Why is the question, should we legalize? The question should be, why was prohibition ever allowed in the first place, and can we prosecute anybody for violating the rights of all those people harmed by this disgusting travesty of justice. I know some RCMP who need a taste of their own medicine. We could kick in their doors and shoot their dogs.
people should be able to decide wether or not they want to smoke pot, or do drugs. If people are into that, (although i would never dream of going near drugs) than they should be able to do that, of course it would be ilegal for minors. Like alcohol or tobacco.
@nonassumsit that makes no sense. Marijuana is not legal. You can have weed but never smoke it and get charged for possession. Marihuana was made illegal at the time (1937 I believe) because rich cunts wanted to wipe out hemp to save their pocket books.
@SAMFISHER40l7 - The tar from marijuana only comes from igniting the plant. Vaporizing marijuana comes with virtually no damage to the body, and no increased risked of cancer.
Lets hope that Marijuana does not become legalized. Smoking 1 Marijuana joint is like smoking 5 cigarettes. One marijuana joint also carries more cancer causing carcinogens then tobacco.
if gill has had trouble with drugs in his family and he is a cop, did he arrest them and put them through court and prison or did he disagree that was a good thing to do to one of his loved ones?
@21theworld21 You really took that out of context. Seriously. Thats like me going for the lottery. And I actually winnafter 15 trys. What is that? A DIFFERENT RESULT FINALLY? wow you make Einstein look stupid.
you'd have to be a fuck wit of a politician to legalize dope + ofcourse it would help americas economy, anything would IT'S FUCKED! it needs all the help it can get
According to the World Health Organization, alcohol kills approximately 2 MILLION people every year. Marijuana kills ZERO. The worst thing about pot is that it may lead to alcohol. The best thing is that it may substitute for alcohol. Brainwashed, groupthinking prohibitionists are incapable of the most rudimentary logic, due to the mind-crippling dogmas they've swallowed. They'd insist that 1+1=3 if the party told them so. Marijuana is a safer alternative to alcohol. PERIOD.
I smoked marijuana while getting straight A's at a top ten University in the world. Dumb people smoke, smoking doesn't make you dumb. And I was in the best shape of my life, running MILES everyday and lifting every heavy object in sight...
Fellow cannabis activists: I'm tired of feeling like a criminal for doing nothing wrong. I'm tired of having my rights repressed because of a silly triumph of conservative fear and ignorance of the one drug that never kills anyone. Our complacence is the reason we are repressed. It's time to speak up and make our voices known. Know your facts and spread the word. Don't be afraid.
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We are not criminals and I'm tired of being made to feel like one.
Vote Ron Paul 2012. He doesn't care if you want to take drugs. It is your choice. I can go sun tan outside, get cancer, and die. Or I could smoke weed (which has been shown to inhibit tumor growth).
This is my favorite breakdown of the prohibition of marijuana. It's hard hitting, to the point, no nonsense, and his Harvard credentials leaves little doubt of his credibility.
I believe the only reason it is called a "gateway" drug is because it is referred to as a "drug", so kids assume drug is a drug and want to experiment with them all and end up addicts to narco chemicals that will destroy lives. That's just lying to kids, if we remove the "drug" classification and re-classify as "herb" they will not associate it to "real" drugs. For example, if we told our children a water pistol was a real gun throughout childhood, then handed them a 9mm, what would happen?
wouldn't get rid of DEA...there are plenty of other drugs out there for them to focus on. More harmful drugs. You could put the tax revenue from legalizing MJ towards fighting these drugs.
Lol I bet every person commenting on this video is a stoner! :D I love how ppl try to start arguments about how weed is bad for you and they just get totally shut down because it's no more worse than alcohol is for you. In fact, it might even be less bad for you than alcohol...
Watch the movie "The Union" its the best movie ever it shows how good Marijuana is for us and the country and all the good that hemp could do it also shows why the goverment does not want to legalize it
, and third of all, maybe the government will just legalize all the drugs one day and become the richest country and the most powerful, as the other countries that followed America suffer from illegal drug crimes "Look at mexico and their dangerous drug cartel" !!
mybe the government made drugs illegal for a very fucked up reason. First of all, i think that the government knows that they could make alot of money by legalizing drugs and the GOV knows that they could handle their illegal drug crimes well. Second of all , The US GOV is probably trying to be a role model for other countries by slowly making them prohibit drugs so that they don't get extra money,
@goncalojferreira you dumb fucks? you can say that about the 1920s america but the 2010 america IS working towards legalization and you can thank us when we are the first to legalize and the world follows. The people that made it illegal were dumb fucks, but that generation is gone so stfu
@volcom13xx It's due to political pressure from the US that these drugs are illegal around the world in the first place. And we're not thanking you for it. Weed is effectively, though not technically, legal already in the Netherlands, and these days it seems possession laws are ignored by police in half the world. We're all just waiting for the US to legalise so the rest of the world will be allowed to 'follow'.
STFU, weed is a chill plant dat calms you down, you dont wanna go out a kill ppl, you just wanna lay! what crimes and killings are on fkn buuudddd!? tax to fund schools, easy fkn money for the economy.. idiots legalize it!
Economical reasoning is justified but, the strongest reason to end prohibition is to honor the Constitution. More so, to honor the individual right of Liberty. Liberty being the unobstructed right of an individual to do as they will, so long as that individuals actions are not a violation of the equal rights of another.
Someone needs to dig deeply into Kerlikowski's family's drug use, and compare his family's treatment to the treatment of a young black man accused of the same crime. Vote Libertarian, and if seated on a jury, vote "not guilty"
Someone needs to dig deeply into Kerlikowski's family's drug use, and compare his family's treatment to the treatment of a young black man accused of the same crime. Vote Libertarian, and if seated on a jury, vote "not guilty"
Someone needs to dig deeply into Kerlikowski's family's drug use, and compare his family's treatment to the treatment of a young black man accused of the same crime. Vote Libertarian, and if seated on a jury, vote "not guilty"
Thank you, professor Miron. Decriminalization is a long time coming. I have no use personally for marijuana but even I can see that incarceration of people for marijuana trafficking is the absolute wrong end of this business for our country to be in. We have wasted so many resources on this. Legalize it and regulate it NOW.
i freaking love and can't stop watching these pro-marijuana interviews and debates, i hope we're getting close to a clue(pencil-pushers and big-wigs), plus the comments are the best........Thank You Jeff for getting this logic out there! and you teach at Harvard! whereas generic dumbass law enforcement officer etc. is holding a GED or diploma from South Central Louisiana State Community College.......Go Jeff, and Go America.......c'mon!
Reign of Terror in Lane County OR. With the help of State prosecutors, the cops simply went through all licensed pot growers in Lane County and charged all with conspiracy to distribute, arrested them, and when the people arrested tried to unseal the records they were told no records exist. Now they are informed the Grand Jury will decide it, one full year after arrests. Obama is useless because Holder and the locals do whatever they want to do.
What Miron said about politicians not wanting to touch it is very correct. So what we have to do is change public opinion on this issue to our side (as we have been doing for the past 15 or so years with the number of US citizens supporting legalization rising by 1% each year).
With each one of these interviews we change more peoples minds and by proxy, we change the politicians minds.
everyone can do their part right now. go to citizentube right here on youtube and vote for your favorite questions. as of right now marijuana legalization is # 1 under "jobs and economy" as well as about 20 other cannabis related questions on the front pages of other topics. take about 10 minutes of your time and help our cause. lets make sure these questions stay at the top so that they can get answered this time. lets let obama know that we are serious about this topic.
hmm instead of wasting money on police officers chasing after stoners, they could instead gain alot of money by taxing weed.. they wouldn't have to take everyone's oil either... plus weed would be like 60% cheaper and everyone can get baked : ) sounds like a freakin good idea to me...
if people do get depressed about smoking pot,its because its illegal ,please legalize it usa,cause im starting to want another goverment run our country.i know lets have a vote nation wide,democracy!!!!
To suport the legalization of marijuana and hemp go to norml(.)org and contact your repersentaitves and let your voice be heard. The regulation and taxation of marijuana would take the pot money out of the hands of drug cartells, gangs, and criminals. The marijuana and hemp industry would help the United States economy by creating jobs, a new cash crop for farmers, and tax revinue. Together we can make a difference! Let your voice be heard!
70 billion isnt even close....try multi-trillion dollar industry...food, textiles, medicine, and FUEL...did you know hemp can be easily made into bio-fuel? completely clean-burning...it could completely replace petrol...we could stop importing all of our resources and start GROWING our OWN..think of how many people this industry would employ...all the generated revenue..for once our country could be self-reliant...china owns us...were fucked if we dont change our ways....
legalizing all drugs would be bad...we should legalize the only SAFE psychoactive substance known to man, cannabis. im not saying meth and crack heads belong in jail, they dont, they belong in treatment programs, but all these other drugs create alot of harm to the general public.cannabis does NOT have ANY harmful effects and anyone who thinks it does is a fucking uneducated MORON and needs to read some independent medical studies that werent manipulated or "cherry picked" for data by the gov't.
I can't believe they would say we are making $ incarcerating people! Any man who truly believes this is unamerican and a sadist! We make money by locking people in cages?
It is a weak analogy to compare crimes that victimize to victimless crimes like smoking marijuana. The government has not right to protect people from themselves. Rationally marijuana is no more of a crime than smoking ciggarettes or alcohol. The latter substances cause far more damage to society than all illegal drugs combined.
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My son's best friend OD'ed on marijuana. The EMTs came, but alas it was by then too late. He lived by the bong, and died by the bong. I favor harsh penalties on anyone caught with marijuana on their person, including long prison sentences so that marijuana abusers do not poisson our nation's youth with this very dangerous drug.
he OD'ed on pot? seriously? scientists have calculated that you need to smoke 10,000 times your body weight in weed, within 15 minutes in order to OD. i highly doubt he OD'ed on marijuana, if he did, link me to the new report, because this is serious news. it's easier to keep tobacco and alcohol out of kids hands than weed, so why would you not want pot legal, so we can regulate it? weed isn't a criminal problem, it's a public health problem, we shouldn't imprison, we should treat users.
OH NO. He moved slow. Holy shit! Did you call an ambulance. I hope he didnt also eat a lot of snacks? Better that he drank a lot of alcohol and was vomiting and having his stomach pumped, yes? I agree, cannabis is a dangerous, dangerous drug.
So the government is using billions of tax paying money, to arrest thier own people and keep spending our money to find drug dealer, because they want to get weed out of the street.
Wow they use billinons a year, just to find weed . That is there job? How about do that to the same as water. but next time after u find the water give us back the water so we can drink. Well done DEA OMG save us for these homeland retard
JacdCat does bring up a valid question, Juan. It is contradictory to accept alcohol as a potentially dangerous, but legal drug yet marijuana, which is safer to both the body and mind (especially w/ a vaporizer, which I have) is prohibited. You must then either accept illegalizing all drugs (perhaps even caffeine and nicotine?) or legalizing all drugs. Many who fight against drugs and drug use fail to realize many problems from the drug war are created by prohibition itself. Let others smoke
if it ever becomes a political possiblility--I would probably support it. So if I understand, you support legalizing all drugs because anything less would fail the logical-consistency and hypocrisy tests?
2) If all drugs were legalized in the US their use among the young people would almost certainly rise due to society's implied approval, greater access, promotion in the free media (YouTube), and probably commercial advertising as well. Treatment costs, accidents, deaths, lost productivity due to addiciton would, I think, skyrocket. Drug tourism and illegal export would become the new international problems. You don't have a convincing case.
Ahh, yes, a googling, drug reform expert--just as I suspected. Two can play that game, however I'll give you countless case studies. Try this site for 30 minutes and then reply to my comment on THC and neurodegeneration. As far as other drugs go, ANY drug has negative effects to your body in excess. As JacdCat said, responsible human beings need not worry. Most people don't realize that many of the problems associated with drugs and drug use is due to prohibition. I've got plenty more sources
I challenge anyone to find an economist opposed to the legalization of marijuana. Like the man said, economists specialize in finding unintended consequences of social policy. They recognize that so much crime that we have now is an unintended consequence of marijuana prohibition. And they're smart enough to realize that the cost of marijuana prohibition far, far outweighs any benefit it gives.
until recently you couldn't find one economist in favor of more regulation of the financial sector; they can find unintended consequences given 20-20 hindsight, they are much less adept at forecasting them
Alcohol is responsible for more traffic related accidents than marijuana is.
Why aren't you out fighting for the prohibition of alcohol?
Marijuana prohibition is responsible for more than half of all gang related deaths including the murders of babies and children. Gangs don't fund their activities by opening lemonade stands.
Marijuana prohibition keeps the money in the hands of criminals.
Instead of in the hands of legitamite buisnessmen.
1) no one knows what would happen if we legalized all drugs, but in the early part of the last century cocaine & mj were associated with ethnic groups in the US--and were not a part of the pop culture as they are today. you didn't mention heroin, but an interesting example of legalization of opiates is China at the beginning of the 20th century--by 1907 26% of adult men were addicts.
When confronted with real-life example of what happens when a country loses the opium wars, you dismiss it out of hand? I'll bet...that you have a closed mind.
Yes, the Supreme Court upheld the Fed Gov't right to do just that in 2005. Your "Lincoln" quote was invented by the mayor of Atlanta in 1922--trying to win the wets vote.
The fourth amendment gives me the right to feel secure in my PERSON, and HOME.
Meaning whats inside my BODY(Person)and what I do in my LIVING ROOM(home) is none of the Federal govt's business and totalitarian decisions like that will tear this country apart.
although i dont think anyone agrees that the feds have the right to bust into your home and imprison you for doing something thats harmless. but the reality is they have the power to do just that.
Maybe you need to go to a grieving mother's funeral, whose child just died of an overdose, and tell her how well prohibition has worked.
Yet I'm here saying, if we could end prohibition and spend only half of those billions of wasted dollars on the education of drugs. Her child would probably still be alive.
Then go to another grieving mother, whose child was killed in a drug deal gone wrong, or a gang related shooting. And try and explain how prohibition has made our society better.
i think she would be a little more upset if i told her i was for legalizing all narcotics, stimulants, psychotropic drugs regardless of their abiltiy to addict, destroy lives, and kill--because "prohibition" doesn't work
"OK, Billy, here is your lunch money, now make sure you don't stop-off at the opium den on your way to school, because if you do (and please don't take this as a threat) you might have to attend a class, if you want to. The fact that I go there is none of your business, Ron Paul says every person is responsible for themselves!" -JacdCat fulfilling parental responsibilities
We can do that now--and not undermine the message by our example. "Don't tell me, show me." What kind of a country would sell drugs to heroin addicts for the tax revenue? That's immoral.
Re-Legalize it already,Its a fucking herb,(not a drug),and its clearly documented that it was only made illegal in the first first place in favor of greed,corruption and racism.These "government officials" can't deny that it wasn't,unless they claim to be dyslexic.How can the read the history of a single law,and say "lets stick with this corrupt racist one"?
its a mind altering substance. It gets you twisted! Just because it comes from a plant doesnt not make it a drug. Cocaine comes from cocoa leaves. Heroin comes from opium poppies. Cigarettes come from the tobacco plant. A lot of drugs come from plants! It alters your brain!
i dont get it. they make so much money on cigarettes, if you legalised marijuana you would not only make a whole shit load of money but you would also be selling clean marijuana that isnt laced?
the Government wouldnt get a dime cause if it was legal everyone would just grow their own shit and smoke it all for free! We can do that now--and not undermine the message by our example. "Don't tell me, show me." What kind of a country would sell drugs to heroin addicts for the tax revenue? That's immoral.
If legalized people get out of jail less jobs bull! Open hemp factories opens awhole variety of jobs!
DDesmay 1 month ago
Why is the question, should we legalize? The question should be, why was prohibition ever allowed in the first place, and can we prosecute anybody for violating the rights of all those people harmed by this disgusting travesty of justice. I know some RCMP who need a taste of their own medicine. We could kick in their doors and shoot their dogs.
EattherichBuddy 1 month ago
Let's make food illegal, everyone can have a job for the govt busting each other. We'll be rich!!
Spartacus32145 1 month ago
quit being ignorant and fully legalize cannabis. and who said law enforcement was the only job that can't be downsized.
MIB205 4 months ago in playlist Marijuana Legal Debates
people should be able to decide wether or not they want to smoke pot, or do drugs. If people are into that, (although i would never dream of going near drugs) than they should be able to do that, of course it would be ilegal for minors. Like alcohol or tobacco.
aaronon1 4 months ago
Pretty Cool!
naturesuphoria 7 months ago
"FROM COMMON SENSE"
The real problems you don't understand the difference between LEGAL and LAWFUL.
The issue is the language.
de·le·gal·ize - To revoke the legality of
, and everyone saying we should make Marijuana legal is ignorant and stupid, and don't know about what they are saying.
Marijuana is already legalized that's why it is illegal to use it, and that is the VERY ISSUE.
Is what people should say is that they want to DE-LEGALIZE MARIJUANA.
Its illegal to use but not unlawful
nonassumsit 7 months ago
@nonassumsit that makes no sense. Marijuana is not legal. You can have weed but never smoke it and get charged for possession. Marihuana was made illegal at the time (1937 I believe) because rich cunts wanted to wipe out hemp to save their pocket books.
JJbones88 6 months ago 2
@SAMFISHER40l7 - The tar from marijuana only comes from igniting the plant. Vaporizing marijuana comes with virtually no damage to the body, and no increased risked of cancer.
Enyulan 7 months ago
Lets hope that Marijuana does not become legalized. Smoking 1 Marijuana joint is like smoking 5 cigarettes. One marijuana joint also carries more cancer causing carcinogens then tobacco.
SAMFlSHER40l7 7 months ago
if gill has had trouble with drugs in his family and he is a cop, did he arrest them and put them through court and prison or did he disagree that was a good thing to do to one of his loved ones?
ranskye1 7 months ago
To marijuana prohibitionists:
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
-Albert Einstein
21theworld21 8 months ago 7
@21theworld21 You really took that out of context. Seriously. Thats like me going for the lottery. And I actually winnafter 15 trys. What is that? A DIFFERENT RESULT FINALLY? wow you make Einstein look stupid.
Captaindouchebagg 7 months ago
you'd have to be a fuck wit of a politician to legalize dope + ofcourse it would help americas economy, anything would IT'S FUCKED! it needs all the help it can get
mrfancyman1 8 months ago
LOL 1:54
FreshPie: "Wait. Is marijuana illegal?"
mixituprawr 9 months ago
According to the World Health Organization, alcohol kills approximately 2 MILLION people every year. Marijuana kills ZERO. The worst thing about pot is that it may lead to alcohol. The best thing is that it may substitute for alcohol. Brainwashed, groupthinking prohibitionists are incapable of the most rudimentary logic, due to the mind-crippling dogmas they've swallowed. They'd insist that 1+1=3 if the party told them so. Marijuana is a safer alternative to alcohol. PERIOD.
Silenus6 9 months ago
I smoked marijuana while getting straight A's at a top ten University in the world. Dumb people smoke, smoking doesn't make you dumb. And I was in the best shape of my life, running MILES everyday and lifting every heavy object in sight...
Those were good times...
MrRationalThink 10 months ago 2
@MrRationalThink lol "lifting every heavy object in sight" i laughed...hard
jkn04 9 months ago
The failed prohibition of marijuana causes FAR more damage than marijuana itself.
The current unjust, immoral, UNCONSTITUTIONAL marijuana laws are ruining the lives of otherwise law abiding Americans. Stop the injustice! LEGALIZE.
REGULATION AND TAXATION IS THE ANSWER!
finallythefacts 10 months ago
LEGALIZE IT!!!
sikkjuggalo1988 10 months ago
I think it will be legalized :)
Freedom544 10 months ago
Fellow cannabis activists: I'm tired of feeling like a criminal for doing nothing wrong. I'm tired of having my rights repressed because of a silly triumph of conservative fear and ignorance of the one drug that never kills anyone. Our complacence is the reason we are repressed. It's time to speak up and make our voices known. Know your facts and spread the word. Don't be afraid.
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We are not criminals and I'm tired of being made to feel like one.
tamu77095 10 months ago 5
google "The Profitability Of The Private Prison System"
and that 77B savings/year is understated.
mitochondria09 11 months ago
LEGALIZE IT!!!!
durfys12 11 months ago
I don't know about harder drugs........but pot should DEFINITELY be legal.
opszanski 11 months ago
Vote Ron Paul 2012. He doesn't care if you want to take drugs. It is your choice. I can go sun tan outside, get cancer, and die. Or I could smoke weed (which has been shown to inhibit tumor growth).
memphis148 11 months ago
KripDrip, I wouldn't come into your home and take the cheeseburger out of your hand. Now why should you come into mine and take my marijuana?
memphis148 11 months ago
they need to legalize all drugs
cuzo548 1 year ago
Jeffrey miron
harvard stoner
ruggedrap81 1 year ago
Liberty and Freedom for all, except pot smokers.
HappyBruiser 1 year ago
I think the host just had an epiphany. He realised it's time to legalise it and take a draw.
StephHuegi 1 year ago
President George Washington's number one crop was Marijuana.
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diballynibally 1 year ago
Free Marc Emery
DoctorHunterThompson 1 year ago 3
we need more people like him speaking up like this. The dude is a Harvard graduate so people immediately take him seriously.
fuckinmetal1982 1 year ago 2
This is my favorite breakdown of the prohibition of marijuana. It's hard hitting, to the point, no nonsense, and his Harvard credentials leaves little doubt of his credibility.
botchalism 1 year ago
leaglize my medicine
imJustBlazed 1 year ago
I believe the only reason it is called a "gateway" drug is because it is referred to as a "drug", so kids assume drug is a drug and want to experiment with them all and end up addicts to narco chemicals that will destroy lives. That's just lying to kids, if we remove the "drug" classification and re-classify as "herb" they will not associate it to "real" drugs. For example, if we told our children a water pistol was a real gun throughout childhood, then handed them a 9mm, what would happen?
GameICY 1 year ago 2
@GameICY You make a damn good point!!
js21392 1 year ago
wouldn't get rid of DEA...there are plenty of other drugs out there for them to focus on. More harmful drugs. You could put the tax revenue from legalizing MJ towards fighting these drugs.
stoiks1 1 year ago
Lol I bet every person commenting on this video is a stoner! :D I love how ppl try to start arguments about how weed is bad for you and they just get totally shut down because it's no more worse than alcohol is for you. In fact, it might even be less bad for you than alcohol...
piggyfreak06 1 year ago
Watch the movie "The Union" its the best movie ever it shows how good Marijuana is for us and the country and all the good that hemp could do it also shows why the goverment does not want to legalize it
the hipocracy of our democracy
LEGALIZE IT the world would be a better place
Ballerboi17171234 1 year ago 2
that guy just changed his mind on legalization
eternalrabbit 1 year ago
there are no crimes in the netherlands...just sayin...
PhilippRB31 1 year ago
I support the legalization of Marijuana, it is not a crime. It is the government that is the criminal for banning freedom of choice.
tmt686 1 year ago
fuck you all who uses marihuana. fucking bitchs
weedcelso 1 year ago
@weedcelso and to all who use cigarette and alcohol
Climaticorus 1 year ago
, and third of all, maybe the government will just legalize all the drugs one day and become the richest country and the most powerful, as the other countries that followed America suffer from illegal drug crimes "Look at mexico and their dangerous drug cartel" !!
metalrain666 1 year ago
mybe the government made drugs illegal for a very fucked up reason. First of all, i think that the government knows that they could make alot of money by legalizing drugs and the GOV knows that they could handle their illegal drug crimes well. Second of all , The US GOV is probably trying to be a role model for other countries by slowly making them prohibit drugs so that they don't get extra money,
metalrain666 1 year ago
This is what I like about america... You dumb fucks prohibited it... but you'r gonna be the first to legalize...
goncalojferreira 1 year ago
@goncalojferreira you dumb fucks? you can say that about the 1920s america but the 2010 america IS working towards legalization and you can thank us when we are the first to legalize and the world follows. The people that made it illegal were dumb fucks, but that generation is gone so stfu
volcom13xx 1 year ago 8
@volcom13xx first? the in the Netherlands you can buy it legal, and also in zech republic. so we definately are not following :P
xilixang999 1 year ago
@xilixang999 my mistake, i wrote that kind of fast that guy made me mad, either way the message is the same....
volcom13xx 1 year ago
what legalization? Its going on February 2011 and its still not legal! WTF
KripDrip 1 year ago
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@volcom13xx It's due to political pressure from the US that these drugs are illegal around the world in the first place. And we're not thanking you for it. Weed is effectively, though not technically, legal already in the Netherlands, and these days it seems possession laws are ignored by police in half the world. We're all just waiting for the US to legalise so the rest of the world will be allowed to 'follow'.
3rdAutisticCuckoo 3 months ago
STFU, weed is a chill plant dat calms you down, you dont wanna go out a kill ppl, you just wanna lay! what crimes and killings are on fkn buuudddd!? tax to fund schools, easy fkn money for the economy.. idiots legalize it!
TheHydrokush 1 year ago
Economical reasoning is justified but, the strongest reason to end prohibition is to honor the Constitution. More so, to honor the individual right of Liberty. Liberty being the unobstructed right of an individual to do as they will, so long as that individuals actions are not a violation of the equal rights of another.
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Someone needs to dig deeply into Kerlikowski's family's drug use, and compare his family's treatment to the treatment of a young black man accused of the same crime. Vote Libertarian, and if seated on a jury, vote "not guilty"
libertarianjury 1 year ago 3
@libertarianjury 100% right!
atchisrj1 1 year ago
Im pretty sure a harvord economist would know what would help.finnaly we have an educated person supporting something that is better than alcohol
connord5712 1 year ago 4
He is forgetting the tax revenue that we would be getting from the people who are incarcerated for 10 years just for smoking some weed.
leftydanvball 1 year ago 2
they could get more tax renevue from crack and meth and heroin! Should that be legalized too?
KripDrip 1 year ago
Thank you, professor Miron. Decriminalization is a long time coming. I have no use personally for marijuana but even I can see that incarceration of people for marijuana trafficking is the absolute wrong end of this business for our country to be in. We have wasted so many resources on this. Legalize it and regulate it NOW.
findjinn 1 year ago 2
i freaking love and can't stop watching these pro-marijuana interviews and debates, i hope we're getting close to a clue(pencil-pushers and big-wigs), plus the comments are the best........Thank You Jeff for getting this logic out there! and you teach at Harvard! whereas generic dumbass law enforcement officer etc. is holding a GED or diploma from South Central Louisiana State Community College.......Go Jeff, and Go America.......c'mon!
FrankJam2 1 year ago 4
WOW a german guy when nuts like thats never happend before (hitler)
ionrocket 1 year ago
@ionrocket Adolf Hitler was Austrian you fucking moron.
qloudz 1 year ago
Reign of Terror in Lane County OR. With the help of State prosecutors, the cops simply went through all licensed pot growers in Lane County and charged all with conspiracy to distribute, arrested them, and when the people arrested tried to unseal the records they were told no records exist. Now they are informed the Grand Jury will decide it, one full year after arrests. Obama is useless because Holder and the locals do whatever they want to do.
MrHoward0339 1 year ago
What Miron said about politicians not wanting to touch it is very correct. So what we have to do is change public opinion on this issue to our side (as we have been doing for the past 15 or so years with the number of US citizens supporting legalization rising by 1% each year).
With each one of these interviews we change more peoples minds and by proxy, we change the politicians minds.
2edsajdmsa 1 year ago 5
U ROC JEFF! Wish Americans would wake up too!
laurajdahl 1 year ago 4
hes my parent, im Miron also LOL! many MIRON STONERS!
bloodmageee 2 years ago
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Legalize420Freedom 2 years ago
when pots legal, ima smoke a fat blunt right in front of a police station
Irishluck100 2 years ago 14
then they probably nail you with public intoxication or some other bullshit fucked up retarded crime
firebird096 2 years ago
@Irishluck100 I'm going to start a fucking plantation on like 3 acres of land. Just smoke hash upon hash upon hash.
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Strange but interesting YouTube - Norway spiral. Also very strange YouTube - Obama Akhenaton.
Interesting movie YouTube - Collapse the movie
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pac1811 2 years ago
hmm instead of wasting money on police officers chasing after stoners, they could instead gain alot of money by taxing weed.. they wouldn't have to take everyone's oil either... plus weed would be like 60% cheaper and everyone can get baked : ) sounds like a freakin good idea to me...
ayayay111 2 years ago 6
if people do get depressed about smoking pot,its because its illegal ,please legalize it usa,cause im starting to want another goverment run our country.i know lets have a vote nation wide,democracy!!!!
jjmma0420 2 years ago 2
Let's face it. The whole world WANTS Cannabis.
Alxscode 2 years ago 95
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@Alxscode
We WANT THE RIGHT TO DO WHATEVER WE WANT WITH OUR OWN BODIES!
The government has NO RIGHT to tell us what is right and wrong to put in our mouth...Our constitution does not support the Drug War.
It's MORALLY WRONG for the government to do what they're doing!!! This pattern will ruin our free society.
cdmillig 1 year ago
@Alxscode but rich cunts can't make as much money of that want as they want, so it doesn't happen. God damn them all.
JJbones88 6 months ago
Ever heard of anyone /.... get all "high" and start a fight..... or regret the previous night...? NOPE
there is nothing wrong with pot!
snowzac1 2 years ago 12
@snowzac1 only regrets might be not saving the roach for the next morning, haha
JJbones88 6 months ago
Drinking is waaaaay more dangerous than pot!
Who smokes pot and feels like driving around...
crashing? not heard of.
snowzac1 2 years ago 12
eating fruits and vegetables is safer than both! Why dont you do that instead?
KripDrip 1 year ago
god i hate that guy "people will think that you are a stoner" what a jackass
Daronkaraki1 2 years ago 5
LEGALIZE IT!!!
Muza35 2 years ago 68
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OfficialKidRhythm 2 years ago 3
1:53 FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!
OfficialKidRhythm 2 years ago 3
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To suport the legalization of marijuana and hemp go to norml(.)org and contact your repersentaitves and let your voice be heard. The regulation and taxation of marijuana would take the pot money out of the hands of drug cartells, gangs, and criminals. The marijuana and hemp industry would help the United States economy by creating jobs, a new cash crop for farmers, and tax revinue. Together we can make a difference! Let your voice be heard!
diballynibally 2 years ago
70 billion isnt even close....try multi-trillion dollar industry...food, textiles, medicine, and FUEL...did you know hemp can be easily made into bio-fuel? completely clean-burning...it could completely replace petrol...we could stop importing all of our resources and start GROWING our OWN..think of how many people this industry would employ...all the generated revenue..for once our country could be self-reliant...china owns us...were fucked if we dont change our ways....
Jesse0989 2 years ago 7
its bad cause it will put EVERYTHING out of business!
The alcohol industry, pharmaceutical industry, oil companies, ect. Think of how many MILLIONS of jobs will be lost!!!
KripDrip 1 year ago
jaunvoyce is a total idiot.proves no good points at all...every source you cited was BIASED and FALSE. go fuck yourself!
Jesse0989 2 years ago
legalizing all drugs would be bad...we should legalize the only SAFE psychoactive substance known to man, cannabis. im not saying meth and crack heads belong in jail, they dont, they belong in treatment programs, but all these other drugs create alot of harm to the general public.cannabis does NOT have ANY harmful effects and anyone who thinks it does is a fucking uneducated MORON and needs to read some independent medical studies that werent manipulated or "cherry picked" for data by the gov't.
Jesse0989 2 years ago
I heard marijuana is actually HEALTHY. Is this true?
all028 2 years ago 4
yea probably the unhealthy part of marijuana is smoking it, thats y you cook it with sum cookies or brownies
chadasinrichard 2 years ago 3
LEGALIZE EVERYTHING!
Deejeeo 2 years ago
I am for DECRIMINALIZATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sobleton01 2 years ago
Wanda is a retard.
Coker1212 2 years ago
I can't believe they would say we are making $ incarcerating people! Any man who truly believes this is unamerican and a sadist! We make money by locking people in cages?
HOW INHUMANE!
Rockynurse 2 years ago 5
so you think its ok to break the law? How about making murder, rape, robbery, terrorist, child molestation all legal! Maybe we would be better off!
KripDrip 1 year ago
@KripDrip
It is a weak analogy to compare crimes that victimize to victimless crimes like smoking marijuana. The government has not right to protect people from themselves. Rationally marijuana is no more of a crime than smoking ciggarettes or alcohol. The latter substances cause far more damage to society than all illegal drugs combined.
Rockynurse 1 year ago
lol. u cant OD on marihuana
em3rsson 2 years ago
i know what a tool.
maplesucker34 2 years ago
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My son's best friend OD'ed on marijuana. The EMTs came, but alas it was by then too late. He lived by the bong, and died by the bong. I favor harsh penalties on anyone caught with marijuana on their person, including long prison sentences so that marijuana abusers do not poisson our nation's youth with this very dangerous drug.
Wanda4DecentValues 2 years ago
he OD'ed on pot? seriously? scientists have calculated that you need to smoke 10,000 times your body weight in weed, within 15 minutes in order to OD. i highly doubt he OD'ed on marijuana, if he did, link me to the new report, because this is serious news. it's easier to keep tobacco and alcohol out of kids hands than weed, so why would you not want pot legal, so we can regulate it? weed isn't a criminal problem, it's a public health problem, we shouldn't imprison, we should treat users.
TheBrutalD 2 years ago 2
your retarded.
Forgetful929 2 years ago
bullshit your sons friend od'ed on marijuana
Deejeeo 2 years ago
its physically imposable to OD on cannabis. you would literally need over 20000 joints. no one has ever dies from mj.
maplesucker34 2 years ago
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my friend OD on cannabis
the next day he moved slow all day
matoxewu 2 years ago
What the hell.
Martial024 2 years ago
lol
Thugzbunyyy 2 years ago
OH NO. He moved slow. Holy shit! Did you call an ambulance. I hope he didnt also eat a lot of snacks? Better that he drank a lot of alcohol and was vomiting and having his stomach pumped, yes? I agree, cannabis is a dangerous, dangerous drug.
goosoid 2 years ago
There you have it folks!!! A harvard proffeser.case closed.legalize pot now!! END the drug WAR now!!!
420captain 2 years ago 3
I didn't know chris parnell was on cnn
thecondukter 2 years ago
Where can we buy the book?
Deliveryboy09 2 years ago 2
If a cop busts into your home without a warrant you have EVERY right to use your 2nd amendment.
Deliveryboy09 2 years ago
only if you wanna spend the rest of your life rotting in jail!
KripDrip 1 year ago
So the government is using billions of tax paying money, to arrest thier own people and keep spending our money to find drug dealer, because they want to get weed out of the street.
Wow they use billinons a year, just to find weed . That is there job? How about do that to the same as water. but next time after u find the water give us back the water so we can drink. Well done DEA OMG save us for these homeland retard
wazr04 2 years ago
Less dangerous and has more uses than tobacco and alcohol!
Steadno 2 years ago 3
pot should be a crime in any way that booze isn't. find a way to test ppl like u do for drinking and driving and get over it
lucky5th1 2 years ago
love the way they cut directly back to school shootings directly afterwards... cnn ftw!
danfromabove 2 years ago
JacdCat does bring up a valid question, Juan. It is contradictory to accept alcohol as a potentially dangerous, but legal drug yet marijuana, which is safer to both the body and mind (especially w/ a vaporizer, which I have) is prohibited. You must then either accept illegalizing all drugs (perhaps even caffeine and nicotine?) or legalizing all drugs. Many who fight against drugs and drug use fail to realize many problems from the drug war are created by prohibition itself. Let others smoke
lreichardt 2 years ago
if it ever becomes a political possiblility--I would probably support it. So if I understand, you support legalizing all drugs because anything less would fail the logical-consistency and hypocrisy tests?
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
Info from Psychiatry Journal Watch.
Yes I support legalizing everything.
Because before 1914 cocaine was legal.
Yet america wasn't a nation of cokeheads.
Before 1937 marijuana was legal. Yet you can't say this was a nation of potheads.
Meth was legal till the 1960's. Yet neither my grandparents or anybody elses grand parents I know were meth heads.
Prohibition is a waste of taxpayer's money.
Money that could be spent much more wisely.
Plus prohibition funds the violent black market.
JacdCat 2 years ago
2) If all drugs were legalized in the US their use among the young people would almost certainly rise due to society's implied approval, greater access, promotion in the free media (YouTube), and probably commercial advertising as well. Treatment costs, accidents, deaths, lost productivity due to addiciton would, I think, skyrocket. Drug tourism and illegal export would become the new international problems. You don't have a convincing case.
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
Greater access? Please. It's easier for my 11 year old to access marijuana, or cocaine than a bottle of tequila. I wonder why?
Society's implied approval?
You mean how a recent zogby poll showed 52 percent of american voters supported marijuana's full legalization?
Promotion in the free fedia? Isn't marijuana already promoted in the free media?
Comercial advertising?
When was the last cigarette comercial you saw? Or Billboard?
It seems you don't have a convincing case.
JacdCat 2 years ago
Ahh, yes, a googling, drug reform expert--just as I suspected. Two can play that game, however I'll give you countless case studies. Try this site for 30 minutes and then reply to my comment on THC and neurodegeneration. As far as other drugs go, ANY drug has negative effects to your body in excess. As JacdCat said, responsible human beings need not worry. Most people don't realize that many of the problems associated with drugs and drug use is due to prohibition. I've got plenty more sources
lreichardt 2 years ago
I challenge anyone to find an economist opposed to the legalization of marijuana. Like the man said, economists specialize in finding unintended consequences of social policy. They recognize that so much crime that we have now is an unintended consequence of marijuana prohibition. And they're smart enough to realize that the cost of marijuana prohibition far, far outweighs any benefit it gives.
NewColdness 2 years ago
until recently you couldn't find one economist in favor of more regulation of the financial sector; they can find unintended consequences given 20-20 hindsight, they are much less adept at forecasting them
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
Alcohol is responsible for over 60% of murders.
Alcohol is responsible for more traffic related accidents than marijuana is.
Why aren't you out fighting for the prohibition of alcohol?
Marijuana prohibition is responsible for more than half of all gang related deaths including the murders of babies and children. Gangs don't fund their activities by opening lemonade stands.
Marijuana prohibition keeps the money in the hands of criminals.
Instead of in the hands of legitamite buisnessmen.
JacdCat 2 years ago
Where did you get those stats?
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
Stats from Alcoholics Victorious.
And Psychiatry journal watch.
Every 22 minutes alcohol kills someone in a highway collision.
that's not counting the collisions where someone was only injured
I support the legalizing of all drugs. Because as it is now, they are already widely available
Those who chose to do them do. Those who chose not to them don't
And also because it's easier for a kid to get weed or coke, than a bottle of tequila.
Drugs need to be legalized and REGULATED.
JacdCat 2 years ago
1) no one knows what would happen if we legalized all drugs, but in the early part of the last century cocaine & mj were associated with ethnic groups in the US--and were not a part of the pop culture as they are today. you didn't mention heroin, but an interesting example of legalization of opiates is China at the beginning of the 20th century--by 1907 26% of adult men were addicts.
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
Opium has always been a part of the chinese culture. I bet 26% of Chinese men are still adictied to opium.
Ofcourse China isn't going to tell us that.
JacdCat 2 years ago
When confronted with real-life example of what happens when a country loses the opium wars, you dismiss it out of hand? I'll bet...that you have a closed mind.
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
In a nutshell.
In a free country. Unless I'm behind the wheel of a vehicle, or in a position to hurt some one other than myself.
Niether you nor the govt. has any right to tell me what I can or can't put in my body.
the prohibition of marijuana has destroyed mor lives than the drug itself.
"A law of prohibition goes against the very ideals on which our great country was founded on." -Abraham Lincoln
JacdCat 2 years ago
Yes, the Supreme Court upheld the Fed Gov't right to do just that in 2005. Your "Lincoln" quote was invented by the mayor of Atlanta in 1922--trying to win the wets vote.
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
The Supreme Court did Uphold it.
But that does not make it right.
The fourth amendment gives me the right to feel secure in my PERSON, and HOME.
Meaning whats inside my BODY(Person)and what I do in my LIVING ROOM(home) is none of the Federal govt's business and totalitarian decisions like that will tear this country apart.
JacdCat 2 years ago
the fourth amendment protects you against an unlawful search--they have to have a search warrant
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
That includeds searching my bodily fluids
JacdCat 2 years ago
Military style gang violence supported by marijuana prohibition.
Innocent bystanders killed by dealers fighting over territory.
Jail time tearing families apart for marijuana prohibition.
Jobs lost and families on the street because of Marijuana prohibition.
The passing of facist style laws like your 2005 supreme court decision, chipping away at our freedom, all for prohibition.
The prohibition of marijuana has destroyed more lives than the plant itself.
And u support it.
INSANE!!
JacdCat 2 years ago 4
the court doesn't pass laws, it interprets them; did you ever go back for your GED?
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
Sarcasm the weapon of the weak
JacdCat 2 years ago
ouch
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
lmao harsh,
although i dont think anyone agrees that the feds have the right to bust into your home and imprison you for doing something thats harmless. but the reality is they have the power to do just that.
renegade6188 2 years ago
They only have the power to do that because modern Americans LET THEM.
I used to watch old nazi movies with my grandfather and more modern ones like schindler's list.
And ask myself.
How could the jews let the nazi's do that? Who in their right mind would stand idly by and allow someone to drag them from their home.
Freedom is not free.
You can't vote for your freedom.
You must scream for it, fight for it and if you must, die for it.
For your sake and that of you children.
JacdCat 2 years ago
Maybe you need to go to a grieving mother's funeral, whose child just died of an overdose, and tell her how well prohibition has worked.
Yet I'm here saying, if we could end prohibition and spend only half of those billions of wasted dollars on the education of drugs. Her child would probably still be alive.
Then go to another grieving mother, whose child was killed in a drug deal gone wrong, or a gang related shooting. And try and explain how prohibition has made our society better.
JacdCat 2 years ago
i think she would be a little more upset if i told her i was for legalizing all narcotics, stimulants, psychotropic drugs regardless of their abiltiy to addict, destroy lives, and kill--because "prohibition" doesn't work
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
Your either not reading my statements or are ignoring certain parts.
I didn't say legalize then walk away.
I said EDUCATING her son, would have been better, than THREATEINING him.
The current system of threatening jail time is obvioulsly not working if her son is laying there in the casket.
I have long believed a nanny state is failure, and education is the key.
Prohibition has failed.
Insanity is doing the SAME thing over and over and expecting a different result.
JacdCat 2 years ago
"OK, Billy, here is your lunch money, now make sure you don't stop-off at the opium den on your way to school, because if you do (and please don't take this as a threat) you might have to attend a class, if you want to. The fact that I go there is none of your business, Ron Paul says every person is responsible for themselves!" -JacdCat fulfilling parental responsibilities
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
Obviously you didn't understand. Hence the sarcasm.
The education comes before the drugs not after. LOL!!
Your hilarious!!
I'm talking about Billy being saturated with anti-drug comercials starting at whatever age he starts watching t.v.
He is bombarded with drug education in school.
Twice a year we put ex-addicts in classrooms, with their missing teeth and obliterated muscle tissue, so Billy can see first hand what drugs do.
Not education, AFTER Billy already used the drugs. LOL!!!
JacdCat 2 years ago
By the way, that is a very vivid description of an addict, suggestive of personal or professional experience, and incompatible with your postion.
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
so your saying that she should tell her son its ok to use drugs and get high? Maybe get him a bong and a stash so he can smoke his life away!
Yeah, that will help!
KripDrip 1 year ago
Can you imagine what a psychological impact a meth head or ex crackhead would have on a 5 year old?
An ex heroin addict, with deteriorated muscle tissue (looking like death himself) talking one on one with children in classrooms.
Billy would be scared shitless of drugs for the rest of his life.
Can you imagine 5 anti-drug commercials every hr?
What about pamphlets showing what drugs do to a person, being handed out as often as condoms are handed out today?
THATS WHAT I MEANT BY EDUCATION.
JacdCat 2 years ago
We can do that now--and not undermine the message by our example. "Don't tell me, show me." What kind of a country would sell drugs to heroin addicts for the tax revenue? That's immoral.
JuanVoyce 2 years ago
The same immoral country that sells alcohol and collects tax revenues from alcoholics?
The same immoral country that says killing a few innocent children(collateral damange) is perfectly o.k. if your also killing a terrorist.
The same immoral country that tests my body fluids to make sure i'm not doing something they don't want me to do?
Though what I do in my own living room is none of their business.
And if that tax revenue can help prevent future heroin addicts. It's completely worth it.
JacdCat 2 years ago
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JuanVoyce 2 years ago
maybe if the mother raised the child right and not have him do get into all that criminal mischief, he would be alive! Theres no excuse.
KripDrip 1 year ago
so you wanna make it worse by making another mind altering substance legal?
KripDrip 1 year ago
Alcohol is ok in moderation. Any kind of smoke inhalation is bad for your lungs.
KripDrip 1 year ago
Re-Legalize it already,Its a fucking herb,(not a drug),and its clearly documented that it was only made illegal in the first first place in favor of greed,corruption and racism.These "government officials" can't deny that it wasn't,unless they claim to be dyslexic.How can the read the history of a single law,and say "lets stick with this corrupt racist one"?
GutarPimP 2 years ago
its a mind altering substance. It gets you twisted! Just because it comes from a plant doesnt not make it a drug. Cocaine comes from cocoa leaves. Heroin comes from opium poppies. Cigarettes come from the tobacco plant. A lot of drugs come from plants! It alters your brain!
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ppadua02 2 years ago
i dont get it. they make so much money on cigarettes, if you legalised marijuana you would not only make a whole shit load of money but you would also be selling clean marijuana that isnt laced?
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the Government wouldnt get a dime cause if it was legal everyone would just grow their own shit and smoke it all for free! We can do that now--and not undermine the message by our example. "Don't tell me, show me." What kind of a country would sell drugs to heroin addicts for the tax revenue? That's immoral.
KripDrip 1 year ago