Marihuana is not a drug..it's a plant..DRUGS ARE SOLD IN PHARMACIES..ABORTION IS LEGAL,& IT'S A SIN. MARIHUANA IS ILLEGAL BUT IT'S NOT A SIN..Genesis 1:29..HERBS BEARING SEED ARE FOR THE SERVICE OF MAN: PAX VIA MUSIC...VIVA MARIA!
@magcarril Sorry to be a terrible pedant, but these are not mutually exclusive. Cannabis is both a plant and a drug (or, more accurately, a plant which contains drugs). If we are to win the battle for humane drug laws and bring prohibition to an end, we need at least to be honest about what is really at stake, and make the case that yes, cannabis is a drug, which has risks (albeit less than alcohol) - and that prohibition is a terrible way of trying to address those risks.
@magcarril I'm not a christian, but to give you more biblical ammo: Genesis 2:16+17, or is Cannabis the tree of knowledge of good and evil? Considering the stupid stuff people tend to do when stoned it doesn't seem so... ;0)
Ave Maria, the virgins child is filled with the holy spirit...
I live in Nye county Nevada and you can legally carry a gun, gamble at a casino, go to a whore house......But you better not get caught smoking a joint......That's jail time ....
I cant wait for all the old religious conservative people to die. Most of their ideas will go with them. They will have tried hard to pass them down, but I think only a few of our educated youth will actually cling to them.
The saddest thing about this drug law farce is (aside from the fact that it is essentially world wide) that it is blatantly transparently unjust, anyone with any knowledge on the matter can see it. Its great to have intellectuals pushing the matter but its disgusting that these laws exist in the first place.
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Good points until the last dumbass statement that "anyone that believes in a God would think it's ok to punish his neighbor". I believe in God and I agree that the illegalization of drugs is dumb. There are a million better ways for us to spend our money.
Maybe there's a point to make in the amount of cheap labour prisons in the US receive, it's enough to compete with Mexico and China, so losing a million prisoners from that would make a hefty dent in a few people pockets.
I would also argue at the heart of america's fear of narcotics is stemmed more in xenophobia than religion. Drugs are all "exotic", while the deadlier substance alcohol is viewed as safe and domestic. A great deal is rooted in tribalism and the idea of the "other" as well. Humans are trapped in bias, all we can do is recognize this and learn to feel shame at this bias I feel, and always strive to escape this bias.
The argument is academic at best because those in positions of power care not at all about truth but about political ambitions and what that would lead to.
i appreciate the fact you put this up. i enjoy sam harris and marijuana but that background for the video made shake my head and groan. it's the same goofy design hanging on every stoner's wall only instead of sam's face they have bob marley, jerry garcia or whoever else they may like.
I am not sure religion is the only cause of the "War on Drugs." I think it is also fueled by fear of minorities and alternative lifestyles. I mean, what is one major difference between alcohol and weed: Weed was associated with lower class blacks.
Secondly, the government controls education. So once a drug is made illegal, the government can use its near monopoly on education to provide children with inexact information that biases the debate into perpetuity.
@MetaMorphy Originally it was because Chicano's used it and it was tied to there apparent non productive life styles that caused it to become illegal.
@TransAm282 Unlike Mr. Harris, your argument does not reference facts. You contribute no supporting arguments for your claims, just fear. "poisoned" "evil" "destructive" "skewed" Please explain your usage of these words. You seem like a real critical kind of guy — criticize your comment. Fact is, you've got nothing but fear to back up your worldview which clings to keeping things the same at all costs - you do not want progression. Things are changing anyway — look for the positive. #newschool
Sorry but, if God wanted his creations to get "high" and forget about Him, He would have given it explicit allowance in the Bible. God knows that all drugs are bad. Stop deluding yourself, people.
@l337z0r Quite a generalization to say that those who smoke marijuana forget about God. I know several living examples to refute your ill informed opinion. Most drugs are bad. Marijuana, is not.
Most of the literature I read on the drug war comes to the same conclusion. However, every author uses some different premises (Harris points to accepted irrationality as the cause of irrational drug policy), and they often use different statistics. Essentially, there are many, many different ways to come to the same conclusion: the drug war is a failure. My mouth dropped when he compared the number of drug offenders in the US to the total number of incarcerated individuals in Western Europe.
Although alcohol does have medical uses, i.e., brandy and hard liquor for help in wound treating, what he meant when he said it had no medical use was the way in which it was used. Such as, drinking it at home, a bar, or with your buddies, which in all three cases might lead to bad outcomes.
I think it may have been the lack of what he meant by what he said that may have been misleading, as to the point of what he was trying to make.
Or perhaps to put it another way. If your preaching to the converted - right on - but a difference won't be made. But if you want this to be a video that we could send to the unconverted - then the graphics need to be addressed.
i always listen to lectures and debates of hitchens, dawkins, and even simple youtube atheists but it never occured to me to listen or read from sam harris. ive been missing out.
Truly an excellent excerpt but did you HAVE to put the pot leaves in the background? The imagery severely limits the audience who would even bother listening to this very reasonable argument in the first place.
@JohnnySoprano87 "...did you HAVE to put the pot leaves in the background?"
You're worried about losing the whole close-minded demographic?
Those that won't listen to the video, simply because there are pot leaves in the background, will not be amenable to the arguments anyway. Had I used rainbows and unicorns and fluffy bunnies for the background image, do you think these people would suddenly become open-minded freethinkers who were willing to listen to argumentation?
@eequalsfb No but if I were to wear a suit and make an argument I'd be taken more seriously by many people than if I were to wear dreads and clothes with little pot leaf logos all over the place. Presentation does matter matter. Show somebody information in graph or diagram form and foolish or not, more people will be inclined to believe it. I'm sure some people who would be willing to listen tho this otherwise will probably just write this off as "damn pothead propaganda" instead.
Then perhaps do something? I do appreciate your effort as this was a great excerpt. But context and presentation is important. And a background involving, panning graphs of valuable info would contribute greatly to your cause. Not the current one. It looks like a potheads dormroom poster. And distracts from the well put thoughts of a man that stands for Reason. If you want to help the cause, take it seriously then - presentation et al - that's what I'm trying to say.
Im sorry dudes, everytime I wrote a response i saw that it had already been discussed but yeah i think we all three can agree, eequalsfb says perhaps because its not easy to change ones original point but just the fact that you said perhaps shows that you do agree, just take it into consideration next time you upload an awsome clip like this!!
@JohnnySoprano87 It's true, but on the other hand, if people with dreads and clothes with little pot leaf logos say something intelligent that someone DOES listen to, then not only did you get a message across, you just overcame xenophobia as well.
No dont use unicorns and fluffy bunnies, thats along the same lines as the marijuana leaf... But just making it look a little less like a pothead video will have its effect, of course it might be minimal but we have such a huge mountain to climb that any little detail that might ease the process needs to be taken into consideration, dont mean to be to harsh, have to thank you for even posting the video but still, you dont seem stupid so i think you know what we are talking about...
Couldnt agree with you more, we got endless clips gathering potheads to discuss their discontent but what we all truly want is to widen the audience ready to listen to logic and using imagery that has been overused for decades to scare people away will still have a similar effect, details like these are slowing the process of reaching the inevitable!
@JohnnySoprano87 Very good point. All too often, good arguments are marginalized, in part by their perceived appeal to "undesirables." It's not just drug legalization arguments that are tarnished this way. See Harris's open critique of religious dogma; as applied to dogmatic adherence to Islam, the argument is dismissed by the very freethinking liberals to whose minds he seeks to appeal on the drug argument, in many cases because the other people loudly opposing radical Islam are Glenn Beck & co
Whether you're in favor of drugs or not (I'm not & I don't even drink alcohol), it's quite clear that banning what are now illegal drugs not improved at all, and only made things worse & I can assure you there is not much difference between the Taliban and those drug dealers, the 2 kidnap and kill for money and benefit their sick cause. U.S. is the problem because has the highest demand in the world, & for that reason millions have died.
Sorry, agnostic here, but I can't agree with all of this. I do think marijuana and other drugs s/be made legal, but I don't think their prohibition is strictly religious. Plus, alcohol and tobacco CAN be enjoyed in moderation, most narcotics aren't. Marijuana DOES have medical purposes, but then again so does alcohol (listerine for a sore throat, alcohol 91 on your arm before a shot) We SHOULD make narcotics legal for the same reason we ended prohibition, to take the profit out of selling them
A junkie like Sam Harris, financed by IPAC daresto lecture people about denying their Creator, and comfortably accept it!! Well, here are some more ecstasy pills effects:
Disorientation and confusion
Anxiety, paranoia, and panic attacks
Hypervigilance or increased sensitivity to perceptual stimuli
Hypomania or full-blown mania
Derealization and/or depersonalization
Hallucinations and/or delusions
Thought disorder or disorganized thinking Memory impairment Acute delirium and insanity
@blazereef No there isn't. it's just physically impossible to consume, i believe 7lbs per 12-15 minutes, Which just isn't doable, plus... I've tried, can't be done.
WE are so lucky to have individuals willing to speak up against the so called majority i.e. Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, just to name a few of today's brave men.
Hitchens journalistic integrity and his verbal prowess are no match for Harris's in-depth analysis and meditation. I'm pretty sure Harris has a Ph.D and has more degrees than Hitchens. To say the least, it's still a close tie though.
When I first applied for my Ph.D dissertation, I had to be peer reviewed by over 150 astrophysicists, who had to deem my work credible and reputable for the field. It was a 3 year process, but then I finally got it. And it was all worth it.
I think weed should be legal. It has less dangers associated with it then alcohol and other medication drugs. The only bad thing about it is that it's illegal and the DEA comes busting in and shooting up shit to arrest these people. I don't smoke weed, but I've taken a few hits a several years ago. I think Acid and stuff like that should remain illegal though. Those look scary.
@spartacandream A shot of liquer, an 12 ounce beer or an 8 ounce glass of wine a day is actually healthy for you, though if you drink more then that then there are soem bad things that can happen. I drink very moderately, like just a beer every other day for its medicinal purposes. I'd also like to try weed, though I'd rather eat it or pop a THC pill rather then smoke it. Cus the act of smoking it can harm ur lungs but the Herb its self is not harmfull
I almost bought this audio book to listen to in the car on the way to work. I'm so glad I didn't. I adore Sam Harris and support his message, but this reader's voice is annoying. Sam's own voice is very nice .IDK why he didn't read the audio book himself. I'll get the hardcover instead.
I think weed should be legal, and I also am an athiest, but I dissagree with one important part of this video. It says that the reason people don't want weed legalized is that is gives the user the feeling of having a spiritual experience. I think that people don't think this way; they are simply not educated about the drug, and the facts about how little danger it actually poses.
@LionEatingMan It does give you a spiritual experience though, at least what is called a spiritual experience when we feel it in a spiritual setting (ie temple, church, etc....) Though you are right.
I'd rather have both cannabis, alcohol and other mild mind benders legal as long as religion is kept under close scrutiny. People with no detectable substances in their blod streem that believe in rapture, virgin birth, world wide floods without traces in the fossile record (so they deny the record ...), life after death, heaven and hell, resurection etc and at the same time work flying planes, performing surgery ... THAT is scary!
Drug laws should be 100% based on scientific study of positive and negative short and long term effects. PERIOD. And they are not. This is the core argument here.
I happily use Cannbis/weed from time to time and know many others who also do so.
Personally I know of several individuals who(although they have to get it illeagally,due to silly local drug laws)utilize it for medical purposes and say they would definately be much worse off without it.
It should not be ignored that(in a small %)the drug can trigger episodes of psychosis & even schizoprenia.
However this only seems to happen to those that either abuse it or have an existing condition.
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"Cannabis smoke contains 400 compounds including 60 cannabinoids. However, because of its lower combustibility it contains 50% more carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including naphthalene, benzanthracene, and benzopyrene, than tobacco smoke. In conclusion, these results provide evidence for the DNA damaging potential of cannabis smoke, implying that the consumption of cannabis cigarettes may be detrimental to human health with the possibility to initiate cancer development,"
@mojorhythm Buy one on the internet, you can get a cheap knockoff for $30. Or a real one for $300. I bought a real one, i'm sure it'll pay for its self in the money i save on wasted pot.
Cannabinoids are good for you. You only smoke a little cannabis. Its not like tobacco were you have to smoke it all the time. We create cannabinoids naturally in our bodies anyway. Its even in breast milk.
Cancer Biomarkers and Prevention Group, Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine and Karolinska Institute in Sweden suggests otherwise, for one example. acetaldehyde causes DNA damage leading to cancer. Both tobacco and marijuana has this. Will you get cancer from it, most likely not. maybe. hot dogs also have products added to them that can give you cancer. im not trying to degrade it, but there has been plenty of studies that show its possible to promote cancer when smoked.
thats silly... someone said that it cant cause cancer, im just saying that it could by theory. Hotdogs has chemicals in it that can cause cancer, im not saying dont eat hotdogs. Infact, going from what you said, I dont think the govt should have anything to do with regulating pot. It should be able to be grown and used as one pleases. So to be clear, there is stuff in pot that in studies could cause cancer, but there is no confirmed cancer cases related directly to pot, so dont worry.
Actually why not just ban cancer?(nip it in the bud so to speak!)
Sorry!(just thought I'de join in with the sillyness........that's all.)
Nicotine is a cunt!
I(like many)started smoking when I was a kid because I thought it made me look grown up(and therfore cool)but now that I am struggling to stop,I just want to(slowly) torture the company directors of the tabacco industries!
@RandomVortex Even if you don't have an addictive personality. If I should start to smoke cigerettesjust occasionally would I too eventuallt grow addicted?
Those described as having an addictive personality are just people of a certain personality type.
They often have an obsessive cumpulsive nature which means they are more prone to addictive behaviors(be it drugs,food,gambling or otherwise.)
Anybody can become addicted to physically addictive substances(like the nicotine in cicarettes)but those with(what is often described as)addictive personality traits are simply more susceptible to addiction in general than others.
Actually with regard to nicotine addiction(and addiction to any other physically addictive subsance)if you only have the occasional ciggarette you may well be OK but you do risk the chance of getting addicted because the nature of these substances is such that people often tend to increase their usage.(especially those with addictive behavorial traits.)
The bottom line is that addictions begin and end with a choice,and can indicate some underlying psychological problems.
@TheSamRulz Because the effects of the sun on us is, by and large, more positive than not. Drugs on the other hand --at least certain kinds of drugs -- have no positive effect whatsoever.
@HecklerBoy7 If you really believe that you should just go ahead and delete all the music off your hard drive. Take all your albums and cds and just burn them. Because all the artists who made that music that has enhanced your life: RRRRRREEEEEAAAAAAALLLLLL fuckin high on Drugs!
Hell, the Beatles were So High they let Ringo sing!
@TheSamRulz I don't think so. You've got to be real stupid if you think all great musicians need drugs to create good music. And furthermore, I'm not talking about weed or ecstasy or all the other non-hardcore drugs that are orders of magnitude safer than alcohol. I'm talking about drugs in the spectrum of heroine, crystal meth, cocaine,etc. These drugs have no value added. We don't get great musicians because of them, on the contrary, we lose great musicians because of them.
@HecklerBoy7 well I am real stupid, but that has nothing to do with why I think drugs make creative people more creative. It's because it is true.
Dude, I made that comment about Weed in the first place. Why are you throwing Heroin and Meth in my face? Besides, those drugs kill Way fewer people than Alcohol which is perfectly legal! Prohibition simply doesn't work. It only empowers the people who are willing to break the law. Criminals.
I love this guy, he seems to be the only one who will follow reason regardless of were it goes.
dyersev 1 day ago
The prohibition of consciousness altering (expanding) substances is a form of mind-control, and it's a form of censorship.
tmafkap 1 week ago
@tmafkap thats a powerful statement :) so true
burtonchalmersnumb1 2 days ago
Marihuana is not a drug..it's a plant..DRUGS ARE SOLD IN PHARMACIES..ABORTION IS LEGAL,& IT'S A SIN. MARIHUANA IS ILLEGAL BUT IT'S NOT A SIN..Genesis 1:29..HERBS BEARING SEED ARE FOR THE SERVICE OF MAN: PAX VIA MUSIC...VIVA MARIA!
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@magcarril Sorry to be a terrible pedant, but these are not mutually exclusive. Cannabis is both a plant and a drug (or, more accurately, a plant which contains drugs). If we are to win the battle for humane drug laws and bring prohibition to an end, we need at least to be honest about what is really at stake, and make the case that yes, cannabis is a drug, which has risks (albeit less than alcohol) - and that prohibition is a terrible way of trying to address those risks.
electrohartman 1 month ago
@magcarril I'm not a christian, but to give you more biblical ammo: Genesis 2:16+17, or is Cannabis the tree of knowledge of good and evil? Considering the stupid stuff people tend to do when stoned it doesn't seem so... ;0)
Ave Maria, the virgins child is filled with the holy spirit...
tmafkap 2 days ago
I live in Nye county Nevada and you can legally carry a gun, gamble at a casino, go to a whore house......But you better not get caught smoking a joint......That's jail time ....
odiewan58 2 months ago 2
I cant wait for all the old religious conservative people to die. Most of their ideas will go with them. They will have tried hard to pass them down, but I think only a few of our educated youth will actually cling to them.
tibsnow 2 months ago
Could we get someone to show this to congress? Of course the right wing republican nuts would all go ballistic if we passed sensible drug laws.
chrishwk 2 months ago
@Slipknot808 not need to be so fcuking rude... wanker!
malabear1978 2 months ago
People don't like stoners.
Prostitution, booze and casino gambling are legal lots of places. But marijuana is illegal everywhere.
charlesvan13 3 months ago
@charlesvan13 "People don't like stoners.
Prostitution, booze and casino gambling are legal lots of places. But marijuana is illegal everywhere."
^ ^ This is your brain. ^ ^
This video is Sam Harris' brain on drugs.
Any questions?
eequalsfb 3 months ago 6
Carl Sagan was a pot head too. Now, only if we could get Hawking to smoke...
NedWHarrington 3 months ago
This is NOT Sam Harris!!
malabear1978 3 months ago
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@malabear1978 "This is NOT Sam Harris!!"
This is an excerpt from his book "The End of Faith" read by someone else. An Audio Book.
warren52nz 3 months ago
@malabear1978 It's his audio book, moron.
Slipknot808 2 months ago
@malabear1978 The narrator is Brian Emerson. His style of reading brings Harris' excellent prose to life. Great stuff.
llkeith77 2 months ago
@malabear1978 - it's from his audiobook. Read the title.
frokenstein 2 months ago
If I were a pot dealer or grower, I would be very much WANT it remain illegal. It keeps the prices high (no pun intended).
worktosser 4 months ago
need change NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Typho0n86 4 months ago
Sam looks incredibly baked in that phot lol.
The saddest thing about this drug law farce is (aside from the fact that it is essentially world wide) that it is blatantly transparently unjust, anyone with any knowledge on the matter can see it. Its great to have intellectuals pushing the matter but its disgusting that these laws exist in the first place.
mehico33 4 months ago
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lightandbeautiful 4 months ago
"any vice that eclipses prayer"
everything
"or eclipses procreative sexuality"
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sobored671 5 months ago
I already loved reading Sam Harris' Moral Landscape and listening to his speeches. This just made my opinion of Sam Harris go up even more!
Newenlightenmentnow 6 months ago
Marijuana users are oppressed. If we want to get anywhere in this pathetic excuse for a fight, we need to treat it as oppression, plain and simple.
ja1doyle 6 months ago
just smoke one fuck it...
jwillxxxxx 6 months ago
I look for a clip of Seth Green getting high and I get this?
Hahaha!
Just kidding. It's a very well constructed argument and I've never heard it phrased so eloquently and succinctly. I will remember this well.
jgonsalk 6 months ago
Good points until the last dumbass statement that "anyone that believes in a God would think it's ok to punish his neighbor". I believe in God and I agree that the illegalization of drugs is dumb. There are a million better ways for us to spend our money.
SilverStar40 7 months ago
Maybe there's a point to make in the amount of cheap labour prisons in the US receive, it's enough to compete with Mexico and China, so losing a million prisoners from that would make a hefty dent in a few people pockets.
Coolguyrob2006 7 months ago
ben stiller makes some good points
scimath42 7 months ago 8
I would also argue at the heart of america's fear of narcotics is stemmed more in xenophobia than religion. Drugs are all "exotic", while the deadlier substance alcohol is viewed as safe and domestic. A great deal is rooted in tribalism and the idea of the "other" as well. Humans are trapped in bias, all we can do is recognize this and learn to feel shame at this bias I feel, and always strive to escape this bias.
evilyig 7 months ago
The argument is academic at best because those in positions of power care not at all about truth but about political ambitions and what that would lead to.
TheDano1947 7 months ago
Drug prohibition is is never the right choice...
MrAudiovideodisco 7 months ago
i appreciate the fact you put this up. i enjoy sam harris and marijuana but that background for the video made shake my head and groan. it's the same goofy design hanging on every stoner's wall only instead of sam's face they have bob marley, jerry garcia or whoever else they may like.
dynohmike420 8 months ago
I am not sure religion is the only cause of the "War on Drugs." I think it is also fueled by fear of minorities and alternative lifestyles. I mean, what is one major difference between alcohol and weed: Weed was associated with lower class blacks.
Secondly, the government controls education. So once a drug is made illegal, the government can use its near monopoly on education to provide children with inexact information that biases the debate into perpetuity.
MetaMorphy 8 months ago
@MetaMorphy Originally it was because Chicano's used it and it was tied to there apparent non productive life styles that caused it to become illegal.
TheDano1947 7 months ago
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TransAm282 8 months ago
@TransAm282 Unlike Mr. Harris, your argument does not reference facts. You contribute no supporting arguments for your claims, just fear. "poisoned" "evil" "destructive" "skewed" Please explain your usage of these words. You seem like a real critical kind of guy — criticize your comment. Fact is, you've got nothing but fear to back up your worldview which clings to keeping things the same at all costs - you do not want progression. Things are changing anyway — look for the positive. #newschool
AngryCloudBringsRain 8 months ago
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TransAm282 8 months ago
@TransAm282 and, maybe needless to say, extremely bored ...
TransAm282 8 months ago
@TransAm282 lol a member of Mensa ...
pubuman 8 months ago
Marijuana is the tits
CatFacedKillers 9 months ago
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AndreGDJ 9 months ago
Sorry but, if God wanted his creations to get "high" and forget about Him, He would have given it explicit allowance in the Bible. God knows that all drugs are bad. Stop deluding yourself, people.
l337z0r 9 months ago
@l337z0r Quite a generalization to say that those who smoke marijuana forget about God. I know several living examples to refute your ill informed opinion. Most drugs are bad. Marijuana, is not.
Hammett980 9 months ago
@Hammett980 The Devil has infiltrated your mind already. I pity you.
l337z0r 9 months ago
@l337z0r I just want you to know my wife and I had a good long laugh over your last comment. Thanks!
Hammett980 8 months ago
@Hammett980 I'm just kidding btw. I despise religion.
l337z0r 8 months ago
@l337z0r Lol... well, I guess I took the bait there, didn't I?
Hammett980 8 months ago
@l337z0r You believe what the bible says and WE are deluded?
tedmon11 8 months ago
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@eequalsfb 'Perhaps', is that all you have to say back?! Fail
Ragman205 9 months ago
Is this Troy McClure?
Flipper79able 9 months ago
I am so sick of THE UNITED STATES
TheCycadsAreAudible 9 months ago
I think Brian Emerson makes it sound badass.
nemirn 10 months ago
Most of the literature I read on the drug war comes to the same conclusion. However, every author uses some different premises (Harris points to accepted irrationality as the cause of irrational drug policy), and they often use different statistics. Essentially, there are many, many different ways to come to the same conclusion: the drug war is a failure. My mouth dropped when he compared the number of drug offenders in the US to the total number of incarcerated individuals in Western Europe.
PoliticsStudent 10 months ago
Sam Harris has a great speaking voice, why ain't up in there readin that book
Justen1980 10 months ago
Would have been so much better if Sam Harris actually read it.
lordlacolith 10 months ago
This narrator sounds a lot like Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC. Why don't you have a seat over there?
theocean1973 11 months ago
Alcohol is known to be a dick?
FreeGuitarLicks 11 months ago
alcohol has no medical use? what's this guy on? :P
ChuckOriley 11 months ago
@ChuckOriley
Although alcohol does have medical uses, i.e., brandy and hard liquor for help in wound treating, what he meant when he said it had no medical use was the way in which it was used. Such as, drinking it at home, a bar, or with your buddies, which in all three cases might lead to bad outcomes.
I think it may have been the lack of what he meant by what he said that may have been misleading, as to the point of what he was trying to make.
ryoh01 11 months ago
Brian Emerson (narrator's name) has to be a robot, right? Inhuman emphasis on a lot of the phrases. I wish Sam just read it himself.
snowkonis 1 year ago
Or perhaps to put it another way. If your preaching to the converted - right on - but a difference won't be made. But if you want this to be a video that we could send to the unconverted - then the graphics need to be addressed.
DanMcCaffrey 1 year ago
i always listen to lectures and debates of hitchens, dawkins, and even simple youtube atheists but it never occured to me to listen or read from sam harris. ive been missing out.
pistolpete667 1 year ago
@pistolpete667. me too, I'm really impressed and think I might even buy his books
peamealbaconrules 1 year ago
(sorry about the typos btw)
JohnnySoprano87 1 year ago
Truly an excellent excerpt but did you HAVE to put the pot leaves in the background? The imagery severely limits the audience who would even bother listening to this very reasonable argument in the first place.
JohnnySoprano87 1 year ago 87
@JohnnySoprano87 "...did you HAVE to put the pot leaves in the background?"
You're worried about losing the whole close-minded demographic?
Those that won't listen to the video, simply because there are pot leaves in the background, will not be amenable to the arguments anyway. Had I used rainbows and unicorns and fluffy bunnies for the background image, do you think these people would suddenly become open-minded freethinkers who were willing to listen to argumentation?
eequalsfb 1 year ago 29
@eequalsfb No but if I were to wear a suit and make an argument I'd be taken more seriously by many people than if I were to wear dreads and clothes with little pot leaf logos all over the place. Presentation does matter matter. Show somebody information in graph or diagram form and foolish or not, more people will be inclined to believe it. I'm sure some people who would be willing to listen tho this otherwise will probably just write this off as "damn pothead propaganda" instead.
JohnnySoprano87 1 year ago 50
@JohnnySoprano87 Perhaps.
eequalsfb 1 year ago
@eequalsfb
Then perhaps do something? I do appreciate your effort as this was a great excerpt. But context and presentation is important. And a background involving, panning graphs of valuable info would contribute greatly to your cause. Not the current one. It looks like a potheads dormroom poster. And distracts from the well put thoughts of a man that stands for Reason. If you want to help the cause, take it seriously then - presentation et al - that's what I'm trying to say.
DanMcCaffrey 1 year ago 2
@eequalsfb I agree with him but I see your point. It's not particularly clear but I'd err on his side here. Either way, thank for posting!
jgonsalk 6 months ago
@JohnnySoprano87
EXACTLY,
Im sorry dudes, everytime I wrote a response i saw that it had already been discussed but yeah i think we all three can agree, eequalsfb says perhaps because its not easy to change ones original point but just the fact that you said perhaps shows that you do agree, just take it into consideration next time you upload an awsome clip like this!!
420LegalizeCannabis 1 year ago
@JohnnySoprano87 , well said.
l8rthen 1 year ago
@JohnnySoprano87 It's true, but on the other hand, if people with dreads and clothes with little pot leaf logos say something intelligent that someone DOES listen to, then not only did you get a message across, you just overcame xenophobia as well.
DevonWhorton 4 months ago
@eequalsfb
No dont use unicorns and fluffy bunnies, thats along the same lines as the marijuana leaf... But just making it look a little less like a pothead video will have its effect, of course it might be minimal but we have such a huge mountain to climb that any little detail that might ease the process needs to be taken into consideration, dont mean to be to harsh, have to thank you for even posting the video but still, you dont seem stupid so i think you know what we are talking about...
420LegalizeCannabis 1 year ago
@eequalsfb
Um, yes, we are worried about the message that background sends.
I am a rather big fan of Sam Harris, and I don't think I've ever heard him say that he smokes pot. To portray him as such is a lie.
There is a very big difference between thinking that drugs should be legal and that drugs are okay to use.
I would never use heroin, but I don't think it should be illegal.
Sam makes a compelling argument, but you have greatly cheapened it.
rynther 7 months ago
@JohnnySoprano87
Couldnt agree with you more, we got endless clips gathering potheads to discuss their discontent but what we all truly want is to widen the audience ready to listen to logic and using imagery that has been overused for decades to scare people away will still have a similar effect, details like these are slowing the process of reaching the inevitable!
420LegalizeCannabis 1 year ago
@JohnnySoprano87 Very good point. All too often, good arguments are marginalized, in part by their perceived appeal to "undesirables." It's not just drug legalization arguments that are tarnished this way. See Harris's open critique of religious dogma; as applied to dogmatic adherence to Islam, the argument is dismissed by the very freethinking liberals to whose minds he seeks to appeal on the drug argument, in many cases because the other people loudly opposing radical Islam are Glenn Beck & co
thalernd 11 months ago
Broccoli should be illegal!
GTRrocker666 1 year ago
wine is blood of christ so it can't be banned! nor beer can be banned 'cause it's piss of satan.
insanewarlock666 1 year ago 3
This voice/rhetoric reminds me of the creator of Rapture in Bioshock.
shadman1911 1 year ago
ALL PLANTS SHOULD BE LEGAL.
Redcaster916 1 year ago
Sam Harris is a national treasure.
RawhardDickins 1 year ago 58
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jew zionist telling americans what to do,noting new
essi8757 1 year ago
@essi8757 What the fuck are you talking about? He's an atheist and he has only half jewish heritage, idiot.
jerryhello100 1 year ago
@jerryhello100 wha ever u fucking jew ass kisser,and u r the fucking idiot not me
essi8757 1 year ago
Whether you're in favor of drugs or not (I'm not & I don't even drink alcohol), it's quite clear that banning what are now illegal drugs not improved at all, and only made things worse & I can assure you there is not much difference between the Taliban and those drug dealers, the 2 kidnap and kill for money and benefit their sick cause. U.S. is the problem because has the highest demand in the world, & for that reason millions have died.
It's not enough what is happening in Juarez?
Mariet31 1 year ago
That Brian Emerson's voice, the way he reads out aloud, is awful. its far from fluid and timely. unlistenable.
ForCurrentUse 1 year ago
This is brilliant.
BrettSchall 1 year ago 2
*****
Steadno 1 year ago
Sorry, agnostic here, but I can't agree with all of this. I do think marijuana and other drugs s/be made legal, but I don't think their prohibition is strictly religious. Plus, alcohol and tobacco CAN be enjoyed in moderation, most narcotics aren't. Marijuana DOES have medical purposes, but then again so does alcohol (listerine for a sore throat, alcohol 91 on your arm before a shot) We SHOULD make narcotics legal for the same reason we ended prohibition, to take the profit out of selling them
dave4248 1 year ago
@dave4248 I don't think cannabis is really a narcotic. Not for me at least.
rooflee 1 year ago
@dave4248 cannabis can be either a stimulant or depressant, depending on the person and how he takes it. It is definitely not a narcotic.
ThatGuyWhoSucksBoobz 1 year ago
@dave4248
This is an excerpt from a book about religion, hence the focus on the religious aspects of drug laws.
nemirn 10 months ago
Thumbs up.
sirchompsalot 1 year ago
DUUUDE, Sam looks like HellBoy in this picture lol xD
GravDiga 1 year ago
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TruthNotMedia 1 year ago
well, one thing wrong, there is a lethal dose for marajuana, it just happens to be several pounds in a very short time, like an hour lol
blazereef 1 year ago
@blazereef No there isn't. it's just physically impossible to consume, i believe 7lbs per 12-15 minutes, Which just isn't doable, plus... I've tried, can't be done.
gobsbsdvfas 1 year ago
@gobsbsdvfas i didnt say it was possible, i said that there is a dose that is lethal
blazereef 1 year ago
@blazereef which is disingenuous if it is impossible.
gobsbsdvfas 1 year ago
@blazereef There is a also a fatal dose of water, of brocoli, of salt. Why would you make a such an obvious point?
rooflee 1 year ago
@rooflee because people think that it having a lethal dose means it should be illegal and some think that the lethal dose is less then it actually is
blazereef 1 year ago
WE are so lucky to have individuals willing to speak up against the so called majority i.e. Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, just to name a few of today's brave men.
TheNotoriousPIGPEN 1 year ago
Superb excerpt. Amazing.
newyawker123 1 year ago
Sam Harris is probably the smartest out of the supposed four horsemen. Very close tie between him and Hitchens.
Romansteel13 1 year ago 2
@Romansteel13 i agree ,,, but in a heated debate,, i would use hitchens as a weapon... i really hope he recovers from cancer,,,,,
rcolon82 1 year ago
@Romansteel13 its hard to compare the two, both are eloquent but harris is good for the whole family, hitchens just murders the theists
blazereef 1 year ago
@blazereef
Hitchens journalistic integrity and his verbal prowess are no match for Harris's in-depth analysis and meditation. I'm pretty sure Harris has a Ph.D and has more degrees than Hitchens. To say the least, it's still a close tie though.
Romansteel13 1 year ago
@Romansteel13 he has a phd in philosophy and neuroscience.
tupacalypse88 1 year ago
@tupacalypse88 degree in philosophy, PHD in neuroscience i believe.
TearTheRoofOff 1 year ago
@Romansteel13 hitch has degrees in philosophy, politics, and economics.
tupacalypse88 1 year ago
@tupacalypse88
Bachelors and Masters are not PhD's sorry mate.
When I first applied for my Ph.D dissertation, I had to be peer reviewed by over 150 astrophysicists, who had to deem my work credible and reputable for the field. It was a 3 year process, but then I finally got it. And it was all worth it.
PhD > any amount of useless degrees.
Romansteel13 1 year ago
@Romansteel13 never said they were dont understand ur comment, just trying to fill in the blanks for people.
tupacalypse88 1 year ago
@Romansteel13
Dennett's an awesome mind.... but his hemming and hawing speaking style is unbearable.
Have you read his books? What do you think?
nemirn 10 months ago
This guy talks like Microsoft Sam :D Harris should have voiced it!
SirPwn4lot 1 year ago
I think weed should be legal. It has less dangers associated with it then alcohol and other medication drugs. The only bad thing about it is that it's illegal and the DEA comes busting in and shooting up shit to arrest these people. I don't smoke weed, but I've taken a few hits a several years ago. I think Acid and stuff like that should remain illegal though. Those look scary.
baddmaddogg 1 year ago
@baddmaddogg Amsterdam have got it right: Legal weed and legal prostitution. Everyone is getting high and getting laid. Happy people!
censurabass 1 year ago
All that time and money burned just to stop people chilling out harmlessly with a spliff. Madness.
JCLeSinge 1 year ago
I prefer to stay safe and healthy. I'll never touch a beer. Though if they legalize pot, I might try it.
spartacandream 1 year ago
@spartacandream A shot of liquer, an 12 ounce beer or an 8 ounce glass of wine a day is actually healthy for you, though if you drink more then that then there are soem bad things that can happen. I drink very moderately, like just a beer every other day for its medicinal purposes. I'd also like to try weed, though I'd rather eat it or pop a THC pill rather then smoke it. Cus the act of smoking it can harm ur lungs but the Herb its self is not harmfull
baddmaddogg 1 year ago
Yeah, this guy's voice is annoying.....
auriciangelescu 1 year ago
smoke down mofo. seriously though, legalize it ALL and the shit will improve especially weed.
patrickledford420 1 year ago
I almost bought this audio book to listen to in the car on the way to work. I'm so glad I didn't. I adore Sam Harris and support his message, but this reader's voice is annoying. Sam's own voice is very nice .IDK why he didn't read the audio book himself. I'll get the hardcover instead.
drgregsgurl 1 year ago 4
@drgregsgurl
Sam's newest book "The Moral Landscape" is self-narrated.
I actually prefer Brian Emerson.
Sam sounds like he is in a hurry when he reads.... it's not as entertaining as his own cheeky live speech.
nemirn 10 months ago
I think weed should be legal, and I also am an athiest, but I dissagree with one important part of this video. It says that the reason people don't want weed legalized is that is gives the user the feeling of having a spiritual experience. I think that people don't think this way; they are simply not educated about the drug, and the facts about how little danger it actually poses.
LionEatingMan 1 year ago
@LionEatingMan It does give you a spiritual experience though, at least what is called a spiritual experience when we feel it in a spiritual setting (ie temple, church, etc....) Though you are right.
spartacandream 1 year ago
He looks like Seth Green here.
cshubs 1 year ago
Wow, talk about putting things into perspective. Bravo Sam!
lethalvb01 1 year ago
To the 12 lunatics who gave this video thumbs down, wake the fuck up please.
Stresskiller89 1 year ago 55
I love Sam Harris. This video made me LOL.
polishsurfman 1 year ago
Sam Harris looks stoned in this picture, does he smoke weed or do other stuff?
Neanderthalcouzin 1 year ago
This voice is weird.
mstk1 1 year ago
I'd rather have both cannabis, alcohol and other mild mind benders legal as long as religion is kept under close scrutiny. People with no detectable substances in their blod streem that believe in rapture, virgin birth, world wide floods without traces in the fossile record (so they deny the record ...), life after death, heaven and hell, resurection etc and at the same time work flying planes, performing surgery ... THAT is scary!
heyawhaw 1 year ago
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1. People will smoke cannabis whether its legal or not.
2. Cannabis its self does little harm to the user and community.
3. Illegal markets create violence, unjust imprisonment and unneeded public expenses.
4. Legalized market creates taxed jobs, safe products, sales taxes.
Its illegal why?
israeldogfather 1 year ago
The intonation on the reader's phrases is hilarious. Computer voice FTW
CntrBrdr 1 year ago
1. People will smoke cannabis whether its legal or not.
2. Cannabis its self does little harm to the user and community.
3. Illegal markets create violence, unjust imprisonment and unneeded public expenses.
4. Legalized market creates taxed jobs, safe products, sales taxes.
Its illegal why?
facelessone86 1 year ago 3
Lung cancer is a risk for smoking marijuana, but if you make brownies with it there is no such concern.
freethinker923 1 year ago
@freethinker923 Exactly, or if you take THC pills such as Marinol and others.
baddmaddogg 1 year ago
FREE MARC EMERY!!!
InnerSmile72 1 year ago
Drug laws should be 100% based on scientific study of positive and negative short and long term effects. PERIOD. And they are not. This is the core argument here.
lectrick 1 year ago 4
I happily use Cannbis/weed from time to time and know many others who also do so.
Personally I know of several individuals who(although they have to get it illeagally,due to silly local drug laws)utilize it for medical purposes and say they would definately be much worse off without it.
It should not be ignored that(in a small %)the drug can trigger episodes of psychosis & even schizoprenia.
However this only seems to happen to those that either abuse it or have an existing condition.
RandomVortex 1 year ago
8euro 50cents for a packet of cigs in ireland i smoke weed its cheaper
RichDon100 1 year ago
@RichDon100
Holy shit! 8 euro 50c for a pack a of fags in Ireland? That is 11,23 dollar.. :) You better of smoking weed with those prices for shure!
ManicMindTrick 1 year ago
Very true!
deano1432 1 year ago
If you look at the history of prohibition, the majority of rhetoric behind it is from christian supremacists.
The issue is that religion and psychoactive drugs are in direct competition.
yubarraboo 1 year ago 3
@foodeater398 If you read the description you will see that this is from the audio book.
nexus000111 1 year ago
this isnt sam harris
foodeater398 1 year ago
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"Cannabis smoke contains 400 compounds including 60 cannabinoids. However, because of its lower combustibility it contains 50% more carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including naphthalene, benzanthracene, and benzopyrene, than tobacco smoke. In conclusion, these results provide evidence for the DNA damaging potential of cannabis smoke, implying that the consumption of cannabis cigarettes may be detrimental to human health with the possibility to initiate cancer development,"
MikeUTube9333 1 year ago
Most of the carcinogenic chemicals in Cannabis can potentially be neutralized by using a vaporizer rather then burning and smoking it.
mojorhythm 1 year ago
@mojorhythm unfortunately vaporizers are very expensive.
sekamenacerecords 1 year ago
@sekamenacerecords
Yeah it blows.
Ive been wanting to get a volcano vaporizer for god knows how long, and there are two things stopping me:
(1) they dont sell them in australia
(2) theyre so goddam expensive!
mojorhythm 1 year ago
@mojorhythm Buy one on the internet, you can get a cheap knockoff for $30. Or a real one for $300. I bought a real one, i'm sure it'll pay for its self in the money i save on wasted pot.
autoplay831 1 year ago
@mojorhythm Don't buy a knockoff... repeat, do not buy a knockoff.
adsensus 1 year ago
so thats why no one has died from it and no one can find a link to cancer or anything else
buckeyefan2107 1 year ago
I smoke 20-30 cigs a day. I don't smoke nearly that much weed.
smarhaus 1 year ago
@MikeUTube9333
Cannabinoids are good for you. You only smoke a little cannabis. Its not like tobacco were you have to smoke it all the time. We create cannabinoids naturally in our bodies anyway. Its even in breast milk.
FrankieTeaTime 1 year ago
Cancer Biomarkers and Prevention Group, Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine and Karolinska Institute in Sweden suggests otherwise, for one example. acetaldehyde causes DNA damage leading to cancer. Both tobacco and marijuana has this. Will you get cancer from it, most likely not. maybe. hot dogs also have products added to them that can give you cancer. im not trying to degrade it, but there has been plenty of studies that show its possible to promote cancer when smoked.
MikeUTube9333 1 year ago
Dude, the SUN causes cancer. Should the govt enforce mandatory sunscreen application?
TheSamRulz 1 year ago 51
thats silly... someone said that it cant cause cancer, im just saying that it could by theory. Hotdogs has chemicals in it that can cause cancer, im not saying dont eat hotdogs. Infact, going from what you said, I dont think the govt should have anything to do with regulating pot. It should be able to be grown and used as one pleases. So to be clear, there is stuff in pot that in studies could cause cancer, but there is no confirmed cancer cases related directly to pot, so dont worry.
MikeUTube9333 1 year ago
knowledge of cancer isn't based on 'in theory' arguments, it's based on empiricism.
yubarraboo 1 year ago
Shhhh! Don't even say that. Some pinhead legislator here in California will think it's a great idea.
ClumsyRoot 1 year ago
lol and cigarettes
buckeyefan2107 1 year ago
@TheSamRulz
No thats silly and impractical!
Obviously we should ban the Sun(or the daytime!)
Actually why not just ban cancer?(nip it in the bud so to speak!)
Sorry!(just thought I'de join in with the sillyness........that's all.)
Nicotine is a cunt!
I(like many)started smoking when I was a kid because I thought it made me look grown up(and therfore cool)but now that I am struggling to stop,I just want to(slowly) torture the company directors of the tabacco industries!
Gis a light........
RandomVortex 1 year ago
@RandomVortex Even if you don't have an addictive personality. If I should start to smoke cigerettesjust occasionally would I too eventuallt grow addicted?
baddmaddogg 1 year ago
@baddmaddogg
Yes.
Those described as having an addictive personality are just people of a certain personality type.
They often have an obsessive cumpulsive nature which means they are more prone to addictive behaviors(be it drugs,food,gambling or otherwise.)
Anybody can become addicted to physically addictive substances(like the nicotine in cicarettes)but those with(what is often described as)addictive personality traits are simply more susceptible to addiction in general than others.
RandomVortex 1 year ago
@baddmaddogg
Actually with regard to nicotine addiction(and addiction to any other physically addictive subsance)if you only have the occasional ciggarette you may well be OK but you do risk the chance of getting addicted because the nature of these substances is such that people often tend to increase their usage.(especially those with addictive behavorial traits.)
The bottom line is that addictions begin and end with a choice,and can indicate some underlying psychological problems.
RandomVortex 1 year ago
@TheSamRulz I think they do something like that in australia lol
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Romansteel13 1 year ago
@TheSamRulz
Not to darker skinned, heavily pigmented humans.
The sun is racist, the sun only hate low-pigmented whites.
Romansteel13 1 year ago
@TheSamRulz Because the effects of the sun on us is, by and large, more positive than not. Drugs on the other hand --at least certain kinds of drugs -- have no positive effect whatsoever.
HecklerBoy7 1 year ago
@HecklerBoy7 If you really believe that you should just go ahead and delete all the music off your hard drive. Take all your albums and cds and just burn them. Because all the artists who made that music that has enhanced your life: RRRRRREEEEEAAAAAAALLLLLL fuckin high on Drugs!
Hell, the Beatles were So High they let Ringo sing!
TheSamRulz 1 year ago
@TheSamRulz I don't think so. You've got to be real stupid if you think all great musicians need drugs to create good music. And furthermore, I'm not talking about weed or ecstasy or all the other non-hardcore drugs that are orders of magnitude safer than alcohol. I'm talking about drugs in the spectrum of heroine, crystal meth, cocaine,etc. These drugs have no value added. We don't get great musicians because of them, on the contrary, we lose great musicians because of them.
HecklerBoy7 1 year ago
@HecklerBoy7 well I am real stupid, but that has nothing to do with why I think drugs make creative people more creative. It's because it is true.
Dude, I made that comment about Weed in the first place. Why are you throwing Heroin and Meth in my face? Besides, those drugs kill Way fewer people than Alcohol which is perfectly legal! Prohibition simply doesn't work. It only empowers the people who are willing to break the law. Criminals.
TheSamRulz 1 year ago