chairman ronen, my name is -- i've been in the city since 1997, when i started at u.s.f., coming here from germany as an 18-year-old. i haven't left the city since. i started in cannabis in '99, also when i got arrested. and i was fortunate enough to not get convicted, but the arrest record obviously has been following me around my whole life. every time i come to san francisco airport, i get pulled out for a cannabis arrest record. it takes me about three hours to leave the airport. the reason i'm here and applied for multiple seats, i'm one of the few cottage producers from the sunset, that managed to raise $2 million, $3 million from the public company. we managed to transition out of the sunset and out of the back of the plant cafe into a very nice manufacturing space, that we're currently building out and almost finished. i think we were one of the first cannabis companies to actually navigate the d.b.i. process. and i've been following supervisor fewer's legislation since she put it forth. i think my main motivation is seeing how many people from the smaller and disadvantaged ne