Veteran's Affairs Plus W/ David L. Washington

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Dave Washington 0:47
day, good day, good day, good day. Las Vegas. This is Veterans Affairs, plus on 91.5 jazz and more got Wes sitting over in the big house, giving me direction, keeping me on track. Appreciate you. Wes Well, well, well again, this is Veterans Affairs, plus on 91.5 jazz and more. Got a number of birthdays. I want to speak to our ancestor. My former World father in law. He's an ancestor now. William fountain, birthday is in April, Karen, my grandson this month, Patricia, Marsha's Big Sister, one of her big sisters, I should say, Metcalf, her birthday, Deborah Scott, Lisa Jones, bonika and Felicia, their birthdays. These are nieces of mine. Their mom passed away last month, and speaking of condolences and someone passing away, Ava Marie Campbell, man, she has been one of my coaches in regards to my my journey with cancer, and she transitioned just a couple days ago. And when I talked to I let her know how much I loved and appreciate all she was doing for me. Was always worried about me when we were down there going through my medical issues, making sure I was eating right. And we get me these cookies, man, these oatmeal raisin cookies was the bomb. And every so often I get some, Marsha will get me some here. But really, we're going to miss Ava, but knowing that she was a good person and a very feisty person, even to the end, they said she had a fist up at her brother earnest because of something he said. But we won't forget you even prayers to her husband are because I know you know me and Marsh was down. Was it last year? Earlier this year anyway, they were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. So we know that's that's tough times for all the family. We are going to be praying for them. So with that talk, just a little bit about before, I bring on faith. Our first guest, Edi golf tournament on April 10, here in Las Vegas, we're honoring ancestors now, Herschel Clady, Assistant Chief, Chief Deputy Chief Spike Jones, out of St Louis, and Herschel, of course, was out of LA County. But we're having a golf tournament the Carl homes executive development institute, and the purpose is to raise monies for our scholarship fund. So we are deeply honored to have this opportunity, with their folks approval, to use their names in a golf tournament to feed our scholarship program, and to mention the Carl homes, executive development, development institute, Edi. Our summer session will be June one through seven. And of course, we're at the great Dillard University. And while I speak of that, we had myself our Executive Director, Carla Holmes, and Fire Commissioner Annette Nance Holt, out of Chicago, we went down and met with President Gilderoy, what an outstanding individual she is, and we had some issues that we want her to assist us with, having her staff to take care of a number of things for us, because we love our relationship with Dillard. And again, we will be back down in our summer session, June one through seven. So with that, I'm going to bring on a wonderful friend, a long time, friend of our family, Miss Faye Duncan, Daniel, what's going on faith? Hello, chief. How are you? I am doing well. Doing well. I, in fact, I picked up four pounds over the last couple weeks, so I'm trying to get back on a good foot, but I still got 45 more pounds I need to to get to. So how you doing?

Faye Duncan Daniel 4:46
Well, you know, I You should come in with me. I can show you how to pack it up.

Dave Washington 4:53
Hey, I've been trying everything to figure so you say, eat some cake and ice cream. Eat some beans and rice and cornbread. So I've been working on so. So Faye, you've been doing a lot, you know, and I admire you so much, because when you consider the fact someone of your age, and I won't disclose, but you seem like you've caught a second win, because you're doing some phenomenal work. So give us an indication of some of the things that you've accomplished with respect to some plays. In fact, you just had one. How did it go this past weekend? You know,

Faye Duncan Daniel 5:23
David, this, thank you so much for having me on and and I just want to start off by saying thank you to you. And secondly, to thank all the veterans who serve our country with distinction, who serve our country. So thank you so very, very much for me. And as for me, David, my life, since I retired, I don't know how I could have gotten more fortunate. All I can say David is God is good to me. Yes, God has been good to me. So what I'm doing in Arkansas, I'm just trying to be an example of God's love, just because I bash every day in its glory. So I can't help but be about it, but just in terms of how that's manifested itself, it's manifested itself in my being able to take stewardship with my ego of a Mississippi River. Now, you know that takes a big ego, but, you know, I just, I grew up in this area, and I seen how, I see how it has become depleted of its natural resource. And then what means that depletion takes place now we have, we're left with the pollution and the results of that, and it's just catastrophic. So I'm trying to what my goal is to raise awareness so we can start to begin to own the river and own access and own activities, so we can spur our economic growth. Because we don't have anything else. All the COVID has been picked all the corn. Do we that nobody needs farm labor anymore. So there needs a lot of people who have traditionally been left out of the education systems and left out of the economic systems, who really are grasping for ways to make a living. So my goal is to help is to create a generation of entrepreneurs and folks who want to go out and use that river as a source of income.

Dave Washington 7:24
Interesting, we'll see we have

Faye Duncan Daniel 7:27
nothing else, right? There's nothing from here. The land depleted and and, you know, and it's contaminated, so all we have left here is the river and black talent and David there. I have been a lot of places. You know, I live in Vegas. Here for 50 years, I have never seen as much talent in one place as if you see in southern Arkansas. I mean, these you sit down with anybody, and you start playing the piano and the songs that the voices of poetry and the voices in song, and just the voices overall, it's it just defies the imagination. So you have to find ways to help people to bring that part of themselves with align that with the river, and align it with your history and to make a living. So that is, in essence, what I've been been trying to do, and now I'm starting to get so much help from the community. They're

Dave Washington 8:28
finally seeing the what an opportunity can be to because I can see it ultimately, Faye bringing commerce to the area, because, you know, you start doing plays and different things to point out to people, some of the history of us and as a people and people in general. I think people will come and just from, from your excitement, when you were explaining to me when you got I think you went over to Dallas even before this past weekend. So give, go, give our little public a taste of that, if you

Faye Duncan Daniel 8:59
would. Oh, you know, Dave, you know I, let me just say it like this, I you know, back in December for my 80th birthday that you want to tell folks about, I love you for that, I took a trip, a cruise down the entire coast of West Africa. And I can tell you that every day I woke up in that ship. I was in a different country in Africa, and it was so very exciting. It was like, this is something I want to do since I was a little girl in geography class. So I'm doing it. So I get back in January, and then I go to Dallas in February, and the gospel experience I had in Dallas, equals my trip to West Africa. Wow. Dave, the performers that we took to Texas from Phillips County, Arkansas, shut the place down. We defined what art was. We brought it. Phillips county brought it. Yeah, we look we you know, we Arkansas, you know, when we look kind of homespun, you know, we don't look like, you know, anything, right? So we get on stage and people look at us like we kind of pitiful. I got a woman that sings, oh, when she opened her mouth, we brought her house, Dave, you know what it was? It was a arts confab in Dallas, Texas. Something I did not know there was a part of Dallas, Texas, the initial part of Dallas Texas, that was started by African Americans, but, but the city who all around it did not enjoy the kind of growth that the rest of Dallas enjoyed, but so they turned into an arts district. So that's where we were in the arts district. So now my goal here is to turn this eastern Arkansas into the arts district. Oh,

Dave Washington 10:49
see you on point, Faye, that's that's what I'm talking about. You are doing great with that look. We got about two more minutes. Well,

Faye Duncan Daniel 10:56
let me just give you great time you cross that Mississippi River. I hope you see the sign. It says, Welcome to Eastern to Phillips County in eastern Arkansas, gateway to the arts community in Arkansas.

Dave Washington 11:08
Man, you got some big ideas, and I really appreciate that, because I think people are going to get to see and again, once the level that you're taking it to, to me, is going to bring commerce, and everybody wants to make some money to grow their city or their town into a better place. And I think I don't know if you guys got to be in a small town, if you got a Convention and Visitors Authority, but certainly I'd be talking with them, Faye, because I think what you're doing is going to bring so much needed revenue to your community. So look, Faye, we got another another minute to go. Time goes fast, and I can feel your energy right through the telephone. So give us a wrap up, and we'll get you back on because you're doing some wonderful things that the public needs to be aware of. Well,

Faye Duncan Daniel 11:52
you know, we're, since we had all of this came out of our our blues, our Blues and Gospel festival, right? And texting festival that we had last year. So we I'm going tonight down to City Hall to get my permit to do it again this year right on, and we're asking the city to partner with us, because they didn't last time. We were a new entity. But the objective of these gospel festivals is to reclaim the gospel festival and make it and take it back to the original intent of gospel music, and that is our way to rehumanize ourselves, and that's how we kept going nuts during that our period of enslavement. So we have sort of corrupted its meaning. So what I'm writing now, I'm writing a class for the university where we bring back the meaning of the spirituals and the blues right on, and written by a young black man who grew up a lot 200 miles south of me, named Dr James combs. He became the father of modern Thea of Black Theology, right on, liberation theology. Well,

Dave Washington 12:58
this is, this is wonderful news, Faye. This is Faye Duncan, Daniel on 91.5 jazz and more with the Veterans Affairs. I'm Dave Washington, your host, and I am so pleased to have this sister friend on Faye. We'll get you back on as we move forward in this year, toward the time that you will be doing your next event, that gospel, what's the gospel fish fry, or what gospel test fish? All right, all right. We're looking forward to it. Faye, so we'll get you back on to further promote that, because I think it's important for people to know, and we know people travel all over the country. So love you, sister, friend, and we will be in touch. This is Veterans Affairs, plus on 91.5 jazz and Bye, bye. Brother. You. Music.

Once again, this is Veterans Affairs, plus on 91.5 jazz and more. I'm Dave Washington, your host, and before we bring Mr. Frank, caucus on to give us an update on what's going on in the world of cannabis, I want to just make a couple more quick statements in regards to a number of birthdays that are occurring. China Williams, she is my God, niece out of Detroit, Michigan. Her birthday is this month. DeMarco Lewis this month, Anthony Westbrook this month, Jackie Barker this month, Hester Jackson this month. So these are some of the birthdays that we have in the month of April. And just wanted to acknowledge those folks. Mr. Frank Hawkins, what's got going on? Hawk tell us about what's happening in your world, in the cannabis business, sir. And also, Frank, would you give us an indication of how the your cultivation is going? I think it's important for our public to know.

Frank Hawkins 14:39
Okay, well, let me just start with that. Okay, marijuana is down, and everything else is up, which is not good for marijuana. So the business is meaning for the retailer, it's not good, but for the customer, it's great. Drive by and you say, Oh, my gas price is up, or you go to this. So when you say my egg price is up, you go to marijuana dispensaries say my marijuana cost is down. So so that's good for the market, but not good for the business. And by the way, the legislature is meeting, so there's all kinds of bills that are going on that are being discussed and ultimately voted on. So if you have, I'll share with you a few of the bills. Okay? And your customers are listeners, are interested, and they can just either Google it, or they can go to the state of Nevada's page for the legislature. Okay, on the bill, but there's about 1415, bills in total dealing with and some, some factor. So Bill AB 76 is Bill AB 203, I'm going to come back and talk about that a little more. Okay. AB 307, so these are all assembly bills. AB 308 that the assembly person is bringing to deal with to get a vote and change the law as it relates to whatever this issue is, as it relates to marijuana.

Dave Washington 16:11
So Frank. So these are, these are being driven by the legislators or or some driven by a lobby group that speaks for cannabis.

Frank Hawkins 16:23
So a combination of all, okay, individual legislator would have requested this bill draft and then drafted a bill. Or the state of Nevada via through the Cannabis Control Board, their folks lobbyists would have created a bill to make a change to an existing bill. And or the public and or businesses could have gone to a legislator through their either lobbyist or directly through their state senator or state assembly person to request that the bill be drafted. And then once the bill is drafted, and there's a cut off date, so these bills have to be drafted in third, and I think the date is the third. And if not, the bills fail, then they don't get heard by the legislature, assembly or Senate. Okay, so those first bills all come from members of the assembly, and the way that works is, once the bill is introduced, then it'll go over to the Senate side and get introduced, and then if a Senate Bill originates in the Senate, then it will go over to the assembly side and be heard. Okay, so, so these next bills are Senate bill, Senate Bill number 25 and then there's a Senate Bill 41 Senate Bill 81 Senate Bill 157, Senate Bill 168, and Senate Bill 198, so some that I can talk to you about that I think are important, and I haven't actually looked at them all, but the one is AB, 203, and that is a if you remember, some years ago, the legislature passed the social equity where they had 10 licenses for consumption lounges that were supposed to go to social equity. So that process happened to social equity. Companies were selected, and none of them have yet to open. There is a barrier that's prohibiting most of them, because, remember, social equity, you didn't have any experience, you didn't have necessarily, any money and lawyer or CPA,

Dave Washington 18:41
well, you know, I said to you, you have to when you told me about that, Frank, you know what I said? I said, Frank, I believe this is set up to fail. And you say, Yeah, because, look, you ain't got no money. You haven't shown that you have any money. You haven't shown that you have the Ackerman to run a business, and then they give you this temporary or allow you to apply it makes no sense to me. I think we need to do better. I'm just talking about government in general, but go ahead,

Frank Hawkins 19:09
yeah. So this bill 203, would remove that requirement of having $200,000 liquid in order to move forward. Okay, so, so that that is what AV 203, is all about. So if you're interested, the legislature also allows you to track in bills. So you can go on and sign up for 10 bills, and you'll be able to follow what is happening. You'll get notices, notifications, and you can track a bill that way. The next line that I think the public might be interested in is SB 25 that they're removing or exchanging now the state fire marshal is going to be in charge of the marijuana businesses, and having say about. What happens and how it happens, and they'll have that authority. The next one, I think is interesting, is SB 41 so that's what Department of Taxation and how the taxes are collected. So right now, when you apply for your new license or renew your license, you have to show that you're current on your taxes and paid your tax permit. Well, that has caused a problem. And in fact, at the last CCB, which is Cannabis Control hearing, there was a company that owed over a million dollars to the state of Nevada, and there were a bunch of excuses about why they hadn't paid, blaming everybody. But the end of the day, the license wasn't revoked because they're an ongoing business. So what this, this bill that I see, SB 41 does is removes cannabis patrol board so that you have to have a permit from Department of Taxation. And if your permit does not renew, then you are forced that you cannot operate. So then that's that's saying, move, removing the CCB and putting all the onus with Department of Taxation and that business, probably, based on what has happened in the past few months, I think that's probably a good idea, yeah, probably

Dave Washington 21:15
gives them more teeth to do something, because you're saying under the control board, and how are they selected that that whole group of individuals through

Frank Hawkins 21:23
the governor, through whoever the operating governor is, and they have changed it so that you did, you have to have some expertise in a specified field. They relating to cannabis industry. So that's a good thing as well.

Dave Washington 21:39
And Frank, let me go back to the fire marshal and his authority. I'm trying to figure out, how does that give a little bit more detail on that view, if you have, if you know more about what the Fire Marshal's authority will be as it relates to cannabis, because I find that very odd to me as a former fire service professional. Well,

Frank Hawkins 22:00
right now I can tell you that we don't see the fire department because all of that is subbed out the third party. So those third parties have to come out and test the sprinklers and test the systems, and then they report to a county you know, in that area, okay, okay. Basically, they're given there's somebody going to be responsible that has the authority,

Dave Washington 22:31
okay, I can see that if they're coming, yeah, they're coming in and testing the the sprinkler system. I can see that part for sure, because that's important, yeah,

Frank Hawkins 22:39
it won't be the state fire marshals. I think is going to continue to be the third party. I think the responsible party that you, that you report to, is going to change. Okay.

Dave Washington 22:49
All right, got it, yeah. All right. Important. So what else going on with you?

Frank Hawkins 22:53
Yeah, let me give you a couple more. Okay, this that thinks important to the industry is SB 157 now this, this deals with how much weight marijuana in pounds you can have tested at one time. Right now it's five pounds per life. They want to move it up to 50 pounds per life. So that is important for a lot of different reasons, because of the amount of money it cost you. Because if you grew 1000 pounds and you got to test them in the five pound lots, it's going to cost you a lot of money at $375 per test. So they're trying to increase the amount that is tested and reduce the price at the same time. That will be an interesting watch, because also, there's some issues about failed marijuana flower and how that is tested and or how it's radiated and not told to the public about the fact that it has been radiated. So hopefully that will drill down and address some issues where in the past, the CCB had an opportunity to protect the public, but they elected not to. So once again. Anyway, yeah, there's a bunch of laws. There's another one, SB, 198 which deals with labor, but for the most part, if you're interested in marijuana and watching how the system on a state level works, it'd be a good opportunity to get dialed in. You can track in 10 bills for free and and make comment and make public comment or written comment.

Dave Washington 24:30
Excellent. Once again, this is Veterans Affairs, plus on 91.5 jazz and more. I'm Dave Washington, your host. I have local businessman mister Frank hawk and just giving us an update on what's going on in the cannabis industry. Go ahead. Hawk.

Frank Hawkins 24:43
Okay, so other than that, it's slow motion. We are, oh, there are. Last time I was on, I talked to guys about consumption lounges that got passed. And there's, there's about four of them open in Southern Nevada. I don't know. About northern Nevada. But again, because of the market and we have, I want people to be very careful. There is what they're selling in all these head shops and and places where you can go about marijuana paraphernalia. They are selling a product and they're called, they're calling it, it's really a CBD that that they are selling as EHC and and they're spraying in marijuana and making folks sick. So if you or know anybody that is buying weed and is not from a licensed state of Nevada Cannabis Control Board and a retail establishment don't buy it that they have all of these shops opening up. And again, it's not real THC. And if you ask them on the package to show you one good source, THC is going to be over 44% so if that package anywhere says is less than 4% don't care what they tell you, it's not, not EHC, it's a CBD, so folks coming from out of town don't know that they're selling this product all over the country. If I have more time, I could explain to you how it works and how it's happening, but maybe on the next, next time I could give you more details.

Dave Washington 26:20
Oh, no, that's appreciated, because I think once again, there are those of us to include me. I use the gummies, ladies and gentlemen, because with my health condition, I have lost a tremendous amount of weight, and I can tell you, the gummies do work. I might get up at three o'clock in the morning looking for something to eat, and yesterday, when I was infected, some beans and cornbread.

Frank Hawkins 26:43
That's right, that's right. It's good for you. Absolutely.

Dave Washington 26:45
Yes, sir. So how is everything going with your cultivation? And we got about two,

Frank Hawkins 26:52
yep, cultivation is good. We're growing. We created our own strains, and our goal is to be the best at what we can do to supply our two dispensaries, Nevada Wellness Center, West Nevada Wellness Center, but it has been an experience being a cultivator, because now we are creating what The end user is smoking and, oh, there's something else that's out there about radiation and radiating weed, which is another big issue. I'll talk more about that, because the legislature is in session, so hopefully they'll pick that item up. But if you, if you radiate your weed so it passes the test, there should be a notice on the weed to the public, just like FDA, if somebody's done something that's on the package, if you don't read it, then it's your own fault. But not to put it on the package, not to notify the public, is irresponsible.

Dave Washington 27:52
Well, Mr. Hawkins, we appreciate you Hawk for coming in and giving us an update on what's going on in cannabis industry. And our friend and fellow board member with me, Chief Eugene Campbell, will be hosting for me next week, as I will be out So Frank, thank you, man, and we'll get you back on again, because I think it's always important for us to get an update on the industry. So appreciate your time, particularly in short notice, because I had a guest to cancel this morning. Frank jumped in. I appreciate you, man, anytime. All right, thanks hawk. Thank you. Okay, Veterans Affairs, plus on 91.5 jazz and more. Thank you. Wes, we are out, and we'll talk to you next Week. Oh,

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