20/20 - John Stossel Discusses Medical Marijuana and the Charlie Lynch Case 03/13/09

[Bullsight2020]

Let's hear it for the evil men and women of the D.E.A. That is one uniform I have no respect for. I have more respect for the recipients of "Suicide by cop". I have more respect for the Dog shit in my yard. If you are D.E.A. and are reading this, I want to tell it like it is... YOU are an enforcer of evil mens' laws. It's not a good thing to wish someone to go to Hell, but I would wish that upon you before ANY pot smoker. Killers in uniform, gestapo. S.S. I hope A.I.D.S. gets you, piece of SHIT!

[Bullsight2020]

This is not the "Land of the free". The D.E.A. are criminals. I hate them. It's not good to hate, but it's even WORSE to cause another to hate. Shame on you, D.E.A. I'm not saying that because they are pieces of shit, that's a separate issue. Shame on everyone who believes in the "War on drugs", and believes that it's working... FOOLS! I have more respect for people whose jobs are to clean toilets than I EVER will for the D.E.A. (Murderers). If they point a gun at me, they'll have to use it.

[alsjhfklherklj]

i bet everyone here smokes, i cant even lie, im blazed off some lemon haze

[clairishe]

Briefly scan through the comments. Count the number of comments in favor of marijuana prohibition. OUR REPRESENTATIVES DO NOT GIVE A DAMN about what we want.

[onlyhuman2121]

we must all smoke at the white house. like 1000 of us. that'll get their attention.

NO ONE has the right to tell one that they cannot do something if it does not drectly affect them. Its our bodies our lives not theres.

[whiff1962]

The federal govt. doesn't come down on the county and state officials because, ultimately, most local officials are only too obliging to be the lap dogs.

[cgarciaq23]

fuck crack cocaine and heroin 

[TEUFELHuNDEN420]

Better to stand the fuck up take up arms fight and die as a free man than to live one single day in a fucking cage. I'm telling you all right now i grow and i've got my AK close at hand for anyone who comes into my home unannounced be it cop or criminal. Sic Vis Semper Parabellem.

[jdddehoff]

The sheriff of that town is unamerican piece of of trash ....we should throw his ass in jail

[treyflip127]

This if bullshit fuck the DEA

[DonkeyBallsAnderson]

Sickening.

[JayMalone]

that is absolutely disgusting. it makes me fucking sick to watch that.

I fucking hate our government. nobody in power has the balls to stand up for what's right. why? because you have to suck dick to get power. and cocksuckers have no balls and no sense of right and wrong.

[lugger11]

corrupt old people will die off, and the youth will take over and remake the country for themselves.

[WOLFNBEAST]

legalize weed

[henik9]

I love Stossel

[whiff1962]

@henik9 Then you might be a Libertarian.

[DavidToddSchiesler]

we should all rebel and banish every politician with the old mindset to keep weed illegal from the country

[jake42091]

i bet john stossel smokes fatty blunts

[hiphoptvonline]

this is an absolute shame..the people should revolt...its not about the weed..its about the government trying to take away all your freedoms bit by bit...fuk has obama done? he must do as he is told by his handlers, and the bankers that put him in power...wake up people!

[Ulai777]

stupid pigs, nothing better to do

[Cantoffie]

Fucking power trip!

[ladivadivala]

And when I try to inform people at my job about all the lies concerning Cannabis they make it into a joking matter. They don't realize that the common person has been manipulated so much that they don't even recognize a real medicine that actually works. It makes me sick to my stomach and actually hurts deep.

[KripDrip]

you just wanna get high! lol

[TCF2148]

The feds will bust down your door for drugs because they are nothing more than attack dogs that are all worked up by their trainers.

BTW meak911, we are awake. We're just delerious from the pounding we're getting from the gov.

[cetnik03]

the sheriff should be shot, what a brian washed idiot, i bet he is happy with all pharmacies that sells real drugs that kill over 50k a year, what a scum bag hope he burns in hell. Free The herb!

[meak911]

the federal reserves uses the courts and law enforcement to pay its bond associations to keep the american citizens in constant debt to society.

americans need to wake the hell up.

[PipeManChuck]

America needs to stop the war on Americans!!!

[Cantoffie]

I thought it was a DEMOCRACY! not a fucking dictatorship!...

LEGALICE AND DECRIMINALIZE

[KripDrip]

this is not a Democracy. Its a REPUBLIC!

[fomastephanovitch]

I don't know what the lady from Coneheads has to do with Charlie Lynch.

[Myschly]

This is such fucking bullshit! Top to bottom, buuuuull shit!

[MadLotus11]

Free Charlie Lynch!!!

[MadLotus11]

Damn! i didnt know they had ice cream chronic

[Knoss]

That Sheriff should be gone. Any state law official who helps federal agencies enforce federal laws contrary to state laws should be removed.

[lion9213]

Agreed Knoss, Every word.

[Bullsight2020]

@Knoss Yeah, REMOVED.

[HallucinationSkate]

seriously people. this has gone far enough. pot needs to be legal in this country. there HAS to be a way to rebel, and change this dumb fucking law. Blacks got their rights. But they had to fight for it. (I'm white btw) So why can't we just say "FUCK IT" and protest and get this fucking law changed!? Come on ppl! it's time for change we really need!

[HallucinationSkate]

fuck the fucking government! this law needs to be put to an end NOW! that is sick what they did to that poor man. He's getting life in prision cause of a law that should'nt even be illegal in the first place. I now officially HATE this government

[Pollieo]

O shit Drew Carey xD

[lion9213]

I know, I had to double check to see if it was really him lol..

[dddproject]

if anyone wants to purchase seeds by mail, I'll will send them to you. let me know. overgrow the government.

[sean21122112]

Dea should go f uc k themselves.

[FrankieFrustration22]

This is so terrible, guns to the head for marijuana.

Is he a criminal

?

[killoskate13]

I think i Know why the sheriff is against merijuana!!! HE WANTS A BIGGER PAYCHECK!!

[davetoob]

The War on Drugs means big money for government agents. Google "Prison Industrial Complex (1999)". The video features government agents bragging about the large sums of money they seize during drug raids. Don't be surprised by these government agents fighting tooth and nail to prolong the War on Drugs.

[yammyspeed13]

John Stossel rules!

[partrickplaysfender]

run to canada, they will let you in for sure!

[partrickplaysfender]

FREE CHARLIE LYNCH!!!

[partrickplaysfender]

total bs, ide like to turn the tables on these raiders.

[jabber22]

The drug war is a profit making scheme.

[TheNedd818]

BULL SHIT INDEED!!!

[chaosinesco]

how the fuck can they do this to someone? this bullshit war on our people has went on way to far. Im not a violent person, but when im growing a large number of plants in the near future im going to always be strapped. And if any DEA fuck wants to come in my house they will have to take a bullet to get my herb. This government sucks all together i wanna move to fuckin canada

[chancerr03]

i completely agree with you. i wish i could have a give minute spot in a senate or house meeting to rip there asses up and down on this one. its completely fucking insane to imprison someone for doing something that's been determined a legal act in his/her state. wtf. I'm so pissed.

[JackDanielsOldNumba7]

LEGALIZE IT! YES WE CANNABIS!

[10forswing]

are you kidn me right now they are really going to sentence this guy up to 100 years in prison for helping people deal with chemo uncontrollable migraines and shit like that he was doing people a favor and who cares if he is maken money off of it of course he is have you heard of a farmer that sells corn just to make back the money he lost NO he has to make a living to just like farmers

[animuz35]

You can't trust a politician, any of them, legalization only makes sense, that's why it will never happen.....

[highlanddan]

ur better off raping a fucking kid in america than smoking weed. ur better off killing someone than smoking weed in america. and yes obama is a fucking liar retards he said no more dea raids in cali and guess what. there was a raid on a dispensory in march in california. fuck america

[Asperuaca]

this poor man faces up to 100 years in prison?? this makes my blood boil!!! :(

[Fockersnextdoor]

Now do you believe that Obama is a lier?

[alohawg]

Too much $ being made by the crooks including the ones in D.C., to legalize it

[DaveIrie]

John Stossel is the fucking man for putting this out. This is the best mainstream media piece on cannabis I've ever seen.

[rhysie21]

WTF? Marijuana is worse then crack/cocaine?

That... just.... is... wtf?

[jawndoekck]

damn at the very end he had to do his pity party little guy speech. While I hope he goes free, he knew what he was doing when he was doing it. He will probably be one of the last martyrs.

[thuggindanny101]

oKAY SO WHAT IF HE "DONATED" IT WOULD OF BEEN THE SAME SHIT AND THOSE BASTARDS WOULD OF ARRESTED HIM

LEGALIZE!

[SirLoin21]

We should demand a presidential pardon of Charlie Lynch

[DaJ50]

dam thats fucked up just blaze

[IndIka024]

3:35 LMAO Drew Carey that was not only the truth, but HILARIOUS!

[ricnazul808]

If Obama's Administration said they will stop raiding dispensaries, Charlie Lynch should get a Preseidential Pardon.

is the Administration and the DEA not on the same page?

[Debba99]

Time for the People to stand up and take back our Government and dismantle it so it functions the way our forefathers intended and NOT the tyrannical GESTAPO it is today

[jessjeff123]

you hippy potheads just want to get high

>:@

[KrustyUnderpants]

i lold

[jrizos]

John Stossel is incredibly talented as a journalist. I love his stuff. That said, the prohibition of marijuana is reaching a tipping point, at an accelerating rate.

[mikemayea]

This video made me feel sad, and not so much because of what is happening to him, but because there are people out there willing to do that to him.

[abluishrose]

that's crap!

[mcfurly]

who makes these laws

[stevethul1]

It's time to clean house and get rid of all the politicians and Power Hungry people that want total control of We the People of the United States of America. Vote these idiots out of office and put the ones that believe in real Freedom as our Constitution Guarantees us.

[MasterZug]

Vote Ron Paul 2012! : )

[eshapiro92]

feel sooo bad for that guy

[icyangel14]

oh my god, that poor guy! He's probably just one of many people who get screwed over every year!

100 years in prison!! Oh wow I sure feel safer at night knowing that guy's in prison.

God this fucking country keeps disappointing me.

[simplycharlie]

Welcome to America..

[mydogisawesome888]

Fuck the police!!! Worthless scum, its all about money!! nothing more! "to protect kids from drugs" = BULLSHIT.

LEGALIZE NATURE!!

cmon obama, we believe!!!!

[hprunluvdnerd]

lol was that Drew Carry?

[Keitarokun581]

yup. that video is on youtube too

[abluishrose]

i think so!!!

[jackmcgurn1]

the DEA has the same mind set as nazi SS. we just follow orders. well the are done now. there will be no more DEA raids said the attorney general. also the funding for DEA eradication has been cut out. so now they are going to have earn thier money by busting real drug dealers. the coke crank and heroin assholes. or go get a real job.

[JohnnySucksFanClub]

This is so not fair...

[Fujimoto420]

I'm ashamed to be an american if this is how we treat people.

[timg82]

Great video

[squidliness54321]

WTF!

I say legalize it...

it's good for those who need it medically and for people who just want to have a good time and not have to deal with a possible o.d.

!!! FREE THE WEED !!!

[ThemindofWigglez]

Oh my fucking god. That's alot coming from an athiest. The fucking DEA ruined his life for helping cancer patients get through their day. I say, we just pull a revolution. Do you know how many founding fathers would be dissapointed in our government today? Pretty much all of them. Fuck this, I'm moving to Canada. Where they can use my taxes and I don't have to worry about going into another depression that we're in.

-wigglez-

[megaminxmaster]

yes! thank you for not supporting a socialist fuck! +1

[6thCreated]

You might think that Republicans would be against the federal government overriding the laws of the states lol. That's the opposite of what their party is supposed to stand for. Less fed rights and more state rights. Ironic that Bush went after medical marijuana, yet Obama supports it. Ironic...

[d3v07]

Fuck goddamn republicans.

[megaminxmaster]

not all republicans are anti-pot (i'm one of them)

[megaminxmaster]

i am a republican. however, i agree with you on the fact that it is ironic. i do not support obama and his socialist policies. i do like that he supports medical pot, though.

[eurabio]

This story got my tears flowing...

WTF is wrong with your country!!!? Creationism in schools, the Bush family still can get elected, the Feds can inspect your houses if they just fucking want, wars in Vietnam and Irak and now this!? Sorry but I prefer to stay in Mexico where I can go to the opera with five bucks or the ballet even free. Lucky I'm middleclass so I'm sorry for my poor poor starving countrymen who has to cross the border to go to that country full of ignorant bigots.

[chrishopkinsjr]

Why dont you help make your country less of a crap whole and your poor poor starving countrymen will stay the F there. Not that I am against immigrants, just against d-bags like this guy.

[eurabio]

...full of ignorant bigots. I'm saying your country is a crap Hole not mine. Anyway patriotism is for ignorant bigots, so really I don't care what an idiot like you has to say.

[chrishopkinsjr]

I think it is funny how you like to through around ignorant and bigot when you are both what did I say that was patriotic? Every country has it +/- but I dont know of many reasons Mexico can stay they are better then the US. I am not a dick that goes around trash talking Mexico but I do get aggravated when someone from a medium (at best) developed country start saying how wrong the US is. We do have our problems like everyone else.

[falcon1337]

The possibility of 100 years in prison for distributing a naturally occurring plant to ill people! Maybe its just me, but that sounds beyond ridiculous.

[Outlawzand1]

Just let Charlie Lyncyh live his fucking life you fucking retarded Govt. A humble middle-man trying to get by, and yet he gets harrased by these big men who think they know jack... -_-

[Atrain1828]

charlie lynch is a martyr!

[Unphazed1337]

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. - Ariel Durant

I hope this is not where we are heading.....but unfortunately it looks like we are on the fasttrack....

[greenboy215]

Did you know that new prisons are being built by private corporations. the more people in prison the more money people make on wall street. this is an uneven balance of freedom of state law and federal law which is unjust. tax payers pay 50k for each person in jail a year. think about it....WTF is going ON????

[greenboy215]

Charlie Lynch is a non violent person he deserves his freedom..DEA is shady...everyone look up War on drugs : new version by showtime, it expose the CIA on how they brought drugs into poor parts of the city.

All this prohibition is made up and full of B.S.

how can you categorize heroin and marijuana on the same level....something isn't right. we need to get together and fight back.

[legi0naire]

Up to a hundred years, OMFG i knew USA has some retarded rules, but it seems almost that they enjoy destroying people there life, and the Sheriff should be fired, and they should hire someone with the best interest for the people.

[MooseOfReason]

Let Charlie go!

[dukeoforegon]

Pot also cures a lot of cancers.

[InfoWarriorMaverick]

FREE CHARLIE LYNCYH!

[DarianLovesSkating]

i wish they would just legalize it i mean its a fucking plant it grows from the ground i mean if marijuana is illegal then so should tabbaco

[shutout309]

FREE CHARLIE

[t1AHA]

FUCK THE DEA(waste of government money) AND THIS FUKKED UP GOVERNMENT

[groovybassline]

fuck those laws and obsessed cops that are hellbent on stopping something that is harmless and is helping people. This really, really pisses me off

[GilbertsonDerick]

When might I ask was this ABC special aired?

[MooseOfReason]

Four days ago, on Friday, at 10:00 p.m.

[rmgc3]

the problem is that medical marijuana quit profit to the farmaceutic lobby....

Fuck the government and fuck the police

[ghetofridge]

FUCK THE DEA. FUCK THE POLICE

100 years!!!! COMPLETE BULLSHIT.

[Anon1696]

FUCK MONOPOLIES!

[youngr33zy15]

so make it legal under federal law. problem solved

[KillYourselfKids]

Fuck the DEA and fuck the Police.

[guest2424]

If you don't break any laws, they bust you any way.

[travis9827]

charlie lynch's defense couldnt even use the phrase "medical marijuana"??? so all the jury got to hear was this man was convicted of possessing and selling the 30 pounds they caught him with? jesus no wonder he was found guilty.....what a fucked up system

[guest2424]

not ALLOWED to mention "medical marijuana" and your not ALLOWED to lie in court... If it was me, I would have said "Well, there is some vital information about my trial and I would like to mention, but I was told I am not ALLOWED to disclose the information, even though we are in court and I am not allowed to lie, but by not mentioning it, thus jury is being lied to."

[tim3Child]

this is fucking bullshit putting a peaceful innocent man behind bars for helping people out. the government is so fucked up and some people are so ignorant about marijuana its crazy

[Tmac1Rockets1]

I feel bad for these people, I smoke recreationaly but I can't imagine being truly sick and not being able to acquire medicine legally. Just goes to show you the government doesn't care about these people.

Fuck the government and fuck da police.Oh yeah and legalize! :)

[industrialhemprocks]

industrial hemp is a useful and much needed non-drug related crop!

its illigal not b/c its bad for us but b/c its so useful to us!!! stand up for ur human rights.. subscribe to me and wait for my industrial hemp video to come out within a couple months.

[SolarEXtract]

Re-legalize it. Tax it. Regulate it.

FREE CHARLES LYNCH! HE IS NOT A CRIMINAL!!

[KnifieKnifie]

is there a petition for this man??

[AbbeyNormal]

Absolutely outrageous. Somehow it's got even worse. 100 years, for providing medicine to people with prescriptions. God almighty.

[aznsizzla]

buddy come to b.c..... haha

[99shadow99]

Watch " Run FROM the Cure" by Rick Simpson. It can CURE cancer if made into oil and ingested. This is the TRUTH and it's free! Cancer is an industry.

[flamiejowers]

you took the words right out of my mouth! i don't understand how MJ can even be compared to heroin as being dangerous its not even as dangerous as alcohol. but of course our government is going to outlaw that b/c they are a bunch of alkies themselves

[Jpeezy1983]

3:07 .. lol

[DurBanPoison420uh]

ITS SO SIMPLE!! marijuana is the answer to everything. just legalize it already

[Anon1696]

I am totally for legalizing all drugs because people should be free to do anything they want to their bodies, and the drug war only increases violence...

But if you literally mean "marijuana is the answer to everything", you obviously need to think about your beliefs.

Marijuana/THC can do SO much to help us: medicine and hemp etc...

...but people like you need to get rid of the attitude of how it is the "answer to everything" if you mean it literally. That's a huge assumption--

[DurBanPoison420uh]

i said that literally, based off facts of my own life, which i will not get into on youtube

[Anon1696]

"i said that literally, based off facts of my own life, which i will not get into on youtube"

And that just goes to show the objective validity of your statement, and how it is a huge leap of faith.

[DurBanPoison420uh]

what business is it of yours, what my life is, FRIENDO

[mikemayea]

Does the government not realize they lose credibility in the things they say in the eyes of the citizens?

They want to stop people from smoking, but all they are doing is making more people realize marijuana is safe.

Charles Lynch has the support of several millions of people, including myself.

[SimonPeter168]

the government says don't smoke pot, just take all these prescription pills!

[Jpeezy1983]

Ya! There like dont use your drugs use ours!

[atalkingmuteman2]

we were supposed to live in a republic- ruled by the people. not a democracy which is only the majority, and certainly not an oligarchy.

[pro272727]

Thats FUCKING BULLSHIT.

[SimonPeter168]

only in America!

[txballoonman]

God should be locked up for creating evil plants.

[Jpeezy1983]

lol

[PNWSasquatch]

Home of the free?

[MooseOfReason]

Land of the Charlie Lynch.