Since Jesus did turn water into wine he is not an absolutist, and moderate use of marijuana seems not more harmful than moderate use of alcohol and tobacco, but perhaps because it is easy to fall into marijuana abuse, God allows the authorities to practice law enforcement against marijuana use. However, since to deal and smoke marijuana illegally is a sin which now is far more widespread than marijuana abuse in itself and which leads many to hell, it might be better now to legalize marijuana.
Prohibitionism is the leading force working against democracy. Legalize all drugs: it is a necessity to save democracies from corruption and arbitrariness.
LEAP don't get the attention they need. Tell everyone about them. Tell fans of Cheech & Chong, Kottonmouth Kings, Bob Marley, Willie Nelson, Cypress Hill, etc. And tell them to vote for Ron Paul.
4-20-2012 You got a job? Go on strike until they legalize cannabis! It's the only way to get full scale recreational legalization. Be the change. All you have to do is spread this word to everyone. Get the pro pot organizations involved. Blog about it. Like it. Thumbs up it. Let the message snowball out of control. We are the marijuana nation and on 4-20-2012 don't go to work instead toke up and protest until we have our freedom back! We have almost a year to get this message across the world!
I will add, if our great government prohibits the use of mj and other drugs for our protection, and harm to others, I say they should prohibit poisons, guns, knives, swords, water, blankets, acids, water boarding, and sex. Even food can cause death if you eat too much of it. I would rather die of marijuana intoxication than by aids, or a bullit. The government really is really missing the boat if they want to protect us from harm by the prohibition of a stupid plant. Lets get real people.
Despite prohibition, if a person has an abuse problem, there are a myriad of legal choices. Perscription meds are medicine cabinet away, and a trip to the liquor store is a short drive. Cigarettes are really easy to come by. You can order it all online. Marijauna has been demonized by deliberate misinformation. It should be as legal to grow as tobacco. It should be more acceptable than alcohol. When will our government wake up? Please write to you representitive. Support Prop19 in NC.
its all about your freedoms. i hate drugs, i dont do them, i think they are a very bad thing. but, how can someone tell me that i cant smoke it i want to? its not about saving people, its about the money. as long as they are not hurting anyone but themselves, and yes i know the argument about crackheads stealing, so dont even bother with that one. its a tough thing to decide. freedom vs what we think is right
@DavidNeanders you make a very good point however we dont need someone who is going to have an easy time of it while in office. It is the representatives duty whether they are the president, congress person, or state representative to enact that which is just and fair. If that means that they catch flack from the news and media so be it. Otherwise we are letting our media run our government.
Want to put drug dealers out of business? Decriminalize the possession, distribution and use of drugs, but criminalize the sale of it. BOOM MO-FO-! We can hand it out free. Who's gonna buy drugs that are free? Who's gonna make drug they can't sell? Also, capitalism sucks (fuels the drug war)
Legalize the non dangerous drugs (like weed, salvia, magic mushrooms, ...). Why? Because they are safe.
Legalize the dangerous drugs (like heroin, alcohol, tobacco, ...) Why? Because making them illegal makes them *much* more dangerous, and *much* more available to the youth.
Abuse of drugs is an health problem, not a crime problem.
@BRUMARTUBE Magic Mushrooms aren't exactly safe (well, not while they are illegal anyway) as there is a large risk of picking up and eating poisonous toadstools then the mushies. Something that would not be a problem should they be legalised.
Stop blaming the lawmakers, and blame the lawbreakers. These drugs kill people, that's why they're illegal. Drugs used to be legal in this country, and people were dying, including the inventor of coke. Legalizing will make things worse, more traffic accidents, more OD's. Stop the lawlessness.
@coolguy98 Ridiculous laws is the reason of lawlessness. If you were right, then cannabis, salvia, magic mushrooms, notably would never have been made illegal to start with. And alcohol, tobacco, and many legal products would be illegal. But cannabis has been made illegal for unfair competition with nature, and the rest of prohibition is just a gangster tool (via corrupted politicians) for creating huge black market with easy targeting of the youth. The war of drug is total nonsense.
makes me happy to live in Canada yet at the same time American drug policies effect what happens here to a certain extent at the same time with their global influence
@mrabuckten there are alot of cops out there that just dispose of the pot and tell you to get going.....only focusing on major crimes in the neighborhood..........you're assuming all cops arrest you for possession of pot....i'd rather have a LEAP cop out there instead of a mindless drone, heartlessly enforcing every law.....you're misguided, and confused.
California residents, you have the chance to be the first group of people in the world to legalize marijuana for responsible adult use. When you go to vote on prop 19, take a friend with you. Drag one other person with you. If everyone does this we get double the votes!
Then, find someone who is against pot legalization and convince them to stay home that day. Copy and paste this all over youtube, lets make this happen, get the word out!
Has anyone ever met a person who said that the only reason he doesn't smoke crack is because it's illegal? If you think that legalization will make usage go up, you are assuming that there are hordes of people like this. Give me a break.
thank you Eleanor Shockett. couldn't have said it better. Caging people doesn't work they need programs and counseling if they abuse.use and abuse are two different things. our people need attention not detention..
I love how all of these guys qualify their statements and separate cannabis from other "harder drugs" and yet our laws state that cannabis and payote are in the most dangerous scheduling of drugs and the harder drugs (including heroin) are in the medicinal value scheduling. EVERYONE knows that cannabis is virtually harmless in comparison and yet politicians are doing nothing but burying their heads in the archaic propaganda and falsehoods of the past that have been very neatly disproven!
but if they de criminalise or legalize wouldent people still do stupid things like rob or break into houses to get money to buy it? might be much cheaper if its available in the local store the drugs but you still would need money to buy them
Kaneh Bos(m) is part of Anointing oil...it is SACRED and protects the body-This is the reason they do not want HUmanity to have it or use it, Had we been growing hemp since the you tube "hemp for victory" film was made...The Constitution is written on it and the Bill of Rights...the best textiles/clothes...the seeds packed with protein...and even for housing or fuel which burns cleaner than corn or soy or our fuel we use...It can be used for HOUSING as well!!!ALL mammals have receptors for it.
Are you honestly saying that you have no free will? That if drugs were legal you would suddenly become an addict? That's ridiculous... Just look at Holland. The majority of the people who do drugs in Holland are Americans and other tourists. The people of Holland actually think smoking pot is blase. It's actually totally uncool because it's legal. The "reality" is that you've been lied to, and the war on drugs is a horrendous failure. It is none of your business if individuals choose to use.
You obviously have no clue about neurobiology and neuropharmacology at all. Everyone getting addicted? Bullshit. Addiction always has a genetic basis, whether you like it or not. It is always accompanied by a set behavioural changes, which themselves are controlled by the brains reward system (= dopaminergic system).
Furthermore, addiction is not only tiggered by substance use, it can as well be triggered by a wide range of behaviour such as playing video games and sports.
And the percentage of those that due to their genetical basis (eg. a mutated D2-receptor) can become addicted to a substance at all is constant throughout all the mammalian species.
For cocaine, the percentage is at around 17%. No matter whether it is mice, rats, monkeys or humans.
Furthermore, not all drugs will trigger addiction. It's only those that act on ones dopaminergic system. Psilocybin for example is incapable of triggering an true addiction since it doesn't act on the reward system.
duh...I dunno, i thinks psilocybin might be a super-evil deadly narcotic...seeing as how the prosecutor in my old home town apparently doesn't know the difference between a tryptamine and the chemical(s) responsible for why his bitter wife won't touch him. Judging by all of the moral legislators being caught with hot young boys, it is safe to assume that their reward pathways are not stimulated in the same way as us drunks &/or dopers.
they shud educate people so that they dont get addicted to drugs and end up dead in their bathroom instead of assuming people r too stupid to control wot goes in their own fuckin body!
The message is simple: drug laws harm people more than the drug itself. Facts are facts, people. Suck it the fuck up and wake the fuck up. LEAP is a great organization.
"Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid that is a psychoactive stimulant drug. Caffeine was discovered by a German chemist, Friedrich Ferdinand Runge, in 1819"
People who drank and used drugs during the sixties looked like wrecks, not because of the substances, but because of the trauma from war. The war on drugs is also a war. If pot became legal, people would at first glamourize it and use in excess, but eventually people may mature. A new style can sometimes become over exciting. I've seen more people crazed from cigarrettes, salt and coffee. Legalize Cannabis.
The reason why LEAP is in the relative minority, is because drug law enforcement is profitable to cop institutions and provides many with jobs, thus they will be thinking about it very hard as it can make them money.
I believe you are operating on the false assumption that a lot of A-class drugs are actually dangerous. Ectasy, LSD and many other drugs are much safer than alcohol and tobacco. In fact even cocaine has better long term effects than the major legal drugs.
I love how every prohibitionist think there's some undiscovered tactic not yet employed yet, ready to REALLY work (because punishment works, right? wrong btw) on illegal drug users. There's executions in serveral countries for relatively small amounts of drugs in countries where, historically, there's been not much use of western drugs, now see HUGE rise in use. Thailands police wacked about 3,000 people in a couple of weeks some years ago, pretty much on sight, killing MANY innocent too..
- Who in his motherfucking right mind would want to punish someone like that for selling something i HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH _DEMAND_ too willing people? Fucking psychos that's who. Grunts.
No kidding! This should be a huge industry right now. If we want solutions to our mounting deficit we should look no further. The slogan should be: Pot Is Patriotic! Farmers should stop growing corn which wastes too much water any way and grow weed. ;-)
Destroy the war on drugs overnight. Less crime, Surplus if taxed. Enjoyment of users. . Less gun crime, less gangs. Gun crime will go down dramaticly. This is the land of the free, we can send our troops as young as 18 to die on a war of choice, yet we cannot allow drugs. Laws-
Only arrest violent drug offenders. Clear out our prisons
DUI charges still apply. A legal age is useless becuase kids get it anyway. So that can be debated. But I think a acceptable age would be 15
they only reason weed was deemed illegal was to put blacks & latinos in prision! think i'm lying? do your home work and c 4 yourself! when they ended prohibition Al Capone was out of business. the same will happen to the drug cartels if the legalize all drug.
@HardBodyNyC Do you believe the Holy Word of God? If you do, "Crazy" doesn't precede "Christians." If you don't, then taking it in your mouth is pretentious deceit.
Yep I am a ex white cop and the reason for the war on drugs was and is to keep blacks locked up and whites from losing their jobs and seats in college. Plain and simple.
Does anybody know what would happen if someone currently has a drug charge (pending or sentenced) and by some miracle,this substance would be legalized while this case is going on?Would him/her still be obligated to resume or recieve sentence for the old law.Or would the case be dropped and the person,if sentenced already,be released?
It's possible that the cause could continue then allow for appeal later. It is also possible that sentencing would be reduced. There is of course a chance that the judge might reconsider ruling due to the new policy. Then again some judges who didn't like the legalization might go through with the case and sentence as before the law was overturned.
Selective Prohibition on alcohol sales would include a internet access cashregister, slide card capacity and alcohol access card. Prohibited citizens should include those with drug convictions, repeat offenders, awaiting trial and others.. Wrong time in history to argue the point. Just bad policy. decriminalize, yes. 80% homicides are alcohol related, also domistic violence, property damage ect. Giving in on even pot maybe, but only with selective prohibition laws on alcohol sales implemented.
@Sojaofdapepo You live for freedom you idiot, and you smoke for Failing in living in freedom, so you make your own bubble, and get fu**ed till you die.
there is noting wrong with weed and if it was legal the govt. would be making 1,000,000,000 in the first day if they taxed it it is less affective than cigs. weed doesent even give you cancer
The reason for legalising drugs should not be financial gain for governments or anyone else.
Even if they legalised Cannabis most people could grow their own plants which means they wouldnt even need to buy it. This is the number one problem with Cannabis they know they cant make the kind of profits they make from drugs like Alcohol and Tobacco, Cannabis was never made illegal because of health implications it was all down to corruption and the financial implications of legalising the drug.
even so tobbaco is also the same eve so worse lthan cannibis becuse its health comlications and alcho was illegalized for the same reason on amendment18 but was legalized and controlled with amendment 21 so there is a possibility for it to be leagalized for patints only
What's amazing about cigarettes is that they have a thing on the package, saying that smoking is bad for you. Then WHY legalize THAT and not drugs? I'm not saying cigarettes should be illegal but it's completely hypocritical.
I wouldn't necessarily say it's "softer" - nicotone can be a bad addiction for some people. I was just pointing out how stupid the hypocrisy is, not how strong or mild cigarettes are.
You can make your own booze but that doesn;t mean you wont go to the liquor store once in awhile. Cmon, if it was legal id have a couple plants myself sure but your seasons take time and u end up needing to buy some anyway
youre right it should not be illegal for plants to grow in your backyard if they try to say shit to me ill say im pretty sure those plants grew out of the ground on their own your gona have to take this up with mother earth
Isn't it sad that only retired police officials feel able to say the obvious. Drug war is about exercising power and control over citizens it clearly has very little to do with the drugs themselves.
there is noting wrong with weed and if it was legal the govt. would be making 1,000,000,000 in the first day if they taxed it it is less affective than cigs. weed doesent even give you cancer. you are right
These guys know what they are talking about, as cops they see drugs on the street constantly as opposed to being in the pharmacy if they were legalized. I used to smoke pot, and even though I quit I realize the need people will have to do their drug of choice regardless of it's legal status. It will not stop them from getting exposed to it and it certainly won't scare them away from doing it. If you want to live a drugfree lifestyle, it has to be your decision, not your government's.
Its beautiful 2 see cops step outside the donut and think freely. A war on drugs, terror, poverty is a war on u & me. No war has ever diagnosed the issue. If the elite want to cut down the population then yes-legalize all of it so we can die high and happy like the lab rats we are. They wont do that because fake ass money is worth more than us ppl. Were just living chess pieces in this opera-To All Law oficials"quit ur jobs and join the real ppl-spend genuine time with ur family"
$17 billion of federal money is directly spend each year to control drugs.But the actual cost of the drug war is $50 billion, which is equal to the USA combined budgets for all of our country's agriculture, energy, and veteran's programs. I'm sick and tired of people killing each other over this damn drugs. This is the same fricking thing that happend during prohibition, legalize the fricking drugs, charge company tax for selling them and give DDWI's when caught Driving Druged Under Influence.
Yep if you cut the gangs cash flow then no one will want to join. Those tricked out SUVs and sports cars they drive are funded by our laws against drugs. Drugs are a very short term and lucrative venture when they are illegal.
Justice is JUST and it does not equal the LAW. The LAW is an ASS and wasting our resources and harming our people with the continued prohibition. the status quo is killing us.
This isn't really related to the video, but the people who annoy me the most are people who are a) in favor of legalizing marijuana and yet b) are not in favor of legalizing "other" drugs (cocaine, meth etc)
And that is why? I do agree! And cocaine and meth (methamphetamine) are prescription and legal. It just can be used illegally! Prescription practices would also have to change to let people get what they need. Especially us chronic pain patients!
These guys are on to it. They reiterate what common sense should tell lawmakers anyway. Unfortunately lawmakers worldwide are more attuned to lobbyists, quick-fix solutions and the morbid fear of losing the backing of said lobbyists and the moral panic those lobbyists could create for them.
Its time to legalize it..marijuana never harmed me or any of my friends..the only problem is the policy towards it..just legalize it, you guys will see a big improvement on every aspect of social security and no more money being wasted with good decent people!
MaddDogg81: "maybe if they legalize hard drugs more losers will kill themselves"
It's better they kill themselves rather than someone else. As it is now, the Drug War causes gang wars and robberies to pay for high priced drugs. If it was legal, the gangs would have no revenue and addicts would not have to steal to support their habit. Maybe they'll destroy themselves. But at least they won't harm anyone else.
It's crazy, they're was once a time when suicide was illegal, and now its legal. So if suicide is legal why is the argument being made that personal drug use should be a crime?
the lesson is go out and enjoy urself there may only be 1 life so get the most out of it advice 4 u try it 1 time try tht 1 spliff try tht 1 pill and tel me it doesnt feel beter then alcohol
rule1. dont depend on drugs
rule2. if u take pills or mdma take your time dont do loads all the time savor it
rule3. dont smoke weed all the time tht shit sends you crazy
the last thing you wanna do high is commit crimes. a robber would spend 5 hours robbing from a house, think it was 20 minutes, then get caught sleeping with potato chip crumbs on his stomach.
plus, every anorexic must hit a blunt every time they deprive themselves of food. lets see how long they can fight the munchies.
i call it the war of attrition on blacks and the black community, and also cops. they dont do shit in my city but pull up, get outside their cars, and bust 14 year old non violent drug dealers for a couple of vials of heroin everyday. they dont do real police work or anything.
I would like to thank these officers of the law for this work. For so long I have been confused on how America The Great could have become corrupt. It has to do with Liberty. Without Liberty, the land of the free becomes the land of the imprisoned. Once again I cannot say how thankful I am to have watched this video, I don't often post comments but this deserves my two cents. Thank you, it makes me proud to say God Bless America!
Voting for Ron Paul will increase the corporate takeover of america, be realistic. Don't do the same thing that happened when folks decided to throw their vote to the wind by voting for nader. Vote liberal, and save the third party candidate for a time when we can work it out specifically and have a good shot at effecting a change.
Prohibition creates the drug and the drug problem.
BRUMARTUBE 2 months ago
Since Jesus did turn water into wine he is not an absolutist, and moderate use of marijuana seems not more harmful than moderate use of alcohol and tobacco, but perhaps because it is easy to fall into marijuana abuse, God allows the authorities to practice law enforcement against marijuana use. However, since to deal and smoke marijuana illegally is a sin which now is far more widespread than marijuana abuse in itself and which leads many to hell, it might be better now to legalize marijuana.
mikilavush 3 months ago
Prohibitionism is the leading force working against democracy. Legalize all drugs: it is a necessity to save democracies from corruption and arbitrariness.
BRUMARTUBE 4 months ago
Hell ya this makes total sense
Bigdawgphilleep 4 months ago
LEAP don't get the attention they need. Tell everyone about them. Tell fans of Cheech & Chong, Kottonmouth Kings, Bob Marley, Willie Nelson, Cypress Hill, etc. And tell them to vote for Ron Paul.
qwexas 4 months ago
Legalize now!
22mar79 6 months ago
Drugs are illegal for one reason....PROFITS
openbreakwhat 7 months ago
@openbreakwhat Not just profits. Criminal profits.
BRUMARTUBE 4 weeks ago
Huh, I just tweeted Obi yesterday on rethinking drug controll.. Now, on the next day countries meet on the subject.
FlyKingRy 8 months ago
4-20-2012 You got a job? Go on strike until they legalize cannabis! It's the only way to get full scale recreational legalization. Be the change. All you have to do is spread this word to everyone. Get the pro pot organizations involved. Blog about it. Like it. Thumbs up it. Let the message snowball out of control. We are the marijuana nation and on 4-20-2012 don't go to work instead toke up and protest until we have our freedom back! We have almost a year to get this message across the world!
WiiLink89 8 months ago
I will add, if our great government prohibits the use of mj and other drugs for our protection, and harm to others, I say they should prohibit poisons, guns, knives, swords, water, blankets, acids, water boarding, and sex. Even food can cause death if you eat too much of it. I would rather die of marijuana intoxication than by aids, or a bullit. The government really is really missing the boat if they want to protect us from harm by the prohibition of a stupid plant. Lets get real people.
chest002 10 months ago
Despite prohibition, if a person has an abuse problem, there are a myriad of legal choices. Perscription meds are medicine cabinet away, and a trip to the liquor store is a short drive. Cigarettes are really easy to come by. You can order it all online. Marijauna has been demonized by deliberate misinformation. It should be as legal to grow as tobacco. It should be more acceptable than alcohol. When will our government wake up? Please write to you representitive. Support Prop19 in NC.
chest002 10 months ago
its all about your freedoms. i hate drugs, i dont do them, i think they are a very bad thing. but, how can someone tell me that i cant smoke it i want to? its not about saving people, its about the money. as long as they are not hurting anyone but themselves, and yes i know the argument about crackheads stealing, so dont even bother with that one. its a tough thing to decide. freedom vs what we think is right
SteveNathen 1 year ago
Drugs will never be legalised.What politician or party wants to place themselves in the sights of Fox news?
Murdoch will have a heyday linking responsible public servants to the inevitable tragedies in the crossover period.
Crossing the threshold on this one is too politically dangerous,no matter what the experts say.
This issue will always be decided by emotive buffoons.End of.
DavidNeanders 1 year ago
@DavidNeanders you make a very good point however we dont need someone who is going to have an easy time of it while in office. It is the representatives duty whether they are the president, congress person, or state representative to enact that which is just and fair. If that means that they catch flack from the news and media so be it. Otherwise we are letting our media run our government.
strikeforceranger 9 months ago
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KuroDesucat 1 year ago
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Want to put drug dealers out of business? Decriminalize the possession, distribution and use of drugs, but criminalize the sale of it. BOOM MO-FO-! We can hand it out free. Who's gonna buy drugs that are free? Who's gonna make drug they can't sell? Also, capitalism sucks (fuels the drug war)
KuroDesucat 1 year ago
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KuroDesucat 1 year ago
Legalize the non dangerous drugs (like weed, salvia, magic mushrooms, ...). Why? Because they are safe.
Legalize the dangerous drugs (like heroin, alcohol, tobacco, ...) Why? Because making them illegal makes them *much* more dangerous, and *much* more available to the youth.
Abuse of drugs is an health problem, not a crime problem.
BRUMARTUBE 1 year ago
@BRUMARTUBE Magic Mushrooms aren't exactly safe (well, not while they are illegal anyway) as there is a large risk of picking up and eating poisonous toadstools then the mushies. Something that would not be a problem should they be legalised.
vikeyev1 1 year ago
The politicians and corporate owners of this country want prohibition to stay, people who are afraid are easy to control!
bradjbourgeois73 1 year ago
Stop blaming the lawmakers, and blame the lawbreakers. These drugs kill people, that's why they're illegal. Drugs used to be legal in this country, and people were dying, including the inventor of coke. Legalizing will make things worse, more traffic accidents, more OD's. Stop the lawlessness.
coolguy98 1 year ago
@coolguy98 Do you know there is cannaboids in cows milk and breast milk? go fuck yourself.
sirabbadon 1 year ago
@coolguy98
victimless crimes should not be crimes, so go fuck yourself with your "traffic accidents"
BecauseBabysAreTasty 1 year ago
@coolguy98 *These drugs kill people, that's why they're illegal*
Tobacco is a drug and it kills more people, worldwide then all illicit drugs AND HIV put together every year.
vikeyev1 1 year ago
@coolguy98 Ridiculous laws is the reason of lawlessness. If you were right, then cannabis, salvia, magic mushrooms, notably would never have been made illegal to start with. And alcohol, tobacco, and many legal products would be illegal. But cannabis has been made illegal for unfair competition with nature, and the rest of prohibition is just a gangster tool (via corrupted politicians) for creating huge black market with easy targeting of the youth. The war of drug is total nonsense.
BRUMARTUBE 10 months ago
makes me happy to live in Canada yet at the same time American drug policies effect what happens here to a certain extent at the same time with their global influence
PeopleEqualShlt 1 year ago
@mrabuckten there are alot of cops out there that just dispose of the pot and tell you to get going.....only focusing on major crimes in the neighborhood..........you're assuming all cops arrest you for possession of pot....i'd rather have a LEAP cop out there instead of a mindless drone, heartlessly enforcing every law.....you're misguided, and confused.
kishaba1980 1 year ago
EVERYONE come to PAPSITE.info to sign the many petitions from groups like LEAP, MPP, Just Say Now and more.
Papsite is your one stop shop to sign petitions to legalize cannabis and hemp.
PLEASE make sure you do your part by signing. I put them all in one place now all YOU have to do is SIGN THEM! =)
TheNakedLibrarian 1 year ago
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Everyone vote this top of the comments:
California residents, you have the chance to be the first group of people in the world to legalize marijuana for responsible adult use. When you go to vote on prop 19, take a friend with you. Drag one other person with you. If everyone does this we get double the votes!
Then, find someone who is against pot legalization and convince them to stay home that day. Copy and paste this all over youtube, lets make this happen, get the word out!
2edsajdmsa 1 year ago
Has anyone ever met a person who said that the only reason he doesn't smoke crack is because it's illegal? If you think that legalization will make usage go up, you are assuming that there are hordes of people like this. Give me a break.
magiccat12 1 year ago
Professionals Against Prohibition stands behind LEAP. Please support our efforts.
1UnitedProfessionals 1 year ago
thank you Eleanor Shockett. couldn't have said it better. Caging people doesn't work they need programs and counseling if they abuse.use and abuse are two different things. our people need attention not detention..
nonphixional1 1 year ago
I love how all of these guys qualify their statements and separate cannabis from other "harder drugs" and yet our laws state that cannabis and payote are in the most dangerous scheduling of drugs and the harder drugs (including heroin) are in the medicinal value scheduling. EVERYONE knows that cannabis is virtually harmless in comparison and yet politicians are doing nothing but burying their heads in the archaic propaganda and falsehoods of the past that have been very neatly disproven!
PomegranateStaindGrn 1 year ago
wake up world, legalize it now.
israeldogfather 1 year ago
prison industrial complex
MrDionysos23 1 year ago
but if they de criminalise or legalize wouldent people still do stupid things like rob or break into houses to get money to buy it? might be much cheaper if its available in the local store the drugs but you still would need money to buy them
zitianaki 1 year ago
Prohibition is a non sense at the start. It consists in criminalizing sick people when they find the medication which suits them the best.
Congratulations for all those courageous cops. They give hope in humanity.
BRUMARTUBE 1 year ago 2
nice to see some level headed cops
every cop i have ever met has been a complete idiot shit fuck
volcom13xx 1 year ago
Kaneh Bos(m) is part of Anointing oil...it is SACRED and protects the body-This is the reason they do not want HUmanity to have it or use it, Had we been growing hemp since the you tube "hemp for victory" film was made...The Constitution is written on it and the Bill of Rights...the best textiles/clothes...the seeds packed with protein...and even for housing or fuel which burns cleaner than corn or soy or our fuel we use...It can be used for HOUSING as well!!!ALL mammals have receptors for it.
Giverney13 1 year ago
SWED MOTHER FUCKER SWED!
Reapersden666 1 year ago
I don't do any drugs at all but I agree!!! Amen!
strangeworth 1 year ago 2
So fucking true.
RegnevaCixot 1 year ago
"The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition," (available at prohibitioncosts(dot)org)
Milton Friedman, 500+ Economists Call for Marijuana Regulation Debate; New Report Projects $10-14 Billion Annual Savings and Revenues
Savings/Revenues Projected in New Study by Harvard Economist Could Pay For:
**Implementing Required Port Security Plans in Just One Year
**Securing Soviet-Era "Loose Nukes" in Under Three Years
Bastiat00 1 year ago
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O'Reilly is such a bid Idiot, the drug laws in this country have failed for years, I say lets try a different approach and Legalize
drugs like Marijuana and tax them. bring back hemp for manufacturing purposes,
and let the states make some real tax revenue.
stacker711 1 year ago
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gearsofhalotheftauto 2 years ago
Are you honestly saying that you have no free will? That if drugs were legal you would suddenly become an addict? That's ridiculous... Just look at Holland. The majority of the people who do drugs in Holland are Americans and other tourists. The people of Holland actually think smoking pot is blase. It's actually totally uncool because it's legal. The "reality" is that you've been lied to, and the war on drugs is a horrendous failure. It is none of your business if individuals choose to use.
JadeDonkey 2 years ago
@gearsofhalotheftauto
You obviously have no clue about neurobiology and neuropharmacology at all. Everyone getting addicted? Bullshit. Addiction always has a genetic basis, whether you like it or not. It is always accompanied by a set behavioural changes, which themselves are controlled by the brains reward system (= dopaminergic system).
Furthermore, addiction is not only tiggered by substance use, it can as well be triggered by a wide range of behaviour such as playing video games and sports.
Scorpitarios 2 years ago
And the percentage of those that due to their genetical basis (eg. a mutated D2-receptor) can become addicted to a substance at all is constant throughout all the mammalian species.
For cocaine, the percentage is at around 17%. No matter whether it is mice, rats, monkeys or humans.
Furthermore, not all drugs will trigger addiction. It's only those that act on ones dopaminergic system. Psilocybin for example is incapable of triggering an true addiction since it doesn't act on the reward system.
Scorpitarios 2 years ago
duh...I dunno, i thinks psilocybin might be a super-evil deadly narcotic...seeing as how the prosecutor in my old home town apparently doesn't know the difference between a tryptamine and the chemical(s) responsible for why his bitter wife won't touch him. Judging by all of the moral legislators being caught with hot young boys, it is safe to assume that their reward pathways are not stimulated in the same way as us drunks &/or dopers.
defexorcist 1 year ago
Don't legalize all drugs... just marijuana. (although it's not a drug, it's an herb)
lilriggs002 2 years ago
@lilriggs002 Its still a drug you tit
thomas1496 2 years ago
Awsome! maybe somethings will change. I admire these people for coming foward. It takes Gut´s
kalipso49 2 years ago 2
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WhytProphecy 2 years ago
they shud educate people so that they dont get addicted to drugs and end up dead in their bathroom instead of assuming people r too stupid to control wot goes in their own fuckin body!
TuRdSandwitch18 2 years ago 4
The message is simple: drug laws harm people more than the drug itself. Facts are facts, people. Suck it the fuck up and wake the fuck up. LEAP is a great organization.
bigpowerfulpeople 2 years ago 6
big, That's about as on the fucking point you can get buddy.
Hicksville 2 years ago
Spread the word!
ErichoTTA 2 years ago
Search Youtube for HOW WEED WON THE WEST
...featuring Kyle Kazan of LEAP!
watch?v=MzT1a1NKoKM
AmericanDrugWar 2 years ago
isnt caffeine a drug
"Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid that is a psychoactive stimulant drug. Caffeine was discovered by a German chemist, Friedrich Ferdinand Runge, in 1819"
whitetee1592000 2 years ago 4
People who drank and used drugs during the sixties looked like wrecks, not because of the substances, but because of the trauma from war. The war on drugs is also a war. If pot became legal, people would at first glamourize it and use in excess, but eventually people may mature. A new style can sometimes become over exciting. I've seen more people crazed from cigarrettes, salt and coffee. Legalize Cannabis.
IntelligenceXYZ360 2 years ago
I feel very worried for the police who have to search for gorilla growers that have machine guns. Legalize Cannabis.
IntelligenceXYZ360 2 years ago
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They're just simply cops and lawyers who lost their sense of duty.
The police isn't thinking hard enough to enforce the drug law. It's not that hard to do.
PraetorADV 2 years ago
The reason why LEAP is in the relative minority, is because drug law enforcement is profitable to cop institutions and provides many with jobs, thus they will be thinking about it very hard as it can make them money.
I believe you are operating on the false assumption that a lot of A-class drugs are actually dangerous. Ectasy, LSD and many other drugs are much safer than alcohol and tobacco. In fact even cocaine has better long term effects than the major legal drugs.
mbbx6ss2 2 years ago 3
I love how every prohibitionist think there's some undiscovered tactic not yet employed yet, ready to REALLY work (because punishment works, right? wrong btw) on illegal drug users. There's executions in serveral countries for relatively small amounts of drugs in countries where, historically, there's been not much use of western drugs, now see HUGE rise in use. Thailands police wacked about 3,000 people in a couple of weeks some years ago, pretty much on sight, killing MANY innocent too..
Hicksville 2 years ago 2
- Who in his motherfucking right mind would want to punish someone like that for selling something i HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH _DEMAND_ too willing people? Fucking psychos that's who. Grunts.
Hicksville 2 years ago
No kidding! This should be a huge industry right now. If we want solutions to our mounting deficit we should look no further. The slogan should be: Pot Is Patriotic! Farmers should stop growing corn which wastes too much water any way and grow weed. ;-)
JadeDonkey 2 years ago
To lock people up because they enjoy a different type of drug to alcohol (which also IS a drug) is just stupid, evil, and malicious.
Domzdream 2 years ago 4
these are the coolest people ever
Humanvaporizer 2 years ago
Destroy the war on drugs overnight. Less crime, Surplus if taxed. Enjoyment of users. . Less gun crime, less gangs. Gun crime will go down dramaticly. This is the land of the free, we can send our troops as young as 18 to die on a war of choice, yet we cannot allow drugs. Laws-
Only arrest violent drug offenders. Clear out our prisons
DUI charges still apply. A legal age is useless becuase kids get it anyway. So that can be debated. But I think a acceptable age would be 15
FromyColdeadHands 2 years ago
they only reason weed was deemed illegal was to put blacks & latinos in prision! think i'm lying? do your home work and c 4 yourself! when they ended prohibition Al Capone was out of business. the same will happen to the drug cartels if the legalize all drug.
even the cops say legalize drugs! google l.e.a.p.
abcdefghij73 2 years ago
You are not lying. I am white and a former cop from chicago and the whole war on drugs is racist and its main concentration is on blacks and latinos.
edavismookie25 2 years ago 2
Crazy Christians and Prison/Police and anyone who makes money off of incarceration is against legalizing drugs.
Ron Paul has a perfect view on drugs. Check him out.
HardBodyNyC 2 years ago 17
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kishaba1980 1 year ago
@HardBodyNyC You're an idiot to use this issue to attack Christians. Ron Paul is a Christian and so am I and we agree on this issue.
911dispatcher 1 year ago
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HardBodyNyC 1 year ago
@HardBodyNyC Do you believe the Holy Word of God? If you do, "Crazy" doesn't precede "Christians." If you don't, then taking it in your mouth is pretentious deceit.
You can't have it any other way, halfwit.
911dispatcher 1 year ago
You speak like the devil.
HardBodyNyC 1 year ago
@HardBodyNyC
what? they speak the truth
BecauseBabysAreTasty 1 year ago
It's really screwed black communities all over the country too.
the07tour 2 years ago 3
Yep I am a ex white cop and the reason for the war on drugs was and is to keep blacks locked up and whites from losing their jobs and seats in college. Plain and simple.
edavismookie25 2 years ago
Does anybody know what would happen if someone currently has a drug charge (pending or sentenced) and by some miracle,this substance would be legalized while this case is going on?Would him/her still be obligated to resume or recieve sentence for the old law.Or would the case be dropped and the person,if sentenced already,be released?
douchebagchigger 2 years ago
It's possible that the cause could continue then allow for appeal later. It is also possible that sentencing would be reduced. There is of course a chance that the judge might reconsider ruling due to the new policy. Then again some judges who didn't like the legalization might go through with the case and sentence as before the law was overturned.
Relativisticism 2 years ago
Selective Prohibition on alcohol sales would include a internet access cashregister, slide card capacity and alcohol access card. Prohibited citizens should include those with drug convictions, repeat offenders, awaiting trial and others.. Wrong time in history to argue the point. Just bad policy. decriminalize, yes. 80% homicides are alcohol related, also domistic violence, property damage ect. Giving in on even pot maybe, but only with selective prohibition laws on alcohol sales implemented.
MrTnebwa 2 years ago
I can't imagine pot getting any cheaper here in Vancouver
4795623 2 years ago
I SMOKE FOR FREEDOM
Sojaofdapepo 2 years ago 15
@Sojaofdapepo You live for freedom you idiot, and you smoke for Failing in living in freedom, so you make your own bubble, and get fu**ed till you die.
romeosafadi 1 year ago
I agree.. but .. we are currently taking BIG steps BACKWARDS....
people nowadays .. the average kids now ... have less knowledge about drugs... and more prone to alcohol abuse..
I know mates in my class that are younger than me.. are so ANTI marijuana.. yet they get drunk every day ....
but to many people are ignorant to understand the principle in this video
majortom321 2 years ago
really should legalize them for many reasons...
crackjitsu 2 years ago 2
smoking not a habit its a hobby!!
smoke 1...
1deanwdaniel 2 years ago 2
For people who want to know the truth about the effects Marijuana and Alcohol has on the body go to the org link below:
saferchoice. org/content/view/24/53/
Legalize Marijuana Federally!!!!
loveistaught 2 years ago
Fast and easy money, the worst drug ever !!!!
Fast and easy money makes humans more danderous than any other drug or vice.
Governments are giving power and job opportunities to criminals by prohibiton.
Let's take power away from criminals, let's legalize it !!
jacho80 2 years ago 6
4:45 this guy says it all !!!
jacho80 2 years ago
They make more off of the drug war and they get to lock up lefty's who they hate.
MickeyMockery09 2 years ago
there is noting wrong with weed and if it was legal the govt. would be making 1,000,000,000 in the first day if they taxed it it is less affective than cigs. weed doesent even give you cancer
caseyddouglas 3 years ago
The reason for legalising drugs should not be financial gain for governments or anyone else.
Even if they legalised Cannabis most people could grow their own plants which means they wouldnt even need to buy it. This is the number one problem with Cannabis they know they cant make the kind of profits they make from drugs like Alcohol and Tobacco, Cannabis was never made illegal because of health implications it was all down to corruption and the financial implications of legalising the drug.
MrPragmatism 2 years ago
even so tobbaco is also the same eve so worse lthan cannibis becuse its health comlications and alcho was illegalized for the same reason on amendment18 but was legalized and controlled with amendment 21 so there is a possibility for it to be leagalized for patints only
caseyddouglas 2 years ago
What's amazing about cigarettes is that they have a thing on the package, saying that smoking is bad for you. Then WHY legalize THAT and not drugs? I'm not saying cigarettes should be illegal but it's completely hypocritical.
youvebeenthunderstru 2 years ago
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dude cigarettes are a softer drug
rudeawakeningxxx 2 years ago
I wouldn't necessarily say it's "softer" - nicotone can be a bad addiction for some people. I was just pointing out how stupid the hypocrisy is, not how strong or mild cigarettes are.
youvebeenthunderstru 2 years ago 4
You can make your own booze but that doesn;t mean you wont go to the liquor store once in awhile. Cmon, if it was legal id have a couple plants myself sure but your seasons take time and u end up needing to buy some anyway
hdbass 2 years ago
I agree hdbass.
The point im making is that the reason to legalise Cannabis should not be about financial gain.
MrPragmatism 2 years ago
youre right it should not be illegal for plants to grow in your backyard if they try to say shit to me ill say im pretty sure those plants grew out of the ground on their own your gona have to take this up with mother earth
fucthepolicecominstr 2 years ago
for california it would definitely serve that purpose
rudeawakeningxxx 2 years ago
Isn't it sad that only retired police officials feel able to say the obvious. Drug war is about exercising power and control over citizens it clearly has very little to do with the drugs themselves.
johnnyfast 3 years ago 4
there is noting wrong with weed and if it was legal the govt. would be making 1,000,000,000 in the first day if they taxed it it is less affective than cigs. weed doesent even give you cancer. you are right
caseyddouglas 3 years ago
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NaturalBornHedonist 3 years ago
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NaturalBornHedonist 3 years ago
These guys know what they are talking about, as cops they see drugs on the street constantly as opposed to being in the pharmacy if they were legalized. I used to smoke pot, and even though I quit I realize the need people will have to do their drug of choice regardless of it's legal status. It will not stop them from getting exposed to it and it certainly won't scare them away from doing it. If you want to live a drugfree lifestyle, it has to be your decision, not your government's.
kroni911 3 years ago 3
0:38
Im a retarded police
iam1337son 3 years ago
Wow. See? Not all cops are moronic, right-leaning thugs.
Chuckjagermeister 3 years ago 2
Its beautiful 2 see cops step outside the donut and think freely. A war on drugs, terror, poverty is a war on u & me. No war has ever diagnosed the issue. If the elite want to cut down the population then yes-legalize all of it so we can die high and happy like the lab rats we are. They wont do that because fake ass money is worth more than us ppl. Were just living chess pieces in this opera-To All Law oficials"quit ur jobs and join the real ppl-spend genuine time with ur family"
low7free 3 years ago 6
He's right, make em' legal.
joserivera409 3 years ago 5
Great Stuff you Guys. Best looking honest cops since My Old Man in Glasgow
freeganjaman 3 years ago 3
well on the subject of drugs i never thought id agree with cops???????? but their absolutly right! bravo guys
paulywaly22 3 years ago 7
$17 billion of federal money is directly spend each year to control drugs.But the actual cost of the drug war is $50 billion, which is equal to the USA combined budgets for all of our country's agriculture, energy, and veteran's programs. I'm sick and tired of people killing each other over this damn drugs. This is the same fricking thing that happend during prohibition, legalize the fricking drugs, charge company tax for selling them and give DDWI's when caught Driving Druged Under Influence.
xestevanx 3 years ago 2
Yep if you cut the gangs cash flow then no one will want to join. Those tricked out SUVs and sports cars they drive are funded by our laws against drugs. Drugs are a very short term and lucrative venture when they are illegal.
Rockynurse 3 years ago 2
Justice is JUST and it does not equal the LAW. The LAW is an ASS and wasting our resources and harming our people with the continued prohibition. the status quo is killing us.
viperhelix 3 years ago 13
Milton Friedman, 500+ Economists Call for Marijuana Regulation Debate; New Report Projects $10-14 Billion Annual Savings and Revenues
Savings/Revenues Projected in New Study by Harvard Economist Could Pay For:
**Implementing Required Port Security Plans in Just One Year
Bastiat00 3 years ago 4
CLAP CLAP CLAP! it is about time for the west to wake up to the Facts so we can start to Create sustainable ideas towards the future.
Thank You!
PEACE and LOVE!
sjmarijuanaparty 3 years ago 8
PEACE and LOVE!
CanadianBeaver 3 years ago 5
Smart men, Strong men, Free Men
sittingbull09 3 years ago 3
make a video showing how we can support leap...! i would support
mgfurst 3 years ago 2
Hail the Leaf & Hail the LEAP.
\m/
PandownjointRitual 3 years ago 5
STAY ON SOLID LEAP!!!
floevera 3 years ago 4
This isn't really related to the video, but the people who annoy me the most are people who are a) in favor of legalizing marijuana and yet b) are not in favor of legalizing "other" drugs (cocaine, meth etc)
So much for freedom to life.
youvebeenthunderstru 3 years ago 4
And that is why? I do agree! And cocaine and meth (methamphetamine) are prescription and legal. It just can be used illegally! Prescription practices would also have to change to let people get what they need. Especially us chronic pain patients!
mlang52 3 years ago 3
Dont hold your breath waiting for common sense to prevail
mjdoyza 3 years ago 2
LEAP yall need more followers--yall are correct....
loopholejax 3 years ago 2
If McCain becomes president, we will never see marijuana bee legal...
Knudjensen54 3 years ago 2
He might die of old age not long after though.
verminslayer 3 years ago
That's true with all candidates... except Bob Barr.
Barr/Root '08
GOPpersona 3 years ago
Or Ron Paul
saberhf 3 years ago 2
brilliant.
doobiesnax 3 years ago
GO HERE!! sign it, and send!
H.R. 5842: The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act
H.R. 5843: The Personal Use Act
(dot)mpp(dot)org(slash)legislation
Fastlan3 3 years ago 4
excellent -
mojokind13 3 years ago 2
Yes, god bless this good samaritans. Namaste everybody!
eternalbalance13 3 years ago 2
I mean those losers that don't care. Then again weed isn't a hard drug so whatever buy coek and meth and all that shit is sick
MaddDogg81 3 years ago
This is a great group. I want to donate money to this group.
sorefish 3 years ago 3
These guys are on to it. They reiterate what common sense should tell lawmakers anyway. Unfortunately lawmakers worldwide are more attuned to lobbyists, quick-fix solutions and the morbid fear of losing the backing of said lobbyists and the moral panic those lobbyists could create for them.
jacksonstreet41 3 years ago 2
God Bless these guys.
sgormany 3 years ago 5
Its time to legalize it..marijuana never harmed me or any of my friends..the only problem is the policy towards it..just legalize it, you guys will see a big improvement on every aspect of social security and no more money being wasted with good decent people!
alphagoldy 3 years ago 2
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maybe if they legalize hard drugs more losers will kill themselves
MaddDogg81 3 years ago
MaddDogg81: "maybe if they legalize hard drugs more losers will kill themselves"
It's better they kill themselves rather than someone else. As it is now, the Drug War causes gang wars and robberies to pay for high priced drugs. If it was legal, the gangs would have no revenue and addicts would not have to steal to support their habit. Maybe they'll destroy themselves. But at least they won't harm anyone else.
BruceD1776 3 years ago 2
maybe you should go kill yourself
COBfan696 3 years ago
It's crazy, they're was once a time when suicide was illegal, and now its legal. So if suicide is legal why is the argument being made that personal drug use should be a crime?
CointelproV2pt0 3 years ago 3
the lesson is go out and enjoy urself there may only be 1 life so get the most out of it advice 4 u try it 1 time try tht 1 spliff try tht 1 pill and tel me it doesnt feel beter then alcohol
rule1. dont depend on drugs
rule2. if u take pills or mdma take your time dont do loads all the time savor it
rule3. dont smoke weed all the time tht shit sends you crazy
dovadose 3 years ago
Just shutup. You talk about pills and shit but then you say weed...sends..you crazy?
Utubebmu 3 years ago
nah i did the pills thing depressants are more my thing, but good advice to many pills or weed will fuck with your head.
fuckinghellyoutwat 3 years ago
hey free drugs for every one
booku4 3 years ago
this guy is pro
purecork 3 years ago
the last thing you wanna do high is commit crimes. a robber would spend 5 hours robbing from a house, think it was 20 minutes, then get caught sleeping with potato chip crumbs on his stomach.
plus, every anorexic must hit a blunt every time they deprive themselves of food. lets see how long they can fight the munchies.
Tuppington 4 years ago 4
vote for nader.... legalize, legalize, legalize... the green that is... thats all I really care about
nickwankel 4 years ago
don't vote for nader. he has zero chance and he steals votes from democrats. he gets funding from republicans for that reason.
Tuppington 4 years ago
This war on drugs needs to end, its only adding to the $7,000,000,000,000,000 the U.S. is in debt.
Delft 4 years ago 6
Ron Paul for President 2008! Legalize drugs, the DEA won't like it, there are a lot of federal government profiting off the drug war
CorollaKing 4 years ago 5
Ron Paul is not on the ticket if so they will kill him. He is not one of them get over it.
booku4 3 years ago
i call it the war of attrition on blacks and the black community, and also cops. they dont do shit in my city but pull up, get outside their cars, and bust 14 year old non violent drug dealers for a couple of vials of heroin everyday. they dont do real police work or anything.
deadfresh10 4 years ago
Great video, with an important message. America should stop waging war on it's own shadow.
horus439 4 years ago 2
god all these people are wayyyyy smart
i only wish more people saw this video
zasabiibasaz 4 years ago 2
Who says you can't tax drugs, look towards Amsterdam for the way it should be
QuietBullet 4 years ago 4
I would like to thank these officers of the law for this work. For so long I have been confused on how America The Great could have become corrupt. It has to do with Liberty. Without Liberty, the land of the free becomes the land of the imprisoned. Once again I cannot say how thankful I am to have watched this video, I don't often post comments but this deserves my two cents. Thank you, it makes me proud to say God Bless America!
salvinorinman 4 years ago 2
Voting for President Ron Paul will end the Drug War.
wulfone 4 years ago
Voting for Ron Paul will increase the corporate takeover of america, be realistic. Don't do the same thing that happened when folks decided to throw their vote to the wind by voting for nader. Vote liberal, and save the third party candidate for a time when we can work it out specifically and have a good shot at effecting a change.
salvinorinman 4 years ago
How will free trade increase corporate takeover? Ron Paul is the only one with a plan for our economy. Please reply I'm open to discussion.
wulfone 4 years ago 2
corporations will sell weed like cigarettes
ImistrixI999 4 years ago
good i hope they do.
Tuppington 4 years ago