The 3/5ths compromise does make sense though. As terrible as it is, there was no chance of a compromise being made without including it. The Constitution would have never been ratified otherwise.
The reason : In The USA, unlike any other country on earth, the sovereign hierarchy goes as follows : From the bottom up... The Citizen, the Town, the County the State, the Nation... the gov't was / is, a subservient entity The individual is sovereign.... Every other nation on earth is top down. This is why they are so special.
Simon states haven't fixed the money issue with dispensaries. They will accept cash, & debit cards. Debit cards are rung up to the next large bill. You then get the change back. This is at least the way it works it Missouri.
Some people get really ill from the smell of weed. It is no better the tobacco. How is it right that a person who gets ill from it has to put up with the smell.
We decriminalized it then legalized it for sale in New York January 2023 and it's still such a mess. They screwed the pooch with the rollout, and got greedy New York State charges 1 million, no joke, for the license to sell recreational marijuana. So what they've done is incentivized the market that they were trying to destroy. Since its decriminalized, and the license is a million dollars, why would any smoke shop sell legally? Tons of them sell under the counter, and if they get caught all it is is a fine, which doesn't compare to the money they're taking in by selling it, they stop selling it for 6 months to a year. Not to mention all the federal laws that keep this industry in bureaucratic limbo hell.
As a kid who grew up in the 90's we were made to believe that random people were handing out drugs and that is was common for random strangers to kidnap kids off the street. The reality is that drugs cost money and you would most likey encounter drugs at a party or at a concert. Also you were more likely to be kidnapped by a family member then a random stranger.
That stat is only true because they include custodial kidnapping (dad gets to visit the kids and refuse to drop em off / vice versa) that's the majority of familial "kidnappings" aside from that, random kidnapping, followed by co-workers are the most likely
Yeah and like a stupid idiot I was pumping that into my kids heads. When I read Michael Pollins “How to Change Your Mind”, I face palmed and scheduled a trip to Jamaica for a magic mushroom retreat.
Yeah, when my now adult kids watch the South Park episodes Child Abduction Isn't Funny and My Future Self N' Me they'll still find them funny but they won't hit the same way since they didn't live through that... or the D&D fear mongering. I didn't get into D&D until much later due to that one.
I remember when I was a kid and teachers used to say that if people will offer you drugs all the time just say no. I'm still waiting(since 80's) for someone to offer me drugs at least once.
I had a friend offer me pot, when we were driving with his other friends. I said I wasn't interested (not cause of DARE or anything, I legit just didnt care about it). He just said "oh ok," then passed it to the next person, no pressure or anything.
I was leaving work, like 5 steps outta the building, get hit with a cloud of weed smoke, say out loud "damn, somebody smoking good!" A random dude I'd never met turns around and says "I'm headed in, you want the rest?" Sharing is caring!
I was hugely pregnant and loving in the sketchiest possible area. A friend dropped me off after church and a guy walked up to me and asked if I was interested in some crack. Talk about dumbfounded. I politely said I wasn't interested, he said, "that's cool," and I waddled into my apartment. Never happened before, never happened since. 😂
Police do carry breathalyzers in the US. They just use field sobriety tests, which can be hard for sober people as well, to get more evidence. This is sometimes done even if the breathalyzer reads 0.00. To fellow Americans: do not take _any_ test that isn't required by law. They only use it against you. It won't help your case.
Astonishing that they're allowed to do that. Australian police have been doing routine breathalysers for decades. That or a blood test are legal evidence - how well you can walk is just ableism.
@@tealkerberus748 another fun fact: A large majority of prisons in the US aren't run by the government. They are private companies paid by the government to house prisoners. They are financially incentivised to make people go to prison. They use their money to lobby the government to make it easier for more people to be sent to prison and for longer, therefore making them more money. The thing I've heard is the most effected by the prison lobby is minor drug offenses, which is why non-violent drug crimes are have been heavily punished in the US.
A good way to think about how gerrymandering works is to imagine it at a small scale. Imagine there are 15 voters that need to be divided into three equal groups (ie 3 groups of 5). If 8 lean democratic and 7 lean republican, then the way you divide them into groups will change the outcome. For example, grouping five of the democratic voters into one group, then splitting the remaining three across the last two will mean that two of the three groups will be a republican majority, despite the voting population being majority democratic.
That's why I don't like it... I think whoever gets the most votes should win period... everything else is just trickery to make something that wouldn't have normally happened, occur
There is no real difference between democrats and republicans. They play fight on tv and play on your emotions with things like abortion and gun control to get you to pick a side and feel you have a choice. Choosing one of two options is not a choice. If you want to see real change, we need to vote our way out of the 2 party system. All republicans and democrats are sold out to all the same banks, corporations and elites. They all serve the same masters and do not care about the common people.
Regarding weed, you would have thought the 1920s ‘prohibition’ on alcohol would have taught a lesson, but No. In the 1970s getting busted in your own home by the ‘drug squad’ for smoking was a serious deal.
It was actually the horrible failure of alcohol prohibition that caused the criminalization of Marijuana in the first place. All thanks to a horrible piece of garbage named Harry Anslinger. Would actually make for an interesting video on how bad he truly was.
@@captainspaulding5963ugh, Wikipedia has a page on that guy, and although there are missing citations, what is verified is pretty bad. He's another villain in us history.
I drove a van for an MJ industry cash courier. We drove big bags of thousands of $$$ from one state where it was legal to another where it was legal but through a state where it wasn't. The local sheriffs would look for our Colorado license plates and pull over the vans, take our money, and let us go in legalized piracy that is called civil asset forfeiture. Our company finally opened a branch in each state and now just sends the money by wire after "sanitizing" it through a couple of management corporations. Better call Saul.
27:18 - Well, the slaves didn't get to vote. The slave owners got to cast the vote on behalf of their slaves. Hence why the North didn't want them to count. They felt it wasn't fair representation, if the slaves didn't actually get to cast their own vote.
The simplest way I've found to describe the USA to my friends who live in other countries is that it's united in name only and is actually fifty separate countries that kinda lowkey hate each other and the federal government is their private UN. Once you look at it like that, suddenly it makes perfect sense that semi-automatic assault rifles can be illegal in California but totally fine in a different state.
Well, sort of. This would be 100% accurate before the Civil War. One of the most interesting things is that the name "United States" went from being a plural noun "The United States are..." to a singular "The United States is..." after the Civil War, reflecting the official shift from 34 sovereign states unified by a limited federal government to an imperial government with 34 provinces that are called "states"... For better and worse.
@@playedout148Yeah... No racism at all... 🙃 But yeah, slavery was objectively bad and definitely needed abolished, but that was one of the few 100% good results of the Civil War.
Legal cannabis licensees in WA used to have to go to the LCB (Liquor and Cannabis Board) with *cash* to pay licensing fees. Employees who've been there since legalization have stories about business owners coming into the state office with giant paper or duffel bags of cash since they couldn't get a business bank account, but they still had to pay fees & taxes. The IRS wants their taxes, even if it's still illegal on the Federal level, but luckily now some banks in WA will do business with licensed cannabis businesses so no one's paying taxes with a grocery bag of $100's anymore.
That's ludicrous. It reminds me of the first ban in like 1920-30? Marijuana wasnt made illegal. It required a tax stamp, which the government conveniently didn't print.
i love simons whole team. the writers are top tier, the editor never misses, and Simon is absolutely unrivaled at his craft. plus the rants are always enjoyable 💯💯💯
Breathalyzers detect alcohol, but not weed. That requires a blood test. The problem is that THC gets stored in one's fatty tissues and stays there for weeks. So, you could test positive for weed even though you hadn't smoked in a month. It's very tricky. You should check out the unintentionally hilarious film "Reefer Madness" from 1936. Especially watch it while high.
What’s interesting is, every single person I’ve met, or become aware of, who holds this opinion has never experienced either food insecurity or housing insecurity. People seem to require some level of structure, in order to assemble even a “weak and powerless” semblance of a social safety net. The US is already the literal only “developed”country that doesn’t yet have a comprehensive universal health care. What more do you want; how much needless cruelty is the really correct or proper amount? Senior citizens choosing between meds and groceries? Between Rent and utilities? Exactly how much should we continue to bleed human potential w/ countless would-be Marie Curies and Albert Einsteins are instead focused on how they are going to keep their kids housed and fed? Even taking ethics out of the equation, it still doesn’t make sense- it costs less to provide a social safety net, including for unhoused people, than it does to mitigate the massive fallout generated by choosing not to provide the safety net.
@@sarahissersohn5495 Please direct me to the section of the Constitution which gives the federal government the responsibility -- or even the authority -- to provide the populace with food or housing.
The reason for the opposition to Vietnam was twofold. 1. The "quick war", which Johnson used a very questionable situation to enter (when in truth it was his anti-communist concerns), lasted 20 years (though only 8 years of direct conflict) and the Americans lost time and time again, which cost huge amounts of money and lives. And 2. Vietnam was the first time open news coverage in real time was being shown to the public, and the atrocities that were committed on both sides called into question the purpose and strategy behind it. WW1 and 2 were both heavily propagandized to the public to garner support. Vietnam showed a truth to war that had no romanticism or glory, only brutality and loss.
The only reason why the US military was losing conflicts in Vietnam was due to the fact that the "generals" in Congress were putting too many ROE's on what the military. Had the actual military been able to do what was needed, the Vietnam war would have over considerably faster. The same problem was going on during the Middle East as well. When I deployed the 1st time, my ROE basically made to where I basically had to be killed before I could return fire. My 2nd deployment ROE was even worse! A prime example of letting the military do their job correctly, in the fairly recent past, is the 1st Gulf War. In and out, in about 6 months.
@@smooshiebear80 Rules of Engagement. In this case it is some of the limitations put in place by Congress to prevent the military doing X or Y. For example, the Military wasn't just allowed to shoot down every aircraft that flew over Vietnam... out of concern it would hit a civilian. When you consider that a lot of these 'ROE' are literally the politicians trying to control the narrative back home, violating them would have led to even more war-weariness.... Would it had really won the war to have ignored those ROE? Perhaps, but perhaps not. It would have led to a lot of questions in the Hague though.
In Wisconsin 2016 the GOP got 52% of the popular vote and got 64 out of 99 of the house assembly seats or 64.5% of the seats. That was done by “cracking” democratic districts into smaller areas and integrating them into larger republican districts.
@@ExecratedPlaysGaming the thing is that the changes the Democrats are doing are to make it more equal but people like you will make it sound like the Democrats are trying to take more power than they deserve. If the popular vote is 51/49 then the house and senate should be split as close to that percentage as possible with the slight edge going to the party that got the most votes. A 12% discrepancy is insane. The map that the GOP was proposing would have had the GOP hold the house 61-38 and the senate 21-12. Both at 63%of control for getting 51% of the vote. The maps were/are drawn by the Congress so there’s no way for the Democrats to influence the system. IMO the parties shouldn’t be able to draw the maps, they should have a non-partisan agreed upon firm come in every 10 years to draw maps that gives as close to equal representation as possible and show the data they used.
Supposedly whether you like it or not is genetic. But, unless I got some recessive gene somehow I don’t think it’s true because both of my parents hate it and I love cilantro. 🤷🏼♀️
@@smooshiebear80If I remember right it's partly down to genetics and ethnicity(?) -- like, if you grew up in a country/culture that has integrated cilantro/coriander in its foods and medicines for generations, or you were born to parents who did, you're more likely to like it. But it's not so much the taste of cilantro as it is the smell! The "soap gene" detects some compound in cilantro that your body thinks smells bad, and smell is intrinsically linked to taste.
I am lucky to live in a state that weed is legal. We have shops all over, they are as common as gas stations. And hemp is much better than cotton, it takes WAY less water and grows faster
Please help us in other states where it's not legal. I'm in South Carolina and tim Scott and Lindsay Graham must read all emails and listen to all messages. So having it be a group activity to call on out behalf. If they're overwhelmed they do something. I have MS and they allow commercial growers wo limits but patients get no access to pot. We need you!!!
It’s also brilliant for stopping soil erosion. One of my favourite T-shirts is made of hemp, really soft; the logo reads ‘G.W.Bush and Sons. Family butchers. Est 1989’. Usually got me served really quick in bars.
Related/unrelated I remembered when I was in elementary school (primary) in the mid to late 80’s a teacher campaign to warn students that if anyone gives you a small square of paper with colorful art on it to not place it on your skin or tongue. 10ish years later I cheerfully learned why.
You are correct about the fear of communism but most people had already figured out that capitalism was winning out. People were not trying to “escape” capitalist nations like the USA, Canada, France, Great Britain, etc. On the flip side people were regularly trying to escape from communist countries like Russia, China, Cuba, and so on.
they HAVE to breathalize you even if they are pulling you over for speeding or running a red? Oh man I WISH that was the law in the US. They would catch so many people under the influence.
Last I checked that's policy in Australia too. Even if they're just driving around pulling people over at random, they breathalyse everyone, check your license and car rego are current, that sort of thing. It does make you feel safer on the roads.
It was down to the growing cotton industry that didn't like the facy that hemp clothes were near industrictable and rarely needed to be replaced, while cotton clothes were crap and meant to dehrade quickly to ensure a constant supply of customers for their product.
I really fail to understand why the UK Governement cannot get up to date with their policies on this. Whatever some may think about it, it's now legal and / or tolerated in a number of European Countries and several US states. It has a measure of legailty here in terms of medicine but not recreationally. It is not responsible for the fraction of hospital admissions ( and that'susually due to too much consumption or where it's been cut in with poisonous substances) when compared to Alcohol and Tobacco. yet, the UK governement continue to listen to a handful of people whose heads are stuck in a kind of Victorian values age. Just look at why it was made illegal in the first place - largely due to racism. With sensible guidelines such as not driving on it etc, we could take it out of the hands of the black market and make it a relatively harmless practice. Seems peoples only objection is that they don't like the smell of it and /or don't like it because it's illegal. Even the so called link to mental health has not been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Crazy IMO!
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem to be fair largely having the same rules as Alcohol but setting it at 21 rather 18 would pretty much cover most of it.
We voted for it... we didn't vote for a ton of legislation and rules behind it. Government needs to keep its nose out of our lives. I'm sick of the constant over reach.
TL;DR: I agree, it’s bs When it comes to our personal lives, anything that doesn’t affect our neighbors’/community’s safety and well being, should be fair game! For example, I can understand restricting smoking inside most public buildings… except those with strictly adults in attendance. But if people wanna smoke in their own house- that’s their business what their air quality is since they aren’t affecting anyone but themselves. Thanks to a combination of laziness, racism, various narcissistic political leaders, and stupidity, we are less healthy and less safe as a result than USA could have been by now, otherwise. Maybe one day we the people will focus on factual, honest education of all our young people and we can break down the old laws and policies that don’t serve our community in the present day.
@@liamevans7661 Kids still have a right to breathe clean air at home. If you've got kids living in the house, you shouldn't be allowed to smoke in the house. Pick one.
24:44 those are schedule 2 rather than schedule 1 for the "no accepted medicinal value" criteria of schedule 1. Fentanyl is commonly prescribed for breakthrough pain in healthcare settings, along with a number of other opiates and opioids depending on a bunch of different factors. Thanks to its use in medicine, it's still considered high potential for abuse, but with accepted medical benefits when used appropriately. Edit: still makes no sense to lump cannabis into schedule 1 though
Pot is like other prescription meds. You need to know how it affects you and be used to it. Most cronic smokers won't drive if they are super high. But some people smoke for pain or depression and they need it to be able to goto work or take care of things like driving. Why have they consumed pot i would argure they are not high as all they have done is reach normal base line for everyone else
For Vietnam the basic idea was dominos. They actually call it domino theory. If one nation fell to communism then another would and another and another. It might start anywhere, but would eventually move across many countries in the world as more and more fell. So stop it before it gets going. That was the basic idea anyways.
@@theflyingdutchguy9870 And? Do you actually have anything to add? Are you just going to state the obvious? Or do you do this kind of crap just to hear yourself talk so-to-speak?
My sister and BIL know a man that was a veteran and the VA messed up his arm, he can’t really work. he smokes weed all the time, but the weird thing is it affects him the opposite way to everyone else! he gets energized and hardly eats! it’s very odd.
In Australia we have been telling the government that is a medical product for many decades. When they legalised it they wrote the legislation in a way that stopped dealers from ever being involved in the legitimate sales... this is crazy considering they already had many years of experience.
20:02 Say His Name! Harry Anslinger. Harry single handedly created the marijuana panic because Prohibition just ended and the unemployed fed needed a new job.
That wasn't why. That was just how he found the personnel for it. It was because he was a *massive* racist even by 1920's standards, and he was convened marijuana was making "the darkies think they are as good as whites". But it wouldn't have gotten the national support it did without W.R. Hearst, who opposed marijuana because it mite replace wood for paper making and he had a massive timber and paper milling investment
Don't forget US drug policy has been driven by racism. Beginning with opium in the early 1900s laws targeting "vices" of minorities has been standard procedure. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, dancing and even gathering in too large groups are restricted as another means of disenfranchisement, discrimination and dickheadedness.
There are several accounts of the process of marijuana criminalization. One of them was that it was because it threatened William Randolph Hearst's profits -- hemp had been produced for thousands of years, both as fiber for rope and fabric, and as pulp for paper production. The US Constitution was printed on hemp paper. The problem was that to get one part, you had to destroy the other. The invention of the hemp decorticator, a mechanical process to separate the pulp from the fiber, allowed both fiber and pulp to be produced from the same harvest, looked to hugely decrease the cost of hemp pulp for paper production, since it would now be a byproduct of rope and fabric production. An acre of land planted in hemp will produce four times the paper pulp as an acre of pulp timberland -- and Hearst owned huge tracts of pulp timberland, which the hemp decorticator would make almost worthless, so he was moved to produce a yellow journalism campaign demonizing 'marihuana', which most people didn't understand was the same plant as hemp. He reportedly recruited a chemical magnate, DuPont, whose company had just developed a synthetic fiber -- nylon -- whose market share could only be improved by taking hemp fiber out of the market. The campaign against 'marihuana' was effective, and the legal cultivation of hemp was virtually eradicated in the US; as an example of unintended consequences, with the outbreak of the Second World War, the US government, which had been getting the vast majority of its cordage for military use ('Manila' rope, for example) from the Philippines, now faced an acute shortage of line for its operations, and instituted the "Hemp for Victory" program, where it paid farmers to grow hemp for rope production to feed the needs of the military.
I’ve been asked “do you have any drugs?” wayyy more then I’ve been asked “do you want some drugs?” 😂 the funniest part, i was 15, playing basketball, and did not have any drugs.
Hey Simon, American here, pro pot. We just had a case in California where a women and her boyfriend were smoking and she went into "phychosis" and stabbed him 60 times. He died and she was able to use weed as a defense to not serve a day in jail.
A friend who was in Texas in the late 1960s. Only time he was with people who would get high and look for a fight. Maybe it's in the water? LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, asks cops to recall the last time they had to restrain a suspect whose only mind altering substance was cannabis. Very few could recall a single instance of violent stoners.✌🖖
I have JUST realised that the clip of the woman saying 'Please give me Coke.' is teaching Korean. That Korean text says 'Please give me Cola.' Not Coke. Or Cock. I'm only mentioning it because apparently my semester of Korean language classes have actually taught me something. Yaay! Also, great episode as always. Heheh
I had a cop come to my house a few days ago, "official business" not interesting, but we talked for a few minutes while I stood in the doorway. As he was leaving he said "and I smell that weed!" 😄
Oh Simon, I am so entertained by your freaking out and ignorance of these things in the US. But it also scares me how much I take these things as normal. I don’t even realize it until I see you freaking out. This is the best brain blaze I’ve seen you do.
Forefathers seperated cannabis plants male from femal. Which is only to make sure there isn't seeds most likely for using the plant to get high. The seeds are good for bird feed and doesn't inhibit the use of making hemp. So yeah they most likely grew it to get high.
Fentanyl is used during labor. My anesthesiologist injected a small amount into my spinal cord so that I couldn't feel anything from the waist down. It was interesting.
17:45 depends, I've been on opioid painkillers for 7+ years, at times the highest possible dose and even stopped taking them to switch to a non-opioid, non-painkiller medication and back without any issue. Even now occasionally when I'm too tired I forget to take a pill and only get reminded when the previous one stops working and the pain flares up again.
The 3/5 person rule was really poorly explained. That was a compromise to get the Southern states to actually join the US. And it had nothing to do with whether or not slaves were human. The anti slave states actually didn't want to count the slaves at all, the southern states wanted to count them as citizens so they could get more representatives ensuring that slavery would remain legal. In an attempt to get the Southern states to actually join the US they eventually compromised and decided that for purposes of representation slaves would only count for 3/5 of a person which limited the south's power to pass pro slavery laws.
I live in Washington state which was on of the first states to legalize weed and when they did they put the limited number of weed shop licenses up for basically an auction. All the people that had already been fighting for weed to be legalized and had medical dispensaries open were kicked out of the business had to shut down their businesses down and the licenses were given to rich people with no experience in the business. It ruined the local weed industry and pissed alot of people off that had worked for years to be ready for the changes in the laws.
I used to have a hemp shirt, honestly really soft and lasted much longer then cotton. I think cotton is slightly warmer and cheaper to process but it is the inferior plant.
Not only can there be conflicting state and federal level laws, but city level as well. There are laws in my state that are randomly different in certain cities and actively enforced.
The Czech Republic is among several European countries actively working on cannabis regulation. While recreational use remains illegal, the possession of cannabis for personal use was decriminalized in 2010, and medical cannabis was legalized in 2013
@smooshiebear80 When something is decriminalized, it's still technically illegal, but if someone has a small enough amount to be deemed "for personal use", law enforcement isn't going to arrest the person for drug possession. A "personal use" amount of marijuana is typically less than an ounce, but probably varies from state to state (or even city to city in any given state). The cops might confiscate it or something like that, but they won't arrest anyone. An amount exceeding the "personal use" threshold, on the other hand, is open to a variety of charges, "intent to distribute" being the most serious. If I have a joint or a few grams of flower it's no big deal, but if I have ounces or pounds of the stuff they'll almost certainly arrest me for possession AND intent to distribute (sell illegally). Recreational legalization means there are legitimate dispensaries where anyone over 21 can just roll on in there and buy all sorts of regulated cannabis products, from flower to vape pens, balms, gummies, drinks . . . All sorts of stuff. I live in Utah where we have medical marijuana, so a doctor's approval is necessary to acquire a "pot card," but then the dispensaries are pretty much the same. (And it's not hard to find a cannabis-friendly doctor, it's just a pain in the ass and can be pretty expensive.)
Got passed one by 2 topless girls in the car over while driving down the highway at midnight. My girlfriend at the time was sitting in the passenger seat and very pissed.. so i passed it back without lettin her have it.
In the US there is a swab test that can tell if someone has been smoking marijuana while driving. Smoke pot. Drink. Have a great time... Don't drive. The square can drive. Or call a taxi, they still exist believe it or not
Simon says the US has unlimited money while my wife and I are sharing a piece of popcorn that we found under the couch for dinner this week, all because she has a cold and needs to go to the doctor next month.
1) Last I heard, Ohio was trying to limit the number of homegrown marijuana to 6 plants. I don't smoke, but that doesn't sound like it would be enough to keep the people I know who do supplied. 2) I got yelled at by someone high on weed because, after several minutes of silence from him, I had the audacity to ask him if I could help him find something on our menu. He ranted at me about how weed is legal now and we need to realize that someone who is high needs more time to decide. I thought marijuana was supposed to chill you out, not piss you off.😂😂
Huh. Like Simon, I've only ever heard it used in humor. And never in person, just on the internet. People do talk about weed here, but they just call it weed or maybe pot.
Simon, could do you do a video on any of he following?: - idiots committing or trying to commit fraud / financial crimes - stock market failures - banking failures - corporate espionage failures - acquisition and merger failures - corporate diversification failures - weird / stupid people that are / were on some kind of corporate board
Here's the big glitch with our marijuana laws: the DEA and FDA establish if a drug is illegal or not, NOT Congress. ANY US President can issue an executive order to tell the FDA and DEA to change Marijuana to Schedule III (legal for prescription and medical experimentation, not for general access) Schedule IV (still requires prescription, but penalties for illegal possession are much lower) or Schedule V (full legal access, no prescription required) or even remove it from the drug schedule entirely. However, this is made a much bigger deal, and not corrected, for political leverage, so certain candidates can blame their opposition, while they do nothing on their side. President Biden, over this last weekend, had posts on X and other social media proclaiming that "nobody should go to jail for possessing a plant" while simultaneously doing absolutely nothing about it for over three years. Oh, and for Jerrymandering, take a look at Colorado's districts at both state and Federal levels. Even though the voters have consistently voted around 60-65% Democrat for the last ten years, the state legislature is over 80% Democrat. The Congressional district 8 in particular is comprised of a small portion of the northern Denver suburbs that is rather densely populated and vote heavily Democrat and several strongly conservative small towns on the eastern plains that balances just slightly Democrat. The conservatives and libertarians in the state have absolutely no say in the state legislature despite being 35-40% of the population.
In the US, you’re given the choice to do field sobriety tests (the physical stuff - walking a straight line, following a point with your eyes, standing on one foot, etc etc). You can decline. You’re also given the choice to take a breathalyzer test. You can decline that too. However, you’ll get arrested anyway on suspicion, they’ll quickly get a warrant from a judge, and make you take the test. So you’re better off just taking it tbh bc you’ll have to anyway. (And they can extrapolate your BAC from whatever time has passed.)
You forgot the part where the police also have a choice whether to arrest you or not on suspicion on DUI. You can do the field sobriety tests and decline the breathalyzer or vice versa. You don't just "automatically" get arrested. It's a case by case basis.
Even when they legalize it, they still 'gate keep' it. Look at Pennsylvania, for example, where they have only a handful of licenses so they can handpick which companies get that market. This has ensured there will be no cheaper cannabis on the market, to compete against the Tobacco Companies. Such is America though....
So, I got stoned on cannabis cookies one afternoon and destroyed my neighbours back door with an axe. I only have vague memories why, but I think I was convinced they were all trying to harm me and I was going to get them first. Spent the night in police custody until i calmed down. Never touched the stuff again.
The cops in my town in South Carolina have pretty much adopted the "if I don't see it, you don't have it" policy regarding marijuana. There was a period a few years ago where weed laced with other drugs was a problem, but the big problem now is Fentanyl. Weed is still technically illegal in SC, and they do charge you for it if they see it, but they're not gonna go looking for it, unless they really don't like you.
The edits and memes are starting to reach stratospheric levels even beyond the previous awesomeness; that was some of the funniest sh!t I've seen in a good long while. 👍
I saw an anti weed ad about some girl who had a brownie stuck in her hair that she didn't notice... Because that definitely happens as a stoner... 🤨 Highest thing I've done is make a bowl of cereal in a drinking glass and thought it was both brilliant and hilarious
@@canaan5337 And, as mentioned a few times in this video, he's not American. American dates are great for memes, the rest of the world uses dates that are actually not completely stupid for dates 😆
As an american, it's wild to me that simon has never heard of the 3/5ths or gerrymandering, stuff i learned in school that stuck with me. I guess it makes sense that an englishman who lives in czechia wouldn't know about them though as they are pretty American things.
27:46 The House of Representatives (the House) is the one that's based on population count. The Senate has two senators per state regardless of population.
It can’t cause schizophrenia or aneurysms. If one is already predisposed to it, it can be the precipitating reason for psychosis or a brain bleed, but aren’t the primary causes.
29:01 Gerrymandering in the US is when the district lines are redrawn to divide “certain” (aka ethnic or liberal) communities so they do not have a foothold. Example: lets say a county has 5 districts and 3 districts are 75% percent liberal and could swing the vote for the entire county, they would get split up so crazily (literally the boundaries become insane, look some up) just so now each district is less than half liberal and now the counties vote swings red instead of blue. It’s also extremely common in the south but it happens all over the country
In maine, recreational and medical have to be sold out of different buildings. But not only is the prescription stupid easy to get, its incredibly common for patients to go in with friends, and the cashier doesnt even pretend to be serving the "patient". It's literally less enforced than alcohol, but recreational has to be in a completely different building (not sharing walls)
Good day Simon as you are aware weed is legal in Canada. And you can grow your own except in Manitoba and Quebec. I possess a medical license that allows me to grow 365 plants and have 26500 grams of dried weed on hand at all times.
We have gone from prescribing too many narcotics to not using them at all. My GF had cancer surgery and they gave her nothing for pain. Nothing. Go home and take Tylenol was their advice.
Yeah, there's so many things that America just can't find a good middle ground on. The country is so polarised that anyone suggesting a middle ground would never get a word in
Simon, extasy itself isn't very dangerous. And has some legit uses. However, using extasy is incredi ly dangerous. Unless you are somehow getting it for a medical center or something. But off the street, it's one of the more dangerous things you can do. So much other stuff is put in their.
27:43 it’s not how many voters they have it’s the total population they wanted to count slaves as people when counting the population to determine representatives in Congress, but they don’t count them as people any other time they’re considered to be property basically the 1800s equivalent of farming equipment.
I had an acquaintance who died of driving while on pot (his bong was in his lap) He drove slowly through a red light and got hit by a truck In Canberra, Australia where pot is decriminalised (but like America, is a class 1 illicit drug according to federal law)
😂😂😂 That jazz cabbage is the bees knees don’t cha know. Haha growing up in Mormonville Utah (and yes I am a recovering exMormon) I remember when weed was legalized in our neighboring state Colorado. The next day during rehearsals for my high school’s play this girl proclaimed in her more holy’er than thou opinions “That devils lettuce struck again! There were so many overdose deaths in Colorado last night from the legalization of weed!” Meanwhile I was baked out of my mind going that’s not how any of this works. Then remembering she just had her wisdom teeth out last week I went on to ask her “Oh wow, where did you get that information? And how about those oxycodone pills in your bag, how many people do you think have overdosed on them since the beginning of their medical use?” She didn’t speak about it again after that. 😂😂 Do some actual research and you’ll find out everything is going to give you cancer and kill you in worse ways anyway so what is a little of that sticky icky going to do besides give you a fun night out with your mates?
That's wild that police in the UK breathalyze you every time they pull you over. In the US an officer needs a reason to use the breathalyzer which is why they give you the physical test first. If you fail that than they have a probable cause to use the breathalyzer.
In Australia the reason to use the breathalyser is because you're driving a car. We don't do that physical test stuff, it's ableist and unscientific. But routine breath testing is very effective at keeping the roads safe.
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The 3/5ths compromise does make sense though. As terrible as it is, there was no chance of a compromise being made without including it. The Constitution would have never been ratified otherwise.
The reason : In The USA, unlike any other country on earth, the sovereign hierarchy goes as follows : From the bottom up... The Citizen, the Town, the County the State, the Nation... the gov't was / is, a subservient entity The individual is sovereign.... Every other nation on earth is top down. This is why they are so special.
Simon states haven't fixed the money issue with dispensaries. They will accept cash, & debit cards. Debit cards are rung up to the next large bill. You then get the change back. This is at least the way it works it Missouri.
before I watch the video I'd like to say weed is legal in my country of Canada. I don't smoke it and I wish it smelt better cause its really bad...lol
Some people get really ill from the smell of weed. It is no better the tobacco. How is it right that a person who gets ill from it has to put up with the smell.
Banks in the US still can't take legal weed money. But you know who does take legal weed money? The IRS!
I’d love to see Simon do an episode about this. ‘Cause it’s a mess.
@hbeachley I don't know if he could, because it's such a mess! We legalized it in November in Ohio, and retail sales might start as soon as June.
Half the banks in Florida were built by Cocaine.
Because the government always gets paid $$$$
We decriminalized it then legalized it for sale in New York January 2023 and it's still such a mess. They screwed the pooch with the rollout, and got greedy New York State charges 1 million, no joke, for the license to sell recreational marijuana. So what they've done is incentivized the market that they were trying to destroy. Since its decriminalized, and the license is a million dollars, why would any smoke shop sell legally? Tons of them sell under the counter, and if they get caught all it is is a fine, which doesn't compare to the money they're taking in by selling it, they stop selling it for 6 months to a year. Not to mention all the federal laws that keep this industry in bureaucratic limbo hell.
As a kid who grew up in the 90's we were made to believe that random people were handing out drugs and that is was common for random strangers to kidnap kids off the street. The reality is that drugs cost money and you would most likey encounter drugs at a party or at a concert. Also you were more likely to be kidnapped by a family member then a random stranger.
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That stat is only true because they include custodial kidnapping (dad gets to visit the kids and refuse to drop em off / vice versa) that's the majority of familial "kidnappings" aside from that, random kidnapping, followed by co-workers are the most likely
@garrysanderson5793 no it's true because it covers people known to the child.not just direct family members.
Yeah and like a stupid idiot I was pumping that into my kids heads. When I read Michael Pollins “How to Change Your Mind”, I face palmed and scheduled a trip to Jamaica for a magic mushroom retreat.
Yeah, when my now adult kids watch the South Park episodes Child Abduction Isn't Funny and My Future Self N' Me they'll still find them funny but they won't hit the same way since they didn't live through that... or the D&D fear mongering. I didn't get into D&D until much later due to that one.
I remember when I was a kid and teachers used to say that if people will offer you drugs all the time just say no. I'm still waiting(since 80's) for someone to offer me drugs at least once.
I had a friend offer me pot, when we were driving with his other friends. I said I wasn't interested (not cause of DARE or anything, I legit just didnt care about it). He just said "oh ok," then passed it to the next person, no pressure or anything.
D.A.R.E. to Just Say NO! XD
I still don't know what that acronym means. XD
I was leaving work, like 5 steps outta the building, get hit with a cloud of weed smoke, say out loud "damn, somebody smoking good!" A random dude I'd never met turns around and says "I'm headed in, you want the rest?" Sharing is caring!
I was hugely pregnant and loving in the sketchiest possible area. A friend dropped me off after church and a guy walked up to me and asked if I was interested in some crack. Talk about dumbfounded. I politely said I wasn't interested, he said, "that's cool," and I waddled into my apartment. Never happened before, never happened since. 😂
You need a better circle of friends lol
Police do carry breathalyzers in the US. They just use field sobriety tests, which can be hard for sober people as well, to get more evidence. This is sometimes done even if the breathalyzer reads 0.00. To fellow Americans: do not take _any_ test that isn't required by law. They only use it against you. It won't help your case.
Never answer questions. Always say you want to speak to your attorney. Never consent to searches, ever.
Exactly! The magic phrase is, “am I being detained or am I free to leave?” Then shut up, and if possible to safely do so, leave
Astonishing that they're allowed to do that. Australian police have been doing routine breathalysers for decades. That or a blood test are legal evidence - how well you can walk is just ableism.
@@tealkerberus748 another fun fact:
A large majority of prisons in the US aren't run by the government. They are private companies paid by the government to house prisoners. They are financially incentivised to make people go to prison. They use their money to lobby the government to make it easier for more people to be sent to prison and for longer, therefore making them more money. The thing I've heard is the most effected by the prison lobby is minor drug offenses, which is why non-violent drug crimes are have been heavily punished in the US.
A good way to think about how gerrymandering works is to imagine it at a small scale. Imagine there are 15 voters that need to be divided into three equal groups (ie 3 groups of 5). If 8 lean democratic and 7 lean republican, then the way you divide them into groups will change the outcome.
For example, grouping five of the democratic voters into one group, then splitting the remaining three across the last two will mean that two of the three groups will be a republican majority, despite the voting population being majority democratic.
That helped, thanks
That's possibly the simplist example and very good for people having a hard time getting it.
That's why I don't like it... I think whoever gets the most votes should win period... everything else is just trickery to make something that wouldn't have normally happened, occur
Both sides do it, but Republicans are absolute experts at it.
There is no real difference between democrats and republicans. They play fight on tv and play on your emotions with things like abortion and gun control to get you to pick a side and feel you have a choice. Choosing one of two options is not a choice. If you want to see real change, we need to vote our way out of the 2 party system. All republicans and democrats are sold out to all the same banks, corporations and elites. They all serve the same masters and do not care about the common people.
Regarding weed, you would have thought the 1920s ‘prohibition’ on alcohol would have taught a lesson, but No.
In the 1970s getting busted in your own home by the ‘drug squad’ for smoking was a serious deal.
It was actually the horrible failure of alcohol prohibition that caused the criminalization of Marijuana in the first place. All thanks to a horrible piece of garbage named Harry Anslinger. Would actually make for an interesting video on how bad he truly was.
@@captainspaulding5963ugh, Wikipedia has a page on that guy, and although there are missing citations, what is verified is pretty bad. He's another villain in us history.
@leafyrox indeed, dude was an absolute monster. What he did to Billie Holiday alone is just disgusting.
The problem is weed challenged large existing industrial concerns. It was an economical choice
I drove a van for an MJ industry cash courier. We drove big bags of thousands of $$$ from one state where it was legal to another where it was legal but through a state where it wasn't. The local sheriffs would look for our Colorado license plates and pull over the vans, take our money, and let us go in legalized piracy that is called civil asset forfeiture. Our company finally opened a branch in each state and now just sends the money by wire after "sanitizing" it through a couple of management corporations. Better call Saul.
And they still wonder why people HATE cops
27:18 - Well, the slaves didn't get to vote. The slave owners got to cast the vote on behalf of their slaves. Hence why the North didn't want them to count. They felt it wasn't fair representation, if the slaves didn't actually get to cast their own vote.
The simplest way I've found to describe the USA to my friends who live in other countries is that it's united in name only and is actually fifty separate countries that kinda lowkey hate each other and the federal government is their private UN.
Once you look at it like that, suddenly it makes perfect sense that semi-automatic assault rifles can be illegal in California but totally fine in a different state.
Well, sort of. This would be 100% accurate before the Civil War.
One of the most interesting things is that the name "United States" went from being a plural noun "The United States are..." to a singular "The United States is..." after the Civil War, reflecting the official shift from 34 sovereign states unified by a limited federal government to an imperial government with 34 provinces that are called "states"... For better and worse.
@@Mortielat least the the southern states were forced to give up slavery and now there's no racism down there. 😂
@@playedout148Yeah... No racism at all... 🙃
But yeah, slavery was objectively bad and definitely needed abolished, but that was one of the few 100% good results of the Civil War.
The assault moniker is a meaningless fear monger tag.
@@ThirtytwoJnobody cares that you don’t have a personality. Shut the fuck up. Why are you even here do you know who Simon is?? 😂😂😂
I’m expecting the next video to be “Operation Chaos”
For the clicks!
Next up for decoding the unknown maybe into the shadows 🎉
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I think my favorite part of Simon's videos is how his editors are basically certified memelords. Always using them properly.
Legal cannabis licensees in WA used to have to go to the LCB (Liquor and Cannabis Board) with *cash* to pay licensing fees. Employees who've been there since legalization have stories about business owners coming into the state office with giant paper or duffel bags of cash since they couldn't get a business bank account, but they still had to pay fees & taxes. The IRS wants their taxes, even if it's still illegal on the Federal level, but luckily now some banks in WA will do business with licensed cannabis businesses so no one's paying taxes with a grocery bag of $100's anymore.
That's ludicrous. It reminds me of the first ban in like 1920-30? Marijuana wasnt made illegal. It required a tax stamp, which the government conveniently didn't print.
I am indeed sat in my beanbag chair and can confirm that I’m just going chill, and maybe eat cheesecake
MMmmmm.... Cheescake.........
perfect
Cheesecake is great anytime
Maybe grab some tamales and onion rings too
I was gonna link the “Cheesecake” song from back in the day but I’m also stoned and eating cheesecake in a comfy chair
i love simons whole team.
the writers are top tier, the editor never misses, and Simon is absolutely unrivaled at his craft. plus the rants are always enjoyable
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Breathalyzers detect alcohol, but not weed. That requires a blood test. The problem is that THC gets stored in one's fatty tissues and stays there for weeks. So, you could test positive for weed even though you hadn't smoked in a month. It's very tricky.
You should check out the unintentionally hilarious film "Reefer Madness" from 1936. Especially watch it while high.
That movie is required viewing while high. I also recommend House of 1000 Corpses, Kung Pow! Enter the Fist and Primer, just to confuse your friends.
@@NefvilleDon't forget "Kung Fury"!
@@Nefvillecan i add that kung faux, is also good viewing while high.
I just heard about this film in another comment yesterday.
In Australia we do a Saliva test
“It seems like the federal government is best weak and powerless.”
I couldn’t agree more, Simon.
What’s interesting is, every single person I’ve met, or become aware of, who holds this opinion has never experienced either food insecurity or housing insecurity. People seem to require some level of structure, in order to assemble even a “weak and powerless” semblance of a social safety net. The US is already the literal only “developed”country that doesn’t yet have a comprehensive universal health care. What more do you want; how much needless cruelty is the really correct or proper amount? Senior citizens choosing between meds and groceries? Between Rent and utilities? Exactly how much should we continue to bleed human potential w/ countless would-be Marie Curies and Albert Einsteins are instead focused on how they are going to keep their kids housed and fed? Even taking ethics out of the equation, it still doesn’t make sense- it costs less to provide a social safety net, including for unhoused people, than it does to mitigate the massive fallout generated by choosing not to provide the safety net.
@@sarahissersohn5495 Please direct me to the section of the Constitution which gives the federal government the responsibility -- or even the authority -- to provide the populace with food or housing.
The reason for the opposition to Vietnam was twofold. 1. The "quick war", which Johnson used a very questionable situation to enter (when in truth it was his anti-communist concerns), lasted 20 years (though only 8 years of direct conflict) and the Americans lost time and time again, which cost huge amounts of money and lives. And 2. Vietnam was the first time open news coverage in real time was being shown to the public, and the atrocities that were committed on both sides called into question the purpose and strategy behind it. WW1 and 2 were both heavily propagandized to the public to garner support. Vietnam showed a truth to war that had no romanticism or glory, only brutality and loss.
Lessons learned. In the oil wars, the military worked with embedded "journalists" who got the good stories. 😂
Insert Fallout "War never changes" meme
The only reason why the US military was losing conflicts in Vietnam was due to the fact that the "generals" in Congress were putting too many ROE's on what the military. Had the actual military been able to do what was needed, the Vietnam war would have over considerably faster.
The same problem was going on during the Middle East as well. When I deployed the 1st time, my ROE basically made to where I basically had to be killed before I could return fire. My 2nd deployment ROE was even worse!
A prime example of letting the military do their job correctly, in the fairly recent past, is the 1st Gulf War. In and out, in about 6 months.
@@jandecoleman1what is ROE?
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Rules of Engagement.
In this case it is some of the limitations put in place by Congress to prevent the military doing X or Y. For example, the Military wasn't just allowed to shoot down every aircraft that flew over Vietnam... out of concern it would hit a civilian. When you consider that a lot of these 'ROE' are literally the politicians trying to control the narrative back home, violating them would have led to even more war-weariness....
Would it had really won the war to have ignored those ROE?
Perhaps, but perhaps not.
It would have led to a lot of questions in the Hague though.
In Wisconsin 2016 the GOP got 52% of the popular vote and got 64 out of 99 of the house assembly seats or 64.5% of the seats. That was done by “cracking” democratic districts into smaller areas and integrating them into larger republican districts.
I just learned about this today on NPR
That's dirty deceitful politics. Another reason why we need to abolish government altogether and every individual will govern themself.
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It is the core to Gerrymandering.
Yea, we need to put a stop to this, but the next time redistricting happens, it'll be Democrats making the changes and then you'll be okay with it.
@@ExecratedPlaysGaming the thing is that the changes the Democrats are doing are to make it more equal but people like you will make it sound like the Democrats are trying to take more power than they deserve. If the popular vote is 51/49 then the house and senate should be split as close to that percentage as possible with the slight edge going to the party that got the most votes. A 12% discrepancy is insane. The map that the GOP was proposing would have had the GOP hold the house 61-38 and the senate 21-12. Both at 63%of control for getting 51% of the vote. The maps were/are drawn by the Congress so there’s no way for the Democrats to influence the system. IMO the parties shouldn’t be able to draw the maps, they should have a non-partisan agreed upon firm come in every 10 years to draw maps that gives as close to equal representation as possible and show the data they used.
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The only thing I refer to as the devil’s lettuce is cilantro. That stuff is vile!
I presume you have the soap gene?
Supposedly whether you like it or not is genetic. But, unless I got some recessive gene somehow I don’t think it’s true because both of my parents hate it and I love cilantro. 🤷🏼♀️
@@smooshiebear80If I remember right it's partly down to genetics and ethnicity(?) -- like, if you grew up in a country/culture that has integrated cilantro/coriander in its foods and medicines for generations, or you were born to parents who did, you're more likely to like it. But it's not so much the taste of cilantro as it is the smell! The "soap gene" detects some compound in cilantro that your body thinks smells bad, and smell is intrinsically linked to taste.
I am lucky to live in a state that weed is legal. We have shops all over, they are as common as gas stations. And hemp is much better than cotton, it takes WAY less water and grows faster
Please help us in other states where it's not legal. I'm in South Carolina and tim Scott and Lindsay Graham must read all emails and listen to all messages. So having it be a group activity to call on out behalf. If they're overwhelmed they do something. I have MS and they allow commercial growers wo limits but patients get no access to pot. We need you!!!
That’s an interesting fact about hemp!
It’s also brilliant for stopping soil erosion. One of my favourite T-shirts is made of hemp, really soft; the logo reads ‘G.W.Bush and Sons. Family butchers. Est 1989’. Usually got me served really quick in bars.
Same here , I have my weed legally delivered to my house within an hour by a driver . 😁🤘
@@petersmedley459 It should be G.H.W. Bush and Sons, as the elder bush also had the name Herbert
Related/unrelated I remembered when I was in elementary school (primary) in the mid to late 80’s a teacher campaign to warn students that if anyone gives you a small square of paper with colorful art on it to not place it on your skin or tongue. 10ish years later I cheerfully learned why.
You are correct about the fear of communism but most people had already figured out that capitalism was winning out. People were not trying to “escape” capitalist nations like the USA, Canada, France, Great Britain, etc. On the flip side people were regularly trying to escape from communist countries like Russia, China, Cuba, and so on.
they HAVE to breathalize you even if they are pulling you over for speeding or running a red? Oh man I WISH that was the law in the US. They would catch so many people under the influence.
Last I checked that's policy in Australia too. Even if they're just driving around pulling people over at random, they breathalyse everyone, check your license and car rego are current, that sort of thing. It does make you feel safer on the roads.
I do appreciate the use of an Emperor Palpatine-meme in comparison to the CIA, quite ironic. *thumbs up*
Emperor Penguin. (Any overbearing asshole in a tux)
Robin Williams, that well known comic, said "...if you have a Cocaine addiction, that means your making too much money".
It was down to the growing cotton industry that didn't like the facy that hemp clothes were near industrictable and rarely needed to be replaced, while cotton clothes were crap and meant to dehrade quickly to ensure a constant supply of customers for their product.
I really fail to understand why the UK Governement cannot get up to date with their policies on this. Whatever some may think about it, it's now legal and / or tolerated in a number of European Countries and several US states. It has a measure of legailty here in terms of medicine but not recreationally. It is not responsible for the fraction of hospital admissions ( and that'susually due to too much consumption or where it's been cut in with poisonous substances) when compared to Alcohol and Tobacco. yet, the UK governement continue to listen to a handful of people whose heads are stuck in a kind of Victorian values age. Just look at why it was made illegal in the first place - largely due to racism. With sensible guidelines such as not driving on it etc, we could take it out of the hands of the black market and make it a relatively harmless practice. Seems peoples only objection is that they don't like the smell of it and /or don't like it because it's illegal. Even the so called link to mental health has not been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Crazy IMO!
Not to mention that they can make money from it via taxes, licencing, and regulations. Also completely legal in Canada.
@@loribroadbent8573 Yes, totally, it would probably raise hundreds of millions if not Billions every year and a lot of good could be done with that.
I agree on the smell, but just have a regulation saying, "Don't use this in public."
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem to be fair largely having the same rules as Alcohol but setting it at 21 rather 18 would pretty much cover most of it.
@@JakeyBaby6 Pretty much. I should have just said that.
We voted for it... we didn't vote for a ton of legislation and rules behind it. Government needs to keep its nose out of our lives. I'm sick of the constant over reach.
TL;DR: I agree, it’s bs
When it comes to our personal lives, anything that doesn’t affect our neighbors’/community’s safety and well being, should be fair game! For example, I can understand restricting smoking inside most public buildings… except those with strictly adults in attendance. But if people wanna smoke in their own house- that’s their business what their air quality is since they aren’t affecting anyone but themselves.
Thanks to a combination of laziness, racism, various narcissistic political leaders, and stupidity, we are less healthy and less safe as a result than USA could have been by now, otherwise.
Maybe one day we the people will focus on factual, honest education of all our young people and we can break down the old laws and policies that don’t serve our community in the present day.
@@liamevans7661 Kids still have a right to breathe clean air at home. If you've got kids living in the house, you shouldn't be allowed to smoke in the house. Pick one.
24:44 those are schedule 2 rather than schedule 1 for the "no accepted medicinal value" criteria of schedule 1. Fentanyl is commonly prescribed for breakthrough pain in healthcare settings, along with a number of other opiates and opioids depending on a bunch of different factors. Thanks to its use in medicine, it's still considered high potential for abuse, but with accepted medical benefits when used appropriately.
Edit: still makes no sense to lump cannabis into schedule 1 though
Pot is like other prescription meds. You need to know how it affects you and be used to it. Most cronic smokers won't drive if they are super high. But some people smoke for pain or depression and they need it to be able to goto work or take care of things like driving. Why have they consumed pot i would argure they are not high as all they have done is reach normal base line for everyone else
Excellent time to do a video and Hemp Vs. Cotton. It will shock you on how the industry of cotton became the leader.
Simon find out about US history is the best way to learn. The reactions are priceless and stay with you.
For Vietnam the basic idea was dominos. They actually call it domino theory. If one nation fell to communism then another would and another and another. It might start anywhere, but would eventually move across many countries in the world as more and more fell. So stop it before it gets going. That was the basic idea anyways.
But in the end, the only domino effect was the communist countries themselves falling one after another :P
@@Matze-c1j With the exception of the ones that we fought wars in (and china).
I mean if that's what everyone wanted then let them be communists.
this is not reflected in the modern world, tho.
@@theflyingdutchguy9870 And? Do you actually have anything to add? Are you just going to state the obvious? Or do you do this kind of crap just to hear yourself talk so-to-speak?
My sister and BIL know a man that was a veteran and the VA messed up his arm, he can’t really work. he smokes weed all the time, but the weird thing is it affects him the opposite way to everyone else! he gets energized and hardly eats! it’s very odd.
In Australia we have been telling the government that is a medical product for many decades.
When they legalised it they wrote the legislation in a way that stopped dealers from ever being involved in the legitimate sales... this is crazy considering they already had many years of experience.
20:02 Say His Name! Harry Anslinger. Harry single handedly created the marijuana panic because Prohibition just ended and the unemployed fed needed a new job.
I don't know about singlehandedly, I'd guess he had help from that other scumbag Edward Bernays, the father of lies.
That wasn't why. That was just how he found the personnel for it.
It was because he was a *massive* racist even by 1920's standards, and he was convened marijuana was making "the darkies think they are as good as whites".
But it wouldn't have gotten the national support it did without W.R. Hearst, who opposed marijuana because it mite replace wood for paper making and he had a massive timber and paper milling investment
Don't forget US drug policy has been driven by racism. Beginning with opium in the early 1900s laws targeting "vices" of minorities has been standard procedure. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, dancing and even gathering in too large groups are restricted as another means of disenfranchisement, discrimination and dickheadedness.
There are several accounts of the process of marijuana criminalization. One of them was that it was because it threatened William Randolph Hearst's profits -- hemp had been produced for thousands of years, both as fiber for rope and fabric, and as pulp for paper production. The US Constitution was printed on hemp paper. The problem was that to get one part, you had to destroy the other. The invention of the hemp decorticator, a mechanical process to separate the pulp from the fiber, allowed both fiber and pulp to be produced from the same harvest, looked to hugely decrease the cost of hemp pulp for paper production, since it would now be a byproduct of rope and fabric production. An acre of land planted in hemp will produce four times the paper pulp as an acre of pulp timberland -- and Hearst owned huge tracts of pulp timberland, which the hemp decorticator would make almost worthless, so he was moved to produce a yellow journalism campaign demonizing 'marihuana', which most people didn't understand was the same plant as hemp. He reportedly recruited a chemical magnate, DuPont, whose company had just developed a synthetic fiber -- nylon -- whose market share could only be improved by taking hemp fiber out of the market.
The campaign against 'marihuana' was effective, and the legal cultivation of hemp was virtually eradicated in the US; as an example of unintended consequences, with the outbreak of the Second World War, the US government, which had been getting the vast majority of its cordage for military use ('Manila' rope, for example) from the Philippines, now faced an acute shortage of line for its operations, and instituted the "Hemp for Victory" program, where it paid farmers to grow hemp for rope production to feed the needs of the military.
I’ve been asked “do you have any drugs?” wayyy more then I’ve been asked “do you want some drugs?” 😂 the funniest part, i was 15, playing basketball, and did not have any drugs.
Hey Simon, American here, pro pot. We just had a case in California where a women and her boyfriend were smoking and she went into "phychosis" and stabbed him 60 times. He died and she was able to use weed as a defense to not serve a day in jail.
Only in Cali. SMMFH
A friend who was in Texas in the late 1960s. Only time he was with people who would get high and look for a fight. Maybe it's in the water? LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, asks cops to recall the last time they had to restrain a suspect whose only mind altering substance was cannabis. Very few could recall a single instance of violent stoners.✌🖖
what the fk. that doesnt make any sense
So happy to live in Canada when it comes to pot (as it is as legal as beer) but our gun laws make the U.S. pot laws look simple and straightforward.
You are late, for 4/20 Simon!!! But, I'll still light up a joint & watch!!!
My clock is broken, so it's _always_ 4:20.
I have JUST realised that the clip of the woman saying 'Please give me Coke.' is teaching Korean. That Korean text says 'Please give me Cola.' Not Coke. Or Cock. I'm only mentioning it because apparently my semester of Korean language classes have actually taught me something. Yaay! Also, great episode as always. Heheh
I had a cop come to my house a few days ago, "official business" not interesting, but we talked for a few minutes while I stood in the doorway. As he was leaving he said "and I smell that weed!" 😄
Oh Simon, I am so entertained by your freaking out and ignorance of these things in the US. But it also scares me how much I take these things as normal. I don’t even realize it until I see you freaking out. This is the best brain blaze I’ve seen you do.
Forefathers seperated cannabis plants male from femal. Which is only to make sure there isn't seeds most likely for using the plant to get high. The seeds are good for bird feed and doesn't inhibit the use of making hemp. So yeah they most likely grew it to get high.
There are also documented examples from that era of medical uses for cannabis. Tea, tincture, or smoked. So yeah, there was THC involved.✌🖖
Fentanyl is used during labor. My anesthesiologist injected a small amount into my spinal cord so that I couldn't feel anything from the waist down. It was interesting.
I'll watch this video about w@@d while I smoke w@@d 😂
With you on that one 🤘
Same. Had an edible 1st, and THEN smoked w☘️☘️d.
You are not alone brothers ✊️
Wow you are all so cooooool 🙄
Sadly in Texas so I can't participate
17:45 depends, I've been on opioid painkillers for 7+ years, at times the highest possible dose and even stopped taking them to switch to a non-opioid, non-painkiller medication and back without any issue.
Even now occasionally when I'm too tired I forget to take a pill and only get reminded when the previous one stops working and the pain flares up again.
Smoking bongs while watching simon aka baldys basics is always fun
Hey me too !! Taking bong hits I mean 🤘🇺🇸
Baldys basics….😂 that’s hilarious.
@@TheShadow0515 lol
It is like in the UK where they created a law to ban 'Legal highs' that also would have ended up banning everything from Catnip to Incense.
The 3/5 person rule was really poorly explained. That was a compromise to get the Southern states to actually join the US. And it had nothing to do with whether or not slaves were human. The anti slave states actually didn't want to count the slaves at all, the southern states wanted to count them as citizens so they could get more representatives ensuring that slavery would remain legal. In an attempt to get the Southern states to actually join the US they eventually compromised and decided that for purposes of representation slaves would only count for 3/5 of a person which limited the south's power to pass pro slavery laws.
I live in Washington state which was on of the first states to legalize weed and when they did they put the limited number of weed shop licenses up for basically an auction. All the people that had already been fighting for weed to be legalized and had medical dispensaries open were kicked out of the business had to shut down their businesses down and the licenses were given to rich people with no experience in the business. It ruined the local weed industry and pissed alot of people off that had worked for years to be ready for the changes in the laws.
We need " Today I found out " with tangents.. make it happen Simon!
But the tangent has to be announced by the Thomas the Trump train meme.
I used to have a hemp shirt, honestly really soft and lasted much longer then cotton. I think cotton is slightly warmer and cheaper to process but it is the inferior plant.
Not only can there be conflicting state and federal level laws, but city level as well. There are laws in my state that are randomly different in certain cities and actively enforced.
The Czech Republic is among several European countries actively working on cannabis regulation. While recreational use remains illegal, the possession of cannabis for personal use was decriminalized in 2010, and medical cannabis was legalized in 2013
*waits for payday in Canadian*
What’s the difference between recreational and personal use?
@smooshiebear80 When something is decriminalized, it's still technically illegal, but if someone has a small enough amount to be deemed "for personal use", law enforcement isn't going to arrest the person for drug possession. A "personal use" amount of marijuana is typically less than an ounce, but probably varies from state to state (or even city to city in any given state). The cops might confiscate it or something like that, but they won't arrest anyone. An amount exceeding the "personal use" threshold, on the other hand, is open to a variety of charges, "intent to distribute" being the most serious. If I have a joint or a few grams of flower it's no big deal, but if I have ounces or pounds of the stuff they'll almost certainly arrest me for possession AND intent to distribute (sell illegally).
Recreational legalization means there are legitimate dispensaries where anyone over 21 can just roll on in there and buy all sorts of regulated cannabis products, from flower to vape pens, balms, gummies, drinks . . . All sorts of stuff.
I live in Utah where we have medical marijuana, so a doctor's approval is necessary to acquire a "pot card," but then the dispensaries are pretty much the same. (And it's not hard to find a cannabis-friendly doctor, it's just a pain in the ass and can be pretty expensive.)
I traded a cigarette for a joint at a stoplight once
Got passed one by 2 topless girls in the car over while driving down the highway at midnight. My girlfriend at the time was sitting in the passenger seat and very pissed.. so i passed it back without lettin her have it.
THATS A GOOD TRADE RIGHT THERE!
you got like 10x value on that trade. Easily. More depending on what city it was in.
My friends and I traded a lighter for a joint on a mountain once
God, I love the "all lies" Jerry Springer lady. Best living meme ever!
It’s actually a clip from the second Austin Powers movie. Makes the clip even funnier, if you ask me.
@@smooshiebear80 yeah that is pretty funny, it's been so long since I watched those movies
This just became my favorite episode. Thank you, from an old pothead. 😅
In the US there is a swab test that can tell if someone has been smoking marijuana while driving. Smoke pot. Drink. Have a great time... Don't drive. The square can drive. Or call a taxi, they still exist believe it or not
The fear was the "Domino effect". they thought that if one fell to communism then another country would then another etc etc.
the memes in this episode were top tier honestly. The steve austin one had me dying xD
So happy Simon continues to teach us
I bet Simon smells nice.
He looks like the sort of person who smells nice.
I watched this entire thing while smoking…in Texas. I love this🤣
Simon says the US has unlimited money while my wife and I are sharing a piece of popcorn that we found under the couch for dinner this week, all because she has a cold and needs to go to the doctor next month.
That's because, in the US, the people are not the US.
1) Last I heard, Ohio was trying to limit the number of homegrown marijuana to 6 plants. I don't smoke, but that doesn't sound like it would be enough to keep the people I know who do supplied.
2) I got yelled at by someone high on weed because, after several minutes of silence from him, I had the audacity to ask him if I could help him find something on our menu. He ranted at me about how weed is legal now and we need to realize that someone who is high needs more time to decide.
I thought marijuana was supposed to chill you out, not piss you off.😂😂
Hell, when my mom found out I had smoked weed, she legit called it "Devil's Lettuce". It's a VERY common term around here. And not by the smokers.
Beelzebub 's broccoli. The rock blanket.
@@MosDaft I think I heard someone call it "Beelzebub's Broccoli" in the military. That was a fun one.
What century do you live in? 😂
@@playedout148 USA right now. But I've lived in a lot of other countries.
Huh. Like Simon, I've only ever heard it used in humor. And never in person, just on the internet. People do talk about weed here, but they just call it weed or maybe pot.
Simon, could do you do a video on any of he following?:
- idiots committing or trying to commit fraud / financial crimes
- stock market failures
- banking failures
- corporate espionage failures
- acquisition and merger failures
- corporate diversification failures
- weird / stupid people that are / were on some kind of corporate board
Here's the big glitch with our marijuana laws: the DEA and FDA establish if a drug is illegal or not, NOT Congress. ANY US President can issue an executive order to tell the FDA and DEA to change Marijuana to Schedule III (legal for prescription and medical experimentation, not for general access) Schedule IV (still requires prescription, but penalties for illegal possession are much lower) or Schedule V (full legal access, no prescription required) or even remove it from the drug schedule entirely. However, this is made a much bigger deal, and not corrected, for political leverage, so certain candidates can blame their opposition, while they do nothing on their side. President Biden, over this last weekend, had posts on X and other social media proclaiming that "nobody should go to jail for possessing a plant" while simultaneously doing absolutely nothing about it for over three years.
Oh, and for Jerrymandering, take a look at Colorado's districts at both state and Federal levels. Even though the voters have consistently voted around 60-65% Democrat for the last ten years, the state legislature is over 80% Democrat. The Congressional district 8 in particular is comprised of a small portion of the northern Denver suburbs that is rather densely populated and vote heavily Democrat and several strongly conservative small towns on the eastern plains that balances just slightly Democrat. The conservatives and libertarians in the state have absolutely no say in the state legislature despite being 35-40% of the population.
Gross. No wonder it's so fucked up and corrupt.
Tip o' the hat to the editor (Julian or Sam - I'm assuming not Lorelei since the chair didn't talk to us!) for Jerry+mandarin=gerrymandering 🤣👏
In the US, you’re given the choice to do field sobriety tests (the physical stuff - walking a straight line, following a point with your eyes, standing on one foot, etc etc). You can decline. You’re also given the choice to take a breathalyzer test. You can decline that too.
However, you’ll get arrested anyway on suspicion, they’ll quickly get a warrant from a judge, and make you take the test. So you’re better off just taking it tbh bc you’ll have to anyway. (And they can extrapolate your BAC from whatever time has passed.)
You forgot the part where the police also have a choice whether to arrest you or not on suspicion on DUI. You can do the field sobriety tests and decline the breathalyzer or vice versa. You don't just "automatically" get arrested. It's a case by case basis.
@@mattkahler4141 I didn’t forget. You’re arrested under the assumption that you’ve declined both tests.
Even when they legalize it, they still 'gate keep' it.
Look at Pennsylvania, for example, where they have only a handful of licenses so they can handpick which companies get that market. This has ensured there will be no cheaper cannabis on the market, to compete against the Tobacco Companies. Such is America though....
So, I got stoned on cannabis cookies one afternoon and destroyed my neighbours back door with an axe. I only have vague memories why, but I think I was convinced they were all trying to harm me and I was going to get them first. Spent the night in police custody until i calmed down.
Never touched the stuff again.
May not have been just thc then. Or you might be predisposed to schizophrenic issues for whatever reason
The cops in my town in South Carolina have pretty much adopted the "if I don't see it, you don't have it" policy regarding marijuana. There was a period a few years ago where weed laced with other drugs was a problem, but the big problem now is Fentanyl. Weed is still technically illegal in SC, and they do charge you for it if they see it, but they're not gonna go looking for it, unless they really don't like you.
The edits and memes are starting to reach stratospheric levels even beyond the previous awesomeness; that was some of the funniest sh!t I've seen in a good long while. 👍
Is it just me or are a lot of people in this comment section writing down their crimes?😂
#legalizeit🔥🍃🌬️💨
I saw an anti weed ad about some girl who had a brownie stuck in her hair that she didn't notice... Because that definitely happens as a stoner... 🤨 Highest thing I've done is make a bowl of cereal in a drinking glass and thought it was both brilliant and hilarious
It is both brilliant and hilarious
Checks date, 23th of April. I guess Fact Boy missed 420 day.
This is why he is “Fact boy” not “calendar man”.
He must've gotten st*ned.
@@canaan5337 And, as mentioned a few times in this video, he's not American. American dates are great for memes, the rest of the world uses dates that are actually not completely stupid for dates 😆
@@ApothecaryTerry we live the American meme over here.
These are recorded weeks if not months in advance.
Signals Directorate just quietly sipping their Blend-43
I must be stoned because l just had the great idea of starting a go fund me page to get Simon's neon light fixed. One sentence?
As an american, it's wild to me that simon has never heard of the 3/5ths or gerrymandering, stuff i learned in school that stuck with me.
I guess it makes sense that an englishman who lives in czechia wouldn't know about them though as they are pretty American things.
I don't know what this devil's lettuce he speaks of is but I know a jazz cabbage is
Was quickly scanning the comments and at first glance l thought yours read jizz cabbage and now l can't stop laughing. Sorry.
27:46 The House of Representatives (the House) is the one that's based on population count. The Senate has two senators per state regardless of population.
As a pothead, we gotta admit. It is addictive. It can cause strokes, schizophrenia, brain aneurysms and heart attacks.
It can’t cause schizophrenia or aneurysms. If one is already predisposed to it, it can be the precipitating reason for psychosis or a brain bleed, but aren’t the primary causes.
29:01 Gerrymandering in the US is when the district lines are redrawn to divide “certain” (aka ethnic or liberal) communities so they do not have a foothold. Example: lets say a county has 5 districts and 3 districts are 75% percent liberal and could swing the vote for the entire county, they would get split up so crazily (literally the boundaries become insane, look some up) just so now each district is less than half liberal and now the counties vote swings red instead of blue. It’s also extremely common in the south but it happens all over the country
As well, the CIA has its own printing presses for emergency money generation.
In maine, recreational and medical have to be sold out of different buildings. But not only is the prescription stupid easy to get, its incredibly common for patients to go in with friends, and the cashier doesnt even pretend to be serving the "patient". It's literally less enforced than alcohol, but recreational has to be in a completely different building (not sharing walls)
Good day Simon as you are aware weed is legal in Canada. And you can grow your own except in Manitoba and Quebec. I possess a medical license that allows me to grow 365 plants and have 26500 grams of dried weed on hand at all times.
Hey, how about a lil friendly stranger action? LOL
Must... not... go... into... a murderous rage!😂
We have gone from prescribing too many narcotics to not using them at all. My GF had cancer surgery and they gave her nothing for pain. Nothing. Go home and take Tylenol was their advice.
Yeah, there's so many things that America just can't find a good middle ground on. The country is so polarised that anyone suggesting a middle ground would never get a word in
Simon, Id pay folding money to watch you watching John Olivers' Last Week Tonight. That man is hilarious and brilliant imho.
Simon, extasy itself isn't very dangerous. And has some legit uses. However, using extasy is incredi ly dangerous. Unless you are somehow getting it for a medical center or something. But off the street, it's one of the more dangerous things you can do. So much other stuff is put in their.
27:43 it’s not how many voters they have it’s the total population they wanted to count slaves as people when counting the population to determine representatives in Congress, but they don’t count them as people any other time they’re considered to be property basically the 1800s equivalent of farming equipment.
Was that George Takai in Command and Conquer. Holy deep cuts.
I had an acquaintance who died of driving while on pot (his bong was in his lap)
He drove slowly through a red light and got hit by a truck
In Canberra, Australia where pot is decriminalised (but like America, is a class 1 illicit drug according to federal law)
😂😂😂 That jazz cabbage is the bees knees don’t cha know. Haha growing up in Mormonville Utah (and yes I am a recovering exMormon) I remember when weed was legalized in our neighboring state Colorado. The next day during rehearsals for my high school’s play this girl proclaimed in her more holy’er than thou opinions “That devils lettuce struck again! There were so many overdose deaths in Colorado last night from the legalization of weed!”
Meanwhile I was baked out of my mind going that’s not how any of this works. Then remembering she just had her wisdom teeth out last week I went on to ask her “Oh wow, where did you get that information? And how about those oxycodone pills in your bag, how many people do you think have overdosed on them since the beginning of their medical use?” She didn’t speak about it again after that. 😂😂 Do some actual research and you’ll find out everything is going to give you cancer and kill you in worse ways anyway so what is a little of that sticky icky going to do besides give you a fun night out with your mates?
"why use facts when you can use beer" i need this on a tshirt
That's wild that police in the UK breathalyze you every time they pull you over. In the US an officer needs a reason to use the breathalyzer which is why they give you the physical test first. If you fail that than they have a probable cause to use the breathalyzer.
In Australia the reason to use the breathalyser is because you're driving a car. We don't do that physical test stuff, it's ableist and unscientific. But routine breath testing is very effective at keeping the roads safe.
Opiate painkillers are really bad news for my dad, hes majorly allergic, even a poppy seed bagel made him feel dizzy once