Must-Watch: Marijuana Legalization Hearing in Washington State Part 1

Marijuana activists, politicians, and former and current law enforcement officials spoke to the Washington State legislature in support (and against) of Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson's House Bill 1550, which would legalize cannabis and make it available for retail purchase in State-run liquor stores.

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News & Politics

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• marijuana
• weed
• cannabis
• pot
• Washington State
• Washington
• legalization
• drugs
• USA
• Jodie Emery

[Ozrender]

qyoper .. know how much violence exists because its still illegal ? Alchohol makes some people violent too. Pot does not make people violent, just the opposite.  You can overdose and die on alcohol, can't from pot. Grow up. The majority of your facts are wrong. Typical display of fear and ignorance.

[SmedesYork]

fuck the stupid ass red neck butt fucking government for taking too long on stupid shit.. shut the fuck up and legalize weed so u can get back to your damn nascar.

[Domzdream]

@SmedesYork

Worse. It's redneck old gogies who do not know how to use their brains correctly. Just because people are old, doesnt necessarily assume they are wise.

Old age doesnt necessarily mean wisdom. It just means the guy's been a terrible thinker for a really long time.

[Domzdream]

Poor Americans. You poor people are crippled by your weak-ass president who's NOT a progressive but rather a republican. And crippled by your outdated laws, and rotten by your politicians who are bought by corporations.

Poor, Poor Americans.

[Domzdream]

The scary thing is- these old fuck-wits on the board (with their old brains and backward ways), will bend their laws only because it'll be good money, rather than for the moral side of it.

Man, humans are evil fucks.

[jgonz185]

0:21 someone opens a beer

[terceiraxxi]

Xanax,vallium,vicodin,etc,are addictive, phisique and psicologicment !i smoke marijuana and haxixe for about 26 years ,and i dont smoke every day ,,sometimes i stop for 1v month and in that days i dont fell syntomes of abstinence,the maxim i can fell is smaler that the abstinence of the cofee ! From Azores with Love :) !

[thereinliestherib]

@RocknRollaRevolution You're a fucking vet??? You're not a day over fifteen. If you had any sense of duty or integrity, then go ahead and take credit for the 50k dead Mexicans whose deaths you directly financed through pot and whatever other drugs you took last night.

[RocknRollaRevolution]

@thereinliestherib You going to say anything of substance? I'm military Vet so calling me a bum was great, I appreciate that. I'm glad there are so many patriots out there like you.

[thereinliestherib]

@RocknRollaRevolution But please, continue. I enjoy the entertainment, and I also like to tease out just where you cookie-cutter pomo's get your propaganda from.

[thereinliestherib]

@RocknRollaRevolution Oh boy--here we go. Another pothead zombie who believes corporations are to blame for every problem in this country, when dipshits like you are the biggest source of profit, since you all glut the "corporate" healthcare system. And you do realize the self-defeating argument of comparing pot to alcohol right? Alcohol policy has been no success either, so all you're implying is pot legalization would only worsen our national stupidity...

[RocknRollaRevolution]

@thereinliestherib I'm guessing you also think alcohol companies and private prisons don't lobby to keep cannabis illegal as well. Wake up, corporatism does exist in America. These are facts, your just so Fox and CNN brainwashed you couldn't see the truth if it smacked you in the face.

[thereinliestherib]

@RocknRollaRevolution The longer you keep believing in conspiracy theories and fantasies, the longer our country will be in decline. It's embarrassing, really.

[RocknRollaRevolution]

@thereinliestherib Big Pharma is a hoax? LMAO what have you been smoking?  SOMEONE CALL 911 this guy is a criminal!!!!

[thereinliestherib]

@RocknRollaRevolution And yes, the obese should have to pay their own rates too--for both food and healthcare. Its called proportionality--the higher risk you are, the more you pay. Why is that controversial? It certainly is when you're a free-riding American bum...

[thereinliestherib]

@RocknRollaRevolution That's a load of crap--first of all, one look at Yakima's insurgent gang violence completely contradicts the claim of where WA pot comes from. Your arguments per "Big Pharma" are a complete hoax not worth addressing. The cause of the drug war is writ large: American drug money. You can't win a war when your own people are pumping BILLIONS into your enemy's coffers.

[RocknRollaRevolution]

@thereinliestherib Most cannabis in the US is homegrown or from Canada. Why isn't there drug wars in Canada?

Prohibition does not work. What happened to the alcohol gangs in the 20's? Oh that's right, they legalized it and the crime stopped. It's simple economics. The drug war only exists because Big Pharma is making billions selling you the same drug with a different name. If you can tell me what drugs i can or can not use, can i tell you what food you can or can't eat? Obesity kills too

[thereinliestherib]

@qyoper Don't bother--these idiots just want you to keep paying for their fantasy reality where everything is free, while all the rest of us pay for their healthcare, their car insurance for their dumbfuck accidents, and while they fund a fullblown streetwar just over the border while pretending they have nothing to do with it.

[thereinliestherib]

@RocknRollaRevolution So in other words you're conflating the bad sides of both drugs in order to justify the legalization of the latter? Do you even see that you just made a strong argument AGAINST legalization by admitting the comparison???

[thereinliestherib]

@csccdog "For doing nothing wrong"? Your dollars have directly funded the murder of over 50,000 mexicans, none of which will be ended by legalization. A drug that never kills anyone my ass. Only a stupid ass american could say such a thing, while a fullblown street war rages just over their border.

[eagles104life]

@qyoper either you're a troll or very retarded

[eagles104life]

@ArtVandalay1984 fine go to north korea and tell us how u love it

[TheRantingCabbie]

We see comments about the difference between what alcohol does to people compared to pot. Here's something I can tell you from experience. The best passengers to have in your taxi are pot-heads. They're happy, mellow, easy going. The only thing they might be concerned with is if there's a BK or Mickey-Dees drive-thru open late at night. You couldn't ask for a better bunch. People that are drunk; I don't even want to go there.

[ArtVandalay1984]

They gonna legalize pot and lets gays marry?! I got to get out of this nigger loving hippies state!

[fcfqb]

@qyoper uhm your an idoit dumb and blind weed can not and will not ever kill u its a FACT weed is safe no matter how much u smoke its people like u who have ruined this country is go die or be killed by a drunk driver

[RocknRollaRevolution]

@qyoper wow you are ignorant. Did you say alcohol is safer than Marijuana? How many people die from alcohol overdose drunk driving and liver failure every year? 75,000. How many people die from anything related to marijuana? 0.

[DestroyerDevers]

@qyoper Hi,i just read your comment.Please youtube:the union,the business behind getting high.If that documentary does not convince you 100% that marajuana should be legal then ill be truly AMAZED!!enjoy :)