so the G is silent. Rebliardi. He's got his own park. He's loving life. He's about to go rip some shreds on the mountain. He's going to have a nice feed. He's got the munchies. Fucking hell I couldn't think of anything better. There's peninis. Can I have a penini? Can you do one there? Yo I know those bills. Now do you see how hungry I got after I had a couple of babes? Boom I got to eat now. I probably wouldn't have realized I was hungry until it was too late. Little blood sugar. Probably a lot of crimes were committed on low blood sugar. Doesn't your pancreas regulate your blood sugar properly? Well I guess if you don't eat much. I skied until I was 15 and then that year I started snowboarding and I never skied again. And that was 1987. I bought skis two years ago. Look at that. That's incredible. I was impressed by the advancement. I love the snow. The ski technology took, it's just different. So I've been away from skiing for 25 years and I was just so intrigued by the new technology and I still love snowboarding. It's so incredibly bright up there isn't it? I don't know about that. Isn't it so funny when you see someone skiing and they come flying off. Oh man they fall over. We used to go on ski trips with school because where I'm from Christchurch there's like five or six ski fields within about three or four hours in the winter there's a shitload of snow and if you see someone coming and they just can't stop and they just know that they're stuffed and they just have to fall over and just take the brunt of the fall and I mean as long as they don't hurt themselves it is absolutely hilarious. Good times. I'd be staying way away from the edge if it was me. But it skis the kind of thing like if you take a break you take too much time off, you kind of have to learn it again or that's what it's been like for me. But if you go for a day and then you go up the next day it's like you're sweet. But it's not quite like riding a bike. Not quite, it's a bit harder. Snowboarding's good though. Kind of this is interesting in a lot of different ways that you wouldn't expect. For example when you're going fast on skis it's actually processing things faster than it would normally which creates the illusion that things are coming at you more slowly. So it gives you more time to make decisions than you're competing for a hundredth of a second. You can't really over look anything. You're the professional athlete. Refueling time. Yeah, your knees sore. Tell them what happened Ian. I broke my femur paragliding this summer they prescribed me morphine and codeine and all these heavy painkillers and I just chopped them. I don't even mess around with that stuff. You can't feel when your injury is bothering you when you have such strong painkillers. It masks the pain. I just use cannabis as a painkiller. You still feel the pain but it makes it bearable even though you can still feel it. This will seriously help. So smooth. So smooth dude. Good to go. Retire from sport. Man I feel like I need to smoke up now. Figure out what it is that motivates them and for me it was They're off. They're racing. Winter time I skate ski so that in the summertime I can be a strong road biker right off the back but at the same time I'm road biking so that I can be fast on my skate skis in the winter. I'm just like cross training constantly for different seasons and different sports. I think cannabis is the whole reason why I have the energy to do that. People who do anything, any sport, any activity, any hobby can be using cannabis and do use cannabis.