Kevin Booth
Appearances
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
It just, of course, imploded. I mean, when I got started in this thing, $3,000 was a pound. By the time I was leaving L.A., you couldn't even get $1,000 for a pound.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
Some guy that's driving it to the east coast, he's going to drive it to the east coast and sell it for $5,000 a pound. And so every single thing happening in California was driving the price down in California.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
It's weird doing these drug war documentaries because I don't watch it for a while. And then you put it on and you're like, he's dead. Oh, he's dead. He's dead.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
I think Colorado legalized this first, right? That's when everybody in California was like, we blew it. Why? Because people in California could not agree on how to make it work.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
You've got these monster, monster indoor grow operations that are just warehouses. I mean, that are just the size of a Costco warehouse. How is anybody going to compete with that? The sad part of it is that I think a lot of this really cool, small boutique type things that made it so fun in the early days all got kind of blown out of the water.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
Oh, my God, I must have sat through 100,000 pitches about the new marijuana cryptocurrency that was going to be like the one that everyone uses. Their CBD. CBD became like the new thing where all these people that didn't really catch the wave on marijuana were going to be like, I'm catching this wave. You know what I mean? And it's like marijuana, but you don't get high. Yes. Yes.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
But you don't get medical benefits. Okay, but for me, the medical benefits are getting high.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
It's like just so crazy. It should be like a fruit stand, but it's like, oh, the marijuana's in these special glass cases. Look how fancy it is with the lighting and everything and the fancy names.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
What I loved about all those people was that they were the kings of wishful thinking. And what I hated about all those people was that they were the kings of wishful thinking. The whole thing was just based on those kind of people that would sit around getting high going on.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
I was told by people that there's this guy in Englewood that was a cancer patient and he was helping supply a bunch of other cancer patients and people that are HIV positive with marijuana. And then they bring me to this place is like, oh my God, because the first time ever in my life where I've seen name brands on marijuana and they had
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
chocolate bars that had logos on it and marijuana that had logos on it and a glass case that looked like a store and everything's packaged and logoed and marketed. It was just like, you're freaking kidding.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
You go into this, quote, doctor's visit, and he's like, are you so-and-so? Yeah. Do you have anxiety? Yeah, I guess so. Okay. That was it? Yeah, that was it. All right, bye. You're good for a year. Bye.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
Look, it's always been recreational. That was the thing. You got with these people and there'd always be like the one guy that really was sick, or maybe he's a burn victim that I knew, or just different people that really, I mean, they really needed it to get through the day, but they would be surrounded by a bunch of other people that would be like, if I don't get my medicine, I'm going to die.
Big Time
Kings of Wishful Thinking | 12
And you'd be like, what? You know, just admit you're getting high like the rest of us. I don't need the lecture about like your problems. Let's just get high. Like, it's fun, okay? Just leave it at that.