Here are the pros and cons of weed legalization
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Melissa Moore, deputy director of New York State Policy Office, and Luke Niforatos, chief of staff and senior policy advisor at SAM, debate whether pot should be legal in the U.S. with CNBC's "Power Lunch" team.
that guy is the type of kid to tell on you for smoking the devils lettuce
vietimports I think she ate his lunch.... the state were I work then a smile... poor kid
Jesus's lettuce ;D
@@nonamenovember5530 the devil is technically an angel too
God let us smoke the devil's lettuce. Amen
That guy is saying the truth. The only folks who care about legalizing marijuana are white folks because they don't need to live in a neighborhood where weed and drug dealing is occurring constantly and you get to witness young people destroying their future. Anyone who supports legalizing marijuana is part of a bigger problem in this country.
It’s weird how the guy acknowledges the fact weed has been around for ages and doesn’t seem to have caused any harm in that time (since the 70s he says) but yet 6 years is not enough time? I think the last 50 years have given enough data just legalise it for gods sake
Legal or not I’m still smoking.
Can I come & visit?
Aaron Ehrhart anytime
Come on over to washington or cali, we be chillin out here
Trevor Houff no offense but I couldn’t live in a liberal state whether weed was legal or not.
yas carole. Something you and joe can agree on
6 years is too fast?! Gtfoh!
What about the youth still drinking alcohol?
I don’t see why people are still bing put in jail in for weed
only black people lets be honest here
It’s just the dumbest policy to criminalize marijuana.... retro forgive and let those people go... or attest every owner of a liquor store
Its the same as drinking and driving and selling any narcotic.
@@yugiohpokemon5285 alcohol is a neurotoxin and cannabis is a neuroprotectant... look up patent # 6630507 to learn how cannabis is that
@@mcozy333 still impairs judgment
Lol I feel like he was more annoyed at the fact he was arguing with a woman rather then the fact that she was pro weed.
I frigging love that you guys turned all the lights green 😂
Legalize it. Is getting a high really an issue. Cause my blunt I smoke at home is really a reason to go to jail for 2.5 years while my cousin the state next to me (2 hour drive) is doing the same thing but in public without an issue just doesn't make since and if its gonna help our economy then why not. 2/3 of U.S citizens agree
No. It makes people lazy, demotivated, and numb. That way people won't fight back against the elite.
@@randominternetguy1499 exactly. It also kills around 100,000 people from overdoses every year in the US alone. It's a disgrace that states are able to legalise it but I'm proud of Joe Biden for not legalizing it federally. Pot smokers should be put in for at least decade in jail, I feel we are too kind with these lunatic criminals. Just drink alcohol like my god what's it with these people and their devil lettuce smh.
@@randominternetguy1499 exactly. I'd rather be beaten by a drunk for looking at him wrong, than look into the red demon eyes of someone out on the hunt for snacks
There’s literally almost zero reported marijuana induced deaths where are you getting your information? Alcohol and Cigarettes on the other hand kills hundreds of thousands every year.
Follow the money. The DEA, Prisons, and Police would lose a ton of money if they can’t prosecute Cannabis. That’s the real reason they don’t want it legalized
That guy is the dude at the end of class who asks the teacher about the hw she forgot to check
Accurate.
Decriminalizing it doesn’t solve the problem of individuals whose lives are ruined when their employer decides to invade their privacy by taking fluids from their body or chopping off chunks of their hair to see what they’ve been doing on their days off.
Fr. I will never understand why an employer feels the need to drug test. Just because I smoke weed doesn’t mean I do it at work yet you can get in trouble if you test positive. Same thing goes for alc yet you don’t get in trouble if you test for that. The system is backwards
Matter of fact it's easier to get as a kid when a dealer won't i.d and you can have it delivered
My man.
nobody:
josh: i’m from colorado
This guy should wash his mouth after all that bs comes out
THANK YOU
I need a blunt after watching this
B4 lol
Same
Straight stupid. Makes me wanna write a whole essay on the topic.
Endless reasons for why it needs to be legalized and regulated.
_“Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man."_
― *Francis Young - DEA* *Judge - 1988*
Marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol & less addictive than caffeine.
drugwarfacts.org/chapter/addictive_properties
_"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."_
*- Dr. Carl Sagan (American Cosmologist, Astrobiologist, author & science communicator)*
_"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."_
_“The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.”_
*- William F. Buckley Jr. (American conservative author and commentator)*
_"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use...”_
*- Jimmy Carter (U.S.President)*
_“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana...We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”_
*-Dan Quayle (U.S. Representative & Vice President)*
_“You bet I did -- and I enjoyed it.”_ ....when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
*- Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)*
_"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."_
*-Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)*
_"Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?"_
_“Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?”_
_“…It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit unnatural?”_
*-Bill Hicks (Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian)*
_"If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."_
*- Terence McKenna (American ethnobotanist, author, advocate for responsible use of natural psychedelic plants)*
I'm here because I need to write an essay on this for my class, want to do it for me? xD
@@yaoming42 ,
Along with the quotes I supplied, go to your library (or buy) the book, _"Marijuana is safer, so why are we driving people to drink."_
Troy J Thank you!
how much money u chargin?
If that guy had ever ben addicted to pain killers and couldn't get them anymore and tryed smoking weed as a alternative, he would change his opinion real fast. Just saying from experience
Royce Wilson thank u 🙏🏾 😌
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The guy talks about weed companies profiting off of poor communities as if selling them weed were harmful to them wtf
The people want it, so all his statements don’t really matter.
If the people really want it, then their votes should dictate that desire.
@@firstactionhero Most people are not one-issue voters.
@@firstactionhero and it did which is why a couple of states legalized it. More states are waiting on votes. Honestly give it time. Most people want to blow off steam without drinking alcohol. I'm not a drinker but after work I like to take one hit of my THC vape pen and call it a night. I find it hilarious how Boomers mindset is and I just can't believe that generation even made it this far because that generation is probably the most black sheep generation. Even my parents who are Generation X have more common sense.
Just because it’s popular doesn’t make it safe or smart
Just because people want something dosnt mean its right or ok.
Can someone just kick that guy off the show lol
someone PLEASE show me how making marijuana commonplace makes us a stronger country, with more prepared students, safer drivers, and less introduction to stronger drugs? I get how it has tied up the legal system, but how does it truly make us better, other than more money for business owners and industry?
@perryconrad7968 are you stupid or deliberately lying? stupid whataboutism don't justify legalization of recreational use. And there's plenty of evidence now showing that marijuana not even close to safe: it causes neurodevelopmental problems, it has a 10% rate of addiction (catastrophic public health consequences on a country where millions of people consume the drug), there are very strong links to mental illness and evidence of genetic mutations on sperm and oocytes, edibles are sending mountains of newborns into ICUs, and to make matters worse, the potency of THC just keeps on increasing while the black market flourishes even more in the states that legalized (just like in Uruguay and Canada). It should have become pretty obvious now to anyone who is paying attention that the marijuana industry is likely to cause another a public health disaster like tobacco.
It never made any sense to legalize it, but public opinion about marijuana has been so manipulated that somehow they managed to do it and get the USA ever closer to a full-blown idiocracy. Legalization of recreational marijuana was a super lazy and irresponsible political move, and a tragic price will be payed a couple of decades from now unless someone has the political courage to go back, revert the mistake and simply decriminalize as it should have been all along. The only people who benefit from legal marijuana are the psychopaths who want to profit from the destruction of public health.
The Department of Health and Human Services has had a patent on weed since 2001.
That guy had no clue about his own state. They sell marijuana in Breckinridge which happens to not be a minority city. Obvious liar! Chances are he had a bad experience and now has a vendetta against the best flower out there.
Can ANYONE post the relitive leval of the high legal weed gives?!
What? Chill, breathe, smoke a joint, learn English.
It seems like they're more concerned with the psychoactive effect and potency, but that's exactly what happened when alcohol became legal. Beer was the first step just like reggie is for weed. Then things became stronger liqours became stronger. Now, weed is becoming stronger as freedom is introduced into the industry. The only difference is weed is still maintaining a black market, but has yet to kill a single human in its natural growth state. Not saying people dont add shit to weed. That's why this industry needs to be under control to alleviate the black market. So there is no added substance to a NATURAL plant.
Weed is no longer a NATURAL plant
My man is acting like hash just got invented. Concentrates have been around for over eleven hundred years. Just because your grandparents were smoking Reggie in the 70s doesn’t mean good weed wasn’t available.
I hope this guy is also going after the payday loan industry then
The fact that Washington D.C. allows recreational marijuana is B.S.
Washington needs to follow Federal laws period. They aren't a State. They want legal weed then make it Federally legal. Washingtons Politicians shouldn't be able to enjoy marijuana while 90% of the country cannot.
Melissa inspired me to do more research on this topic.
But yet big tobbacco and alcohol can have corner stores in the hood
Gotta love how the segment cuts off when she starts talking about reinvesting taxes on cannabis to communities 🥲
I live in ny and watch this is making me wanna go smoke
The best play in the mj sector is Cronos group. Altria will put them in the US market in a big way with their distribution into over 230,000 stores. And Altria has people in place with fda , they've been dealing with fda regulations a long time, the company knows its way around. Altria is the perfect marriage for cronos. Merger with Philip Morris will even be greater for cronos stock in terms of global distribution. Long term this will be a great play. And may even top cgc and Tillray.
This guy is just annoying when i think of how cannabis gives me happiness...what i realized most people that talk shit about weed have had the least or no experience with it.
State taxes seem to be the biggest cost to consumers, let's talk about that
It's not a matter of him being right or me being right. It's a matter of me going meta and realizing that what this whole debate is about is about him defending his own personal biases his ego and me defending my personal biases and my ego.
And all that's happening here is we're just clashing our biases together without any kind of higher awareness and that's like a light bulb going up. This is a earth-shattering revelation when you realize this then you go meta on the whole debate and you realize ah i see this is not going to be resolved at the level of defeating his ideas or him defeating my ideas and it doesn't matter who wins this debate because this is all just an ego game.
And then i can look inside of myself and i can realize oh yeah
i can actually use mindfulness to penetrate into my own body become aware of my ego at work inside of me generating this ideology and then defending
it and being closed-minded about it and
refusing to
look at the situation from a higher perspective.
I can actually feel my body getting
hotter. I can feel myself getting angry or defensive when he's making a good point.
I can also start to notice the various manipulative tricks that his ego is using against me in this debate and then i can notice myself using those tricks against him and i can notice the double standards that i have and i can notice my own biases and i can notice his biases and i can notice the fact that the only reason i'm arguing with him is because i have a certain survival agenda that i'm trying to defend with my ego and i can notice that he's doing the same thing and when all of that is noticed the entire game of this debate collapses.
That would be going meta. Can you see how powerful that is can you see how liberating that is.
You see this is the kind of higher dimensional move that needs to be done to solve this particular problem.
3:30 my brain: WTF choose only one
So let me get this right, it's bad for a legal adult to choose to pay an American company who helps the community, provides a service and pays taxes, but it's good to buy Afghanistan helicopters by paying the state to make money off of weed? And Why is the covid vaccine ready after 3 years when medical marijuana still needs more research?
Pros & cons; there's no cons!!!
The only cons are the ones making the laws prohibiting the use of...!
Lmao. The cons are that it makes people lazy, numb, dumb, and demotivated. Thats why its being pushed so much. So that people don't fight back against the elites.
Umm has he not seen the people standing in the lines at these dispensaries, lol?! I don't think he has, smh.
Better for youth and pregnant mothers to be smoking some kush than getting black out drunk
@Delike el Ducce well yea of course
This guy never hit the joint. Smh
good
It should be up to the voters in every state
For the love of god I swear if this shit doesn’t get legalized in GA I’m moving
Here in Illinois we are only months away now; FINALLY!🙃
sheeeiiit... you better get packing and move to to a legal state then because waiting on Georgia to legalize it it'll never happen, and if so it will be the last state to do so. i'm born and raised in Georgia and i think it should be legalized here. Stacy Abrams was all for it and she didn't get elected governor, instead we got Kemp's b*tch @$$ who's completely against weed period. they wont even legalize medical marijuana here the right way, instead they allow patients to use very low dosages of cannabis oil. i recently visited California back in may for my 25th birthday and i felt like a kid in a candy store the entire time i was in the dispensary. it feels so good to be able to walk into a store and buy weed legally with no worries.
People panic when there is change
The only thing I hate about weed is it makes me absent minded. I wouldn't mind except I keep misplacing my stash!!!
I live in Colorado each county can choose weather or not they want to allow recreational marijuana.
All that I have been to are locally owned so I don’t know what this guy is talking about big Pharma. They are small business is just like any other business that is not a corporation. It’s not their fault they’re selling something that everybody wants. Guys it’s not just minorities everybody goes to the shops OK doesn’t matter where they’re located if you want weed and you have to drive you’re going to drive and you’re going to get it.
I don’t know what world this guy is living in but he’s wrong.
Alchohol is the worst period!! Many lives do to drunk drivers. By the way I don't even smoke and I would vote to legalize cannabis.
[a child rubs Dock leaves on themselves to help relieve nasty nettle stings]
Big Pharma: ...I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that.
I need to get out of school
People should have made a made a boycott on alcohol unless weed is completely legal watch all these anchors lawyers and government officials jump to legalisation
Fun fact : people including celebrities and well known figures are in and out of addiction and rehabilitation while people like joe and Seth rogan and Damian Marley are smoking every day looking to help those that are dying
It should be up to the people not the state or government
you can see the anger in her eyes while he's talking
Delegates of the Democratic National Committee voted DOWN a proposal to include the federal legalization of cannabis in the party’s 2020 platform
Decriminalizing only strengthens the Cartels. Legalize it and regulate it's uses. Big tobacco is only dangerous because the functions of tobacco is only to smoke it. The people running big tobacco are just business people who want to make money. Pot will have different uses than tobacco and different health effects so it will have different incentives for how to make money. Watch Altria become a health food company if that what customers demand. Altria just wants to make money.
TheM0joDoj0 no I have a client in the legal business and he says that the influx of capital and investment is actually killing the business. Prices are on the floor and he sees big tabaco coming in and taking it all someday
Nothing is wrong with decriminalization
6 years in is a long ass time
Just saying depending on the person in the level of how high they are some people can have a mild with bu Just saying depending on the person in the level of how high they are some people can have a mild weed high And drive perfectly fine
As long as everyone is legally allowed to grow and sell weed that's gone through proper regulatory standardized testing then that would solve a lot of problems. Like how everybody can Homebrew and sell alcohol, needs to be like that for weed. Simple.
The guys main point for not legalizing is that weed has too much thc nowadays and that it isn't regulated. That's literally just another reason to legalize. If it was sold in shops, then people can choose the concentration and they know that it is safe to smoke. There are no reasons for weed to be illegal, its rediculous that people are even having these discussions
I don’t think he realize no one is forcing us low income peeps to buy it we made the choice.
People should be allowed to make their own choices. Women who are pregnant drunk all the time and that’s on them regardless of if it’s right or not. The government shouldn’t tell people what they can and can’t do, people are going to do it anyways
people up what is legal and what is not and why....... Alcohol FireArms and Tobacco?
Marijuana needs to be completely removed from the list of scheduled drugs and legalized on the federal level and businesses need to stop testing for THC.
Alcohol is a lot more dangerous than Marijuana and people should not be blackballed in society over it. It is insane to say that if you use marijuana outside of work hours on your own personal time that you should not be allowed to have a job. That is not right.
Wow that guy sounds like he's from the 30s
All drugs should be legal prohibition doesn’t work.
I am fine with legalizing, but it should remain discrete. I cannot stand the smell of it and my home shouldn't smell like skunk because of my neighbors.
In Norway ITS standard test. Along with alcohol... just swop Your mouth, does IT on the spot.
Legalize arizona please
True, its profits at the cost of the community
This guy has the most punch able fave ruined my day just by him having my name
It kills around 100,000 people from overdoses every year in the US alone, are you seriously trying to be funny or something?? It's a disgrace that states are able to legalise it but I'm proud of Joe Biden for not legalizing it federally. Pot smokers should be put in for at least a decade in jail, I feel we are too kind with these lunatic criminals. Just drink alcohol like my god what's it with you people and this devil lettuce.
That guy was paid to say that
weed has destroyed this population
I'm a big proponent of legalizing weed, but I gotta say, this man speaks quite rationally. Tobacco used to be advertised as healthy too. I'm not saying that weed is unhealthy, but yeah - we should be careful and maybe some more regulations are needed.
The more sobriety there is in a society the better
Must be nice being neurotypical and not having your brain chemistry cripple you.
If thay cant tell if u r high thin u must not be doing. Bad
You don't need to prove that weed is beneficial or therapeutic, because the only rwasoning you need is that other equally or more harmful substances are already legal. "Pregnant mothers" and DUI are the most popular excuses, but by that logic anything that hurts the foetus or impedes your driving skills should also be illegal.
I feel like if people want to smoke it let them, if they don’t they won’t but it’s not fair how privileged people get to do what they want and people in other states have to suffer how is that fair?
The woman seemed to be correct, as New York and New Jersey both legalized just 2 years later on the next round of voting. Oops.
All states should have past bye now
The stronger the better, bring on the THC
But don't forget to take CBD too....
considering pot is so much safer than alcohol that it is simply incomparable, and the fact that opioids have massacred over 400,000 people in the US alone, more than twice the amount of hiroshima and nagasaki put together, while alcohol kills nearly 100,000 people yearly i think its important to remember that in marijuana's 5000 years of use, there have been 0 deaths whatsoever. The illegalization of cannabis has led to the destruction of millions of unfair incarcerations for minority communities and reparations must be made.
*millions of lives through unfaor incarcerations
It should remain legal as long as people dont get into gunfights or brawls or fights.😙💨
It's the prohibition that causes gunfights, brawls and fights...just like in with the prohibition of alcohol.
_“Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man."_
― *Francis Young - DEA* *Judge - 1988*
Marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol & less addictive than caffeine.
drugwarfacts.org/chapter/addictive_properties
_"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."_
*- Dr. Carl Sagan (American Cosmologist, Astrobiologist, author & science communicator)*
_"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."_
_“The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.”_
*- William F. Buckley Jr. (American conservative author and commentator)*
_"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use...”_
*- Jimmy Carter (U.S.President)*
_“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana...We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”_
*-Dan Quayle (U.S. Representative & Vice President)*
_“You bet I did -- and I enjoyed it.”_ ....when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
*- Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)*
_"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."_
*-Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)*
_"Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?"_
_“Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?”_
_“…It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit unnatural?”_
*-Bill Hicks (Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian)*
_"If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."_
*- Terence McKenna (American ethnobotanist, author, advocate for responsible use of natural psychedelic plants)*
As long as the kids Can still alcohol at any convenient store I i’m going to go say weeds better because at least you can’t steal that from a dispensary
Corona proved you wrong :-(
Thers a MacDonald's on every corner in low economic areas because its all about profits
smoking concentrates are way healthier than traditional cannabis as u dont need to smoke as much lol
The suit is wrong
Sounds like a lobbiest
The only bad side to it is law enforcement and your legal system will have to find another way to steal money from taxpayers to make up the difference. It would be nice if they use the free time that they now have ( since they aren't chasing kids down for weed )if they started after violent criminals but that's kind of dangerous and it's hard work I mean geez can you imagine if law enforcement didn't sit on their ass most of the day. I miss the cops I had when we were kids. I remember them as men and worthy of wearing the uniform. I was pulled over in 75 andthe officer made me throw the weed over the guardrail. I sat in the back of that car flinging the bull with those troopers for a half hour at least.
Fully legal
Too early to tell 6 years in wtf u think people live forever i aint got time for that shit
This isn't Right if some states had it then all states had past it now!!!!
#1 I promise he doesn’t care about black ppl in the hood or low income that was just an excuse and ppl can make there iwn choice to smoke idc how many liquor shops weed shops w.e there are if i have to choose between food and getting high ama pic food or. Bills and getting high ama pay bills it’s really not that serious
#THEYDIDNT KNOW HOW MUCH THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT HAS TO BE ON TV IN OUR DURING A CRISIS AND ESPECIALLY OBAMA WAS ON TV ALMOST 1MILLION TIMES ESPECIALLY DURING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
Genesis 1:29 "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." They don't want you to get high because of the most high
Unuh still a talk bout dis
This dude is such a square. There’s no difference between drugs and alcohol. I take it back weed is way safer. If you really care about the people let’s talk about opioids...
He only looks at essays and facts he doesn't understand how the people really think.
Your all high i can tell get it got it good
purple
omgggg the girl on the right is soooooo cuteeeeee
Is this Fox News....