¿Debe legalizarse el consumo RECREATIVO de cannabis en el Ecuador? — Transcript

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1. 0:00Do you remember when I told you about
2. 0:01cannabis plants having these glands,
3. 0:03these trichomes, which are what contain
4. 0:04the cannabinoids? These glands, as it
5. 0:07turns out, are the plant's sunscreen.
6. 0:10The more radiation, the more lighting,
7. 0:12the higher the production of these
8. 0:13glands, the higher the production of
9. 0:15cannabinoids. Right? So, today with our
10. 0:18regulation, that kind of works against
11. 0:20us. Why? Because the same CBD plant
12. 0:24grown in California or grown in Quito,
13. 0:27in California, will have its 4-month
14. 0:30cycle. At 4 months, it will reach its
15. 0:33maximum levels of CBD and its permitted
16. 0:35levels of THC. Let's talk about the 0.3
17. 0:38%THC that is allowed. But in those 4
18. 0:40months, you will get the most out of
19. 0:42that plant because it will produce a
20. 0:43kilo for you, to give you an example.
21. 0:46In Ecuador, that same variety, its
22. 0:48cannabinoid levels of THC and CBD will
23. 0:51skyrocket more quickly. So, you might
24. 0:53not have the time to reach 4 months of
25. 0:56cultivation, but rather at 3 and a half
26. 0:58months you'll have to cut that plant,
27. 1:00because it already reached its maximum
28. 1:02CBD and its maximum THC, which is what
29. 1:04matters most to us due to the
30. 1:06regulation. Well, in Ecuador they let
31. 1:08you reach up to 1%THC, but in the whole
32. 1:10world they buy it at 0.3%. But if we
33. 1:13have to cut the plant at 3 and a half
34. 1:15months, it means it won't produce a
35. 1:17whole kilo for us, it will produce 700
36. 1:19grams perhaps. So today that law hurts
37. 1:22us and the solar impact hurts us, but
38. 1:24when THC is decriminalized there, the
39. 1:26same THC plant or the same plant grown
40. 1:29in California or in Ecuador, the one
41. 1:31from Ecuador will have much more
42. 1:33potency, much more effect than the one
43. 1:35produced in California. So, we are
44. 1:39definitely in a privileged spot.
45. 1:42Ecuador is a marvel, but we have to
46. 1:44learn to crawl before we walk and then
47. 1:45run, right?
48. 1:47How long do you think it will be
49. 1:48decriminalized? And what should we do
50. 1:50as a society? Because we are losing
51. 1:52money, you know? It's a gigantic
52. 1:54industry that moves millions of dollars
53. 1:56a year.
54. 1:57Going back to history, right? The
55. 1:59cannabis industry or cannabis in
56. 2:01general was prohibited by the interests
57. 2:03of big pharmaceutical companies back in
58. 2:05the 40s, 60s in the United States, in
59. 2:07which they stigmatized the use of
60. 2:09cannabis for these interests, right?
61. 2:12What happened when this was finally
62. 2:14opened up in the United States? There
63. 2:16was research, there was education,
64. 2:18there was development. I think that is
65. 2:20what we are lacking here. I think the
66. 2:22decision not to open up THC yet is
67. 2:24correct, because what we have to do
68. 2:27first is get rid of the stigma that
69. 2:29marijuana is bad, that THC is bad, that
70. 2:31cannabis is bad. So, first build this
71. 2:34trust in people, make them understand
72. 2:36how it works, educate our population.
73. 2:39Sadly, less than 40%of our population
74. 2:42actually has access to good education.
75. 2:46So, all these factors are what
76. 2:49determine when a society is ready for
77. 2:52the next step, in any industry
78. 2:54whatsoever. Among the people involved
79. 2:58in the industry, there is a lot of
80. 3:00ignorance. So, as long as that doesn't
81. 3:02reach a balance, we won't be prepared.
82. 3:06I consider that in about 2 years,
83. 3:07Ecuador could reconsider this option
84. 3:09and open up in a certain way little by
85. 3:12little, perhaps cultivation, not for
86. 3:14recreational use, but for the
87. 3:15pharmaceutical industry, for example,
88. 3:17and slowly advance in that stage, right
89. 3:20? Look, in Holland, there is no
90. 3:22regulation. You cannot cultivate
91. 3:24marijuana in Holland. In Holland, you
92. 3:26can sell, but you cannot cultivate. I
93. 3:28mean, it's kind of weird.
94. 3:30Everyone says, "No, decriminalization
95. 3:31like in Holland," first of all, it's a
96. 3:32first-world country. And in fact, you
97. 3:34have a card for consumption, I
98. 3:35understand. And there are places like
99. 3:37there is a list, I don't know how that
100. 3:38works.
101. 3:39The card works in the United States, in
102. 3:41Canada, it depends on the state. There
103. 3:44are states where everything is free,
104. 3:45THC and CBD. With this card, you can
105. 3:48access the purchase of medicinal
106. 3:50products based on THC with a special
107. 3:52discount. If you don't have the card,
108. 3:54you can also acquire them, but at the
109. 3:56regular price. And there are other
110. 3:58states where THC is not allowed, only
111. 4:00CBD. In Holland, you have free sale of
112. 4:03everything, I mean, you can go to any
113. 4:05coffee shop and consume THC, CBD,
114. 4:07whatever you want. However, the point I
115. 4:10was making, this attraction that
116. 4:11Holland generates, which is a social
117. 4:13morbidity, is that it brings a lot of
118. 4:15people, a lot of tourism for this type
119. 4:17of cannabis culture, right? And the
120. 4:19same thing can happen here. Imagine,
121. 4:20one of my dreams is to have a hotel at
122. 4:23some point with the whole experience in
123. 4:25which you can live it, the cultivation,
124. 4:28a real trip. So, of course, imagine,
125. 4:30you can really explode, you create jobs
126. 4:32, you generate so many things. A very
127. 4:35important part of this industry that
128. 4:37Ecuador is currently not paying much
129. 4:39attention to is the industrial hemp
130. 4:41part I mentioned. Within the three
131. 4:44types of cultivation allowed in Ecuador
132. 4:46, you have medicinal cannabis or hemp
133. 4:48in greenhouses, which is for producing
134. 4:51flower buds, which are exported to
135. 4:53Europe. That is the most generous, the
136. 4:56most lucrative. Obviously, the
137. 4:57investment is extremely high. The
138. 4:58second type of cultivation is also
139. 5:00medicinal cannabis, but outdoors. This
140. 5:03is for biomass production. In this one,
141. 5:05you don't produce the buds themselves
142. 5:07to export to Europe, but rather you cut
143. 5:09the whole plant, shred it, and send it
144. 5:11to the United States. The United States
145. 5:13processes it. Well, we have also
146. 5:16installed our own processing plant here
147. 5:18, but as target markets for very large
148. 5:20quantities, there is Europe for one
149. 5:22type, the United States for the other,
150. 5:25and the third type of cultivation
151. 5:27allowed is industrial hemp, which
152. 5:29allows you to make fibers, textiles,
153. 5:31bioplastics, and biofuels. In fact, a
154. 5:34year ago we signed a commercial
155. 5:36agreement with a company in the United
156. 5:38States that agrees to buy all the
157. 5:40industrial hemp production. that is
158. 5:42produced here in Ecuador. However, we
159. 5:44present them to our clients. We also
160. 5:46provide cultivation consulting and, of
161. 5:48course, we tell them, "Look, in this
162. 5:49one you invest this much and earn this
163. 5:50much. In this one you invest this much
164. 5:51and earn this much." And in industrial
165. 5:52hemp you invest this much, but you earn
166. 5:54this much. So, people always want to
167. 5:55lean toward the type of cultivation
168. 5:57that gives them the most profitability.