State Senate approves measure legalizing recreational marijuana by 2026

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  • Опубліковано 5 бер 2024
  • The bill will now goes to the House
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  • @hammyhamhamster5993
    @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +12

    The vast majority of ALL Americans in each and every single state across the entire U.S.A strongly support the full federal legalization of cannabis nationwide and treating cannabis EXACTLY like we currently treat far more dangerous and deadly yet perfectly legal everywhere, alcohol.

  • @deborahdean
    @deborahdean 4 місяці тому +16

    I do not know why they would want to continue to support the marijuana black market that thrives here in Hawaii. Marijuana is here. Tax and regulate it already.

    • @popmike6118
      @popmike6118 4 місяці тому

      Taxation without representation!

    • @rossy2976
      @rossy2976 4 місяці тому

      I live in California and it all won't matter and will continue to thrive.

    • @braddahjosh808
      @braddahjosh808 4 місяці тому

      how do you know people are not going to keep buying it from the black market and skip paying the taxes?

  • @hammyhamhamster5993
    @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +6

    Cannabis should be absolutely just as legal and easy to obtain anywhere as alcohol currently is. In every single state. No exceptions. It's so easy: As legal and easy to obtain/use as alcohol currently is. Why hold relatively benign, often healing cannabis to any sort of irrational, stricter double standard than perfectly legal alcohol?

  • @jonthebru
    @jonthebru 4 місяці тому +29

    The entire prohibition of cannabis was race and class based, initially against black people and during Nixon's regime against hippies. The laws against cannabis have been wrong from the beginning.

    • @constantineandreu9377
      @constantineandreu9377 4 місяці тому +1

      Serious! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @jasestrickland1704
      @jasestrickland1704 4 місяці тому +3

      I completely agree and understand the politics and history of med/mar. But I’d still rather have it regulated to a point. The street stuff today is so dangerous that even the side hustler selling it doesn’t know what it’s laced with. I stopped getting it from dealers years ago. Sold and taxed through an approved apothecary that grows their own is plenty enough tax revenue for the State. That way, we can know the measured THC and the State can get their damned cut.

    • @QuantumOfSolace1
      @QuantumOfSolace1 4 місяці тому +1

      Tell that to the victims of weed induced crimes- but pot heads will spin it anyway possible.

    • @HeyUncleA
      @HeyUncleA 4 місяці тому +4

      @@QuantumOfSolace1 do you call people who smoke tobacco, tobacco heads? I get more of a buzz from chewing tobacco than smoking weed. What kind of weed induced crimes are you talking about? Waking people up at night while making pizza rolls or noodles? Calling friends to watch movies and eat popcorn? Taking naps? Not getting easily upset at stupid people and being more tolerant and helpful?

    • @jcougar55
      @jcougar55 4 місяці тому +1

      @@QuantumOfSolace1 weed induced crimes...any examples?

  • @jonhashi6965
    @jonhashi6965 4 місяці тому +22

    Should have been legal before alcohol.

  • @stanleyjumawanjr8498
    @stanleyjumawanjr8498 4 місяці тому +11

    Stop worrying about something that came from the ground worry about all the crimes going on in Hawaii like people just walking in places and talking what ever they like and the smell business got to close because of it most likely the people doing these crimes are on meth fentanyl or alcohol so do your job and worry about the real crime

  • @AK2HI
    @AK2HI 4 місяці тому +24

    Its the choice of the people not the politicians

    • @kawikadee9670
      @kawikadee9670 4 місяці тому +3

      In this case it was the politicians that wanted it.

    • @patfajardo3092
      @patfajardo3092 4 місяці тому +1

      This person doesn’t want it.

    • @QuantumOfSolace1
      @QuantumOfSolace1 4 місяці тому +2

      Say no to weed!!

    • @user-ig9xv8wd4g
      @user-ig9xv8wd4g 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@patfajardo3092good for you but 70% of other people do. Not everyone wants nasty outdated beer or alcohol to relax after a hard day of work.

    • @user-ig9xv8wd4g
      @user-ig9xv8wd4g 4 місяці тому +4

      ​@@kawikadee9670in Missouri I see people of all ages especially seniors in dispensaries. Hardly anyone goes to bars or drinks anymore compared to using cannabis. Drinking isn't a think anymore for young people.

  • @mikeneidlinger8857
    @mikeneidlinger8857 4 місяці тому +4

    I'm Fasting and drinking Ginseng. I could use some good Hawaiian Ganja right now. When it's rec legal, I am going to visit Hawaii to smoke out. I've been there twice as a kid.

  • @acim2228
    @acim2228 4 місяці тому +4

    stop worrying. everyone will stay Mello and low key. not driving into telephone poles and shooting each other. they will stay home eat and sleep with a smile.

    • @Fawnyglo
      @Fawnyglo 4 місяці тому

      Frls keeps you focus and 10x better when doing something😂

  • @hammyhamhamster5993
    @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +8

    Legalize cannabis federally in each and every single state right now, today. This way, irrational politicians can't obstruct and prevent legalization against the will of the vast majority of Americans whom support full federal cannabis legalization nationwide. Treat cannabis exactly like we treat far more dangerous and deadly yet completely legal alcohol. Legal in all states.

  • @bluebenji8886
    @bluebenji8886 4 місяці тому +1

    That district attorney is lying on camera

  • @angelsavita524
    @angelsavita524 3 місяці тому +1

    If we was legal and easy to buy I could give up alcohol !!!! Legalize it already!

  • @user-ig9xv8wd4g
    @user-ig9xv8wd4g 4 місяці тому +6

    Voters spoke for the whole country when Missouri & Ohio legalized cannabis the last 2 years. Republican politicians & anti weed weirdos know they have lost on the issue & can't use reefer madness bs anymore.

  • @johnrobinson3852
    @johnrobinson3852 4 місяці тому +5

    Once these old geezer politicians are gone we can have legalized open carry and recreational marijuana together forever

  • @Pahpajack
    @Pahpajack Місяць тому

    What’s the update on this?

  • @user-kv9jp5hu3h
    @user-kv9jp5hu3h 4 місяці тому +2

    Legalize weed federally

  • @TJ-zn4et
    @TJ-zn4et 4 місяці тому +3

    I thought the house wrote the legislature. That's their job. Isn't this a bit backwards?

  • @Icureditwithmybrain
    @Icureditwithmybrain 4 місяці тому +5

    It has been widely recognized by the general public for the past 20 years that the reasons behind the ban on marijuana were completely illegitimate.

    • @QuantumOfSolace1
      @QuantumOfSolace1 4 місяці тому +1

      No it has not - huge health and social problems come with it

    • @QuantumOfSolace1
      @QuantumOfSolace1 4 місяці тому +1

      @MrBubba311 Let me start with the positives …. Ah I got nothin!

  • @MattWallace-vl4nw
    @MattWallace-vl4nw 3 місяці тому

    Amen

  • @johnrobinson3852
    @johnrobinson3852 4 місяці тому +4

    It's still going to be too expensive I get from small kind Grow operations that sell it at a third of the price of dispensaries

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      Anti-Cannabis-Prohibitionist-Reefer-Madness-rhetoric is only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic--fringe-minority of mental midgets that are on a never ending little personal moral crusade and witch hunt against cannabis and it's consumers. The rest of us sane, normal folks just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate, irrational, illogical prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!............................

    • @HawaiiSustainable
      @HawaiiSustainable 4 місяці тому

      This bill is written by the attorney general, CANNRA and the dispensaries to continue the low quality monopoly of the 8 dispensaries while setting a new police task force and rules against patient grows its horrible for locals.

    • @johnrobinson3852
      @johnrobinson3852 4 місяці тому

      @MrBubba311 what state you from?

  • @christophermudd7844
    @christophermudd7844 2 місяці тому

    Take away alcohol then

  • @codyschwoch5451
    @codyschwoch5451 3 місяці тому

    Yes, somebody that wants the United States to legalize marijuana for adult use. I’m with you if it goes another 20 years in Wisconsin voting for medical smokable marijuana and not getting anywhere with it. I’m not gonna hold my breath.

  • @MattWallace-vl4nw
    @MattWallace-vl4nw 3 місяці тому

    It Cured my Glaucoma. Fact

  • @Holysuin.
    @Holysuin. 3 місяці тому +1

    Too long ago just shows how gay and politicized a plant it 😂😂 I just do it anyway

  • @skyzfada
    @skyzfada 4 місяці тому +2

    How else is the state gonna pay for the rail system they ain't gonna have any left after that

  • @brucegreen5781
    @brucegreen5781 3 місяці тому

    Bullshit they need weed know

  • @jonl9873
    @jonl9873 4 місяці тому +1

    What about legalizing prostitution, gambling, fireworks too?! It helps with pain and stress too

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +2

      Anyone who can't distinguish between legalizing cannabis and legalizing prostitution is in super desperate need of a very serious reality checkup from the neck up by a mental health professional. Just saying bro...(Next? *yawns some more*)

    • @jonl9873
      @jonl9873 4 місяці тому +1

      Thanks for making my point!! If you going argue other stuff is bad, you're a hypocrite!! Only pro weed people are for it. How can you say one is better than the other?! Legalize everything then...weed, girls, gambling, fireworks it's all the same

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      @@jonl9873Thanks for making my point. Every single major poll every single year for over a decade clearly shows that the vast majority of all Americans strongly support full federal cannabis legalization nationwide. Also the fact that 24 states and over half the populated areas of The United States have already legalized cannabis, mostly all by citizen driven ballot initiatives, with not even a single state ever regressing back to prohibition, clearly demonstrates that the vast majority of Americans support legalization. How are you going to stick your head in the sand and ignore all widely available facts? Cannabis isn't "bad" and is relatively benign when compared to perfectly legal, widely accepted alcohol and cigarettes. You can't honestly say the same things about "everything (other illegal substances and activities)". "Everything" doesn't have the vast majority support for legalization and "everything" isn't relatively benign when compared to alcohol and cigarettes. Again: Only a super desperate, irrational, illogical, reefer madness touting lunatic-fringe-minority of prohibitionists try to fear monger the public over cannabis legalization. By intentionally trying to conflate cannabis legalization with the legalization of many other illegal things that typically the public finds much more scary and dangerous than relatively benign cannabis. In hopes of scaring the public away from supporting cannabis legalization. *yawns some more* Your obviously deranged scare-tactics aren't ever going to work. Pack it in and give it up already, chump. Again: Anyone who can't distinguish between legalizing cannabis and legalizing "everything" is in super desperate need of a very serious reality checkup from the neck up by a mental health professional. For really real, bro. Are you freaking serious? Lol. Get a grip on reality. Anti-Cannabis-Prohibitionist-Reefer-Madness-rhetoric is only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic--fringe-minority of mental midgets that are on a never ending little personal moral crusade and witch hunt against cannabis and it's consumers. The rest of us sane, normal folks just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate, irrational, illogical prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!

  • @meluaufeet
    @meluaufeet 4 місяці тому +5

    I prefer the way things are.

    • @ephtea614
      @ephtea614 4 місяці тому +4

      People said that before the civil war too. Progress is better.

  • @HawaiiSustainable
    @HawaiiSustainable 4 місяці тому +1

    Cannabis reform advocates are not in favor of this the dispensaries are as this just continues their monopoly. It’s horrible for patients just commercializes it for big business. No one other than dispensaries support this 300 plus page bill. That criminalizes patients and wipes out hemp farmers.

  • @jusbamathy1355
    @jusbamathy1355 4 місяці тому +4

    Yay a step closer 🤗

  • @thaimassage23
    @thaimassage23 4 місяці тому +3

    If you do your job and prosecute those that break our laws repeatedly then marijuana legislation should be no problem.With the proceeds from taxing this herb you can build BIGGER prisons like El Salvador(40,000 maximum capacity)

    • @QuantumOfSolace1
      @QuantumOfSolace1 4 місяці тому +1

      But that ain’t going to happen - should have built those prisons long ago!

  • @QuantumOfSolace1
    @QuantumOfSolace1 4 місяці тому +4

    Its going to cause huge problems- so many examples in the States and Cities that legalized it!
    Lower the DUI threshold but legalize weed- so dumb!!
    Anyone who pushes the money angle like this clown - has a motive themselves and then he talks about all those positive programs based on the sale of weed - which all know will never happen nor has it ever happened!

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      Anti-Cannabis-Prohibitionist-Reefer-Madness-rhetoric is only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic--fringe-minority of mental midgets that are on a never ending little personal moral crusade and witch hunt against cannabis and it's consumers. The rest of us sane, normal folks just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate, irrational, illogical prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!

  • @BeyondParadise808
    @BeyondParadise808 4 місяці тому +3

    No matter how legal any state make it, it still is federally illegal.

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom 4 місяці тому +1

      Yes but the feds have essentially and for the most part left it to state legislation… they ARE after all still collecting federal taxes from legal pot businesses.

    • @HeyUncleA
      @HeyUncleA 4 місяці тому +3

      Soooo wha? You gonna go call feds on your neighbors for smoking instead of taking a hand full of pills?

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      Anti-Cannabis-Prohibitionist-Reefer-Madness-rhetoric is only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic--fringe-minority of mental midgets that are on a never ending little personal moral crusade and witch hunt against cannabis and it's consumers. The rest of us sane, normal folks just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate, irrational, illogical prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!......

  • @plazstic
    @plazstic 4 місяці тому +1

    The prosecuting attorney literally made up the “twice as many fatal car collisions” bit. The real increase is roughly 4%

  • @johnsotelo3125
    @johnsotelo3125 4 місяці тому +1

    Hawaii politicans needs more money in their bank accounts, the rail ain't finish, Hawaii needs a new stadium, Hawaii convention center needs repairs, Hawaii taxes only goes up, Lahaina needs to be rebuild etc., Hawaii should legalize fireworks and gambling also. Got to take the good along with the bad.

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      Anti-Cannabis-Prohibitionist-Reefer-Madness-rhetoric is only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic--fringe-minority of mental midgets that are on a never ending little personal moral crusade and witch hunt against cannabis and it's consumers. The rest of us sane, normal folks just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate, irrational, illogical prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!.............................................................

  • @elevatedemotions4548
    @elevatedemotions4548 4 місяці тому

    They saying a Joint based Panel

  • @John-wd6yf
    @John-wd6yf 4 місяці тому +4

    ALL this young punk's and high school kids,, they are happy now they can grow and smoke marijuana at school,, load up there vapor and smoke freely,,, our state officials mite be smart on paper but they don't have any common sense

    • @frankwenos641
      @frankwenos641 4 місяці тому +3

      😂

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      Anti-Cannabis-Prohibitionist-Reefer-Madness-rhetoric is only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic--fringe-minority of mental midgets that are on a never ending little personal moral crusade and witch hunt against cannabis and it's consumers. The rest of us sane, normal folks just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate, irrational, illogical prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!........................................

  • @Elohims1
    @Elohims1 4 місяці тому +6

    I pray it doesn't happen!

    • @ephtea614
      @ephtea614 4 місяці тому +3

      @MrBubba311 I'll wave my magic wand to counter your praying. I just changed the batteries too, so this wand is at max powah!

  • @TJ-zn4et
    @TJ-zn4et 4 місяці тому +3

    Smoke or vape travels. It infringes on the rights of people who don't wish to be high!. This will not help the kids! FYI, people add meth to their smoke thinking it will disguise it.

    • @HeyUncleA
      @HeyUncleA 4 місяці тому +2

      My kids are smart af… starting college at 13 years old and helps out at the the church. Maybe your kids are da slow ones ehh? Meth? ahh come on now who you been hangin out with? METH?!?

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      Anti-Cannabis-Prohibitionist-Reefer-Madness-rhetoric is only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic--fringe-minority of mental midgets that are on a never ending little personal moral crusade and witch hunt against cannabis and it's consumers. The rest of us sane, normal folks just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate, irrational, illogical prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!............

  • @Paul11B2P
    @Paul11B2P 4 місяці тому +9

    This is a big mistake.

    • @kawikadee9670
      @kawikadee9670 4 місяці тому

      Legalize drugs but ban guns, shows what a joke this state is.

    • @jamessantiago9724
      @jamessantiago9724 4 місяці тому +1

      Yep because weed kills children in schools not guns🤦🏽‍♂️

    • @jamessantiago9724
      @jamessantiago9724 4 місяці тому +2

      @paul please explain🤔

    • @jamessantiago9724
      @jamessantiago9724 4 місяці тому +2

      Alcohol is a big mistake

    • @jamessantiago9724
      @jamessantiago9724 4 місяці тому +2

      Cigarettes is a big mistake kills people around who don't even smoke

  • @NuttGreez
    @NuttGreez 4 місяці тому +1

    Alm disappointed in bud but had HOPE in the batu heads/ grand theft idiots... Funny how Steve and Esther completely flip their ideals post prosecutor careers...

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      Anti-Cannabis-Prohibitionist-Reefer-Madness-rhetoric is only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic--fringe-minority of mental midgets that are on a never ending little personal moral crusade and witch hunt against cannabis and it's consumers. The rest of us sane, normal folks just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate, irrational, illogical prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!.........................

  • @kentiki646
    @kentiki646 4 місяці тому

    You all better hurry up the Cartell is waiting .

  • @jasestrickland1704
    @jasestrickland1704 4 місяці тому

    Mr Nico’s Leverenz sounds as though he’s putting revenue above all else. Are they trying to approve of it because of the cash cow it could be or do they actually care about the pros and cons regardless of the taxes it would generate? Right now medical marijuana is a saving grace to many with chronic diseases but it’s also very expensive to get, even with a Drs prescription. They need to cut some slack and let every Dr prescribe it for pain and allow it to have a decent co-pay with insurance. It’s so expensive to get through a “specialized” physician and at the apothecaries it’s horribly expensive. Drugs with helpful relief without bad side effects should be widely available as a remedy, not as a recreation. Loosen requirements, yes. Make it as legal as alcohol, no. The State can still collect taxes on it as a medicine, which it absolutely is.

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom 4 місяці тому +3

      This is Hawai’i, it’s all about the 💰, not the people.

    • @QuantumOfSolace1
      @QuantumOfSolace1 4 місяці тому +1

      He stands to profit from it - legal drug dealing - he don’t give a damn about anyone - its all money for himself!

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      Anti-Cannabis-Prohibitionist-Reefer-Madness-rhetoric is only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic--fringe-minority of mental midgets that are on a never ending little personal moral crusade and witch hunt against cannabis and it's consumers. The rest of us sane, normal folks just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate, irrational, illogical prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!.............................................

  • @roots808ndn8
    @roots808ndn8 4 місяці тому +1

    Marijuana sales in New Mexico surpassed $1 billion dollars. Where did the money?? Has anyone seen New Mexico lately? The only place that that money is going is into the pockets of those Democratic politicians. Don’t fall for false promises. CA and CO made the same pledge when they legalized it. And we see the social problems that they are having as a result of legalizing it. Keep mainland problems on the mainland.

    • @QuantumOfSolace1
      @QuantumOfSolace1 4 місяці тому +2

      Exactly Right - all this talk about funding positive programs from the sale of weed - its a pipe dream at best - will never happen - its basically a lie!

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      Anti-Cannabis-Prohibitionist-Reefer-Madness-rhetoric is only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic--fringe-minority of mental midgets that are on a never ending little personal moral crusade and witch hunt against cannabis and it's consumers. The rest of us sane, normal folks just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate, irrational, illogical prohibitionists and their rediculious Reefer-Madness-rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!...

  • @Elohims1
    @Elohims1 4 місяці тому +5

    Big Mistake!!!

  • @karenouye
    @karenouye 4 місяці тому

    never bit coin

  • @youngmafi5609
    @youngmafi5609 4 місяці тому

    Hawaii legalize recreational weed and all the criminals and haoles gonna get rich, locals poorer and paradise gonna turn into california smh

    • @hammyhamhamster5993
      @hammyhamhamster5993 4 місяці тому +1

      Wow Nostradamus, very impressive! That's one heck of an obviously not-so-powerful, defective crystal ball you got there! Too bad it only predicts utter doom and gloom when it comes to relatively benign cannabis legalization and not when it comes to far more dangerous and deadly, yet perfectly legal, endlessly advertised and even glorified as a national pastime, alcohol. Tell us why didn't all of those horrific little doomsday scenario claims of yours already happen a very long, long time ago due to far more dangerous and deadly yet perfectly legal alcohol? Perhaps it's time for you to banish that not-so-powerful, defective crystal ball of yours back to whence you purchased it and demand a full refund, Nostradamus. Do you also read palms and the tarot? Perfectly legal everywhere, widely accepted, endlessly advertised and even glorified as an All American pastime, alcohol is in fact a far more dangerous and deadly drug every single day than relatively benign cannabis has ever been in all documented human history, and than cannabis can could ever become. Why does far more deadly and dangerous alcohol get a pass to be perfectly legal and widely accepted everywhere? Why the unfair, irrational, illogical double standard being applied to relatively benign cannabis?

  • @karenouye
    @karenouye 4 місяці тому +1

    such crap