California

“Plain Grid's used to build all, ah, in California, most, most hospitals, most jails, most heavy civil road work were used on all the tech campuses, all of the different government buildings that go up.”

“33% of the state that has some form of local laws, and then 67% of the state that has no laws whatsoever. And because of that, you have this disconnect between state law where you can get your permits, but you can't get a permit unless you get your local permi…”

“I mean, 90% of the shops are mom and pop right now in California.”

“Last year we probably did three billion dollars in medical sales. This year we'll probably do as much of that in adult use sales and medical will be a fraction of that. Maybe, you know, half a billion if we get there.”

“A couple years ago including the black market, 80% of the cannabis in the United States came out of California”

“I when we first started this we had a friend who basically ran, like, a pre-roll company that was distributing across California, and prior to regulation, this year is very much just like a backpacking industry where people would deliver their own products to …”

“I think part of the whole like consolidation pattern that will Come just because the market's so fragmented right now will be heavily pressurized by Canadian like publicly traded, heavily capitalized companies. Just because they're coming in and they're buying…”

“Although we're currently in California, we actually have to set up a different legal entity in each state so that we segregate out our business so it's not interstate commerce and, you know, basically expand that way from state to state, and then have, like, a…”

“There is something that happens in twenty-twenty-three with the laws that allow that removes a one-acre cap. you know, right now, if you're growing, you have a one-acre cap that you can grow in. However, people have been doing stacking, so they get a bunch of…”

“And in that this iteration, there was a proposed reg on allowing delivery operators to deliver anywhere into the state, even in prohibited areas, which is in contention with the chiefs of police, the league of cities that California definitely prides itself on…”

“No one can move product between two different license entities without a distributor. So even if you're just like a farm moving your product to a manufacturer, you have to contract out a distributor or get your own distributor's license in order to move it.”

“Like a single auto policy that we sell in California, the average premium is something like 1600 dollars. Just as a distributor of insurance, never mind underwriting or the, you know, moving down the margin stack. You know, we earn anywhere between 203 hundred…”

“In California, we have no enforceable non-competes, so the big tech companies all got together in secret with the big entertainment companies and agreed that they wouldn't hire each other's employees, top employees.”

“In California we have CEQA, which is totally abused by the environmental lobby to stop all innovation and building housing, by the way.”