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This week we are joined by Adam Young Development Officer for Realm of Caring to discuss :
- How Realm provides Support for those in Need
- Powerful customer stories and the heroes guiding them
- How they are helping change the Cannabis Stigma
About Realm of Caring :
Through research and education, Realm of Caring (RoC) is facilitating the mainstream acceptance of cannabinoid-based therapies and building an empowered community. RoC is committed to research into novel healthcare options to improve quality of life. The organization leverages a deep bench of experience and leads with compassion to provide trusted resources, create support and build community for all who seek it. The 501(c)(3) high-impact independent public charitable organization has served tens of thousands of families and healthcare professionals since its inception in 2013.
At Eighth Revolution (8th Rev) we provide services from capital to cannabinoid and everything in between in the cannabinoid industry.
8th Revolution Cannabinoid Playbook is an Industry-leading report covering the entire cannabis supply chain
The Dime is a top 50 Cannabis Podcast
Contact us directly at [email protected] Bryan Fields: @bryanfields24 Kellan Finney: @Kellan_Finney
[00:00:00]Bryan Fields: What’s up guys. Welcome back to the episode of the dime I’m Brian Fields. And with me as always is Kellen Finney. And this week we’ve got a very special guest Adam Young of realm of caring, Adam, thanks for taking the time. How are you doing?
[00:00:14]Adam Young: Thanks guys. Amazing. Couldn’t be better. I’m loving. The springtime is here.
[00:00:18] It’s finally trying to turn the corner, so I’m just enjoying to get out, get, uh, spends more time outdoors.
[00:00:25]Bryan Fields: That’s Carolyn, are you excited to talk to another west coaster? Yeah. Yeah, I am actually,
[00:00:30]Kellan Finney: I’m excited. He brought the energy. That’s a, I like that answer. You know what I mean? I’m doing well too. It’s a beautiful day out here in Colorado and spraying.
[00:00:37] You can’t really complain. How are you, Brian? How’s the weather.
[00:00:40]Bryan Fields: It’s very warm actually. So it’s nice that we’re having great weather and we’re going to have a very, very wonderful conversation today about a different style conversation. I don’t think it’s kind of spoken about enough. So, so Adam for our listeners can give it a little background about you and how you got into the Canada.
[00:00:55]Adam Young: Yeah, sure. Thanks for asking. Um, yeah, so my name’s Adam Young, I’m [00:01:00] a development officer in care specialist at the realm of caring foundation. Um, we’ll get into a little more of that in a minute. Um, but how I got involved in the cannabis industry is in 2013, my mom was dying. With multiple myeloma cancer.
[00:01:14] And she was living in Seattle and at the time I was in Chicago and I asked her if she wanted some help on this single child, she was divorced. So, you know, she was on her own out there and, uh, she wanted to help. So I just packed all my stuff into storage and drove out there. Um, and so by the time I got out there, I would say it’s about two to three months after her diagnosis and start of, uh, formal treatments through the.
[00:01:40] Uh, facilities, Seattle cancer care unit and university of Washington, great folks over there. Um, but unfortunately, you know, about three months into it, her body, and, um, she had lost like the third of her weight. She was lying in bed all day. She really wasn’t living life. And I saw like right away, I’m like, we’ve got to look for something else, [00:02:00] either that can compliment what treatments she’s getting or look for different treatments, something to help her.
[00:02:06] She just, I knew that wasn’t a long lasting, um, position that she was in. And so did a lot of research. I was actually, uh, volunteering for another nonprofit organization, um, actually out of California called the human solution, which they support individuals who have been locked up with agregious and sentences for non-violent cannabis related activity.
[00:02:27] Um, and through that group, I heard about this guy out of Canada, making cannabis oil for a bunch of people. Um, and his name was Rick Simpson. And so, uh, found out about that. Gentleman did a deep dive on research, uh, both Ford and against it and kind of presented it to my mom. And that way, you know, here’s some information for it.
[00:02:45] Here’s some information against it. What do you think? And, uh, after some, you know, time to consider it, she decided that’s the road. She wanted to take her at least try it. And so we went through our oncologists, we told her about the plan. I’d come up with a whole, you know, I found [00:03:00] the Rick Simpson protocol.
[00:03:01] And so. Step-by-step directions on kind of how to start incorporating it. And we showed this to our oncologists, then, you know, more or less, she was like, Hey, cool story. But, uh, if you do that, we’re not going to work with you. So we, she, you know, my mom had a really tough decision to make and ultimately she decided, Hey, I want to try this cannabis oil.
[00:03:19] And this is coming from somebody who smoked pot once in high school and that’s it. Right. And she’s in her sixties and, you know, Um, she decided to do it. The oncologist said cool story, but sent us on our way. And so we kind of had to figure everything out for ourselves. Um, and about three months after her starting cannabis oil and kind of detoxing and the chemo and radiation, those types of things out, it was like, somebody hit it flipped the switch, man.
[00:03:43] It was great. She started, uh, she was more active. She was out of bed. She was eating, she gained almost. You know, third of a weight back. And it was just like, you know, she was back to living a full life again. And ever since I saw that, that’s just, I’ve been on a journey ever [00:04:00] since. Um, I mean, we were traveling, we were moving and, you know, every chance we got, we celebrated that, that newfound quality of life.
[00:04:08] Again, it’s such
[00:04:10]Bryan Fields: a powerful story and I really appreciate you sharing that. And I, there has to be some sort of like internal feelings when you’re going through that wonderful. Is this going to work? Is this going to help my mom and then to come out on the other side and to see make such an impactful difference for her?
[00:04:23] It’s it’s gotta be eye opening for you. And I know it had realm of caring to do a lot of that conversations with others and kind of help lighten them up and, and share that experience. Can you kind of take us through what your role is at realms?
[00:04:34]Adam Young: Yeah, absolutely. Um, so, uh, when I first, uh, came to Rome McCarran, I was a care specialist.
[00:04:40] And so what a care specialist does, it’s someone who offers free guidance and support to anybody across the globe that wants to learn more about. And so, you know, I saw that like the job description on indeed or whatever it was, and I was like, whoa, I can get paid to do this and help other people just like my mom.
[00:04:58] And, you know, [00:05:00] everybody’s heard of the Charlotte’s web story and the little girl with epilepsy and how they can help to control her seizures when nothing else did. So, uh, it was like a dream job. I’m like, Please I can get paid for it. All right, let’s do this. Um, and so that, that was my main role as a care specialist.
[00:05:15] Literally, anybody can call us from across the globe and we’ll offer guidance and support free of charge, uh, to anybody that calls.
[00:05:23]Kellan Finney: That’s awesome. So realm of caring is a
[00:05:25]Bryan Fields: 5 0 1 C nonprofit. Is
[00:05:28]Kellan Finney: there any difference is running a 5 0 1 C non-pro. With it being cannabis focused versus another entity. Do you guys kind of have the same issues with like banking and, and other, uh, problems that the plague, the industry operators?
[00:05:43]Adam Young: Absolutely. Uh, it’s very difficult for us to find payment gateways. It’s very difficult for us to be promoted on Facebook, Instagram, et cetera. It’s not because we deal cannabis. We’re non-profit we don’t, we don’t sell it, distribute [00:06:00] it researching and educating research, education and community support and some advocacy in there too.
[00:06:05] Of course, but because the word cannabis is on our website, it throws everything out the window. There’s one bank in our local town that we’ve been in for 10 years, almost nine years in existence. One bank that we can go to
[00:06:19]Bryan Fields: at SU so ridiculous. Right? Because like every single person can look at that. Well, they’re not touching the plant.
[00:06:25] We have nothing to worry about, but at the same part, everyone’s like illegal, nothing we can do. And I think that’s like such a sad way to operate, right? If every single person can agree that this is fine, we should be able to kind of make adjustments to certain processes. But I guess that’s not how the thing works, but I want to stay on the conversations.
[00:06:41] What are some of those conversations like with the individuals and who is calling up? Is it a person asking about themselves or about.
[00:06:49]Adam Young: That’s a great question, Brian. Thank you. Um, so when we started out, um, you know, I’ll just give you a little background on realm Macquarie, and this will help tell the story a little bit more on, on [00:07:00] who we, who we help in, who, who we assist.
[00:07:02] Um, realm of caring was started by two mothers whose kids had a very intractable epilepsy by coincidence. They just had the same hospice nurse that got them in touch. Um, once this little girl, Charlotte Figi um, found relief Through a non-psychoactive version of cannabis, it’s now called Charlotte’s web. Uh, the namesake of, uh, that product is Charlotte Figi Um, and that was after 17 pharmaceuticals were exhausted. And, uh, she was sent home on hospice care because at six years old and you’re having hundreds of seizures a week, your body can only take so much. And after exhausting, all of the pharmaceuticals. You know, she was sent home on hospice and fortunately her mom page found some research Isreal and then one way or another, she found these brothers that were in Colorado that had this strain of cannabis called the hippies disappointment.
[00:07:53] Um, and it wasn’t getting anybody high. And so Paige knew that. it’s because of the [00:08:00] low THC, it was, you know, she wanted to try that for Charlotte. And the first time they put it in her mouth, she stopped season. I mean, it’s, you know, and this happened to Heather, our other co-founder her, son’s a Kai same thing, literally the same situation, just two different kids.
[00:08:16] And they both had the success on the first try. And so that’s kind of where the CBD. Um, story started in Colorado and then once Sanjay Gupta and CNN did their documentary series, that kind of blew it up. Right. And so, um, when we started, it was a lot of people. First of all, when we started there, wasn’t the hemp bill.
[00:08:39] So the only way to get CBD was to drive to Colorado or drive to California or somewhere where it was legal. And then you’d have to smuggle it back to your state. So we started as a repository, just taking names and making sure we’d have the oil ready for people when they drove out here. And so, um, to get to your question, um, we started by helping a lot of parents who were [00:09:00] calling on behalf of their kids And I would say about three. So right around the time of the hemp bill, little after the hemp bill, um, that slowly started shifting from parents, calling us to more of the aging or retired community started calling us. They weren’t so scared anymore. They saw the hemp bill, they started learning more about it and things like that.
[00:09:20] So I would say right now it’s probably half and half, which is really encouraging, um, uh, for parents to call us and then individuals that call us about the.
[00:09:30]Kellan Finney: They are those phone calls kind of, if you want to walk us through like a standard conversation that you had with some of these parents, are they calling just to get more information or are they typically pretty educated themselves in terms of the research they’ve done?
[00:09:42] Could you kind of walk us through the dialogue that occurs with the parents when they call in?
[00:09:46]Adam Young: Yeah, absolutely. I would say about 70% of them don’t know much or anything at all, about 30% really do their due diligence and really try and research it before calling us. And that’s probably how they [00:10:00] came and found us is through their research.
[00:10:02] Um, and so, you know what the most common question we, like, I would say a couple of the most common questions we get are will the, is this addictive? Will it get me high? How do I start? Where do I begin? How do I do this? Right? And so the typical phone call, I would say our average phone call right now is just under 30 minutes.
[00:10:22] So we really get to know these folks and their story and their situation. It’s important to understand their goals. Are you looking to try and eliminate this? ailment Where are you looking to improve your quality of life? There’s a couple of different approaches depending on what their goal is. So we’ll never direct anybody on what to do.
[00:10:38] We listen to them, what do you want to do? You know? And then we provide them with that education and all the resources that are available. Um, we have a research library that has over 800 peer reviewed articles that all detailed cannabis and specific ailments. So, you know, we like to say that our. Our guidance and our suggestions all research backed that used to be [00:11:00] anecdotal.
[00:11:00] But now we have a lot of research to backup what we say and that’s what guides our current.
[00:11:05]Bryan Fields: Has to be such an exhausting conversation. I’m just trying to envision like my mom calling up being like emotionally driven, trying to help like my sister and the case, and kind of being almost desperate in the moment, trying to find some sort of solution or possible, right.
[00:11:20] She’s like calling a complete stranger. Hey, saying, Hey, my daughter has this problem. Can you help us? And it’s gotta be like mentally exhausting going through those comments.
[00:11:30]Adam Young: Yeah, that’s a great point. Brian, not a lot of people realize that, but yes. Um, you know, especially back in the, even two, three years ago, a A lot of people use cannabis as a last resort.
[00:11:41] Right. I’ve tried everything else. Shit. We’re in a really, sorry, we’re in a really bad position. Like this is our last resort. We’re just going to try it. But fortunately, now people are trying to use this as a first line of approach or a second line of approach or as a complimentary, uh, modality to what they’re already doing.
[00:11:58] So, um, yeah. [00:12:00] And to your point, Brian? Yes, we get a lot of frantic parents. We get a lot of, um, people themselves. They’re just scared, you know, they just got a diagnosis or they’ve got this or that and nothing’s working and they’re just scared. So, um, we’re very aware of that. We really nurture these people, but internally our small team of associates and especially our care team, we’re very cognizant of this.
[00:12:23] And so we encourage each other to take breaks throughout the day. We’d go for walks around the building, around our homes, wherever we live or work. And so, yeah, that’s very important, but we’re also very aware of that. You know, we, we also take on that burden of. Um, and, uh, so we’ve got good methodologies behind the scenes that we use to kind of ease that stress and kind of let go of a lot of those emotions.
[00:12:46] Yeah. I’m so
[00:12:46]Bryan Fields: glad to hear that. And the bonds you’re probably building with these complete strangers in these moments, right? Like providing a recommended alternative to whatever situation or frantic diagnosis they were given. If it helps them. I [00:13:00] can only imagine the type of feeling that they have towards, of gratefulness, just in the sheer fact that they reached out to a complete stranger and you were able to kind of guide them through the, those challenging moments.
[00:13:10] So when people call up just to kind of one last question about this, are they more like I have X, Y, or Z, or they more like I’m interested in cannabis do think this will help me with my problem. Right? How, how do they lead those conversations and make sure. It is
[00:13:25]Adam Young: a mixture of both, but I would say it’s more so here’s what I have.
[00:13:30] Will this help, or can you direct me on how to use this successfully? That’s that’s the majority of people. Um, occasionally we will get, some people have heard about this CBD thing or this cannabis thing, you know? Uh, tell me more about it. And then, and then, you know, either way though, Brian, I could talk about this stuff all day.
[00:13:47] Um, you know, It’s such a joy to be able to, to kind of shed the light or, or shine a light on this Mo on cannabis in general, to these folks who are just still in the dark, even though [00:14:00] there’s 39 states in Washington, DC have medical programs, 18 states are fully legal for adult sale use instill still.
[00:14:08] There are so many people that, um, either are dismissive of it, or just not aware of, uh, the potential for.
[00:14:15]Bryan Fields: Does anyone ever call up and just kind of just ream you guys out it’s pure anger, right? Sometimes you see like a positive sign and sometimes people just get that, the anger phone call with it. You know what, like I’m anti-cannabis I heard governor Rick it’s like Adam and his team are trying to kill my kids.
[00:14:30] Like I’m going to call out. Do you ever get any of those negative phone calls?
[00:14:33]Adam Young: No, you know what, Brian, uh, thankfully we don’t get too many. I think I might’ve had one that was kinda similar to that. Um, I think the most pushback we received as people on the Facebook groups and stuff, just talking all sorts of mad stuff about us, but, uh, fortunately a lot of those people don’t actually call us.
[00:14:49] Right. It’s kinda like those people that, uh, are so noisy on social media that have a handle. That’s not even their name and they’re just, you know, random people talking to the crowd. [00:15:00] Right. Exactly. You guys get
[00:15:01]Kellan Finney: any, uh, like medical professionals that call, they were looking for education and cannabis as well.
[00:15:06] Cause I know that that’s not something that’s taught in at least United States medical.
[00:15:11]Adam Young: Right, right. Yeah. Thanks Kelvin. That’s a great question. So we have a network of almost 1400 medical professionals that we work with. Um, in one of the options that we’ll give our clients is that, you know, if their doctor is in the dark or they’re saying, yeah, you can try it, but I don’t know much about.
[00:15:30] We’ll consult with the doctor in their patient, who is our client. Um, and we’ll get them on a conference call and we have a lot of, we actually have a practitioner portal where we’ve done a lot of deep dives on clinical research regarding like, let’s say breast cancer or breastfeeding while taking cannabis or different topics like that.
[00:15:49] So they, there is a. An area for practitioners that they can get more detailed information from us. And yeah, we support, like I said, almost 1400 [00:16:00] medical professionals. During your
[00:16:01]Kellan Finney: time there, have you noticed, uh, like a tangible change in how the doctors are approaching the education with their, their, um, clients associated with cannabis?
[00:16:13] Have you noticed like over the last five years, them kind of opening up more or has it always been. Consistent in terms of those conversations.
[00:16:21]Adam Young: Yeah. I wouldn’t say it’s a drastic change, unfortunately. Um, but we are seeing an increase in doctors, at least being willing to consider it
[00:16:29]Kellan Finney: or have a conversation
[00:16:30]Adam Young: about it.
[00:16:30] Right. Correct. And I just actually learned earlier this year, um, that the nursing, um, there’s, uh, nursing associates and that is actually going to be training on the endocannabinoid system, cannabinoids turpines, et cetera. The nurses are starting to take it on, which I think that the nursing, um, professionals out there, I think they always have been more supportive of it than doctors.
[00:16:55] Um, you know, with doctors, I blossomed because they have a really [00:17:00] tough job and they also have a license that hangs over their head that can be taken away at any given time. Right. So they have a lot to lose and thankfully the nurses have been advocates of ours for a long time. And now it’s actually going to be.
[00:17:13] To be taught to these folks in the curriculum.
[00:17:16]Bryan Fields: Shout out Ashley, if that’s the one who did it, we had it. I was going to see if you’re going to shout her out. That’d be pretty. That’d be pretty bad-ass if it can actually, she was talking about it though, right? That’d be cool connection. Right. And it’d be like two, two links that did definitely get together.
[00:17:28] So if not, maybe actually it should be the one that connected up. So last question on this topic, what is a conversation you’ve had with an individual that has surprised or shocked you, you know, during the conversation, like you thought one thing and then after you were just completely.
[00:17:44]Adam Young: Hm. Wow, that’s tough.
[00:17:47] Um, because you know, I don’t, to be honest with you, Brian, most of the calls, whether they’re afforded or against it, when they called by the time we get off, it’s a great call. Um, [00:18:00] very rarely have, you know, I, occasionally we get some folks, especially. That have tried a certain path or a certain, uh, let’s say, uh, milligram content per day, that they’re trying to give their kids and it’s not working.
[00:18:12] And they get extremely frustrated and call us in. Usually I have looked at, I have gotten like yelled at, in the beginning of the call, but again, excuse me, by the time we get off the phone, it’s usually a very good conversation. We end it well. Um, Yeah, there are, there have been, uh, certain gentlemen of the, uh, older age that have called and those calls haven’t really ended too well, but you know, you can’t change.
[00:18:39] Everybody’s mind if somebody’s calling and they’ve got their mind made up. This is how it is, and I’m going to tell him, set them straight, you know, that’s cool, man. Go on your way. That’s why we, you know, as long as I can share my story, uh, tell them what we’re about the education, the research. Um, and then if they don’t agree or they don’t [00:19:00] want to partake in, in anything, that’s fine.
[00:19:02] Um, but I really don’t get those a lot, Brian, thankfully. Yeah. I was just like totally shocked. And I feel like that call was a waste of time. I mean, that just, it really doesn’t happen. I wasn’t sure if you were
[00:19:12]Bryan Fields: shocked more about like the findings, right. If like went in and you, you assumed one thing would help them and then it turns out it’s a completely.
[00:19:20] You know, modality or another product or another concept to help them just curious to know if any of those ever
[00:19:25]Adam Young: experienced. Sure. Yeah, actually. Okay. Maybe I misunderstood the question, right. Um, so there is one story that I tell folks, uh, I had this older, I think it was in his eighties, his wife tried some CBD, had tremendous success on it.
[00:19:38] Right. And he’s like, oh, I want to try some of that too. My man ended up getting so high off CBD that he couldn’t even drive. Right. And so I warn people about that, that some people are really, really sensitive to it. And so that’s when you want to go for like a broad spectrum, uh, I don’t typically encourage isolates, but broad spectrum products [00:20:00] are really good for that.
[00:20:01] Um, the other thing is, and, um, I was just listening to a podcast recently of your guys. Um, the, uh, sorry, I forget his name, so I’ll just continue. Um, but there are folks out there who, um, I’ve got this other gentleman who’s older as well. And he tried this one product for about four months. Did not work titrated up on a schedule every couple of weeks.
[00:20:24] Dah, dah, dah. Then he tried another product and it worked right away. And what is that? That’s the turpines, that’s another, that’s the full profile, right? That entourage effect. And so some products, if they don’t work, I always encourage people to try another product before they give up. Um, and that one actually surprised me, Brian.
[00:20:44] I was really surprised about that because this guy took it consistently two, three times a day, titrate it up. I mean, he taken quite a bit and I’m like, you know what? Let’s just try this product and stuff and sure enough, you know, so that was a welcome surprise.
[00:20:57]Kellan Finney: Yeah. I mean, it’s crazy, right? Like all of the cannabis [00:21:00] that’s ground for Epidiolex is grown in one facility.
[00:21:03] In every it’s highly controlled, uh, as you possibly can, to try to mitigate any of those chemical variations from a, a terpene profile perspective.
[00:21:13]Bryan Fields: Yeah. But the body chemistry, right. Has all those differences and like what you consume for that day and your tolerance. There’s, there’s so many variables.
[00:21:19] Right. And as Dr. Abrams loves to say many to many problems as I, as I want to reiterate over and over again. Cause it seems like that is so Adam, do, do people ever ask you is more better when it’s consuming these.
[00:21:31]Adam Young: Yeah. All the time. Right. And so, uh, we do have standard, uh, let’s say suggestions that we’ll, we’ll take people on whether they’re medically sensitive adult pediatric, or if they have cancer and they’re trying to, you know, create apoptosis, uh, there’s different approaches for everybody that takes it.
[00:21:48] Um, so yeah, there’s, you know, a lot of people in. There’s a couple things to that one is that a lot of people think it’s like an Advil where you take it once [00:22:00] and 30 minutes later, you’re feeling. THC. It might work that way, but with CBD, it’s not necessarily, it doesn’t work that way. Uh I’ll just tell you straight up.
[00:22:08] Right. And so, um, that, that is a big learning curve for a lot of people in the fact that, you know, highly concentrated forms of hemp, uh, are usually in a tincture variety. So you have to drop drops under your tongue and folded there. Right. And people just want to take capsules or pills, and they’re not used to this.
[00:22:26] So that’s often a challenge that we, we get over, um, very quickly. But yeah, the, you know, there’s some doctors that even say microdosing CBD is if, uh, you know, a valid way to approach things, we don’t necessarily take that approach, but we also, uh, we don’t want people to, you know, go crazy right off the bat.
[00:22:45] And, you know, because there is a bell shaped curve to how it responds to your body. And so if you take a little bit, you might feel a little bit, you take a little. But everybody has their optimal dose, but once you exceed that optimal dose, you actually see a [00:23:00] decrease in those benefits. And so we really encourage people to titrate up slowly, start slow and increase slowly.
[00:23:06] That way you don’t miss that ideal dose for your body. That’s really well
[00:23:11]Bryan Fields: said. Yeah. So let’s talk about some of the events. Uh, I’m excited to hear about what’s in the pipeline for realm and, and some of that information on the.
[00:23:20]Adam Young: Yeah, thanks, Brian. Well, I, I, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention last year.
[00:23:25] Um, we had a Memorial and benefit concert for Charlotte Figgy. Um, she passed away in 2020 on April 7th and unfortunately, uh, her family wasn’t able. Provide the services during the pandemic and all those things. So, um, last year we did a Memorial and benefit concert for her called rock the rock. So it’s R O C K the ROC rock, rock, the rock.org.
[00:23:50] Uh, strongly encourage everybody to go check it out. Still online, it’s free. It’s uh, uh, the company that produces the Grammys produced this, the Ava [00:24:00] brothers, Jason morass, uh, Leslie Schultz from the luminaires. A lot of people participated in. You really get to know Charlotte’s story, her family, the Stanley brothers who gave her the oil and then a couple of other families are profiled as well.
[00:24:13] Um, and then this year we have a, um, event at top golf in Denver. Um, this will be a major networking. For, uh, all the industry players. So, um, I highly encourage people to visit, run with caring.org and you can check out a link there for more information. Um, it is in September, uh, sales start in June, uh, for the tickets.
[00:24:36] And so, um, we’d love to see everybody there. And, um, if anybody wants to reach out for more information, Adam, at Romo caring.org, I’ll be more than happy to facilitate any conversation about.
[00:24:48]Kellan Finney: Yeah. And so Romo caring is, uh, like we said, a nonprofit. So these kinds of events help you guys support your mission.
[00:24:54] Is there any other way that people can kind of help you guys on your day?
[00:24:58]Adam Young: Yeah, thanks for that Kellen. So [00:25:00] realm of caring.org/donate, um, we do re we, um, we rely on donations, right? Uh, we are a nonprofit. We don’t sell or produce any products. Our product is our, our community support. Our research with Johns Hopkins university, our education to the medical professionals and the clients and people across the globe.
[00:25:20] And so we rely on donations to sustain us and to keep our services free. That’s really important. There are other folks out there who help people through their cannabis journey. But it’s typically it comes with a price, right? And so we always, our services have been free and they always will remain free.
[00:25:38] And so yes, any financial support to run with caring is always welcomed. And that top golf event that I mentioned in September is a fundraiser and that will help sustain us so we can continue the amazing work that. Yeah,
[00:25:51] your
[00:25:51]Kellan Finney: guys’ work is so important right now, especially with the lack of federal support.
[00:25:55] And we don’t have our institutions kind of throwing a bunch of research hours out it, [00:26:00] so it’s just as important as possible right now. You guys in the organization,
[00:26:04]Bryan Fields: is there any operators you can call out as like main sponsors and ones that, you know, we can call out to help push the initiative so that they can support you guys further.
[00:26:14]Adam Young: Sure. Absolutely. I mean, uh, you know, we’ve been, we’ve been closely aligned with Charlotte’s web for a long time. They support. Um, they have always supported us. Uh, in fact, some people thought we were the same thing and, and we’re not, we’re, non-profit, they’re a for-profit, although they are a certified B corporation now, which is really cool.
[00:26:32] Um, totally appreciate that. Um, another one of our longtime partners out of plug low Colorado is Stratos. They have a THC and a CBD line, um, Aspen green. Those guys have been great. Uh, we’ve worked with them for a long time and. Um, we’re getting ready to make a couple more announcements within the next few weeks.
[00:26:51] So we’re excited to see that. So just keep a tab on realm of caring.org and look for the, our sponsors tab to follow all those awesome [00:27:00] companies that help support us.
[00:27:02]Bryan Fields: What’s a message you would share with, let’s say an east coast individual who is unfamiliar with cannabis, a little newer to the space, and you know, is interested in, in exploring it, but still a little hesitant.
[00:27:13] Is there a message you could share?
[00:27:16]Adam Young: Well, yeah, it just a general message, right? Um, yeah, I mean, it’s tough because, uh, I, I spent a little bit of time on the east coast and, uh, back in the early two thousands, uh, it was tough, man. I mean, to score some flour out there, it was like, it all came in these little bags and it was really expensive.
[00:27:35] And, um, Yeah. Yeah. New Jersey and New York are represented now. So it’s great. Um, I would just encourage anybody, especially on the east coast or in the south. Right. Um, I mean the same situation lies down there. It’s just educate yourself, educate, educate, educate, um, whether you hear a good or bad, you know, look into it for yourself before you just jump right in.[00:28:00]
[00:28:00] Um, the good news is especially on the hemp side of things. Um, Please don’t buy products from the gas station. Nothing’s regulated yet. It’s in the gas station. It’s not, you know, that is nefarious products. Please don’t buy it. And that’s what I’ll tell a lot of folks because, oh, I just saw this thing at the gas station.
[00:28:18] I’m like, please don’t. Um, because every time that somebody tries that it doesn’t work and they put it in the shelf or they throw it in the garbage that’s, that’s another, you know, bad review for this industry. So I think education is, is critical. Um, and finding quality products is paramount. Um, you know, with the lack of regulation, uh, that’s in place right now, you want to look for companies that are CGM certified USDA, organic, like, you know, look for these certifications that companies have gone out on their own to get, because again, they’re not required at this point.
[00:28:51] So gotta be careful.
[00:28:53]Bryan Fields: The gas station purchases are always, they always get me. Cause you get those, those text messages, you know, like, well, where’d you buy an aunt Sally and [00:29:00] she’s like the gas station. Yeah. I don’t think I need to respond to explain to you why the product doesn’t work, but that’s a conversation for other times.
[00:29:07] So since you’ve been in the cannabis industry, what has been the biggest misconception?
[00:29:13]Adam Young: The biggest misconception. Um, probably I think I want to go back to one of those, uh, common questions is that people think it’s a directive and they don’t want to try it, you know? And I don’t know if that has a lot to do with the opioids and the fentanyls and all those things that are going around right now.
[00:29:32] Um, but that concerns me, that people think that they’ll get addicted. Um, because I really don’t see that as an issue, even on the THC side, um, getting. You know, there might be a mental addiction. You just liked the act of doing it or something in your hand or smoking. Um, but physically addictive. It’s not, you know, that’s the beautiful part, especially when we’re talking about CBD and little kids, let’s say if they took too much, it’s simple.
[00:29:58] You just stop [00:30:00] taking it. And you’ll feel better in a few hours. I mean, it’s pretty simple. You’re not going to go into shock. You’re not going to, you know, need, need some medical attention at a nine 11 phone call. So, um, the other misconception, I think, is that most, I think there’s a lot of people. Maybe it’s not a misconception.
[00:30:20] Lack of education, you know, it’s so versatile. It can be used to make concrete. It can be used to make biodegradable plastics. It can be used as a, um, you know, um, uh, dietary aid, uh, sub, uh, uh, supplement textiles. I mean, the list goes on it’s regenerative for the soil that it grows in. So like from the ground to our bodies, this plant harnesses, the power of.
[00:30:44] To make the world a better place. And, and I think there, the majority of people just don’t understand that
[00:30:51]Bryan Fields: that’s really well said. Yeah. Or we do predictions. We ask all of our guests, if you could sum up your experience in a main takeaway or lesson learned to pass onto the next [00:31:00] generation, what would it be?
[00:31:02]Adam Young: Okay. Always look outside of the box. Always look into things for yourself. Don’t take on base value. Yes. Yeah.
[00:31:10]Bryan Fields: All right. Prediction time, Adam. It’s 2036. What area and people’s lives. Do you think cannabis will make the biggest difference?
[00:31:21]Adam Young: 2032. I’m going to go with biodegradable plastic being made from home.
[00:31:29] I’m hopeful. I, you know, we’ll see if that happens, but with all the plastic and the maths and all these things that are floating in the oceans and clogging our streets and our gutters and our waterways, including everything, you know, uh, this really could be a good alternative and something that doesn’t last for a thousand years or something underground.
[00:31:47] Like it just, it doesn’t go away. Um, I’m really hopeful that, that the hemp plant will be utilized in more than just, uh, medicinal applications by 2032.
[00:31:57]Bryan Fields: That’d be game changer. Kaelin. That’s a really
[00:31:59]Kellan Finney: good [00:32:00] answer. I wasn’t even thinking of that. Honestly. Now it kind of like turned my answer upside down and I was like, maybe I should go a different direction.
[00:32:05] Yeah. No, I’m just stalling. What I think, you know what I mean?
[00:32:13]Bryan Fields: I’m
[00:32:14]Kellan Finney: 2032. What do I think is going to be the most impactful aspect that cannabis has on society?
[00:32:26]Adam Young: I think cannabis
[00:32:28]Kellan Finney: will in 2032. What is that? Six years, eight years.
[00:32:34]Bryan Fields: 10 years. I know what I’m thinking
[00:32:37]Kellan Finney: is I don’t think it’s, I don’t think it’s enough time. What I’m thinking. Um, I just guess, Hey, it’s hard. Give me a break. Uh, no, um, I think that, um, in 10, in eight years or 10 years, cannabis will most likely be.
[00:32:56] Utilized for a [00:33:00] mood regulation. Everything else I was thinking is just too big. Honestly, I’ll go with mood regulation and that’s my final answer. Brian,
[00:33:07]Bryan Fields: what do you think? I hope right. In 10 years, we don’t have any more of these like pharmaceutical addictions and that a lot of those problems are replaced.
[00:33:18] Uh, or solved right with cannabis. And I hope that as people like yourself, Adam, continue to help spread the word and fight the stigmas and allow people to have like an outlet during, you know, the most challenging of times when they get those unfortunate, terrible news. I hope that, you know, that changed a lot of people’s lives.
[00:33:37] And I think with your team’s edition and some of the research it’s doing, I I’m hopeful that that solution will be in the future. So for our listeners, they want to get in touch. They want to support where can they find you? Yeah.
[00:33:51]Adam Young: Thank you. Um, realm of caring, dot. Org is our website. My email address is [00:34:00] [email protected].
[00:34:01] Um, in, in, in addition to being a care specialist, I also work in support the development team. Um, and so, you know, I’m happy to have a conversation with anybody about anything that we. Or if they have any questions, um, our care specialists are, are top-notch fully trained. Um, takes someone about three months before they even answer a single email.
[00:34:24] So, um, you know, we’ve got a great team. It’s a very small team and we love talking about cannabis, whether it’s hemp, THC, CBD, CBG, CBN, you name it. Let’s talk about it.
[00:34:36]Bryan Fields: I love it. We’ll link it up in the show notes and everyone out there go support what they’re doing, make a difference and help kind of break down the barriers.
[00:34:42] Thanks so much for your time. Yeah.
