Gil Kerlikowske on Legalizing Marijuana | KCTS 9 CONNECTS

[rhoads83j]

What a piece of shit.

[Pherawax]

I couldn't stop looking at the vase full of dildos behind that guy

[brianz1214]

Why do we listen to what he has to say these things are so petty and pointless

[sarajane47]

With people like this spreading propaganda regarding cannabis no wonder it's an all out war on drug reform. What a lot of rubbish.

[MrDavidnono]

How many people have died from pot over dose each year?

1,000,000?

10,000,000?

1000,000,000?

The answer is 0.

their are no record of marijuana overdose.

im not a rocket scientist,but 0 deaths is way better then thousands.

[ladyfuschia]

@MrDavidnono No, you are not a "rocket scientist", or any other kind of scientist. Scientists use reason, logic and facts to come to their conclusions. Your argument is worthless and uninformed. You must smoke a lot of pot. It makes you stupid. Or maybe you were that way to begin with. We'll never know.

[kingsmind]

Gil thinks he's really elitist and powerful in his position and logic. You're just another pawn...you are ordered, by someone else, to lie, after all.

[VansterdamStoner420]

after the decrimilization of pot in amsterdam,they have seen much lower rates of marijuana use by teens and adults.Gil is required by the government to lie in order to keep pot from being legalized.i dont think we should be wanting marijuana to be lagalized bc there would be sooo many downsides such as taxing,adding chemicals and addictive properties to the pot that would be sold from stores.we should want pot to be decriminalized.BCbud!

[ganztaOne]

Fucking twat! You are killing people by standing by this stupid as propaganda. Just cut your losses and let us the people do what we want! Its not fucking harmful!

[671rAsTaGuAmBoI4LyPh]

I'd like to hear one of these stuffed suits stand up and tell the truth. I suspect sound something like this: We cannot legalize marijuana because of all the jobs that would be lost in America. The DEA would have no purpose. The police departments would need to reduce the number of officers by half. The defense attorneys would loose half of their clients. Courtrooms would have to cut the number of judges and staff. And think about all the for profit prison guards that would be out of work!

[KilllaCaleb]

@671rAsTaGuAmBoI4LyPh this, now I don't have to type it.

[swankrecords]

Who is really going to believe Gil Kerlikowske's timing of the Seattle trip was just a coincidence? Why would they believe it? Based on his good word?

Gil Kerlikowske has a credibility issue.

[Alxscode]

YOU SUCK GIL.

[Tiaanmt]

He claimed that legalization of marijuana would dramatically increase usage based on research. I would like to see this "research," because according to widely available facts, the prohibition of alcohol increased alcohol use; Amsterdam's separation of hard and soft drugs by allowing marijuana usage in hotels, private homes and in coffee shops has shown a significant decrease in users of all drugs; Portugal's decriminalization of all drugs has lead to lower heroin and marijuana usage. Soo yeah

[Ebvardh]

This man's job and the entire DEA's intervention with the world in general depends on cannabis being illegal.

The people in the DEA don't care about facts anymore. They can say whatever they like because as a governmental agency, their claims can be self-supported and no one will have them say the truth or explain themselves.

Let's just say that there is too much money for too many health companies, political forces and private interests in keeping illegal substances illegal.

[hunzedog]

science proves him wrong time and time again.

gil kerlikowski should listen to the people.

[Trav4011]

lol.. This is the kind of stupidity that will keep Marijuana illegal. As long as folks like this are in office, legalization simply isn't going to happen.

[paulagloria]

1:45 I really think what he says here is right on about collecting tax money. Forget taxation and regulation for they will create more prisoners. 2:30 driving with pot is better than the other things, including just plain being pissed off

[subliminaloats]

controlled drugs are needed

[Wachiga]

We can replace all those garbage painkillers with pot. Save over half a million lives a year in overdoses. I know 3 people that died from oxycottin alone!

[mrbaco]

somebody get this dude a joint

[tobynsaunders]

A: increased cannabis use is not necessarily bad. Fewer use in Holland than in the US.

B: if people are calling for help about cannabis addiction then they have a behavoral disorder. Many people also call 'palm readers'.

C: Taxing can & should be done (blame Republicanism).

D: Cannabis should replace alcohol for leisure & the big difference between the two is extremely important.

E: To not care about ranking drug danger & then complain about prescriptions is stupid. Gil's drug view: tyranny.

[derenma]

yet-another-conservative nut. he needs to understand that he is causing more problems that he is 'solving.'

ended the drug war? lier. pure and utter garbage.

[GraveDiggerIII]

4:35 "We certainly ended the drug war now almost 2 years ago"

LOL

[KryptHax]

how the fuck do you test positive for marijuana while driving behind the wheel?

[MIB205]

the DEA sucks BOL'z

[kwilhelmy]

Look up US Patent # 6630507, which states cannabinoids are antioxidants and neuroprotectants. What is in "pot"? 66 cannabinoids!!! (THC is the most well known cannabinoid) Your government is lying to you. End prohibition against the tree of life! Food, Fuel, Clothing, Medicine and Textiles.

[kwilhelmy]

Look up US Patent # 6630507, which states cannabinoids are antioxidants and neuroprotectants. What is in "pot"? 66 cannabinoids!!! Your government is lying to you. End prohibition against the tree of life! Food, Fuel, Clothing, Medicine and Textiles.

[Gollsodia]

Gil Kerlikowske, If I develope telepathy, I'm going to haunt you! You're a damn robot, sir. I do not approve of your exsistance. I hope you have a heart attack, along with all the other cruel people in power.

I want the power back. I can only hope you don't discover a fountain of youth. You and the government are mostly horrible people when it comes to me having my power.

I'm at a loss as to what to do anymore. The government is the source of depression. I swear.

Don't be scared.

[hunzedog]

gil is a liar !

[theplanetwhisperer]

legalize it!!! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!

[mewcho]

OOPA OOPAPA and back to DC I go, don't want to give up my high income job. I will distort facts, put a spin on them all so I can keep my high paying job, look at me you suckers keep going after all those evil Unions. I have the job so I must be the authority.

[enlistedingodsarmy]

it makes me sick to be lied to like this... by out own government...

[AG4NK]

Please do not believe in him he is going to hell when he going to died god do not like that word lies.

We have to right freedom to smoking pot then alcohol and tobbaco.

They need change law for tobbaco.

It,s should be illegal for tobbaco and it is poison nicatin and toxic.

Marijuana is safe and good for your health.

So again please ignore drug czar he is a lier.

[wiccc1]

I made it two minutes in and had to stop. The interviewer is like a giddy twelve year old girl interviewing her hero. Why was he laughing hysterically when he half-apologetically asked if the czar was attempting to muscle an editorial board? As though that's a ridiculous assertion?

Ugh.

[kendigjl]

Why do we need one more intoxicating substance to be legalized? Gee, how about so that people can sit down and vaporize/eat a plant and laugh their asses off while watching cartoons (maybe with their kids?), instead of drinking alcohol and becoming assholes while destroying their liver/family.

Addictive personalities will seek out whatever gives them a buzz. I would prefer that buzz come from cannabis rather than from alcohol.

[mak529]

Typical erroneous government propaganda easily refuted by empirical evidence.

[tdugg101]

Propaganda bullshit. The Drug Czar needs to continue to focus on prescription drugs and realize that the battle to prohibit pot has been lost. It's around now more then in the 70's. Schedule 1 drug? Then how come in multiple states medical marijuana is legal?

[urbanterror59]

I am a drug czar, your fact backed argument is invalid.

[jake21893]

he says the number of people smoking cannabis will go up. SO WHAT?!?

he says people in washington call hotlines for marijuana problems. lol?

he says they dont collect enough taxes from alcohol to pay for health costs that it causes. THATS ALCOHOL, ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE DRUGS THAT EXIST.

Drugged driving always makes me lol. Trying to get people to relate cannabis to alcohol when theyre TOTALLY different.

Cmon drug czar, you dont have shit on cannabis and you know it, GTFO you scumbag

[flhu]

”We need to treat it a health and education problem, not a criminal justice problem” .. Hey Gil, I have a health problem, and it won't be solved by me stop using pot. However issues with my drug use could be solved with you getting educated.

[SputnikMedia]

I like how he says that in th 70's people were claiming weed would be legal in a few years and here we are in 2011 and it's still not legal. As if that is some kind of Victory for them or something. LOL...NO Gil a victory would be if you had eradicated Marijuana and Nobody in this country ever used it. As it stands 50% of the nation believes it should be legalized .GIL that is NO VICTORY... We are the Winners here and it will be legal. Put that in your pipe and smoke it ass hole

[SputnikMedia]

Everything he says is a flat out LIE. He has not one shred of evidence to support an a strong cooerlation between driving on weed and accidents. He says " Drugged Driving" which means all drugs especiall prescription drugs. He is mixing it all in together. Also if you smoke weed yesterday and drive tomorrow you will test postivie for "drugged driving" Don't believe anything this man says. He is lying out of his teethe. People don't check into rehab cuz of weed , they are forced by courts to go

[bigjohnson9687]

For anyone viewing this that doesn't know, Marijuana is already widely available to everyone. Please support the idea of putting it behind the counter, and getting it out of drug dealers hands, they don't ID...

Press like if you agree/know this statement is true.

[pamwoodard]

Why do our mainstream media in this country who have intelligent people in leadership roles and have all the access to the truth and statistics that back it up feel compelled to not share it, to treat bold face lying on national television by government officials like it is not a lie its just the facts, when they know different. What is wrong with this picture would you raise your child that way to lie if it serves their interest.

[pamwoodard]

you cannot save people from themselves. you can however save billions of dollars and improve the help that is availible for addiction with some of those billions, you can reduce crime eliminating the black market, improve education, help to balance budgets state and federal, all by ending prohibition this we know is true.

Mark Twain said "It aint what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it is what you do know that just aint so" why do we tolerate willful ignorance by our government?

[pamwoodard]

Implying that prohibition will somehow curb addiction and healthcare costs, what a whopper he's telling there. Educated people know that addiction is a disease, it can be genetic, and is totally curable by abstinence from the particular substance being abused. People make personal choices to indulge their addictions no matter if it is alcohol, drugs, food, sex, porn, video games, ect prohibition does not fix or help this. There are fine examples in other countries of a better alternative!

[pamwoodard]

It is a sad day in America when our top federal authority pretends on live tv to not know or comment on which is worse alcohol or cannabis(yes cannabis) in a country where we seem so damn adament on people speaking english then lets start by using the proper name for this herb! To talk truethfully Mr. K surely knows that the evidence is and science and statistics show overwhelmingly that alcohol is the most damaging right along with RX drugs.

[pamwoodard]

I will bet those people he says are picking up the phone and calling in for drug problems that say its for Marijuana are those poor souls trying to save their job because of an unclean test and they are using their only out the good old employee assistance program so they do not get fired. Even though they have no work problems at all they simply got caught up in a violation of their privacy by mandatory testing!

[SputnikMedia]

@pamwoodard No that's another LIE...Study's prove that the majority of people in Rehab for Marijuana were put there by courts or either teenagers put there by thier parents. I've known thousands of pot smokers over my lifetime and NEVER met one who felt they needed to go to rehab. LOL that is such a fucking Lie..

We are on to you Gil , your days of lying to the people are over... We have the internet now. You cannot control the sources of information anymore.....

[pamwoodard]

@SputnikMedia

So right CUSTOMERS of the court fill treatment centers

Treatment centers lobby against reform because they do not want to loose their valuable customers and they spread even more disinformation to uneducated parents to fill their rooms!

[Bernisava]

And prescription drugs are far more harmful than marijuana could ever be..safe my ass..how many people die from side effects of prescription drugs?millions..how many from marijuana?...zero..get your facts straight!!!!!

[Bernisava]

It's obvious you have no clue what you are talking about. No marijuana smokers need rehabilitation. A person under the influence of marijuana is capable of driving unlike alcohol. It would be 100% better for more people to be consuming marijuana than alcohol. The drug war has not ended. Read the MPP and NORML newsletters

[MargaretRomaoToigo]

The mind-altering substances are already widely available!

Prohibition did not make us into a nation of teetotalers, it handed the alcohol business over to gangsters.

And its sequel, Prohibition II (a.k.a. the War on Drugs) has done nothing other than handed the business of some drugs over to gangsters.

[peterpotpie]

We are allowing criminals to rule over us all. Sad but true...

[SerialKiff3r]

Thanx for the upload... I disliked it, only because he's such a fucking liar... The only truth I could hear was what he said about prescription drugs...

[l0tics]

This man is legally required to oppose any attempt to legalize a schedule 1 drug.

[drherbalst]

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery!

[Sattelight897]

well that was alot of bs but he was atleast somewhat on the mark about prescription drugs

[thermomalous]

Fine then allow me to censor my comment:

B.S. artistry at its finest

[Pushinthu]

we don't want to add to alcohol problem we want cannabis to replace alcohol, a safer and better choice to unwind after work

[casualtySR]

Drug Czar is required by law to lie and do anything possible to keep pot illegal.

[paulagloria]

@casualtySR legalization is not the way to go....ending the prohibition is. Just throw out the bad law of 1937

[casualtySR]

@paulagloria unfortunately I think there have been laws stacked on top of that old one.. like the whole drug scheduling thing etc... Nixon really made matters much worse.

[paulagloria]

@casualtySR yes but the constitution should stand higher even if you take into account we have admiralty courts...once we understand the law we can make better headway.