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But then Barbosa went on to shatter my expectations.
You guys did to weed what white people did to hip-hop, he says in the clip.
You gentrified it and you got rich off it.
Weed is so legit here.
I bought it and the package even had a warning label on it.
It said, Use with extreme caution.
I was like,Dude, Im from a state where people still go to jail for weed.
Trust me: Ive been using it with extreme caution.
He finds inventive ways to tackle oft-discussed topics like social anxiety and the oddities of social media.
Regarding his social anxiety, Barbosa says, I feel like Im an undercover cop at parties.
I just walk around talking to myself, like, Play it cool, Ralph.
They think youre one of them.
And then someone will walk up and be like, Hey, you know where the restrooms at?
And Ill be like, I dont I didnt want to be here.
Texas has not legalized weed, he says of the policies in his home state.
Weve been asking them to, and they just gave us more guns.
We were like, We just want to carry weed.
They were like, How about carry a bazooka?I was like, I dont want to.
They were like, No license needed.
I like California style better.
You guys were like, Lets make it easier for people to smoke weed.
And Texas was like, Nah.
Lets make it easier for people to smoke other people.
In the same section, he uses weed as a lens through which to explore Americans attitudes toward taxpaying.
A lot of people still dont buy from dispensaries, he explains.
Theyd rather go to a dealer because dispensaries tax so much.
At least we know where the dollar is going, right?
