Yes We Cannabis

I really wish this wasn't an issue anymore, and I look forward to the day I can delete this video. If you have a strong argument against what I'm saying here PLEASE, post it in the comments or as a video response. I'd love either see political action change this law, or rhetoric change my mind.

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[PraiseTheMetal591]

I'm not a US citizen, but in the US last summer I was able to view your Senate and House from the gallery.

In just about 4 hours of watching your politicians. I saw perfectly good ideas proposed by one side get rejected and blocked by the other side, simply because they were the oppositions ideas.

We get a similar thing here in the UK.

It's quite tragic really, that we can't do what's best for the country as a whole, because of our career politicians and ridiculous party based divisions

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@PraiseTheMetal591 Bingo.

[SecretSm0ke]

*slow clap* Well man, you summed that up about perfectly. I like how you don't actually *use* it either, and didn't try to be unrealistic with how much it'd help, just a good solid step in the right direction, like you said.

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@SecretSm0ke A lot of people don't understand why I'd be so concerned for others to have the right to do something I chose not to do. I've found that strange for as long as I can remember. Some don't understand why I consider bans on alcohol or homosexuality ridiculous even though I'm not a drinker, or a homosexual. They freedom to consume what you want and have consensual sex with who you want are simply victimless, and thereby are no one's right to condemn in my opinion.

[Mirkwoods]

A very good argument. I lost my faith in the government being able to do anything right a long time ago. I guess that's why I consider myself to be a libertarian because I want our mostly ineffectual federal government to stop telling states and people how to live their lives. Also, keep in mind that most of the people that have been elected to office were the sorts of people that would have been the hall monitors in your school - brown nosing jerks.

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@Mirkwoods That's a concept to be considered, but how far can we take it? Do you want your state government telling you how to live your life based on what most people in your state think? Do you want your local government telling you how to live your life based on what they they, or most people in your city think? The concept has to be thought all the way through- though obviously, no system of government is without significant flaws.

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@DeathnoteBB Is it useful for them to sit at home on their couches drinking beer all day?

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@brmadman4455 There are genuine risks to people operating heavy machinery etc. when they're drunk too. Alcohol is still legal. Just because a substance is legal doesn't mean that we can't regulate its use to require it be used responsibly.

[jjcrazi]

concordance has just done a great vid

[UndeadClown95]

I love da ganja. Helps me sleep, relieves minor health symptoms, and helps me focus on school work. Im blazed right now.

[pastafarianprophet]

making people useful should not be a goal of society; making society useful should be a goal of people!

[pastafarianprophet]

Funny how it's always the people that unconditionally support "free markets" and "limiting the reach of government power" that want government to use its power to control people on something so trivial-- something that represents a healthy market, no less.

[dragonhearted375]

@oOpumpkinheadOo Yeah, but there's a problem there too. Drugs are addicting yet we lock them up instead of trying to rehabilitate them. When someone's addicted to alcohol or cigarettes, we have great sympathy with them and try to help them over it. Crack and heroine are FAR more addictive, so they should command greater sympathy for rehab. Not doing so makes as much sense as comforting a kid over his dead brother but then condemning a kid who lost their whole family.

[oOpumpkinheadOo]

@stupidtrooper501 i hate making salads