Congressman gives a history lesson on marijuana prohibition

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Rep. Steve Cohen discusses the harms of drug prohibition with other members of Congress.

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[3spionex]

I have a fucking record for having a pot leaf in my wallet at school when they randomly searched me for being 2 minutes late for class. What the fuck is this!? Now how will i get a scholarship for college, or a job? I get 4.0s so why the fuck am i a criminal. Im 18 my brain is fully developed and if i want to smoke marajuana why cant I? it makes me happy and i love to play jazz music with my friends while i smoke, Greatest feeling ever. PEOPLE STOP CONFORMING!!! RESIST ITS YOUR RIGHT,PEACE

[Klarkedude]

Marijuana has killed many many people. However not because of using it. The deaths are related to the enforcement of anti-drug laws that the violence associated with the drug cartels.

[austinjames666]

@bkpickell I live in England and I think that laws are slightly different, but I plan to move to the States and take my shed with me ;) hopefully laws'll have changed by then :)

[bkpickell]

@austinjames666 Be careful. The police don't need a search warrant to search a shed. Which I think is a stretch. Technically the 4th amendment says property, but there have been cases where sheds were searched and grow ops busted because of it.

[rudy8819]

00:53 listen at this moment in the video some one felt stupid for say things just to an marijuana

also i used to go to a highly rep. school where you had to be really smart to get into

all of the honors students smoked pot probably 4 or6 students did not

feds are f n retartded i honestly have no idea of why the want it illegal

when it could be legallized and the could focuse on hunting down the cracked out heroin dealer thats walking with a machine gun / pistol around peoples community

[WorldOfBenji]

cannaworms? lol

[Millsie18]

@3spionex My man, hope your life is going okay now. I'll smoke one for you...One day this wonderful plant will be legal

[MrVocalist101]

in my opinion if u were to legalize weed then all the tobacco companies profits would suffer meaning less money for government!?!, alcohol companys would feel it to from people staying in having a smoke rather than go out meaning less money for the government through alcohol tax. the system makes too much money through tobacco addiction and fines from alcoholic influenced violence too let u grow marijuana for free, weed is harmless but the the laws wont change as long as they make money!!...

[austinjames666]

My house has a shed in its back garden. In our shed we got couches, a t.v, a ps2 (with a fuck load of games) and a drawer filled with all the pot smoking amenities. All we have to do is buy the weed. When we do, it's awesome. I don't think there's any better way to finish a week than that. We harm no one and have an awesome time. Law needs to change. Or else I'm moving to Amsterdam.

[austinjames666]

@3spionex I hope we see the day legalisation happens, I think Britain (my country of birth), the USA and all western cultures for that matter need to follow the example set in Amsterdam

[thehope830]

@SupremeScreamStudios well they wouldn't be able to fund there operations with out weed but yes they would still be around

[TheARCHxENEMY]

@Klarkedude Well then, that is why drug cartels never want marijuana to be legal. That keeps their jobs, if marijuana would possibly become legal but with restrictions and treated like cigarettes, that would remove drug cartels job. There would be no point for them, they want to keep marijuana illegal so they can keep their "jobs". If you make it legal and government controlled, there would be no deaths at all.