 And this is cannabis chronicles. A 10,000 year odyssey. So tell me, Muse, of that plant of many resources, which wonder far and wide the ancient plant of food, fiber, fuel, cultivated for millennial. As we venture through the past 10,000 years, we will explore and discover the plant from which cannabis derives. The many uses of the plant, hemp, cannabis, ashes, cannabis and religion, cannabis and medicine, cannabis and dear old Uncle Sam. And so the odyssey begins. Today, our odyssey is not long ago and far away. It is in progress. It is now. And so today, we will visit with friends. And as you all know, I only talk to dear friends. So here is my dear friend, Jennifer Inouye, and you've all met Jennifer before. And now a new best friend is Lionel Wright. And he calls himself the black Hawaiian. Yeah, from Papakalea, you should be Hawaiian, right? Anybody born and raised in Papakalea. And for anybody that doesn't know where Papakalea is, it is a very old, ancient Hawaiian homestead. So it's up near the punch bowl, the National Cemetery of the Pacific. So that's where Papakalea is. Okay. And today, we are going to talk with these two illustrious people about an event that Lionel has put together so that we can learn more about all these wonderful products. Lionel, so talk to us about you and this event you're having and why and all of that kind of stuff. So talk to me. All right. Thank you. First of all, thank you very much for having me on the show. Really appreciate it. And so, you know, that being said, this event, first of all, the title itself is a mouthful. It's called Hawaii's first ever CBD sample sale and educational. And the reason why it has that name is because we want to be able to sell some products, but we also want to be able to educate the public. The event is happening this Friday. It's going to be on March 15th. It's going to be over at artistry nightclub from 5 to 9 or from 5 to 10 p.m. Excuse me. Where is artistry nightclub? So artistry nightclub, for those of you who don't know, it's right located in the Kakaako area. So like, you know, for those of you that been in Hawaii for a while, you know, nowadays we don't have rumors nightclub anymore for like, you know, special occasions and fundraisers. Artistry nightclub is kind of that new space now. So they're a nightclub, but there is space that you could rent for special events and stuff like this. And so that's where we're going to have the event. They're right in Kakaako. They have some parking there, free parking on the street, but they also have valley service as well. So excuse me, where in Kakaako, the streets? It's right on Cook Street, and Pohukaina is the crossroads. So it's right, maybe about a block away from the UFC gym. Sorry about that. Yeah. Okay. So if you are going down, what is it, Nuanu? Down to Pohukaina? Yes. And you could actually from, well, I think it's too far away. You got to come more over past the, like we're closer to Ward Avenue. Closer to Ward. Okay. All right. Good. So what is going to happen at that event? So at that event, what we have is we have a bunch of CBD vendors. And it's not only like products to take. We also have other products as well, you know, as far as our company's apparel as well. So excuse me. And so the whole idea with this event is that I wanted to put something together where people could come and ask questions, you know, and find out more about, you know, not only the products, but also find out about the company. You know, I believe here in Hawaii, you know, there's a lot of people that are wanting to learn more. And so they kind of feel intimidated, you know, they don't want to go to anything, or it's hard to go out to somewhere, you know, to find out information. And so CBD, you know, people want to know, but I'm hoping that people will come out. So that's what this whole, you know, the whole event is about is just kind of bringing a bunch of good business owners together, a lot of local guys, and then some of the mainland people will be there as well, and just being able to converse and talk with the public. So the people will be able to talk to the vendors? Yes. And actually, during this event, the vendors will actually have time and they'll be on the microphone as well. So, you know, they'll be kind of talking about their personal situations and what's going on. And, you know, the thing about CBD is that not all CBD is created equally, you know, and there's a lot of education that needs to happen. And so that's why this event is very important. And right now the time is now, I think, because everybody's looking at the cannabis industry, you know, they're looking at the business. But, you know, people need to understand how it works and understand that there's more than just THC. You know, CBD is a very good thing. You know, and the more people learn, the more they will know whether it's something that they can take or something that's for them or not, you know, or for their loved ones, you know, for paying or whatnot. So, Jennifer, Jennifer Inouye, if you may remember a couple years ago, she was with us and Jennifer by trade, I think I got this right, is a software architect. She was one of those that created the cloud where we all kind of now take for granted that everybody has stuff in the cloud. So, she comes from this incredible background of education and so we wanted Jennifer to talk to us about what is CBD? What is cannabidiol? What are all of these things? How does it work? And that's why we've asked Jennifer to come back. That was a great conversation that we had. It was. It was. And before we go too far with Jennifer, Jennifer made these incredible Losingers. That's this one. Okay. This Losinger, this beautiful little package. So, after that show, she gave me the package. Now, my husband is a bit, I was a veteran, and he has the residuals of Agent Orange. So, he loves these things. It gives him, it calms him. He feels comfortable with it. And all of this stuff that he has going on, it really makes a difference in how he sleeps and how he feels during the day. That's wonderful to hear. Thank you for sharing that. Yes. So, that, no, I don't get a cut back. I don't get a, I don't own any piece of the product. Okay. Yeah. But that is after we had you the first time, and we started talking about this, and we tried. Now, one more thing about CBD and Jennifer, we were at the Senior Thayer in Waikiki Community Center. So, Jennifer comes in with this beautiful bowl and the Losingers. Losingers, right? So, the two of us walked around all the seniors and gave them one or two. Then, they all circled back for more. What is this? What is it? They didn't ask. They didn't ask. They didn't ask. They just took it, and then somebody else said, oh, that's the Costco syndrome. The Costco syndrome, right? Yes. They just took it, yeah, and then came back for more. Right. Yeah. They were coming back around and said, what is this? Maybe I have some more. Why is this working better? Right. Yeah. It was great. It was great. So, that's just to give you a background of being with Jennifer and her products. Now, since then, she has created a whole line of products. So, tell us what we have. Okay. I'd love to, and thank you again for the opportunity. The Losingers, which Marcia just spoke about previously, these are probably the best-of-most-selling product. CBD taken sublingually, which is in your mouth, has a much faster effect rather than ingesting it through your stomach, which, of course, it has to go through your stomach acids and it has to be processed through your liver. So, it takes longer as well to be effective when you take it and you swallow it. So, when you dissolve that in your mouth, you get the sublingual effects immediately. So, that's probably the best-selling product that I have. The second is probably the CBD oil, which is very common. It's a new addition on these bottles. I don't know if you can see it very well in the camera, but I do have dosing on the bottles as well, which is very helpful. How much CBD per drop? Per drop. Yes, even per milliliter per drop and, of course, in the whole bottle. That one's been very effective. As a matter of fact, I use the 1500 milligram. I use that in the morning. I take one milliliter in the morning to maintain my own homeostasis. So, what? My own homeostasis, which is the homeostasis, is getting back to center, essentially. So, getting back to a healthy start. We can go on to CBD on a rural session. So, a vape is another interesting way of consuming CBD. So, you're vaporizing it, so it's hitting your lungs. So, that's one way of getting it into your system continuously. Again, it's not always discreet, so I often supplement with the CBD, sorry, the wasanges, because you can keep that in your purse. You can take it whenever. Right. Great before meetings. Body butter, this is amazing. So, this is a body butter. I don't use any waters in any of the products. I try not to add any chemicals, so it's all natural. It typically lasts about a year because of that. So, the body butter is wonderful. It's great for scarring, wonderfully nutrition, nutrient rich, and has also 200 milligrams of CBD in it as well. I do lip scrub. We have a wonderful face serum. We have an edible massage oil that was left over from Valentine's Day. Oh, my. Okay. And, of course, CBD rub. This CBD rub here is a go-to product. As a matter of fact, I did put some on my legs this morning as I ran up the stairs in a hurry and left a nice little bruise there. It's great for topical application. You know, you're going to the gym. It's just something I keep on hand and use often. Use it for burns. If you get burned, quickly get it under cold water to pull the heat out and put a little skim of the CBD rub on there, and it should help prevent blistering and scarring. Very good. Takes the inflammation right out. And, of course, the bathing. Best way of conceiving CBD is to soak in it. It's great for that time of the month for women. It's great if you've got just issues of your sore from a long hike, things like that. Soaking in Epsom salts, and then the addition, of course, of the CBD and some essential oils. Okay. Now, what is CBD? We keep throwing that around like everybody knows what it is. What is CBD? So, what part of the cannabis is CBD? So, CBD is short for cannabidiol. Cannabidiol is one of many cannabinoids. CBD can be found in cannabis, but all of these products are used from CBD, which was derived from hemp. And the reason for that is I wanted to make sure I had a product that had no THC in it whatsoever. And I go so far as to get, this is a lab analysis from a local lab called Steep Hill, and I wanted first to verify the formulation. And this tells me that it's basically 9.8 milligrams of CBD, 0% THC. So, this lets me know that, A, I got the formulation right, and the actual contents. There's no THC in here, and the amount of actual CBD per milligram per losage. And everybody should ask for this. When they're researching CBD these days, they should really be asking, what's in it? How was it derived? Was it from cannabis? Was it from hemp? And the other lab analysis I have here is from the CBD itself. It came off a hemp plug, which tells me it's 99.2% total cannabinoids. So, in short, CBD is one of many cannabinoids, the primary ingredient in all of the elixivel products, and one of the most beneficial cannabinoids. Okay, now cannabinoids react or act with the body how? What makes them, what makes the body accept them without any issues? The mechanics at work. The mechanics at work. Right. So, we have inner bodies, something called an endocannabinoid receptor. We actually produce cannabinoids endogenously. As a matter of fact, if you are breastfeeding, you are, you have cannabinoids in your breast milk, which is kind of fascinating in itself. So, we have these endocannabinoid receptors. We have them on our skin. We have them in our brain. We have them throughout our body, which is why we can put on a topical and we can receive the medicine topically that way. So, with the endocannabinoid receptors, depending on the cannabinoid, we'll determine how and where it does its work. So, cannabidiol, cannabidiol in particular, works to, in the case of inflammation, it will prevent an inflammation response. So, in the case of a burn. So, the body knows. It's, the body's familiar with it, I guess, is that? Right. So, like we've got this message bus. Again, I'm kind of referring to my career side here. It's like we have this message bus in our system. It's like a motherboard and we've got the system of messages that are constantly going on. And I believe that over time, all the crap that we fed ourselves results in things like not being able to purge garbage, like leftover hormones, for example. Right. So, cortisol is a response. A heart attack. Heart attack is a response. A hormone response and you get a flood of hormones racing through your body after trauma. So, I think, I believe that we're not as efficient as cleaning that out. So, I'm finding that CBD is something, again, helping me get it back to a homeostasis. Wow. Okay, we need to take a break. And we will come back and learn more about being a homeostasis. Did I get it right? In the state of homeostasis. Okay. All right. So, we'll be right back. Aloha and welcome to At the Crossroads. I'm your host, Keisha King. I'm live at five every Wednesday, where we have entertaining and educational conversations that are real and relevant, both here in Hawaii and across the globe. I'll see you at the Crossroads. Aloha. Hey, Aloha. My name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii airing every Wednesday here on Think Tech Hawaii, live from the studios. I'll bring you guests. I'll bring you information about the things in security that matter to keeping you safe, your co-workers safe, your family safe, to keep our community safe. We want to teach you about those things in our industry that may be a little outside of your experience. So, please join me because security matters. Aloha. Aloha. I'm Marcia, and we're back with my new best friend, Lionel Wright. And of course, an old standard here. I guess she's not old. And Jennifer Inoy. And so, we are talking about an event that's going to happen on the 15th of March, the Ides of March. It's an interesting time. And it is called the Hawaii's first ever CBD sample and educational. Right. Okay, Lionel. So, talk to us. Tell us what it is that we're going to see, what's going to happen, how we can participate. All right, great. So, like she said, the title is called the Hawaii's first ever CBD sample sale and educational, happening this Friday over at the RDC nightclub from 5 to 10 p.m. And basically what we're looking to show there is what we're going to showcase different local vendors here in Hawaii that are doing different CBD products. There's so many different types of products. And you know, the thing is this is like we had shared earlier with Jennifer is that she actually has documented proof on where the origin of her CBD comes from and the quality of that. And so that's what this event is all about, really is trying to, I guess, educate the public and get them to know that not all CBD is created equal. There's different types of things going on. And I know for, I think it's the FDA, right, is coming out with some regulations for CBD as well. And so with that, you know, they're actually looking to regulate that some hallway shape or form. And that's probably for another conversation coming up. That's scary. But you know, Coca Cola is now putting CBD in their drinks, right? Yes, big farmer is right. And I believe that FDA kind of wants to try and get ahead of that and set some standard compliance down, which isn't bad itself. But, but doing regulations, when you don't know the product, when you don't know, because, you know, because they've spent so many years saying this is bad. And now they've got to so many, so many studies out there and over 90% of them are just on safety. Yes, not the efficacy. Well, the idea that and anybody that wants to go look 1949, the original patent on marijuana is owned by Uncle Sam. And it tells if you read the patent, which I have, which we've done, it says all the things that it cures all the medical elements that THC is used for. Yes. Right. And they are the ones that banned it. Yeah. But that's a different story. Yeah. So the fact that this part of it is just gone crazy, just wild people are just loving it. And I don't think that there's a way to put a lid on that. Right. Putting them in the cap. You can't put it back in the bottle. Yeah. Well, they're a little late to the party on trying to, I think trying to regulate one because it's so popular. And just cannabis business in general way now is really big. You know, I mean, you could talk to so many people out there, friends and family, everybody's trying to learn about, where can I invest? You know, how can I put money into the cannabis industry? And you know, the crazy thing is in Hawaii, you know, not to mention everywhere else, it's more than just the flower or the plant. There's many other support industries that can happen. And this is just kind of one of the many things, you know, with the CBD. And this is why we have made this event is that I feel like it's really important because there's a lot of light on the industry. And now we need to start educating people. Right. Disambiguate products. And just to understand this is that not everybody can take CBD products because depending on what type of business or company that you work for, you know, they might have a zero tolerance and you may end up losing your job or losing benefits. And I've actually heard of horror stories like this happening. And that's what with THC, yes, so you get a Dirty P test. But with CBD? There is a there is a public case that's there was a hemp company, a CBD product, a CBD oil product. And there was somebody that claimed that they failed a drug test. Now the thing about a drug test, if you're just going to test for THC, and you're just taking CBD, there's no reason why you would fail that. But some companies will test for all cannabinoids, not just one cannabinoid being THC. It's a more expensive test. So companies typically probably won't do it. But they may not disclose whether they're testing just for a singular cannabinoid or many cannabinoids. Yeah. And so if we're to blanket say that people will not fail a drug test would would be false statements. Right. Right. And so I have told been told that the THC stays in the body for several months. A couple weeks for sure. But yeah. So that surprised me if according to lab results, or what they tell lab for references, 30 days. That's what THC is. Yeah. So that if you are taking medical for whatever reason, you're taking the medical, and then, you know, you have an accident, now they're going to charge you because they don't understand that this medicine stays in. Right. And unfortunately, we kind of have to go through those cases. Yes. To get to some kind of test that can tell whether you have something immediately in your system as opposed to an edible that you took the night before. All four months, a month ago. Right. Two weeks ago, for example. Yes. Right. And if you have a prescription. Right. Yeah. And you have a card and it's legal. Right. But just like a prescription, any prescription, there's responsibilities to it. Because if you take something that makes you sleep, you can't take it before. No, no, I'm not saying that it would make you sleep. I don't know that. But what I'm saying is that if, okay, so you did this a month ago, and now you have an accident, and even if it's not your fault, and they test you, then they say, oh, well, here's your cannabis in your system. So you're at fault. Right. I almost think we have to go through some of those cases in order to set things right with and have this is going to become a part of our society. So we have to learn how to adapt to it. And that is going to mean probably taking more accurate tests, if it's currently active in your system versus being stored in your system. Well, the police department, I read that article with a police chief, and she didn't want to hear that. She just said, nope. No, we're not having it. This is... Right. Unfortunately, the kind of closed mind that will get us into some of that hot water. But again, maybe we have to go through some of those cycles and issues in order to get to the root. I would like, since you're doing this, and yes, I'm going to tell you what I want. Yes. I think that the more educational projects you do, the more that kind of information gets out. Right. The more, or even invite the chief of police, if you... Love to have a conversation. Right. How are we going to tackle this? Yes. Right. Yeah. If I'm driving three weeks later, how would you suggest that I handle it? How should I present myself in those cases? It would be great conversations to have. Yes. And even with people with diabetes, if they have a sugar attack, what about them? How do you handle that? I think that while we're off the track, we need to talk to... The police department needs to be a part of the education. Right. Yes. Legislation as well. And where something interesting is that when you pose that question, this is the answer. We have a website for that. And for me, I love that answer because that means that information is everywhere and you can grab your phone and find it. But the thing is this, we're humans. We still long for that human interaction. And some people still like to talk to people one-on-one to get info. And that's what this is all about. Because, I mean, I don't know if you folks remember, but back in the old days when there were text mail, when you could page somebody, the thing about paging and texting and even emailing is that there's no emotion connected to it. There's no context. So you don't know the context of where it's coming from. So even though they can put words on a paper or words on a screen, it's all about meeting that person. And with a lot of these people that we'll be bringing out to this event, the owners, it's not about only the product, but it's about the passion. It's about the why, like why did Jennifer get involved to do this? Because like we talked about earlier, she has a great set of skills that she could do anything else, but she's doing this. Why? Because everybody has a why. And that's what this is all about. When you come to the show, you're going to meet people like Jennifer. You're going to feel that passion and you're going to find out the why. Okay. We're just about out of time. So one more time, the name of the event, time and place. All right. Hawaii's first ever CBD sample sale and educational. It's happening this Friday, March 15th over at the artistry night club. It's over at 461, I believe, Cook Street over in Kakaako. And for you, if you guys need to get information as far as tickets, it's on eventbrite.com. Tickets are actually just five dollars. But if you got your 329 card, you're currently a medical patient, you can just get that card to get in free. You show us a current card. Or if you have a BYOC Hawaii shirt, like I'm wearing here, which are actually sold in different areas around town, you wear the shirt to get in free as well. And so the last thing is this, this is one of more to happen. So please keep your eyes open and your ears open and expect to see more educational like this. Wonderful. Well, thank you so much. It's been a real pleasure spending the time with you. And we'll see you on Friday. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.