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JOHN ENTWISTLE: [to the bartender: This gentleman's from Word magazine, an Internet
magazine, so I'm explaining to him all the different things that we offer
here.] Kevin O'Callahan is one of our earliest and hardest working people
here. [holding the bottle of marijuana tincture] This is a mixture
of...what is it?
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KEVIN: It's marijuana soaked in alcohol. Alcohol extracts the THC from the
bud and it preserves it. So essentially you use one of these droppers and
put it on your tongue or in a drink, even. For people who can't eat
marijuana or don't.....
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HARRY GOLDSTEIN: Digest it any other way....
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Kevin: This goes right down. If you do it on your tongue, it's supposed to
go into your nervous system, you know, quicker. It helps joints and it
covers all the illnesses marijuana helps, maybe even better than smoking
it. Although I don't like the alcohol part, it's, uh, that's how, the uh,
THC is extracted from the buuud.
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HG: And how much is a vial of that?
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Kevin: This vial is $25 and it should last a month or so. You don't
really need very much.
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| JE: Yes, it's really strong. That's a lot. Can you show him one more
thing while you're at it? The Mari pills.
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Kevin: The Merry Pills! [goes to get them]
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| JE: You were asking about Marinol earlier. This is our organic version.
Some people like the pill format. That's the one thing Marinol is strong
on, it's a pill. It's controllable, it's good for a lot of people. We
made a pill therefore. We went out to the health food store, got those gel
caps [to Kevin] and what do they do with them?
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Kevin: It's marijuana. This time it's soaked in extra virgin olive oil, I
don't know if it's organic or not, but the olive oil will preserve it.
It's buds....
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| JE: And they heat it, right?
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Kevin:....chopped up. Well, yeah, it's also heated as well, which will
extract the THC from the bud.
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HG: Then it's sort of suspended in the oil....
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Kevin: It's preserved in the oil and packed in these little gel capsules.
We sell four in a bag. We start off with two pills, if uh, you're going to
be doing like chemotherapy. So probably, like one pill will do the trick,
but two would be for, like, extra security.
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| JE: That's the thing about marijuana, you self-titrate. It's just like
aspirin: take two and see me in the morning. If that didn't work, try
three. If it's too strong, try one. If it's a young person, try half as
much, baby ones. It's very similar with marijuana. You determine at
which point it's affecting you.
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HG: Which is why smoking seems to be so effective, even with the oral
alternatives.
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| JE: Where they can, it's preferable. People cross-subsidize. They'll do
some of one and some of the other. They'll eat a brownie and they'll
supplement that or gauge it right to the mark by taking a hit off a joint
or a bong.
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Kevin: Yeah, sometimes if you eat a brownie and smoke a joint, the joint's
going to get you high right away, but the brownie I always feel waking up
the next day. I can still tell that the brownie's still in effect. But
the joint [snaps fingers]: really quick high.
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HG: Well, thanks for your time.
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