What is the Drug War? With Jay-Z & Molly Crabapple
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The Drug Policy Alliance has teamed up with artists Jay-Z and Molly Crabapple to tell the brief history of how the Drug War went from prohibition to the gold rush of the legalized cannabis industry. Do you know your history?
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_"Umm well its actually because racism"_
Oh great, what an informative video
This needs to be seen by everyone!!!!
Thank you for this video. I wish you would have included how now they want people to have sympathy for the new heroin and pill poppers when they mocked crack heads.
I was thinking the same!! He didn't mention the single most horrific drug out there right now.
Two wrongs don't make a right. It's time we start treating all addiction as what it is: a mental health issue. Not a crime worthy of years in a cold prison and a mark against you for the rest of your life. No matter the drug. No matter the race or sex of the offender.
Wablestomp2
The ONLY reason our government is treating opium/heroine addiction as a "mental health issue" is because it *primarily affects white people.*
Both drugs are poisonous and both types of dealers need to be locked up.
2pac changes " instead of a war on poverty they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me" Thanks Hov for teaming up on the video.. Much respect for that.
Appreciate this very much - war on drugs just made me a criminal by making kratom illegal - and I'm 70 years old using it for pain relief - gotta bring this to AN END !!!
I vote Libertarian
*Kratom is one of the best wonder drugs on earth. It's very safe, very effective, yet criminalised?!!! 😵 WTF!! It's even better than cannabis. Governments are the most anti-science psychopaths of all that exists in our society.*
War on Drugs was indeed an "epic fail"... Reaganomics wasn't the best for ALL citizens and under his watch, the inner-city became a hell-hole for sure. But we have to be honest: when Jay-Z says "incarceration rates skyrocketed in the 90's"... it's a little strange that we don't get the name of the president in the 90's who signed the 3 Strikes law and "Tough on Crime" laws. It's also strange that we don't get the name of the president in 2014 under whose watch there were 1.5 million drug arrests, 80% of which were for possession, Jay-Z tells us. BTW, that same president doesn't even get his face drawn in the picture at the end. Strange. To be clear, I'm a HUGE Jay-Z fan. I love his music because I think he's really trying to be honest. But I can't say the same for this video. And that's disappointing because I do believe his bottom line is true: war on drugs was/is an epic fail. I just wish everyone could admit that the plan has conspirators on all sides.
Its true that Clinton passed these laws with overwhelming bipatisan support, and yes that matters. However when it comes to Obama he couldn't do shit even if he wanted (he did by pardoning people who went to jail for drug offenses) as the Repuclans swore from 2008 to never support him no matter what.
Hove could make a thug fall in love with the story of Cinderella. This is deep though. The game is much deeper than people think.
This is why I fux with you Guilty!
This was really interesting and well said and the art is just amazing. Growing up in a white collar neighborhood I am just now learning of our horrid history in Canada and the USA and I’m appalled and astounded by what I’m hearing. Racism is just unacceptable and I can’t believe it is still happening today in the year 2020.
Yeah. As an American, I couldn't agree more with that statement. Kids shouldn't go to jail for smoking weed... so dumb.
crazy that there are ppl who have never experienced what we have to witness on a daily basis. racism sucks, we need it to end.
Jay Z - "My home state of New York started this with Rockefeller laws." Nas - "And that's the guy y'all chose to name your company after?"
@DJMarkCornelius ha lmfao that was a good one bruh
Excellent video!! Very well-informed and such beautiful art. I like Jay-Z more now. :P Regardless of what any government says... All human beings should have the right to have complete sovereignty over their own bodies and what they put inside them. The motivation to experiment with one's consciousness through various means, including drugs, is a core human characteristic. The world is fooling themselves to think otherwise and to attempt to control such a natural desire. Might as well criminalize fatty foods and sex while they're at it (and I think they would if they could make money off of it).
someone work with Jay to be more conscious!!! I love this Jay!
I love the effort and intent behind it... but why did he leave out Clinton and Obama? Together that's 16 years of progress between them in the WRONG direction (but the same as Republicans in this War on Drugs).
@Carl Williams Thanks for sharing the gospel (though I saw nothing about repentance). Did I say something that made you think I needed to be exposed to it? Have you visited my page?
@@MrAntiOrdinary Clinton I agree, but drug decriminalization started with Obama: www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-marijuana-decriminalization_n_6881374
time.com/5649/marijuana-obama-decriminalization/
I don't think people realize how much congress left his hands tied. Just like with up till recently, McConnell refused to let anything even remotely progressive get passed congress, and Obama was too soft when it came to using executive orders to push things through. As far as the War on Drugs is concerned, I definitely agree that the main players were Nixon and Reagan. They were the ones that set the stage, ignored the data, and forced this 40+ year trend of democrats cow-towing to senate republicans and republican voters when it comes to any hope of getting elected or getting anything even remotely done. Obama had one chance to really change things, his first term in office. Unfortunately, much of that time was spent addressing Bush's fuck ups and taking the fall for bailing out Wall Street, when it was Bush that caused the housing crisis to begin with. I know that really fucked up his reputation, but realistically speaking, there really wasn't much left that could be done, as those same bankers already had their own ties to congress at the time.
Now that the ball is fully in the democrats' court, let's see how things play out. The are pushing for the MORE Act which fully federally legalizes marijuana, but they also seem hesitant of ending the filibuster, which senate republicans can use to kill it, so let's see where things go from here.
CANT FAIL IF YOUR INTENTIONS WHERE TO MAKE IT THAT WAY! SHOUTS TO HOV
I have so much more respect for Jay Z after seeing this. He is absolutely right
I lost all respect for jayz. He had Obama on text but couldn’t influence him to do anything about the drug issue.
Your being dishonest a major point in this video was the difference between time given for the same drug and mandatory sentences Obama did away with those.Trump tried to reinstate them.
How Did y'all get Jay to narrate this, amazing short film.
The sad thing is, a certain side of the political climate won't even listen to this argument and think the police/criminal justice can do no wrong
I hope you make a video that shows alcohol causes over 20 different kinds of cancer and tobacco is the number one legal killing drug in the world. Thank you for the work you have done.
The initiation of force is the opposite of peace and freedom.
Nowhere enough views!
I'll blog link it.
Nonsense
People in this comment section are saying that this wasn't targeted on blacks and latinos but rather the poor. Most lower class communities have a larger number of blacks and latinos. Also some of you are suggesting that racism wasn't involved towards these young black and Latino men when the war against drugs was created that's absolutely wrong. I appreciate Jay Z for using this platform to release this message on his personal experience, and the experience that many other black and Latino men caught in the system experience daily.
fuck latinos. they have nothing to do with us and want nothing to do with us. the similarities only go so far
@Carl Williams God bless you
The war on drugs isn't an epic fail. It's doing exactly what it is supposed to. The failure is in our inability to get these fascists out of power for good.
I agree, totally. However, it sounds like Jay Z has the mic up his nose...
@Carl Williams Sir, this is a Wendy's.
WE NEED TO SHARE THIS NOW MORE THAN EVER
Open your brain, and listen
What is the definition of irony? Jay Z, cofounder of Roc-A-Fella Records, taking about The Rockefeller Drug Laws.
His knowledge of the war on drugs came before he ever had a name in hip-hop. The irony is only seen in retrospect.
War'agwarn Jay Zed
is there a transcript for this video?
Thank you for asking. I've downloaded the closed captions and pasted below. Hope this is helpful!
In 1986
when I was coming of age,
Ronald Reagan doubled
down on the War on Drugs
that had been started by
Richard Nixon in 1971.
Drugs were bad,
fried your brain.
And drug dealers were monsters
the sole reason neighborhoods
and major cities were failing.
No one wanted to talk about Reaganomics
and the ending of social safety nets,
the defunding of schools,
and the loss of jobs in
cities across America.
Young men like me who hustled
became the sole villain
and drug addicts lacked
moral fortitude.
In the 1990s,
incarceration rates in the U.S.
blew up.
Today we imprison more people than
any other country in the world.
China, Russia, Iran, Cuba--
all countries we consider
autocratic and repressive.
Yeah, more than them.
Judges' hands were tied
by "tough on crime" laws
and they were forced to hand
out mandatory life sentences
for simple possession and
low-level drug sales.
My home state of New York started
this with Rockefeller Laws.
Then the Feds made distinctions between people
who sold powder cocaine and crack cocaine.
even though they
were the same drug.
Only difference is
how you take it.
And even though White people used and
sold crack more than Black people,
somehow it was Black
people who went to prison.
The media ignored actual data.
To this day, crack is still
talked about as a Black problem.
The NYPD raided our
Brooklyn neighborhoods
while Manhattan bankers openly
used coke with impunity.
The War on Drugs exploded the U.S.
prison population
disproportionately locking
away Black and Latinos.
Our prison population
grew more than 900%.
When the War on Drugs
began in 1971,
our prison population
was 200,000.
Today it is over 2 million.
Long after the crack era ended,
we continued our war on drugs.
There were more than 1.5
million drug arrests in 2014.
More than 80% were
for possession only.
Almost half were for marijuana.
People are finally talking about treating an
addiction to harder drugs as a health crisis,
but there's no compassionate
language about drug dealers.
Unless, of course, we're talking
about places like Colorado,
whose state economy got a huge boost by
the above-ground marijuana industry.
A few states south in Louisiana,
they're still handing out mandatory
sentences to people who sell weed.
Despite a booming and celebrated $50
billion legal marijuana industry,
most states still disproportionately hand out
mandatory sentences to Black and Latinos
with drug cases.
If you're entrepreneurial and live in one of the
many states that are passing legalized laws,
you may still face barriers to
participating in the above ground economy.
Venture capitalists migrate to these states
to open multi-billion dollar operations,
but former felons can't
open a dispensary.
Lots of times those
felonies were drug charges,
caught by poor people who
sold drugs for a living,
but are now prohibited from participating
in one of the fastest growing economies.
Got it?
In states like New York,
where holding marijuana is no
longer grounds for arrest,
police issue possession citations
in Black and Latino neighborhoods
at a far higher rate than
other neighborhoods.
Kids in Crown Heights are constantly
stopped and ticketed for trees.
Kids at dorms in Columbia,
where rates of marijuana use are equal
to or worse than those in the hood,
are never targeted or ticketed.
Rates of drug use are as high as they were
when Nixon declared this so-called war in 1971
Forty-five years later,
it's time to rethink
our policies and laws.
The War on Drugs is an epic fail.
@@DrugPolicyAlliance thank you so much, thats really helpful
real talk
Jay Z wore Aleister Crowley's motto "Do as thou wilt" on his clothing. This is where that wicked ideology leads to.
hi. may i ask what do you use for filming/ what equipment you use to get the angle and different effects? And the pen you use for drawing? These are AMAZING! thank you
Precisely!!!
Anytime someone praises Reagan I always revert back to this video
Wake y'all, like seriously
damm he's so right
All facts, conservatives are gonna cry a river after they see this. There's no way to refute it, so just deal with it lol peace to the God Hov for droppin that truth
Superbly done!
Much respect for the DPA, but give the full history! The vid starts at Reagan, and mentions Nixon, but California was the first state to criminalize Cannabis in 1911, because Mexican's smoked it. You said nothing about the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, that ruined lives, but people are enacting these same laws now in legalization schemes. Bribing the government to "let" us use an indigenous plant with no adverse effects is not the answer. Nixon's refusal to accept the Schafer Report, Nancy Reagan's "greatest generation" just say no ignorance and a media hungry president blew up the prison population, I agree. But the war on drugs has been 100 years of social dissonance between nature and a despotic government. Before that, people were free to smoke the natural plant, and Bayer sold Heroin tablets over the counter. Our current madness started with 'REEFER MADNESS', and alcohol prohibition. You think it's bad now; a President Trump will have no problem building more prisons, or tents in the desert if that suits him. Legal and medical states, get ready for Bush II type raids again and your assets seized by Trump. He needs your money to build that wall, and would probably satisfy himself privately on the gathering up of undocumented immigrants and dropping them to their death on the other side of the desert border.
it's more about the modern war on drugs, not opium and stuff like that.
Carl Williams agnostics 4:12 - stfu
Thank you for sharing this perspective. My home was raided in 2014 because I was cultivating cannabis in my basement. I was caught with over 80 mature marijuana plants and my wife and I were facing 4 Felonies a piece. The authorities had no evidence that I ever sold anything. My wife and I are over 5 years clean, and sober now. As far as this video is concerned... I believe this is an interesting way to (frame) rationalize and justify behaviors that have clearly hurt hundreds of thousands of people in this country. Not a narrative I will be promoting. THANK YOU FOR SHARING and keep coming back!
Hurt millions and destroyed generations.and it was by design.
That ice bro!
Same here in Switzerland, but of course, we don't jail people for smoking, only selling. Fuck drug wars. We gonna take over the shit with our generation. Some even says that weed make people violent but hey, how about alcohol? U get it? I want to smoke trees Under palm trees like 50. Bless out to all worlwide smokers
I disagree with this a little bit on the part of it saying, the people doing things illegally would get victimized before the rich white man comes in. My reason is before legalization of recreational weed, states practice medicinal purposes first and the laws to that is easy to grab to become a caregiver within those states before weed was becoming recreational. In conclusion if a person we're to make money from selling weed before corp came in they would have been doing it legally when that opportunity was there for 10+ years
Jayz is the 1%
Carl Williams even the Wuhan scientist who created covid?
This is great, can you do one on America's education system?
Yes. We should move to a voucher system.
Where is the rap he did on this topic? I'm sick of watching Ari Miller explain it to me!
He is probably one of those damned Reefer addicts
HOV the greatest
Absolutely beautiful, stunning artwork. And it's nice to hear Jay-Z speaking so clearly and intelligently. I like his voice. Super well done, very moving.
"Wazzat suposstoo meen?!!!!"- JayZ
@@oldskool1977 Been two years since I saw this video; not thrilled about the second part of my comment; point taken.
We want compensation #CrownCasino
the sad truth
weed ain't SHIT!
Very good and funny videos bring a great sense of entertainment!
That's Nancy Reagan.
By the way.
Who's here after the Soulja Boy interview?
How does this video not have more views?
Was he speaking from a actual interview?
Wow great video
This vedeo is so opainfully biased. There are almost no sources provided, and everything is unesecarily made racial. Drugs are bad! We need to help people stop using them! Leave it at that
It’s very factual that the war on drugs severally affected the black and brown community waaaaaaay more than white people, even though everybody was on drugs. I implore to search “the war on drugs effects on the black community” and many articles pop up. Have fun reading!
+ the war on drugs did absolutely nothing other than sending thousands of black and brown people to prison
Who is the artist drawing?! ✍🏾
Anyone know????
Molly crabapple
"I don't know what you take me as
Or understand the intelligence that Jay Z has!" -Brilliant!!
Agreed... but he's also too smart not to know Clinton and Obama (why isn't his face drawn at the end?) were accomplices in this too. You can't call out Reaganomics and forget who signed all the "Tough on Crime" legislation.
love this shit.
Poa.sana.jz
that's deep!
souer rose gorges
this is gold.
amazing
THANK YOU
Is there a transcript for this?
Hello! Under any UA-cam video, you can click on the 3 dots (under the video on the right-hand side), then select "open transcript" and then click the 3-dots there to "toggle timestamps". You can then select all the text and copy/paste it into a document. Hope this is helpful!
crack is more addictive and can be distributed more easily
Give a drug addict money they will smoke it... Give a drug dealer money they will invest it.... So respect the work ethic of the drug dealer because if they had your parents, and income level, and investment money they would be landlords and entrepreneurs...🧔🏾
The war on drug isn’t an “epic fail” it did what it was intended to do!
It didn’t though
pills and heroin are the growing problem in the U.S. and U.K. right now
That has nothing to do with this video though
So what's his point
Obviously that we need to rethink the war on drugs like he said at the end.
I can't fathom how you could watch this whole video and not see the point...
Well I mean he didn't say he was going to do anything about it hes just reading out of a book lmao everybody knows the drug war failed because I can buy any drug faster then McDonald's class with jay z lmao jay z do more for your people with your power if you care all of em we should be getting educational heart felt tracks for the people so they know there is another way besides your commercial drug dealing music
Andrew Smith I know this is two years later...dude punctuation is your friend. I read what you wrote three times and still have a hard time understanding what you wrote.
Here’s the thing, everyone DOES NOT know the war on drugs is a “failure”. Big drug busts are what get police precincts the money, recognition, and militarized weapons. Not serial killers or murders...drug busts. And it’s not about “what Jay Z going to do about it”. He’s been doing his part for decades. It’s about what are YOU, me, and the MILLIONs of United States citizens doing about it. Jay Z is one man just like MLK, Malcolm, Medgar, etc. Change happens when a tsunami of people demand it, strategize on how to create it, and then stay the course even in the face of death. Until we collectively agree to:
- agree on how damaging the war on drugs really is on EVERY Community (because it is).
- fight to change current drug laws on a state and federal level and stop vilifying addicts
- legalize, study, and treat addiction as a medical problem (because it is)
- bring opportunity and equity to communities that still rely on selling drugs as a way to not starve.
There is nothing Jay Z or any singular celebrity can do to fix the problem. It’s OUR problem and currently, it’s not that high on the list for many of us.
Carl Williams I bet Jesus knew the importance of staying on the f*cking topic. Didn’t bother reading it & reported comments for spam. ✌🏾
bass ackwards
WAAAAAAAAAAA
Jeff Crafton im poor so i have to sell drugs WAAHHHHHH.
Don't do drugs.
Don't initiate force.
Congrats, you missed the point entirely.
Jay z should narrate movies his voice is perfect for that art.
Great work JayZ thanks