So hi everyone, just going to talk for for a few minutes here about the data store in DHS to what it is how to use it in your DHS to applications. And some way, particularly talking a little bit about some ways to make sure that you're using it in a secure way. I won't get into too many technical details of how it works or how to use it in code. We can talk about that in the Q&A afterwards if you want but also we'll be covering that in a session in the DHS to developer Academy workshop to next week, which is four days long I'm sure Deborah will talk about that after after I'm done. But just wanted to start by talking about what the data store is and why you might want to use it. So the DHS to data store is a JSON object store basically it's a place where you can store information that doesn't fit into the DHS to normal metadata schema. So you can put any information in there. And there are actually two different data stores there's one that's available to all users of DHS to which can then be restricted to only a smaller group of users or user groups as well. And using the sharing settings that are the same sharing settings that you might set for an indicator or a dashboard or those types of things. And then there's a user data store which is available only to one DHS to user. So if you put something if a user put something into their user data store no other user can see it. And so it's important to keep in mind that there are both of those available and you can use them for different things in your applications. So within the data store and the user data store there are namespaces and and these namespaces are basically just a collection of key value pairs. So usually an application will use one namespace and and will then store any information that they want to keep track of into the keys and values within that namespace. So you can find information about the how to do this through the API, and how to how it the data store is structured in the documentation in docs at docs that Jesus to the Lord, I put the full link here and we'll share the slides after this as well. You can also view the data store through the data store application in your DHS to instance. So you can actually explore what's stored there and see the key namespaces keys and values that are available to your DHS to user that you're logged in with. There are a number of things that an application might want to use the DHS to data store for. I can't list all of them because the whole point is that you can use it for most anything, but some of the common use cases that we see are storing settings for your application, which means that you might want to set. The, I don't know the name of the metadata that your application is referring to so they are the idea of the metadata that your application is referring to so if you have an application that is for managing a particular org unit or something, you might want to save the the idea of that org unit so that every time a user comes back to that application, they don't need to re enter the or find that or unit again if it's always going to be used for that one or unit. You could even have two different types of users of your application one that has the ability to set the or unit for that app. And the other that only has the ability to use the application and not to change which or unit it's associated with. So that's, that's kind of a contrived example but there are a lot of different things that you might want to save settings for in your application. And that's one of the main use cases that we see for DHS to data store use in apps. Another is saved objects, which is a bit more complicated, and we'll get into this a bit more on the in the session next week so I'm not going to go into it too long here. But what that is is basically the same as the analytics applications in DHS to so if you go to the data data visualizer app, you will see that you can file new file save file open, and you'll see a list of visualizations that you or other people have created that have been shared with you. If you want to recreate that in a custom application with a custom type of visualization, you can use the data store for that. So there is a abstraction layer on top of the data store that I'll talk about at the end and you go into more detail next week that allows you to save and load individual objects to the data store and basically keep track of them and update them, as well as share them with different users. Those are the two main use cases that we see but there are many others as well because as I said you can you can save and load any any JSON object so any information you want into that data store. Now I'm going to talk a little bit about some security considerations because I think this is very important for understanding how the data store works and how to use it in a secure way. It's tempting just to take some information that somebody types into your in your app, save it into the data store, and then forget about it and load it later, maybe maybe allow the user, the users of your app to edit it. If you don't do some take some precautions to make sure that that information is secure. It's available to every user of DHS to, and also by default every user in DHS to can edit that information so that in most cases isn't what you actually want you don't want a guest user who has just get been given access to know metadata no data store or anything to be able to edit the the settings of your app or to delete visualizations that your users have created those types of things. So it's important to keep security in mind, especially also if you're using the data store to store things like credentials for the DHS to or for other systems. There's a guide on developers that DHS to org the developer portal that is for submission to the app hub, and that has a security section which you can find at this link here, and you can also just go to docs guides app hub, and then go to the security section, and there's a lot of recommendations in that guide, some of which pertain to the data store. So I'd recommend that first first off look at that guide and follow those recommendations. And we'll also be adding some more guides and documentation around how to use do how to make your application secure not just with the data store but with other things as well. And that will be coming coming soon, but for now look at the app hub guidelines for sort of the best practices today. One thing that an app can do and most apps should do is to reserve a namespace in the data store. So if you're going to use the data store to save settings or to save objects. You need to share that. Unless you need to share the data that you're saving into that namespace with other applications, you should reserve it, which means that you put it in the manifest file for your web application. And what that does is once an application is installed that reserves say my app as the namespace key. Then no other application can be installed that also tries to reserve the my app namespace. That means that it will prevent other apps from being installed it will also prevent other applications from accessing that information, because only users that have been given access to your app can see that reserve data store namespace key or namespace. So this allows you basically to restrict by default have a little bit better security where if a guest user is added to DHS to they haven't been given access to your custom DHS to application. They won't have access to that namespace key by default. So that's kind of the bare minimum that we would recommend for securing the namespace for your application in the data store. It's possible unless you're sharing, as I mentioned unless you're sharing with users that don't have access to your application, you should always reserve a namespace. And you should also make sure that the namespace you choose is unique to only your application so the example I gave where I say my app should be the namespace key is probably a very bad one, because then multiple people, multiple applications will try to reserve that same namespace. And if someone else reserves it and then you some of the user tries to install your application next, your application won't be able to be installed because somebody else has already used it. So I recommend using a name that is long and unique. It doesn't have to be super human readable it can be something that's kind of complex. It should be specific to your application probably should have the name of your application in that namespace key, and then also be unique enough that someone else isn't probably going to make a an application that's called the same thing. In order to reserve a namespace there are two methods, two mechanisms for doing this one is a slightly easier way that's been added recently to the the app platform. You can in D2.config.js of your application set the data store namespace key to whatever the namespace you want to reserve is, and that will be automatically injected into the manifest of the app that you build. If you're not using the platform you can write it you can add it directly to manifest web app in your non platform application. And in that case it goes under the activities DHS to namespace key, and then you put the name of the namespace that you want to reserve there. Once you have a namespace in the data store that you've probably reserved because it's only used for your application but maybe it's not as well. You should make sure that you are using the sharing functionality if possible for that data store namespace and the keys within it. This means that namespaces by default can be shared with any user in DHS to or they can be read and written to by any user in DHS to which means it might be problematic because you don't necessarily want all users to be able to see and right to those keys. You can use the sharing settings just like any other metadata to assign certain users and groups to view and edit the keys that you create in your namespace. You can find more about that in the documentation as well for how to do that specifically, you use the sharing namespace it's in docs.2.org in the data store section of the web API guide. That's the same link that I shared earlier in the slides. I mentioned earlier about using credentials and so it's recommended not to store credentials in the data store that's especially not DHS to credentials. That's because usually you don't want to store user credentials there because then it's not actually the user that's entering those credentials and you've lost some of the security capabilities of that basically credentialing system. But in some cases it might be unavoidable or necessary to store credentials for some external system in the DHS to data store so that you can synchronize data between DHS to an external system, or you can fetch data from a some global publicly available store that needs credentials something like that. And in these cases, there are three rules that you should follow. Number one, you should always store credentials in the user data store if possible. And that means that if you want the user to enter their credentials and then not have to enter those credentials again, you can put it into the user data store and no other users will be able to access those credentials, which is a good thing. And also that user will will be able to access them later so it doesn't reduce the usability of your application. If you can't use the user data store which means that you need to share those credentials with multiple users, you can use the data store but make sure to set the sharing permissions so you probably don't want every single user to be able to both read and write the credentials in that data store. You probably want them to read the most most of the users that access your application maybe want to be able to read it, but maybe only admin users should be able to write the credentials to the data store or something like that. And that's depends on what what credentials you're using how you're building your application there's a lot of considerations to take into account there. And then the third, this is a little bit kind of of a hidden feature in DHS to, but it's very important to set when you're using the data store to store credentials both the user data store and the data store. And that's to set the encrypt equals true flag. And when you do this, it might seem that not like nothing happens. So you set the encrypt equals true flag when you create a key value in the data store. And then you read that value later and it's not encrypted. It just looks like the same data that you put in. But that's because what this encrypt equals true flag does is it encrypts the data at rest. This means that what when the DHS to server accepts the information from the, the API, it then encrypts it and stores it in the database. And when it is read later it uses that same encryption key to decrypt the data from the database and return the information. But if someone a hacker was able to get access to the database of your DHS to instance, and they wouldn't be able to see those credentials they would need to go through the DHS to server, which would need to either they would either need to have in access to the DHS to server itself, or they would need to have a valid user credential with proper sharing permissions to access it through the API. The docs that I mentioned earlier also have information on encrypting data store keys, so you can learn more there, and we'll be adding more information to that to the guides on security as well. So I'm going to just introduce very quickly the app service data store application service, which is a react hooks implementation for accessing the data store. There's not a lot of documentation there yet, but it is starting to get more use so I think we're going to be promoting this to a fully supported service, which should have documentation will be adding documentation will also be adding sharing in this data store service, and will also be probably integrating it into the app runtime so it's available out of the box to all these just to applications. And what this does today is it allows you to save and load application settings from both the data store and the user data store. It also lets you save and load saved objects like visualizations from the data store and user data store in a kind of more user friendly way than you might if you were actually using the data store API directly. And then soon it will as I mentioned allow you to set sharing settings and encryption on the data store keys that you're creating. And we'll be creating some more documentation and how to use coming very soon. And I'll also be diving into how to actually use this in your application what job what the code of your app should look like to use this data store service in the academy next week. I believe that's all I have in terms of slides. So I think that's the end of my presentation but we can. Yeah, open it up to any questions I can dive deeper into any of these topics or any anything else that anyone wants to talk about maybe we stop the recording and go from. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.


Oof, I'm looking rough, but if you're watching this, good morning, it is my wedding day. Yeah. And as you can see, it's a bit of a rainy day and I've already accepted the fact that the wedding will probably have to be inside, though yesterday it said it was gonna rain all day. Today at the wedding time, it says it's gonna be about a 40% chance of rain, and then at four, when I'll still be taking pictures, it might not be raining. I don't want to get my hopes up, but it's looking better than yesterday because I was pretty bummed. I want it to be outside. So I didn't really, well, I didn't really make a big engagement announcement, but yeah, if you don't know, Jose and I lived together like all of quarantine at home and just kind of felt like to give something positive during coronavirus, obviously it's a very horrible time, but something really good came out of it for us and a lot of the venues were open and available, everything that we wanted was available due to all of the cancellations going on and it just worked out. We were able to pull together something really quickly. We wanted this one to be small, obviously, because of the condition of the world and if you don't know, Jose is from Spain, his family's in Spain, so they couldn't come to this, so we want this one to be small, like just my immediate family really is gonna be there. It's under 20 people, and then in a couple years we're gonna save up and then we're gonna have a bigger wedding in Spain, kind of the more traditional celebration, but I don't know, I think it's really fun, I'm really excited. This wedding though, in the last two weeks, very stressful because we had a COVID scare like this past week. I've been making sure or bothering Jose not to get sick and I get a call on Wednesday that he does not feel good at all, and it is actually like COVID symptoms, and so I'm stressing all day because I have to wait for him to get tested. He calls me, it comes back negative, I feel big relief, I'm on my way to go see him and then I walk in and he is out, like in bed, chills, over a like, I would say you probably had like a 100, 304 fever, he was radiating heat and I was about to lose it. I was so sad I thought we were going to have to cancel. Well, when he went to the doctor, he didn't have COVID, but they said they think as long as the test results come back negative that he has barangitis, which is like an infection in the throat, and I thought we're gonna have to cancel it because he was dying on Wednesday, but I guess the antibiotics kicked in and then he felt better Thursday morning, so I was sad it was gonna rain a week and then I thought we were gonna have to cancel because Jose was dying, so the fact that he was even healthy enough to make it was a bit of a win, so at the very least that made me less sad about the rain, but we'll see, we'll see how today goes. Alright, so I'm gonna give you a tour of the room we're staying in for a couple nights. We're staying three nights, two nights in this room, and then we last I can add it on another room. We have, this is the Alcove room I believe it's called, we are staying in Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia for all of my local East Coast people. It's really beautiful, I will show you around the hotel later, but this is a nice room, obviously it's a bit more pricey than a normal room, but super cute. Hi, that's Jose, if you don't know him, I'm wearing this robe that's way too big for me, and nice big TVs, my, our stuff, sorry, it's a little bit lived in right now, this is where I'm gonna do my makeup. I'm gonna move this desk to get a little bit more light because we're gonna use all the light that we can take, and then this is the view. The only thing, I love this room, but the bathroom is a bit small and like outdated, that's just nippy and picky, I love this room, but you have a sink, and then in here it's just like an older bathtub and a toilet, it's a little bit small. So if it wasn't so rainy, this is where the ceremony is supposed to be, I think we're gonna end up having it inside because Jose wants to do like a live stream or Google meet with his family, and it's just easier inside, but I'm hoping the rain stops so we can get some photos here. It is so picturesque, I love it, I just wish the weather was nice so we could be out here. Hi! So for breakfast, I got a Belgian waffle, we have a fruit cup, and then Jose got some sort of omelette. Omelette? Looks good, but mine looks better! Look how pretty this is. Can you see how pretty that is? I think there was some rain everywhere. So, Mi amor needed to steam something because he bought this 20 bucks steamer, not like she spent a thousand or a fortune. So she needs, no matter what the steamer sure, hopefully it doesn't burn. Look at that! Is it working? It was like that before. Hair appointment in about half an hour, I was gonna just do my own hair, but I decided, since I have a hair salon here, I'm just gonna get like in loose curls, and then I always love a flower crown. So I'm gonna have a flower crown in my hair, I hope it's gonna be pretty. I opted to go for that instead of a veil. This is just a small wedding, there's no need. I feel like to go super traditional. I think, you know, in a couple years we do plan on having a really traditional wedding, but not this time around kind of doing it, how I want to lay back, and makeup. As a bridal makeup artist, I've always thought like would I have somebody do my own makeup, and absolutely not. I don't think I would be happy with anybody else doing my makeup besides me. So I've already done a trial run on my makeup, so I know what I'm using, so I'll share that with you in a few hours, but that's kind of what I'm doing and what's going on right now. Alright you guys, so I feel like the chaos has started. As far as decorating, I have to get my hair done. I do plan on kind of recurling a few pieces to more my liking, because typically I do a bit bigger, but plus with the humidity going on, my hair is losing the curls. So I'm going to redo that in a little bit, but for now is me time. We are going to do some makeup. I will do a full in-depth explanation video of me doing my makeup again for you guys, but for now what I think I'm going to do is just do it quietly, enjoy myself. It's really hot in here, I need to turn on the AC. Today it likes the room, it's super hot, I can't take a look at this chaos. For somebody who does bridal makeup as a job, oh I'm not very organized. Alright, I'm just gonna play some music. So here's what the final makeup's looking like, minus the lips. I went pinky, kind of fixed up my curls, so the sun came out. There's like 30 minutes left until we get married, or until the ceremony starts, and I was like, can we move everything outside? So I feel horrible, but it's like all we wanted was to have it outside, and this sun came out just in time, so I had to. So I feel like everything just happened so quickly, I didn't bring my camera. We ended up being able to have a wedding outside. It was a beautiful sunny day, we got gorgeous photos, just everything lined up, everything was perfect.  Here's my dress, super beautiful, I love it, this is actually from Azos, you guys. So simple, my hair's kind of falling, it looks really pretty, and then the flower crown, and I just, so what I figured out through this vlog is I'm not very good at vlogging, I forget to film everything, we just got back from dinner, I'm looking a hot mess, I ate so much, my belly is popping out, but I thought I'd show you what I wore at least, after the fact. I took the flower crown out, figured it might be a bit much, I found this super cute dress, a Nordstrom on sale, like I said, it's a little tighter than normal at the current moment, and I have these super cute shoes, these are the shoes that I wore.  It was way too long today. It was a long day, we were out in the heat for a while, because of pictures and the ceremony and all that I needed to specify and the stress. So I'm gonna end this here, thank you guys so much for watching, bye! I totally keep failing at this vlog, but we are at the melting pot for dinner, so this, we got spinach artichoke, these are our dippers. Okay, I skipped the salad, but we have, we got the steak, I got, I don't remember, this is not my least favorite part of the melting pot, I think it'll be his favorite, because he's a maid lover. How about we are about to go in, and time for the best course dessert. They gave us this cute little cute bag, how do you feel? Excited, let's go. We are so full though, we're so full.


Hi everyone it's Vicky here and welcome back to another art journal layout. Today I'm going to play with a new collection by Stamperia. This is the forest collection and just like every paper pad by Stamperia It has amazing pages and you will see lovely designs. I'm going to go through this paper pad This is a 12 by 12, but it comes in an 8 by 8 as well And you will find links down below to both US and UK online shops if you want to grab it So in this page you get tons of tags that you can cut out and use Always think of the pages as different areas that you can cut out if you like depending on what you are using them for So you get lovely backgrounds as well as focal points for example the fox here. I absolutely love this page I always I'm always attracted to wood grain designs This is a page where you get six different designs of Animals and they match perfectly their buck so you can use them in many different ways. I Absolutely love the collage in this one and I will be using this paper today Here's another one with a wood grain and at the back you get many many tags with animals and flowers This is super sweet with all the strawberries on top and another one at the back that looks like an autumn page I love the birdie and the nest a green background paper Now here you get many different little scenes with animals and flowers that you can cut out Use them as focal points on your cards or any other project and Again here back and front match perfectly Here's another collage looking paper with many Animals and at the back you get this autumn looking design And this is the one that inspired today's project when I saw this eagle And I'm also going to use this part of the page as well And here's another one where you can cut out if you like different Animals and use them as focal points on your projects And now the fun part about the collections by stampere is that they come with a bunch of other things That you can mix and match them to create your different projects So I'm going to bring some of them from this collection. For example, you get different stamps that you can use There are matching stencils and I will be using the first one here today In different designs. I'm just browsing them through super quickly just so you can get an idea There are also wooden shapes that you can pop them out And use them as a dimensional elements on your mix media projects Mix and match them with papers They have similar designs and I'm absolutely in love with the bird on top of that branch And you will find different shapes fish Squirrels flowers acorns many different designs that match perfectly with the rest of the theme Now they also come up with molds that you can use if you are into mixed media and dimensional projects These are really flexible so you can use inside your resin or your clay And I absolutely love the acorn the strawberry There are other molds as well where you can find animals Anyway, you will find links to the whole collection down below the description area again in both us and uk online shops The inspiration for today's project came from the eagle So I will be using that as well as this background paper bits and pieces of it actually So I'm going to bring in my dilutions journal and I will start by creating my background First of all, I will use one of the stencils from this collection And I'm going to apply embossing paste with my spatula on the sides of the pages Notice that I always pick up my embossing paste or modeling paste whatever you are using with the back of the spatula Since this is the side that I will be using to spread it all over the place I'm mainly staying at the sides And I absolutely love this design of the stencil Again picking up even more of my paste and applying it all over the sides The embossing paste that I'm using here I believe is by Altenew I like it because it is nice and thick and it holds the dimension Now as focal points, I'm going to use bits and pieces from this background paper So I need to create a background that is going to contrast with my focal points and it's going to help it stand out And I'm kind of trying to create some shadows here So probably you can see the design that I have on my page although it is white on white I let my embossing paste dry completely and now it's time to do some spraying I'm doing the spraying inside the box so that I know I will not make a mess all over my place I'm also going to protect the pages underneath and now I'm going to do some spraying First I like to apply some water, not too much, just to make sure that everything is nice and damp This is going to help my sprays blend even better I'm using my Distress Oxide Inks and these are Wild Honey and Vintage Photo With Distress Oxide Inks always make sure that you shake them well before you use them And always remember that although they look really bright at the moment They are going to dry in a very pale look with a chalky finish Now I'm also using a brush just in different areas here and there Just in different areas here and there while the spray is still wet And with the magic of video editing here is my page completely dry And you can see how pale it looks now, the colors are not as bright And I love how the colors brought out the design of the stencil on both sides of my pages I fell in love with this background and I'm not going to do anything on it at all Usually I do some stamping and other bits and pieces However I'm just going to go ahead and start working on the focal points I have here a frame stamp, this is by Darkroom Door And it is called Film, I absolutely love this design I'm going to stamp that with Black Archival ink This way I know that it's going to be permanent And it's not going to smudge or smear no matter what I decide to do later on On top of it I'm going to stamp that a couple of times with my stamping platform here Just to get a good impression And then I'm going to use my scissors and just cut it out I will create three of those film strips just because I like the number three on my pages So here they are all ready to go And I also cut out the inside, just created a template for myself So that I can walk it around this background paper And decide which areas I want to use I am going to use one from the sky Another one where you can see the mountains And then another area where you can see the grass, the trees As well as part of the lake So I used my template to draw some lines all around that And I'm going to use my scissors and cut them out Now the difficult part about creating this art journal Is trying to decide which paper I'm going to cut out These papers have beautiful designs that make it so hard to cut them out Anyway the truth is that we get these papers to actually use them So just go ahead and be brave And now I'm going to do some more fuzzy cutting I'm going to bring in this patterned paper with all the animals on top And I'm going to cut out with my scissors the eagle This is going to be the focal point of my card So I'm going to use my smaller scissors and just go all around it I'm cutting out exactly where the design is Without leaving any border And I actually like the size of this eagle It is quite big so it's going to stand out nicely As a focal point on top of my layout Now it's time to put some of the elements that I have cut out together So I'm going to stick down all those images On top of the film strips that I have stamped For that I'm using my white liquid glue This is Nouveau de Luxe But of course you can use any other type of glue that you like Now I'm also going to use this patterned paper And I'm going to use the scissors to cut out bits and pieces From this collage design Just because I want to use bits and pieces from here And tuck them behind my film strips To make them look fuller And to create different clusters here and there or my page And in this paper you can find leaves which I'm going to cut out You can find little areas with a script There are also words that you can cut out Strips of words like forest trees and nature Which I'm also going to cut out Bits and pieces that I can use later on Now on those film strips that white space here really bothers me I either have to go ahead and cut it out Which is going to take me forever Or just color it in the same color as my background And that's exactly what I'm going to do So this way I'm going to disguise it somehow And when I place it on top of my page It's going to look as if there are holes there So you can see the background And remember it looks super vibrant and yellow in the beginning But once it dries It's going to look exactly the same as the background On all my cut out pieces I'm going to go over the edges With the stress oxide thing and that's vintage photo And I'm also going to use a tool Just to distress the edges even more I'm also going to stick down the eagle In one of those film strips And I want him to look as if he's flying outside of the picture So I'm going to cut out one side of the wings So they look as if they are back inside the picture I'm going to use some glue at the back And stick it down And once I have my eagle down Then I have all the bits and pieces that I need to create my layout I'm going to play some music for you And let you see how I put everything together And I'll catch you back later on And now finally it's time to do the details With my black and white pens Here I'm using a very thin black marker This is a micro 005 I want to have some lines around my eagle This is going to help him stand against the background But I don't want those lines to be super thick I have a collection of black pens All the way from 005 to 1.5 or even thicker nibs And I use them and switch between them Depending on the look that I'm going for So here on my eagle I want to have the black lines But I don't want them to be super vibrant Or stand out a lot That's why I'm using the 005 Which is very thin With the same pen I'm going to draw around the leaves Just to help them stand out even more But notice that the thin line kind of blends in With the rest of the designs In those printed pattern papers And of course just like with every other project that I make I have to add white splices Here I'm using just a white spray that I have by Altenew And of course they're not going to stand out as wide As they look at the moment Because they are going to react with the oxides underneath So they will end up having a very pale look Now for my quote I went ahead and used my label maker To print it out But of course you can use your printer I just found it on my table since I was organizing my stuff And I thought that would be really neat and super quick So I printed out a quote that I found online That says Free spirit Either admire me from the ground or fly with me But don't ever try to cage me And I thought that was really appropriate for my page These strips are self-adhesive So I'm sticking everything down To help these quotes stand out even more Just like always I will go around them with a black pen This is a 1.5 black pen And you can see how darker the lines come out This is my futbol pen And you will find it linked down below And for the part of the quote that says Free spirit I'm just going to stamp that so it stands out even more For that I'm using my alphabet stamp set And I'm stamping everything with black archival ink Letter by letter I don't mind I find it really therapeutic to tell you the truth And once my quote is down It's time to add my highlights with my white gel pen I'm always using a white signal gel pen I'm just adding highlights here and there Or my eagle on the leaves And on the bits and pieces that I have everywhere The different cutouts I'm also going to add some white highlights on the letters This is going to help them stand out even more I'm also going to stamp the date And because I'm never happy with the little details that I can add I'm going back with my white gel pen Adding even more highlights And on those film strips where you were supposed to have All those little holes on the sides I'm also going there with my white gel pen And adding just a highlight on one side I think that this is going to help them look As there are actually holes there And this is going to be the finishing touch I'm going to call this page done I will try and link everything I used Down below in the description area To both US and UK online shops Since I get many requests from Europe Thank you all so much for spending some time with me I hope that you had fun, that you got inspired Don't forget to leave me a comment And until next time, stay safe


I'm going to follow up on look with many of the same observations and data that we are sharing and we are analyzing jointly. But seriously, I'm going to reach conclusions which are eventually somewhat different. We work together on the World Development Report. In a sense, the puzzle is why is it that agriculture remains so badly neglected when the World Development Report was written in 2008? There were about three countries that were meeting the cadept goal of spending no less than 10% of government budget on agriculture. What we see is it went up to 10. I'm not placing causality after the World Development Report. The World Food Crisis game, I think food riots were more convincing than reading a report. The number of countries that met this goal of 10% climbed to 10. If you look at it today, we are down to two. So this sort of a puzzle of the neglect of agriculture, if you look at what's happening with yield that you see on this graph, you see that South Africa is lagging behind, which suggests in a sense there is a kind of trap of law adoption which needs to be understood. So what I would like to do in the presentation today is to say, well, technology upgrading is necessary. There is population growth. There is declining farm size. The answer has to be technology in order for agriculture to perform its role. At the same time, there have been adoption failures. And the failures cannot be blamed on kind of ignorance or bad policies. Most likely the reason why agriculture has not been invested in more is because it has failed to deliver in terms of attempts at pushing technology, promoting technology adoption. You see it's not happening. Governments turn their attention elsewhere and look for other opportunities. So the blame is not on ignorance and bad policies. The blame is on the fact that the recommendations that were made as to how to do it were probably not the right ones. And as a consequence, what we need to do is go back to the design board and find other options that could be proposed as to how to be more successful with technology adoption. So I want to look at the way, in fact, technology adoption has been sought, and which has largely been following what I would call a supply-driven approach, which we said technologies exist and are available for adoption are very profitable. So let's look at the demand side as to what are the constraints on adoption of this existing technology. I'm going to show data that where technology adoption has happened pretty well reaches a ceiling, which is going to be 30%, 40% at most, quite often much less than that, which tells us in a sense that, well, this supply-side approach may not be sufficient. We need a much more demand-side approach, namely identify what kind of demand there is for technology, what kind of traits and what kind of aspects of technology would farmers like to have and then go to the supply side and correspondingly develop the technologies that are going to meet this demand. So I'm going to proceed in seven steps. The first one is to say, role of agriculture where recognize the WDR or so the work that has been done in terms of poverty, the sustainable development goals which have the objective as number one to eliminate absolute poverty. This poverty is mainly role in agriculture also. There's clearly a very strong emphasis on the agriculture and rural areas. You could say this is a selection issue that people who fail to escape poverty remain in agriculture and the solution to poverty is to take people out of agriculture. What we see and look has been important in that in looking at the data is in fact that poverty reduction has to a very significant extent happen in the rural areas and with agriculture and not by moving people outside of agriculture. So what we see is an increasing yield gap and we see that labor productivity is low. My second step is to say why are rural households poor? And there's something quite interesting here is that we would say well poverty depends on labor productivity but labor productivity can be measured in two ways. Either we can measure labor productivity per year or we can measure labor productivity when people work and if we do the latter what we see is that the gap between urban and rural labor productivity per hour worked is not very different and it is very large when you measure it on a per hour basis which in a sense takes us to this idea that there is something wrong with the labor calendars that here at peak time you can see that the upper curve is the urban hours worked per week. The lower one is the rural areas at peak time which is in this case the planting time. More or less there is a similar level of occupation but as soon as you are not at that peak period there's a large gap in employment opportunities between the two and the labor calendars as a consequence are the key reason why rural households are key is that there's a lack of employment opportunities elsewhere that the few periods of the year and here what you see in a sense is the for example the bottom graph you can see that you can add to which is when there is a household enterprise in the household it adds to the labor demands but it does not create counter cyclicality so there are very few activities in agriculture which are counter cyclical to agriculture which means that in this interesting way and Catherine is going to go to issue a kind of household labor decision making what it means that people are not switching activities they're going to specialize in different activities each in one in agriculture others in for example of farm income activities or transformation activities or livestock but it's very difficult to smooth labor calendars in agriculture in the rural areas through finding activities which are counter cyclical to agriculture. So what I'm concluding here is that there is a key role to play to how we look at the labor calendars and for that what we need is to go beyond the productivity of stable crops as Luke was mentioning the green revolution and to look at what we call here the agriculture and the rural transformation. The ag transformation is basically diversification of farming systems kind of spreading the use of labor across the year with crops that succeed each other and as a consequence create labor opportunities in more month of the year and the rural transformation is to look for off-farm sources of income that can be complements to agricultural activity not as in a counter cyclical fashion as I have shown but as a complement to what agricultural employment offers and as a consequence some members of the household can specialize in those activities. So the sequence that we are proposing here is to say well it's important to have the green revolution it's an important starting point it uses a lot of the land it employs a lot of the labor but we have to move on beyond this to ag transformation and to rural transformation in order to spread the labor calendars and provide complementary sources of income. If we look at the way technology has been made available for adoption basically we see two different strategies one is a sort of supplied river strategy which I was saying before assumes that technology is available seeds fertilizer for adoption and that is a matter of kind of identifying the constraints on demand and addressing each of those constraints on demand in order for technology to be adopted. The other alternative is to say well no that's not necessarily the case that those technologies that seem to be profitable are not in fact profitable for many in part because they need complementary factors to the to the technology which is being offered and as a consequence we need to go back to the drawing board and ask ourselves well what what are the what for example what do the extreme non-adopters the extreme non-adopters are sort of your marginal non-adopters people whom you think should be adopting who are in fact non-adopting and trying to figure out why is it that they are not adopting what you are proposing them to adopt and what is it that they would like to see in what is being offered which is different from what is is currently being being offered and then once the this sort of needs assessment has been done to go back to the drawing board in terms of supply not to start with the supply but to start with demand and then correspondingly deliver the kinds of technology and farming systems which are going to meet the expectations and the demands of farmers. So this technology improvement calling the green revolution is actually quite complex in rainfed agriculture 94 percent of the area in sub-Saharan Africa is rainfed rainfed means with a lot of heterogeneity there's a lot of complementary factors that have to be mobilized in order to make the technology acceptable for example if you look at fertilizer what you see is that the fertilizer as currently offered is only acceptable to be 30 40 percent of the land because it lacks either soil fertility or it lacks kind of management of soil acidity and as a consequence without packaging the fertilizer with those other complementary factors there is not going to be adoption the fertilizer is not profitable without those complementary interventions which means in a sense the need to customize the offer of technology to local conditions which is part of the difficulty so a supplied driven strategy would say well let's start from this heterogeneity so sorry so what my next step here is to say well this supplied driven strategy has been addressed to a very significant extent especially using randomized controlled trials a lot of the work done under attire with support of DFID and the Gates Foundation which has in a sense identified many ways of lifting the constraints on demand either in terms of behavior or in terms of market access or in terms of access to credit in terms of access to insurance and as a consequence being able to relax those demand constraints on the technology which is currently available but what we see is that we reach typically a ceiling which is going to be 34 40 percent at most quite often much less than that which tells us that in the end the technology which was made available for adoption may not be the one that was necessary and needed and desired by a majority of the farmers so that takes us on the demand side namely how do we start with identifying demand and they have been efforts and they are at the work that you did in the old times at SEAT the work of participatory reading the work in terms of CL the kind of participatory research with groups of farmers the use of the farmer field schools all of those were kind of efforts to try to elicit demand in order to identify what kind of technology would be necessary right usually the approach was too narrow was focusing too quickly on the expected solutions to the technological gap instead of starting with the problem the problem in essence should be not low yield but maybe poverty to say well if farmers are poor what is it that they would like to have in terms of technology that would overcome the constraints to improving incomes right there's an interesting approach that we were just discussing was just in Linn the so-called science and technology backyard platforms in China what you do is you take teams of scientists to the field and jointly identify with the farmers what are the presumed constraints on adoption and the presumed constraints on adoption may not be kind of not only technological or credit or insurance they emerge broader such as infrastructure such as behavior such as understanding and information right so I think what we need to do is to go back to the drawing board of technology to in order to identify what is the unmet demand and start investing in technology on the supply side only after we have correspondingly address what is it that research should be addressing so in conclusion we said a great revolution for good quality rainforests of South Africa is necessary but hard to achieve due to heterogeneity of conditions so the the main difficulty with the demand side in a sense is that we are talking about customization because we are talking about heterogeneity on the other hand their research is costly and so they are huge economies of scale in investing in research the reason why it works so easily with the great revolution is that it addressed irrigated farming where you have large areas which have similar conditions that you can invest in a technological package which is going to be applied very extensively in terms of area so you can you can capture economies of scale as soon as you customize what you do is you go to a situation where you recognize heterogeneity so pretty quickly you are going to face issues of economies of scale can you actually cost effectively develop those new technologies given the fact that demand is atomized and hence your technological solutions need to be customized and each customization effort is going to have a cost which is going to meet eventually reduced demand because of the so of the heterogeneity of conditions under which technology is being used right so what i'm saying here is that we need to kind of go back to the drawing board to look at not only how to break the constraints on demand to a supply driven technological effort but how to design a demand driven strategy which is going to be able to address the economies of scale in research which is a big challenge the cgi has importantly invested into this in the past it has met with strong limitations there has been if anything a move away from the participatory research participatory reading from the cl approach from the farmer field school and what we need to do is to find kind of new ways especially using it in order to be able to make more scale effective cost effective for me an economies of scale perspective the fact of customizing the supply of technology to the heterogeneity of demand right so that's my conclusion at the end i think the reason why we see a neglect of agriculture and a lack of technological progress may not be so much because of misunderstanding in terms of the recommendations to invest more in agriculture but the fact that the way we have proposed the investment in agriculture was not cost effective did not meet the demands for technology as they correspond to what farmers have we need to go back to the drawing board for this to engage into more participatory research but to find new institutional designs in order to do this in a cost effective fashion so thank you very much


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I find in a lot of other tutorials people talk too fast or they Don't explain what they're clicking on or what tools to use you explain everything You know, I'm saying I tried man I try why I can't choose the pressure options on My brush right here if you got a tablet like what I got if you're using something like this That's what we have here. I know my hands. I should look You want to come up to here? Set your brush.  I'm trying to help you Amazing. Thank you man. You amazing for leaving that amazing art job. Thanks, bro Can then a calligraphy pressure brush be used with an ipad pro apple pencil Yeah, you can you can use a pressure sensitivity brush with your ipad with your ipad pro and my favorite program to use on the ipad pro is called pro create So you should go and check that out if you're trying to get them same strokes you be seeing me get on illustrators It's pretty much Pretty much to you the same thing. So yeah, go on Go and check out pro create If you got an ipad pro and you trying to get them same lines where you can go thicker to the thin lines You know, I'm saying the same almost the same lines. I use on the double illustrator. It's pretty much the same thing Thanks for all the tips now all I need is a pen and tablet and the apple all the lessons you said is My first time trying to digital art. So wish me luck Man, I wish you more than luck man. So all you got to do is go at it With a clear mind makes you got some fresh ideas stay at it You will get better man. You just got to stick with it You're probably gonna hate it at first because when I first started using illustrator I was like man this program Too complicated, but then after a while you will start getting the hang of it and it'll become just just simple to You're insane You feel me. I'm glad somebody know you feel me. I'm glad somebody notice. I'm insane man. I'm crazy. I'm crazy You feel me. I'm just out there. 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I got to keep it up We got to keep it up Another extra line You feel me You dope bro for real you got a new striver and follower I'm a bitter illustrator and a graphic designer, but trying to dabble in paint and drawing You got talent for real and I learned something new take me out if you got some time Keep the grind up Babe, I'm gonna take you out bro and see what you got man. I appreciate you for the love and support man It's just some advice to you stay doing your thing stay grinding man We need more people out here. That's just create man. We need that in the world. We need a lot of creators to Show their perspective for what they see in life. You know what I'm saying? Because we all got something great to bring to the table. I feel Damn, this is lit.  That's all we need to we just need a second to see. Okay It's it's he it's he really it's he it's he real You know what I'm saying? Like I can tell if you're real in a second dawg, you know what I'm saying?  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Hi, welcome to Seymour's World. I'm Seymour Kazimerski on Think Tech Hawaii. We are here today to present a very, very interesting and very valuable show for people here in Hawaii as well as the rest of the world. We're going to be talking about medical marijuana. Before we do, I just want to say thank you to all the hundreds of people who have given me comments on the last show, which was the show I did with Jay Fidel called Here's to You, Seymour. I am fine. I want you all to know that my cancer is in check right now and I'm feeling great. And a matter of fact, our guest, who I'm going to introduce in a moment, is one of my tennis partners and paddle tennis partners. And we are going to be talking about something very close to my heart because I'm going to be going on a trial with cannabis for my cancer in the next few weeks. I'm going to see how it can do for me. So without further ado, because we have so much to talk about, I want to introduce Brian Goldstein. Brian, welcome to Seymour's World. Good morning. It's great to be here. I know, and you've been on here before, right? You were with me, I think two or three years ago when we did a show and you've been on with Jay before. And now your role as CEO of Minoa Botanicals, one of the licensees here in Hawaii. And I can tell all of you that Brian is one of the hardest workers I have ever, ever met. And when he decides to do something, he does it to the nth degree. He puts in 150% of his time and effort. And I'm very proud to have helped him a little bit in getting Minoa Botanicals started. So Brian, it's been a road for you, a difficult road, a hard road. But there's only three people on Oahu that have licenses and you are one of them. So first I want to say congratulations. Thanks Seymour. It's been a really interesting journey. I've been working on this full time for over two years now. And it's a real fortunate opportunity to be in the position to help bring this, I think, really valuable medicine to the qualified patients of Hawaii. You know, when we talk about that, Brian, we say it's medicine, we really have to get over the idea that marijuana is just the high. We have to understand that it truly is a medical breakthrough. It's been used for a long, long time, many, many years. I spent two weeks in Israel, as you know, doing some research on medical marijuana. And when I was there, I was shocked at how many ailments medical marijuana is assisting. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Yeah, well, the history of cannabis goes back about 3,000 years. I mean, human beings and cannabis have been interacting for a very long time. And there's documentary evidence to show that in Egypt, in China, and in Europe, and in America, that cannabis has been used as medicine for hundreds and thousands of years. It's really only in the last 80 years, due to politics and racism that marijuana has been made illegal by state, local, and federal governments. But we're really, in the last, I think, 10 to 15 years, we're seeing a lot of progress in recognizing and acknowledging the medicinal benefits of cannabis. There is, unfortunately, because of the limits on research, and your other guest today is really going to be able to talk to that, because the limitations on federal research, because cannabis is a schedule one controlled substance, there really isn't a lot of data other than anecdotes. And some clinical research trials that have been done showing the efficacy of cannabis in a variety of conditions. The most important, some of the most well documented is for helping in pain. And so there's really a lot of conditions for a lot of people that cannabis can help. In particular, we're seeing an opioid crisis in this country. And one of the interesting sort of factoids that a lot of people aren't aware of is in the states where cannabis, medical marijuana is legal, they're seeing significant drops of prescriptions of opioids. And here in Hawaii, Brian, it's a necessity because we've got a crisis here in Hawaii. And we have probably one of the worst percentages of opioid use here in Hawaii. We've got a high amount of young people on opioids. And when I did my research in Israel, I found breast cancer, I found sleep disorders, I found pain management, I found so many different ways that cannabis is being used medically. And I think it's important for people to know why Minoa Botanicals is such a leader in this. We have a guest here today, which is your medical director, Dr. Susan Sisley. And Susan, we're going to get on with you very shortly. But I want you to talk about Minoa Botanicals and why you are such a real proponent of using medical cannabis. Well, when I started this journey of building the company and the team, I really set out and tried to understand what the medical and therapeutic benefits of cannabis were. And we built, in doing that, we built a team of professionals, of scientists, of researchers, of physicians, and farmers. Because in this case, we're actually farming a medicine, which is really a little unusual. And that's one of the reasons why I called the company Minoa Botanicals. Because really cannabis is a whole plant botanical. And so our goal is to bring a really high quality pharmaceutical grade medicine to the qualified patients of Hawaiian to conduct research. And helping, and some of the goals of that research will be to develop specific strains that have therapeutic benefits for particular disorders. We're starting to see research on that, like that in Israel, as an example, in other locations around the world. But what is, I think, the most fun part for me is the opportunity to work with incredibly talented people like Dr. Cisley. Without further ado, let's introduce Dr. Cisley. She's been associated with you. How long? Well, I met Sue. I guess it's about a year, year and a half ago in the pre-licensed period, as I was sort of doing research on the industry. And it took us, we spent several months getting to know each other and sort of seeing if we could work together. And I love her. She's an amazing, amazingly talented researcher, compassionate physician, and really well-informed expert. In fact, I never know when I call or text Sue where she is going to be in the world. As an example, she's at a conference in Washington D.C. Now she's a sought after speaker globally in the area of cannabis research. And I'm just super pleased to have her part of the Minoa team. That's wonderful. Sue, may I call you Sue instead of Dr. Cisley? Please, Sue. It's much better. Welcome to See More's World. It's a pleasure to see you. At least we can see a little bit of you. We can't see you directly. And you are in Washington. And I understand there's a bunch of bills in Congress that are being considered right now. Yes. And some of them will help loosen the restrictions on cannabis research. So that's why I'm out here trying to provide guidance. And we have firsthand experience now with the barriers to research that the government has erected over so many decades. And so we can testify firsthand about how difficult these barriers are to overcome and how they prevent scientists from entering the field. And one of the things that Brian just mentioned about that we are missing right now what we call strain science, which is what strains are best for what illness is. And that was part of why I was so pleased to team up with Brian, because I see that he's very committed to that science. And that's the science that is directly relevant to the day-to-day lives of his patients. His patients have specific questions about how does cannabis work for my illness? And those are the things that the government has impeded this work for so long. But now Brian has a golden opportunity to start, you know, as he begins to, you know, cultivate this medicine. He can collect the feedback from these patients. He can collect clinical experiences about how patients are responding to various strains of cannabis and begin to look at trends of what strains seem to be best for, you know, chemotherapy-induced nausea, what strains seem to be best for intractable neuropathic pain. And we can begin to not just collect the data, but publish it. And that's what I see that, you know, Brian's always been very serious about that. A lot of teams claim that they're going to do that and never follow through. But I know that he's determined to really make that happen. And it's going to take us a long time. It's not something that happens in a moment. You know, but I expect within the first couple of years we'll already have a substantial amount of data that we can begin to publish and put into the public domain. I admire you, Sue, because you're speaking directly to a topic that's very close to my heart. I have cancer and it's a CLL, leukemia lymphoma type cancer. And I'm on a certain trial drug now, but I was just in touch with somebody in Israel, a doctor in Israel, who is preparing a cannabis treatment for me. And I have a lot of faith in it because when I went to Israel, as I mentioned before, I found that they are very, very profoundly interested in direct connections between certain strains of cannabis to certain strains of illnesses. And it has really started to work. Let me ask you something, Sue. As medical director for Minoa Botanicals, I find Minoa Botanicals of all of the licensees here in Hawaii very, very focused on the medical use. How can you do that here in Hawaii? Can you actually grow certain cannabis products, or maybe, Brian, you should answer that, that are directly related to Alzheimer's or to certain types of diseases? Well, we're going to cultivate, we're going to bring, when we open our store, we expect we'll have probably about a dozen or so strains available, and we're going to be rotating those strains through our dispensary. And one of the goals is to collect data from our patients for their specific conditions and to understand which strains are benefiting them. And as that data is collected, we're going to be able to target our cultivation strategy to target those strains. So one of the ways that we do that is we have a variety of strains that have different levels of CBDs or cannabinoids and the relationship to THC. So we're going to have high CBD strains, we'll have low THC strains. And because we're on an island in the middle of the Pacific and nothing can get shipped in or out of here due to the federal restrictions, we have to grow everything, manufacture everything, and sell everything. So it's really a fairly complex operation and a pretty expensive operation to stand up. In most locations on the mainland, these would be three separate companies, a grower, manufacturer, and a dispensary. And what we're doing is we're standing up all three operations simultaneously in parallel and trying to do it quickly so that we can get this medicine to the qualified patients of Hawaii who have been waiting a really long time. What is the status right now, Brian? Where are we as to when you're going to be able to open? Minora received a notice to proceed from the Department of Health to begin cultivation of cannabis in early February. We constructed a nursery to start those initial growth operations and it's going very, very well. We are very close to completing construction of our main production facility. And if things go reasonably well, and most importantly if we can get some testing labs certified in the next couple of months, then we should be ready to open our dispensary in the fall later this year. Wonderful. Well, that's going to be very good news to a lot of patients that I have been speaking to and people are calling me all the time and saying, when are you opening? When are you opening? And I keep saying, well, I don't know. So you feel that the fall will probably be around that period of time. Yeah. I mean, I know you've been delayed several times because of the state issues and lab issues. Yeah, one of the key challenges that we face is that there are no certified labs to test our medicine. And the Hawaii statute requires that any products that we sell in our dispensary have to be lab tested, which is very important for us and for our patients. And there are currently no labs and we don't have visibility on when one or more labs will receive their certification from the Department of Health. Well, let's take a short break. And then we're going to continue with Dr. Sue Sisley in Washington and with you and discuss more about the medical side of marijuana, because I'm very interested in where you are going in the future. Today, we have obviously certain strains, but I'd like to know what's happening in the future. This is Seymour Kazimurski on Seymour's World. We'll be back in a minute with Brian Goldstein and Dr. Sue Sisley. Thank you. Aloha, this is your host Beatrice Contelmo. Come and join us every Friday at four o'clock on Perspectives of Global Justice. Hello, I'm Dean Nelson, host of Planet of the Courageous. From a Tibetan point of view, we chose to be on this planet because we enrolled in a sort of graduate school for courage. Just that we may have chosen this adventure is a leap of logic. The question is, how do we spend and make sense of this precious human life? We are, as a species, extraordinarily successful, dominating the planet and now with planetary size problems that our existence itself has created. It takes courage to face not only the uncertainty of life, but also the challenge of sustaining this gift of life for future generations. Join us every Monday at three p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha. Hi, welcome back to Seymour's World on Think Tech Hawaii. Our topic today is Medical Marijuana, especially here for Hawaii with Minoa Botanicals. My guests are Brian Goldstein, who is CEO of Minoa Botanicals and we have Dr. Sue Sistli talking to us from Washington DC, who is the medical director for Minoa Botanicals. Sue, I want to get into what's happening with research. I see many, many papers. As a matter of fact, Dr. Philip Kim, who's a friend of mine, just sent you a paper. I don't know whether you got to read it or not, which is pain management. His work in pain management is astounding. I was amazing at how many patients he treats with cannabis for pain management. Sue, can you talk to that for us, please? What's happening? Yeah, well, we were really lucky. In January of this year, the National Academy of Sciences released what I consider a really groundbreaking report called the Health Effects of Cannabis and the Current State of Evidence for Cannabis Research. The report stated that there is conclusive evidence that marijuana can be used as a medicine, and that's really the first time we've ever seen a federal agency come out with such a definitive statement. Basically, the report found that they didn't find clinical evidence for all conditions that cannabis treatment is often associated with, but it recognized its immense efficacy for treating many different medical conditions such as what you just mentioned, the chronic pain in adults that also found substantial data to support cannabis for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, and also showed very strong efficacy for cannabis for multiple sclerosis and the spasticity, you know, the kind of musculoskeletal neurologic problems associated with MS. So I think this report is really a vindication for all of the patients and health providers and researchers who've long understood the benefits of medical cannabis and who've dared to speak publicly about that, but have been at odds with our own government who continues to insist that cannabis has no medical benefit, continues to, you know, to lump it into Schedule 1 with all these much more toxic drugs. So we finally have a thorough review of the scientific evidence from a respected federal agency that concludes that there are serious medical benefits to cannabis that really should boost the case for federal reform. That's what I'm hoping that out of this report, and that's what I've been doing here in Washington, D.C., is taking that 400-page report and distributing it to all of these members who continue to hold very antiquated notions about cannabis to try to show them, look, your own federal government is now endorsing cannabis as a medicine. And I think this report really underlines how out of touch the DEA and other, you know, opponents of cannabis are when they continue to claim cannabis has no medical benefit. Let me ask you, Sue, what is your 12-month forecast? Where do you see us going when it comes to the federal government? Do you see the federal government actually changing their ways? Are they going to start looking at it? Is it going to take two years? What's your forecast? Well, now being out here and dealing with these, you know, electeds one-on-one has been pretty discouraging. I have to say that I'm worried that we're up against a brick wall here. And hopefully, they at least won't roll back what the existing structure, if they would at least, you know, the good news is with the conservatives empowered, they all at least claim that they respect the 10th Amendment and that they will take a hands-off approach to medical programs and respect states' rights. So I'm hoping that they will abide by that, but it's still really unclear. As long as we have an attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who is kind of making these sort of wishy-washy statements about respecting states' rights, I continue to worry. And that's why it's so important that we have a presence here in D.C. and don't let these guys off the hook. You know, we need to keep their feet to the fire and help them see that there is real science to support this, that this isn't pseudo science. These are controlled trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals. This is serious data. And the fact that we now have 28, actually soon to be 29 states, I don't know if you saw them, West Virginia is about ready to sign a medical cannabis law. So, you know, in another month, we'll have 29 U.S. states that have approved medical marijuana, another 16 states that have CBD-only laws. You know, last summer the DEA announced it would not reschedule cannabis, but this NAS report had made it very clear that the barriers to doing meaningful research on this plant are really impossible to overcome. It's amazing that we have the studies that we actually, you know, that have been published, even in the midst of all the efforts of the government to systematically impede this work, and yet we still have an immense amount of scientific data to support its medical use. You're absolutely correct. Brian Minoa Botanicals here in Hawaii is obviously a leader in getting ready to get started, right? And the products that you have, the medical cannabis products that you are going to be selling, those will be already authorized. Those will be products that can go to those patients directly. Right. So, Minoa, as well as any of the other licensees, we have to be in compliance with state law. There's a group of products that we're going to be able to sell, including flour and oils and tinctures, lotions, ointments, topicals, no edibles, no soft drinks, no brownies, no gummies, but regardless, it's still contrary to federal law. But here in the state, we're going to be able to get the benefit of all of that research that Sue is talking about. Yeah. I mean, part of the challenge is that some of the research, well, it depends on what the research is on, whether it's on whole plant smoked cannabis like Dr. Cicely's study. Dr. Cicely's doing a groundbreaking study on whole plant smoked cannabis for the treatment of PTSD in veterans, which is very unusual because most other studies are on specific extracts, or they might pull out a specific molecular cannabinoid. Here in Hawaii, because we're in the middle of the Pacific and we're surrounded by federal air and federal waters, we have a lot of limitations. And so, we have partnered with the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, which is a 130-plus-year-old organization that does agricultural breeding and research. We have a half dozen PhDs at Hawaii Agriculture Research Center that are available to us to conduct breeding research. So, as we start to see data come in from our patients, we're going to be able to use that data with the expertise of Dr. Cicely and some of our other physicians, as well as the breeding capabilities of the network of agricultural experts that we brought to bear to hopefully bring some Hawaii specific genetics into the world of medical marijuana. What about physicians, Brian? Yeah. So, one of the challenges is that we don't have a lot of physicians in Hawaii that are certifying patients. And one of our key challenges and goals is to educate physicians as well as registered nurses in addition to potential patients on the medical and therapeutic benefits of cannabis so that when patients go to their doctors and ask, and this is happening a lot, when they ask about medical marijuana, that the physician or registered nurse is informed and can provide accurate and valuable information. So, right now, doctors and PAs, physicians, assistants and nurses, can prescribe? In Hawaii, it's one of the few states that allows APRNs to certify patients. So, any physician or medical professional that has the ability to, a DEA license to write prescriptions, can certify patients for medical marijuana. Unfortunately, none of the large hospitals allow their physicians who are employees to certify while they're employed. So, it's really independent physicians and nurses that are really leading the charge here and are in the vanguard of providing these certification services. So, a patient goes to a physician and the physician is able to write a prescription? No, it's not a prescription. So, you cannot prescribe marijuana or cannabis. So, what they do is they certify that the patient has a qualifying condition such as chronic pain or um, wasting syndrome or cancer or AIDS, PTSD. And once they are certified as having a qualifying condition, then they can get a medical marijuana card from the Department of Health. It's actually a very easy process. It took me about 10 days to get my medical marijuana card. So, you go to your physician first. You have a condition that the physician can say you are okay to get a card and then you go to the Department of Health. It's not a prescription. It's all online. But you must go to your physician first. A physician. It doesn't need to be the physician that you normally go to because frequently the people that your regular primary care physician will may not be willing to certify you. They may not be in the position to. It may not be somebody. So, for example, they work for Straub or Capulani or Hawaii Pacific Health. They cannot. They cannot. So, there are clinics. Is there a list? We have a list of certifying physicians. Where do they go? Just send an email to info at manoabatanicles.com and we will respond with a list of physicians and clinics that will make an appointment, see a patient, and if they have a qualifying condition, we'll certify you. Wonderful. Well, I have to say, Sue and Brian, this has been, it's not enough time because I really want to discuss more about the medical side.  And I know, Brian, you're anxious to get it into the patient's hands because it is a medicine. And for those of you in our audience, I can just say that for me as an individual, I've done so much research on it in Israel and I get research that I see. And we just have to get the doctors to understand that this is something that is a medicine. It is not simply a high. I was shocked and amazed when I saw Jeff Sessions, who Sue Cisley talked about and said, do we need more marijuana at the drug store? I mean, that's a ridiculous statement that he put out. And I just feel that we have to treat it seriously. Here in Hawaii, we are one of the most progressive states. And I think because we've had medical marijuana laws on the books for how many years, Brian? 17 years. 17 years we've had it on the books and nowhere for people to buy it. Manoa Botanicals will be out there open hopefully this fall. Yep, later this year. And hopefully we'll be able to help patients find a way to help cure or to help ease some of the pain that they have. So thank you, Brian, and thank you, Sue and Washington. I feel this is one of the most important topics we have because if we can help people in any way shape or form, that's what Seymour's world is all about. So thank you for appearing on our show. It's a pleasure. Thanks for having us. It's our pleasure. Thanks, Seymour. Thank you, Sue. And to all of you, I will be back in two weeks with a new commentary, as well as a show that I think you will be very, very interested in. Again, all of your comments, all of your emails, texts and phone calls, as long as you love the show, send them to me. Otherwise, don't send them at all. Aloha from Hawaii. Be well, everybody. See you in two weeks from Seymour's world on Think Tech Hawaii. We're done. Thank you. All right, Sue, thank you. Great, yeah. Sue, thank you very much.


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